2015 Concept to Commercialization (C2C) Series
2015 Concept to Commercialization (C2C) Series is a monthly seminar series hosted by U Innovation to discuss commercialization of intellectual property and business concepts. Seminars are free and open to all UM faculty members, staff, post docs and students, as well as our LSTP community of entrepreneurs.
For more information, contact Autumn Arranz.
Where: University of Miami Life Science and Technology Park
When: 5 – 6 PM, 1st floor conference room
1) An introduction to technology transfer
January 27, 2015
Speaker: Jim O’Connell, Office of Technology Transfer, UM
2) Seven things every academic should know about patents
February 26, 2015
Speaker: Heather Kissling, Marshall, Gerstein & Bourn LLP
3) Building commercial software: It has to work 100% of the time
March 24, 2015
Speakers: Jack Karabees, Preclara Inc
Steven Schmidt, SPI Software
Jeff Wilder, SPI Software
4) Ten steps to forming a startup company to commercialize your novel results
April 28, 2015
Speakers: Steve Glover, Entrepreneur in Residence, UM
Robert Williamson, New World Angels, Entrepreneur in
Residence, UM
5) Funding your start-ups: perspectives from angel investors and VCs
May 26, 2015
Speakers: Rhys Williams, New World Angels
Andrew Levin, H.I.G. Bioventures
Alison Tanner, Florida Institute for the Commercialization of
Public Research
University of Miami Life Science and Technology Park
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6) Evolving patenting strategies for genes, biomarkers and products of nature
June 30, 2015
Speaker: Kelly Williamson, Alston & Bird Law Firm
7) Inventorship vs Authorship vs Ownership
July 28, 2015
Speaker: Bonnie McLeod, Cooley & Cooley LLP
8) Technology marketing: beating the bushes
August 25, 2015
Speaker: Heidjer Staecker, TreMonti Consulting
9) Academic startups: entrepreneur perspectives
September 29, 2015
Speakers: Michael Gold, Integene International Holdings
Matthew Kim, Vigilant Bioscience Inc
Rifat Pamukcu, RxMP Therapeutics LLC
10) University policies relating to technology transfer and commercialization
October 27, 2015
Speakers: Jim O’Connell, Office of Technology Transfer, UM
Lory Hayes, Office of the Vice Provost for Research
Disclosures & Conflict of Interest Management, UM
Marc Weinroth, Office of the General Counsel, UM
11) Protecting and commercializing novel software
November 17, 2015
Speakers: John Christopher, Christopher & Weisberg P.A.
Carl Schulman, University of Miami
12) Don’t overlook “small items”: commercializing research reagents
December 7, 2015
Speaker: TBD