Agenda

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DAY 1 — Tuesday October 29, 2019 Location: Marriott 1

DAY 2 — Wednesday October 30, 2019 Location: Multiple Breakout Rooms

Day 2 will consist of DOE 1-on-1 Meetings, Agency Briefings, and 1-on-1 Networking Meetings. See the agendas for all events below

DOE 1-on-1 MEETINGS AGENDA
7:30 am - 8:30 am	Breakfast & Registration: Foyer and Washington 4
	Location: Washington 2&3	Location: Washington 1	Location: Washington 6
8:30 am - 12:00 pm	DOE Program Manager Meetings Schedule these meetings online selecting the "PM/PI Meetings" option under the "Set up a Meeting" menu. View info on scheduled meetings using the "View Meeting Schedules" menu.	Larta Meetings Meet with your assigned Larta representative to discuss Commercialization Assistance Program (CAP) options. Schedule these meetings online using the tab "Larta (CAP)".	SBIR/STTR Programs Staff Meetings Come to ask any questions you have about the SBIR/STTR Programs. Schedule these meetings online, using the "SBIR/STTR Meetings" option. See below for a list of attending DOE SBIR/STTR Program Managers.
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Lunch & Networking: Foyer and Washington 4
1:00 pm - 5:40 pm	DOE Program Manager Meetings	Larta Meetings	SBIR/STTR Programs Staff Meetings

DOE SBIR/STTR Program Staff Available for Meetings:

Manny Oliver	Director
Claudia Cantoni	Commercialization & Outcomes Program Manager
Carl Hebron	Operations Program Manager
Mike Dobbs	DOE Deputy Chief Counsel for Intellectual Property
Mark Sojka	DOE Contracting Office Team Leader

AGENCY BRIEFINGS		Location: Washington 4
7:30 am - 8:30 am	Breakfast & Registration:  Foyer and Regency
8:30 am - 9:30 am	Short program presentations by SBIR/STTR managers of various Federal Agencies
9:30 am - 10:30 am	Coffee Break/Open Networking:  Foyer and Washington 4

1-on-1 NETWORKING MEETINGS		Location: Washington 4 & 5
10:30 am - 12:00 pm	15-min-long 1-on-1 Networking Meetings with agency managers, investors and other professionals. Sign up online using the "Networking Meetings" option. See list of attending professionals below.
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Lunch Break/Open Networking: Foyer and Washington 4
1:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Continue 1-on-1 Networking Meetings

AGENCY BRIEFINGS AGENDA			Location: Washington 4
Time	Manager	Agency	Program	Program Description
8:30 am - 8:40 am	Larry Pollack	DOD	Joint Science and Technology Office for Chemical and Biological Defense (JSTO-CBD)	Chemical and biological detection for point and stand-off capabilities; individual and collective protection; hazard mitigation; information management; medical pretreatments; medical diagnostics and disease surveillance; medical therapeutics. Presentation (4.60 MB)
8:40 am - 8:50 am	Mark Flohr & Brent Diefenbach	DOD	Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)	R&D for countering Weapon of Mass Destruction (WMD) and improvised threats. Presentation (6.20 MB)
8:50 am - 9:00 am	Marissa Giles	DHS	Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office (DHS CWMD)	Development of capabilities to counter attempts by terrorists or other threat actors to carry out an attack against the United States or its interests using a weapon of mass destruction (includes chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear).
9:00 am - 9:10 am	Jason Preisser	DARPA	Small Business Program Office (SBPO)	Support small-business relationships and training opportunities within the DoD and other federal agencies, and enables the small-business community to create and transition radical, game-changing technologies that benefit national security, the federal government and the commercial marketplace. Presentation (1.55 MB)
9:10 am - 9:20 am	April Richards	EPA	SBIR Program	Developing and commercializing innovative technologies that address the EPA's mission of protecting human health and the environment. EPA topic areas include air and climate, water, green manufacturing and homeland security.  Presentation (903 KB)
9:20 am - 9:30 am	Robert Vinson	NIH	SBIR/STTR Programs	All NIH SBIR/STTR funded activities.
9:30 am - 9:40 am	Scott Dockum & Damian Taylor	NASA	SBIR/STTR Programs	NASA SBIR/STTR Focus Areas. Presentation Presentation (1.41 MB)

List of seated professionals for Networking Meetings:

Program managers

Name	Agency	Program
Mark Flohr & Brent Diefenbach	DOD	Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)
Larry Pollack	DOD	Joint Science and Technology Office for Chemical and Biological Defense (JSTO-CBD)
Jason Preisser	DARPA	Small Business Program Office
April Richards	EPA	SBIR/STTR Programs
Marissa Giles	DHS	Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office (DHS CWMD)
Scott Dockum	NASA	SBIR/STTR Programs
Damian Taylor	NASA	Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD)
Robert Vinson	NIH	SBIR/STTR Programs

Professionals

Name	Company	Title/Program
Jay Amarasekera	SABIC Ventures	Senior Technology Manager
Jason Blumberg	Energy Foundry	CEO & Managing Director
Roger London	Corporate Links	CEO
John Meissner	MXV Ventures	Managing Director
Daniel Miller	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Director, Innovation Crossroads
Adam Duran	NREL	Co-Director, The Shell GameChanger™ Accelerator Powered by NREL
Sanjiv Malhotra	PLUS and AUI Ventures	CEO