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The San Diego Innovation Council (SDIC) invites you to participate in a full day of company presentations and networking, with high quality investment opportunities in the software, engineering, clean tech, agricultural and life sciences sectors. The sixth annual Innovation Showcase will be returning to an in-person event at the JLABS San Diego campus on Wednesday, October 12, 2022.
The SDIC will present innovations created at top academic centers in San Diego and Southern California. These academic centers come together annually to present investment opportunities, commercialization success stories and opportunities to develop new enterprises based on technologies developed by their researchers.
The San Diego Innovation Showcase is possible in partnership with JLABS and the support from its over thirty supporting organizations.
| 8:00 AM | Breakfast & Networking | ||
| 8:30 AM | SDIC BOARD WELCOME | ||
| 8:45 AM | INCUBATING INNOVATIONS FOR SUCCESS Vanessa Scott, Director of StartBlue Accelerator at UC San Diego Zac Dobbin, Program Director, Southern California Energy Innovation Network Scott Tait, Executive Director, San Diego National Security Innovation Catalyst Nick Mourlas, Head of Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JLABS @ San Diego MODERATOR: Ben Wagner, Partner, Troutman Pepper | ||
| 9:30 AM | COMMERCIALIZATION SUCCESS STORY Natalie Castellana, CEO Abterra Biosciences  | ||
| 10:15 AM | Break | ||
| CONCURRENT STARTUP PRESENTATIONS – PART 1 | |||
| Clean Technologies | Software/Engineering | Therapeutics/Diagnostics | |
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| Noon | Lunch | ||
| CONCURRENT STARTUP PRESENTATIONS – PART 2 | |||
| Clean Technologies | Software/Engineering | Therapeutics/Diagnostics | |
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| 2:40 PM | Break | ||
| 3:00 PM | KEYNOTE: PROVIDING INFORMATION WARFARE CAPABILITIES TO THE FLEET: NAVWAR – PEO C4I Rear Admiral Kurt Rothenhaus, Program Executive Office, Program Executive Officer, Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (PEO C4I)  | ||
| 3:45 PM | STATE OF THE REGION’S INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM Jason Anderson, President, Cleantech San Diego Rear Admiral Kurt Rothenhaus, U.S. Navy Sanjeev Thohan, Vice President, Kinnate Biopharma Gene Dantsker, President & COO, EvoNexus MODERATOR: Matt Bresnahan, Partner, Wilson Sonsini | ||
| 4:30 PM | Networking Reception and Technology Poster Sessions |
JLABS @ San Diego
3210 Merryfield Row
San Diego, CA 92121
