"Stimulate US Economy through Global Collaboration" 2009 NECINA Annual Meeting
- Time: 8:30 am - 4:30 pm,
Saturday May 30th, 2009
- RSVP:
http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=183086
- Venue: Radisson Hotel, 10 Independence
Drive, Chelmsford, MA
- Fee: Free to NECINA Members; $15 to
General Public (break & lunch included)
Following the NECINA mission of advancing
technology, entrepreneurship and our global
reach, we have come a long way in helping our
members by "catering for dreams and teams"
through many campaigns this year. Now it is
show time!
Welcome to the 2009 NECINA Annual Meeting!
In the morning sessions, we will open the
floor to showcase business ideas and product
demos from current and past business plan
contest teams. Some will make formal
presentations of their dream plans for
critique from you and feedback from a panel
of seasoned entrepreneurs and investors. We
welcome your team to participate by online
registration for exhibition.
Two other parallel sessions include the Youth
Entrepreneurship Service Program (YES4.0)
Final (open to the public) and the 5th Brown
Rudnick Business Plan Contest (BPC) Final.
All these sessions are a prelude to the
afternoon session on how your dreams would
shape the future of economy globally.
How can we stimulate the economy in the
current climate? Global collaboration is an
inevitable path. We are proud to invite
distinguished speakers to address this
important topic from different perspectives.
In the afternoon session, Nanying Yin,
NECINA's new Chairman, will provide opening
remarks, followed by keynote addresses from
Mr. Rubin Gruber, Vice President of Business
Development at Verivue and Ms. Xylina Wu,
Director of Business Development,
Massachusetts Office of International Trade &
Investment. Join us for this enlightening
session that would hopefully inspire more
constructive dreams.
Please note that during the Annual Meeting,
ballots will be available to NECINA's
members* to vote on the election of two new
Board members and the enlargement of NECINA's
Board.
In the awards ceremony towards the end of the
afternoon session, catch the heroes from the
Business Plan Contest winning teams with
presentations and the NECINA "catering" team
of volunteer officers.
Our motto this year is "Get connected! Get
inspired! Get in action!" Not only shall we
serve our members better and help inspire
more dreams, but we shall also help you move
your dreams forward and leave no dream behind!
*Pursuant to NECINA's by-laws, only Members
whose dues for 2009-2010 have been paid are
eligible to vote.
Agenda:
-
Morning Sessions: "Catering for More Dreams
and Teams"
- 8:30-9am Registration and Breakfast
- 9am-12pm Session 1: 5th Brown Rudnick
Business Plan Contest Final (Salon A,
Private)
Opening speeches by organizers,
judges and sponsors
Presentations from eight BPC
teams with Q&A
- 9am-12pm Session 2: Showcase
Presentations
of Dream Plans (Salon B)
Up to 12 teams to present
business cases with Q&A
- 9am-12pm Session 3: Showcase Booth of
Dream
Products (Grand Ballroom Hallway)
Product demo and career
opportunities from business teams and sponsors
- 9am-12pm Session 4: Youth
Entrepreneurship
Service Program Final (Salon C)
Opening speeches by organizers,
judges and sponsors
Presentations from two YES teams
with Q&A
Judgment and Awards
- 12-1:30pm Lunch and Networking
- Afternoon Session: "Stimulate US Economy
through Global Collaboration"
- 1:30-1:35pm Opening Remarks by Nanying Yin,
NECINA Chairman
- 1:35-2:15pm Keynote: "The
Challenge of Starting Up and Raising Capital
in Tough Economic Times"
Rubin Gruber, Vice President of
Business Development, Verivue
- 2:15-2:45pm Keynote: " Global
Collaborations: MOITI-Massachusetts-China"
Xylina Wu, Director of Business
Development,
Massachusetts Office of
International Trade & Investment
- 2:45-3:00pm Break
- 3:00-3:45pm NECINA 2009 Brown Rudnick
Business Plan Contest Winner Presentations
- 3:45-4:00pm Addresses: "We at the Heart of
Technology, Economy & Globalization"
Nick Ning, NECINA President 2008-2009
Daryl Luk, NECINA President 2009-2010
- 4:00-4:30pm NECINA Officer Awards and
Business Plan Contest Awards
About the Speakers
Rubin Gruber, Vice President of Business
Development, Verivue
Rubin Gruber joined Verivue from softswitch
pioneer Sonus Networks, where he served as
founder and Chairman of the Board of
Directors. Prior to establishing Sonus, he
founded VideoServer, Inc. (now ezenia!), a
manufacturer of videoconference network
equipment. Before VideoServer, he served as
Senior Vice President of BBN Communications
Corporation, where he introduced a new
generation of packet-switching equipment. He
also founded Davox, the leading supplier of
outbound call-center systems and Cambridge
Telecommunications (CTX), an early supplier
of packet network access equipment. CTX was
acquired by GTE and remains part of Sprint.
Gruber was a member of the Board of Directors
for the International Softswitch Consortium,
now called the International Packet
Communications Consortium (IPCC) and was a
founding member of the International
Multimedia Communications Consortium (IMTC).
He holds a B.Sc. from McGill University and
an MA in mathematics from Wayne State
University.
