Tech Transfer Foundations
| Dates: | March 11, 2024 |
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| Meets: | Various |
| Location: | Online |
| Cost: | $200.00 |
There are still openings remaining at this time.
About
Tech Transfer Foundations Foundations will equip participants with the concepts and tools necessary to succeed as a competent ORTA in support of the DoD mission.
- Introduction to DOD Tech Transfer Processes
- Intellectual Property and Inventions
- Technology Disclosure and Inventor Management
- Invention Evaluation and IP Protection
- T2 Tools, Partnerships, Management, Reporting and Resources
Important Dates
Online Start Date: Monday March 11, 2024
Online End Date: Friday May 10, 2024
In-person Capstone Event: 14-15 May, 2024 in Arlington, VA
Registration
You may register using the link above ONLY.
| Fee: | $200.00 |
Online
This is a real-time (live) online class that meets at the specified day(s)/time(s) listed.We will send you a reminder email with login instructions one business day before the program start date. If there are additional sessions, we will send reminders the morning of those sessions.
Amanda Horansky-Mckinney
Amanda served as the Head of the Office of Technology Transfer at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) for more than 5 years. In this role, she was responsible for NRL's research-focused collaborations and related partnerships with industry and academia as well as the licensing and management of NRL's intellectual property portfolio of over 1200 active patents. Prior to this role, she served in both senior and junior Partnership Manager roles in Technology Transfer at NRL. She has served as a Member-at-Large on the Federal Lab Consortium (FLC) Executive Board and as the FLC Education and Training Committee Chair, responsible for the national-level training program for technology transfer professionals government-wide. Additionally, she was active in a number of Navy efforts in support of Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs), technology transfer training, and Navy-wide technology transfer strategy.Before joining NRL, Amanda worked in product line development strategy and consulting for Analog Devices, Inc. in Norwood, MA and as a design engineer on Motorola's first 3G cell phone hardware platform team in Chicago. She earned her Bachelors in Electrical Engineering at Purdue University and later received an MBA from Purdue.
Darin Oelkers
Darin is a Certified Licensing Professional (CLP™) with more than 23 total years as a business development professional focused on innovation commercialization. His broad professional background includes diverse experience in Fortune 100, independent business consultancy, and multiple non-profit settings. This is 18th year in technology transfer, encompassing US and UK federal laboratories, an American land grant R1 research university, and a graduate-only research university in Saudi Arabia. His licensing efforts have generated more than $600 million in total economic impact and supported 2,278 job years.He is an accomplished speaker and presenter. Darin's has served as a panelist for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and presented at the LES Annual Meeting, the joint LES/AUTM Spring Meeting, the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) National Meeting, and multiple U.S. Department of Defense Technology Transfer Training Workshops. He has also authored more than a dozen successful nominations for FLC and DoD technology transfer national awards.
Weekly Content
Online classes will be released each Monday, for a total of 15 classes over an nine-week period (11 March - 10 May. This allows participants to review course content throughout the week at times that work best for their individual schedule.
In-Person Capstone Event
Join course participants for the ninth and final week in Arlington, Virginia for two days of in-person learning and case study analysis 14-15 May.
Funding for capstone event travel is not included with course enrollment.