The DaVinci Institute is offering a special discount to readers of the Impact Lab for Tuesday’s Colorado Inventor Showcase in Denver.

For groups of two or more, people can register for the greatly discounted price of just $25 per person just by using the discount code "IMPACTLAB" - Register here

The event will include sessions to "Pitching the Product Scouts", and the "Champions of the Information Age".  One very exciting evening with all the right people to satisfy virtually any intellectual craving you might have.

• VIP Admission - $145 - Register here
• General Admission - Only $45 (Food & Refreshments Included) - Register here
• Members of the DaVinci Institute - Only $35 (Food & Refreshments Included) - Register here

  For groups of two or more, people can register for the greatly discounted price of just $25 per person just by using the discount code "IMPACTLAB" - Register here

• 3:30 - VIP Cocktail Reception.  Meet the inventors, meet the judges, meet the speakers. 
• 4:30 - Inventor Showcase begins
• 5:30 - "Pitching the Product Scouts".  Several companies are actively looking for new products and the people they have representing them are the "Product Scouts".  Come listen to the kinds of products they are searching for, and how to best present your product for their consideration. SPEAKERS:  Al Gebhard, Alex Burney, John Funk, Warren Roh (The Center Theater)
• 6:30 - "Show Me the Money".  Finding money to fund your invention can be very complicated.  There is no one-size-fits-all answer.  Here are the people who will answer your questions and help you find the money. - Donna Petrocco, Matt Warta, Ryan McIntyre, Rita Crompton (The Center Theater)
• 7:30 – "Champions of the Information Age"  The intellectual property world has a select few individual who really know and understand how to play the game well.  Join us for an eye-opening look at where the real opportunities lie.  SPEAKERS:  Scott Hovarter, Stuart Langley, Tom Franklin, Donald  Dulchinos  (The Center Theater)
8:30 - Prizes Announced.  Prizes will be awarded in a number of invention categories. (The Center Theater)

9:00 - Thank You For Attending - The event will end at approximately 9:00 with plenty of time for meeting and exchanging insights with other visionaries.

Celebrity Judges

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A number of key people in the business community, venture capital, and news media are being recruited to help judge the inventions being exhibited.

Stuart Langley Executive Counsel, Technology & Patents The Walt Disney Company	Drew Crouch Vice President, Strategic Development Ball Aerospace	Donna Petrocco President Valley Bank	Dave Taylor Founder Intuitive.com Senior Fellow DaVinci Institute	Wil McCarthey Editor for WIRED Magazine &  SciFi Channel Author of "Hacking Matter"	Bert Vermeulen Founder Corp 21 Senior Fellow DaVinci Institute
Ryan McIntyre Co-Founder of Excite.com Principal at Mobius Venture Capital	Al Lewis Business Columnist The Denver Post	Robert Schwab Editor ColoradoBiz Magazine	Suzanne Duret Author of "Inventing for Wealth"	Neil Westergaard Editor of the Denver Business Journal	Candy Campbell Publisher Colorado Company Magazine
Jim Ball Co-Founder Alpine Access Corporation	Allison Taylor Founder of Paravox	Casey Whisenhunt VP President Valley Bank	Michael Cushman Senior Fellow DaVinci Institute	Catharine Merigold General Partner at Vista Ventures	Roger Fillion Reporter Rocky Mountain News
Dane Coyer Vice President IBM	Paul Bauer Professor Information Technology and Electronic Commerce Univ of Denver	Chris Scoggins Venture Capitalist Sequel Ventures	Tony Kindelspire Business Editor Longmont Times Call	Joy Milkowski CEO Access Marketing	Matt Warta Venture Capitalist Village Ventures
Jared Polis Founder Jared Polis Foundation	Steve Baker Author "Pushing Water Uphill with a Rake"	Walter Wong Principal Technologist  Spectra Logic Corporation	John Funk Chief Product Scout Evergreen IP	Mike Sformo Radio Talk Show Host at WGUN in Atlanta	Tom Franklin Partner Townsend & Townsend & Crew
Ron Bills Former CEO of Segway	Greg Gorman Founder and President of Commotion	Mike Moore City of Denver	Teresa Rabenberg Financial Advisor Merrill Lynch	Jono Shuster Executive Directory of the Entrepreneurial Standards Forum	Steve Spangler Science Guy 9 News
Scott Hovarter Business Development Manger Lockheed Martin Space Systems	Alex Burney Founder Huge Consulting	Al Gebhard Serial Inventor	Donald  Dulchinos Senior Vice President CableLabs	Rita Crompton Founder of FLeCusa	Warren Roh Licensing Specialist and Partner  The Idea Place

RADIO SPONSOR - Mike Sformo


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Atlanta-based entrepreneur radio show host, Mike Sformo will be on hand interviewing inventors, attendees and judges.  "Radio conversations with entrepreneurs about how life can kick you from one side of the street to the next, and somehow, you just get back up and try it again."


 

SPEAKER - Thomas D. Franklin

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Thomas Franklin is an Intellectual Property Attorney with the firm of Townsend & Townsend & Crew, LLP.  Mr. Franklin’s practice focuses on patent prosecution, trademark prosecution, licensing and intellectual capital management. His technical experience is concentrated in the area of software, cryptographic design, VOIP, telecom, electronic system design, wireless data links, satellite transponders, and telemetry systems.

Prior to entering the field of law, Mr. Franklin spent several years working in semiconductor fabrication facilities at the Naval Ocean Systems Center and Hughes Aircraft and several more as a senior engineer for Lockheed Martin. At Lockheed, he was responsible for projects involving the design of complex wireless data links, digital circuits and encrypted data links. 

