About Workshop

Tech Transfer is when an advanced capability industry, like aerospace, transfers their knowledge and findings to the commercial sector. There are many different types of transfer programs. Ours grants access to real engineer to help solve product development issues.

There are people whose jobs are to take innovative technology and help it improve the commercial sector. Hear from a professional who works in this field.

Small business has been receiving free assistance from SATOP since 1999. Many have sold rights, gone to manufacturing or scaled their business. These are some of their stories told by Lissa Blackert, PhD, the SATOP Technical Specialist who screens all of our requestors.

Guided worksheet activity to help you exercise your creative thinking skills. You’ll have access to people who work in innovation, able to ask them questions and learn to approach problem-solving in a new way.

Many people come into product development with a brilliant idea, but businesses take more than an idea. Longevity and success partly lie in understanding the lifecycle of any product you want to sell. Hear from Amy Reid, regional director of the SBA and UH SBDC.

Once you have a product, you have to pitch your product. Pitching skills can make or break potential funding from investors. How do you convey the value of your product? Learn from Mayra Delgado, Tech Transfer Expansion & Commercialization Program and AA2 Business Development & Technology Integration Office at NASA Johnson Space Center on how to develop an effective pitch.

You’ve learned a lot in the last two hours. You deserve a treat. During our break you’ll have the opportunity to talk to our speakers. Pitch Practice sign up is open after Session II. The best thing you can do is get exposure and get advice.

You have a solution you’ve been workshopping, maybe it’s all new to you and you got this idea in Session I, or maybe it’s an idea you’ve had in your head for a while. Now is your chance to talk about it. Exposure is the best way to improve. Pitch your solution and hear back from our panel. Our pitch panel has some familiar faces from the workshop, as well as a few more with applicable perspectives to give. Either way, you’ll walk away with some advice that can serve you in the future.

To wrap everything up, we’ll have some resources for you to continue your entrepreneurship journey.