 Katharine Ku is Director of the Office of Technology Licensing (OTL) at Stanford University. OTL is responsible for the licensing of various state-of-the-art university technologies and industry sponsored research agreements, material transfer agreements and collaborations. She has been active in the Licensing Executive Society (LES). She has served as President of the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM). She received the AUTM 2001 Bayh-Dole Award for her efforts in university licensing. She has a B.S. Chemical Engineering (Cornell University), an M.S. in Chemical Engineering (Washington University in St. Louis) and is a registered patent agent. |
 Lawrence J. Udell serves as Executive Director of both the California Invention Center and Intellectual Property International, Ltd. He has created and taught "New Ventures and Entrepreneurship" courses for over 25 years, plus a special course on, "Technology Marketing" at the Cal-State Hayward, School of Business and Economics. He has served as a Lecturing Professor at U.C. Berkeley teaching a course on Technology Transfer & Commercia-lization, plus other universities in the U. S. and Canada. Founder of over 30 corporations, he provides consulting to both start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. |
 Jack Brittain is the University of Utah’s Vice President of Technology Venture Development. He has a Ph.D. in Business from the University of California, Berkeley. A professor for 15 years before becoming Dean of the David Eccles School of Business (1999-2009), his research on strategic change in dynamic environments was recognized by the Academy of Management with two outstanding paper awards. Professor Brittain is the recipient of six teaching awards, including the University of Texas Chancellor’s Council Outstanding Professor Award. In 2005 he received the Best of State Award in Education for the David Eccles School’s innovative entrepreneurship and non-profit consulting programs and in 2008 was named the first recipient of the Pierre Lassonde Presidential Chair in Entrepreneurship by the University of Utah. |
 Andre Marquis is the Executive Director of the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship at the Haas School of Business at the University of California Berkeley. He has a long record of starting successful biotechnology and IT ventures with a particular focus on winning in markets where scalability is critical. Two Web companies Mr. Marquis helped start became publicly traded and a third was acquired by Amazon for over $190 million. The Chorus Group at Eli Lilly which he co-founded is a significant business model innovation that has dramatically speeded up and lowered the cost of drug development. |
 Rebecca Edwards is the Manager of International Partnerships at Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP), the entrepreneurship center in the School of Engineering at Stanford University. At STVP, she works with the international projects that cross the path of the office, and specifically partnerships and conferences are the main attractions. She has a Master’s degree in Community-Social psychology from the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where she focused on fostering a sense of community in various contexts. She coordinated the VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) program at the Redwood Community Action Agency, a non-profit organization in northern California. |
 Dr. Caleb B. Bell III received a B.S. Degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in Penn State University, a Ph.D. in Biophysical Chemistry from Stanford and completed the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Summer Institute for Entrepreneurship. Caleb’s research interests include anaerobic microbiology, biological magnetic phenomena and various spectroscopic methods for biochemical and biomedical research. He founded two companies prior to Bell Biosystems, Inc. |
 Kirsten Leute is a senior licensing associate at Stanford University’s Office of Technology Licensing (OTL). At OTL, she handles over 275 biotechnology and high technology inventions and also has experience with software, trademark and copyright licensing. She was Vice President for Communications of the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) in 2007-2008 and was an editor of the AUTM Journal. She published articles on technology transfer in the Journal of Commercial Biotechnology, Community Genetics, and Medical Innovation and Business and co-wrote a chapter on bringing university technology to the private sector in “The Creative Enterprise.” She has a Masters in Business Administration from Santa Clara University concentrating in international business and management of technology and innovation. |
 Dennis Boyle is a partner and founding member of IDEO. IDEO is a 600-person design and innovation consulting firm in Palo Alto, CA. He has worked as a design engineer, project leader and business relationship leader. He has helped to build and nurture a number of long-term key client relationships including Silicon Valley technology companies, Fortune 100 consumer product companies, and healthcare companies. He has been named on over fifty patents. He helped in the development of IDEO’s approach to teaching the process of design thinking in workshops. He is a part-time associate professor at Stanford University, where he has taught many product design, engineering design, human factors, design for sustainability, and creativity and innovation courses. He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Design from the University of Notre Dame and an MS in Product Design from Stanford. |
 Chuck House, Executive Director of the InnovaScapes Institute. The InnovaScapes Institute studies historic and current innovation landscapes that have resulted in or augur to produce seminal changes in societal capability. He served five years as Executive Director of Media X @ Stanford, in Stanford’s Human Science and Technology Advanced Research Division, and established the Center for Information Technology in Society at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He served as Intel Corporation’s Director of Societal Impact of Technology. He worked at Hewlett-Packard, Informix, Veritas, and Dialogic Corporations. He was Cogswell College Chancellor. He’s an IEEE and ACM Fellow, and past President of ACM. Smithsonian (1998) named him one of America’s ‘200 Computer Wizards’. |
