Companies are invited to contact ASME to reserve their corporate sponsorship. Email: nano@asme.org or call 1-212-591-7789.

CONFERENCE PRODUCERS

Oceanit Inc. is a diversified science and engineering company whose clients include private businesses and leading government organizations. It employs over 100 scientists, engineers and professionals on Oahu, Maui and Kauai. Oceanit has built a reputation for developing innovative solutions to complex global problems for the ocean, earth, space, and medical fields. Oceanit has four strategic business units - Aerospace, Consulting Engineering, Information Technology, and Life Sciences. These business units act as incubators where engineering and science is brought together in cross-collaborating teams to produce a broad range of dual-use technologies. Oceanit's cross-disciplinary approach combined with government research funding produces a stream of hybrid technologies and engineering services that solve clear and compelling problems for the US government and non-military commercial customers.

Hawaii Nanotechnology Laboratory (HNL) is carrying out research projects including nanostructure (nanowires, single-walled and multi-walled nanotubes) synthesis, nanocomposites, hierarchical and three-dimensional nanocomposites, structural characterization, properties measurements and modeling, as well as potential applications. Chemical vapor deposition method is used to produce vertically aligned carbon nanotube films/coatings and other structures. This method can be scaled up to make large-area patterned nanotube arrays for various applications, with controlled nanotube length, orientation, and distribution. A variety of meso-scale three-dimensional architectures consisting of nanotubes with multiple lengths lying along different directions have been constructed. We are working on the multifuncitonality aspects of 3D nanocomposites as related to the structural damping, thermoelastic response dimensional stability, thermal management, electrical conductivity, and through-the-thickness properties. HNL is also pursuing applications in nanostructure reinforced composites, energy storage and conversion, alternative energy, environmental protection, and biological sensors.

CONFERENCE SPONSORS

NanoGram Corporation is a world leading developer and licensor of technology enabling the manufacture of unique nanoscale compositions for applications in optical, imaging, electronic, and energy devices and products. In its development laboratories and pilot plants, the company has developed extensive intellectual property that is expanding the boundaries of nanomaterials technologies. The results of this work are enabling the development and manufacturing of new generations of materials, devices, components and applications. Technology developed at NanoGram is in use today at multiple market-focused leading manufacturers.

Omega is a pioneer in the exploration of the world of Nanorobotics. Nanorobotics opens a new world without walls where words are not required. The probability exists that Nanorobots are capable of communications or can clean up of chemical and biological hazards. Nanorobots could be used to restore our eco systems, remove water pollutants or even repair the hole in our ozone layer. Perhaps, even one day nanorobots will allow us to remove cancer cells and swim like a dolphin without an external air supply.

Come join us on this incredible journey where the here and now becomes the future!

NANOVENTURE SPONSORS

Vantage Counsel LLC builds companies, with legal expertise in the areas of corporate, securities, finance, mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property, real estate, technology contracting, general business and corporate governance. Like the companies we represent, we are committed to building sustainable businesses and creating rewarding jobs in Hawai’i. As its core values, Vantage Counsel LLC strives to maintain the highest ethical standards, provides value add legal solutions, seeks innovation for all aspects of client service, including the use of leading edge technology and resources and alternate fee arrangements, and continually sharpens its legal expertise to ensure clients receive the highest standard of quality of work, skill and judgment. In additional to the legal tools, Vantage Counsel LLC offers other resources to build companies, including a wide network of contacts in the investor, institutional, professional and venture capital communities.

The Hawaii Venture Capital Association, established in 1988, is Hawaii’s oldest public sector organization devoted to entrepreneurship and economic development. Our mission is to foster entrepreneurial development through education, networking and access to venture capital. The organization sponsors monthly educational luncheon seminars and participates in activities and events in support of Hawaii’s growing science and technology industries.

Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC has more than 550 attorneys and government relations professionals practicing throughout the United States, with offices in Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Philadelphia, Alexandria, New York, Buffalo, Washington, D.C., Miami, Aventura, Tampa, Wilmington, Princeton, Newark, Cleveland, San Diego and Silicon Valley.

Effective July 1, 2006, Buchanan Ingersoll PC and Klett Rooney Lieber & Schorling PC merged to form Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC. The merger made the combined firm one of the 80 largest in the country. Buchanan has undergone a series of acquisitions and additions during the past 18 months, including: government relations boutique Hill Solutions; a group of nine litigators from Saul Ewing; the 55 attorneys and patent professionals of Burns, Doane, Swecker & Mathis; a team of IP and business litigators in San Diego; a group of three government relations professionals in Washington, D.C.; a group of seven high-profile tax and immigration lawyers in Miami; and the litigation boutique of Slotnick, Shapiro & Crocker in New York.

Buchanan's attorneys have experience in industries that include entertainment and media, pharmaceuticals and biomedicine, nanotechnology, financial institutions, construction, franchise and real estate. Within these and other industries, Buchanan attorneys focus on more than 65 practice areas including Corporate Finance, Litigation, Intellectual Property, Tax, Government Relations, Health Care and Labor & Employment. The firm serves national and international clients that include Fortune 500 corporations, start-ups, technology companies and financial institutions.

FOUNDING SPONSORS

DBEDT works to support business, create jobs, and improve Hawaii's standard of living. It primarily serves Hawaii's extensive small business community with economic development services that would not otherwise be available. In addition, DBEDT serves as a catalyst to:

• Formulate and implement business development strategies;
• Organize business trade and investment missions;
• Provide core information for emerging firms;
• Encourage technology industry development and expansion;
• Cultivate Asia-Pacific business opportunities; and
• Publish and disseminate statistical and economic research reports.

MEDIA SPONSORS

Nanowerk is a leading nanotechnology information portal. Apart from its unique Nanomaterial Database™, with over 1,300 products from 90 suppliers, it provides the most complete nanotech events calendar; hundreds of links to universities, labs, researchers, associations, networks and international initiatives involved in nanotechnology; daily news; downloadable reports; and much more. The site includes a daily "Spotlight" section featuring Nanowerk-exclusive reviews and summaries of cutting-edge nanotechnology research by guest authors and Nanowerk editors. Nanowerk also publishes the nanoRISK newsletter - a constructive contribution to the debate about the potential risks of nanotechnology.