2010 TVC Fall Partnership Event
November 21-22, 2010
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Huntsville, Ala.
"Innovating for a Resilient Economy"
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Sunday, November 21 |
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12:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
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Exhibitor Set-Up |
| 4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. |
Registration |
| 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. |
Networking Reception |
| Monday, November 22 | |
| 7:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. |
Registration |
| 7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. |
Networking Breakfast |
| 8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. |
Opening and Welcome Speakers: Etta Clark, Vice President of Public Affairs, Eastman Chemical Company and Tennessee Valley Corridor Board Member; Dr. David Williams, President, University of Alabama in Huntsville; Mayor Tommy Battle, City of Huntsville; Congressman-Elect Mo Brooks, Alabama's 5th Congressional District |
| 9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. |
General Session I— “The Role of the Research Institutions in Economic Development” Session Host: Shar Hendrick, President, The Hendrick Group and Tennessee Valley Corridor Board Member Keynote Speaker and Moderator: Dr. David Williams, President, UAHuntsville Panelists: Dr. Jimmy Cheek, Chancellor, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Dr. Sidney McPhee, President, Middle Tennssee State University; Dr. Carol Garrison, President, University of Alabama in Birmingham; Gerald Boyd, Manager of Oak Ridge Office, U.S. Department of Energy |
| 10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. |
Networking Break |
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10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. |
General Session II—“Innovating for a Resilient Economy” Session Host: Steve Cope, Director of Business Development, Avion Solutions, Inc. and Tennessee Valley Corridor Board Member Keynote Speaker: Jeff Finkle, President/CEO, International Economic Development Council Moderator: General Warren Edwards, Director, Community and Regional Resilience Institute Panelists: Jeff Finkle, President/CEO, International Economic Development Council; Dr. Michael Griffin, King-McDonald Eminent Scholar and Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering/Director, UAHuntsville Center for System Studies; Joseph Craver, President, SAIC's Infrastructure, Energy, Health and Product Solutions Group; Gary Gilmartin, President, Gilmartin Engineering Works; Joe McKinney, Executive Director, Land of Sky Regional Council |
| 11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. |
Networking Lunch |
| 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. |
General Session III—“Creating Opportunity through Technology and Commercialization” Session Host: Tom Counts, President, 3-GIS and Tennessee Valley Corridor Board Member Moderator: Dr. Caron St. John, Dean, College of Business Administration, UAHuntsville Panelists: Kevin Finney, Deputy Manager, Program Management and Business Development and Executive Director, Global Security and Technology Programs, Y-12 National Security Complex; Tom Rogers, Director, Industrial and Economic Development Partnerships, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Forrest Ruble, Director, Strategic Development Office, Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center; Dr. Andrew Keys, Chief Technologist, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center; Andy Page, President/CEO, Oak Ridge Associated Universities and Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education; Dr. O'Neal Smitherman, Executive Vice President, HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology |
| 2:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. |
Closing Speaker: Etta Clark, Vice President of Public Affairs, Eastman Chemical Company and Tennessee Valley Corridor Board Member |
| 2:15 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
Tour Capture science-at-work on highlight tours of three state-of-the-art labs on the UAHuntsville campus including dynamic demonstrations. Attendees will visit each of the following labs on this brief round-robin visit:
Propulsion Research Center—Recently ranked among the top three “Coolest College Labs” in the nation by Popular Science magazine, attendees will tour the lab and be part of a Subscale Combustion Instability Test Rig demonstration utilizing an atmospheric combustion chamber with a full scale rocket injector and gaseous propellants.
The Center for Applied Optics and Nano and Micro Devices Center—From large-to-small and in-between, these two Centers advance cutting-edge research and development in optical science, engineering, and devices and components that require precision fabrication. Tour attendees will see optical, nano- and micro-fabrication capabilities utilized in the design, development, and testing of complex optical systems, metrology, and photonic detector instrumentation for commercial, civil and defense objectives.
GBM Instrument Operations Center—The GBM Instrument Operations Center, a joint MSFC-UAHuntsville facility, is the nerve center for the Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (GBM) science instrument onboard NASA’s Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope. GBM observations of the high-energy universe are sent here daily and analyzed jointly by a team located at the GIOC and at the Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik in Garching, Germany. Guests will see the most recent observations of cosmic explosions at the edge of the universe, and will view a simulator of the instrument and spacecraft data system that is used for developing instrument control commands needed to be sent to the actual Fermi spacecraft. |
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Many thanks to the following sponsors |
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Alabama A&M University |
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