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Welcome, Guest.  Saturday, April 30th Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley Welcome! Welcome to UC Berkeley's leading nanotechnology event! This all-day forum on Saturday, April 30th is a great opportunity to learn more about the current realities of nanotechnology. Listen to top scientists, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, and meet your fellow Bay Area and Berkeley community members involved in nanotechnology research and innovation. This years’ theme is “nano: impacting societies & economies.” Our prominent speakers and panelists will present their views on the impact that nanotechnology is poised to bring to our everyday lives, a hotly debated topic, taking into account both risks and opportunities. The Berkeley Nanotechnology Forum 2005 (BNF 2005) features leading scientists, entrepreneurs, and academics, presenting how nanotechnology is poised to revolutionize our near future by impacting the “triple bottom line”: business, society, and the environment. Beyond exciting scientific and entrepreneurial opportunities, nanotechnology is offering tremendous life-changing perspectives. Come and discover how to be part of this new area! Registration to BNF05 includes access to a continental breakfast, lunch, and a free t-shirt. This event is free to all UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, and LBNL personnel. Update: Registration is CLOSED! Seats are limited and you can now register online for the Berkeley Nanotechnology Forum. This event is free to all UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, and LBNL personnel. If you just want to ask a quick question about the forum, please contact Amish Patel for more information. Clicking this link will bring you to our contact page, where your message will be forwarded to him. Don't hesitate - find out more about this exciting opportunity! About the Poster Session Thank you for your interest in the poster session. At this time, poster session registration is now closed. However, if you have already signed up and wish to review the logistics of the session, please see the poster session page on this web site for more information. Event Summary The Berkeley Nanotechnology Forum 2005 is on Saturday, April 30th at UC Berkeley, from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. Leading scientists, entrepreneurs, and academics will present how nanotechnology is poised to revolutionize our near future by impacting the “triple bottom line”: business, society, and the environment. Beyond exciting scientific and entrepreneurial opportunities, nanotechnology is offering tremendous life-changing perspectives. Come and discover how to be part of this new area! The event will feature a series of talks from prominent nano scientists and entrepreneurs, as well as two panel sessions (morning & afternoon) covering the following themes:
Your registration to BNF05 includes access to a continental breakfast, lunch, and a free t-shirt. Registration & breakfast start at 8:30 am and the first talk starts at 9:30 am. The event will be concluded at 4:30 pm. Keynote Speaker  Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Physics Nobel Laureate 1997 If you ever get the feeling that life is a blur, maybe it’s because the atoms that make up the world around us are always moving at speeds faster than those of supersonic jet planes (about 4,000 kilometers per hour). By cooling an atom down to a temperature of nearly absolute zero (-273 degrees Celsius), you can slow its movement to a crawl and then use light to trap and manipulate it. That’s what physicist Steven Chu, the new director of Berkeley Lab, did to win a share of the 1997 Nobel Prize in physics. On June 2004, the Regents of the University of California named Steven Chu the new Director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Since 1987, Chu has been a professor of physics at Stanford University. For the previous nine years he was at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey; there he did the research that led to his 1997 Nobel Prize in physics, which he shared with Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and William D. Phillips, for methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light. Chu received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1976 and was a post-doctoral fellow there until 1978. He got his B.S. in 1970 from the University of Rochester. Lead Speakers and Panelists Alameda Capital Rich Helfrich, Managing Director Rich was a founder of three semiconductor companies including Vitesse. He has held senior sales, marketing and strategy positions at AMD, California Micro Devices, Northrop and Hughes. Consulting clients have included Sun Microsystems, Corning and Philips Semiconductors. Prior to co-founding Alameda Capital, Rich spent three years with First Global Venture Capital AG of Germany, conducting due diligence and managing investments in the SF Bay Area. Rich has taught business and marketing classes at the University of California extension. Rich holds an M.S.E.E. from CSULA and an A.B. in Physics from Occidental College, California. He also has a full pre-medical education in biology and biochemistry from CSULA. Eikos, Inc. Joseph Piche, CEO and Founder Mr. Piche has had an outstanding career in technology development, with more than 20 years experience developing high performance materials at