What? A first-of-its-kind summit of industrial leaders, scientists, and financiers assembled to harness the global business opportunities for nontoxic manufacturing through Green Chemistry.
Where / When? October 31, 2007. 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Northern Essex Community College Technology Center, Haverhill, MA.
Sponsors Host & Keynote Presenter: Dr. John Warner Dr. John Warner is a founder and world renowned expert in Green Chemistry. he is co-author of the seminal work in the field, "Green Chemistry - Theory and Practice", and founding stakeholder of the EPA's Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award. He holds over 100 patents and papers in the field and has directly been involved in the development of technologies in several industrial sectors.
Industrial, Financial and Academic Presenters Paul Anastas, Yale University Center for Green Chemistry and Engineering
Greg Watson, Senior Advisor for Clean Energy Technology, MA Executive Office of Energy & Environmental Affairs
Abigail A. Barrow, Ph.D., Director, Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center
Eugene Buff, Ph.D., Consulting Director, Yet2.com
Amy Cannon, Beyond Benign Foundation
Jon Cronin, Ph.D., Director of Sales, InnoCentive, Inc.
Berkley Cue, Ret. Pfizer VP.
Precedent-Setting This is the first conference dedicated specifically to the goal of helping to start Green Chemistry businesses - either as startups or part of corporate R&D - and to bringing together in one place all the stakeholders necessary to spur commercial ventures in the field, including: leaders in the scientific, business, and investment communities.
Benefits of Attendance: Attendees will be able to:

• Discover the Vanguard: Discover how Green Chemistry is being applied to create nontoxic, cost-saving products in fields as diverse as electronics and pharmaceuticals. Find out which industries are taking the lead, and who is investing in it.
• Connect with Achievers: Build your business through collaboration with the scientists, industrial leaders, and investment managers who are making Green Chemistry a key part of their nontoxic product development and business growth strategy.
• Invest in Innovation: Apply you intellectual and financial capital toward sustainable growth opportunities. Explore the benefits of Open Innovation to complement your internally held Intellectual Property.
• Profit from Foresight: Assure profits for tomorrow, both financial and environmental, by investing in Green Chemistry inventions and processes today.

Additionally, attendees will be able to:

• Hear Reports from Industry Pharmaceutical, Electronics, Biomedical, Consumer Products, etc.
• Make Product Pitches to Investors Opportunities will be available for inventors to make 10-minute presentations to investors during the lunch hour. There will be a refereed process to select 5 of the best ideas for presentation.

What is Green Chemistry? The Way for the Future for Clean Industrial Growth Green Chemistry is a practice that eliminates the use of hazardous materials in product development and manufacturing. It has been demonstrated that industrial materials and consumer products can be designed with negligible impact on human health and the environment while still being successful in the marketplace. Green Chemistry principles are being adopted in a growing range of industries, such as biomedical, electronics, and consumer goods.
Conference Chairs Dr. John Warner, The Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry
John Michitson, Merrimack Valley Economic Development Council (MVEDC)
Seth J. Itzkan, Planet-TECH Associates
Speaker Information: Partial List