 Jim Spohrer is Director of IBM University Programs, leading a global team of IBMers working with about five thousands universities worldwide aligning around the interconnected 6 R's - Research, Readiness (Skills), Recruiting, Revenue, Responsibility (Volunteerism), and Regions (Entrepreneurship). He was founding CTO of IBM's Venture Capital Relations Group and founding Director of IBM's Service Research. He is one of the founders of an emerging area of study known as service science, which studies the evolution of complex service systems in business and society, and their value-cocreation logic. He was a Distinguished Engineer, Scientist, and Technologist (DEST) at Apple. He has over 90 publications and 9 patents. He has a BS in Physics from MIT, and a PhD in Computer Science/Artificial Intelligence from Yale. |
 Sethuraman Panchanathan is the Senior Vice President of the Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development. He is a foundation chair in Computing and Informatics and Director of the Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing. He was the founding director of the School of Computing and Informatics and was instrumental in founding the Biomedical Informatics Department at ASU. He was also the chair of the Computer Science and Engineering Department. His research interests are in the areas of Human-centered Multimedia Computing; Face/Gait Analysis and Recognition; Haptic User Interfaces; Medical Image Processing; Media Processor Designs and Ubiquitous Computing Environments for enhancing quality of life for individuals with disabilities. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the Society of Optical Engineering. |
 Curtis R. Carlson is president and CEO of SRI International. Previously, he was with Sarnoff Corporation, an SRI subsidiary. He started and helped lead the high-definition television (HDTV) program, and his team won an Emmy Award for outstanding technical achievement. In 2000, another team won an Emmy for a system to optimize satellite broadcast image quality. He helped found more than 12 companies. He is a founding member of the Innovation Leadership Council for the World Economic Forum and was selected to serve on President Obama's National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He has written a book with William Wilmot called Innovation: The Five Disciplines for Creating What Customers Want. He holds fundamental patents in the fields of image quality, image coding, and computer vision. He has a B.S. in physics from WPI and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Rutgers University. |
 Doug Henton is Chairman and CEO of Collaborative Economics. He was assistant director of SRI International’s Center for Economic Competitiveness. At SRI, he led state-level strategy development projects in Arizona, Florida, and California. He directed projects on the economic future of Hong Kong, the technopolis strategy in Japan, and regional development in China. He was project manager for Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network. He is the co-author of Silicon Valley Greenprint and regional coordinator of the National Climate Prosperity Project. He was consultant to the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative. He has also advised Chicago Metropolis 2020, the Potomac Conference and Arizona Partnership for a New Economy. He has a BA in political science and economics from Yale University and an MA in public policy from the University of California, Berkeley. |
 Juha Perälampi is the Manager of the JAMK-Business Incubator and Senior Lecturer in International Business and Entrepreneurship at JAMK University of Applied Sciences in Jyväskylä, Finland. He is a Visiting Lecturer at the Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics, the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy and at the University of Bergamo, Italy. Over the past 12 years, he has provided coaching for close to 2000 start-up companies. He was invited to work as an Expert for EduCluster Finland and Aalto University Center for Entrepreneurship in Helsinki. He has experience in international business in the US., Latin America, Europe and Asia. He has a BS in International Business from Aalto University and an MS in Entrepreneurship from the University of Jyväskylä. He is pursuing a PhD in Entrepreneurship at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. |
 Brad Bernthal is an Associate Professor at Colorado Law School and Director of the Entrepreneurship Initiative for CU-Boulder's Silicon Flatirons Center. Over the past five years the Entrepreneurship Initiative has emerged as a nerve center for Colorado’s startup community. Last year the Center helped offer 48 events with over 6600 attendees. In the classroom, he leads the law school's Entrepreneurial Law Clinic. In addition to his clinical instruction, he teaches doctrinal courses in the areas of venture capital, telecom policy, and entrepreneurial finance. His experience also includes work as an advisor in Boulder’s angel finance community. |
 Louis Stewart is the Deputy Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development. He manages statewide innovation-based economic development support network of regional innovation clusters called the California Innovation Hubs. His role includes a priority to develop an ecosystem that endorses entrepreneurship as well as promotes approaches that will augment strategic business development opportunities. He was Deputy Director for the 2010 Census in the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research. He was Information Technology Director for Governor Schwarzenegger’s re-election campaign in 2006. He has 17 years of experience in Sales, Marketing, and Information Technologies. He has a BA from Santa Clara University. |
