John Warner

InnoVenture 2013 is organized into five focus areas for the 10th annual event in Greenville on May 8 and 9, 2013.  Featured Presentations “Light” Manufacturing will be presented by John Ballato, Director of the Clemson University Center for Optical Materials Science and Engineering Technologies (COMSET), to develop and commercialize industrial applications for lasers and other optics technologies. The objective is to make the “Light” Manufacturing collaboration the US leader in lasers/optics for manufacturing. “Aerospace Industry” will be presented by Bill McLendon, President & CEO of PEROT Aerospace LLC, focused on investing capital and expertise in the growing number of...

Greenville, S.C. – Five presentations powered by the global InnoVenture.com web platform will be featured presentations at the 10th annual InnoVenture 2013 Conference in Greenville on May 8 and 9. Light Manufacturing will be presented by John Ballato, Director of the Clemson University Center for Optical Materials Science and Engineering Technologies (COMSET), to develop and commercialize industrial applications for lasers and other optics technologies. The objective is to make the “Light” Manufacturing collaboration the US leader in lasers/optics for manufacturing. Aerospace Industry will be presented by Bill McLendon, President & CEO of PEROT Aerospace LLC, focused on investing capital and...

Editor’s note: John Warner is CEO of InnoVenture LLC in Greenville, S.C., which puts on an annual venture capital and technology conference. GREENVILLE, S.C. – InnoMobility 2012 is around the corner – Nov. 7th and 8th in Greenville, S.C. Why should you be there? A couple of years ago, we identified mobility, broadly defined, as a place where people in our region are among the best in the world at what they do. Changes in materials, energy and connectivity are driving the global transformation of mobility, which is impacting almost every industry, from health care and education to automotive....

Editor’s note: John Warner is founder and a principal of InnoVenture LLC, which also produces related InnoVenture Community Forums. He publishes the SwampFox.ws website. Innoventure is set for May 8-9 in Greenville, S.C. GREENVILLE, S.C. – A while back, I had lunch with a large corporate client who told me that for InnoVenture to be really successful with them, we had to identify new business opportunities that can grow rapidly around the world. A short time later, I had dinner with a partner in one of the southeast’s largest venture capital firms. She told me she had gotten back from...

GREENVILLE, S.C. – The ninth annual InnoVenture 2012 conference will be held May 8 and 9, 2012 in Greenville, SC. We are seeking passionate individuals from inside major corporations, middle market companies, independent entrepreneurial companies, or academic centers, to make short presentations about their visions to create high growth business opportunities to a diverse audience who has access to needed customers, capital, talent and technology. Contact JohnWarner@InnoVentureLLC.com to apply to present. We have numerous examples of success over the years: Matt Gevaert from Clemson found Michael Bolick at InnoVenture to commercialize Clemson’s technology. Michael worked closely with the Nanocenter...