NanoBusiness Conference to be Held in New York on April 20, 2010

The NanoBusiness Alliance, the world's leading nanotechnology trade association, today announced a special one-day event, NanoBusiness Conference/NYC, being held at the Marriott Marquis hotel in Times Square on Tuesday, April 20th.

Co-located with the NYBA (New York Biotechnology Association) Annual Meeting being held that week, the NanoBusiness Conference/NYC will feature a series of sessions with leaders in finance, government and science, and will include presentations from the following…

• Governor Howard Dean – former DNC Chairman, presidential candidate and six-term Governor.
• Jerome “The Bus” Bettis – One of the NFL’s most popular players: the fifth-best rusher of all time and a six-time Pro Bowl Selection.
• Michael Holman – Research Director, Lux Research
• Scott Rickert, Ph. D – President, Co-Founder and CEO, Nanofilm
• Scott Livingston – Chairman and CEO, Livingston Securities, LLC
• Douglas Jamison – Chairman, CEO and Managing Director, Harris & Harris Group

Sessions include:

• Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery in New York City
• Surviving the Cash Crunch
• Addressing ADR in Life Sciences Enterprises
• Are New York Universities Doing Enough To Commercialize Academic Technologies?
• Innovation Alley
• How Current Cases Impact Patent Eligibility

“As we recently moved our large annual NanoBusiness conference to Chicago, we believed the NanoBusiness Alliance still needed to produce a special event for our New York City-based constituents,” said Vincent Caprio, Executive Director, NanoBusiness Alliance. “We found a strong strategic partner in the NYBA, and we are proud to co-located our new New York event with their highly-respected conference.”

Source: http://www.nanobusiness.org