High-tech conference in April for innovators
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
DAYTON — A conference for companies and researchers specializing in high-tech materials development and commercialization is scheduled April 20-23 at the Dayton Convention Center.
The Ohio Innovation Summit is intended to provide information about research and commercial opportunities in the fields of nanotechnology, the understanding and manipulation of tiny particles of matter to form new substances and materials, and sensors, which include radar and other electronic detecting devices.
Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher, who also heads the Ohio Department of Development that is a sponsor of the event, is to address the conference on April 21. It will bring together personnel from the Air Force Research Laboratory, companies and universities.
The University of Dayton Research Institute is organizing the conference, which was formerly known as the Ohio Nanosummit. For more information, go to the Web site at www.ohioinnovationsummit.org, or call John Leland, UDRI's director, at (937) 229-2113.
