We recently completed our 5^th Annual Nanotech Commercialization Conference, April 9-10^th at the Wake Forest Biotech Place in Winston Salem, NC.  We would like to thank our 225 participants who had the opportunity to hear a fabulous line-up of Speakers.  During our last NanoBCA conference call we had the opportunity to hear a presentation from David Leech, Senior Analyst for Industry and Technology Evaluation, TASC, Inc.

The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) is sponsoring a small study to assess the value of voluntary consensus standard in emerging technologies. Their focus is on the existing nanotechnology documentary standards that have been developed by ISO/TC229 (Nanotechnologies), ASTM E56 (Nanotechnology), and IEC/TC113 (Nanotechnology Standardization for Electrical and Electronics Products and Systems). The assessment leader, David Leech, discussed the nature of the effort with our group at our weekly teleconference, March 21, 2013. Mr. Leech asked for NanoBCA help on two items: (1) quick-turn responses to qualitative background questions from our members; and (2) our participation in a survey (a few weeks away) that will try to quantify some of the kinds of benefits discovered in the background question responses. The nine background questions are below.

Our industry needs consensus standards to close some of the many gaps in definition, measurement, risk analysis, and regulation that exist today. Supporting this assessment will help NanoBCA move the ball forward by demonstrating the economic significant of standards development activities and encouraging our industry’s participation in standards efforts going forward.

Economic Impact of Nanotechnology-Related Documentary Standards

– Background Questions –

1. What business units, and key personnel from your organization were involved in the development (and/or use) of nanotechnology-related documentary standards? (Did key personnel make presentations or publish papers that we can read?)

2. What dates bound your involvement in the development process? If there were important activity phases, or interdependencies with the activities of other organizations, please indicate their start/stop dates?

3. In a sentence or two, what has changed within your organization because of your involvement in the standard development activity and due to the availability of the standard(s) in question?

4. What conventions, processes, and/or standards were in place prior to your involvement in the standards development activity? How long had they been in place?

5. Why were existing processes or standards deemed inadequate? What changed to make them inadequate? What evidence could you offer in support of the claim that something significant had changed to which your activity was responding?

6. How did the development of the standard(s) in question hope to solve the problem?

7. Can you provide points of contact (POCs) in business units external to yours (or in other organizations altogether) that you believe may have benefited from your participation in the standards development process and the publication of the standard(s)?

8. Given the compelling need for the documentary standard(s) in question (provided in the response to question #5), if the specific standard development process in which you engaged had not (or does not) come to fruition, what alternative (competing?) approach(es) to addressing the problem could have been utilized? (This is a historical question, not a conceptual one. Often there are several rival solutions — not all equally good — to a given standards-related problem that could have come to the fore in the absence of the one in which you actually participated?)

9. If the standard development project(s) in which you participated offered the best, most cost-effective, solution to the problem at hand, what made it superior to the alternative approach(es) identified in your response to question #8? Did the development/adoption of the standard result in “resource” savings, or schedule advantages over alternatives identified in your response to question #8?)

I urge NanoBCA members to take 15 minutes to respond to Mr. Leech’s “Nano Standards Background Questions,” by email response David.Leech@TASC.COM or by phone (at a convenient time to be worked out with him). Mr. Leech is anticipating our responses. Please try to respond by Tuesday, April 30th.  All the answers you provide to David will be held in the strictest confidence. They will not be shared with NIST or the standards development organizations whose standards are the focus of the analysis. Information from the background survey will be used in such a way that no individual person or company will be identified.

Thank you.

Regards,

Vincent Caprio “Serving the Nanotechnology Community for Over a Decade”
Executive Director
NanoBusiness Commercialization Association
203-733-1949
vincent@nanobca.org
www.nanobca.org
www.vincentcaprio.org

Today, we are excited to announce our next Water Innovations Alliance Foundation Water 2.0 Conference – Wednesday, May 15, 2013 in Washington, DC.  The Water 2.0 Conference is located at 1299 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite 900 (9th Floor) Washington, DC 20004.

