Minnesotans to Keynote Materials for Medical Devices Conference

...on is under development: A new "living" stent that can be placed over artery injury sites to function immediately as a new vessel. Third keynoter Sri Sridhar, Ph.D., chair of the physics department at Northeastern University, will describe advances in biocompatible nanomaterials that have result...

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Tech awards keynoter asks for support of UWM transformation

Milwaukee, Wis. The first chancellor of research in the history of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee said Friday that UWM is trying to change its image from a university of access to a university of research, and in the process help Milwaukee build a knowledge-based economy. Abbas Ourmazd...

Manufacturing Matters starts with innovation

...tioning, workforce development and supply chain management. The focus on innovation was evident in the morning and afternoon keynotes. The morning keynoter was Tom Kelley, general manager of the product design firm IDEO , which developed the Apple mouse, Polaroid's I-Zone instant camera, Palm V, and othe...

Manufacturers advised to redesign customer relations

... start thinking of themselves more broadly, according to John Brandt, CEO of the Manufacturing Performance Institute Group . Brandt, the afternoon keynoter during the 9 th annual Manufacturing Matters Conference at the Midwest Airlines Center, is well aware of all the hand wringing about American manuf...

How to relate to likes of Ballmer, Jobs, and Ellison

...ypomanic Edge and a clinical assistant professor psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University , spoke on this and several other topics last week as a keynoter during the 2006 Wisconsin Entrepreneur's Conference . Apparently unafraid of controversy, he also stressed the importance of taking a welcoming appro...