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Canan Balaban is attending Lee May's event

GAIN Unplugged with Augi Lye!! at Volta

March 20, 2013 from 3pm to 4pm

"Coffee with an Entrepreneur" has morphed into "GAIN Unplugged" and is exclusively available to GAIN Stakeholders only!!On March 20th Augi Lye will meet with 8 folks to discuss business tactics etc. Participants are encouraged to submit questions in advance for talking points.A bit about Augi:As a graduate of the University of Florida with dual degrees in Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering, Augi founded numerous startups with over $20 million in Angel and Venture Capital…See More

Mar 6

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Canan Balaban is attending Lee May's event

GAIN Monthly Luncheon Speaker Series: Julian Miller, eMotion at Carrabba's

February 27, 2013 from 11:30am to 1pm

The Company: eMotion Technologies, LLC is a Florida Innovation Hub incubator tenant that is a die-hard, musician-focused company working to make the world a better place through the company’s love for music and a patented and prototyped system that creates smart instruments. It’s a scalable, plug and play wireless gestural control system designed for musicians that stands to open a world of possibilities in composition, performance, education, and practice of music. eMotion’s system is a…See More

Feb 20

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Status: Employee

Company Name: Florida Energy Systems Consortium at UF

Title: Associate Director, Industrial Collaboration & Commercialization

Industry: Education Management

University/College: University of Washington

Company website: http://www.floridaenergy.ufl.edu/

Professional Experiences & Goals: She holds a Masters degree in Chemical Engineering and has served for over 25 years in industry as a research scientist, engineer, and manager. Her industrial experience includes rechargeable batteries, bio-mass, coal desulfurization/gasification, sol-gel technology, and sintering. She has transferred a number of technologies from research to manufacturing and has two patents and one trademark. Ms. Balaban joined the University of Florida in 2003 and managed the $10M NASA funded Hydrogen Research Program until the end of the grant in March 2008. During this period she facilitated the establishment of the Energy Technology Incubator – Center of Excellence. She served as the Associate Director of Florida Institute for Sustainable Energy at the University of Florida until she joined the Florida Energy Systems Consortium.

Specialties in Your Industries of Expertise: Program and Project Management, New Program Development
Technology: Controlled release, rechargeable batteries, resins, bio-mass, coal desulfurization/gasification, sol-gel technology, drying/ sintering, hydrogen technology.

How did you hear about GAINnet and what are your interests?: Reading, hiking, music, snorkeeling, gourmet cooking, being with friends

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At 10:32am on June 7, 2010, Ryan Moorhead said…: Thanks for the link to that funding opportunity! I will forward it to potentially interested folks.

At 10:36am on June 2, 2010, Ryan Moorhead said…: Hi Canan! Glad you are here at GAIN-net. Feel free to share how we can spur innovation in Gainesville!

Ryan Moorhead
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