The Nanotech Business Summit – Egypt

The Nanotech Business Summit is the first forum of its kind to facilitate the integration of nanotech products into the global economy by connecting middle eastern capital with small tech innovations.

The Nanotech Business Summit to take place from 5 - 6 Dec. 2009 in Cairo, Egypt.

The Summit offers numerous networking opportunities for business executives, venture capitalists, investors, financiers, and researchers to connect with key players and build stronger ventures both regionally and internationally. The forum will provide presentations by renowned speakers, business-matchmaking services, a panel to address Middle Eastern Research and Industry Needs, and a Nano-Networking Village, in addition to a host of other networking opportunities.

AbOUT NanoTech Business Summit (NBS)

NBS ‘09 aims to facilitate global nanotech uptake by connecting international researchers and industry visionaries with investment dollars. The conference brings together senior business leaders and world-renowned innovators to explore the ways that nanotechnology will become the next big growth innovation. Nanotechnology will produce fundamental physical, biological, material and instrumentation advancements that will have a major impact across multiple sectors. Traditional industries such as textiles, telecommunications, computing, petrol, transportation, and medicine are poised to be revolutionized by this coming wave of technology.

The Conference Provides Many Opportunities

• Provide access to one of the world’s most dynamic growth markets and immense pools of low-cost human resources.

• Maximize visibility and gain a foothold in emerging markets.

• Navigate the new Nanotech IP landscape.

• Show powerful strategies for commercializing nanotechnology.

• Assess business potential and the competitive landscape.

• Deliver an in-depth analysis of [...]-edge nanotech trendsand developments by top experts.

• Forge strong and profitable global alliances.

• Develop the skills needed to initiate nanotech ventures.

• Secure investment.

The Middle East is a region of change and is open for business. The summit seeks to be an incubator of new ideas to explore how nanotechnology can help develop the region both economically and socially, and bring new international business and technology relationships to the region.

Speakers

Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb (SabryCorp Ltd. Cairo, Egypt)

Mostafa Analoui (The Livingstone Group & Charlesson Pharmaceuticals, NY, USA)

Scott Rickert (President and CEO of Nanofilm, Ohio USA)

Peter Hatto (IonBond Limited, UK)

Péter Krüger (Bayer MaterialScience AG, Germany)

Marek Michalewicz, Quantum Precision Instruments, Asia

Reyad I. Sawafta (QuarTek Corporation, USA)

Peter Stewart (Curtis, NY, USA)

Organizers

NBS '09 is organized by SabryCorp, a nanoconsultancy firm with offices both in Munich Germany and in Cairo, Egypt that aims to provide strategic advice for nanotech commercialization and best practices for Middle Eastern companies and for international companies aiming to bring their nanotech products and expertise to the Middle East.