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This two-day conference, sponsored by Qualcomm’s new Mirasol display technology, presents an overview and an opportunity to consider technology solutions based on the natural world. Products based on nature’s principles are poised to be industry leaders in innovation, efficiency, and sustainability. As the keeper of the world’s largest collection of plants and animals, the San … Continue reading “Biomimicry: Nature, Innovation, and the New Economy”

Silicon Valley Bank’s senior relationship manager, Frederick “Buzz” Kreppel, will be the keynote speaker at this presentation on current venture debt markets. Kreppel is responsible for managing operations at SVB’s San Diego office, and leads its technology banking team. He has extensive experience structuring unique debt facilities for both technology and life science companies and … Continue reading “Commercial Venture Debt Update”

New hybrid positioning technologies are expected to drive the mobile location-based services market to exceed $12 billion by 2014. The costs of integrating such positioning and location capabilities in devices are also low; in fact, so low that location capability is now expected to be included in most portable devices and vehicles. With the market … Continue reading “Challenges and Opportunities in Indoor Location Technologies”

This is the first event by San Diego BioProcess Forum, a recently founded group focused on professional networking and continuing education in BioProcessing. The group has arranged a presentation by Wolfgang Noe on considerations in qualifying a contract manufacturing organization to make biologic products. Noe is a senior consultant at BPTC and was previously the vice … Continue reading “Qualifying a CMO to Manufacture Biologic Products”

CommNexus, San Diego’s telecommunications trade group, has organized a presentation on “Trends and Technologies: Driving the Future of Test” that features National Instruments CEO James Truchard. Moore’s law has driven tremendous increases in performance and reductions in cost for electronics products across every industry for more than half a century. Truchard will discuss the impact … Continue reading “Industry Leaders Series: National Instruments Co-Founder and CEO James Truchard”

Current methods for the detection of contagious outbreaks give contemporaneous information at best about the course of an epidemic. Yet it is known that individuals near the center of a social network are likely to be infected sooner during the course of an outbreak than those at the periphery. James Fowler, the author of “Connected” … Continue reading “UCSD’s James Fowler on Using Social Networks to Detect Epidemics”

Biocom has organized this panel discussion for anyone who is part of life sciences drug development, medical device, and diagnostics businesses to learn about the potential impact of health reform. Attendees will come away with a better understanding of key components of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and how they affect market access … Continue reading “Reimbursement Issues, Market Access, and Health Reform”

This is the first part in a series of management courses created by Leadership Edge that is designed to turn science-minded managers into capable business leaders. Participants get the core management skills they need to fully leverage your company’s human capital. The program includes company and industry relevant case studies, practical and engaging exercises, down-loadable … Continue reading “From the Laboratory to Leadership Training”

Biocom is hosting a fun-filled and entertaining evening with the FDA—that is, Friends, Dining & Ale—as the nonprofit industry group highlights the many achievements of the life sciences industry at its 8th Annual “Celebration of Life” Dinner. More information and online registration is here.

Is conventional equity funding for innovation in the life sciences industry truly a viable strategy for private equity and venture capital firms, or is it all just a house of cards? Against a backdrop that includes some local criticism of Big Pharma’s hardball buyout tactics, the San Diego Venture Group has organized a debate on … Continue reading “Point – Counterpoint: Is Life Sciences Innovation a Fundable Future or Financial Flop?”

CommNexus is coordinating an evening with Qualcomm chairman and CEO Paul Jacobs, QCT President Steven Mollenkopf, and Matt Grob, senior vice president of engineering, as they discuss where the wireless world is going in the next five to ten years. Topics are expected to include 3G and 4G, the new quad-core Snapdragon, mobile OSes, Qualcomm’s … Continue reading “Qualcomm Town Hall 2011”

UC San Diego Extension has helped to organize the third annual free career development night, with a lineup of 20 speakers. Workshop topics include: Closing America’s Job Gap, Life Science Industry Trends, What the Future Holds in Mobile Applications; Project Management & Process Improvement: Skills to Boost Your Career, Strategies for Success: What HR Won’t … Continue reading “Career Development Workshops in Technology and Life Sciences”

San Diego-based Senomyx has been developing flavor enhancers using scientific development tools, such as high-throughput screening and GPCR modulation, to those used in drug discovery. Guy Servant, Senior Director of Assay Development & HTS at Senomyx, will give a presentation titled “A Biotech Approach to Flavor Discovery.” Online registration is here.

In partnership with Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves and Savitch, this workshop outlines the components for developing a comprehensive funding strategy, with a special focus on understanding the provisions of a term sheet. Certain provisions have far-reaching implications for maintaining control of the company. There also are economic implications of some provisions in follow-on funding rounds and … Continue reading “The Art of the Term Sheet”

Entrepreneurs have choices about the kind of company they want to create. The well-known VC route requires ceding some control for some investment funding. In partnership with the Beyster Institute at UC San Diego’s Rady School, this workshop outlines other choices that employee ownership can provide. By sharing equity ownership with the rest of the … Continue reading “The Employee-Ownership Alternative”

In the current start-up environment, executives need to take steps to prepare their company for receiving outside investment long before approaching potential investors. In this workshop, Cooley law firm partners Charles Bair, Patrick Loofbourrow, and Ken Rollins discuss capital investment issues for emerging companies and how best to structure your company in advance of funding … Continue reading “Preparing for Investment Capital”

Sandrew is internationally recognized as a digital imaging expert with more than 14 VFX patents and 23 years of feature film and TV accomplishments. Sandrew invented the first all-digital process for colorization in 1986 and the reinvented process in 2001 at Legend3. In 2005, Sandrew advanced this technology to develop an innovative approach to adapt … Continue reading “CommNexus Industry Leaders Series Presents Barry Sandrew of Legend 3D”

The Recruit@Rady Career & Internship Fair provides an opportunity to meet and talk with graduating MBAs, and to explain your company and your hiring needs. The $200 fee includes parking, light dinner, and MBA resume books. More information available here, and online registration is here.

Qualcomm bills its Uplinq conference as the only wireless event that brings together the ecosystem of developers and publishers, device makers, network operators, OS and technology providers to build business around high-quality, compelling mobile apps and data services. Uplinq 2010 effectively served as the annual Brew conference, while also addressing the interests of the wireless … Continue reading “Qualcomm’s Uplinq: Where Mobile Links Up”

As part of its on-going seminar series, the San Diego Maritime Alliance, is planning a one day seminar that focuses on the effects that oceans and weather can have on business and infrastructure. The all-day session will focus on leading-edge hardware, software, and techniques used to monitor, understand, and predict environmental and ecological changes that … Continue reading “How Oceans and Weather Affect Business and Infrastructure”

Thousands from around the world-from entrepreneurs and leading tech industry executives to academics and persons with disabilities-will gather to explore ways technology can help those with disabilities. The conference, organized by California State University Northridge, examines all aspects of technology and disability and features a faculty of internationally recognized speakers, two days of pre-conference workshops, … Continue reading “Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference”

Biocom has organized its breakfast meeting in March around the question, “How does a company use their own data, and data collected elsewhere, to help business thrive?” Several insightful companies have developed products that help synchronize, analyze and utilize data to create vast improvements in health care, as well as R&D. Many of these information … Continue reading “Data-Driven Health Care Surges into the Fast Lane”