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Recordings from Monday, August 10, 2020
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Introduction, U.S. Small Business Administration
John Williams, Director of Innovation and Technology for the Office of Investment and Innovation (OII) within SBA
Brittany Sickler, Senior Innovation Policy Advisor, OII, SBA
9:15 AM - 10:00 AM
Getting Started with SBIR/STTR
Moderator: Jennifer Shieh, Chief Scientist and Senior Technology Policy Advisor, U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)
Ben Schrag, Senior Program Director for SBIR/STTR, National Science Foundation (NSF)
Susan Celis, SBIR/STTR Program Manager, Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD)
April Richards, Program Manager, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM
Inside the Head of an Evaluator: Common Mistakes
Moderator: Elden Hawkes, Partnership and Innovation Specialist – SBIR/STTR, U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)
Manny Oliver, Director, SBIR/STTR Programs Office, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
Steven Konsek, Program Director for SBIR/STTR and I-CorpsTM program, National Science Foundation (NSF)
Colleen Gibney, SBIR Deputy Project Manager, Defense Health Agency (DHA)
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
Success in Phase I - Moving to Phase II and Beyond
Moderator: Erick Page-Littleford, Senior Technology Policy Advisor, U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)
Robert Smith, SBIR Director, U.S. Department of the Navy (DON)
Gynelle Steele, Deputy Program Executive for SBIR and STTR Programs, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Stephanie Fertig, HHS Small Business Program Lead, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
12:15 PM - 1:00 PM
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
Presenter: David Le, Assistant Regional Director – Rocky Mountain Regional Office
1:15 PM - 1:30 PM
Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC)
Presenter: David Kistin, Program Leader, Small Business Vouchers Pilot at Sandia National Laboratories
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