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nanoUtah 2006Utah’s Statewide Nanotechnology ConferenceTechnical ProgramOctober 5, 2006Engineering CampusUniversity of UtahSalt Lake City, UT
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Agenda9:00WelcomeFred Lampropoulos / Merit Medical and Merit SensorsJack Brittain / UofU Technology Commercialization Office9:30Keynote Speaker: Dr. Gurtej S. Sandhu, Micron Technology, BoiseNanoelectronic opportunities in Utah: scaling Si into the nano era10:00Keynote Speaker: Prof. Mohamad A. Sawan, Intelligent Medical Devices, CanadaGlobal niche opportunity for Utah: nanotech in bio-implants10:3015 minute break10:45Sampling of “Utah Nano”: 5-minute presentations by researchers &businessesModerators: Patrick Tresco & Greg Jones12:00Boxed Lunch and Poster Session1:00General Nanotech issues Intro: why Utah must become competitive in nanotechPaul Clayson-nanoCoat Legal issues unique to nanotechnology developmentKevin Laurence-Stoel Rives Special VC needs for growing nanotech businessesPaul Ahlstrom-vSpring2:00Breakout topics (Panelist):Obtaining resources Brainstorming Utah nanotech funding mechanismsGreg Peisert-Sylarus Academic & Small Business - Affordable access to labsGreg Nordin-BYU Utah Tech-Business Incubation programsNicole Toomey-Davis, CEP Director, GOED Accessing USTAR fundsTed McAleer, USTAR, GOED(Continued on next page)
Making Utah Competitive Potential Application AreasKrishna Shenai-USU Attracting prime researchers & projectsBart Weimer-USU Brainstorming Utah’s infrastructure needsPatrick Tresco-U of UEducation & Outreach Higher-ed collaboration / training the workforceCynthia Bioteau- President, SLCC K-12 education / training the workforceRich Nelson- UTC / GOED Utah’s nano outreach effortsJoe Andrade-Utah Science Center2:4515 Minute Break3:00Breakout Session Reporting3:30Sampling of “Utah Nano”: 5-minute presentationsby researchers & businessesPoster Session & lab tours available throughout the day.
Dear nanoUtah ’06 ParticipantsUtah is creating a climate supporting research and economic opportunity in the broadarea of micro- and nano-scale science and commercializable technology. We appreciateyour interest in shaping these opportunities. Today you will hear about companiesinvesting in Utah, and become acquainted with many of the advanced research activitiesinside this broad discipline. You will see how Utah’s investments enable creation of aninfrastructure supporting further advanced research, including facilitating the successof small companies competing for SBIR/STTR funding. Learn how you can help formcollaborative relationships between government, industry, and academic institutions,including coordinating broad theme-based competencies and research foci at the stateresearch institutions.Three breakout sessions are intended to stimulate discussion and direct participationdeciding courses of action in several key areas. Your individual and collectiveinvolvement may eventually take the form of a “working committee” of stakeholderswilling and able to continue the discussion as activity beyond the conference. Welook forward to your active participation at these breakout sessions, and pleaseinform respective panelist or moderator if you are willing to join any of the workingcommittees.Thank you for your support and participation. We hope you find it rewarding.Ian Harvey (U of U) and Tapas Kar (USU),nanoUtah’06, conference organizers
WelcomeFred LampropoulosMeritFred Lampropoulos has been in the medical device industry for more than 25 years.After serving as the Chairman and Chief Executive of Utah Medical, Fred founded MeritMedical Systems, Inc. in 1987, where he currently serves as Chairman and CEO. Hehas invented and holds more than 100 patents on devices used in the diagnostic andtherapeutic treatment of cardiovascular disease.Since 1987, Merit Medical has grown from a start-up company to a publicly tradedcompany forecasting revenues of more than 170 million in 2005. The Companystarted in a small manufacturing facility in Salt Lake City, and now has manufacturingand distribution capabilities in Angleton, Texas; Richmond, Virginia; Galway, Ireland;and Maastricht, The Netherlands. The Company just added two new facilites to itsUtah campus, and additional space in Ireland, totaling 200,000 square feet. Withapproximately 1,400 employees, Merit Medical has achieved a world leadershipposition in many areas.Merit’s 18 years of uninterrupted growth and solid performance continues to gainrecognition. Fortune Small Business Magazine ranked Merit 10th on “The FSB 100List of America’s Fastest-Growing Small Public Companies,” up from last year’sranking of 25th; BusinessWeek Magazine ranked Merit 23rd on its list of 100 “HotGrowth Companies,” up from last year’s ranking of 75th; and for the fourth year in arow, Forbes Magazine ranked Merit among the “Forbes 200 Best Small Companies inAmerica,” with a 2004 ranking of 57th.Fred serves on the Executive