[MIT CSSA Outreach] FW: NECINA Business Plan Contest

[Bo Gong]

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----- Forwarded Message ----
From: Mike Chen <mikexc at yahoo.com>
To: gongb at mit.edu
Sent: Tuesday, September 2, 2008 5:16:18 PM
Subject: NECINA Business Plan Contest

Dear sir/madam,

 

Could you please post the following message to list members? Thank you very
much.

 

Mike

 

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2009 NECINA Brown Rudnick Business Plan Contest Grand Kick Off &
Entrepreneurship Conference

Date:              Saturday, September 13, 2008; 8:30 am -  1:00pm 

Location:      Doubletree hotel, 550 Winter Street,  Waltham , MA   02451 

RSVP:  <http://www.acteva.com/go/necina> http://www.acteva. com/go/necina
(Free, limited seats, online registration required!) 

Do you have interesting ideas, desires or ambitions?  Let us help you
realize your dream and transform them into a compelling story.  NECINA is
proud to kick off The 2009 NECINA Brown Rudnick Business Plan Contest. 

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. 

In the upcoming contest, NECINA continues the ride on the success to provide
seminars and workshop series with more investors involvement; Entrepreneurs
have the access to Venture Club, Excubator, Executive Circle (biz-plan
contest's "follow up" programs in Entrepreneurship Center), and enhanced
mentor programs.  

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. 

Agenda: 

8:30am - 9:00am            Registration and Networking 

9:00am - 9:05am            Opening Remarks 

9:05am - 9:15am            Introduction of 2009 NECINA Business Plan Contest


9:15am - 9:45am            Keynote speech 1, Dr. John C.C. Fan, President,
Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of the Board, Kopin Corporation 

9:45am - 10:15am       Keynote speech 2, Mr. Vinit Nijhawan, Venture Partner
at Key Venture Partners 

10:15am -10:30am      Break 

10:30am -11:30am        Panel discussion:    

Moderator:    

      Mr. Lawrence C. Grumer, Managing Director, TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATES &
ALLIANCES (TAA) 

Panelists:  

Dr. David A. Bergstein, Chief Executive Officer of Zoiray Technologies Inc. 

Mr. Lance Wang, Founder and CEO of IO Methodology Inc. 

Dr. Tetsuaki "Li" Tanimura, Founder, President & CTO of AiHeart Medical
Technologies, Inc. 

11:30am - 1:00pm        Networking & Lunch 

Keynote Speakers Bio: 

Dr. John Fan 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 Asia.net <http://asia.net/> . 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 www.Kopin.com
<http://www.kopin.com/> .  Kopin is listed in the NASDAQ under the symbol:
KOPN 

Vinit Nijhawan 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 . 

Panelists Bios: 

Dr. David A. Bergstein, 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. 

Dr. Tetsuaki "Li" Tanimura 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. 

 Mr. Lance Wang 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. 

 

 

 

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