Today, I am excited to announce that the NanoBusiness Alliance is sponsoring The Carbon Nanotube Coalition’s one day conference to be held on December 3rd at the office of:

McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP
101 California Street
Floor 41
San Francisco, CA 94111

Conference Chairman, Rick Canady, PhD DABT http://www.mckennalong.com/professionals-1197.html, has asked me to speak on Thursday afternoon at 4:30pm. The Carbon Nanotube Coalition’s December 3, 2009 meeting will bring together manufacturers and industrial users of carbon nanotubes to examine the questions DTSC has asked and to discuss the larger policy implications they raise, such as protection of proprietary information, how to report data regarding nanomaterials across widely differing regulatory jurisdictions, and how to address concerns about measuring and monitoring nanomaterials in the environment. The invitation-only meeting will include presentations and discussions limited to industry members followed by a question and answer session with DTSC policy makers.

REGISTER TODAY
Registration is complimentary to NanoBusiness Alliance Members in good standing. Please contact Vincent Caprio, Sr. Vice President, NanoBusiness Alliance, vincentcaprio@nynanobusiness.org 203-733-1949.

For non NanoBusiness Alliance Members, the fee is $300. Click here to register,https://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Register/IdentityConfirmation.aspx?e=a27bf93b-168e-4dde-bb02-19ed358a83c6

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

• Companies preparing responses to the DTSC data call in (due January 2010).
• Manufacturers of carbon nanotubes who were not named in the DTSC data call in, but who will be affected by policy, regulations, and public perceptions that will be formed by the responses to DTSC.
• Users of carbon nanotubes concerned about how responses to DTSC will affect perceptions regarding carbon nanotubes, and possibly the supply chains for their products.
• Companies who see this dialogue as a formative event for how other nanotechnology applications will be regulated and viewed by the public.

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

• Jeff Wong, PhD, Chief Scientist, DTSC
• Rick Canady, PhD DABT, Senior Advisor, McKenna Long & Aldridge and former risk policy advisor to the FDA Commissioner’s Office and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
• Michael Boucher, Lead attorney on carbon nanotube EPA TSCA submissions for McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP
• Ann Grimaldi, Lead attorney on green chemistry and nanotechnology for McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP in California
• Tom Jacobs, California Nano Industry Network
• Bill Gulledge, American Chemistry Council Nanotechnology Panel

AGENDA
Sessions I-III are invitation only sessions: CNC members and other industry participants

8:30am Continental Breakfast (provided to those attending the session in person)

I. Orientation and Goals of the Meeting

8:45am Rick Canady, Carbon Nanotube Coalition Welcome and opening remarks

9:00am Bill Gulledge, ACC Nanotechnology Panel
Consideration of the DTSC carbon nanotube data call in for the broader value chain and implications to other nanomaterials nationally

9:15am Tom Jacobs, California Nano Regulatory Committee
The California Nano scene: DTSC and the California legislative environment. What does this mean?

Guided Discussion of Issues in Responses to the Questions

9:30am Ann Grimaldi, McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP
Addressing DTSC questions 1-3 (quoted directly from the DTSC letter to manufacturers)

1. What is the value chain for your company? For example, in what products are your carbon nanotubes used by others? In what products? In what quantities? Who are your major customers?

2. What sampling, detection, and measurement methods are you using to monitor (detect and measure) the presence of your chemical in the workplace and the environment? Provide a full description of all required sampling, detection, measurement, and verification methodologies. Provide full QA/QC protocol.

3. What is your knowledge about the current and projected presence of your chemical in the environment that results from manufacturing, distribution, use, and end-of-life disposal?

10:45am Coffee Break

11:00am Michael Boucher, McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP
Addressing DTSC questions 4-6

4. What is your knowledge about the safety of your chemical in terms of occupational safety, public health, and the environment?

