INNOVATION SHOWCASE

June 11, 2025

INNOVATION SHOWCASE

June 11, 2025

Agenda
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SDIC Members
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Cutting-edge Technologies From San Diego and Southern California Academic Research Organizations

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, cleantech, bluetech, and life sciences sectors. The eighth annual Innovation Showcase in-person event will be on Wednesday, June 11, 2025, at Alexandria Tech Center.

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 with the support from its over thirty supporting organizations.

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Gold Founding Members

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Community Sponsors

Agenda

8:00 AM

Breakfast
Networking

8:30 AM

SDIC Welcome

8:45 AM

Panel discussion: Innovating for California Wildfire Defense and Management.

Peter Law

ModeratorPartner, Knobbe Martens

Dr. Neil Driscoll

Principal Investigator of the ALERT California Program at UCSD

Deputy Director, San Diego Supercomputer Center

Battalion Chief Rob Rezende

Battalion Chief at San Diego Fire-Rescue Department

Meteorologist, San Diego Gas & Electric

9:30 AM

Keynote Speaker:

Dr. Jack Gilbert

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Associate Vice Chancellor, Deputy Director of Research,
Founder of BiomeSense

10:15 AM

Break

Concurrent Startup Presentations - |

CleanTech/BlueTech
Therapeutics
BioTools

10:35 AM

10:55 AM

11:15 AM

11:35 AM

12 Noon

Networking
Lunch

Concurrent Startup Presentations - ||

CleanTech/BlueTech
Therapeutics
Software/Engineering

1:00 PM

1:20 PM

1: 40 PM

2:00 PM

2:20 PM

3:00 PM

Commercialization Success Story:

Dr. Jose Morachis

Co-Founder of NanoCellect Biomedical

3:40 PM

Panel discussion: Public-Private Partnerships Role in Supporting Early Innovation in the Current Environment

Jason Skolnik

Moderator Partner, Wilson Sonsini

Vice President of Strategic Operations and Executive Director, Biocom California, San Diego

Lauren Nguyen-Antczak

Federal Labs Consortium, San Diego Pilot, Outreach Coordinator

Deputy Director for Energy Systems, Innovation, and Strategy, R&D Division, California Energy Commission

Head West North America External Scientific Innovation, Johnson & Johnson Innovation

4:30 PM

Reception and Poster Session

San Diego Innovation Council Members

When And Where

June 11, 2025

Alexandria Tech Center

9605 Scranton Rd, San Diego, CA 92121