REGISTER TODAY $250

We have a fabulous line-up of Speakers:

Alan Hinchman, GE Global Marketing Director-Infrastructure & Head of GE Intelligent Platforms’ Energy, Oil & Gas, Water and Commercial Buildings Offering

Amanda Brock, CEO, Water Standard

David Drake, Founder & Chairman, LDJ Capital

Kevin M. McGovern, Chairman & CEO, The Water Initiative

Katy Craig, Director, Workflow Solutions, Hach Company

John M. Przybyla, PE, GISP, Senior Vice President, Woolpert

Jon B. Freedman, Executive Counsel – Government Relations, GE Power & Water

Jud Hill, Managing Director, NGP Global Adaptation Partners

Jim Swiger, CEO, Enviro Global Solutions

Dr. Paul Boulos, President & COO, Innovyze

Click here to see the full AGENDA.

Recently, I wrote a review of our last Water 2.0 Conference held on February 26^th at NBC Headquarters located at 30 Rockefeller Center in NYC.  The article appears on Water-Wise, the Our Water Counts blog. Click here to read: Water 2.0 Conference – Providing Digital Solutions. Click here for an overview of all of our Conference Presentations from the February 26^th event.

WATER NEWS
Our Blue Horizon: Children and the Future of Water
By Dennis Nelson
http://www.ourwatercounts.com/blog/index.php/2013/04/02/our-blue-horizon-children-and-the-future-of-water/

Entrepreneurs Take on MENA’s Water and Energy Challenges
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamil-wyne/entrepreneurs-take-on-men_b_3003679.html

Sen. Baldwin visits Global Water Center in Milwaukee
http://fox6now.com/2013/04/02/senator-tammy-baldwin-visits-global-water-center-in-milwaukee/

Looking forward to seeing you in DC on May 15^th.

Regards,

Vincent Caprio
Executive Director
Water Innovations Alliance Foundation
203-733-1949
vince@waterinnovationsfoundation.org
www.waterinnovations.org
www.vincentcaprio.org

Today, we are proud to announce our final agenda for our 5^th Annual Nanotech Commercialization Conference, April 9-10^th, Winston Salem, NC

REGISTER TODAY $150

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: TUESDAY, APRIL 9TH
Prof. David L. Carroll, Ph.D., Director, Nanotechnology & Molecular Materials, Wake Forest University
Travis Earles, Senior Manager, Advanced Materials & Nanotech Initiatives, Corporate Engineering & Technology, Lockheed Martin Corporation
Dr. Mihail C. Roco, Senior Advisor for Nanotechnology, National Science Foundation
Scott E. Rickert, Ph.D., President, Co-Founder & CEO, NanoFilm
Scott Livingston, Chairman & CEO, Livingston Securities

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10TH
Douglas W. Jamison, Chairman of the Board, CEO & Managing Director, Harris & Harris Group, Inc.
Jim Phillips, Chairman/CEO, NanoMech
Anthony Atala, M.D., Director, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine & W.H. Boyce Professor & Chair, Wake Forest University, Department of Urology

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PANELS: TUESDAY, APRIL 9TH

Nano Materials
Hindsight is 20/20: Entrepreneurs Share Viewpoints on What They Wish They’d Known
Dr. Gilberto M. (Ybet) Villacorta, Partner, Foley & Lardner LLP, IP and Chemical, Biotech & Pharma Practices
Dr. Sunit Talapatra, Senior Counsel, Foley & Lardner LLP, Nanotechnology Industry Team, IP and Chemical, Biotech & Pharma Practices

Graphene: Opportunities and Challenges
Keith Blakely, CEO, The InVentures Group
Alan Rae, B.Sc., Ph.D., M.B.A., M.R.S.C. C.Chem., CEO, NanoMaterials Innovation Center
Moderator: Stephen R. Waite, Managing Partner, SoundView Technology Group

Nano Trends 2013
Best Practices and Risk Management:  Patent Trolls, New Regulation and Tort Risks
Jack B. Hicks, Partner, Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice LLP
Michael J. Sullivan, Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice LLP

Nano Commercialization
Johnny Rodrigues, Chief Commercialization Officer, Xemerge
Douglas DuFaux, CTO, Alfie Technology Corp.
Moderator: Ken Russell, Ph.D., Director, Enterprise Strategy, CISCO