 Lesa Mitchell is vice president of Innovation and Networks at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. Her responsibilities include identification of programmatic and policy levers that can accelerate innovation and support networks enabling firm growth. She was instrumental in the founding of the Kauffman Innovation Network/iBridge Network, the Translational Medicine Conferences in the United States and Europe, and the National Academies-based University–Industry Partnership. She was on the board of Gazelle Growth in Denmark, and currently is chairman of the Kauffman FastTrac board. She is an advisory board member of the National Science Foundation i-Corp program and of Modern Meadow Inc. She spent twenty years of her career in global executive roles at Aventis and Quintiles, and she was an entrepreneur focused on the global management of electronic clinical trials. |
 Wayne Johnson is Assistant Vice President for the California Institute of Technology Office of Corporate Relations, responsible for exploring, establishing, and extending strategic corporate partnerships for the Institute. He is recognized as an expert in domestic and international innovation ecosystems and experienced at creating complex partnerships between government, academia, industry and foundations. He was Vice President of University Relations Worldwide for Hewlett-Packard Company. He was Manager of University Relations for Microsoft Research. He was an adjunct professor of management at Boston University. He has BA from Colgate University and an MBA from Boston College. He is a member of the boards of the Alliance for Science and Technology Research in America, the Wentworth Institute of Technology, Olin College and the Kauffman Foundation iBridgeSM Network. |
 Sabine Blankenship serves as Science Liaison Officer at the German Consulate General in San Francisco. The position was newly created in April 2011 to more directly foster scientific collaboration and exchange between the U.S.’s Pacific Northwest and Germany. Much of her work so far has focused on topics such as entrepreneurship and innovation, renewable energy and stem cell research as well as on expanding the network of German scientists and expatriates in the Bay Area and on informing about German funding opportunities. Before joining the consulate, she held a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology at UCSF. She holds an undergraduate degree in biochemistry, a tourism degree from Australia, and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Ruhr University Bochum in Germany. |
 Corey Marshall is the Good Government Policy Director for SPUR, where he is responsible for promoting an effective, well-managed public sector and nurturing a climate of civic engagement throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. His work includes research and advocacy, policy development, and engaging partners to provide strategic pro bono consulting assistance to help improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and governance of local government. He believes that the future of local government lies in active partnerships across the private, nonprofit and academic sectors. Prior to joining SPUR, he worked in local government for more than ten years as both consultant and staff, including time as a public sector management consultant with Accenture and a mayoral fellow in the office of Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley. |
 Brandi Parker is a Senior Policy Advisor with the U.S. Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration, Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (OIE). At OIE, she focuses on managing the i6 Challenge grant program, assist in advancing the initiatives of the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (NACIE), as well as participating in an interagency working group on technology transfer. She has a degree in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, J.D. from Wayne State University, and is currently a LL.M. candidate at The George Washington University Law School, with a focus on Intellectual Property. |
 David Smith co-founded Tirna Partners to provide clients with strategy support and market analysis on critical business decisions. We advise our clients in various stages of their lifecycle and assist them to expand into new markets. He is an advisor to a number of multi-national companies and government development agencies in their program development and market outreach plans. He was with Enterprise Ireland - the Irish government agency responsible for assisting Irish companies to grow exports internationally. He supported over 120 Irish companies in their US market expansion activities leading to multi-million dollar sales, venture funding and IP deals. He was an adjunct-lecturer in international marketing. He has Masters and Bachelor’s degrees in Business from The Michael Smurfit Business School and University College Dublin. He also holds a post-graduate diploma in Executive Coaching. |
 Alice Brooks graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2010 with a BS in Mechanical Engineering. She received her Masters in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford in June 2012. She co-founded Maykah in her second year at Stanford. |
 Richard Allan Horning practices law as part of the Venture Technology Group at SNR Denton US LLP. He was named Northern California "IP Super Lawyer" and was recognized as the "most highly nominated lawyer in the US" in 2009, he has been representing technology companies in Silicon Valley, and globally, since 1970. He works with the classic "garage-based" start-up to Fortune 500 multi-nationals. He has been a guest lecturer at universities in the US, Sweden, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Argentina, Hungary, and Korea, and has participated as a speaker and panelist on topics related to innovation, entrepreneurship and intellectual property. He was President of the International Technology Law Association. He is a graduate of University of California, Berkeley, and Duke University School of Law. He is the Honorary Consul for the Republic of Estonia in Northern California. |
