Theme: "The First Mile of a Marathon". The theme explores the next steps towards commercialization of University developed technologies. Most inventors painstakingly develop their technologies, and yet, underestimate the herculean task of moving an idea from the lab to launch. Even before funding, there is a lot of heavy lifting, analysis, customer discovery, team building, etc. that needs to be done. The panel speakers will discuss these next steps that every inventor or potential entrepreneur has to undertake.
Moderator: Elana Fine, Managing Director, Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship
Panelists: Todd Chappell, Wyatt Somogyi, Matt Cohen, Stephen P. Auvil
Location: Grand Ballroom Lounge, Student Stamp Union, UMCP