Chesapeake Crescent Initiative Second Annual Regional Innovation Summit & Open Board Meeting
November 18, 2009, 9:00am-3:00pm, Capitol Visitors Center, Washington, DC

The Chesapeake Crescent Initiative is proud to hold its Second Annual Regional Innovation Summit & Board Meeting. The exciting agenda includes the topics of: Integrating Resources of the Federal Government and the Region; Regional Commercialization Best Practices, with special case studies in Life Sciences and Cyber-security; Innovation in Homeland Security; and Developing a Comprehensive Approach to Energy in the Chesapeake Crescent Region.

Guest speakers and moderators include (in alphabetical order):

• Marcel Acosta, Executive Director, National Capital Planning Commission
• Keith Anderson, Director, D.C. Energy Office
• Mojdeh Bahar, J. D., M. A., CLP, Chief, Cancer Branch, Office of Technology Transfer, NIH
• Wes Blakeslee, Jr., Executive Director, JHU Office of Technology Transfer
• Xavier Brings, Associate Director, Office of Management and Budget, The White House
• General Wesley Clark
• Brian Darmody, Associate Vice President of Research and Economic Development, University System of Maryland
• Drew Pardol, Johns Hopkins University
• James Poulos, Vice President, Technology Transfer and Commercialization, TEDCO
• David Robertson, Executive Director, Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments
• The Honorable C.A. “Dutch” Ruppersberger (D-MD)
• Steve Walz, Director, Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy
• Malcolm Woolf, Director, Maryland Energy Administration

Open to the public. RSVP Required.
Please write to Lindsay Robbins at lindsay@websterconsulting.com as soon as possible and no later than November 11.

Event Information:
November 18, 2009, 9:30am-3:00pm
Capitol Visitors Center
Room to be Specified
http://www.visitthecapitol.gov/