Confirmed Speakers

	Wade Adams Director of the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology Rice University
	Vladimir Ajaev Associate Professor SMU Texas
	Mansoor Amiji Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Northeastern University
	Ananth Annapragada Associate Professor, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
	Sivaram Arepalli Professor, Department of Energy Science Sungkyunkwan University
	Dan Arvizu Director, U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
	Roger A. Assaker CEO and co-founder e-Xstream Engineering S.A., Belgium
	Daniel Attinger Founder, Laboratory for Microscale Transport Phenomena, Assistant Professor, Columbia University
	Sarah Audet Medtronic
	Wolfgang Bacsa Professor University of Toulouse, France
	Sanjay Banerjee Director, Microelectronics Research Center University of Texas at Austin
	Osman Basaran Professor Purdue University
	Ray Baughman Professor University of Texas - Dallas
	Doyle Beneby Senior Vice President, Exelon Power
	Driss Benhaddou Assistant Professor University of Houston
	Ali Beskok Batten Professor of Computational Engineering, Professor, Aerospace Engineering Department, Old Dominion University
	Michael A. Bevan Associate Professor, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Johns Hopkins University
	Ed Billups Professor Rice University
	Frank K. Brown Senior Vice President and Chief Science Officer Accelrys Software Inc.
	James Brusey Senior Lecturer in Computer Science Coventry University, UK
	Stuart Burchill CEO & Co-Founder Industrial Nanotech
	Fiona Case Case Scientific, NSTI Soft Nanotech Coordinator
	David G. Castner Professor, Departments of Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering, University of Washington
	Anatoly Borisovich Chubais Director General Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies
	Dr. Jason Clark Principal Research Scientist Big DNA Ltd.
	Jim Clark Zebra Technologies
	Vicki Colvin Director of the Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology Rice University
	Gavin Conibeer School of Photovoltaics, University of New South Wales
	Zheng Cui Principal Scientist, Group Leader, Micro and Nanotechnology Centre Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
	Steven A. Curley MD University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
	Chris DeArmitt Hybrid Plastics Inc.
	Guy A. DeRose Associate Director of Technical Operations, Kavli Nanoscience Institute, CALTECH
	Paul Dickerson Partner, Haynes and Boone, LLP Former COO, DOE Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy
	Bob Doering Senior Fellow in Silicon Technology Development Texas Instruments
	Rebekah Drezek Associate Professor of Bioengineering and of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University
	Yvon Durant Research Associate Professor of Materials Science University of New Hampshire
	Mauro Ferrari President, Alliance for NanoHealth Professor, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
	Curtis R. Frasier Executive Vice President, Americas, Shell Gas & Power
	Glenn H. Fredrickson Professor University of California, Santa Barbara
	Edward P. Furlani Senior Principal Scientist, Device Physics and Simulation Eastman Kodak Research Laboratories
	Victor Garcia-Suarez Research Associate, Department of Physics Lancaster University, UK
	Elena I. Gaura Cogent Computing, Coventry University, UK
	Patricia Glaza Executive Director/CEO Clean Technology and Sustainable Industries Organization
	Gerhard Goldbeck-Wood Director, Nanotechnology Accelrys, Inc.
	Duncan Graham Professor University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland
	Piotr Grodzinski Director, Nanotechnology for Cancer Programs, NCI Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer, NIH
	Kerstin Grosse Account Manager / Industry Specialist Bühler Inc., USA
	Jaime C. Grunlan Professor Texas A&M University
	Pelagia-Irene (Perena) Gouma Director, Center for Nanomaterials & Sensor Development, Stony Brook University
	Jason Haaheim Manager, DPN Applications NanoInk, Inc.
	Geoffrey Harding Chief Scientist GE Security
	Steffen Hardt Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
	Jeffrey D. Hartgerink Associate Professor Departments of Chemistry and Bioengineering, Rice University
	Claire Hartmann-Thompson Senior Associate Scientist Michigan Molecular Institute
	Robert Hauge Distinguished Faculty Fellow in Chemistry Rice University
	Greg Haugstad Characterization Facility, University of Minnesota, MiNTeC node of the NNI Network
	Steven Hillenius Vice President Semiconductor Research Corp.
	Dr. Steve Hoath Inkjet Research Centre Cambridge University
	John Hunt Professor, Department of Clinical Engineering University of Liverpool
	Paul S. Hunter Partner Foley & Lardner LLP
	Francois Iris Founder, Chairman & CSO Bio-Modeling Systems
	Rashi Iyer Biosecurity and Public Health Los Alamos National Laboratory
	Srinivas Iyer Los Alamos National Laboratory
	Ray O. Johnson Chief Technology Officer Lockheed Martin Corporation
	Brian H. Johnston Eastman Kodak Company
	Thomas Kalil Office of Science and Technology Policy The White House
	Larry Kellner Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Continental Airlines, Inc.
	Kimberly A. Kelly Assistant Professor Biomedical Engineering University of Virginia
	Jay Kipper Associate Director at the Bureau of Economic Geology University of Texas at Austin
	Jim Klostergaard Professor, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
	Junichiro Kono Associate Professor Rice University
	Brian A. Korgel Professor University of Texas at Austin
	Ramanan Krishnamoorti Associate Dean for Research, Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston
	Kristen Kulinowski Faculty Fellow in Chemistry, Rice University Director for External Affairs, CBEN
	Eugenia Kumacheva Department of Chemistry University of Toronto, Canada
	Robert J. Kumpf Chief Administrative Officer Bayer MaterialScience LLC
	Kock-Yee Law Nanotechnology project leader Xerox
	John M. Lazarus Senior Counsel Foley & Lardner LLP
	Sean Lee Licensing Associate, Physical Sciences Office of Technology Transfer, Boston University
	Ed LeFevre Partner Foley & Lardner LLP
	Thomas Haag General Counsel and Chief Patent Officer Arrowhead Research Corporation
	Daryl Boudreaux Chief Scientific Officer NanoHoldings LLC
	Luka Erceg President and CEO Simbol Mining Corp.
