When: Tuesday, September 21, 2010, 6:00 PM Registration and Networking; 7:00 PM MIT Broadcast Begins; 7:50 PM Live Panel Discussion and Q&A; 8:30 PM Closing Remarks

Where: FAU-Ft. Lauderdale, 111 East Las Olas Boulevard, 11th Floor Conference Room, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301.
Parking is available at the Broward County Municipal Parking located on corner of SE 2nd Avenue and SE 2nd Street.

Registration: Save $10 by pre-registering online at: www.mitforumfl.org for $25. Tickets at the door are $35 cash or check.
FAU Alumni Members can register for $20.  FAU Non-Member Alumni $25 and Students $10 with ID.

Innovation in business and technology no longer takes place when a lone scientist screams “Eureka!” in a dusty lab. Corporations are turning to centers of research and launching their own labs where the expressed mission is for diverse groups of interdisciplinary experts to collaborate on ideas that transform our world from our local South Florida community.

Our panel will share stories of their decades of real-world wisdom in leading teams to cutting edge breakthroughs and frustrating dead ends, and what makes business labs such a powerful and challenging work environment. An emerging trend in business providing a collaborative and stimulating forum for productivity, team building, visualizing and examining cutting-edge industry technologies and solutions in the field and globally.

• What type of business incubator programs and local resources are available to help entrepreneurs launch or grow their business?
• What kinds of guidance and assistance do they provide to startups and emerging growth companies?
• For anyone who is contemplating establishing or expanding a business; mentors and investors looking to help entrepreneurs or innovators.

Our event first begins with a broadcast from MIT Cambridge and then we will turn to our live panel for their experiences and interaction with the group.

REGISTER NOW AND SAVE $10.00 PER TICKET ($25.00 online before September 20th)
FOOD & BEVERAGES WILL BE SERVED

The Global Broadcast Panel from MIT Cambridge will include:

Lili Cheng is the General Manager of FUSE Labs, and has been at Microsoft since 1995. Previously, she was the director of the Creative Systems Group (CSG) and the Social Computing Groups (SCG) within Microsoft Research. Before her time in MSR, she was the director of user experience for Microsoft Windows. She is also a registered architect; she worked in Tokyo and Los Angeles for Nihon Sekkei and Skidmore Owings and Merrill on commercial urban design and large-scale building projects. She has taught at NYU-Interactive Telecommunications as well as Harvard University. She was born in Tokyo, and is married with three boys.

Scott Elrod, is the VP and Director of Hardware Systems Lab of Palo Alto Research Center. Scott Elrod directs PARC’s HSL research organization, which focuses on clean technologies, ink-jet printing, and biomedical systems for drug discovery and clinical diagnosis. He also directs the Cleantech Innovation Program at PARC, which develops technologies for delivering affordable solar energy, increasing solar-cell efficiency, purifying water, managing energy utilization, and harnessing renewable fuels.

Elrod received his AB degree in physics from Earlham College in 1981 and his PhD in applied physics from Stanford University in 1985. While at Stanford, he built the world’s first low-temperature tunneling microscope.

Pamela McNamara, President of U.S. Operations of Cambridge Consultants. Pamela joined Cambridge Consultants in February 2009 as President of U.S. Operations.

Prior to this, Pamela was CEO of CRF, Inc. a leading global provider of eDiaries and wireless data collection solutions for the life sciences industry. Pamela was also part of Arthur D. Little for more than 20 years, holding a number of senior technology and management positions in Global Health Care, during which she worked closely with Cambridge Consultants on the commercialization of drug delivery solutions. She went on to serve as CEO of the entire Arthur D. Little organization.

Pamela also serves as a Director on the boards of GTC Biopharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: GTCB) and Southcoast Health Systems, and is a member of the Corporation of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. She holds a bachelor’s in civil engineering from Tufts University.

Alexander Wong is a managing director of D. E. Shaw & Co. and head of venture capital at the D. E. Shaw Group. Prior to joining the firm in 2005, Dr. Wong was a partner at Apax Partners, a global private equity firm. Before that, he served as a managing director at Intel Capital and in technical roles at Motorola and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He currently serves on the boards of directors of Infinite Power Solutions, Solaicx, and Natrix Separations. Wong holds a bachelor’s in computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and his master’s and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

Jason Pontin (Moderator), Editor in Chief and Publisher of Technology Review. As editor in chief, Jason Pontin is responsible for the editorial direction of the award-winning magazine Technology Review and TechnologyReview.com. Pontin took on the role of publisher in September 2005, overseeing all aspects of the company’s growth strategy, which includes a rapidly expanding website, specialty e-newsletters, an aggressive international expansion, and signature events, such as the annual Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT.