5. What methods are you using to protect workers in the research, development, and manufacturing environment?

6. When released, does your material constitute a hazardous waste under California Health & Safety Code provisions? Are discarded off-spec materials a hazardous waste? Once discarded, are the carbon nanotubes you produce a hazardous waste? What are your waste handling practices for carbon nanotubes?

12:15pm Working Lunch (provided to those attending the session in person)

III. Guided Discussion of Cross-Cutting Issues

1:15pm Rick Canady, Carbon Nanotube Coalition
Addressing general Issues in responses

CBI consideration
– Data submission: How much is enough?
– Can data be viewed as “eyes only” or through “read across” data compilations?
– Submitting information about the value chain (i.e., your customers or suppliers)

Relation of DTSC reporting to TSCA and CEPA reporting and regulation

Public perception issues of differing opinions of safety and “hazardous waste” and of a lack of monitoring information

Influence of responses on next steps for DTSC

IV. Questions and Answers with DTSC
Open session: CNC members, other industry participants, and California DTSC (and others at their invitation)

2:30pm Ann Grimaldi, McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP
Open session IV
The workshop will be joined by DTSC and others (e.g., University and research groups named in the data call-in).

2:45pm Jeff Wong, California DTSC
DTSC responds to questions arising from responses to the data call-in

To the degree possible, we would provide DTSC with a list of topics we will need responses on, based on discussions on the CNC web site and in conference calls leading up to the workshop.

4:30pm Rick Canady, Carbon Nanotube Coalition (and all)
Vincent Caprio, Sr. Vice President, NanoBusiness Alliance

5:00pm Close of Session (move to reception)

Dr. Canady and I look forward to seeing you in California on December 3rd.

Regards,

Vincent Caprio
www.vincentcaprio.org
Sr. Vice President
NanoBusiness Alliance
203-733-1949
vincentcaprio@nynanobusiness.org

NANO NEWS
‘New Mix’ Not ‘New Normal’ to Drive U.S., Carson Says
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aU0qQidFxQRQ

New hope over spinal cord injuries
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5h_bTpOh1b6w_irDHd0uvy3EwHZlQ

First Lady quizzes middle school students about Nanotechnology
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hi1lPIA8K5PT9MAGOpgtfyPvBxjQD9BPKVM00

Tiny tech sparks cell signal find
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8344815.stm

Anti-Odor Silver Exits Textiles in the Wash
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/science/03obsox.html?_r=1

For the week ending 11/15/09

For those of us in the Nanotechnology Community a great article by Scott Rickert, CEO of Nanofilm and NanoBusiness Alliance Advisory Board Member.

Taking The NanoPulse-Welcome to the Nano Nation.  Mapping the future of Nanotechnology starts here.
http://www.industryweek.com/articles/taking_the_nanopulse_–_welcome_to_the_nano-nation_20369.aspx?Page=2

Kudos to my good friend Scott.

Other Nano News

mPower Technologies Named CES Innovations 2010 Personal Electronics Design and Engineering Honoree
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/mPower-Technologies-Named-CES-iw-4160599041.html?x=0&.v=1

Sensors Provide Early Warning of Biological Threats
http://nanotechwire.com/news.asp?nid=8924

PEN’s Nanotechnology Consumer Products Inventory Now Available via iPhone and iPod Touch
http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=14641

I will be speaking at the 5th Annual Livingston Nanotechnology Conference on December 7th held at the Lighthouse International Conference Center http://www.lhiconferencecenter.com/ in New York City. My good friend, Scott Livingston, Founder & CEO of Livingston Securities http://www.livingstonsecurities.com/ has asked me be the moderator of the Capital and Investment – Trends on Wall Street session, on Monday December 7^th from 10:45-11:30.  It seems like it was only last week when Scott asked me in June of 2005, “Vincenzo, www.vincentcaprio.org I would like to have a conference in December on Pearl Harbor Day. Can you help me?” My immediate answer was, “Yes I can!” That was four years ago. Time flies. Here we are a month away from our 5th annual conference.