Committee for the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce,chairman of the Tuacahn Center for the Performing Arts, a board member of theAmerican Heart Association of Utah, on the MBA Advisory Board of WestminsterCollege, a board member of the Utah Taxpayers Association, Honorary Colonel in theUtah National Guard, and on the Executive Committee of the Great Salt Lake Council ofthe Boy Scouts of America.Fred is also the recipient of numerous awards, including the United Way’s 2004Compassionate Leader of Utah award, the 2003 Governor’s Medal for Science andTechnology, the American Heart Association’s 2003 Heart of Utah award, the AmericanDiabetes Association’s 2002 Father of the Year award, the Salt Lake Chamber ofCommerce’s 2000 Visionary Leader award, and Inc. Magazine’s 1992 IntermountainEntrepreneur of the Year award. In 2004, Fred was inducted into the Utah BusinessHall of Fame.Fred has five children and eight grandchildren and lives in Sandy, Utah.
Jack BrittainUniversity of UtahJack Brittain is Dean of the David Eccles School of Business and the University ofUtah’s Vice President of Technology Venture Development. He received his Ph.D. inBusiness from the University of California, Berkeley and is known for studies of thesemiconductor industry and strategic change in dynamic environments, researchrecognized by the Academy of Management in 1987 and 1989 with outstandingpaper awards. Dean Brittain is the recipient of five teaching awards. He was twicerecognized as the Outstanding Graduate Business Professor at the University of Texas,Austin and received the Outstanding Graduate Business Professor and OutstandingBusiness Professor Award at the University of Texas, Dallas. In addition, he received theUniversity of Texas Chancellor’s Council Award from the University of Texas System fordistinguished teaching contributions. In 2005, he received the Best of State Award inthe Education category for the David Eccles School’s innovative entrepreneurship andnon-profit consulting programs. He serves on the boards of Junior Achievement, theGovernor’s Office of Economic Development, the University Venture Fund, the LassondeNew Venture Development Center, Consonus, and Capital Source.
KeynoteGurtej S. SandhuMicron Technology, BoiseGurtej S. Sandhu is the engineering manager responsible for directing strategictechnology developments at Micron Technology, Inc. He received his degree in electricalengineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi and received a Ph.D.degree in physics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 1990. He thenjoined Micron Technology, where he has been in a number of engineering and management roles responsible for process technology development, pilot manufacturingand transfers to manufacturing. He has been involved with a broad range of processtechnologies, such as ion implantation, deposition technologies, plasma processing,CMP, Litho and front-end and back-end module integration technologies for IC processing. He has been associated with microelectronics technology for over 15 years and haspioneered a number of process technologies such as CVD Ti, Plasma MOCVD TiN amongothers, which are currently employed in mainstream IC manufacturing. Moreover, hehas been associated with introduction of a number of Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD)based processes into IC manufacturing. Dr. Sandhu has authored over 75 technicalpapers and holds more than 600 U.S. patents.Mohamad A. SawanIntelligent Medical Devices, CanadaMohamad Sawan received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering, from Universitéde Sherbrooke, Canada in 1990. He joined Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal in 1991where he is currently a Professor in Microelectronics and Biomedical Engineering. Hisscientific interests are the design and test of mixed-signal (analog, digital and RF)circuits and systems: design, integration, assembly and validation. These topics areoriented toward the biomedical implantable devices and telecommunications applications. Dr. Sawan is a holder of a Canadian Research Chair in Smart Medical Devices. Heis leading the Microelectronics Strategic Alliance of Quebec (Regroupement stratégiqueen microélectronique du Québec ReSMiQ). He is founder of the International IEEENEWCAS conference. He published more than 350 papers in peer reviewed journals andconference proceedings and is awarded 6 patents. He is editor of the Springer Mixedsignal Letters, and President of the biomedical circuits and systems (BioCAS) technicalcommittee of the IEEE CAS Society. He received the Barbara Turnbull 2003 award forspinal cord research, the Medal of Merit from the Lebanese President, the BombardierMedal of merit from the French Canadian Association for the advancement of sciences,and The American University of Science and Technology Achievement Award. Dr. Sawanis Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and Fellow of the IEEE.