Nano Intellectual Property
FBI Case Study: Protecting Your IP
Jerry Reichard, Supervisory Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Moderator: Vincent Caprio, NanoBCA

Nano America
Trends & Scientific Breakthroughs in University Nanotechnology Research
James G. Ryan, Ph.D., Founding Dean, Joint School of Nanoscience & Nanoengineering
Dr. Nan Marie Jokerst, J.A. Jones Distinguished Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Duke University
Prof. Jagannathan Sankar, Ph.D., Distinguished University Professor; White House Millennium Researcher, Director-NSF-ERC & CAMSS, NCA & TSU

PANELS: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10^TH

Nano EHS – State of the Union 2013
Lynn L. Bergeson, Managing Director, Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.
Dr. Ginger Rothrock, Program Manager, Emerging Technologies, RTI International

Nano Materials
Ed Olivares, Federal Business Group
Richard Czerw, Ph.D., CEO, NanoTechLabs, Inc.
Craig Bandes, President & CEO, Pixelligent Technologies
Moderator: Fern O’Brian, Partner, Thompson Hine LLP

Nano Medicine
Benjamin S. Harrison, Ph.D., Chief of Laboratory Operations & Associate Professor, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Alexander (Sasha) V. Kabanov, Ph.D., D.Sc., Director, UNC Center for Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery, Co-Director, Carolina Institute for Nanomedicine
Dr. Veena Misra, Director, NSF ERC ASSIST Nanosystems Center, NCSU
Moderator: Roger Cubicciotti, Ph.D., President/CEO & Science Advisor, NanoMedica LLC

Nano Innovation
Top 2013 Nanotechnology Innovations
Stephen R. Waite, Managing Partner, SoundView Technology Group
Paul S. Clayson, President & CEO, HzO
Robert Burns, Senior Vice President, Harris & Harris Group, Inc.

Nanomanufacturing
Nanotechnology Manufacturing in a Global Context: 2013-2030
Moderator & Speaker: Timothy M. Persons, Ph.D., Chief Scientist, US Government Accountability Office
Dr. Jeffrey D. Morse, Managing Director, National Nanomanufacturing Network
Joe Piche, CEO, Eikos

Nano Insurance
Understanding Risks in Nanotechnology
Moderator & Speaker: Russell L. Jones MBA, Summers Thompson Lowry, Inc
Harry Bushong, President & Co-founder, nanoTox, Inc.
Allen Gelwick, Executive VP, Lockton Companies
Prof. David L. Carroll, Ph.D., Director, Nanotechnology & Molecular Materials, Wake Forest University
Michelle Ostraat, Senior Director, Center for Aerosol and Nanomaterials Engineering at RTI International
Peter Seoane, Ph.D., NSF Engineering Research Center for Revolutionizing Metallic Biomaterials, North Carolina A&T State University
Daniel Joseph Christian Herr, Ph.D., Professor & Nanoscience Department Chair, Joint School of Nanoscience & Nanoengineering
Roger Cubicciotti, Ph.D., President/CEO & Science Advisor, NanoMedica LLC

Nano Textiles
Dr. Behnam Pourdeyhimi, Executive Director, Nonwovens Institute, NCSU
Dr. Sumit Gangwal, VP Research & Development, Xanofi
Moderator: Scott Bryant, President, Nano-Network of New Mexico

HOTEL
Winston-Salem Marriott
425 North Cherry Street
Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27101
Phone: 336-725-3500
Toll-free: 877-888-9762

Click here to make your reservation
or call 1-336-725-3500 directly and use the code “nannana” to receive your discounted rate.

Room Rates: $124.00 per night

NANO NEWS
A Strange Computer Promises Great Speed
D-Wave Systems and Lockheed Martin announcement
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/22/technology/testing-a-new-class-of-speedy-computer.html

A Nanofabrication Technique Doubles Hard Drive Capacity
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/512261/a-nanofabrication-technique-doubles-hard-drive-capacity/

Pixelligent Technologies Introduces PixClear™ Nanoadditives
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/18/idUSnMKW97378a+1c0+MKW20130318

Harris & Harris Group: 2012 Annual Letter to Shareholders
http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/TINY/1733448648x0x646203/E59F1187-A5F8-4095-B326-7B8A1C42ABB9/2012_Annual_Shareholder_Letter.pdf

Quantum Computing: USC-Lockheed Martin Quantum Computing Center
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Fls523cBD7E

Last year, we had over 300 participants at our North Carolina Event.  We are looking forward to seeing you on April 9^th in North Carolina.

