Competition reCeption

Thank you to all of our volunteer judges for generously lending time and expertise in support
of optics and photonics entrepreneurship!
Quarter-Final Judges:
Semi-Final Judges:
Entrepreneurship Instruction:
Lynore Abbott
Logical Marketing LLC
Amy Eskilson
Inrad Optics
William Goodman
Trex Enterprises Corp.
Steven Patterson
DILAS Diode Laser, Inc.
Andrea Belz
Belz Consulting & Univ. of Southern
California
Michael Mielke
Raydiance, Inc.
Jes Broeng
Technical Univ. of Denmark
William Burgess
Power Technology, Inc.
John Dexheimer
LightWave Advisors, Inc.
Kevin McCarthy
Shasta Crystals
Mark Wippich
LightWave Advisors, Inc.
Nicholas MacKinnon
Lumedica Consultants Inc.
William Parker
Creative Microsystems Corp.
Marc Himel
JENOPTIK Optical Systems GmbH
Craig Hanson
CVI Laser Optics
Additional Support:
Randy Heyler
NDAX, Inc.
Arun Chhabra
8Tree, Inc.
Nicole Starsinic & Nikki Peterson
UC Davis Child Family Institute for
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Wednesday 5 February 2014
ROOM 130
Competition
3 : 30 TO 5PM
reception
5 to 6 PM
Can you make $10,000 cash in 3 minutes?
One of our presenters will.
SPIE thanks lead sponsor JENOPTIK for their continuing and generous support for
early-stage entrepreneurs. Without your commitment, this event would not be possible.
All of our sponsors have demonstrated a remarkable commitment to
developing new models for innovation in the photonics industry.
LEAD SPONSOR
SPONSORS
WWW.SPIE.ORG/STARTUP
Early stage entrepreneurs pitch their photonics business to our team of expert judges:
Jay Kumler
JENOPTIK Optical
Systems, Inc.
Samuel Sadoulet
Edmund Optics
Inc.
Jason Eichenholz
Open Photonics,
Inc.
Bruce Itchkawitz
Knobbe Martens
Adam Wax
Duke University
The top three winners receive cash and equipment awards totaling $22,500, and all finalists will be sponsored
to attend one of the UC-Davis Engineering Entrepreneurship Academies. This multi-day academy will help
participants refine their business case, analyze markets, and develop a network of connections to help drive
their new venture.
The winner of the most audience votes will receive a complimentary pass to SPIE Photonics West 2015.
Our judges will score the pitches on:
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Technical merit
Quality of the business case
Quality of the financial case
Competitive advantage
Pitch delivery
Minimally Invasive Disposable Multi-functional
Microendoscopy
Zeev Zalevsky ([email protected])
Bar Ilan University / Z-square
Vote – Text “646889” to number 22333 or go to
http://PollEv.com/spie
All-Optical Analog-to-Digital Converter on a
Photonic Integrated Chip
Eric Wandel ([email protected])
Innovative Photonics Technologies, LLC
Vote – Text “646890” to number 22333 or go to
http://PollEv.com/spie
PlenOptika. Eyecare for all.
Nicholas Durr ([email protected])
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Vote – Text “646891” to number 22333 or go to
http://PollEv.com/spie
Vote via cell phone for your favorite pitch presenter:
US Cell phones can text the presenter code to 22333. There is no charge to vote, but your normal text messaging
costs apply.
You can also connect to Wi-Fi and visit http://PollEv.com/spie to vote.
lead sPONSOR
Startup Challenge Finalists:
SPONSORS
Norlase Compact Diode Systems
Peter Skovgaard ([email protected])
Fotonik, Technical University of Denmark
Vote – Text “646892” to number 22333 or go to
http://PollEv.com/spie
QKD Corp. provides fiber-optical data encryption
systems and solutions that offers unprecedented
security to communication lines using quantum
physics.
Christian Weedbrook ([email protected])
QKD corp.
Vote – Text “646893” to number 22333 or go to
http://PollEv.com/spie
MagBiosense’s revolutionary heart-attack
diagnostic device
Amos Danielli ([email protected])
MagBiosense
Vote – Text “646894” to number 22333 or go to
http://PollEv.com/spie
Swept Image: On-Demand Precision Depth Mapping
Matthew Muller ([email protected])
Swept Image Inc.
Vote – Text “646895” to number 22333 or go to
http://PollEv.com/spie
Microscope-in-a-needle
Robert McLaughlin ([email protected])
University of Western Australia
Vote – Text “646896” to number 22333 or go to
http://PollEv.com/spie