Xylina Wu, Director of Business
Development, Massachusetts Office of
International Trade & Investment
Xylina-Xiaoyun Wu serves as the Director of
Business Development covering Greater China
and Biotechnology for the Massachusetts
International Trade and Investment Office
(MOITI). Prior to joining MOITI, she had six
years of industrial and more than 10 years of
academic research experience in the
biotechnology field, including Harvard
Medical school, Whitehead Institute, Abbott
and Wyeth. She has co-authored many papers in
scientific journals. In addition to her full
time job, Xylina has been actively involved
in community services in the Greater Boston
area. To promote cultural awareness and
diversity for better understanding for people
with different backgrounds, she has dedicated
13 years of her efforts and time teaching in
a local community school - the Newton Chinese
Language School. In 1999 she served as the
principal and from 2000 to 2004 she served as
a board of director of the school. Xylina
obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree from
Shandong University in China and earned a
Master degree in Science and a Master degree
in Education from Buffalo New York.
NECINA Optics SIG and Entrepreneurship Center Seminar (May 26th)
- Time: 6:30pm to 9:00pm, Tuesday,
May 26th, 2009
- Venue: Deloitte, 1000 Winter
Street, North Entrance, Suite 2000, Waltham,
MA 02451
- Registration: This event is open
to all public. Seats are limited, online
registration required. To register, please go to http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=183627
Agenda:
- 6:30pm - 7:15 pm Pizza and Networking
- 7:15pm - 7:20pm Opening Remarks
- 7:20pm - 8:00pm Successfully
Commercializing MEMS Technologies, Prof. Paul
Zavracky, Dean of the School of Technological
Entrepreneurship, Northeastern University.
- 8:00pm - 8:30pm How a Technical
Professional Can Succeed on a Venture
Journey, Dr. Geoffrey Burnham, VP of
Government Business, Agiltron, Inc.
- 8:30pm - 9:00pm Q&A and More
Networking
Speakers:
Dr. Paul Zavracky is the Dean of the
School of Technological Entrepreneurship at
Northeastern University. Prior to joining
Northeastern, he was the president and COO of
The MicroOptical Corporation (now MyVu), a
start-up company he co-founded. Between 1991
and 1998, he was a tenured professor of
electrical engineering at Northeastern
University where he established a
microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) program
that developed both surface and bulk
micromachined devices. He raised more than $9
million in research funding. Dr. Zavracky was
the chief operating officer of Kopin
Corporation and a member of the startup team.
Dr. Zavracky spent five years at The Foxboro
Company as principal scientist and technical
group leader establishing a MEMS program
beginning in 1980. Dr. Zavracky also spent
five years at Coulter Corporation managing
the government system group working on
electrophotographic film and five years at
MIT Lincoln Laboratory where he was involved
in the development of materials for solar
energy applications. He obtained his Ph.D. in
physics at Tufts University. He holds
bachelors and masters degrees in physics from
Northeastern University. Dr. Zavracky is a
director of MEMSIC Corporation and sits on
multiple corporate technical advisory boards.
He has more than 100 publications and 67
issued patents.
After the success of the silicon-based
pressure sensor in the late 70's and early
80's, interest in micromachining silicon and
other materials grew at university and
industry labs around the nation. Soon the
field grew to see a greater potential in
creating MicroElectroMechanical Systems
(MEMS). While a lot of work focused on the
development of fabrication technologies and
the creation of micro-devices and machines,
little of this work made it out of the
laboratory and into the economy. It is
certainly true that successful
commercialization of any technology can be
challenging for the inventors. But why have
some MEMS ideas ended up stuck in the
laboratory while others have been great
successes? This talk will discuss some of
the apparent pitfalls in commercializing new
technologies and ways to avoid them.
Dr. Geoffrey Burnham has over
twenty-five years of direct experience in
photonic product development. During his
tenure at GE Aerospace he is responsible for
the design and development of GE's first mil
qualified high peak and high average power
TIR-FPL slab lasers operating Q-switched in
the NIR. He worked closely with GE's
Corporate Research and Development on GE's
Inertial Confinement (Laser Fusion) Program
producing extremely high peak power Glass
Slab Lasers for KMS Fusion. He also
collaborated with GE's research team on the
development of a 1 kWatt CW YAG laser. Geoffrey has also developed and produced edge
emitting semiconductor lasers at numerous
wavelengths from 632 nm to 1060 nm at powers
up to 2 Watts for a single stripe emitter. He designed and produced numerous fiber
coupled semiconductor lasers with power
levels exceeding 150 Watts CW. His
particular areas of expertise include III-V
edge emitting lasers at 808 nm and 980 nm,
DPSS lasers at 1.06 and frequency doubled
to 532 nm, Q-switched solid state (both YAG
and Glass) and fiber coupled lasers. Previously, Geoffrey founded a small high
hech company called Semiconductor Laser
International Corporation. Of particular
note he raised over $20 million of financing
for this company, including an $8 million
public offering on the NASDAQ. He held
various executive management and positions at
Northeast Semiconductor, General Optronics
Corporation, and General Electric's Aerospace
Group. Geoffrey has a successful track record
in high technology government contract
management, program management and product
commercialization. He holds an M.S. and
Ph.D. in Physics from New York University,
and a B.S. in Physics, from Manhattan
College. He was a Co-Chairman - SPIE
Photonics West Laser Diode Array Session.
Organizers: Qingwu Wang, Wei Gao,
Xifeng Qian, Hongzhi Zhao, Yong Qiao, Xueyan
Zheng, Frank Fan, and Yi Qian
For more information, please visit the
following sites:
NECINA Optics SIG: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NECINA_SIG_Optics/
NECINA Entrepreneurship Center: http://groups.google.com/group/necina-entrepreneurship-center
NECINA: http://www.necina.org/
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