	Catherine L. Ives Director, Office of Technology Transfer & Licensing Boston College

	Stephan Link Assistant Professor of Chemistry & Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University
	Jie Liu Associate Professor Duke University
	Hang Lu Assistant Professor Georgia Institute of Technology
	Mathieu Luisier Network for Computational Nanotechnology Purdue University
	Alan MacDonald Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents Chair, Professor University of Texas
	Robert Magnusson Chair in Nanoelectronics, Professor, Electrical Engineering University of Texas at Arlington
	Chuanbin Mao Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma
	Kirk Martinez Department of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton UK
	Scott E. McNeil Director, Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory, National Cancer Institute at Frederick
	John Mendelsohn President, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
	Chris Menzel Dimatix, Inc.
	Meyya Meyyappan Director of the Center for Nanotechnology NASA Ames Research Center
	Mark Mielke BASF
	Rajesh R. Naik Air Force Research Laboratory Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, WPAFB
	Tinh Nguyen Senior Project Leader National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
	Michael Niedermayer Research Manager Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration, Germany
	Lewis R. Norman Research Manager Halliburton
	David J. Norris Professor of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, University of Minnesota
	Marc R. Nyden Building and Fire Research Laboratory National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
	Pierre Panine Senior Scientist Xenocs SA, France
	Nitin Parekh Director, Business Development Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
	Matteo Pasquali Rice University
	Renata Pasqualini Helen Buchanan & Stanley Seeger Professor of Medicine and Cancer Biology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
	J. Donald Payne President and CEO, Director Nanospectra Bioscience, Inc
	Emil Peña Executive Director of the Energy and Environmental Systems Institute Rice Univerity
	Valery A. Petrenko Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine Auburn University
	Bradley W. Pietras Director of the Lockheed Martin Corporate Nanotechnology Strategic Technology Thread
	Darrin J. Pochan Professor, Soft Matter, Associate Editor for North America University of Delaware
	Garrett Poe Nexolve Corporation
	Dan Popa Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering University of Texas at Arlington
	Wolfgang Porod Professor Notre Dame
	Elizabeth Porter Director of Corporate Energy Initiatives, Lockheed Martin
	Sotiris E. Pratsinis Professor Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, (ETH Zürich)
	Michael Pratt Director of Corporate Business Development, Office of Technology Transfer, Boston University
	Nick Quirke Principal, UCD College of Engineering, Mathematical and Physical Sciences University College Dublin, Ireland
	Leon Radomsky Partner Foley & Lardner LLP
	Mark Reed Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics, Yale University
	Frank Register Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Texas at Austin
	Rebecca Richards-Kortum Stanley C. Moore Professor of Bioengineering Rice University
	Steven Ripp The University of Tennessee
	John A. Rogers Professor University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
	Joël S. Rossier Co-Founder DiagnoSwiss, Switzerland
	Ricardo Ruiz Hitachi Global Storage
	Rodney Ruoff Professor Cockrell Family Regents Chair VII University of Texas at Austin
	Bernd Sachweh BASF - The Chemical Company Ludwigshafen, Germany
	Wendy Sanhai U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
	Thomas Sawitowski Product group Manager Nanotechnology BYK-Chemie GmbH, Germany
	Axel Scherer Neches professor, Caltech, Director, Kavli Nanoscience Institute
	Steve Schuster Chairman and Founder Rainier Corporation
	Jamie K. Scott Professor and Canada Research Chair Simon Fraser University
	Philippe Serp Professor University of Toulouse, France
	Gabriel A. Silva, Assistant Professor, Departments of Bioengineering and Ophthalmology and Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego
	George P. Smith Curators Professor of Biological Sciences University of Missouri
	Aaron Stein Brookhaven National Laboratory
	Francesco Stellacci Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
	Radu Stoleru Assistant Professor Texas A&M University
	Nick Sugimoto Honda Motor Corporation
	Jan Sumerel Dimatix, Inc.
	Donald Sundberg Director of the Nanostructured Polymers Research Center University of New Hampshire
	Sarah L. Tao Senior Research Engineer, MEMS Design Draper Laboratory
	Maxim N. Tchoul Air Force Research Laboratory
	Clayton Teague Director Federal National Nanotechnology Coordination Office (NNCO)
	Scott W. Tinker, President, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Director, Bureau of Economic Geology & State Geologists of Texas
	Sarah H. Tolbert Professor of Chemistry Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA
	Vladimir Torchilin Bouvé College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University
	Loucas Tsakalakos General Electric
	Thomas E. Twardowski Twardowski Scientific
	Luminita Ionescu Vasii R&D Manager Newpark Drilling Fluids Canada
	Armin R. Völkel Staff Scientist Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
	Werner L. Vos Marie Curie Laboratory for Membrane Proteins
	Qian Wang Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina
	Yang Wang Assistant Professor Georgia Institute of Technology
	Thomas J. Webster Associate Professor of Engineering Brown University
	R. Bruce Weisman Professor of Chemistry, R. E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Rice University
	Yael Weiss Merck Research Laboratories
	Jeff Welser IBM and Nanoelectronics Research Initiative
	William H. White Mayor City of Houston
	P. Stephen Williams Staff Scientist Cleveland Clinic
	Wolfgang Windl Associate Professor Ohio State University
	Karen I. Winey Professor University of Pennsylvania
	Michael S. Wong Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University
	R. James Woolsey Venture Partner and Senior Advisor VantagePoint
	Fred Zehnausern Director, Center for Biodesign Arizona State University