Agenda Speaker Biographies Final Participants List

University-Industry Demonstration Partnership
Spring 2013 Meeting
California Institute of Technology - Pasadena, CA

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Pre-meeting Events

9:00 AM - noon     Caltech-JPL Overview / Getting to Know Caltech

9:00 AM - noon     UIDP Project Working Group Meetings - optional
                                Federal Flowdown

Noon - 1:00 PM     UIDP Visitor / New Member Orientation
                                 Presenters - Tom Mildenhall (Kimberly Clark) and Emily Abbott (Caltech)

1:00 - 1:30 PM      UIDP Annual Membership Meeting
                                Presenters - Connie Armentrout (Monsanto) and Bob Starbuck (UIDP Treasurer)

General Meeting

1:30 - 1:45 PM      Welcome - Wayne Johnson (Caltech)

1:45 - 2:00 PM       NSF I/UCRC Program Update - Rathindra (Babu) DasGupta (National Science Foundation)

2:00 - 2:45 PM      Opening Address and Discussion - Academe and Industry: Unholy Alliance of Effective Partnership?  
                                Presenter - Charles H. House (Innovation Scapes Institute)

2:45 - 4:15 PM      Panel I - Corporate Strategies for High Value University Engagement
                                Moderator - Wayne Johnson (Caltech)
                                Panelists - Melissa Fitzgerald (Pfizer), Hwasu Lee (Samsung), Debbie Radasch (Boeing), and Jack Wenstrand (Agilent)

4:15 - 4:45 PM      Break

4:45 - 5:45 PM      Project Process Overview and Current UIDP Project Portfolio
                                Presenters - Goran Matijasevic (UC Irvine) and Katie Kalinowski (National Academies)

6:00 - 7:30 PM     Reception

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

8:00 - 9:30 AM      Panel II - New Approaches to Managing and Building Alliances and Catalyzing Commercialization
                                Moderator - Brad Fenwick (Elsevier)
                                Panelists - Charles Linville (kGrove LLC), Robert Lowe (Wellspring), Rupert Mayer (IPFolio), and Dave Tharp (Knode)

9:30 - 10:00 AM    Break

10:00 - 11:00 AM  Project Working Group Meetings I
                                Case Studies, Clinical Trials, Contract Accords COI, Federal Flowdown, Researcher Exchanges, UIS Nexus, University 
                                Business Advising

11:00 - noon         Project Working Group Meetings II
                                Clinical Trials, Contract Accords Data Use Agreements, Federal Flowdown, Ideas to Innovation Workshops, Researcher 
                                Exchanges, UIS Nexus

Noon - 1:30 PM     Lunch

1:30 - 4:30 PM       Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) Forum
                                 Welcome - Jakob van Zyl, JPL Associate Director of Project Formulation and Strategy
                                 Moderator - David Tralli (Caltech)
                                 Presenters - Tom Cwik (JPL), Rob Manning (JPL), Paul Rosen (JPL), and Indrani Graczyk (JPL)

5:00 - 6:30 PM       Reception

Thursday, April 18, 2013

8:30 - 9:45 AM       Panel III - Why Invest in Universities?
                                 Moderator - Lou Graziano (Dow)
                                 Panelists - Hazel Collins (UCSB), Neil Fromer (Caltech), and Charles Liotta (Georgia Tech)

9:45 - 10:30 AM    Project Ideation Session
                                Facilitators - Goran Matijasevic (UC Irvine) and Debbie Radasch (Boeing)

10:30 - 10:45 AM   Break

10:45 - 11:45 AM   Panel IV - Successful Approaches to University-Initiated Innovation
                                 Panelists - Case Cortese (Caltech) and Chris Ramming (Intel)

11:45 AM - noon   Closing Remarks and Meeting Wrap-Up - John Hickman (Deere)

1:00 - 5:00 PM      UIDP Project Working Group Meetings - optional
                                Researcher Exchanges and UIS Nexus

University-Industry Demonstration Partnership (UIDP) meeting materials are removed thirty (30) days after the conclusion of each meeting.   Meeting materials are available to all UIDP members at any time after the thirty (30) day period.  Should members wish to have access to these materials after they have been removed, please send an email to the UIDP mailbox uidp@nas.edu.