8:00-9:00 Registration & Continental Breakfast
9:00-9:30 Opening Remarks
- Vincent Caprio, Executive Director, NanoBCA
- Paul Stimers, Partner, K&L Gates
9:30-10:00 Supercycle of Innovation and Commercialization
Arpana Verma, PhD, Chief Science Officer, NanoMech Industries, Inc.
10:00-10:30 Nanotechnology in Medicine: How Much Progress?
Samuel Brauer, PhD, Principal, Nanotech Plus, LLC
10:30-11:00 Moving toward Abundance through Molecular Nanotechnology
Matthew Putman, PhD, CEO, Nanotronics Imaging
11:00-11:30 TSCA New Chemical Activities and Reporting Rule for Nanoscale Materials
Jim Alwood, Program Manager, Office of Pollution Prevention & Toxics' Chemical Control Division, US Environmental Protection Agency
11:30-Noon 2018 EHS Regulatory Overview: Key Domestic and International Developments
Lynn L. Bergeson, Managing Director, Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.
Noon-1:00 Lunch
1:00-1:30 Beyond the Bounds
Ajay P. Malshe, PhD, Distinguished Professor, 21st Century Endowed Chair Professor of Materials, Manufacturing and System Integration Mechanical Engineering, MEEG 204, University of Arkansas
1:30-2:00 One Belt and One Road Initiative: Impact of Huangdi Neijing and Nano Quantum Medicine
Carleton JC Hsia, PhD, Founder & CEO, AntiRadical Therapeutics LLC
2:00-2:30 Nanotechnology Investing: State of the Union 2018
Jim Hurd, Director, GreenScience Exchange
2:30-3:00 Roadmap for Scaling up and Commercialization
Penelope T. Salmons, President/COO, Fibrtec Inc
3:00-3:30 Patents, Predictions, and Pivots: The Possibilities and Peril of Nanotechnology Entrepreneurship
Matthew Hull, PhD, Associate Director, Innovation & Entrepreneurship, NanoEarth – Virginia Tech National Center for Earth and Environmental Nanotechnology Infrastructure / President/Founder, NanoSafe, Inc.
3:30-4:00 Inspiring the Next Generation of Scientist, Engineers, and Entrepreneur of Nanotechnology
Marco Curreli, PhD, Founder & Executive Director, Omni Nano
4:00-4:30 Nanometrology Horizon: Emergence of Terahertz Nano-imaging via Overcoming the Wavelength Barrier
Anis Rahman, PhD, President/CTO, Applied Research & Photonics, Inc
4:30-5:00 FBI: Economic Espionage Program
5:00-6:00 Post-Conference Networking