Schedule
TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2019 Rayburn Student Center
3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Engaging with the National
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4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. | Applied Research Commercialization
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6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. | Reception & Registration.
Corridor of Conference Room A, B & C Welcoming remarks by:
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 2019 Rayburn Student Center
7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. | Networking Breakfast | |
8:30 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. | Welcome & Opening Remarks
Conference Rooms A, B & C
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8:30 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. | Keynote Speaker
Conference Rooms A, B & C
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9:15 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. | Plenary Panel
Conference Rooms A, B & C Moderated by: Dr. Dimitris Lagoudas, Deputy Director, TEES
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10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. | Networking Break
Rayburn Student Center Lounge |
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10:30 a.m. – 11 a.m. | Grant Foundations: Identifying the Right Idea and the Right Team at the Right TimeConference Rooms A, B & C
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11 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Thematic Workgroup Sessions Cybersecurity: Legacy A Sunay Palsole, Session Leader Energy Systems & Services: Legacy B Shannon Ydoyaga, Session Leader Healthcare: Ambition A Jonda Halcomb, Session Leader Information Systems & Sensors: Ambition B Maurizio Namzo, Session Leader Infrastructure: Pride William Kitch, Session Leader Materials & Manufacturing: Determination Mahesh Hosur, Session Leader |
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12:15 p.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Retrieve Boxed Lunches
Rayburn Student Center Lounge |
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12:30 p.m. – 3 p.m. | Working Lunch with Workgroups | |
3 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. | Networking Break
Rayburn Student Center Lounge |
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3:15 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. | Research Collaboration Pitches
Conference Rooms A, B & C |
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4:15 p.m. – 5 p.m. | Door Prizes & Awards Presentations
Conference Rooms A, B & C |
Keynote Speaker
HUBERT ZAJICEK
Hubert Zajicek, MD, MBA, is CEO & co-founder of Health Wildcatters, a healthcare seed fund and accelerator in Dallas, TX. Health Wildcatters provides mentorship, capital and guidance to as many as 12 healthcare related startups during an intensive 12-week program which culminates in a pitch day annually. Health Wildcatters’ six funds are invested in 60 healthcare startup companies. Dr. Zajicek has extensive experience with startups and is an active speaker, panelist and thought leader on healthcare innovation, startups, entrepreneurship and financing. He serves as advisor, mentor and board member on various organizations and startup companies. He was managing director–medical technology at NTEC (North Texas Enterprise Center), where he ran what eventually became the southwest’s largest medtech investment conference, showcasing startups that attracted in excess of $300M. Prior, he was on faculty at UT Southwestern, as an NIH funded principal investigator, in the departments of internal medicine and cell biology. He is president and founder of the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs–DFW chapter, co-founder and partner of Lone Star Angels and is on the board of the Southwest Venture Forum. He has an MD from the University of Vienna and an MBA from SMU.
Panelists
JOHN N. RANDALL
John joined Zyvex Labs in March, 2001. Prior to Zyvex, he spent 15 years with Texas Instruments (TI) working in high resolution processing for integrated circuits, MEMS and quantum effect devices, and he also worked at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory on ion beam and x-ray lithography. John is executive vice president at NanoRetina and currently lends his 30+ years of experience in micro- and nano-fabrication to his roles as adjunct professor at UT Dallas and Fellow of the AVS and IEEE. He has attracted over $38M in research contracts to Zyvex and resulting products have grossed over $80M. John has 104 published articles, more than 50 conference proceedings and other publications (>3300 citations) and 29
JAMES WALTON
A graduate from SMU’s Cox School of Business and BSME from UTSA, James is constantly on the lookout for ways to make facilities perform better. His keen insights into applied technology go all the way back to his days at Lucent Technologies. An entrepreneur, sales leader and mechanical engineer with two decades of experience serving customers, James establishes new business ventures for ENTOUCH, expanding our market and channel segments and generating results for our customers.
TODD WYNNE
Todd’s interest in construction technology started early in his career when he introduced several innovative solutions to his project teams while working with Balfour Beatty Construction on the Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, and then the Forest Park Hospital in Frisco, Texas. He then joined Rogers-O’Brien Construction where he was known by the operations staff as “the iPad Guy.” Todd has always been on a mission to get accurate data to workers with the “wrench in hand” by seeking out and researching the latest mobile hardware and software applications, and developing simple procedures to effectively apply usage and ensure interoperability of all technologies. Innovations introduced by Todd include Digital Document strategies, now implemented throughout the construction industry, and the use of project based communication platforms that capture project team correspondence, record progress and track quality compliance. Over the last decade, Todd has built a strong reputation as a technology leader in the construction industry. He has been a noted construction technology speaker at the ENR FutureTech, BIM Forum, CanBIM, CFMA, Texas Society of Architects, Apple, NASA JSC, OSHA, American Subcontractors Association, AIA and numerous other BIM symposiums. Todd was an original Google Glass beta tester, and has been published in leading industry outlets including Business Insider, Construction Executive, Building Design + Construction and Engineering News-Record.
