1st GLOBAL INOVIZ CONFERENCE
IZMIR FOR HEALTH
MAY 24-25 2010
ESBAŞ TECHNOLOGY CENTER CONFERENCE HALL
GAZIEMIR, IZMIR, TURKEY 

PROGRAM

Second Day-May 25, Tuesday

09:00    SEARCH SESSION I: INDUSTRIAL R&D INTEGRATED INTERNATIONAL ADVANCED EDUCATION IN LIFE SCIENCES AND HEALTH TECHNOLOGIES
Co-Chairs: Fazilet Vardar Sukan, Director, EBILTEM and Chair, Bioengineering, Ege University & Aristidis Veves, Harvard University
Search Moderator: Oğuz Babüroğlu, President, Arama and Sabancı University
Keynotes:

• Julie Mostov, Director, International Programs, Drexel University
• Hasan Mandal, Vice Rector, Anadolu University and Chair, Global Engineering Deans’ Council
• Semahat S. Demir, Biomedical Engineering Program Director, National Science Foundation and US Embassy Science Fellow, Ankara

Invited discussant list appended below.
10:30    COFFEE BREAK
11:00    SEARCH SESSION II: ENTERPRENEURIAL TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
Co-Chairs: Vedat Kunt, President, VEGO Consulting & Serdal Temel, Aegean University – EBILTEM, EBIC-EGE Project Manager
Search Moderator: Oğuz Babüroğlu, President, Arama and Sabancı University
Keynotes:

• Melda Uzbil, Director and Senior Lecturer, Duke-Coulter Translational Partnership Department of Biomedical Engineering and Associate Director, Duke Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization, Duke University
• Elena Canetti, Vice President Research Collaborations, Yissum
• Davood Tashayyod, Coulter Project Director, Drexel University and CEO, fNIR Systems

Invited discussant list appended below.
12:30    LUNCH
13:30 – 17:30    MEDICAL BROKERAGE EVENT
18:00    CLOSING                                                                                                                 

Invited Discussants

• Volkan Bodur, Founder, Done Genetik
• Tamer Demiralp, Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience, Istanbul University
• M. Kaan Dericioğlu, President, Ankara Patent Bureau
• Selçuk Geçim, Hacettepe Technopark
• Gül Güner, Dokuz Eylül University
• Bilge Karaçalı, Izmir Institute of Technology
• Arda Karaduman, Head of Business Development, MENE Research
• Uğur Özbek, Research Projects Coordination Unit, Istanbul University
• Murat Özgören, Faculty of Medicine, Dokuz Eylül University
• Serhat Pabuccuoğlu, Istanbul University
• Mustafa Sabuncu, Dokuz Eylül University
• Yağız Üresin, İstanbul University
• Mehmet Kuntalp, Dokuz Eylül University
• Rami Seliktar, Drexel University
• Elliot Sloane, Director, Health System Engineering, Drexel University
• Azmi Telefoncu, Ege University