REVISED 7/2/07
Creating Knowledge-Based Partnerships:
Challenges and Opportunities
November 2, 2007
Clayton Hall, University of Delaware
Conference Purpose
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Engage university, government and business leaders in the challenges and
opportunities for partnership.
Highlight opportunities for enhanced future partnerships.
Conference Sponsorship
Co-sponsored by:
• University of Delaware
• Governor’s Office
• Business Roundtable
• State Chamber of Commerce
• Delaware Public Policy Institute
• News Journal
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PLEASE NOTE: Speakers have not yet been finalized and
some have not yet been invited
Creating Knowledge-Based Partnerships:
Challenges and Opportunities
DRAFT Conference Agenda
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Registration and Breakfast
8:30 am – 8:40 am
Welcome & Introduction of Governor: President Patrick
Harker
8:40 am – 9:00 am
Opening Remarks: Governor Ruth Ann Minner
Introduction of Speaker: President Patrick Harker
9:00 am – 10:00 am
Keynote Speaker: Chad Holliday, Chairman and CEO, Du Pont;
Executive Committee for the National Academies Report State
of US Science and Technology; Member of the Executive Board
of the National Business Roundtable and Chairman of the Task
Force on Environment, Technology, and the Economy
“Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and
Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future”
10:00 am – 10:15 am
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Break
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Responses to Keynote Speaker: Challenges and Opportunities
10:15 am – 11:15 am
11:15 am – 11:30 am
Moderator: Dan Rich, UD Provost
Respondents:
• John Carney, Lt. Governor and Chair of the Delaware
Science and Technology Council
• Representative Mike Castle
• Ernie Dianastasis, Managing Director, CAI Inc. and
Chairman of Delaware Business Roundtable and
Chairman of Board of First State Innovation:
Accelerating Delaware’s Entrepreneurial Economy
• Skip Schoenhals, Chairman, Vision 2015; Chairman,
Delaware Public Policy Institute; Chairman, Wilmington
Savings Fund Society
Break
Panel A: Finance, Corporate Governance & the Delaware
Advantage
Moderator: Bobby Gempesaw, Dean, UD Lerner College of
Business & Economics
11:30 am – 12:30 pm
12:30 pm – 1:45 pm
Comments begin at
~ 1:30 pm
1:45 pm – 2:00 pm
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Participants:
• John Cochran, Marketing Executive, Bank of America
Card Services
• Charles Elson, Director, Weinberg Center for Corporate
Governance, UD
• Jack Markell, Delaware State Treasurer
• Myron Steele, Chief Justice, Delaware Supreme Court
• TBD (Identified by Dr. Harker), Goldman Sachs
Lunch
Comments/Future Steps: Dr. Patrick Harker, “The Role of
Higher Education”
Break
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Panel B (concurrent with Panel C): Alternative Energy
Options
Moderator: Carolyn Thoroughgood, UD Vice Provost for
Research and Graduate Studies
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Participants:
• Mark Barteau, Chair, UD Chemical Eng (Director,
University Institute for Energy and Sustainable
Resources)
• John Byrne, Director, UD Center for Energy and
Environmental Policy
• Senator Tom Carper (federal priorities in alternative
energy)
• Marty Ross, President and Founder, Mid-Atlantic Biodiesel
• CEO, Community Energy, Inc.
Panel C (Concurrent with Panel B): Life Sciences
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
3:30 pm – 3:45 pm
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Moderator: Tom Apple, UD Dean of Arts and Sciences
Participants:
• Barbara Alving, Director, NIH National Center for
Research Resources
• Robert Barchi, President, Thomas Jefferson University
• Bob Laskowski, President and CEO, Christiana Care
Health System or Nick Petrelli, Medical Director, Helen
F Graham Cancer Center
• David Weir, Director, Delaware Biotechnology Institute
• Tony Zook, President and CEO, Astra-Zeneca US
Break
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Panel D (Concurrent with Panel E): Environmental and
Agricultural Partnerships
Moderator: Robin Morgan, Dean, UD College of Agriculture
and Natural Resources
3:45 pm – 5:15 pm
Participants:
• John Bedbrook, du Pont VP R&D Ag & Nutrition or
Jeffrey Bross, President, Duffield Associates
[environmental firm]
• John Hughes, Secretary, DNREC
• Jim Perdue, Chairman & CEO, Perdue Farms
Incorporation
• Don Sparks, Director, UD Center for Critical Zone
Research
• Nancy Targett, Dean, College of Marine and Earth
Studies
• TBD, NOAA
Panel E (Concurrent with Panel D): Advanced Materials
Moderator: Eric Kaler, Dean, UD College of Engineering
3:45 pm – 5:15 pm
5:15 – 6:30 pm
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Participants:
• Gary Calabrese, Vice President & Chief Technology
Officer, Rohm & Haas
• Tom Connelly, du Pont Materials Executive Vice
President and Chief Innovation Officer
• Jack Gillespie, Director, UD Center for Composite
Materials
• Terry Kelly, CEO, W.L. Gore
• TBD, National Science Foundation
Reception
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