Agenda

8:00am - 8:30am
Registration & Networking
Welcome by
Will Steffens, Area Development Manager, PSE&G

8:30am - 9:00am
Featured Speaker
Dr. Patrick T. Harker
President, University of Delaware
Introduced by
Tom Drury, SJ Tech Park Executive Director & CEO, Rowan University

9:00am - 9:30am
Featured Speaker
Banu Onaral, PH.D., H.H. Sun Professor & Director
School of Biomedical Engineering, Science & Health Systems
Drexel University

9:30am - 10:30am
Investment Panel
A panel of Venture Capitalist, angel investors, license and business development officers will discuss what they look for from very early stage technology and life science companies.
Moderator: Patricia Weeks, Principal & CEO, Weeks Consulting, LLC
Panelists: Les Browne, Chairman, NJTC Board of Directors
Kathleen Coviello, Director, Technology & Life Science, NJEDA
Vik Seoni, VP Business Development, Endo Pharmaceuticals
Wayne Tamerelli, President, AWT Private Investments

10:30am - 11:45am
Concurrent University Presentations

12:00pm - 2:00pm
Lunch & Success Stories Panels
A technology company, PlasmaSol, and a life science company, PTC Therapeutics, will discuss the path from university to commercialization.
Moderator: Jeffrey H. Rosedale, Patent Attorney, Woodcock Washburn, LLP
PlasmaSol Panelists: Professor Christos Christodoulatos, Vice Provost, Stevens Institute
Mike Orrico, Director, Technology Development, Stryker PlasmaSol
Seth Tropper, Founder & President, Switch2Health and a Founder of PlasmaSol
PTC Therapeutics Panelists: William "Chip" Baird, CFO, PTC Therapeutics