Sunday
September
18, 2016
| 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm | Beat-the-Odds Boot Camp: Registration Desk Open - Regency EF Foyer Please check in at the registration desk upon arrival to pick up your badge and workshop materials and drop off your flash drive. |
Monday
September
19, 2016
| 7:00 am – 8:30 am | Beat-the-Odds Boot Camp: Registration Desk Open - Regency EF Foyer Please check in at the registration desk upon arrival to pick up your badge and workshop materials and drop off your flash drive. |
| 7:00 am – 8:30 am | Continental Breakfast Available - Regency EF Foyer |
| 8:30 am – 9:00 am | Beat-the-Odds Boot Camp: Introductions and Overview - Regency EF Ballrooms
Ruth Shuman, SBIR/STTR Program Director, National Science Foundation; Edmund Pendleton, Lead Instructor, NSF I-Corps and SBIR Phase I Beat-the-Odds Bootcamp |
| 9:00 am – 12:30 pm | Beat-the-Odds Boot Camp: Lessons Learned Presentations - Breakout Rooms TBA Each company will automatically be scheduled to give a short “Lessons Learned” presentation, details to be provided in final webinar. See Boot Camp page for details. |
| 10:30 am – 11:00 am | Coffee Break - Regency EF Foyer |
| 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm | Luncheon - Regency EF Ballrooms |
| 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Beat-the-Odds Boot Camp: Lessons Learned Presentations - Breakout Rooms TBA Each company will automatically be scheduled to give a short “Lessons Learned” presentation, details to be provided in final webinar. See Boot Camp page for details. |
| 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm | Coffee Break - Regency EF Foyer |
| 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm | Registration/Information Desk Open - Regency EF Foyer Participants that were excused from the Beat-the-Odds Boot Camp should check in at the registration desk upon arrival to pick up your name badge and workshop materials. |
Tuesday
September 20, 2016
| 7:30 am – 8:30 am | Registration/Information Desk Open - Regency EF Foyer
Participants who were excused from the Beat-the-Odds Boot Camp should check in at the registration desk upon arrival to pick up your name badge and workshop materials. All companies must check in by 8:30 am on Tuesday morning. |
| 7:30 am – 8:30 am | Continental Breakfast Available - Regency EF Foyer |
| 8:30 am – 9:00 am | Welcoming Remarks and Logistics Overview - Regency EF Ballrooms
Barry Johnson, Acting Deputy Assistant Director, Directorate for Engineering, NSF |
| 9:00 am – 10:15 am | Keynote: Purpose Driven Entrepreneurship - Regency EF Ballrooms |
| 10:15 am – 10:45 am | Coffee Break - Regency EF Foyer |
| 10:45 am – 12:00 pm | Phase II Commercial Review Process - Regency EF Ballrooms
Jesus Soriano, SBIR/STTR Program Director, NSF Ayman Fawaz, Principal, HWL Corp Albine Martin, Executive in Residence, Johns Hopkins University & BioHealth Innovation |
| 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm | Luncheon: Program Director Introductions and Speaker - Independence Center A |
| 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm | Lessons Learned from Phase II Grantees - Regency EF Ballrooms
“zyBooks: Our 4-Year Path to 400 Institutional Customers and a 40-person Team” Smita Bakshi, Co-Founder and CEO, Zyante “Finding My Voice Through the Journey” |
| 2:30 pm – 3:00 pm | How NSF Can Help Communicate Your Success - Regency EF Ballrooms
Kelly Monterroso, Communication Specialist, Division of Industrial Innovation & Partnerships, NSF |
| 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm | Coffee Break - Regency EF Foyer |
| 3:30 pm – 4:15 pm | Financial Review Process - Regency EF Ballrooms |
| 4:15 pm – 4:50 pm | Office of Inspector General Guidance - Regency EF Ballrooms
Monte Fisher, Senior Counsel, Office of Inspector General, NSF |
| 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm | Open Q&A Breakout Sessions by Program Director - Breakout Rooms
Regency EF Steven Konsek, Debasis Majumdar, Rajesh Mehta, Ben Schrag & Rick Schwerdtfeger Potomac 1 Ruth Shuman Potomac 2 Henry Ahn and Jesus Soriano Potomac 5 Murali Nair Potomac 6 Prakash Balan Washington A Glenn Larsen Washington B Peter Atherton |
| 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm | Networking Reception - Regency EF Foyer |
Wednesday
September 21, 2016
| 7:30 am – 5:00pm | Registration/Information Desk Open - Regency EF Foyer |
| 7:30 am – 8:30 am | Continental Breakfast Available - Regency EF Foyer |
| 8:30 am – 12:30 pm | NSF One-on-One Meetings - Regency E Ballroom
Schedule in program booklet |
| 8:30 am – 12:30 pm | Dawnbreaker One-on-One Meetings - Washington A
Schedule in program booklet |
| 8:30 am – 12:30 pm | Larta Inc. One-on-One Meetings - Washington B
Schedule in program booklet |
| 8:30 am – 11:30 am | U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Overview Presentations - Regency F Ballroom
8:30 AM – 9:00 AM Overview on Patents 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM Overview on Trademarks 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM Overview on Patents (repeated) 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM Overview on Trademarks (repeated) |
| 9:30 am – 12:30 pm | U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Desks Open - Regency EF Hallway
Representatives from USPTO will be available for one-on-one meetings to answer your questions about patent, trade secret, trademark, domain name, and copyright protection and enforcement. Please note that Federal government employees are unable to provide specific legal advice. It is strongly recommended that you attend one of the overview sessions listed above. |
| 10:30 am – 11:00 am | Coffee Break - Regency EF Foyer |
| 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm | Luncheon - Independence Center A
Sandwich Bar/Grab-and-Go will be available during this time |
| 1:30 pm – 5:00 pm | NSF One-on-One Meetings (continued) - Regency E Ballroom
Schedule in program booklet |
| 1:30 pm – 5:00 pm | Dawnbreaker One-on-One Meetings (continued) - Washington A
Schedule in program booklet |
| 1:30 pm – 5:00 pm | Larta Inc. One-on-One Meetings (continued) - Washington B
Schedule in program booklet |
| 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm | Coffee Break - Regency EF Foyer |
| 5:00 pm | Workshop Concludes |