The line up of Keynote Speakers for this year’s conference is phenomenal:

• Tom Baruch, Founder & Managing Director, CMEA Capital
• John Chiang, California State Controller
• Roger Duncan, Chairman & CEO, Austin Energy, the 8th largest public utility in America
• Charlie Gasparino, Wall Street Investigative Reporter
• Bernard Meyerson, Senior Vice President and CTO, IBM Systems and Services Group
• Bob Prieto, Senior Vice President – Strategy & Infrastructure Group, Fluor Corp

REGISTER TODAY $200 per person Includes continental breakfast, lunch and reception

To Register: Please complete the attached registration form and email vincentcaprio@nynanobusiness.org

This year’s agenda will provide you with the leading innovations in the nanotechnology field:

9:00 – 9:15 Welcome and Opening Remarks – Scott Livingston, Chief Executive Officer, Livingston Securities

9:15 – 10:00 Keynote – California State Controller John Chiang

10:00 – 10:45 Keynote – Dixon Doll, Co-Founder, DCM-Doll Capital Management and Immediate Past Chairman, National Venture Capital Association – The NVCA four pillar plan to reinvigorate small IPOs

10:45 – 11:30 Panel 1 – Energy Transmission & storage, Supercapacitors, Batteries and PHEVs

10:45 – 11:30 Panel 2 – Capital and Investment – Trends on Wall Street, in Venture Capital and other areas of growth investment, Moderator, Vincent Caprio, SVP, NanoBusiness Alliance

11:30 – 12:15 Panel 3 – IPOs – Introducing the IPO candidates of 2010, Moderator, Scott Livingston

11:30 – 12:15 Panel 4 – Solar 2.0 – Strategies for $75 oil, New Technologies beyond thin film and utility scale solar

12:15 – 1:00 LUNCH

1:00 – 1:45 Keynote – Roger Duncan, General Manager, Austin Energy – Green Initiatives and Public Utilities, Smart Grids, Green Buildings, and Alternative Energy Sources

1:45 – 2:30 Keynote – Charles Gasparino, Wall Street Investigative Reporter and Author of “The Sellout”, newly released account of Wall Street’s stunning collapse in 2008-2009 from one of America’s most critically acclaimed financial reporters.

2:30 – 3:15 Panel 5 – Green Buildings and Energy Efficient Cities
Moderator, Leon Radomsky, Partner, Foley & Lardner
Anna Dyson, Architecture Professor, RPI

2:30 – 3:15 Panel 6 – Water, the Next Oil but Where to Invest?, Moderator, Mark Modzelewski, Water Innovations Alliance

3:15 – 4:00 Panel 7 – Infrastructure – Rebuilding America with Next Generation Materials, Moderator, Stanley Goos, Member, Harris Beach LLC

3:15 – 4:00 Panel 8 – Printed Electronics – Poised for a Breakout?

4:00 – 4:45 Keynote – Robert Prieto, Senior Vice President – Infrastructure Group, Fluor Corp. – Infrastructure Projects around the World

4:45 – 5:00 Closing Remarks – Scott Livingston – Chief Executive Officer, Livingston Securities

Scott Livingston and I are looking forward to seeing you on Pearl Harbor Day, December 7th in NYC.

Regards,

Vincent Caprio
www.vincentcaprio.org
President New York NanoBusiness Alliance
203-733-1949
vincentcaprio@nynanobusiness.org

Livingston Dec 2009 Registration Form

As you know, the Alliance’s public policy counsel is the firm of K&L Gates. They have excellent contacts in India and are considering bringing a small group of emerging technology companies and/or venture capital firms to meet with senior Indian investors, CEOs and government officials relevant to the U.S. entities participating. The trip would take place the week of November 16th, and include three days in Delhi and two days in Mumbai. The firm’s contacts in India have specified particular interest in U.S. clean tech/renewable energy tech companies, clean water and sanitation technology companies, and material coating companies. As initial examples, the firm has identified the following as being willing to meet with U.S. companies individually or in small groups:

