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AUTM 2013 Eastern Region Meeting
The AUTM 2013 Eastern Region Meeting will gather technology transfer professionals to discuss best practices and strategies for industry-academia partnerships that culminate in successful product commercialization through company formation or licensing and other agreements. We will also discuss and showcase successful practices and new strategies to help weather complicated economic times.
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Pitch Across Maryland 2.0 Bus Tour
Startup Maryland today announced dates (September 9 – 27) and the rough route for the Pitch Across Maryland 2.0, the second annual state-wide tour and celebration of entrepreneurship and startup companies.
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Angel Venture Forum: Cyber Security & Healthcare Investment Conference
With the increasing adoption of cloud computing, mobile devices and web-based applications, hackers have more opportunities than ever to infiltrate and crash network systems, especially in healthcare, which is increasingly becoming more vulnerable. The two greatest areas of opportunity for investment capital and the start-up community is in healthcare and cyber security. The nexus of these two sectors provides an even greater and more focused set of opportunities for investment. The Angel Venture Forum brings together all star roundtables of experts to opine and discuss the topics and the opportunities herein.
T2 Speaker Series - Protecting the Homeland from Development through Transition: Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate
The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (DHS S&T) manages science and technology research to protect the homeland, from development through transition, for Department components and first responders. Its mission is to strengthen America's security and resiliency by providing knowledge products and innovative technology solutions for the Homeland Security Enterprise.
Dr. Daniel Gerstein, Deputy Under Secretary at DHS S&T, will provide insight into the structure, organization, and priorities of DHS S&T. He will specifically focus on the manner in which S&T is aligned with the operating components of DHS to meet their requirements and will describe ways for potential private sector partners to engage the Directorate.
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MACH37 Cyber Accelerator Launch Event
The Accelerator is a program designed to facilitate the creation of the next generation of cybersecurity companies in Virginia. Supported by Governor McDonnell, the General Assembly appropriated $2.5 million to CIT to start and operate the Accelerator for two years, after which the Accelerator will secure private funding. MACH37 is the nation's first public-private sector Cyber Accelerator program.
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NCATS Research & Development Day
NCATS' Research & Development Day will provide the unique opportunity to showcase the projects and technologies that have been incubating in a variety of NCATS drug development programs, including Therapeutics for Rare and Neglected Diseases (TRND) and Bridging Interventional Development Gaps (BrIDGs), to an audience of biopharmaceutical companies, venture capital, angel investors, foundations, and others. The object is to connect our collaborators with strategic partners that will provide financial and technical support to bring potential novel therapeutics to patients.
RESI Conference
The RESI conference is poised to be one of the more unique events in the life sciences space this coming fall. This full-day investor partnering conference is groundbreaking in that it is focused on redefining the investor landscape in early stage life sciences. As all of us in the industry are aware, the life science investor landscape has changed; venture capital has left a void and there is a plethora of new entities entering the space with capital to allocate.
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Exits: Startups Showcase
- Startup Showcases – featuring the best startups nominated by universities, angel investors and VCs
- Corporate "Needs" Showcases – a series of presentations by Global 1000 companies outlining their open innovation platforms and technology needs
- Global 1000, VC and Angel Panels – Global 1000 companies, Venture Capitalists and Angel investors talking about the latest trends in startup funding
- Virtual Startup Showcases – pre-conference live online presentations by some nominated companies to a select group of invitation-only investors and Global 1000 companies
All companies need to be nominated by their affiliated university, angel investor or VC investor. Initial self-nomination by the startup is possible, but must be later validated and officially nominated by a university, angel investor or VC investor affiliated with the company.
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Baltimore Innovation Week 2013 - September 20-29
AdvaMed 2013
After its outstanding success in Boston in 2012, AdvaMed 2013: The MedTech Conference is back in our nation's capital, Washington, DC. AdvaMed 2013 is the leading MedTech Conference in North America, bringing more than 1,000 companies together in a uniquely multifaceted environment for business development, capital formation, innovative technology showcasing, world-class educational opportunities and networking.