Event brings together N.M. labs, educators, venture capitalists & entrepreneurs to discuss how to turn R&D into new high-tech businesses
            
SANTA FE, N.M. – On Monday, August 12, U.S. Senator Tom Udall (D-N.M.) will host a conference on ways to help spur innovation and create high-tech jobs and businesses in New Mexico by encouraging technology transfer from the national labs and universities to private entrepreneurs.
 
The half-day event and workshop will be co-hosted by Technology Ventures Corporation (TVC), Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Sandia National Laboratory (SNL), the Regional Development Corporation (RDC), and Santa Fe Community College. It will bring together some of New Mexico’s sharpest minds and successful entrepreneurs and investors, including educators and leaders from New Mexico’s national labs. Speakers will include U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman, LANL Director Charlie McMillan and SNL Director Paul Hommert.
 
Udall will deliver the keynote address and publicly announce that he will introduce a bill to support tech transfer, tentatively called the Technology Transfer Invention, Innovation, and Implementation Act.
 
MEDIA: Udall will hold a media availability with reporters during the event. Joining him will be officials from Santa Fe Community College, TVC and RDC.
 
Tech transfer is a process for moving R&D to the marketplace. New Mexico is well positioned to build on the cutting-edge research being done at the national labs, universities and military installations and turn it into high-tech jobs in New Mexico. But improved coordination and public-private partnerships are vital to building successful high-tech industries in our state. The conference – and Udall’s bill – will focus on how to facilitate better coordination between the federal, state and regional resources that will enable innovators and entrepreneurs to develop cutting-edge products and businesses.
 
Monday, August 12, 2013
 
WHAT: Udall hosts tech-transfer conference, delivers keynote address
TIME: Conference opens at 7:30 a.m.; Udall speaks at 10:40 a.m.
**Media availability will start at approximately 10:20 a.m.**
WHERE: Main Campus, Jemez Room
Santa Fe Community College
Santa Fe, NM

The conference agenda follows:

7:30 a.m. – Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:15 a.m. – Welcome to Santa Fe
David Coss, Mayor of Santa Fe

8:30 a.m. – Welcome and Introduction
U.S. Senator Tom Udall (D-N.M.)

8:40 a.m. – Panel: Investing in People, Entrepreneurs and Innovators for Today and Tomorrow
Panelists: Susan Herrera, CEO LANL Foundation; Todd Christenson, VP & CTO, HT MicroAnalytical, Inc.; Marie Longserre, President & CEO, Santa Fe Business Incubator; John Elling, Partner, Phase One Ventures
Moderator: Ana “Cha” Guzmán, President, Santa Fe Community College

9:10 a.m. – Sponsor Video by Santa Fe Community College

9:15 a.m. – Panel: Investing in Innovation, Science, Technology from the Lab Bench to the Marketplace
Panelists: SNL Director Paul Hommert; LANL Director Charlie McMillan; Mike Carr, U.S. Department of Energy; U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman
Moderator: U.S. Senator Tom Udall

9:45 a.m. – Sponsor Video by RDC/TVC

9:50 a.m. – Panel: Investing in Companies that Bring Innovation to the Market
Panelists: John Freisinger, President & CEO, TVC; Brian Birk, Managing Partner, Sun Mountain Capital Partners; John J. Chavez, President, New Mexico Angels
Moderator: Kathy Keith, Executive Director, RDC

10:20 a.m. – Media Availability/ Morning Coffee Break

10:35 a.m. – Introduction to Keynote Address
Glenn Schiffbauer, Executive Director, Santa Fe Green Chamber of Commerce

10:40 a.m. – Keynote Address
U.S. Senator Tom Udall

11 a.m. – Closing Remarks/ Tech Transfer Workshop and Luncheon

12:30 p.m. – Conference Closes