Investment provides the life-blood for initiating, maturing and implementing new MNT-based systems. Speakers will provide a summary of the priorities of government program managers in developing and funding new MNT programs. They will describe the selection criteria, metrics used for assessing progress, program duration, and transition strategy for new MNT concepts.

Minoo Dastoor, US Navy and Jean-Louis Robert, French Ministry

James Murday, US Navy
“Progress in Nanotechnology toward Aerospace Applications”

Private investors and program managers will provide a summary of the priorities of private fund managers in the selection and funding of early stage MNT business plans. Speakers will describe the selection criteria, metrics used for assessing progress, typical funding cycle duration, and exit strategy for investment.

Jean Chazelas, Thales and Andrew Quintero, Aerospace Corporation

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Speakers will provide attendees with a summary of governmental investment into high maturity materials and systems, leading to procurement actions. A description will be given of the selection criteria, metrics used for assessing progress, program duration, and strategy for infusing these technologies into aerospace applications.

Michel Labrunee, CNES and Guy Ladequis, Canadian Embassy

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Speakers will provide a summary of the priorities of private fund managers in the selection and funding of late stage (high maturity) technology business plans. Speakers will describe the selection criteria, metrics used for assessing progress, typical funding cycle duration, and exit strategy for the investment.

Brian Dunaway, Boeing and Sean Neylon, Colibrys

Jacques Leclerc, Thales

Speakers will provide attendees with a summary of international collaborations, bringing together complementary core competencies from across organizations from many countries, in developing new MNT concepts to a proof-of-principle level of maturity. Speakers will describe the issues to be considered in protecting intellectual property rights, moving material, data and products across nations. Both successful and failed collaborations will be examined to review the respective root causes of success or failure.

Minoo Dastoor, NASA Exploration and Denis Gardin, EADS

Lou Hermans, IMEC

Speakers will provide attendees with a summary of international collaborations, bringing together complementary core competencies from across organizations from many countries, in developing high maturity materials and systems for aerospace applications. Speakers will describe the issues to be considered in protecting intellectual property rights, moving material, data and products across nations. Both successful and failed collaborations will be examined to review the respective root causes of success or failure.

Jean Pierre Fortea, CNES and Pedro Medelius, NASA-KSC

Daniel Ludwig, Galileo Consortium
“Galileo: From a worldwide hyper system to local nano-technologies”

The CEO's and CTO's of the major aerospace and defence manufacturers will debate and discuss the potential infusion of the emerging nano-technologies into the next generation of their aircraft, spacecraft, and defence applications. They will discuss how the aerospace community can influence future MNT investment by government agencies and private capital. The policy-makers will debate and discuss the issues related to the implementation of these international collaborations between the three regions. They will discuss how current national and international policy agreements can be formulated to achieve this vision. The panel composition includes CEO's and Presidents of Aerospace companies and Policy-makers from the USA, Europe and Japan.

Harry Armen, CTO of Northrop Grumman and ASME President and Jean-Marc Thomas, President of Airbus and Aerospace Valley

Robert Dean, SAIC