Kevin Dewalt
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Kevin Dewalt has 20 years of startup experience as a founder, Venture Capitalist, Angel investor. At IQT he helped make over $20M of venture investments in 25 start-ups including Palantir, currently valued at >$20B. He founded 4 companies, raised a $2M seed VC round and won 2 NSF SBIR grants. He has personally invested in 5 startups and co-invested with 500 Startups (Dave McClure) and Upfront Ventures (Mark Suster). He has been an SBIR panelist for 10 years and mentored dozens with NSF grants. A leader in the Lean Startup movement, Kevin has run workshops at Stanford, MIT, and Carnegie Mellon and helped launch NSF’s iCorps with Steve Blank at Stanford.
Mark Bowles
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Mark Bowles is the founder and co-inventor of the revolutionary technology behind ecoATM (recently acquired by Outerwall for $350M), the first and only company to use automated self-service kiosks to evaluate and purchase consumers’ used electronic items for resale or recycling. A co- founder of a broad range of technology-related businesses, he has more than 25 years of experience in the semiconductor, wireless and retail industries. Bowles has been involved in the formation and funding of six venture-backed startups and has successfully raised 18 rounds of venture capital and debt financing totaling more than $250M. He also holds 9 patents with 22 more pending.
Conference Speakers
Bacon
John Bacon
CEO and Founder of iP2Biz LLC. IP2Biz, LLC is an Innovation Capitalist which translates corporate demand for breakthrough technologies into commercial action.
Kamei
Nancy Kamei
Experienced investor and serial entrepreneur who has attempted to build a life which will accomplish both doing good and making money: a compassionate capitalist.
Pendleton
Edmund Pendleton
Director of the DC I-Corps program, at Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (Mtech) within the Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland.
Bickel
Mindy Bickel
Associate Commissioner for Innovation Development at the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO); she has proudly served to the USPTO for over 35 years.
Sheridan
Neil Sheridan
CEO and founder of SVPI, LLC. SVPI assists corporations, small, medium-sized businesses, and large non-profit clients with strategy and performance improvement initiatives.
Horten
Michael Horten, Horten CC
Has over 40 years’ experience as a practicing attorney. Michael founded a virtual law firm that focuses on the needs of entrepreneurial growth companies.
Boyd
Tom Boyd
Has a Ph.D. in chemistry from MIT and hundreds of global patents to his name. Tom currently directs Colgate’s strategy for academic partnerships, in collaboration with university labs & entrepreneurs.
Arkilic
Errol Arkilic
Founder of M34 Capital. M34 is an investment company that focuses on seed and early-stage projects being spun out of academic and corporate research labs.
Fort
Ann Fort
Seasoned litigator with a background in complex civil matters. Many of Ann’s clients are in the technology industry.
Vijayavargiya
Sonali Vijayavargiya
Founder and Managing Director at Augment Ventures. Augment invests in software, smart hardware and physical innovations that challenge the status-quo.
Fox
Joe Fox
Director of Emerging & External Technologies for Ashland Inc, a global diversified specialty chemical company. Joe identifies growth opportunities for Ashland by finding new applications for composite resins.
Patton
Blake Patton
Technology entrepreneur & investor with 20 years of experience in startup, venture backed, and publicly traded internet, software, payments, and financial services companies.
Lynch
Jason Lynch
Director of IoT Strategy for Analog Devices. As part of Hittite Microwave and Farran Technology, he has significant experience in EU, ESA and SBIR programs in terms of both technical lead and program management.
See
Kevin See
Research Director at Lux Research who oversees a variety of research areas in Energy and Electronics.
Preston
Susan Preston
General Partner for the CalCEF Clean Energy Angel Fund, which is focused on seed/start-up stage investments in clean energy technology.
Chaturvedi
Swati Chaturvedi
Co-founder & CEO of Propel(x), an angel investing marketplace. Propel(x) focuses exclusively on deep technology startups - companies founded on a scientific discovery or meaningful engineering innovation.
Cruikshank
David Cruikshank
Vice President with ARCH, he focuses on electronics/instrumentation, advanced materials, medical diagnostics & devices, nanotechnology, semiconductors, and information technologies.
Derose
Rick Derose
Global Expert for Technology Acquisition at Syngenta. He an expert at using collaboration and open innovation to address identified market needs to create actionable research strategies.