Moderators
DIMITRIS LAGOUDAS
Dr. Dimitris C. Lagoudas received his diploma from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1982 and his Ph.D. from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 1986. He did post doctoral studies from 1986–1988 at Cornell University and Max Planck Institute. He taught at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, from 1988–1992. Dr. Lagoudas moved to Texas A&M University in July 1992 and currently serves as the associate vice chancellor for engineering research and the senior associate dean for research in the College of Engineering. He is the inaugural recipient of the John and Bea Slattery Chair in Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University and previously served as the head of the Department of Aerospace Engineering. He has co-authored about 400 scientific publications (about half in archival journals). For his scientific work on multifunctional materials, he received two best paper awards from ASME. He is co-author of a monograph on gauge theories of defects, and edited several special issues of journals and proceedings volumes in addition to a textbook on shape memory alloys co-authored with his graduate students. During the past two decades, he has published extensively on the subject of shape memory alloys with his students, postdoctoral associates and colleagues, and several of his journal papers are now considered classic papers in the field. The theoretical models that his research group developed have now been implemented and integrated into finite element analysis software, which have been used by many academic institutions around the world, in industry and in government (Boeing, DoD and NASA).
He received the 2006 ASME Adaptive Structures and Material Systems Prize in recognition of his contributions to modeling and characterization of shape memory alloys and their use in aerospace. Over the past two decades, his research has been supported by various government agencies including NSF, NASA, ONR, ARO, AFOSR, DARPA, DoE and the State of Texas. He has collaborated with many industrial partners such as Lockheed-Martin, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, Schlumberger, Tenaris and Intel. He has also worked with national labs, including DoD Labs and NASA centers, either directly or through cooperative research and development agreements. He has served as an associate editor for the two main journals on smart structures and has helped organize numerous conferences through professional societies. He is an alumnus of the prestigious Defense Science Study Group and has served on NRC panels. He also served as the co-chair of NASA’s Roadmap Panel for Nanotechnologies. He was the inaugural recipient of one of the two Ford Motor Company Professorships at Texas A&M, he is a TEES fellow, a Texas A&M Faculty Fellow and a Fellow of ASME. He was selected as an SES Fellow in 2009. In 2011, he received the Presidential Award of Excellence for Faculty Service to International Students from Texas A&M and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from SPIE. Dr. Lagoudas was named a University Distinguished Professor in 2013 and a 2014 AIAA Fellow. He served as an associate vice president for research at Texas A&M from 2001-2004, and as the first chair of the Materials Science and Engineering Program at Texas A&M from 2001-2003.
Making the Pitch
3 Minutes | 2 PIs | 1 Presenter | 0 Slides or Technology
Team
Lead PI Identified | Two or More PIs | Two or More Institutions with Significant Roles | Mix of Young Faculty and More Senior Faculty
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Clear Explanation of Problem/Need | Clearly Explains How the Project will Solve the Problem | Articulated Impact of a Successful Project | Demonstrate Viable Path to Funding/Proposal Submittal or Workforce Development Offering in the Next 9-18 Months | Team Sets Realistic Expectations for a Suc- cessful Project | Does the Project Build on Previous Work or is it Addressing Something Unique and Different?
MARKET
Team Identifies Funding Sources with Programs in This Topic Area | Team Includes Plan to Pursue Funding (Visits to PMs, Current Year Due Dates for Identified Solicitations, etc.) | Team Presents Evidence That the Solution is Needed and That Funders are Out There
IMPACT
Will it Have a Positive Impact on Society (Health, Happiness, Wellbeing, etc.)? | Will it Support Advancing the State of the Art? | Is the Impact Broader than Just Texas or the Region?
EXPECTED PAYOFF
Significant Future Funding Potential | Assuming Team Receives an Award, Does the Team Express the Ability to Achieve the Objectives of the Project?
OVERALL POTENTIAL FOR SUCCESS
Team has Solid Members | Team is Able to Concisely Communicate the Key Points of Their Project | Team has Identified a Path/Timeline to Funding