ANN ARBOR ? Great Lakes Entrepreneur?s Quest will video broadcast its next panel discussion, focused on the Venture Michigan Fund, on April 21 using technology developed by Internet2, the next generation of the Internet.
State Treasurer Jay Rising and Douglass Diggs, director of community and economic development at Detroit Renaissance, will discuss their thoughts, roles and expectations on the Venture Michigan Fund. Rising has yet to name the Fund Manager despite promising to do so six months ago.
The panel, called Venture Capital and the Economic Impact of the Venture Michigan Fund, is scheduled for April 21 at the new MITC (Michigan Information Technology Center) building, 1000 Oakbrook Drive in Ann Arbor. It is co sponsored by the New Enterprise Forum.
The program will be video broadcast to Automation Alley (2675 Bellingham Drive, Troy) and Kalamazoo Valley Community College (M-Tec building) and Michigan State University (Engineering Building, room 1208). The panelists will be able to field questions from each site and each location will have its own moderator.
There will be two Showcase Presenters, Neil Dueweke, president of nPoint; and Todd Mielke, president of Prezign. nPoint is a homeland security venture that is commercializing its proprietary Radiation Monitoring Strip to help guard against WMD?s and other radiation emitting threats from entering the U.S. Prezign is commercializing Epsys, a new Web based Product Lifecycle Management application that helps manufacturers achieve zero defects.
Networking and registration begins at 5 p.m. with the program starting at 5:45 p.m. The cost is free to NEF members and free to GLEQ members who pre-register at the GLEQ Web site or $20 at the door and for non-members.
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