Waypoints: Main Event
Building Generational Businesses from National Lab Innovation
About Waypoints
Waypoints is an invite-only investor event designed to connect breakthrough DOE technologies and their inventors with the founders and investors best positioned to bring them to market. Through curated, pre-matched one-on-one meetings and focused advisory discussions, the event is engineered to identify the most promising innovations, accelerate their path to scale, and uncover new opportunities through strategic investor alignment.
Agenda
Location: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Rd, Menlo Park, CA 94025
8:00 AM – Registration & Breakfast
8:30 AM – Welcome Remarks
8:35 AM - SLAC Lab Director Remarks, John Sarrao
8:50AM - SLAC Deputy Director of Science and Technology Remarks, Alberto Salleo
9:05 AM – DOE Office of Technology Commercialization Remarks, Anthony Pugliese, Director and Chief Commercialization Officer
9:15 AM - Waypoints Briefing
9:30 AM – Break & Transition to Breakout Sessions
9:45 AM – 12:15 PM – Morning Sprint
12:15 PM – Networking lunch
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM – Afternoon Sprint
3:00 PM – Break & Transition to The Quad for an Afternoon with COMPASS and Happy Hour
Location: The Quad, 2400 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025
3:30 PM: Doors and welcome
3:35 - 3:55 PM: COMPASS overview and what's next for the program
3:55 - 4:15 PM: Venture due diligence on lab technology, with SRI International
4:15 - 4:35 PM: Recruiting founders to build, with Roadrunner Venture Studios
4:35 - 5:05 PM: Panel, bringing national lab innovation to market
5:05 - 6:45 PM: Happy hour and open networking
Who is invited:
COMPASS Venture Advisory Network
Technology Transfer professionals from DOE Partner Labs
Lab principal investigators and research teams with represented intellectual property IP
COMPASS program delivery partners
Select startup founders seeking access to national lab innovations
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