	Dr. John Warner, President & CTO, Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry Dr. John Warner is a founder and world renowned expert in Green Chemistry. he is co-author of the seminal work in the field, "Green Chemistry - Theory and Practice", and founding stakeholder of the EPA's Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award. He holds over 100 patents and papers in the field and has directly been involved in the development of technologies in several industrial sectors.
	Greg Watson, Senior Advisor for Clean Energy Technology MA Executive Office of Energy & Environmental Affairs Greg Watson is Senior Advisor for Clean Energy Technology MA Executive Office of Energy & Environmental Affairs and Vice President for Sustainable Development Massachusetts Technology Collaborative. From 1995 to 1999 Greg served as Executive Director of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative. Prior to that he has been with: Second Nature as its Director of Educational Programs; The Nature Conservancy's Eastern Regional Office as its Director; and Massachusetts Department of Food and Agriculture as Commissioner.
	Berkeley W. Cue, V.P. Pfizer, Retired; Creator, Pfizer’s Green Chemistry initiative Berkeley W. Cue is a consultant specializing in partnering with companies who serve the Pharmaceutical industry to create innovative solutions for pharmaceutical science and manufacturing challenges. Most recently, at Pfizer he was responsible for the departments (Analytical R&D, Bio Process R&D, Chemical R&D, Pharmaceutical R&D, Regulatory CMC and Pharmaceutical Sciences Business Operations) that comprise Pharmaceutical Sciences at their Groton R&D site. He was a member of the Worldwide Pharmaceutical Sciences Executive Team, and the Groton Laboratories Leadership Team. He created and led Pfizer’s Green Chemistry initiative and has spoken extensively on this topic since 2000. Dr. Cue retired from Pfizer in April 2004 after almost 29 years
	Dr. Amy S. Cannon, Co-founder the Beyond Benign Foundation Amy is the recipient of the world’s first Ph.D. in green chemistry. Working with Professor John Warner at the University of Massachusetts Boston, her research involved the development of novel photoactive materials. After spending time as a scientist at Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials and as an Assistant Professor in the green chemistry program at the University of Massachusetts Lowell Amy has recently co-founded the Beyond Benign Foundation. She serves as the Executive Director for this non-profit organization dedicated to the creation and dissemination of green chemistry materials for K-12, university, community and industrial education. Amy is also a faculty member and coordinator for the new green chemistry program at Cambridge College. Amy also continues to work within the research realm as a senior scientist for the newly formed Warner Babcock Institute where her research interests range from environmentally responsible cosmetics to electronics.
	Dr. Eugene Buff, MD, PhD, yet2.com, Inc. Consulting Director Dr. Eugene Buff is a seasoned technology transfer and innovation management professional with over twenty years of combined scientific, consulting and management experience. Dr. Buff joined yet2.com in the summer of 2004 and his primary responsibilities include identification and management of proactive consulting projects for yet2.com clients on both technology licensing and technology acquisitions. Dr. Buff is actively involved in deal negotiations for yet2.com clients and has been a primary broker on several highly publicized licensing deals (http://www.yet2.com/app/about/about/press?page=press). Dr. Buff is also involved in developing and delivering other professional services that include market and technology assessments, portfolio analysis and valuations. He is an account manager for several Government and Fortune 100 accounts and responsible for yet2.com partner relationship with Technology Transfer organizations in Eastern Europe, South America, Asia, Israel and Former Soviet Union.
	Paul T. Anastas, Yale University, Professor in the Practice of Green Chemistry Paul T. Anastas joined Yale University as Professor in the Practice of Green Chemistry with appointments in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Department of Chemistry, and Department of Chemical Engineering. In addition, Prof. Anastas serves as the Director of the Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering at Yale. From 2004 -2006, Paul Anastas served as Director of the Green Chemistry Institute in Washington, D.C. He was previously the Assistant Director for the Environment in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy where he worked from 1999-2004. Trained as a synthetic organic chemist, Dr. Anastas received his Ph.D. from Brandeis University and worked as an industrial consultant.
	Daniel Hullah, Associate at RockPort Capital Partners. Mr. Hullah joined RockPort in May 2006. He is actively engaged in all aspects of RockPort’s diligence process including research, financial and technical analysis, intellectual property evaluation, and structuring. Mr. Hullah is also a member of the Screening Committee. Prior to joining RockPort, Mr. Hullah worked as a Manager at ZS Associates, a sales and marketing strategy consultancy. He was a member of the founding team that opened ZS’s Boston office in 2001, where he helped develop a diverse new client base in the healthcare and financial services sectors. He worked on a wide range of issues including product launch strategy, customer segmentation / value proposition development, sales force resource allocation, and incentive compensation plan design. Mr. Hullah holds an MBA with distinction from INSEAD, and a D.Phil. (Ph.D.) in Physical Chemistry from Oxford University
	Bruce Rayner: Vice President and Director of Research and Consulting, Technology Forecasters Inc. Bruce leads Technology Forecasters Inc.’s industry-specialist team of 25 consultants and market analysts in the content for TFI’s Quarterly Forum for Electronics Manufacturing Outsourcing and Supply Chain as well as for customized TFI research and consulting projects.
	Jon A. Cronin, Ph.D., M.B.A, Director of Sales, InnoCentive, Inc. Since 2003, Jon has been the Director of Sales for InnoCentive. Jon has responsibility for developing InnoCentive’s business in the eastern region of the US and in Europe across the Chemical, Pharmaceutical, and Consumer Products industries with specific expertise in the Specialty Chemicals and the Materials Science market segments. InnoCentive connects companies, academic institutions, and non-profit organizations, all hungry for breakthrough innovation, with a global network of more than 130,000 of the world's brightest minds on the world's first Open Innovation Marketplace™.
	Dr. Abigail Barrow, Founding Director of the Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center Dr. Abigail Barrow is the Founding Director of the Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center (MTTC). She is responsible for the overall management of the MTTC and the development of its programs. Prior to joining the MTTC, Dr. Barrow served as managing director of William J. von Liebig Center at the University of California San Diego (UCSD). The von Liebig Center was created in 2001 to support the commercialization of research being performed in the UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering.

Summit Organizers

	Seth J. Itzkan: Seth Itzkan is president of Planet- TECH Associates, a consulting agency identifying innovations in economic development. Recently, Mr. Itzkan helped The Boston Foundation to conceptualize and implement their Hub of Innovations tool. You can email him at seth at planet-tech.com. Seth maintains a personal blog, The Sethmosphere.
src='/files/old/JohnM.jpg' alt='John Michitson' align='left' />	John Michitson: John Michitson served as a Haverhill City Councilor for 10 years; the last 2 he served as President. He is a manager and electrical engineer at the MITRE Corporation in Bedford, MA. John and his wife, Heidi, are enjoying the childhood of their 5 year old daughter and 7 year old son. You can reach him at michitson at verizon.net

Registration

Sponsorship Opportunities For sponsorship opportunities, please email Susanne Ferrara, Director of Merrimack Valley Venture Forum, at sferrara@mvvf.org or call her at 978-251-8278.