Business Bootcamp
Business Bootcamp for Scientists and Engineers (Year 2): Earn Your Stripes!
ATTENTION SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS!
WE WANT YOU
for
BUSINESS BOOTCAMP II
Time to Earn Your Stripes
Presented by the Office of Technology Transfer
Monday, April 14, 2008
The Brown Hotel, Downtown Louisville
325 W. Broadway, Louisville, KY 40202
Learn to: Commercialize your research, including how to get funding; collaborate; start a company. These topics and more will be discussed by business, legal and scientific experts from around the country. RSVP now for this exciting day of FREE basic training.
AGENDA
9:00AM: REGISTRATION OPENS
9:50AM: Welcome
FIRST SESSION: IP/Marketing
10:00 – 10:25 AM: Intellectual Property 101: James Daly IV, J.D., Ph.D.,
and Mandy Wilson Decker of Stites & Harbison, PLLC,
Louisville, KY
10:25 – 10:45 AM: Marketing/Licensing 101: Jan Heidjer Staecker, J.D., L.L.M.
Tremonti, Consulting, LLC, Northern Virginia
10:45 – 11:00 AM: Questions and Answers for IP/Marketing Session:
James Daly and Heidjer Staecker
11:00 – 11:15
AM: Morning
break
SECOND SESSION: "Real Life Experience: Starting Up"
11:15 - 11:35 AM: Experiences from a Faculty Member as Founder of a University
Start-Up Company: Joseph F. Clark, Ph.D., Professor,
Department of Neurology, University of Cincinnati
11:35 – 11:55 AM: Incubating Technology Companies: Michael P. Kurek, Ph.D., M.B.A.,
Partner, Biotechnology Business Consultants
11:55 – 12:15 PM: Legal Issues of Start-Up Companies: Claude (“Chip”) Bowles, Jr., and
Michael Hawthorne of Greenebaum, Doll & McDonald, PLLC
12:15 – 12:30 PM Q & A for “Real Life-Starting Up”: by the above panel speakers
12:30 – 1:30 PM LUNCH
THIRD SESSION: "Real Life Experiences: Working with Established Companies”
1:30 – 1:50 PM: Perspective of a Biotech Representative: Marc C. Sedam, MBA,
Qualyst Inc., Raleigh, NC
1:50 – 2:10 PM: Perspective of a Large Pharmaceutical Representative:
Ruth Voor, Johnson & Johnson (1989 – 2007)
2:10 – 2:30 PM: Q & A for the Real Life Experiences: by the above panel speakers
2:30 – 2:45 PM: Afternoon Break
FOURTH SESSION: Sources of Funding
2:45 – 3:10 PM: SBIR/STTR: Lisa Kurek, M.S. of Biotechnology Business Consultants
3:10 – 3:40 PM: State Funding: Warren Nash, Deputy Commissioner, Dept. of
Commercialization and Innovation, KY CED
3:40 – 4:00 PM: Venture Capital: George Emont, M.B.A. of Triathlon Medical
Ventures and the Kentucky Seed Capital Fund
4:00 PM: Q&A for Funding Session: the above panel speakers; and
Conclusion
5:00 PM: Reception and Exhibits for OVALS

