La Jolla Research and Innovation Summit

The La Jolla Torrey Mesa is home to over 50 research institutes known worldwide for their groundbreaking innovations in cleantech, biotech, wireless and IT. In addition, the close proximity of many of the world’s leading scientists creates inter-disciplinary collaborations and strategic alliances not possible anywhere else in the world. As a result, our reputation for convergence innovation is unparalleled.

The La Jolla Research & Innovation Summit, an invitation only program where San Diego’s leading scientists and engineers describe their innovative research to more than 100 venture capitalists in a closed meeting was developed to bring together our leading scientists with active venture capitalists from across the U.S. In this unique setting, VCs have the opportunity to learn from and build relationships with researchers working on advances five and ten years into the future.

This year, CONNECT has assembled a day-long program featuring four panels of San Diego based researchers in the fields of Cleantech, Biotech, High-Tech/ IT and Wireless Health (see below for program for details). In addition, Dr. Roger Tsien, who was awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, will keynote this year’s meeting.

Their will be a VIP reception on the evening of March 2nd at the Estancia Hotel located next door to the Salk. This pre-summit event is designed to provide our Venture Capital visitors and researcher faculty an opportunity to mingle in a private setting.

**This meeting is INVITATION ONLY. To inquire about attending the summit, please contact Bethany Kraynack at bkraynack@connect.org

VIP Dinner:
Date: Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Time: 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: The Estancia La Jolla Resort & Spa
9700 North Torrey Pines Road
La Jolla, CA 92037

Program:
Date: Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Location: Salk Institute for Biological Studies*
10010 North Torrey Pines Road
La Jolla, CA 92037
*(Located next door to the Estancia)

Meeting Agenda:
Breakfast: 7:30am – 8:00am

Cleantech Panel Presentations: 8:00am – 9:45am
Panelists

• Dan Cayan, Researcher, Climate Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego
• Joseph Ford, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC San Diego
• William Gerwick, Professor, Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego

Break: 9:45am – 10:00am

Biotech Panel Presentations: 10:00am – 11:45am
Panelists

• Dennis Carson, Center Director and Professor, Medicine Hematologic Malignancies Program, Moores UC San Diego Cancer Center
• Alessandro Sette, Head and Member, Center for Infectious Disease, Allergy and Asthma Research, La Jolla Institute of Allergy and Immunology
• Inder Verma, Professor, Irwin and Joan Jacobs Chair in Exemplary Life Science, Laboratory of Genetics, Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Networking Lunch: 11:45am – 1:00pm

High Tech/IT Panel Presentation: 1:00pm – 2:30pm
Panelists

• Sadik Esner, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC San Diego
• Rajesh Gupta, Professor and Qualcomm Endowed Chair, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, UC San Diego
• Stefan Savage, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, UC San Diego

Break: 2:30pm – 2:45pm

Keynote: 2:45pm – 3:30pm
Panelists

• Roger Tsien, 2008 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry; Professor of Pharmacology, UC San Diego School of Medicine; Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UC San Diego; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

San Diego Convergence Panel Presentation: 3:30pm – 5:00pm
Panelists

• James Fowler, Author, Connected; Associate Professor, Center for Wireless and Population Health Systems, CALIT2, and Department of Political Science, UC San Diego
• Jeffrey Price, Associate Professor, Signal Transduction and Stem Cells and Regeneration Research Programs, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute
• Eric Topol, Professor of Translational Genomics, The Scripps Research Institute; Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Founding Dean, Scripps School of Medicine; Chief Academic Officer, Scripps Health

Networking Reception: 5:00pm – 6:30pm

**This meeting is INVITATION ONLY. To inquire about attending the summit, please contact Bethany Kraynack at bkraynack@connect.org

Past VC participants include:
Ameritage Technology Partners
Angeleno Group
Artiman Ventures
Athenian Venture Partners
Avalon
Avant BioVentures
Biogen Idec New Ventures
Blackbird Ventures
Blade Ventures
California Technology Ventures
Capital Group
Charter Venture Capital / Charter Life Sciences
Claremont Creek Ventures
CMEA Ventures
Crystal Cove Capital
Draper Fisher Jurvetson
El Dorado Ventures
Enterprise Partners Venture Capital
Entrepia Ventures
Express Ventures
Finistere Ventures
Forward Ventures
Funk Ventures
Gabriel Venture Partners
GMT Ventures
Hale BioPharma Ventures LLC
Hillcrest Venture Partners
iSherpa Capital
JK&B Capital
Johnson & Johnson Development Corp
Kaufman Fellows
Khosla Ventures
Latterell Venture Partners
Leading Ventures
Leapfrog Ventures
Merck
Mesa Verde Venture Partners
Miramar Venture Partners
Mission Ventures
Mohr Davidow Ventures
New Leaf Ventures
Okapi Venture Capital
Panorama Capital
Pantek Partners
Pfizer
PHYSIC Ventures, LLC
ProQuest Investments
Qualcomm Ventures
RCT BioVentures
Rustic Canyon Partners
Sempra
Signal Lake
Sofinnova Ventures
T2 Ventures
TEOTL Energy Partners
Thomas McNerney & Partners
Ventana Capital
Verge Fund
Viterbi Group
Windward Ventures
X/Seed Capital Management
Yagadol Ventures

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