Agenda Released for Premiere TBED Event of the Year

Slate of 30 breakout sessions SSTI's largest offering yet

The agenda is packed. Packed with great breakout session topics and engaging presenters. With as many as 30 breakout sessions, this year's conference offers something for everyone. The session titles are provided below. Brief descriptions of each topic are presented in the brochure and will be available our conference website:

• New Developments in Angel Investing
• Using Federal Funding to Build a Tech Workforce
• Assessing State S&T Investment
• Best Practices to Encourage Tech-based Entrepreneurship: A Roundtable Discussion
• The Help We Got (and the Help We Needed)
• Foundations as TBED Catalysts
• Ideas that will Change Everything
• Defining Public ROI: A Roundtable Discussion
• From Regionalism to Workforce: Facing Tomorrow’s Challenges
• The Private Side of Commercializing University Research
• Creating an Upside from Downsizing
• Bringing University Research to the Marketplace: A Panel Discussion
• TBED Role in Strengthening Regional Innovation
• Best Practices to Expand and Exploit Academic R&D: A Roundtable Discussion
• Preparing for a Nanotech Future
• Issues of Ethics: Recognizing and Responding to Public Concerns About S&T
• Generating Capital: New Times, New Approaches
• Creating Manufacturing’s Future
• Tapping EDA for Tech-based Economic Growth
• Roundtable for Women in TBED
• Developing Life Science Economies
• Cultivating a Creative Economy: Putting Theory into Practice
• What Does the Future Hold for Federal R&D?
• Senior Practitioners’ Forum
• The Impact and Importance of Entrepreneurship
• Encouraging Tech Entrepreneurship: Best Practices
• Redefining Everything: Converging Technologies & Higher Education
• Winning the Brain Gain Game
• The Geography of Innovation: Implications for TBED
• Best Practices to Increase Access to Capital: A Roundtable Discussion