FROM SCIENCE TO BUSINESS: PREPARING FEMALE SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS FOR SUCCESSFUL TRANSITIONS INTO ENTREPRENEURSHIP
August 31 – September 1, 2009
The National Academies
The Beckman Center
100 Academy
Irvine, CA 92617
August 31: Framing Issues and Strategies -- Where We Stand
9:00 am |
Welcome and Introductions |
Lilian Wu, Chair, Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine, and Program Executive, Global University Programs, IBM |
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9:05 am |
Study: Entrepreneurial Careers of Women |
Chair: Susan Wessler, University of Georgia Foundation Chair, Biological Sciences, University of Georgia |
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Speaker: E. J. Reedy, Manager, Research and Policy, Kauffman Foundation |
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9:45 am |
Panel I: From Bench to Business: Career Paths for Ph.D.s |
Chair: Lydia Villa-Komaroff, Chief Scientific Officer, Cytonome/ST, LLC |
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Panelists: Laurel Smith-Doerr, Associate Professor of Sociology, Boston University; and Lydia Villa-Komaroff, Chief Scientific Officer, Cytonome/ST, LLC |
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10:45 am |
Break |
11:00 am |
Keynote |
Chair: Vivian Pinn, Director, Office of Research on Women’s Health, National Institutes of Health |
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Speaker: Susan Windham-Bannister, President and CEO, Massachusetts Life Science Center |
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12:00 pm |
Lunch |
1:30 pm |
Panel II: Aspects of Leadership in Biotechnology Careers |
Co-Chairs: Lydia Villa-Komaroff, Chief Scientific Officer, Cytonome/ST, LLC and Sheldon M. Schuster, President, Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences |
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Panelists: Judy Heyboer, Human Resources Consultant, Former Senior Vice President, Genentech, Inc and Barbara Wallner, President and CEO, Chymic Therapeutics, Inc. |
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2:45 pm |
Break |
3:00 pm |
Panel III: Education to Prepare for Entrepreneurial Careers |
Chair: Sheldon M. Schuster, President, Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences |
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Panelists: Michael Teitelbaum, Program Director, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; Gail Naughton, Dean, College of Business, San Diego State University and Founder, Advance Tissue Science, Inc.; and, Jessica Townsend, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Olin College |
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4:30 pm |
General Discussion and Wrap-Up |
Allan Fisher, Vice President, Product Strategy & Development, Laureate Higher Education Group |
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5:30 pm |
Adjournment |
September 1: Moving Forward
9:00 am |
Welcome and Summary of Day 1 |
Florence Bonner, Senior Vice President for Research and Compliance, Howard University |
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9:15 am |
Studies on Entrepreneurship |
Chair: Pardis Sabeti, Assistant Professor, Systems Biology, Harvard University |
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Speakers: Caroline Simard, Director of Research and Executive Programs, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, and Manwai (Candy) Ku, Researcher, Stanford University |
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10:00 am |
Panel IV: Alternative Forms of Entrepreneurships in Sustainable Technologies: Intrapreneurship in Corporations and Government, Social Entrepreneurship, and Traditional Entrepreneurship |
Co-Chairs: Alice Agogino, Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, and Allan Fisher, Vice President, Product Strategy & Development, Laureate Higher Education Group |
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Panelists: Sharon Nunes, Vice President, IBM Innovations; Maxine L. Savitz, General Manager for Technology Partnerships, Honeywell Inc. (retired); Judith Giordan, Senior Advisor, National Collegiate Innovators and Inventors Alliance; and, Lucinda Sanders, CEO and Co-founder, National Center for Women & Information Technology |
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11:30 am |
Summary of the Conference: Findings and Themes |
Lydia Villa-Komaroff, Chief Scientific Officer, Cytonome/ST, LLC |
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12:00 pm |
Closing Luncheon |
1:00 pm |
Adjournment |
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