Executive Briefing VIII

Executive Briefing VIII

Accelerating Innovation:
The Role of Technology Transfer

Boston, MA, USA November 5-7, 2006

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Executive Briefing for Chief Executive Officers, Chief Technology
Officers, R&D Executives, Strategic Intellectual Asset Managers,
Licensing Executives, and Business Managers

	*- The role of technology transfer in reducing cost, risk, and time-to-market*
	*- How does technology transfer contribute strategically to open innovation?*
	- Examples of companies that have successfully harnessed the technology transfer function as a strategic contributor

Join us at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge, just across the Charles River from Boston! This year, yet2.com again is devoting a full morning to 15-minute overview presentations by promising companies working on cutting-edge technologies and to presentations by serious technology-seekers.

As in our previous events, we will focus on process insights from those who are doing it well—practitioners and decision-makers delivering specific suggestions to make your technology acquisition and/or technology licensing efforts successful. Recent conferences have averaged 140-150 leaders representing 100+ global corporations from Asia, Europe and North America.

Keynotes and Other Speakers Confirmed to Date

Companies Attending

AGFA
Agilent Technologies Inc.
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
AIST Innovations (JITA)
Avery Dennison Corporation
Bayer Innovation GmbH
BellSouth
Colgate-Palmolive
Crown Holdings, Inc.
DLR e.V.
DSM Innovation Center
DuPont
DuPont-Toray Co., Ltd.
Eastman Chemical Company
Finpro
GE Aviation
Henkel Corporation
IBM Corporation
Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
Industrial Technology Research Institute
INVISTA
JAXA (Japanese Space Agency)
Johnson & Johnson
Kimberly-Clark
KISHIMOTO SANGYO CO., LTD.
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
NEC Corporation
Nitto Denko Technical Corporation
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Philips International B.V.
Praxair
Procter & Gamble
Rhodia
Ricoh
Ricoh Innovations
SAPPI
Select Comfort
Shell Global Solutions
Syngenta Ltd.
Textron Innovations
Think-A-Move
Thomson Scientific
UC Berkeley
Unilever
W.R. Grace
Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company

Keynote Speaker Henry Chesbrough Executive Director, Center for Open Innovation, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley	Keynote Speaker Esther Dyson Editor-at-Large, CNET Networks	Keynote Speaker John Sculley Former CEO, Pepsi-Cola, Apple Computer
Dr. Louis Berneman Texelerate	Dr. Rob Chatfield HPC R&D Technology Scouting Manager Unilever	Dr. Kathleen Denis Associate Vice President, Technology Transfer The Rockefeller University
Dr. Dave N. Edwards Chief Technology Officer Avery Dennison	Rocky Ganske President and CEO Axela Biosensors Inc.	Dr. Satoshi Kabasawa Team Leader Strategy Planning Group Corp. R&D Strategy Office Matsushita Electric Industrial, Co., Ltd. (Panasonic)
Val Arthur Kratzman Senior Vice President Director of Health Science Finpro North America	Arie Laor Chief Executive Officer, Director, Summet	Dr. William R. LaFontaine, Jr. Vice President, Licensing and Business Development IBM Corporation
Dr. Jason Lye License Manager Kimberly-Clark Worldwide	Dr. Len Malinin Director, Technology Development Gen 3 Partners	Dr. Jay Paap President, Paap Associates
Cheryl Perkins Chief Innovation Officer, Kimberly-Clark	Dr. Evelyne Prat Global Director for Open Innovation Rhodia Novecare	James F. Puffenberger Senior Vice President Sales and Marketing Think-a-Move
Mark Roth Vice President, Gen3 Partners	Hideki Segawa General Manager Technology Strategy Center Corporate Technology Planning Division Ricoh Co., Ltd.	Martin Sklar Co-Founder AlvaMed LLC
Dr. Corrine Sukiennik Director, Global Licensing Kimberly-Clark Worldwide	Dr. John C. Tao Corporate Director of Technology Partnerships Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.	Dr. Sylvie Touzet Technical Manager for Open Innovation Rhodia Novecare
Dr. R.W. van Leen, MBA Chief Innovation Officer DSM Innovation Center	Dr. Luc Vanmaele Manager, Technology Scouting Agfa-Gevaert	Jeffrey D. Weedman Vice President, External Business Development The Procter & Gamble Company

Topics

Each of the two conference days will begin in full conference session. Monday afternoon is devoted to two tracks, presenting experiences from companies that have successfully accelerated innovation through out-licensing and through Technology Acquisition/Open Innovation.

High-Interest Technology Round-Up

Get your 15 minutes of Technology Fame!

This year, yet2.com devotes a full morning (November 7) from the two-day event to a series of 15-minute overview presentations in this special list of high-interest areas. Presenters will include promising companies working on cutting-edge technologies and serious technology-seekers.

Drug delivery and diagnostics
Electronics and IT (including displays and wireless technologies, etc.)
Coatings/adhesives
Consumer devices

Find out more about this unique opportunity on the High-Interest Round Up page.

You can also email Nancy Harris (nharris@yet2.com) or call
+1-781-972-0616.

Conference registration: $1,500 per person until September 21, 2006. ($2,000 thereafter.)
Please contact yet2.com if you would like to be invoiced for your registration fee.

Register Here! Register Now! If you have any questions, please contact Nancy Harris at +1-781-972-0616.

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