From 1996 to 2002, Pontin the was the editor of the technology business magazine Red Herring. Most recently, he was editor in chief of the Acumen Journal, covering the business, economic, and policy implications of discoveries in biotechnology and the life sciences. He has written for many national and international publications, including The New York Times, The Economist, The Financial Times, Wired, and The Believer. He is a frequent guest on television and radio shows, including ABC News, CNN, and National Public Radio.

The LIVE local panel of at Florida Atlantic University will include:

Chris Fleck is Vice President of Community and Solutions Development at Citrix. Chris is responsible for the Developer Network, Solutions Development, and growing the technical community around Citrix. As part of the Citrix CTO Office he is also involved with or leading multiple strategic initiatives at the company. Currently his hot topics include Mobility, VDI and Cloud Computing.

Chris started his career at IBM working across multiple engineering and product organizations leading to Business Unit Exec of the IBM Industrial Computer Group. As a pioneer of new technologies, Chris founded an IBM spin-off to commercialize the initial Server Blade products as CEO of OmniCluster Technologies.

William Silverman is the Assistant Director of Venture Initiatives.  William completed his Ph.D. in physiology at UCLA and migrated into business after realizing that his previous career as a biomedical researcher was a long-term exercise in entrepreneurship and start-up financing. His research explored areas as diverse as cardiology, immunology, and treatments for traumatic brain injury and has resulted in nearly a dozen publications in scientific journals. He has also lectured in graduate level neuroscience courses at the Miller School of Medicine at UM. William is committed to commercializing and promoting cutting-edge medical technologies, from original inception through product launch. He first joined The Launch Pad as one of its original Venture Coaches and is a recent graduate of UM with an M.B.A. with dual concentrations in finance and marketing.

Jane Teague is Executive Director of the Enterprise Development Corporation of South Florida (EDC), a public/private partnership organization that assists emerging science and technology companies. In her role she is responsible for oversight of EDC’s mentor/protégé program, the Technology Business Incubator, annual EDC conferences, fundraising, administration of New World Angels, management of the Florida Institute for the Commercialization of Public Research, and other programs that EDC runs in support of the emerging science and technology community.

Teague has been an active supporter of the technology community since moving to Florida in 2000. She has supported the InternetCoast (iCoast) initiative, helping to brand the region as a center for high-technology excellence, and has served on a number of committees dedicated to the growth of Florida’s technology sector. She participates with organizations such as the South Florida Technology Alliance, BioFlorida’s Southeast Chapter, the MIT Enterprise Forum, and Enterprise Florida’s Technology, Entrepreneurship and Capital Council, and is a frequent guest speaker on entrepreneurship in South Florida. She serves on the Executive Advisory Council of Florida Atlantic University’s College of Engineering & Computer Science, and the Engineering Advisory Committee at Miami Dade College. In 2007 she received the In Focus Magazine “Quiet Storm” award, and in June 2009 was recognized as one of the Power Players in “The Power Issue” of South Florida Business Leader Magazine.

Teague has over 20 years experience in the software and technology industries. Prior to joining EDC in April 2002, Teague held a variety of marketing management positions with Dun & Bradstreet Software, (formerly McCormack & Dodge), and HighGround, Inc., a provider of public relations and marketing support for emerging technology. Teague graduated McGill University, Montreal, Quebec in 1980.

Andrew Heitner (Moderator) is Founder and Director of Alcon Partners, a buy-side advisory firm that assists Private Equity firms and corporate M&A departments source and evaluate acquisition opportunities., with offices in Miami, Boston, and Vermont.  He also owns Alcon Technology Consulting, Inc., a telecommunications consulting firm based in Boston.  Mr. Heitner was previously co-founder of New Frontiers Information Corporation (NFIC), a Cambridge, MA software company that sells enterprise-level digital content management systems.  NFIC was subsequently acquired by the Banta Corporation (now RR Donnelley NYSE:RRD) and he served for several years following the acquisition as Director of Banta Integrated Media.  Mr. Heitner is on the executive board of the MIT Enterprise Forum of South Florida, has been a lecturer at the University of Miami School of Business in Entrepreneurship, and serves as a judge for the Leigh M. Rothschild Business Plan Competition. He is involved in a number entrepreneurial ventures, including angel investments in 4 start-up companies.  He holds BS and MS degrees in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology