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Singapore-MIT Alliance
Summer Conference 2001
The two-day Programme was held in the Wong Auditorium in the Tang Center (E-51)
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Agenda
July 26th, Thursday
7:30 am
Breakfast
8:15 — 8:30 am
Welcome Remarks
- John Desforge, SMA Assistant Director
8:30 — 9:45 am
"High Tech Entrepreneurship at MIT – What's Hot and What's Not"
- Introduction: John Desforge
- Speaker: Kenneth P. Morse, Senior Lecturer and Managing Director, MIT Entrepreneurship Center
9:45 — 10:45 am
"On the Road to Commercialization of a Materials Technology"
- Introduction: Professor Gerbrand Ceder
- Speaker: Eugene Fitzgerald, Professor, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, MIT; Faculty Fellow, Singapore-MIT Alliance
10:45 — 11:00 am
Break
11:00 — 12:00 pm
"Personal Experiences in a Technology Start-up"
- Introduction: Professor Robert M. Freund
- Speaker: Timothy S. Kniker, Principal, Analytics Operations Engineering, Inc.; MIT Alum
12:00 — 1:00 pm
"Great technology! – Great business?"
- Introduction: Professor David Hardt
- Speaker: Richard H. Oedel, Managing Partner, Brookwood Partners
1:00 — 2:00 pm
Lunch
2:00 — 3:00 pm
"Advances in Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering"
- Introduction: Professor Jackie Y. Ying
- Speaker: Robert Langer, Germeshausen Professor Of Chemical & Biomedical Engineering, MIT
3:00 — 4:00 pm
"Confessions of an Academic Entrepreneur"
- Introduction: Professor Tomas Lozano-Perez
- Speaker: Arvind, Johnson Professor In Computer Science and Engineering, MIT; Faculty Fellow, Singapore-MIT Alliance; Founder and President, Sandburst Corporation
5:00 — 6:00 pm
Duck Boat Tour
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July 27th, Friday
7:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 — 9:30 am
"The OmniGuide Fiber: From Basic Science to the Marketplace"
- Introduction: Professor Carl V. Thompson II
- Speaker: Yoel Fink, Professor, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, MIT
9:30 — 10:30 am
"Mind over Matter: The Intellectual Capital Revolution in Communication Systems Design"
- Introduction: Professor Jacob K. White
- Speaker: Prem Premkumar, President & CEO, Altra Broadband
10:30 — 10:45 am
Break
10:45 — 11:45 am
"Towards a Manufacturing Equipment Infrastructure for the Optical Communication Industry"
- Introduction: Professor David Hardt
- Speaker: Andre Sharon, Professor of Manufacturing Engineering, Boston University; Founder and Chairman, kSARIA Corporation
11:45 — 12:45 pm
"Down in the Trenches"
- Introduction: Professor Jackie Y. Ying
- Speaker: Andrey Zarur, President & CEO, BioProcessors Corp.; MIT Alum
12:45 — 2:00 pm
Lunch
Outside Auditorium (Buffet Style)
2:00 — 3:00 pm
"Being An Entrepreneur"
- Introduction: Professor Tomas Lozano-Perez
- Speaker: Yonald Chery, CTO & VP of R&D, Newbury Networks, Inc.; MIT Alum
3:00 — 3:30 pm
General Session
- Administrative Wrap-up / Sign-out
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