2024 NC SBIR Showcase
Highlighting Success, Sharing Best Practices
September 13, 2024 | 1:00 PM to 4:30 PM | Hybrid
Complimentary Insights from Expert Panelists
This complimentary, half-day series of panel presentations will feature SBIR grant winning companies sharing lessons learned; reverse pitch/advice from SBIR Program Managers at federal agencies; SBIR/STTR program overview and the real story on the odds of winning SBIR grants - all to benefit founders and companies in the SBIR non-dilutive funding space and beyond.
Location: In person at First Flight or via Zoom.
Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84852215684
AGENDA
1:00 – 1:10 Welcome –
Krista Covey, President, First Flight Venture Center
1:15-2:45- Investor PanelTimely & Timeless Investor Insights- Beyond SBIR/STTRsModerator: Mary Musacchia, RTP Angel Fund, First Flight Navigator
Shawna Cannon Lemon, IP Attorney, Angel Investor
Robbie Hardy, Mentor Capitalist
Lister Delgado, Managing Partner | IDEA Fund Partners
Pat Gouhin, CEO,Angel Capital Association
2:45-3:00- Break/ Switch over to breakout rooms3:00-3:30- Dave Oury- Medical Leverage presentation
3:00 – 3:30 Randy Simpson- Tech Opp presentation3:30- Krista Covey FAST Highlight3:30–4:00- Ecosystem Panel-
Eva Garland, CEO/President, Eva Garland Consulting, SBIR Program 2024-2025
John Hardin, NC Commerce
Ramya Vijapurapu and Andrea Giska, SBTDC
Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84852215684
PROGRAM BACKGROUND
First Flight Venture Center, North Carolina’s premier science and technology incubator, is hosting a half-day celebration to highlight the achievements of NC companies in the non-dilutive funding arena through the US Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs - America’s largest seed fund.
First Flight has since 2018, implemented the SBA’s Federal and State Technology (FAST) Partnership Program and this 2024 SBIR Showcase is part of the FAST program designed to support a diverse portfolio of startups and small businesses across technology areas and markets to stimulate technological innovation. It will bring together members of the innovation ecosystem to focus on efforts to increase the number of competitive proposals and winning SBIR grants to advance the work of early stage, science-focused companies.