Invention to Venture: Urbana 2009

Entrepreneurship in the Life Sciences

Agenda

Date:                                       Saturday, February 21, 2009

Location:                               Medical Sciences Building, auditorium (room 274)

506 S. Matthews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801

8:00 – 8:30am                         Registration / Networking / Continental Breakfast (room 177)     

                                                support from The Howbowda Bagel Company & Herriott’s

8:30 – 8:45am                         Welcome

(15 min)                                  Mary Secor; Program Coordinator for Outreach at the National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) 

8:45 – 9:30am                         Keynote Address: Entrepreneurship in the Life Sciences (download)

(45 min)                                  Paul Keough; Founder and President, Turnkeough Corporation   

9:30 – 10:15am                       Idea Validation and Opportunity Assessment (download)

(45 min)                                  Kathryn Hyer; Director of IllinoisVENTURES

10:15 – 11:00am                     Building the Startup Team (download)  

(45 min)                                  Harlee Sorkin; Principal of Mentor Management LLC

11:00 – 11:15am                     Coffee Break and Networking (room 177)  

                                                sponsored by Med Tech Detect; www.medtechdetect.com

11:15 – 12:00pm                     FDA Regulations (download)

(45 min) 2'>                             Howard Cooper; Senior Regulatory Consultant, Strategic Regulatory Consulting  

12:00 – 1:00pm                       Lunch and Networking 

(60 min)                                  Rosati’s Pizzeria, 701 S. Gregory

  1:00 – 2:00pm                         PANEL - Intellectual Property Management and Licensing/ Technology

(60 min)                                  Transfer (IP Audits Handout), (IP Biz Flipchart), (Legal Issues in Entrepreneurship)

                                                Roger VanHoy; Associate Director, Office for Corporate Relations, University of IL

Brian Frizzell; Associate Principal, CRA International

                                                Alan Singleton; Attorney, Singleton Law Firm

Moderator: Laura Hollis; Clinical Professor of Business Administration, College of Business & Adjunct Lecturer, IESE & TEC; University of IL

2:00 – 2:45pm                         Prototype and Product Development Process  

(45 min)                                  John Steck; Senior Engineering Specialist of Baxter Healthcare in the Applied Science and Technology, Disposables Engineering Group  

2:45 – 3:15pm                         The Perfect Business Plan, Slide Show and Elevator Pitch

(30 min)                                  Caralynn V. Nowinski; Associate, Midwest Venture Partners (unable to attend) (Download)

Brian Lilly; Adjunct Associate Professor, IESE

3:15 – 3:30pm                         Coffee Break and Networking (room 177) 

                                                sponsored by Singleton Law Firm; www.singleton.law.pro/index.htm

  3:30 – 4:30pm                         PANEL - Finding the Money: Angels, VC’s, State Funding Sources (download)

(60 min)                                  Ronald L. Kirschner; M.D.; President of Heartland Angels, Inc.

                                                Henry Sanders; Owner, Capacity360 

Jim Keating; Associate, IllinoisVENTURES, LLC.

Moderator: Brian Lilly; Adjunct Associate Professor, IESE

4:30pm                                    Closing Remarks

Rhiannon Clifton; Assistant Director, Technology Entrepreneur Center

If you are interested in obtaining John Steck’s presentation (Prototype and Product Development Process ), please email Stephanie at larson42@illinois.edu.