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Pub Talk
POWER PUB: TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 2004
"NANO-BIO-IT CONVERGENCE: DOES NANOTECHNOLOGY OFFER THE TRULY ULTIMATE
BIO-IT INTERFACE?"
Pub Master: Mr. Brock Hinzmann, Technology Navigator & Principal
Consultant, SRI Consulting Business Intelligence
5:00 p.m.: Networking & Registration
5:30 p.m.: Pub Exchange
6:30 p.m.: Networking
7:00 p.m.: Pub Closes!
Open to the Public. Fee: $15 (cash or check, payable at the door).
Pre-registration is highly encouraged.
Registration information below.
Please Note: This Power Pub will be held in the Cyprus Room
at the Crowne Plaza Cabana Hotel, 4290 El Camino Real, Palo Alto.
Click Here
to view the Presentation (8.2MB .pdf)
The buzz around nanotechnology in Silicon Valley has not dried
up, in spite of delays and debates over definitions and timing.
Does nanotechnology offer the truly ultimate Bio-IT interface? If
so, when will this all come to pass? Nanotechnology has been described
as offering the ultimate interface between biology and information
technologies. Visionaries imagine a pervasive computing environment
in which everything, wet and dry, has sensing, computation, and
communication capabilities built into it. Many questions exist about
how sensors made with nanotechnology will be built and what kind
of new capabilities they will offer. In previous World Internet
Center sessions, the value of having wireless sensor networks built
on nano or any other technology have been discussed and debated.
Advanced biological-computer interfaces may also be desirable, but
questions exist over what is technically possible and commercially
feasible within the timeframe of an attractive investment cycle.
However, the potential creative nano-links with the Valley's biotechnology,
electronics, and IT strengths have only wetted the appetites. Even
so, many investors are struggling to find value in paying for science
projects to discover the links between nanoparticles and biological
organisms or the interface between the nano, the bio, and the macro.
Most of the new investments in nano appear to be going into lowering
the cost of nanoparticle production methods, new tools to figure
out where all those nanoparticles are and to manipulate them, sensors
built from nanoparticles that are highly sensitive and specific
as to which other particles or biological organisms they detect,
and simulation and design software tools. The debate over what happens
when nanoparticles are introduced into the human biological system
and the environment is just beginning.
At this Power Pub, come discuss these questions with Mr. Hinzmann,
the Pub Master for the evening:
- Since electronics researchers can already project they will
be able to stay on the Moore's Law curve for another decade using
well-known conventional technology, and that large electronics
companies are conducting their own nanotechnology research, can
nanoelectronic start-up companies have any commercial impact in
that timeframe?
- Will the concern over the environmental and health impacts
of using nanoparticles slow the development of the technology?
- If nanotechnology really does make it possible to put cheap
sensors, sensor networks, interfaces, and nanoactuators everywhere,
what would be the benefit?
ABOUT BROCK HINZMANN
Brock Hinzmann is the technology navigator and a principal consultant
with SRI Consulting Business Intelligence. Over the past 25 years,
Mr. Hinzmann has worked with hundreds of clients to conduct future
scanning exercises, create future scenarios, conduct business opportunity
searches, and to draw technology road maps. Over the past few years,
his projects have dealt with nanotechnology, fuel cells, advanced
interfaces, robotics, and pervasive computing.
ABOUT SRI CONSULTING BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
SRI Consulting Business Intelligence (http://www.sric-bi.com)
was formed originally as the Long-Range Planning Service for the
Stanford Research Institute. SRIC-BI specializes in making sense
of the future for its large corporate and government clients around
the world. SRIC-BI is able to customize its consulting projects
by leveraging off the knowledge gained from several syndicated research
programs. Scan® is a subscription-based program that alerts participants
to potential major business impacts that might result from today's
early weak signals of change and works with clients to customize
those implications into actionable ideas. Explorer® is a technology
mapping service that tracks nearly 40 technology areas in nanotechnology,
biotechnology, electronics, IT, energy, and so forth. VALS® is a
consumer market segmentation system that predicts purchasing behavior
based on psychological motivations on end-users.
REGISTRATION & SPECIAL INFORMATION
Pre-registration is highly recommended. There is a $15 fee (cash
or check only) which will be collected at the door. Please make
checks payable to Silicon Valley World Internet Center. To pre-register,
please send your name, title, company name, telephone number, and
email address to:
Ms. Claire Kahrobaie
Manager, Client Services
T: 650.565.8070
E: kahrobaie@worldinternetcenter.com
** Special Note: As a special
welcome to the Center's Pub attendees, the Cabaña Hotel is extending
a discount for post-Pub networking! Please ask to receive a coupon
for a 10% discount off of beverages at the Crowne Plaza Cabaña Palo
Alto's bar applicable the night of the Pub.
DIRECTIONS TO THE CROWNE PLAZA CABANA HOTEL
From Highway 101 - North or South
- Take Highway 101 to San Antonio Road/Los Altos exit.
- Proceed on San Antonio west, approximately 2 miles.
- Turn right on El Camino Real and proceed 1/2 mile.
- Turn left at Dinah's Court stoplight into the Crowne Plaza
Cabaña hotel entrance.
- Parking is available in the front and back of the hotel. Ask
for the Cyprus Room.
From Highway 280 - North or South
- Take Highway 280 to the Page Mill Road exit.
- Proceed on Page Mill east, approximately 3 miles.
- Turn right onto El Camino Real.
- Continue for 1 mile to Dinah's Court stoplight.
- Turn right into the Crowne Plaza Cabaña hotel entrance.
- Parking is available in the front and back of the hotel. Ask
for the Cyprus Room.
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