Small Business and AFRL TH!NK Event

Description

If you are an entrepreneur, innovator, small business, scientist or researcher interested in collaborating with Federal Research Laboratories, come to the Doolittle Institute our first-ever Small Business and Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) TH!NK event. This open-house-style, free event offers opportunities to learn about collaborating with the government, meet other researchers, and for researchers to network with local small businesses or entrepreneurs.

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**8:00 - 11:00 A.M. – Donuts with DI. **8:45 A.M. – Opening Remarks from Dr. David Lambert, AFRL/RW Chief Scientist; and Carolyn Fries, Director of the Doolittle Institute. **9:00 A.M. – Innovation and Commercialization in AFRL with Ryan Helbach. Helbach, the Chief Intrapreneur at AFRL, will discuss Innovation and Commercialization opportunities within AFRL. **10:30 A.M. – Northwest Florida Forward Region Brief on Entrepreneurial Accelerator & Incubator Efforts in the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem. **11:00 A.M. – Lunch on your own **1:00 P.M. – SBIR/STRR Proposal Tips from Robert Foster with the University of West Florida. The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)/Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) are government programs designed to encourage small businesses, entrepreneurs, and others to take advantage of the commercialization opportunities within Federal research, such as that taking place in AFRL. Foster will cover Entrepreneurship & Innovation in Northwest Florida plus How to Write Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) proposals. **2:00 P.M. – Rapid Innovation Fund (RIF) overview with invited speaker Ted Bujewski & DEFENSEWERX overview **3:00 P.M. – Tech Warrior overview with David Shahady. Are you a small business or an entrepreneur with a physical prototype of a product you’d like to pitch to the military? Learn how SBIR and non-SBIR businesses can participate in Tech Warrior from David Shahady, the U.S. Air Force SBIR Program Director. **4:30 P.M. – Closing Remarks from DEFENSEWERX Executive Director Laurie Moncrieff **5:00 P.S. -- The Debrief: a Happy Hour to immediately follow Closing Remarks

====================About ====================

The Doolittle Institute, an AFRL Innovation Institute, supports the Air Force Research Labs Munitions Directorate (AFRL/RW) by working to license and commercialize AFRL/RW technologies in the private sector, enable rapid technology delivery to the warfighter, identify and foster new research & development partnerships, and develop AFRL’s current and future workforce. The Doolittle Institute is a member of the Defensewerx Family.