2014 JSC Connect Events

The Houston Technology Center and the Gulf Coast Regional Center of Innovation and Commercialization, in partnership with the NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC), will be hosting a series of JSC Connect events in 2014. Each event will focus on a technology area of strategic interest to NASA's human spaceflight program, which may also have considerable potential for non-aerospace applications.

The purpose of the JSC Connect events is to identify potential partnerships for joint dual-use development collaborations or potential commercialization of JSC's technologies. Attendees should be representatives of those organizations with an active interest in the technology area and in potentially partnering with the JSC or other industry or research institution organizations. In addition to presentations by JSC project teams, attendees will also have an opportunity to give a brief presentation on their activities and/or interests in the technology.

Because of the nature of these events, attendance will be limited and invitations will be extended only to organizations with an interest in the technology area and potentially having a partnership with the JSC or other attendees.

If interested in any of the event technology areas, please complete the online registration form so we can include you in the events for those technology areas which may have the biggest impact for you or your organization: www.gulfcoastrcic.org/JSC_Connect_Registration.htm.

Please forward this message to the appropriate individuals in your organization, or with any organizations you are aware of, who have an active interest in technologies in any of the following areas:

· Water Quality & Purification – Thursday, January 9

· Robotics – Thursday, February 27 (preliminary date)

· Telemedicine – Thursday, April 24 (preliminary date)

· RFID – Thursday, June 26 (preliminary date)

· Energy Storage & Management – Thursday, August 21 (preliminary date)

For more information, please contact:

· Bob Prochnow, Director of the Gulf Coast RCIC (Bob.Prochnow@GulfCoastRCIC.org)

· Evelyn Boatman at the HTC-JSC Campus (EBoatman@HoustonTech.org)