"Start Up Innovation Improving Life" at the U of M Best Buy Theater | Northrop
Program
8:00am Registration opens
8.30am Program Starts
Welcome
U of M French Club & French-American Chamber of Commerce
Opening remarks
French Consul General Guillaume Lacroix
Introductions from Partner Organizations
Minnesota Trade Office
Greater MSP
Minnesota High Tech Association (MHTA)
MNCup
9.30am Exchange Visitor Intern/Trainee, VIE Program
Kristin Young, FACCNY & Odile Young FACCMN
9:50am Education & Incubation
The U of M technology transfer & start up processes
Carol Grutkoski
MIN-Corps:
Supporting Applied Innovation & Entrepreneurship across the U of M
Kirk Froggatt
From Campus to Company - One Group's Experience of Commercialization
Scott McConnell
11.00am Break - Networking
12:00pm Development, Funding & Protection
Mobility4All - Sebastien Tavenas
Healthe - Justin Barrett
Open Therapeutics - Jerome Hamilton
Pack 3.0 - Serge Batkam
Start-Up Financing - Speakers TBC
Intellectual Property Protection - Michael J. Remington
2:00pm Break
2.30pm- American Outbound Program (work abroad)
Kristin Young, FACCNY & Odile Young, FACCMN
2:50pm Saint Gobain, HR
3:10pm SUEZ Water technologoes & solutions, HR
3.30pm Program ends
