Friday August 4
| 1:00-4:00 |
Registration |
| 4:00- 5:00 |
Reception |
| 7:00-8:30 |
Dinner |
| 8:30-10:30 |
Entertainment |
Saturday August 5
| 8:30- 8:35 |
Welcome |
| 8:35-8:45 |
Introductory speech (Professor makarechi) |
| 8:45-9:05 |
President’s report |
| 9:05-9:15 |
Remarks by Dr. Hojabri |
| 9:15-9:25 |
Financial report |
| 9:25-9:35 |
Program announcement |
| 9:35 -12:00 |
Natural disaster management + Break |
| 12:00-1:30 |
Lunch |
| 1:30 - 2:30 |
Chapters presentations |
| 2:30-3:00 |
Talk by Dr. Khoshnevis |
| 3:00-3:15 |
Announcement for Job fair, VC forum and panel |
| 3:15-4:15 |
VC Panel (Kamran Elahian, Pejman Nozad, Katya Falakshahi, Moderator: Arman Pahlavan) |
| 4:15-6:00 |
Job fair, Meet with VC, Panel on Natural Disaster Management (Parallel session) |
| 7:00-8:30 |
Dinner |
| 8:30-12:00 | Entertainment |
Sunday August 6
| 9:15-9:20 |
Announcement |
| 9:20-10:00 |
Talk by Dr. Mostafa Ronaghi (Stanford University):Execution upon a vision: Stories behind three companies: Pyrosequencing, ParAllelle Biosciences, and NextBio |
| 10:00-10:30 |
Break |
| 10:30-11:10 |
by Dr. Soheil Saadat (Prodiance) : The thrill of entrepreneurship |
| 11:10-12:10 |
Talk with the Board |
| 12:10-2:00 |
Lunch |
| 2:00-4:00 |
Panel on Entrepreneurship (Hossein Ghanbari, Hamid Najafi, Afshin Parshad, Farzad Naimi, Nasser manesh) |
| 4:00-4:15 |
Closing statement |
| 4:15-6:00 |
Job fair |
| 7:00 |
Dinner hosted by Amidzad Partners/ Plug and Play Real Estate at 440 North Wolfe Road in Sunnyvale. |
Monday 8/7
9:00-5:00 : San Francisco tour