MANCEF
Events
High Desert MNT Regional
Workshop
October 12-13, 2004
Albuquerque, NM USA
 Contact:
Amy Horowitz Ware
Community Relations Officer
(505) 224-4421
ahorowitz@tvi.edu
Sept. 24, 2004
For Immediate Release
TVI TO HOST REGIONAL MICRO AND NANOTECHNOLOGY
WORKSHOP, OCTOBER 12-13
Albuquerque Technical Vocational Institute (TVI) will
host the High Desert Micro and Nanotechnology (MNT) Regional Workshop,
Oct. 12 and 13, at the TVI Workforce Training Center near I-25 and Alameda
NE.
Organized by the Micro and Nanotechnology Commercialization
Education Foundation (MANCEF), the event will focus on enhancing commercial
opportunities through partnership and interaction among the business,
educational, government and investment communities of New Mexico, Arizona,
Colorado, Utah, Texas, Oklahoma and the Mexican states of Chihuahuaand
Nuevo Leon.
As many as 150 delegates from across the region will
showcase their efforts, exchange information and perspectives, share economic
development and educational models and highlight their regional commercialization
efforts.
Speaker highlights include:
- Henry Eztkowitz, one of the world's foremost researchers
and authors on the role of academia, government, and industry in generating
economic development.
- Dean Aslam of Michigan State University will share
insights into Micro and Nano educational excellence.
- Barbara Vigil-Lowder of Bernalillo Public Schools
will discuss the sucess of the high school level MicroTechnology Academy
Model.
- Marlene Bourne, one of the foremost market analysts
of micro and nanotechnology, will share insights into markets for small
technologies.
- Sandia National Labs will offer expertise from Steve
Martin (Homeland Defense), Julian Sanchez (Bi-National Sustainability
Lab), Neil Shinn (Center for Integrated Nano Technology), David Williams
(Microsystems):
- Regional and commercial experts and discussions
about packaging and border-region development projects and entrepreneurship
lessons learned.
- Robert Hall, TVI director of Electronics and Manufacturing
Technology, will discuss the Southwest Center for Microsystems Education
Excellence.
- Jason Paul DeMont of DeMont & Breyer, LLC will
speak about intellectual property strategies and issues with Small Technologies.
- George Skidmore of Zyvex Corporation will speak
about commercialization of metrology & structures atthe nano scale.
- Robert Hockaday of Manhattan Scientifics will share
his commercialization experience of small scale power devices.
- Other scheduled speakers are from the University
of New Mexico, New Mexico State University, University of Texas El Paso,
University of Ciudad Juarez, Maricopa County Community College, the
New Mexico Economic Development Department, NextGeneration Economy,
and the U.S.-Mexico Foundation for Science.
More information and delegate and exhibitor registration
can be found at: http://www.mancef.org/highdesert.htm
or call: (505) 255-1826
Admission fee
Registration costs $270 for MANCEF members, $300 for
non- members and $75 for students.
Students free: Wednesday Oct 13, 1 p.m.- close IF you
register in advance before Oct. 10. Call (505) 255-1826 to register.
For more information or to register, call (505) 255-1826
or visit the website at http://www.mancef.org/highdesert.htm.
Exhibitors and Sponsors
© MANCEF - Micro And Nanotechnology
Commercialization Education Foundation
117 Bryn Mawr Drive SE #27 | Albuquerque, NM 87106 USA | (505) 255-1826
(phone) | (505) 255-1827 (fax)
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