2006 Business Programming

Market Overviews Invited Talks
Funding Opportunities Invited Talks
PhAST Innovation Awards Program
Power Lunch
Business and Management Insights Panel

Market Overviews Invited Talks

High Power, High Efficiency and Wavelength Stabilized Diode Lasers; Manoj Kanskar, Alfalight Inc., USA
Photonics Sensor Market Potential in Homeland Security Applications; David Krohn, Light Wave Venture, LLC, USA

Funding Opportunities Invited Talks

Third Generation Infrared Sensors; Joe Pellegrino, US Army Night Vision Lab, USA
Counter-MANPADS Overview and Status; Kerry Wilson, Dept. of Homeland Security, USA
ChemBio Sensors: Strategies and Issues for National Defense; Ngai Wong, DTRA, USA

PhAST Innovation Awards Program
Presented by exhibiting companies, the Innovation Awards Program provides an opportunity to preview future technologies as well as comprehensive overviews of the latest applications in the optics and photonics industries. Companies address areas such as the product's impact on the optics industry, the life expectancy of the application, and how the service will benefit the industry in a unique way. Learn more about the 2006 awards winners.

Power Lunch
Tuesday, May 23, 2006; 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Organizers: Milton Chang and Bill Nighan, Managing Directors, Incubic Venture Fund, USA

CEO's, operations specialists, professors, venture capitalists, lawyers and funding agency managers converge at this exciting event to discuss market trends, propose hot topics, share career secrets and much more.

Participants:

Eli Yablonovitch, Professor, Univ. of California at Los Angeles, USA
Phillip Meredith, Vice President and General Manager, Commercial Lasers, JDSU, USA
John Dexheimer, Partner, First Analysis Private Equity, USA
Richart Slusher, Director, Quantum Information Research, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA
David Payne, Director of the Optoelectronics Research Centre, Univ. of Southampton, UK
Don Boroson, Senior Staff, MIT Lincoln Labs, USA
Susan Houde-Walter, CEO, LaserMax, Inc, USA
Jianhui Zhou, Venture Partner, ComVentures, USA
Randy Heyler, Director, Strategic Marketing, Newport Corp., USA
Kathleen Perkins, CEO, Breault Research Organization Inc., USA

Business and Management Insights Panel
Tuesday, May 23, 2006; 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Organizer: Milton Chang, Managing Director, Incubic Venture Fund, USA

This session covers topics relating to business strategy, management techniques, start-up issues, and the business environment of current interest to anyone in our industry. Speakers share their insights, followed by a panel discussion. The session speaks to all involved or interested in business.

Eli Yablonovitch, Professor, Univ. of California at Los Angeles, USA
Phillip Meredith, Vice President and General Manager, JDSU, USA
John Dexheimer, Partner, First Analysis Private Equity, USA