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ou will not want to miss the opening Plenary Session, which will be held early on Monday, 3 June 2013 at 5:00 p.m. in room 6BC in the Convention Center. Moving the Plenary Session to Monday evening was a popular change the last two years, and we have decided to continue this tradition in Seattle. The opening ceremony marks the official launch of the International Microwave Symposium with the highlight of the session being our keynote speaker, Dr. Patrick Ennis, Global Head of Technology at Bellevue, Washington based Intellectual Ventures. We are also excited to welcome IEEE President Dr. Peter W. Staecker to share opening remarks. Dr. Staecker is well known to our Society as an MTT pastpresident, MTT Honorary Life Member, and an IEEE Life Fellow. Dr. Staecker has held IEEE leadership roles in Finance, Strategic Planning, Publications, and Membership and has served on the IEEE Board of Directors for five years. We are honored to have one of our own serving as IEEE president in 2013. IMS General Chair Tom Raschko, Technical Program Chair Leonard Hayden, and Cochair Rick Campbell will provide brief overviews of the week ahead highlighting some of the key events and sessions. Our keynote speaker, Dr. Patrick Ennis, will be speaking on the topic of intellectual property management in today’s world. As researchers, designers, Donn Harvey (
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Patrick Ennis has more than 25 years of experience as a scientist, engineer, businessman, and venture capitalist. He is currently Global Head of Technology for Intellectual Ventures. Prior to joining Intellectual Ventures in 2008, Patrick was at ARCH Venture Partners where he built startups in a wide range of interdisciplinary areas. Prior to joining the venture capital industry in 1998 as a Kauffman Fellow, Patrick held senior positions with AT&T and Lucent Bell Labs in R&D and Marketing. Before joining Bell Labs in 1992, Patrick conducted research in nuclear physics from 1984 to 1992 at universities and national labs in North America and Europe. Patrick holds an M.B.A. from Wharton, a Ph.D., M.S. and M.Phil. in physics from Yale University, and a B.S. in mathematics and physics from the College of William and Mary.
and inventors, nearly all of us either own patents or work at companies that depend on intellectual property protection to be successful. This is one topic that can be controversial but is of direct importance to every attendee at the symposium and should not be missed. According to Dr. Ennis, “It is an exciting time to be a technologist. Every day, breakthroughs in research laboratories offer the promise of products and solutions to meet a range of global challenges and opportunities. However, it is very difficult to successfully commercialize technology; and unfortunately most efforts fail. We need to improve the success rate, otherwise billions of dollars of R&D funding will be wasted, and innovation-driven economies will stall. Invention Capital is a missing link in the valuecreation chain.” Dr. Ennis will talk about how researchers from a variety of scientific and technical fields can optimize the value-creation chain. He will be sharing new models such as Open Innovation and Invention Capital that are necessary
to successfully commercialize technology, in today’s challenging environment where the speed of technology development and adoption has so accelerated that even leading technology companies find it hard to just keep up. This is an opportunity for leading researchers to understand the latest trends in managing valuable IP and bringing it closer to commercialization. The IMS Closing Ceremony is scheduled for Thursday, 6 June 2013, in room 6BC. The highlight of this event will be talks by our two featured speakers: Dr. David Tennenhouse, Corporate Vice President, Technology Policy, Microsoft Corporation and Michael Thorburn, Division Head, National Radio Astronomy Observatory. It will also feature a short wrap up and thank you from IMS2013 General Chair Tom Raschko. At this session, Raschko will officially hand over the IMS torch to IMS2014 General Chair Larry Dunleavy, who will share some of the highlights of Tampa, Florida, and extend the official invitation to join him for IMS2014.
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