 

TV Sponsor - Steve Spangler from 9 News


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He’s been described as the guy who shoots potatoes, makes toilet paper fly, and mixes up a perfect batch of slime. But his new title of the "Mentos Guy" nudge out all of the others because of the recent popularity of his science experiments using the mint candy Mentos. If you’re linked to the outside world via the internet, you just might have watched one of the erupting Mentos videos. He’s just the guy who helped turn the Mentos Experiment into a pop culture phenomenon.

Steve Spangler Science, a Denver-based catalog and on-line business, is a think-tank of creative educators and science enthusiasts who have created hundreds of science education teaching tools and specialty toys. His mass-market division called Be Amazing! Toys manufacturers science toys and kits for retailers such as Toys R’ Us, the Discovery Channel Store and Target.

Over the last 15 years, Steve has made over 500 television appearances as an authority on inquiry-based learning. His cool science demonstrations and creative insights earned him an Emmy as the host of NBC television’s News for Kids. Steve continues to use the airwaves as his classroom to reach over a million viewers each week as the “Science Guy” on KUSA-TV 9NEWS and streaming at 9NEWS.COM

SPEAKER - Scott E. Hovarter 


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Scott E. Hovarter is currently Business Development Manager for Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company (SSC), Special Programs, (a new position within the past 6 months).  Prior to this position, he served for 5 years as the manager of Research and Development for SSC, and is currently the acting Chairman of the Space Systems Company Intellectual Property Review Board.  As R&D Manager and IP Board Chairman, his responsibilities focused the alignment of R&D projects with company strategies, and on the identification, capture and protection of intellectual property. 

Scott graduated from the University of Michigan in 1985 (B.S. Industrial & Operations Engineering), and from the University of Denver in 1992 (Masters of Business Administration).  He has 21 years experience in the Aerospace industry, spending the first years of his career as a Systems Engineer on the Titan II and Titan IV launch vehicle programs.  He then moved into Proposal Development, serving as Technical Lead for major proposal activities for the Titan Program.  Next, he assumed responsibility for the management of R&D for the company, as well as Chairmanship of the SSC Intellectual Property Review Board.  He is currently a Business Development Manager for Classified Programs, and continues as Chairman of the Intellectual Property Review Board for the company.

SPEAKER - Donald P. Dulchinos

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Donald Dulchinos is Senior Vice President, Advanced Platforms and Services, for CableLabs in Louisville, Colorado.  Mr. Dulchinos directs and manages the OpenCable project, an initiative of the cable television industry being managed through CableLabs with a goal of defining a family of advanced, interactive digital devices which support the range of current and future digital cable product offerings.  The family of devices includes set-top boxes, digital televisions, personal computers, and more.  Product offerings include interactive program guides, video on demand, interactive television, and more.

Before joining CableLabs, Mr. Dulchinos held various research and analysis positions, including director of research with the National Cable Television Association, where he specialized in technology assessment and strategic analysis of other telecommunications and information industries.

Mr. Dulchinos holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration from the University of Denver, and a B.A. in Economics from Union College in Schenectady, NY.



SPEAKER - Rita Crompton

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Rita Crompton:  Over the past twenty years, Ms. Crompton has started, or helped to start, no less than five successful businesses in four distinct and unrelated industries.   During the period between 1982 and 1994, Ms. Crompton formed, and ultimately served as CEO for, a cutting edge tutoring business and in the process created an organization that was to become the precursor of the Sylvan Learning Centers of today.

During the period 1995 through 2000, Ms. Crompton, together with several venture partners, formed Zoller Publishing, Inc., a publisher of family-oriented mysteries and entertainment novels.   Under Ms. Cromtpon’s leadership, during this period of time Zoller published three commercially successful novels, all three of which enjoyed not only commercial success but critical success as well and developed a substantial following in local markets such as Tulsa, Oklahoma and Denver, Colorado (where it was carried by the Tattered Cover Bookstore, among other retail bookstores).

Ms. Crompton’s current venture is FLeCusa, Inc.  FLeCusa, Inc helps clients seek funding, go to market, establish distribution networks, protect their intellectual property (through QCI), and essentially how to treat their invention like a business.


SPEAKER - Al Gebhard

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Al Gebhard, who has some 80 patents to his credit and dozens of other devices and products that aren’t patented, was the 2002 winner of the DaVinci Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

Gebhard has invented devices used in dozens of fields, including child care, health, marine, personal care and communications. He’s the creator of the first baby monitor devices produced by the Gerry Corp., the first umbrella stroller and the first front-carry baby carrier.

SPEAKER - Warren Roh


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Warren Roh is a Licensing Specialist and partner in The Idea Place, LLC. The Idea Place helps inventors and companies with patented inventions secure license agreements. The Idea Place, LLC also locates new products and serves as an out-source licensing resource for large corporate clients.

Warren, an aerospace engineer, served as a system, design engineer with Martin Marietta Aerospace, Inc. for over 20 years and as an independent inventor / entrepreneur for over 10 years. Warren has successfully licensed his own inventions in the U.S. and overseas. Warren holds
several U.S. and foreign patents, is a commercial flight instructor, and has authored books on aircraft navigation, ISO 9000 quality assurance standards, and industrial process design. Warren hosted a thirty-four week public television series entitled The Inventing Process. Warren and his partner, Scott Koepsell, have taught several courses on inventing and licensing to entrepreneurs, foreign dignitaries, and business executives.

Pictures from 2005

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