BOSTON - (Business Wire) The Nano Science and Technology Institute (NSTI) today announced the deadline for Advance Registration is May 23rd for the co-located Nanotech 2008, TechConnect Summit and Clean Technology 2008 events. Nanotech 2008, TechConnect Summit and Clean Technology 2008 events take place in Boston, Massachusetts' Hynes Convention Center on June 1 - 5, 2008. These are the premier industry events on nanotechnology, clean technology and corporate licensing and partnering in the world.
In addition to the showcases over 300 companies and organizations exhibiting at the events, the conference programs includes over 1,000 technology and business presentations in every area of nanotechnology and some 300 in clean technology. More than 100 early stage companies are presenting at TechConnect Summit joining a host of Fortune 500 companies presenting their corporate technology needs. Additional sessions include government program reviews, an early stage company showcase and expanded vertical industry coverage.
The full nanotechnology program can be found at http://www.nsti.org/Nanotech2008 and at http://www.csievents.org/Cleantech2008/ for Clean Technology 2008 and http://techconnect.org/Summit2008/ for TechConnect. The following is a partial list of confirmed speakers:
| Ray O. Johnson Chief Technology Officer Lockheed Martin Corporation Andrew Zaske General Electric - Water Bruce M. Pratt Genzyme Corporation Wilber James RockPort Capital Partners David Henderson XPV Capital Mark Mielke BASF Future Business GmbH R. Shanker Dow Ventures D. Kalez Pacific Crest Capital Shyam Venkatesh Omron Sally C. Gutierrez EPA Tony Maull, Jr. Ernst & Young Anna Moore Harvard Medical School John Sheehan Livefuels Soren Nohr Bak Grundols Jake M. Reder Cabot Corporation Rich Mannherz Analog Devices Ian A. Bowles Commonwealth of Massachusetts Daniel E. Rardon PPG Industries Scott R. Manalis MIT David Douglas Vice President, Eco Responsibility Sun Microsystems Fiona Case NSTI Sam Bhattacharyya Savannah River Nuclear Solutions David Wright Vanderbilt University Srinivas Iyer Los Alamos National Laboratory B. Raemy Carbon Capture Corporation Yaron Jacobs C.Q.M. Ezra Green Clear Skies Solar | | Andres E. Carvallo Austin Energy Duncan Macleod Shell Hydrogen Doborah Morrisset Chrysler David Vieau A123 Systems I. Dairanieh Beyond Petroleum (BP) Lewis Norman Halliburton Henry Wong Intel Sharon L. Nunes IBM Daniel L. Laird Sandia National Laboratories D. Kopans Fat Spaniel L. Szablya Grid Point Joseph Strakey CTO DOE National Energy David A. Weitz Harvard University Sotiris E. Pratsinis Swiss Federal Inst. of Tech. Patti Glaza CTSI Fang Changxin Toyota & Think Energy Jack A. Roth University of Texas Cancer Center Bahram Farahmand The Boeing Company Jerry Hallmark Motorola Vinayak P. Dravid Northwestern University Michael Pratt Boston University Joshua Dickinson WateReuse Foundation Alois Popp Unilever Kieran Drain Nanogram Mitch Tyson Advanced Electron Beam T. Bailey Evergreen Solar Peter Moller GE IP Equity | | Paul Dickerson US DOE Steven Xanthoudakis Merck Thomas Keller GlaxoSmithKline Nicole Bieri Novartis Tinh Nguyen NIST Naoki “Nick” Sugimoto Honda Motor Corporation Chad A. Mirkin Northwestern University S. DePasquale GE Venture Capital Peter Antoinette Nanocomp Technologies Sarah Audet Medtronic Angela Belcher MIT Jens Rieger BASF J. Cooke Toyota Cyndi Tucker ConocoPhillips Valery A. Petrenko Auburn University Vladimir Torchilin Northeastern University Mark N. Milton Tempo Pharmaceuticals Piotr Grodzinski National Cancer Institute Anna Stradner Nestle-University of Fribourg Wilson Poon The University of Edinburgh Dean Ilievski Alcoa L.B. Kane WholeFoods Market Roy M. Palk New Horizons Consulting John S. Chapman DuPont Central Research Christopher J. Noren New England Biolabs A.C. Smith Lehman Brothers J. Grossman Soltage |
The Nanotech conference provides a multi-industry perspective on corporate R&D as well as the commercialization and product development of micro and nanotechnologies. Clean Technology 2008 is a multi-disciplinary and multi-sector conference on global sustainability addressing advancements in traditional technologies, emerging technologies and clean business practices. The Clean Technology ecosystem enables a growing set of knowledge-based technologies, products or services designed to improve operational performance, productivity or efficiency while reducing costs, inputs, energy consumption, waste or pollution. TechConnect Summit is a showcase of prescreened, advanced technologies and early stage companies specifically in nanotech, cleantech and biotech.
About NSTI:
The Nano Science and Technology Institute (NSTI; www.nsti.org) is chartered with the advancement and integration of nano and other advanced technologies through education, collaboration and research services. NSTI accomplishes this mission through its offerings of continuing education programs, conventions, scientific and business publishing and custom research services. NSTI produces the annual Nanotech conference and trade show. Nanotech 2008, celebrating its 11th year, is expected to attract over 3,500 industrial, academic, business and governmental attendees from around the word. It is the largest gathering of the nanotechnology industry in the U.S. The event is a unique gathering of the scientific and business community working on the development and commercialization of nano and small-scale technology. NSTI was founded in 1997 as a result of the merger between various scientific societies, and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts with offices in California and Switzerland.
for NSTI
Sarah Wenning, 925-901-4959
wenning@nsti.org
