ANTEC 2005 Annual Technical Conference

Plastics Engineering, March, 2005

Wednesday, May 4 11 a.m.-12 Noon

Hynes Convention Center

The Apprentice

Panel Moderator: Jim Vidakovich American Management Association seminar facilitator and training & development consultant for corporations and studios

Panel: Contestants from the current and past seasons of "The Apprentice"

One of the most popular reality TV shows for the past three seasons has been The Apprentice. The show has been designed to depict business interactions and challenges that frequently occur in "real world" settings. People relate to the show because they have either worked side-by-side with or had to manage similar individuals. As the participants perform their assigned tasks, viewers can observe the management and business successes or mistakes that are made and try to predict what the apprentices outcome will be. The American Management Association, the world's leading membership-based management development organization, has been providing valuable and practical action-oriented learning professionals since 1923. At this session, one of AMA's seminar facilitators, Jim Vidakovich, will direct questions to a panel of "Apprentices" from the TV show. You will hear them discuss what business lessons they learned, what interactions and challenges were played out on their TV tasks that relate to the real-world and how has this reality show experience made a difference in their careers.

NEW TECHNOLOGY FORUMS

Tuesday, May 3

Polymeric Sensor Technology

Hynes Convention Center

8 a.m-11 a.m. Being able to sense quality in the environment is a hot topic. Awareness has been heightened in recent years due to the threatened terrorist use of chemical and biological agents. This Forum will provide an overview of the recent advances in polymer-based sensors that detect analytes and the challenges associated with making them commercially viable for the general public.

8:00 a.m.-8:45 a.m. Signal-Amplifying Molecular Sensors Based on Conjugated Polymers Jinsang Kim (Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Macromolecular Science and Engineering, University of Michigan)

8:45 a.m.-9:30 a.m. Nanostructured Metal Rubber[TM] Sensors Jennifer Lalli (Vice President of Business Development; Director of NanoComposites, Nanosonic)

9:30 a.m.-10:15 a.m. Building Power Plastics That Convert Light to Energy -Anywhere Daniel Patrick McGahn (Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, Konarka Technologies)

10:15 a.m.-11:00 a.m. Biomimetic Membranes: Towards the Development of Artificial Scavenger Cells Maria Santore (Professor, Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst)

11:00 a.m.-11:45 a.m. Nanopatterned Biopolymers as Chiral Media Regina Valluzzi (Chairman and Chief Scientific Officer, Evolved Nanomaterial Sciences; Assistant Research Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Tufts University)

Tuesday, May 3

Industrial Biotechnology and Its Impact on Polymer Technology

Hynes Convention Center

1:30 p.m.-6 p.m. This session is designed to provide an overview of the field of biotechnology and how it applies to polymer technology. Each of the speakers is a leader in the field and the companies represented are state of the art in their technology. At the conclusion of the session, we will have a panel discussion and a question and answer session, which will allow you to pose specific questions. The speakers come from research/academia, major innovative companies and end users: