Upcoming Events
The Dallas Forum for Biomedical Technology: Creating a Competitive Opening (Jan. 4)
The Dallas Forum for Biomedical Technology is holding its next meeting at 7am on Wednesday, January 4. Thomas J. Shaw, the founder, chairman, president and CEO of Retractable Technologies Inc will be the speaker. Retractable Technologies Inc. designs, develops, manufactures and markets safety needle devices for the healthcare industry. The Company's VanishPoint ® products, funded in part through three NIH SBIR grants, are designed specifically to prevent needlestick injuries and to prevent reuse. Hear details about the company's seven-year postapproval struggle to provide its lifesaving technology to healthcare workers and patients and to survive in a monopolistic market. For more information, see http://www.dfbt.org
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Society of Women Engineers Meeting (Jan. 17)
North Plano Road between Campbell and Collins in Richardson. The ExxonMobile Speakers Bureau will be sending a representative. For more information, contact Jennifer Ray at jray@ppoinc.net or call 214-226-6967.
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Technology Day: Creating Value Through Your Business (Jan. 21)
The Technology Alliance of Dallas (TAD), an “umbrella” organization comprised of several Metroplex technology and entrepreneurship organizations, invites technology professionals to participate in it's Fourth Annual Technology Entrepreneur’s Day on January 21, 2006 at The University of Texas at Dallas in the Conference Center. There is a business plan competition, two panel discussions and a keynote speaker to help entrepreneurs explore opportunities for growing their businesses. The program is from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Advance registration is required. Check the TAD website for details. http://www.tadallas.org/
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VC TaskForce “The Boardroom” (Jan. 24)
VC TaskForce is launching “The Boardroom,” an innovative program on Boards of Directors, with its debut at 6:30pm on the evening of January 24, 2006 at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman located at 2475 Hanover Street in Palo Alto, California. “The Boardroom” uses a case-study approach to simulate real life boardroom scenarios. Through well-crafted cases, we can re-live actual boardroom situations in private and public, high-tech companies and learn from others’ mistakes. It’s a “Flight Simulator” for boardroom training – no seatbelts required.
Anyone who’s learned the hard lessons of business on-the-job knows that experience is actually the second-best teacher. The case method is the best. A well crafted case can pack more experience into every hour of learning than any other instructional approach – and there’s always a soft landing. Judgment and the wisdom developed from experience lie at the very core of business success. There’s no more effective way to develop these skills than through cases, such as those presented in “The Boardroom” program.
“The Boardroom” program has been developed by two high tech corporate governance advisors: Deborah Ludewig, Partner, Emerging Growth and Technology, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, and Ann Peckenpaugh, President, Board Search Partners LLC.
There is a $79 fee for VC TaskForce Members, a $99 charge for affiliate members and a general charge of $129. For more information, see http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=100258
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DFW Texchange Meeting with Philip Romano (Jan. 25)
The next meeting of the DFW Texchange meeting will be held at 6pm on Wednesday, January 25 at Maggiano’s Little Italy located at the Northpark Center Mall in Dallas. Philip Romano will be the guest speaker for the evening.
Romano is an investor, entrepreneur, artist and nationally-renowned restaurateur. Involved in the restaurant business for forty years, in the course of his career, he has created over twenty-five concepts. He is the only person in the restaurant industry that has created more than two successful national concepts….he has created six to date: Fuddruckers, Romano’s Macaroni Grill, Spageddies, Cozymel’s, Rudy’s Country Store and BBQ and eatZi’s Market & Bakery. Fuddruckers has opened units in more than 150 locations worldwide. Romano’s Macaroni Grill now operates in more than 190 locations in the United States and Canada. The restaurant concepts created by Romano produce over $1 billion in sales each year. To date, his concepts have generated more than $10 billion in revenue.
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UTA Workshop on Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting (Jan. 27)
University of Texas at Arlington College of Engineering's Automation & Robotics Research Institute is hosting a conference on January 27 on Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting on January 27 at their location at 7300 Jack Newell Blvd. S. in Fort Worth, Texas
Vast reductions in the size and power consumption of CMOS circuitry have led to focused research efforts on small and efficient power sources. Much of the current emphasis has been on developing on-site generators that transform an available mechanical energy into electrical energy.
This workshop will bring together academic and industrial researchers on one platform to review past developments, current challenges and future goals in the field of piezoelectric energy harvesting. The presence of the leading industries, both nationally and internationally, in the field of energy harvesting and piezoelectrics at one location makes this a landmark event.
The workshop will also feature displays by innovators in piezoelectric energy harvesting and demonstrations their latest technologies.
For more information, visit http://piezo.uta.edu/ or call 817-272-5900.