ConferenceModeratorsGreg JonesGOED, State of UtahDr. Gregory M Jones is the State Science Advisor and the Director of the Utah ClusterInitiative for the Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED). Before joiningstate government, Dr. Jones was the Associate Director of the Scientific Computingand Imaging (SCI) Institute and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Radiology at theUniversity of Utah. He was also President and Chief Operations Officer of VisualInfluence Inc., a spin-off company of SCI.Dr. Jones received his bachelor’s degree in Physics from the University of New Mexicoin 1988. He also earned his doctoral degree from the University of New Mexico inBiomedical Science. Between degrees, Jones was an optical engineer with CVI LaserCo. in Albuquerque, New Mexico, specializing in optical testing and optical instrumentdesign. Jones also managed the optical fabrication department of CVI. From 1997 to1999, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Utah in the Department ofRadiology where he was a member of the Functional Brain Imaging Group. Jones laterjoined Storage Technology Inc. (StorageTek) as a principal consultant in the MedicalGroup.Patrick TrescoUniversity of UtahPatrick A. Tresco received his Ph.D. in Medical Sciences from Brown University andis currently a Professor in the Department of Bioengineering, the Director of theKeck Center for Tissue Engineering and Associate Dean for Research in the College ofEngineering at the University of Utah. He is recognized for his work in various CNStissue engineering applications and for his contributions to understanding how CNStissues interact with a broad range of implanted materials. He presently holds 16issued and pending patents relating to this and other areas of biotechnology. He hastaught graduate and undergraduate courses in cell and molecular biology, biomaterialsscience and tissue engineering. His group has published over 60 peer-reviewed journalarticles and given over 125 presentations at international meetings around the world.He is a scientific advisory board member of Acorda Therapeutics Inc., Hawthorne,NY and the Biomimetic MicroElectronic Systems Engineering Research Center at theUniversity of Southern California. In addition, he has been a biomaterials consultantto such companies as Bard Access Systems, Fresenius, Microislet, Cytotherapeutics,Medtronic, and Smith Kline Beecham. Dr. Tresco is a regular peer reviewer for Journalof Biomedical Materials Research, Biomaterials, Experimental Neurology, Journal ofNeural Engineering, IEEE Transactions of Biomedical Engineering, Annals of BiomedicalEngineering, and other bioscience and engineering Journals. In addition, Dr. Tresco isa Fellow in the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering.
InvitedSpeakersPaul ClaysonnanoCoatMr. Clayson has been a business owner, global strategic planning expert, financial andinvestment strategist and political advisor for the past 25 years. He currently serves asChairman and Chief Executive Officer of nCoat, Inc., an award winning nanotechnologymaterials development and manufacturing company. He also serves as Presidentand COO of Sequoia Pacific Research Company. Previously, Mr. Clayson managedcongressional campaigns and served as Chief of Staff to two U.S. Congressmen and asa lead advance agent to two U.S. Presidents. Mr. Clayson served as senior managementand operations officer for three prominent institutional investment advisory andresearch firms in Portland, Oregon, growing assets under management from 400million to over 2 billion in under four years. He also served as senior officer fora Utah publicly traded technology (software) company where he developed globalmarketing, business, product development and finance strategies and helped growthe company from an R&D base to a globally commercialized firm with customers anddevelopment contracts with many of the worlds dominate computer, semiconductor,telecom and consumer electronics companies. Mr. Clayson currently serves as thechairman of the Utah Nanotechnology initiative and a board member of the UtahTechnology Industry Council.Kevin LaurenceStoel Rives LLPKevin Laurence is a partner with the Stoel Rives LLP Technology and IntellectualProperty Practice Group. He provides companies with patent related services involvingthe life sciences, especially pharmaceuticals and medical devices, chemical fields,and other technologies. Kevin focuses on all phases of patent procurement, portfoliomanagement, preparation of infringement and validity opinions, product clearanceanalysis, due diligence evaluations and pre-litigation counseling.He is an adjunct professor of law at the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University ofUtah and is the founding organizer of the Utah Innovation Awards program.Kevin has received an “AV” rating in the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory since2002, the legal industry’s top ranking. He has also been recognized by Utah Businessmagazine’s “Utah Legal Elite—Intellectual Property” (2004-06), “Forty Under 40”(2005), and most recently by The Best Lawyers in America.He received his law degree from the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham YoungUniversity and a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Brigham Young University.
