From Science to Business: Preparing Female Scientists and Engineers for Successful Transitions into Entrepreneurship: Summary of a Workshop (2012)
Chapter: Appendix A: Workshop Agenda
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 | |
9:05 am | Study: Entrepreneurial Careers of Women |
Chair: Susan Wessler, University of Georgia Foundation Chair, Biological Sciences, University of Georgia | |
Speaker: E. J. Reedy, Manager, Research and Policy, Kauffman Foundation | |
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 | |
Panelists: Laurel Smith-Doerr, Associate Professor of Sociology, Boston University; and Lydia Villa-Komaroff, Chief Scientific Officer, Cytonome/ST, LLC | |
10:45 am | Break |
11:00 am | Keynote |
Chair: Vivian Pinn, Director, Office of Research on Women’s Health, National Institutes of Health | |
Speaker: Susan Windham-Bannister, President and CEO, Massachusetts Life Science Center | |
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 | |
Panelists: Judy Heyboer, Human Resources Consultant, Former Senior Vice President, Genentech, Inc and Barbara Wallner, President and CEO, Chymic Therapeutics, Inc. | |
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 | |
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 | |
4:30 pm | General Discussion and Wrap-Up |
Allan Fisher, Vice President, Product Strategy & Development, Laureate Higher Education Group | |
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 | |
9:15 am | Studies on Entrepreneurship |
Chair: Pardis Sabeti, Assistant Professor, Systems Biology, Harvard University | |
Speakers: Caroline Simard, Director of Research and Executive Programs, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, and Manwai (Candy) Ku, Researcher, Stanford University | |
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 | |
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 | |
11:30 am | Summary of the Conference: Findings and Themes |
Lydia Villa-Komaroff, Chief Scientific Officer, Cytonome/ST, LLC | |
12:00 pm | Closing Luncheon |
1:00 pm | Adjournment |
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