Venturing onto the Factory Floor:
Opportunities in Sensors and Measurement Technologies
Saturday, February 9, 2013
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California
Time and Location:
Registration and Continental Breakfast: 8:00 a.m.
Program: 9:00 a.m. to 11:15 a.m., Baxter Lecture Hall
Post-program Coffee & Networking with Speakers: 11:15 am to 12:00 pm
Cost: $40 on-line registration; $50 at the door; $10 full-time students;
Caltech students – Free
Event Preview
Many technologists develop a measurement technique: a sensor, or an instrument that might be very useful in monitoring or controlling an industrial process. But how do you venture out onto the factory floor and find your market? Should you build a few copies of an instrument and then create a service that uses your instrumentation and techniques? Or should you try to sell an instrument as a product right off the bat? Or, perhaps you should work with an OEM to be a small part of bigger quality control systems? How do you make sophisticated instruments without billion-dollar fab investments? The February Entrepreneurs Forum will address these topics and more. Come hear how others have navigated these choices…and how it has worked out for them.
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Greg Bearman, Founder, SnapshotSpectra and Qsensor
Panelists
Eric Shuss, Senior Director, Retail and Life Sciences, Hitachi Solutions
Moderator:
Joan Horvath, National University Community Research Institute (Click to see bio)
Producers:
Joan Horvath, National University Community Research Institute (Click to see bio)
Goran Matijasevic, Ph.D, Executive Director, UCI Chief Executive Roundtable (Click to see bio)
Rogelio Nochebuena, President, Nochebuena R&D Consulting, Member, Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum Executive Committee. (Click to see bio)
Date Saturday, February 9, 2013
Time and Location
Registration and Continental Breakfast 8:00 a.m.
Program: 9:00 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.
Location
Baxter Lecture Hall
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA
Cost
$40 on-line registration fee; $50 at-the-door. $10 full-time students; Free to Caltech students.