Regards,

Vincent Caprio “Serving the Nanotechnology Community for Over a Decade”
Executive Director
NanoBusiness Commercialization Association
203-733-1949
Vincent@nanobca.org
www.nanobca.org
www.vincentcaprio.org

Written by Vincent Caprio

We are excited to announce this year’s NanoBusiness Commercialization Association’s 2013 Top Large Corporation Nanotech Innovators.  We will be reviewing this list at our 5^th Annual Nanotech Commercialization Conference on Wednesday, April 10^th at the Wake Forest Biotech Place in Winston Salem, NC.  I will be interviewing Steve Waite, Managing Partner at SoundView Advisory, who will be discussing the achievements of these companies on the Nano Innovation panel.  This panel will also include presentations from Paul Clayson, President & CEO of HzO and Robert Burns, Senior Vice President of Harris & Harris Group.

NanoBCA 2013 TOP LARGE CORPORATION NANOTECH INNOVATORS
Amgen – Cancer vaccines
Apple – Computer chips
BASF – Advanced materials
Bayer – Targeted delivery therapeutics
Behr – Advanced building materials
DMS – Semiconductor equipment
DuPont – Advanced materials, photovoltaics
Evonik – Advanced materials, photovoltaics
GE – Advanced diagnostics
General Motors – High strength composites
Hewlett Packard – Memristors
IBM – Quantum computing, Nanotubes
Intel – Microprocessors
LG Electronics – Advanced materials
L’Oreal – Skin care
Lockheed Martin – EMI-ESD coatings
Mitsubishi – Advanced materials
Nanophase – Nanomaterials solutions for large corporations
Nanosphere – Diagnostic tools
Novartis – Reformulations and targeted delivery therapeutics
Pfizer – Reformulations and targeted delivery therapeutics
Samsung – High performance computer chips

NANO NEWS
Gina McCarthy Gets EPA Head Nomination From Obama
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/04/gina-mccarthy-epa-obama_n_2727138.html

Obama to Appoint New Energy Secretary, EPA Chief, and Budget Director
http://swampland.time.com/2013/03/04/obama-nominates-wal-marts-burwell-as-budget-chief/

Nanotechnology’s 4,500-Year Health Record – Industry Week
By Scott E. Rickert, CEO, Nanofilm Ltd. – Scott will be a Keynote Speaker at our NC Event
http://www.industryweek.com/emerging-technologies/nanotechnologys-4500-year-health-record

Nanotechnology could be a driving force for Maryland’s tech sector
This article is a profile of Pixelligent Technologies – Craig Bandes, President & CEO will be a Speaker at our Event
http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/print-edition/2013/03/08/nanotechnology-could-be-a-driving.html

Top 10 Crowdfunders of 2013
By David Drake, Founder & Chairman, LDJ Capital
http://www.forbes.com/sites/groupthink/2013/01/31/u-s-crowdfunders-the-top-contenders-in-2013/

EPA Calls for 2013 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award Nominations:
New green chemistry technologies grow markets and save businesses money
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/d0cf6618525a9efb85257359003fb69d/d66ab2c9ff283b0585257b19005d0395!OpenDocument

U.S. Leads in Nanotechnology Patents, East Asia Making Gains
http://www.law.com/corporatecounsel/PubArticleCC.jsp?id=1202588923477&US_Leads_in_Nanotechnology_Patents_East_Asia_Making_Gains&slreturn=20130211130921

Light Work – The Economist
http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2013/02/nanotechnology

Last year, we had over 300 participants at our North Carolina Event.  We are looking forward to seeing you in North Carolina in April.

Regards,

Vincent Caprio “Serving the Nanotechnology Community for Over a Decade”
Executive Director
NanoBusiness Commercialization Association
203-733-1949
vincent@nanobca.org
www.nanobca.org
www.vincentcaprio.org