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After
all the hooplah, what has nanotechnology done
for you lately? After 10 years of investments,
it's time to take inventory of what has been accomplished
in nanotechnology to date. What is being done
that is being called nanotechnology and what is
being done that is truly nanotechnology? What
is new and what is really only a re-packaging
of old technologies as nanotechnology? How many
people know that nanotech successes, such as DIP
from TI used in projectors and the acceleration
sensor made by Analog Devices for activation of
airbags, are actually 20 year old technologies.
These technologies were developed by large corporations;
not Nano-startups. But let's hear from the experts
and determine what breakthrough nanotech products
are finally ready and which ones remain fata morgana.
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Schedule
| 5:00PM-6:00PM |
Poster Sessions/ Buffet Dinner/ Networking |
| 6:00PM-7:00PM |
Startup Company Presentations / Q & A |
| 7:00PM-7:30PM |
Poster Session/ Break |
| 7:30PM-8:30PM |
Panel
Discussion |
| Topic:"Nanotechnology,
the promise and its Fruition" |
| 8:30PM-9:00PM |
Poster Session/ Networking |
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Moderator:
J.
Christopher Moran
VP, General Manager
Applied Ventures, LLC |
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J.
Christopher "Chris" Moran is responsible
for the development and management of Applied
Ventures' investments in early stage, privately
held companies. Most recently, Mr. Moran served
as vice president and division general manager
of the Applied Materials Mask Products Division.
Prior to that, Mr. Moran was vice president of
Corporate Marketing from 1999-2005. Since joining
Applied Materials in 1984, Mr. Moran has held
a number of leadership positions in division management,
product management and marketing and engineering.
He also served as general manager of the Metal
Etch Division, Etch Product Business Group. He
was instrumental in directing Applied to single-wafer
etching, and built the group to a $600 million
business level as general manager. Mr. Moran is
the holder of 7 US patents in the areas of robotics,
automation and process engineering. Prior to joining
the Company, Mr. Moran served as a member of the
technical staff at Hughes Aircraft Co., and Atari
Computer Corporation. Mr.
Moran received his bachelor's and master's degrees
in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. |
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Panelist:
Dr. William F. Miller
Founder
and Chairman
Nanostellar,Inc. and Lumiette,
Inc. |
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Dr.
William F. Miller has spent about half of his
professional life in business and about half in
academia. He was the last faculty member recruited
to Stanford University by the legendary Frederick
Terman who was then Vice President and Provost
of Stanford. Dr. Miller later took Terman’s
position at Stanford where he conducted research
and directed many graduate students in Computer
Science.
In 1968 Dr. Miller also played a role in the founding
of the first Mayfield Fund as a special limited
partner and advisor. As President and CEO of SRI
International (1979-1990) he established the spin-out
and commercialization program at SRI and the David
Sarnoff Research Center (now the Sarnoff Corporation)
as a for-profit subsidiary of SRI where he became
the Chairman and CEO.
He has served on the board of directors of several
major companies such as Signetics, Wells Fargo
Bank, PG&E, and Varian Associates. He co-founded
SmartValley,Inc. and aided the formation of CommerceNet
and serves on the board of directors. |
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Panelist:
Jonathan
Trent, PhD
Senior Scientist
NASA Ames Research Center |
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After
receiving his Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography
at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Dr. Trent
spent six years in Europe at the Max Planck Institute
for Biochemistry in Germany, the University of
Copenhagen in Denmark, and the University of Paris
at Orsay in France. He returned to the U.S.A.
to work at the Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine
at Yale Medical School for two years before establishing
a biotechnology group at Argonne National Laboratory.
In 1998 he moved to NASA Ames Research Center
to be part of NASA’s Astrobiology program
and established the Protein Nanotechnology Group
in 1999. In addition to working at NASA, he is
an Adjunct Professor in the Dept. of Biomolecular
Engineering at UC Santa Cruz and is a Fellow of
the California Academy of Sciences. |
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Panelist:
Stuart Parkin, Ph.D.
Fellow and Manager, Magnetoelectronics
Group
IBM |
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Stuart
Parkin, Ph.D. is an experimental physicist, IBM
Fellow and manager of the Magnetoelectronics group
at the IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose,
California. He is also a consulting professor
in the Department of Applied Physics at Stanford
University and director of the IBM-Stanford Spintronic
Science and Applications Center, which was formed
in 2004. Dr. Parkin's research interests include
organic superconductors, high-temperature superconductors,
and, most recently, magnetic thin film structures
and spintronic materials and devices for advanced
sensor, memory, and logic applications. His discoveries
have been critical in enabling recent increases
in the data density and capacity of computer hard-disk
drives. Most recently, Dr. Parkin is working on
a novel storage class memory device which could
replace both hard disk drives and many forms of
conventional solid state memory. Parkin has authored
more than 350 papers and has more than 60 issued
patents. Over the course of his career, he has
received many honors, including the Humboldt Research
Award (2004) and the 1999-2000 American Institute
of Physics Prize for Industrial Applications of
Physics. He has also received many honorary doctorates
and is a fellow of numerous societies. In 2001,
he was named R&D Magazine’s first Innovator
of the Year and in October 2007 was awarded the
Economist Magazine’s “No Boundaries”
Award for Innovation. |
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