PORT connects
PORT connects is an international event where we will discuss bridging science with business. Focusing on building start-ups and how technology transfer centres can help scientists introduce their ideas to the market.
We invite you to participate in our joint conference ATAM & MASCA 2024.
Dates:
5th– 6th June 2024
Venue:
Innovation tent
Łukasiewicz – PORT
Stabłowicka 147,
54-066 Wroclaw
Meet our keynote speakers
Marta Zgagacz
Senior Director
Venture Partners at CU Boulder
Marta is a Senior Director for Venture Partners at CU Boulder, where she and her team work with university inventors to commercialise their research. With the help of a variety of programmes developed by Venture Partners, the University of Colorado hit its record high of 25 startups in 2021, 5th most in the United States.
Prior to joining the University of Colorado, Marta co-founded and developed FuturaGene, a university spin-off that went public on AIM in London and was ultimately sold to Suzano. She also worked for D-Helix, another biotech startup based on technologies licensed from several universities around the world. Before she became involved in university spin-offs, she worked at the Collider Detector at Fermilab experiment that was searching for the recently discovered Higgs Boson.
Marta is a physicist by training and earned her B.S. degree in Physics from Rutgers University and her M.S. degree in Physics from Purdue University.
Joris Jansen
Tech Scouting
HighTechXL
Joris enjoys working where cutting edge technologies meet innovative entrepreneurs, so working on the Tech Scouting team at HighTechXL is a perfect fit for him. Joris and team assess promising technologies for application and economic and impact potential.
Joris earned his B.S. degree in Applied Science from Fontys University and his M.S. degree in Innovation management from Eindhoven University of Technology.
Joris is driven to find the best deep tech to help ventures make a positive impact on the world.
Check out the program on PORT connects
| 5th June | |
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| 9:00 – 15:00 | Registration (1st floor, building A) |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | Welcome speech: Alicja Bachmatiuk and Bartłomiej Ciążyński (Łukasiewicz – PORT) |
| 10:15 – 11:00 | Key note: Marta Zgagacz (CU Boulder, USA) |
| 11:00 – 11:50 | Panel 1: Anatomy of a start-up – needs and blind spots Guests: Jakub Rybka (SpinBionic), Filip Granek (XTPL), Agata Szczeszak (Lumekko), Artur Podhorodecki (QNA) Moderator: Szymon Kwiatkowski (EiT InnoEnergy) |
| 11:50 – 12:00 | Coffee break and networking |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Panel 2: Challenges of a start-up: how to make it work? Guests: Agnieszka Młodzińska-Granek (SWPS), Igors Berkovics (Biocatalyst Foundation), Iva Machova (i&i Prague), Paweł Modrzyński (Nanores), Moderator: Tomasz Zachwieja (Innovations Hub) |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch and networking |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Start-ups: session for young scientists Guests: QNA, XTPL, SpinBionic, Nanores, Lumekko, Astroglial (short pitch + speed dating for young scientist) Moderator: Bertrand Dupont (Łukasiewicz – PORT) |
| 17:00 – … | BBQ/ dinner and networking |
| 6th June | |
|---|---|
| 10:00 – 11:00 | Key note: Joris Jansens (HighTechXL, Netherlands) |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee break and networking |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Presentation: Agnieszka Suchwałko (QuantUp) |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Panel 3: To invest or not to invest? Guests: Szymon Kwiatkowski (EiT InnoEnergy), Joris Jansens (HTXL), Alexiej Korabovski (Commercialization Reactor), Szymon Górak (WP2 Investments) Moderator: Krzysztof Szczepaniak (Łukasiewicz – PORT) |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch and networking |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Presentation: Krzysztof Maternicki (PACTT) |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | Panel 4: Tech transfer – help or hassle Guests: Marta Zgagacz (CU Boulder), Alexiej Korabovski (Commercialization Reactor), Jakub Rybka (SpinBionic), Krzysztof Maternicki (PACTT), Bernd Rathmer (TU Dortmund) Moderator: Krzysztof Szczepaniak (Łukasiewicz – PORT) |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Closing remarks – Katarzyna Kowal (Łukasiewicz – PORT) |
| 16:00 – … | Networking (match-making sessions available) |