World class mentoring for emerging technologies...
by investors and licensees, for investors and licensees
The WBTshowcase is the nation's premier event showcasing the largest collection of vetted and mentored companies and technologies emanating from top universities, labs, research institutions, and the private sector from across the country and around the globe.
Come and discover why WBT is widely recognized for having the highest quality seed and early stage deals. One in three WBT presenters goes on to secure venture funding, license their technology, or sell their IP outright, representing over $450 Million raised to date.
WBT2010 Agenda Now Available
The WBT2010 features over 100 investor ready deals, 3 tracks of sessions, ETF's Top 20, 3rd Annual WBT & IC2 Business Plan Competition, Pre-Event Workshops, Pre-WBT Networking, SIGMA Presentation: The World's Best Technologies -- 2010 and Beyond and more.
View the Full Agenda and Join Us in Welcoming Keynote Speakers:
 Arlan Andrews, Founder, SIGMA |  Zachary Lemnios, Director, Defense Research and Engineering, Department of Defense |
 Marc Stanley, NIST Acting Deputy Director |  Douglas Comstock, Director of the Innovative Partnerships Program, NASA |
Pre-selected Presenter Spotlight
Want a sneak peek? Check out the Early Picks
FibeRio. A new, potentially disruptive technology developed at The UT-Pan American (UTPA) is spinning out of the lab – centrifugally.
Known as ForceSpinning™ technology, the apparatus and method developed by UTPA mechanical engineers Drs. Karen Lozano and Kamalaksha Sarkar utilize centrifugal force to transform a material into nanoscale fibers read more...
Human Network Labs. The next big thing in mobile technology and social networking? Multi-use peer-to-peer localization technology, embedded within a phone or a laptop, that finds the precise location of your friends, triggers alarms as people or objects (say, children or cars) move beyond a specific distance threshold, and even hyperlinks physical objects like storefronts to Web pages.
This is the goal of the PixieEngine™, a new wireless-based mobile platform by Philadelphia based Human Network Labs, Inc. The PixieEngine™ uses radio-frequency technology that requires no infrastructure to identify the precise angle, location and distance apart of people and objects within 200 meters with accuracy of less than one meter. read more...