Oregon BEST FEST '10

BEST FEST '10 BannerJoin university researchers, industry leaders, entrepreneurs, and small businesses developing new renewable energy and sustainable built environment products and services for an all-day networking event and research expo at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland. This year’s theme is the collaborative commercialization pipeline – from the research funding that generates breakthroughs to the creation and funding of new companies, products, and services that result from this research.

Participants include researchers from the Oregon University System, public and private funders of technology R&D, entrepreneurs and inventors, and others working in the innovation sector. The event features speakers, research presentations, panels, and an interactive Innovation-Collaboration Challenge aimed at generating and exploring five top revolutionary projects that Oregon BEST will help advance. Come discover how green research, innovation, and collaboration are fueling Oregon's green economy, and how you can connect.

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Oregon BEST is proud to be partnering with Innovate | Collaborate | Oregon (ICOregon) on this year's event. 

AGENDA:
8:00 - 9:00 am: Registration
9:00 am: Welcome (David Kenney, President & Executive Director, Oregon BEST)
9:15 – 10:15: Keynote Address: Richard Spinrad, VP for Research at OSU and former director of NOAA's programs in oceanography, atmospheric science, and climate
10:15 – 10:45: Commercialization Case Study: Perpetua Power Source Technologies
10:45 – 11:00: Networking Break
11:00 – 12:00: Research Sessions (two tracks):

12:00 – 12:45: Catered Lunch
12:45 – 1:15: Panel Presentation: the Oregon Sustainability Center's research agenda, industry collaboration, and more.
1:15 – 2:30: The Oregon BEST Innovation-Collaboration Challenge, a dynamic, interactive exercise to generate and explore five top revolutionary renewable energy and sustainable built environment projects that Oregon BEST will help advance
2:30 – 3:15: Research Poster Session/Networking Break
3:15 – 4:15: Funding Sessions (two tracks):

4:15 – 6:00: Reception & Networking, including ongoing Research Poster Session and announcement of the Innovation-Collaboration Challenge Awards

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES:
Become an Oregon BEST FEST '10 Sponsor and help support this annual event. Sponsorship details here.

GOALS OF OREGON BEST FEST '10:

  • Help Oregon university researchers increase federal research funding through collaboration and contact with funding agency personnel
  • Spark collaboration between university researchers and oregon businesses engaged in renewable energy and green building
  • Fuel Oregon's green economy by speeding commercialization of research into tomorrow's green products, technologies, and jobs

Read about last year's event, Oregon BEST FEST '09, here.