Government

The members of the delegation would have an opportunity to meet with senior representatives (including possibly the Ministers themselves) within the following:

• Ministry for Corporate Affairs
• Ministry for Environment and Forests
• Ministry for Commerce and Industry
• Ministry for External Affairs
• Ministry for Power

Industry

Delegates from Companies and Industry Alliances engaged in development and deployment of new water technologies will be introduced and can share best practices with business leaders from representative companies noted below. Water has historically been a public sector responsibility. However, the Indian Government has increasingly been looking for the private sector to engage on the back of major reforms in various sub-sectors of water. Private unlisted companies, such as:

• Jamshedpur Utilities & Services Company (JUSCO), a subsidiary of the TATA group, provides comprehensive services in the supply of water to both industrial and domestic customers. The Company was formed in 2004 and has since ventured beyond Jamshedpur to create new facilities in water across the country apart from modernizing and maintaining existing ones. http://juscoltd.com/water-and-waste-water.asp
• Knowledge Infrastructure Systems Pvt, Ltd, an evolving energy management company expanding into the water supply arena www.knowledgeispower.in

Those companies engaged in technologies around solar energy, fuel cell and photovoltaic technology would get an opportunity to interact and share their experiences and innovations with a cross section of companies and institutes including:

• TERI – a leading global institution focused on sustainable development. It has created an environment that is enabling, dynamic and inspiring for the development of solutions to global problems in the fields of energy, environment and current patterns of development, which are largely unsustainable. http://www.teriin.org/ The head of TERI, Dr. Pachauri, is a Nobel Laureate (along with Al Gore) for Environmental Matters.
• Reliance Energy, a key part of the Reliance-Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (“ADAG”), India’s third largest business house and is the country’s foremost private sector utility with aggregate group revenues of US$ 3 billion. http://www.rel.co.in/Rel/aboutus/relatglance.jsp

• Wipro EcoEnergy, the renewable energy services arm of WIPRO, a major software company, is a one stop shop for clean energy technologies. http://www.wiproinfra.com/html/wipro_ecoenergy.html

In coatings, the delegates would have an opportunity to interact with both large and medium-sized entities to inform and educate business leaders on the commercialization of their technologies across the infrastructure space. These include:

Reliance Infrastructure, part of Reliance – ADAG, is the country’s first and only private sector builder to build India’s first 100-storey building, a trade tower; and a business district over 80 acres in the southern city of Hyderabad. http://www.rinfra.com/ri_aboutus.html

• DLF group is the leading real estate developer in India. The group has over 224 million sq ft of existing development and 748 sq ft of planned development. http://www.dlf.in/dlf/wcm/connect/DLF_Common/DLF_SITE/HOME/
• GMR group is now a global infrastructure player with major interests in Airports, Energy, Highways and Urban Infrastructure. Going forward, the group is actively seeking opportunities in core areas of infrastructure development including property development and transportation. http://gmrgroup.co.in/
• DSC Ltd is a part of DS Corp, a transnational conglomerate present across four continents. The conglomerate has interests spread across the world ranging from developing and constructing Infrastructure to hospitality, trading, real estate and retailing. www.dsclimited.com

K&L Gates is exploring the level of interest in such a project. The Firm would not charge any fees for the trip; costs to participants would include their travel expenses (airfare, hotel, etc.) and between $2,500 and $3,000 per participant for the Indian logistics people. Please let me know if you would be interested in participating.

Regards,

Vincent Caprio
Sr. Vice President
NanoBusiness Alliance
203-733-1949
vincentcaprio@nynanobusiness.org
www.vincentcaprio.org

I would like to invite you to the Nano and Green Tech 2009 Conference with the theme, COLLOIDS AND SURFACES, NANOPARTICLES, AND GREEN TECHNOLOGY 2009 – Emphasizing Emerging Science and Technologies, Materials, Applications, Commercialization and Business Opportunities, being held in conjunction and in partnership with Chem Show 2009. I am the session chair for the Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials – Emerging Applications, Market Trends and Economic Impact panel being held on Wednesday, November 18th at 9:30am.

