InnoVenture Southeast 2011 Announces High Impact Presenters
Eighth Annual Conference Where Sparks Fly!
Register to attend at the InnoVenture Southeast Community
Get more information at 2011.InnoVentureSoutheast.com
Greenville, S.C.– InnoVenture Southeast 2011 to be held May 10 and 11, 2011 in Greenville, SC will attract approximately 600 of the most highly influential and connected innovators and entrepreneurs from throughout the southeastern United States discovering and developing high impact business opportunities.
“InnoVenture is a great opportunity for a large company like ours to meet other large companies, as well as middle market companies, high impact entrepreneurs, and university researchers,” said Chris Desoiza, Vice President of Milliken Research. “It is bringing more innovation to our region to grow the types of companies that can support all of our companies and grow our community.”
The conference is organized around a series of conversations among large industry and academic innovators and high impact entrepreneurs. There will be approximately sixty presentations of high impact business opportunities from champions seeking customers, capital, talent and technology from the audience. The 40,000 square feet Innovation Hall will be filled with high impact innovation exhibits from conference participants. The priorities areas of the 2011 anchors are:
- Health Information and Technology - CareCore National, BlueCross BlueShield of SC, and IT-oLogy
- Materials and Manufacturing - Milliken and Company, Sealed Air, and Southeastern Institute of Materials and Manufacturing
- InnoMobility - Michelin, Sage Automotive Interiors
- High Impact Innovations - SC Launch
“This is the eighth annual InnoVenture Southeast conference,” said John Warner, founder and CEO of InnoVenture. “Through two days of powerful presentations, facilitated conversations, and high impact innovation exhibits, sparks will fly and connections will be made at this year’s conference more than ever”
Over the years, InnoVenture has had a string of success stories of high impact innovations being commercialized by connecting major companies, universities, and entrepreneurs. Michael Bolick started his company based on a connection made with Clemson at an early InnoVenture Southeast Conference. After a recent merger with a UK pharmaceutical company introduce by Nexus Medical Partners, Michael is CEO of Lab21, Inc., which has built is North American headquarters and one of the world’s first personalized medicine laboratories in Greenville, SC. Lab21 works closely with Greenville Hospital, Clemson, and the University of South Carolina.
Following Michaels’s lead, Ralph Hulseman spun out of Michelin Research to start Hoowaki based on connections made at InnoVenture Southeast. Hoowaki’s distinctive surface transformation technology is initially focused on significantly enhancing the productivity of extrusion processes. Hoowaki works closely with Michelin, St. Jude Medical, Clemson and the University of Illinois, along with other global customers. Hoowaki was recently featured as one of seven companies on the “4th Annual Society of Manufacturing Engineers List of Innovations That Could Change the Way You Manufacture.” Both Lab21 and Hoowaki have received investments from SC Launch as well as other investors.
“All of this comes down to innovation being a contact sport, and you can’t have that contact without putting everyone in one room at one time,” said John Balatto, Clemson University’s Associate Vice President of Research said. “We will continue to be an active supporter of InnoVenture, and every year we find something new and useful out of the conference.”
Register to attend at the InnoVenture Southeast Community
Get more information at 2011.InnoVentureSoutheast.com
DISCOVERING AND DEVELOPING
NEW BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES
Opening
8:15Welcome and Opening Remarks
IT-oLogy Conversation
8:30 IT-oLogy - Lonnie Emard
8:40 SC Governor's School for Science and Mathematics - Kim Bowman
8:50 SC Future Minds - Trip Dubard
9:00 Master’s Degree in Health Information Technology - Bob Brookshire
9:10 IBM - Andy Bernardin
9:20 Health Sciences SC - Michael Randall
9:30 SC Clinical and Translational Research Institute - Royce Sampson
9:40 North Carolina Biotechnology Center - Marjorie Benbow
9:50 Conversation Café with Presenters
10:20 Break
CareCore National Conversation
10:40 CareCore National - Kevin Ryan
10:50 DigitalDerm - Martin Lefkowitz
11:00 BioShape - Lawrence Boyd
11:10 CareCam Innovations - Shannon Pierce
11:20 My Medicine Manager - Terry Mushrush
11:30 MyRoster - Florence Iwegbue
11:40 VidiStar - Craig Walker
11:50 The Right Transitions - Jenny Barber
12:00 Conversation Café with Presenters
12:30 Networking Lunch in Innovation Hall
Materials and Manufacturing
Milliken and SiMT Conversation
1:30 Milliken - Dawn Werry
1:40 Southeastern Institute of Manufacturing and Technology - Jack Roach
1:50 Hoowaki - March Maguire
2:00 Micro-Feature Enhanced Sinter Bonding of Metal Injection Molded Parts - Bethany Acampora
2:10 Parallel Permeation - Harry Ploehn
2:20 BarberWind - Jerry Barber
2:30 Marnie Mastectomy - Kae Mance
2:40 Lexco Innovations - Scott Echerer
2:50 Doggie Vision - John Wilkinson
3:00 Conversation Café with Presenters
3:30 Break
Sealed Air Conversation
3:50 Sealed Air - Nate Miranda
4:00 GeoHay - Kellyn Hargett
4:10 Nanolayer Technologies - Jonathan Griffith
4:20 Charlotte Research Institute - Bob Wilhelm
4:30 Ingersoll Rand - Sue Burek
4:40 Oxygen Scavenging Packaging - Bethany Acampora
4:50 Poly Star Fiber Board - Dave Starrett
5:00 Conversation Café with Presenters
5:30 Innovation Hall closes
6:00 Welcome - John Warner
6:10 Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering - Jim Ryan
6:20 Carolina Nuclear Cluster - Scott Carlberg
6:30 SPAWAR MRAP - Bruce Urbon
6:40 Przirembel Prize Presentation
7:00 Przirembel Prize Reception
Wednesday, May 11
Opening
8:15Welcome and Opening Remarks
Michelin Conversation
8:30 Michelin - Rod Bailey
8:40 Aeronix - Sean Priddy
8:50 Being confirmed
9:00 Being confirmed
9:10 SeaHawk Interagency Operations Center - Scott Beeson
9:20 Duke Energy - Catherine Heigel
9:30 Intelligent River - Gene Eidson
9:40 Conversation Café with Presenters
10:10 Break
Sage Automotive Interiors Conversation
10:30 Sage Automotive Interiors - Sidney Locke
10:40 InnoMobility - John Warner
10:50 Flextronics = Marty Wilson
11:00 Being confirmed
11:10 Being confirmed
11:20 Bikar - Mickey Dorsey
11:30 Being confirmed
11:40 WiProwess, LLC - Craig Kinley
11:50 Being confirmed
12:00 Conversation Café with Presenters
12:30 Networking Lunch in Innovation Hall
SC Launch Conversation
1:30 SC Launch - Dave McNamara
1:40 Zipit - Frank Greer
1:50 Lab21 - Michael Bolick
2:00 Nexsen Pruet - Mark Knight
2:10 BNoro-Moseley Partners - Spence McClelland
2:20 Nexus Medical Partners - Ed Snape
2:30 BlueCross BlueSheild of SC - Judy Davis
2:40 Being confirmed
2:50 Ranger Mobility Fund - Steve Townes
3:00 Conversation Café with Presenters
4:00 Innovation Hall closes
Register to attend at the InnoVenture Southeast Community
Get more information at 2011.InnoVentureSoutheast.com
| Organizations | InnoVenture |
|---|---|
| Source | InnoVenture |
| Submitter | John Warner |
| Tags | Innovation |
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