Red Herring to sponsor nanotech briefing
from the For-VC-wonks dept.
Red Herring Magazine will hold it's first Nanotechnology Briefing on 24 September 2001 at the The Fairmont Copley Plaza, Boston, MA.
Red Herring ran a special issue on nanotechnology in July 2001.
Read more for a list of speakers for the briefing. NANOTECHNOLOGY BRIEFING SPEAKERS:
- Mike Dierkes, Senior Manager, Strategic Investments, Intel Capital
- Dr. Paul Horn, Global Director of IBM Research
- Dr. Angela Belcher, Associate Professor at the University of Texas and recipient of the IBM Faculty Partner Award
- Dr. Mildred Dresselhaus, Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
- Dr. Naomi Halas, Professor at Rice University
- Dr. Mark Schattenburg, Director of the Space Nanotechnology Laboratory at MIT
- Dr. Stan Williams, Labs Fellow with Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
- Dr. Alex Zettl, Physics Professor at the University of California at Berkeley
August 25th, 2001 at 1:26 PM
The hunt for venture capital
Of course the hunt for venture capital will lead to all kinds of blurring and confusion. Startups in MEMS will label themselves as nanotech to be trendy. Wet and dry nanotech will get confused in the press as scientists and engineers compete for government and now private money.