The conference is being held at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City, seven blocks from Times Square. The conference hotels have recently reduced their rates so plan for a great time in New York City while attending the conference and Chem Show www.chemshow.com Expo.

You can pre-register online now http://chemshow.com/forvisitors/education.php and save up to $100 in registration fees. If you need any further information, please contact my good friend:

Thomas Abraham, Ph.D.
President, Innovative Research and Products, Inc. and Chairman, Nanotech 2009
Tel: 203-569-7909
nanotech2009@innoresearch.net 

NANO AND GREEN TECHNOLOGY 2009 CONFERENCE AND SYMPOSIUM

For complete program details http://www.chemshow.com/includes/nano.pdf 

NANOTECHNOLOGY NEWS
For the week ending October 10, 2009

– Foley & Lardner’s Sharon Barner Named Deputy Director of the USPTO
http://www.foley.com/news/news_detail.aspx?newsid=4024 

– Nanotechnology breast cancer study receives $2.8 million DoD grant http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=12972.php 

– 50 years ago this week on October 5, 1959, IBM introduced the IBM 1401, the first, practical, business computer. The system cost $78,800 or $1,450 per month to rent http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1401 

– Here is a list of America’s Smartest Cities http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-10-04/americas-smartest-cities—from-first-to-worst/?cid=bs:archive9#gallery=787;page=1. During the last 30 years, I lived in Boston (No. 3 on the list) for the first 15 years and in Connecticut (No. 6 on the list) for the last 15 years and the past 2 years, I was the conference chair of the Nano Renewable Energy Summit http://www.nanoenergysummit.org/venue.php located in Denver, CO (No. 5 on the list). So, I was thinking that makes me, well . . ., but a lifelong friend of mine said I’ve lost a lot of points because I spent too much time in Jersey.

I hope to see you in Philadelphia http://nanotechinstitute.org/ next week on October 15th and 16th at the 2009 Discovery to Commercialization Conference.

Regards,

Vincent Caprio
Sr. Vice President
NanoBusiness Alliance
Tel: 203-733-1949
vincentcaprio@nynanobusiness.org

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the attendees, speakers and sponsors for their support of this year’s NanoBusiness Alliance Conference. It was our largest and most successful event in our eight year history.

SAVE THE DATES
We are proud to announce that the NanoBusiness Alliance will be returning to Chicago, IL, September 27-29, 2010 at the McCormick Place.

2009 Conference Highlights

Dean Kamen, Inventor and Entrepreneur http://www.dekaresearch.com/founder.shtml addressed an enthusiastic crowd, as the keynote speaker at our pre-reception on Tuesday evening. Read the rest of this entry »

I am very happy to announce I will be participating in the 2009 Discovery to Commercialization Conference, organized by my friends at The Nanotechnology Institute http://nanotechinstitute.org (NTI). In 2008, I spoke at the NTI Conference and I met a few of my classmates from Villanova University. It was a wonderful reunion. Dr. Anthony Green and his team have gathered a fantastic line-up for this year’s conference. The conference is at no charge to our Nanotechnology community.
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This coming Thursday, September 24th, I will be participating in the 2nd Annual Livingston Healthcare and Life Science Stakeholders Summit “Capturing Trends and Global Outlook: Advanced and Emerging Technologies.”

The Summit is being held at:

Lighthouse International
www.lhiconferencecenter.com
111 East 59th Street
New York, NY 10022
212-821-9220

Conference Chair, Mostafa Analoui, PhD, Head of Healthcare and Life Sciences at Livingston Securities, has assembled a dynamic line-up of speakers.
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