Paul AhlstromvSpringPaul Ahlstrom is a serial entrepreneur with a passion for building companies. Hehas built several startups and understands the process of growing a successfulorganization.Prior to founding vSpring, Paul founded and served as CEO of Knowlix, a venturebacked knowledge management software company aimed at the customer supportmarket, which he successfully sold to Peregrine Systems (now Hewlett Packard) in1999. Paul is a regular keynote speaker and an avid supporter of the Mountain Westentrepreneurial communities. He serves as an advisor to the Kevin Rollins Centerfor E-Business at Brigham Young University and serves on the executive committeeof the University of Utah’s Technology Commercialization Advisory Board. Paul is aTrustee for the Utah Information Technology Association and a member of MotorolaCorporation’s Visionary Research Board. Paul led vSpring’s efforts in New Mexico andalso serves on the board of New Mexico Community Capital.Paul graduated from Brigham Young University with a BA in Communications. Paul ledthe firm’s investments in Altiris (NASDAQ:ATRS), Cogito, DriveSafety, MyFamily.com, S5Wireless and Senforce.PanelistsGreg PeisertSylarusGregory D. Peisert is a co-founder and Executive Vice President of James GregoryAssociates, Inc. headquartered in Columbus, OH, and is a co-founder and member ofthe Board of Managers of Sylarus Technologies, LLC, located in St. George, UT.Mr. Peisert is responsible for strategic government-related corporate development forboth organizations. He provides executive leadership for many government-relatedbusiness activities as well as leadership in process development, product marketing,sales, and customer feedback.Mr. Peisert has degrees in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering. He has overtwenty years of experience in project management, systems engineering, analyticalmethods such as QFD and SPC, risk analysis and mitigation, computer and informationsystems communication and integration, functional and information modeling,business process engineering, performance measurement, and advanced materialsresearch including semiconductor crystal growth and epitaxial thin films.
Greg NordinBYUProf. Greg Nordin received a BS degree in Physics from Brigham Young University in 1984,a MS degree in Physics from UCLA in 1986, and the PhD in Electrical Engineering fromthe University of Southern California in 1992. From 1984 to 1992 he was also employedat Hughes Aircraft Company, first in the Radar Systems Group, then in the Electroopticaland Data Systems Group, and finally at the Hughes Research Laboratory. From 1992 to 2005 Dr. Nordin was at TheUniversity of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. He was the foundingdirector of the university’s Nano and Micro Devices Center, and developed a 7,600 sq. ft. cleanroom facility for nano andmicrofabrication. Dr. Nordin joined the faculty of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at Brigham YoungUniversity in October, 2005 and presently holds the Engineering and Technology Endowed Chair.Prof. Nordin is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award (1996), and received the UAH Outstanding ResearcherAward for 1998-1999 and 1999-2000. He also received the UAH Foundation Award for Research and CreativeAchievement in 2000. As a graduate student, Prof. Nordin was awarded both the Hughes Aircraft CompanyMasters Degree Fellowship and Doctoral Fellowship.Prof. Nordin’s current research activities include photonics-enabled chemical and biological sensors,nanophotonics and integrated optics, micro- and nanofabrication, MEMS, microfluidics, rigorous electromagneticanalysis and design of optical structures, electro-optics, and polymer materials and devices. Past researchefforts include integrated micro polarization filters for imaging polarimetry, diffractive optical elements, volumeholography and stratified volume holograms, and diffractive 3-D displays. Dr. Nordin has led numerous largeresearch programs, and has been PI on research grants from government and industry totaling 15M.Nicole Toomey-DavisCEP Director, GOEDNicole Toomey Davis is the Director of the Centers of Excellence Program. She wasrecruited by the Governor’s Office of Economic Development to bring her experienceas an entrepreneur to help accelerate the commercialization of Utah’s most promisingUniversity- developed technology. Ms. Davis is also the President and CEO ofPhoto credit: Enclavix, LLC, a Draper-based software and technology development company andJ. Hackworth she is the former President, CEO and co-founder of DoBox, Inc. the leading providerof residential gateway software and parental control solutions for the broadband gateway industry. Ms. Davislaunched DoBox in 1999 and led the company to a successful acquisition by Netop
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