Harvard Office of Technology Development

May 1, 2019: Gordon Nameni, August Brown Managing Director, will be speaking at the Harvard University Office of Technology Development Bench-to-Business Boot camp. In the talk, Gordon will teach the August Brown Tech Translation Framework, which cover the basics of market sizing and the structure to place an existing or pending technology into an optimal, specific-application market to maximize adoption. The Bench-to-Business Boot Camp is a two-day workshop on May 1 and 2 for Harvard PhD students and postdocs, designed to teach the skills to recognize and drive the value of scientific and technological innovations into tangible, real-world applications.

5 Lakes Forum

May 14, 2019: Early stage companies and start ups! August Brown’s Managing Director, Gordon Nameni, will be speaking in a fireside chat format with Dr. Joe Hamann, Director of Advanced Engineering at Rexnord, at the 5 Lakes Forum in Milwaukee, WI. To find more information about the event, visit www.5LakesForum.org.

The University of Wisconsin School of Business / Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) Entrepreneuron Series

Dr. Gordon Nameni was invited to speak at the Entrepreneuron Series by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation at the University of Wisconsin of School of Business. Panelists included Michelle Somes-Booher, the director of the Wisconsin Small Business Development Center at UW–Madison and Asim Khan, co-founder of ZYN beverages. The panel discussion was moderated by Dan Olszewski, the director of the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship at the Wisconsin School of Business

https://www.warf.org/through-programs-and-events/for-inventors-entrepreneurs-and-researchers/entrepreneurons/february-28-2018-speakers/2-28-18.cmsx

The Force for Positive Change Conference, Hosted by Marquette University and the Morgridge Institute

Gordon Nameni and Joe Poeschl will led a break out session, “Taking the first steps to get your social venture off the ground” at the Force for Positive Change event on March 22.

https://www.warf.org/through-programs-and-events/for-inventors-entrepreneurs-and-researchers/force-for-positive-change/force-for-positive-change.cmsx

Harvard University Office of Technology Development Bench to Business Boot Camp

As part of a 2-day series of business training for the Harvard University Bench to Business Boot Camp sponsored by the Harvard Office of Technology Development, Dr. Gordon Nameni for BCC Research, led session 3 on the first day with a talk titled, “Assumption Storming for New Applications and Defining Market Opportunities”.

https://otd.harvard.edu/events/

2017 Ceramics Business and Leadership Summit

On behalf of BCC Research, Gordon gave a talk titled, “Business Intelligence – How to Dissect a Market Opportunity” to a group of 30+ in the ceramics industry at the 6th Ceramic Business and Leadership Summit sponsored by the American Ceramic Society.

http://ceramics.org/category/ceramic-tech-today/manufacturing