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To: Florida Photonics Cluster Members
For those of you exhibiting at this year's SPIE Photonics West 2011, please excuse this duplication. But I want to make all of the FPC members aware that it's already time to start planning for SPIE Photonics West 2012 - to be held once again in San Francisco at The Moscone Center. A Florida Cluster grouping will be organized again for PW-2012 by CREOL, with support from the Florida Photonics Cluster, Florida High Tech Corridor Council, Metro Orlando EDC, and Enterprise Florida. This email is an early notification of how your company can request to be located in the cluster grouping and receive valuable group benefits and discounts.
Cluster/Pavilion Group Future Planning for Photonics West 2012
O Returning Cluster Group Members and Group Organizers, and new companies wanting to be in the Photonics Cluster Grouping, must sign up by the Early Bird deadline, 11 March 2011, 6 weeks after the show. Please designate to be part of the Florida Cluster on your Early Bird Exhibition Contract. If your company did not exhibit this year, but wants to do so next year, you can get the Early Bird contract by sending an email request to Michele Hurst Bennett at SPIE: micheleb@spie.org
O SPIE offers 2 unique ways to exhibit, Pavilions & Neighborhood Cluster Groups (see attached description). We have been using the "Neighborhood" grouping to date, and unless there is a lot of interest in the "Pavilion" grouping, we will do the same for PW-2012.
O SPIE will review positioning of Cluster/Pavilion Groups in late March 2011, depending on size and priority points accumulated, so your response by the Early Bird deadline is very important.
O Early Bird Contracts will be handed out the last day of the exhibition and also sent in the mail to each exhibitor.
If you do choose to be part of the Florida Cluster grouping for PW-2012, please also send me an email indicating your choice.
Best regards,
Jim Pearson
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Angela Stark
The Optical Society
202.416.1443
astark@osa.org
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10—The Optical Society (OSA) today released the following the statement from CEO Elizabeth Rogan regarding the shooting that occurred in Tucson, Ariz. on Jan. 8:
“All of us at OSA were stunned and saddened to hear of the tragic shooting that occurred in Tucson over the weekend. Rep. Giffords,OSA’s 2010 Advocate of Optics, is a dedicated public servant who has worked tirelessly to promote science and technology issues in the U.S. Congress, with a particular emphasis on solar technology. She is a friend to the optics community, as evidenced by her leadership on the House Science & Technology Committee and her recent work on the Solar Technology Roadmap Act. We wish Rep. Giffords the best as she fights for a swift recovery. Our thoughts are with all of those who were affected by this horrific event.”
About OSA
Uniting more than 106,000 professionals from 134 countries, the Optical Society (OSA) brings together the global optics community through its programs and initiatives. Since 1916 OSA has worked to advance the common interests of the field, providing educational resources to the scientists, engineers and business leaders who work in the field by promoting the science of light and the advanced technologies made possible by optics and photonics. OSA publications, events, technical groups and programs foster optics knowledge and scientific collaboration among all those with an interest in optics and photonics. For more information, visitwww.osa.org.
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Clean Tech Ventures provides Florida-based entrepreneurs and early-stage clean technology companies with the resources they need to transform great ideas into high-growth companies that create jobs, wealth and intellectual capital in Florida. Clean Tech Ventures utilizes the proven technology
TRDA will also conduct a Clean Energy Technology Showcase in 2011 for Clean Tech Ventures participants to promote their technologies and companies to potential customers, investors and industry executives. The event will include presentations, exhibits and networking designed to facilitate rapid assessment of the technologies and be a unique opportunity to foster opportunities for licensing, commercializing and investing in new clean technologies. |
| ELIGIBILITY: Entrepreneurs and early-stage companies located in Florida with products or services that include alternative and renewable energy technologies (biofuels, hydro, solar, wind, etc.), conservation and pollution mitigation, distribution and transmission solutions, energy efficiency (in building technologies and transportation), energy storage solutions, environmentally friendly production, research and development, smart grid, or training and support of the clean technology sector workforce. COST: Free to participants selected through an application process. APPLICATION DEADLINE: February 11, 2011 at 5:00 p.m. FOR QUESTIONS AND AN APPLICATION: Contact Chester Straub, Executive Director at cstraub@trda.org |
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The TRDA is pleased to offer the FastTrac® NewVenture™ Entrepreneurship Program (a Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Initiative) for Florida-based technology entrepreneurs. Practical and hands-on, FastTrac® NewVentureTM is a two-day entrepreneurship boot camp that will provide the tools and hands-on mentorship to help participants understand the business behind successful technology companies. The workshop will help technology entrepreneurs develop a business plan, market strategy, and an investor pitch, and will also help participants understand how to finance technology ventures via angel or venture capital.
In addition to having access to the nationally recognized FastTrac® NewVenture™ Program curriculum and business planning materials, attendees will be actively mentored during the boot camp by experienced technology startup executives that have founded technology companies and raised venture capital for their companies. These mentors will be joined by experienced legal, accounting and operations professionals that understand the dynamics of early-stage technology companies. The boot camp will also include up to five hours of 1:1 mentoring at the TRDA by experienced entrepreneurs to help participants develop their business plans and investor presentations.
The boot camp will be held on January 14 and 15, 2011 from 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM at the TRDA Business Innovation Center in Melbourne, Florida.
The cost for the boot camp is $399, which includes five hours of one to one mentoring for participants that complete both days of the boot camp sessions. For more information and to register on line go to http://www.trda.org/events/index.asp or call 321-872-1050, ext 103.
Technological Research and Development Authority
1050 W. NASA Boulevard, Melbourne, Florida 32901
