Speakers

Cathy Young

Cathy Young

Catharine Young was named executive director of the New York State Center of Excellence for Food and Agriculture in March 2019. A longtime champion of agricultural and economic development, Catharine served for 20 years in the New York State Legislature representing western New York. During that time, she chaired the Senate Agriculture Committee, founded the …

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Alan Rae

Alan Rae

Alan Rae is the director of the University at Buffalo’s New York State Center of Excellence in Materials Informatics (CMI). He is also the co-executive director of Incubator Works and was the interim director for the New York State Center for Advanced Ceramic Technology at Alfred University from 2017-2018. Company Website

Devon Shipp

Devon Shipp

Prof. Devon A. Shipp is currently full Professor in the Department of Chemistry & Biomolecular Science, and Director of the Center for Advanced Materials Processing (CAMP). He completed a B.Sc. (Hons) in chemistry (1993), and then Ph.D. (1998) at the University of Melbourne (Australia). He then accepted the Bayer Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Carnegie Mellon …

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John Cerveny

John Cerveny

John Cerveny is the Director of Resource Development for NY-BEST where he leads efforts to make connections between and among members, funding sources and the community at large. Cerveny manages the NY-BEST BRIDGE program that serves as a virtual incubator for energy storage companies and startups. Immediately prior to his work with NY-BEST, he was …

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Melissa Tallman

Melissa Tallman

Melissa Tallman is the Innovare Community Curator at Griffiss Insititute. She sits on the executive team, and leads the events and marketing division while reinforcing brand integrity. Her focus is building community and elevating STEM talent and tech accelerators. Melissa has over 14 years of entrepreneurship experience, pushing the boundaries to expand her business ventures …

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Olga Petrova

Olga Petrova

Olga Petrova manages a suite of technology commercialization, entrepreneurship, and business development initiatives at Binghamton University, having secured funding for and launched a number of high-tech accelerator programs that support technology transfer and startup growth in the region and across Upstate New York. As the Deputy Regional Economic Competitiveness Officer for New Energy New York, …

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Cully Patch

Cully “Monk” Patch

Cully Patch is a Senior Program Manager for Cybersecurity and Intelligence at Quanterion Solutions, Inc. and currently provides technical planning, resource management/coordination, customer outreach, and advisory assistance to cybersecurity-oriented customers. He is currently assisting to develop an end-to-end IoT Living Laboratory environment that will allow for open, cloud-based hosting and testing of IoT devices and …

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John Mackowiak

John Mackowiak

With an ardent interest in finance, economic development and innovation, John uses his many years of communication experience to lead The Martin Group’s public relations department, while planning and implementing strategic PR solutions for clients like M&T Bank, New Era Cap, FuzeHub and NYSTAR. Beginning his career as print journalist, John served as Communications Director …

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Reg Harnish

Reg Harnish

Reg Harnish is a nationally recognized cybersecurity veteran, investor, board member, advisor, speaker, author and the CEO of OrbitalFire. Reg is also the founder and former CEO of GreyCastle Security, a former Executive Vice President at the Center for Internet Security and the former CTO of Autotask. OrbitalFire is a leading cybersecurity services provider focused …

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Harvey Tian

Harvey Tian

Harvey Tian, PhD, is a co-founder and CEO of Inso Biosciences, a Cornell University spinout developing hardware systems and automation tools to streamline genomic sample preparation. Dr. Tian completed his doctorate training in Harold Craighead’s research group at Cornell University, where Pacific Biosciences (NASDAQ: PACB) also originated, and co-founded Inso Biosciences along with Professor Emeritus …

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