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From: Mike Chen <mikexc@yahoo.com><br>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 2, 2008 5:16:18 PM<br>
Subject: NECINA Business Plan Contest<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;text-align:center'><strong><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>2009 NECINA
Brown Rudnick Business Plan Contest Grand Kick Off &</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Entrepreneurship Conference</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b>Date:
Saturday, <span class=yshortcuts>September 13,
2008</span>; 8:30 am – 1:00pm</b> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b>Location:
Doubletree hotel, 550 Winter Street,
Waltham , MA 02451</b> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b>RSVP:
</b><a href="http://www.acteva.com/go/necina" target="_blank"><b><span
style='color:purple'>http://www.acteva. com/go/necina</span></b></a><b> (<span
style='color:red'>Free,</span> <span style='color:red'>limited seats, online
registration required!</span>)</b> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-align:justify'>Do you have interesting ideas, desires or ambitions?
Let us help you realize your dream and transform them into a compelling
story. <b>NECINA</b> is proud to kick off <b>The 2009 NECINA Brown
Rudnick Business Plan Contest.</b> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoBodyText style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Since
2004, NECINA Brown Rudnick Business Plan Contest has provided the entrepreneurs
an excellent opportunity to foster their ideas, build the team, develop the
business plan, seek advices from mentors and connect with venture community. In
the last four contests, there are more than 90+ applications and 55+ teams
submitted the formal business plan. 12 teams shared totally $170k cash and
in-kind services. Many teams had the opportunities to engage with venture
capitals and some of them received investment and started the business.</span> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-align:justify'><span style='color:black'>In the upcoming contest, NECINA
continues the ride on the success to provide se</span>minars and workshop<span
style='color:black'> series with more investors involvement;</span>
Entrepreneurs have the <span style='color:black'>access to Venture Club,
Excubator, Executive Circle (biz-plan contest's "follow up" programs
in Entrepreneurship Center), and enhanced mentor programs</span>. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-align:justify'>If you are interested in starting your own business, wait
no more. Please join the conference to hear from the successful entrepreneurs,
network with investors/VC, consult with legal experts, and learn more about
what NECINA can do to help you succeed. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-align:justify'><b>Agenda:</b> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>8:30am
- 9:00am
Registration and Networking <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>9:00am
- 9:05am
Opening Remarks <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>9:05am
- 9:15am
Introduction of 2009 NECINA Business Plan Contest <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>9:15am
- 9:45am
Keynote speech 1, <strong><span style='color:black;letter-spacing:.6pt'>Dr.
John C.C. Fan</span></strong><b>, </b>President, Chief Executive Officer, and
Chairman of the Board, Kopin Corporation <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>9:45am
- 10:15am Keynote speech 2, <b>Mr. Vinit
Nijhawan, </b>Venture Partner at Key Venture Partners <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>10:15am
-10:30am Break <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>10:30am
-11:30am Panel discussion: <b> </b>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Moderator:
</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>
Mr. Lawrence C. Grumer, </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>Managing Director, TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATES & ALLIANCES
(TAA)</span> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b>Panelists:
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b>Dr.
David A. Bergstein,</b> Chief Executive Officer of Zoiray Technologies Inc. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b>Mr.
Lance Wang, </b>Founder and CEO of IO Methodology Inc. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b>Dr.
Tetsuaki "Li" Tanimura, </b>Founder, President & CTO of AiHeart
Medical Technologies, Inc. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>11:30am
- 1:00pm Networking & Lunch <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b>Keynote
Speakers Bio:</b> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b>Dr.
John Fan</b> is the Founder, Chairman, CEO and President of Kopin Corporation,
a NASDAQ Company based in Massachusetts , U.S.A. John C. C. Fan obtained
his Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering from Berkeley , California
. He went to Harvard University and obtained his Master and Ph. D. degree
in Applied Physics in 1972. From 1972 to 1985, Dr. Fan did research at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Lincoln Laboratory on a variety of
semiconductor material and device areas and was in charge of the Electronic
Materials Group at Lincoln Laboratory. He left MIT in 1985 to start Kopin
Corporation, the leading provider of HBT transistor wafers for wireless
communications, and small-format active-matrix liquid crystal displays for
mobile consumer devices as well as in military systems. More than
one-third of the world's wireless handsets, and tens of millions of camcorders
and digital still cameras have been using Kopin products. Dr. Fan has authored
over 180 publications, edited three books and has over 50 issued patents.
Dr. Fan received the Society of Information Displays (SID) Special Recognition
Award in 1999. Dr. Fan was the Ernst & Young New England Entrepreneur
of the Year in 2000, and also the National Finalist. He was chosen one of
the Top 25 Asian American Entrepreneurs by Asia Week in 1999, and one of the
top 100 Asian American Entrepreneurs between 1999 and 2004 by <a
href="http://asia.net/" target="_blank">Asia.net</a>. Dr. Fan was recently
chosen as one of the USA 's top 15 nanotechnology innovators by NASA's Nanotech
Briefs in 2005. For more information, please visit Kopin's web site
at <a href="http://www.kopin.com/" target="_blank">www.Kopin.com</a>.
Kopin is listed in the NASDAQ under the symbol: KOPN <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b>Vinit
Nijhawan</b> has over 20 years experience building four startups: as CEO of
two, three were acquired, and the fourth has grown to over 400 people.
Recently, Vinit was Venture Partner at Key Venture Partners and over two years
sourced over 200 deals and made one investment. Vinit is an advisor and board
member to several technology startups and was a Mass High Tech All-Star in
2005. Vinit has participated in over 120 panel discussions and paper
presentations, and is Chairman of TiE-Boston and a Board of Trustee of TiE
Global, a non-profit that fosters entrepreneurship globally. Vinit is an
Executive-in- Residence at Boston University where he teaches an MBA course on
Starting New Ventures. Vinit earned a B.A.Sc in electrical engineering from the
University of Waterloo in Ontario , Canada . <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b>Panelists
Bios:</b> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b>Dr.
David A. Bergstein,</b> is the founder and CEO of Zoiray Technologies Inc.
which is developing innovative proteomic technologies for applications in
biomedical research and healthcare. Dr. David A. Bergstein received his
Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Delaware
. After his undergraduation, David was employed at Lutron Electronics,
Coopersburg , PA where as project engineer he worked in power electronics on
new product development and manufacturing. David went on to receive his
M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Boston University developing
novel label-free DNA and protein array detection technologies on which he has
two pending patents. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b>Dr.
Tetsuaki "Li" Tanimura</b> is the founder, president & CTO of
AiHeart Medical Technologies, Inc. Since 2006, he was executive director, board
member of FiberTech Inc.. Before that, he served as Chairman & CEO of
LightLab Imaging Inc. Between 2002 and 2006. Dr. Tanimura also hold president
position at Goodman USA Inc. He also worked in different institutions as
research fellow, assistant physician, and assistant professor during 90s. Dr.
Tanimura hold a MD degree and had many patents. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <b>Mr.
Lance Wang</b> is the founder and CEO of IO Methodology Inc. Prior to IO
Methodology, he had served as Sr. Product Manager, Modeling Specialist for PCB
SI product line in Cadence Design Systems for 7 years. He was a hardware design
engineer in GSI Lumonics Inc. (MA) and Connection Technology Inc. (NY) and a
field service engineer in Motorola China Inc. ( Shanghai ) before joined
Cadence. He is the officer of IBIS Open Forum (GEIA/ITAA/ANSI standard
committee) for advanced I/O buffer and interconnect modeling technology as well
as high-speed design analysis methodology developments. <o:p></o:p></p>
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