2011 FALL SPEAKER SERIES EVENT

August 25th, 2011 by Kirsten Frazee

Are you interested in technology commercialization and entrepreneurship?  On behalf of the University of Texas, Cockrell School of Engineering, and the Chair of Free Enterprise, we would like to invite you to attend weekly technology entrepreneurship seminar series.

This is a graduate level seminar hosted in conjunction with the Austin Technology Incubator (ATI), the Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC), and the Idea to Product® Program (I2P®).  It is open to the community and the public and will be held on Fridays from 3 – 4 pm in the Engineering Teaching Center, ETC 2.136. ETC is located at 204 E. Dean Keeton St. Networking Office Hours with Austin Technology Incubator will follow the seminars.

The seminar series will cover topics essential to technology commercialization and entrepreneurship, and feature outstanding UT Faculty and professionals that have commercialized their technologies.  A schedule of the seminar is below and a poster of the first seminar is attached to this email.

The first seminar is on August 26th, 3PM in ETC 2.136: Professor Metcalfe: Disruptive Innovation – How Ethernet Started 3Com to Change the World. Dr. Metcalfe invented Ethernet in 1973 at Xerox Parc and founded 3Com in 1979 in Silicon Valley. 3Com became part of HP in 2010 and this year a billion Ethernet faucets where added to the Internet’s plumbing, if you count WiFi, which Bob does.

 

Technology Commercialization Seminar & Office Hours, Fall 2011, Fridays 3-5pm, ETC 2.136

 
Date Topic Speaker:

26-Aug

How Ethernet Started 3Com to Change the World

Dr. Bob Metcalfe

2-Sep

Computer Science Commercialization

Dr. Emmett Witchell

9-Sep

The accidental entrepreneur

Dr. Cindy WalkerPeach

16-Sep

UT Office of Technology Commercialization

Richard Miller, M.D.

23-Sep

Commercializing Low-Cost Nanopatterning Technology

Dr. SV Sreenivasan

30-Sep

DermDx Inc.: Development of a noninvasive skin cancer diagnostic device

Dr. James Tunnell

7-Oct

No seminar scheduled  

14-Oct

Commericalization experience and funding sources – SBIR/STTR

Dr. Sriram Vishwanath

21-Oct

Business Plans for Technology Commercialization

Dr. Gary Cadenhead

27-Oct (Thursday) 1-5pm

Venture Expo – Showcase of Texas Venture Labs Companies

AT&T Center

If you have any questions, please contact Jakub Felkl, Idea to Product Program® Coordinator, at jfelkl@mail.utexas.edu or 512.232.4102.  

 

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