Registration Open

Continental Breakfast

Welcome and Opening Keynote Address

Networking Break

Technology Pathfinders Panel:
Forging New Opportunities in the Corridor

Jim Albrecht, President, ComDel Innovation
David Batcheller, COO, Appareo Systems
Kristi Jean, Ph.D., North Dakota State College of Science, Center for Nanoscience Technology Training
Alex Warner, Founder and President, Pedigree Technologies

Moderator: Delore Zimmerman, Ph.D. Executive Director, Red River Valley Research Corridor

Overview

The usefulness of new technologies is elusive until they can be applied as a product, process, system or service.  This panel of technology innovators in training, manufacturing and systems development will talk about their experiences and lessons learned in making and bringing new products and systems to the commercial marketplace and for creating the know-how necessary for that to happen.

Lunch

Keynote Address

Networking Break

Meeting Our Nation’s Challenges through Discovery and Computation

Dr. Joy Crisp, Deputy Project Scientist for the Mars Science Laboratory Project at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Stephen Streiffer, Ph.D., Deputy Associate Laboratory Director for Energy Sciences and Engineering, Argonne National Laboratory
David Turek, Vice President of Deep Computing, IBM Corporation

Moderator: Tim Brookins, Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft

Overview

The promise and potential of scientific discovery and research is more potent than ever at the intersection of science, engineering and computation.  Join Senator Dorgan as he talks with two national experts involved in groundbreaking scientific and technical work that is of critical importance to our country in the 21st century.

Networking Break and FIRST Robotics Demonstration

Dinner