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| To make best use of your SBIR ASSETs participation, as a Tech Seeker, you have to be willing to engage in a fair amount of Pre-Event interaction. Staying broadly within the construct of the following timetable should support a highly useful experience. |
 December 12, 2007:
Opening Date for set-up of Four- , Three- and Two-Star Accounts
All Four- and Three-Star Slots are secured with payment of a 25% deposit. Balance is due not later than TEN days before event.
Full payment required to secure all Two-Star accounts
January 10, 2008:
Early Sign-Up Bonus: Those establishing their Four- or Three-Star account early and having begun to provide some part of their keyword selection(s) by this date -- to initiate the Awardee Search-Match process -- will be entitled to an additional Primary Topic at no-cost - a $2500 value.
February 12, 2008:
Closing Date by which to have established Four- and Three-Star Account
February 22, 2008:
Closing date by which to have established working Topic Areas with requisite keywords/phases for matching to SBIR-STTR Awardees capabilities
Access to prepared White Papers by applicant SBIR Awardees will generally be within about 21-28 days from the time when the Interest Topics of any particular Tech Seeker are posted.
March 5, 2008:
Open access to the accumulating Awardee Capability Statements and White Paper Topic Responses.
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Getting down to business:
It is important to stress that SBIR ASSETS is specifically designed NOT to be a passive, attendance-only experience. The SBIR ASSETs Forum which convenes in Boston March 19-21, 2008 is better thought about as a component in a carefully crafted, several-staged process designed to bring together Tech Seekers with those SBIR-STTR Awardees best qualified to meet their particular needs.
Deliberately scoped out as a smaller, by-invitation event - about 100-120 people only - to support useful interaction, this highly pro- active effort is grounded in a structured system of needs-matching which plays out in the weeks before the event. This format and extended set-up approach ensures
that the right people are in the room when the event is convened and
that some of the very useful groundwork has been done to enable everyone involved quickly to get down to business.
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| Being involved in the Annual SBIR ASSETs Forum is proving very useful to a range of Tech Seekers interested in being able systematically to tap into the SBIR-STTR talent pool. However, those tasked with these responsbilities are often at different stages re. the types (and numbers) of relationship they seek. Therefore, FOUR different levels of |
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SBIR-experienced Tech Seekers
with an in-place defined agenda:
On a first-come, first served basis, provision is made for some 15-18 Tech Seekers willing and able
-- to work with us pre-event actively to identify those areas of technology interest and the requisite skills sets of particular importance to them and
-- to interact before and during the event with that carefully selected population of SBIR-involved firms identified as having the requisite capabalities and skill-sets to meet those requirements |
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| These experienced and targeted persons may assume EITHER a Four- OR Three-Star Account status. The major difference between the two levels is primarily the number of search areas in which they opt to engage. |
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Not yet ready for this level of commitment?
For those Tech Seekers not yet entirely comfortable with providing areas of technology interest for pre-event matching or, even more commonly, not yet entirely sure what to ask for, a Two-Star review status as been established.
This account provides for only ONE pre-event topic. Though limited, this topic will serve to match you up directly with firms that are in your space. You may opt to make this One Topic very general and open-ended OR it can be quite narrow and specific. |
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Observer Status?
Tech Seekers interested in just knowing more about what the SBIR Community is about, what relevant work is ongoing within this population, but not yet able to assume the pro-active role involved of a Four- or Three-Star account, or even the Two-Star review account are encouraged to consider the One-Star observer status.
While not requiring a pro-active pre-event role, One-Star account holders will have pre-event contact to the full range of Awardee Nutshells. These are the overview Capability Statements submitted by some of those SBIR Awardees selected by event organizers as undertaking leading-edge work in various fields. It is anticipated that, as for previous SBIR ASSET sessions, many of these firms will be in attendance at the March 19-21 event. |
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| Levels of Tech Seeker Services |
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Package Components |
| With a strong emphasis to Pre-Event Interaction to facilitate matching, Four- and Three-Star are provided Pre-Event Services as indicated: |
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Four Star
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$10,000
25 percent deposit required to secure space
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TWO full-event participation ticket 50% discount on up to TWO more tickets Any others will be at the full Tech Seeker Observer
price of $1250.00 per |
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 A total of THREE Primary Areas of Technical Interest - each to include up to three sub-topics factoring to a total of NINE sub-topics.(...see example)
The option of adding more Primary Topics for pre-event matching at a cost of $2500 each. This option is limited in any one firm to a maximum event participation of $25,000 (Nine topics).
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| Pre-Event |
Pre-Event access to any and all submissions.
----those specific to the firm's Topics will be forwarded as email attachments to listed personnel.
----specific responses will also be made accessible online in a secured, password protected area to permit download by other firm personnel
----standard access on main site to all non-proprietary Awardee Capability Statements.
Pre-Event opportunity to post clarifying materials to particular topics AND to respond to Posted Questions by interested BSIR-STTR awardees.
Full Pre-Event access to all selected Capability Statements prepared by currently involved SBIR Awardees. Provision on request of extensive supplementary information on that firm drawn down from the idi databases. |
| On-Site |
Allocated FIFTEEN minutes during scheduled Plenary Session Opportunity Forum session(s).
Scheduled dedicated breakout during event to present to, and meet with participating Awardees
Designated area for scheduled one-on-one sessions
Inclusion of materials of their choice in the Event Package and on the Event CD
Provision for Exhibit space - Table-Top or Booth. |
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Three Star
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$5,000
25 percent deposit required to secure space
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ONE full-event participation ticket 50% discount on up to ONE more tickets Any others will be at the full Tech Seeker Observer
price of $1250.00 per |
| Topic summary |
ONE Primary Area of Technical Interest - to include up to three sub-topics.(...see example)
The option of adding Primary Topics for pre-event matching at a cost of $2500 each.
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Pre-Event access to any and all submissions.
----those specific to the firm's Topics will be forwarded as email attachments to listed personnel.
----specific responses will also be made accessible online in a secured, password protected area to permit download by other firm personnel
----standard access on main site to all non-proprietary Awardee Capability Statements.
Pre-Event opportunity to post clarifying materials to particular topics AND to respond to Posted Questions by interested BSIR-STTR awardees.
Full Pre-Event access to all selected Capability Statements prepared by currently involved SBIR Awardees. Provision on request of extensive supplementary information on that firm drawn down from the idi databases |
| On-Site |
Allocated FIFTEEN minutes during scheduled Plenary Session Opportunity Forum session(s).
Scheduled dedicated breakout during event to present to, and meet with participating Awardees
Designated area for scheduled one-on-one sessions
Inclusion of materials of their choice in the Event Package and on the Event CD
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| Two- and One-Star participants are assumed to be less interested in being involved in pre-event services. Event involvement services are as indicated. |
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Two Star
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$2,500
full payment required to secure space |
ONE full-event participation ticket Any others will be at the full Tech Seeker Observer
price of $1250.00 per |
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One Star
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$1,250
full payment required to secure space |
ONE full-event participation ticket Any others will be at the full Tech Seeker Observer
price of $1250.00 per |
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Admission to event by One Person representing a Tech Seeking organization
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Provision of the full Tech Seeker Event package to include received Capability Statements by participating Awardees.
Option to include in the Event Package (in print and on CD) a Capability and Needs Statement
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Access to all Open Sessions
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