Arthur D. Little, Foster Miller, Aspen Systems and Eikos. Joe is highly respected in the specialty materials industry and is a member of the Nanobusiness Alliance Advisory Board. He recently received the prestigious Richard T. Whitcomb Aerospace Technology Transfer award from NASA. He has a BS in Chemistry from WPI. Envirosystems Stephen A. Schneider, MA, JD, President and Chief Executive Officer Mr. Schneider is an entrepreneur having founded a number of successful ventures, primarily in healthcare related fields. Most recently in 2001, he co-founded Alexza Molecular Delivery Corporation (Alexza MDC) with Alejandro C. Zaffaroni, Ph.D. by merging Molecular Delivery Corporation, which he founded in 1996, with Alexza Corporation founded by Dr. Zaffaroni in 2000. At MDC, Mr. Schneider served as CEO and led the invention of MDC's vapor delivery technologies and devices. After the merger, he served as President and COO until June 2003, and continues today as a member of the Board of Directors. Previously, he was employee 2 and one of the executive team members of Corus Medical Corporation, which advanced the safer use of autologous blood for transfusions. Intel Ken David, Director, Components Research Ken David is the Director of Intel's Component's Research Group located in Hillsboro, Oregon. Ken began his career in 1982 at Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation as a process engineer. In 1984 he joined Intel Corporation. Ken has held several technical and managerial positions in the Logic Technology Development group, contributing to both transistor and thin film development. Ken has also worked on the development and transfer to high volume manufacturing of several Intel logic technologies. Ken received his B.S. in Chemical engineering in 1982 from the University of Washington in Seattle. Veeco Metrology Ken Babcock, Chief Technology Officer Ken Babcock, Ph.D., is the Chief Technology Officer of Veeco's Metrology Group, where he has led the development of Veeco's leading atomic force microscopes and other instruments for nanoscale characterization. Dr. Babcock received his Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard University, and is widely published in condensed matter physics and magnetic materials. Since joining Veeco in 1993, has also held the roles of Staff Scientist in magnetic imaging, Data Storage Program Manager, and Vice President of Research and Development for the Veeco Metrology Group. Zettacore Subodh Toprani, Chief Executive Officer Subodh Toprani comes to ZettaCore from Infineon Technologies North America, where he ran the Wireline Communications business as senior vice president and general manager. Prior to that, he was president and CEO of Catamaran Communications, a company he sold to Infineon after recruiting key personnel, establishing the infrastructure, completing the first product and developing the first customers. For the six years prior to Catamaran, Toprani was at Rambus Inc., initially as vice president of marketing, and ultimately as vice president and general manager, Logic Products Division. While at Rambus, among his many accomplishments were successfully positioning the company as the industry’s first IP company, developing its thrust into the consumer and communications business, and enabling the successful launch of the Sony PlayStation® 2 incorporating Rambus technology. BNF05 will also feature Dev Kambhampati, Marketing Manager with Accelrys; Alex Zettl, Co-Founder of Nanomix; Brad DeLong, Professor Department of Economics at UC Berkeley; Tom Kalil, Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Science & Technology at UC Berkeley. Driving Directions The Berkeley Nanotechnology Forum 2005 is held at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. Please find below links to driving directions and parking options: Click here for driving directions & access by BART. We will have parking spots reserved for the event’s attendees at the Kleeberger Field parking lot, facing the upper entrance of the Haas School of Business (Cronk Gate). Alternatively you may want to use the additional parking structures near UC Berkeley. Click here for map of the Kleeberger Field parking lot. Click here for maps of additional parking structures near UC Berkeley. Sponsors This event is made possible by our strategic sponsor: the Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, along with our academic sponsors at UC Berkeley: Berkeley Nanosciences & Nanoengineering Institute, the Management of Technology program, College of Chemistry, Berkeley College of Engineering, College of Letters & Science, Berkeley Department of Physics, CITRIS, and the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. 
Registration Register online NOW! Seats are limited and you can now register online for the Berkeley Nanotechnology Forum. This event is free to all UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, and LBNL personnel. 2004 Forum Recap Watch online videos of the Berkeley Nanotechnology Forum 2004, with speakers from Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, MolecularDiamond Technology, Nanomix, NASA, NeoPhotonics, Quantum Dot. Or, learn more about the participants of the Poster Session and the winner project: “Synthetic nanomotor based on a Multiwall Carbon Nanotube.” All this and more can be found by visiting our page of memories from last year's highly successful forum. Return to the main events page. |