Category: San Diego

UC San Diego Extension is hosting a Green Business Summit for business and university leaders to learn the latest in sustainability business trends. Presentations will be made by author Will Marre, architect James Timberlake, and UC San Diego Sustainability Director Dave Weil. A walking tour of UCSD’s “sustainable green open house” will take attendees through … Continue reading “UCSD Green Business Summit”

The San Diego Center for Algae Biotechnology has organized a two-day symposium on the economic viability of algae-based biofuels. Presentations will cover state of the art technologies in algal molecular genetics, biochemistry, and synthetic genomics. The first day of the symposium will include science speakers from the commercial side of algae biofuels research and development. … Continue reading “Advancing Algal Biofuels to Economic Viability”

For life sciences startups driving the discovery of new products, a key decision is whether to acquire a company or invest in partnerships and collaborations. Biocom has organized a panel of leading experts to discuss key factors in the decision-making process and where they are focusing their efforts. Registration and networking begin at 7 a.m., … Continue reading “Driving Life Sciences Discovery in 2011 and Beyond: Acquire or Partner?”

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”

CommNexus has organized this panel discussion to explore the impact that wireless technologies will have on the next generation of consumer electronic devices. Panelists will discuss what technologies are in the pipeline, how the wireless world is evolving into a multitude of tablets, where the TV and PC fit in, wireless video games, and how … Continue reading “Are Consumer Electronics the Future of Wireless or Vice Versa?”

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?”