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A full day workshop for businesses that plan to grow by commercializing technology. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, this workshop will enable you to decide which of your product or service concepts is the most promising, and will give you and your company a customized master plan for commercializing your best ideas.
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Itinerary
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Up to twelve entrepreneurial ventures will present their plans for commercializing innovative technologies to an audience of angels, seed funds and venture investors. The leading strategies for commercializing technologies in Oklahoma will be explored.
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Itinerary |
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8:30am
Crossing the Chasm
From idea to IPO and back again
9:00am
Technology Venturing
The complete process
9:45am
Due Dilligence
How smart investors analyze founders and their young companies
10:45am
Valuing the Enterprise
How professional investors estimate a young company's market value
11:30am - Lunch
1:00pm
To Venture or License
Selecting the best path to commercialization
2:00pm
Pricing the Deal
How to find the right percentage of the company to offer to investors
2:45pm
The Term Sheet
What investors expect, what licensees expect
3:45pm
Negotiating the Deal
The do's and dont's; forging a win-win strategy
4:30pm
Closing, Mentoring and Cashing Out
How investors and entrepreneurs work as a team to win
5:30pm - 7:00pm
Reception
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02.20.07
5:30pm - 7:00pm
Reception
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02.21.07
Deals
8:30am
Tech Company Presentations
9:45am - Break
10:00am
Tech Company Presentations
11:30am - Break |
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Strategy
11:45am
Lunch with Keynote Speaker: Rich Karlgaard, Publisher, Forbes Magazine
1:30-2:45pm
Technology Commercialization at Oklahoma Universities and Labs
The state-of-the-art and emerging trends
Break
3-4pm
Attracting the Resources of the World to Local Ventures
4pm
Award Presentation
4:15pm
End of Summit |
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