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1:15 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Beat-the-Odds Boot Camp: Lessons Learned Presentations Breakout Rooms Attend the breakout based on your Boot Camp instructor. 2:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. Coffee Break Regency EF Foyer 4:00 p.m. Beat-the-Odds Boot Camp Concludes

Tuesday, March 19, 2019 7:30 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. Registration/Information Desk Open Regency EF Foyer Workshop attendees excused from the Boot Camp should check in

at the conference registration desk by 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday morning to pick up their badge and program booklet.

7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Breakfast Buffet Available Regency EF Foyer 8:30 a.m. – 9:10 a.m. Welcoming Remarks, Program Director Introductions, Regency EF Ballrooms and Logistics Overview 9:10 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Featured Speaker TBA Regency EF Ballrooms 10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Coffee Break Regency EF Foyer 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon Phase II Review Process: Behind the Curtain! Regency EF Ballrooms 12:00 noon – 1:15 p.m. Networking Luncheon Independence A 1:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. More Than Money: Find Fellow Innovators in the Trenches Breakout Rooms Attend the breakout based on your NSF program director. America’s Seed Fund powered by NSF—the NSF’s SBIR/STTR program—is the world’s largest network of disruptive technology entrepreneurs. In this session, NSF invites you to network with your fellow innovators. 2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Coffee Break Regency EF Foyer 3:00 p.m. – 3:40 p.m. Office of Inspector General Guidance Regency EF Ballrooms

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3:40 p.m. – 4:10 p.m. NSF Communications Regency EF Ballrooms 4:20 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Open Q&A Breakout Sessions by NSF Program Director Breakout Rooms Attend the breakout hosted by your NSF program director. 5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Workshop Networking Event Regency EF Foyer

Wednesday, March 20, 2019 7:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Registration/Information Desk Open Regency EF Foyer 7:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Breakfast Buffet Available Regency EF Foyer 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. NSF One-on-One Meetings Regency E Ballroom See schedule in program booklet. 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Dawnbreaker One-on-One Meetings Potomac Rooms 3-6 See schedule in program booklet. 8:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) Overview Regency F Ballroom Presentations 8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Overview on Patents

9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Overview on Trademarks 10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Overview on Patents (repeated)

11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Overview on Trademarks (repeated) 9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Cost Analysis and Pre-Award (CAP) and Division of Grants Potomac Rooms 1 & 2 and Agreements (DGA) Open Session Come to this open Q&A session with representatives from NSF’s

Cost Analysis and Pre-Award branch as well as NSF grants officers. They will answer any questions you have about budgets, accounting, or other financial or administrative aspects of your NSF grant.

9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Overview Regency F Ballroom Presentation Dinesh V. Patwardhan will present an overview of the regulatory

framework for medical devices on behalf of the FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health. This introductory presentation will touch on definitions of regulatory terminology and introduce regulatory concepts. It is designed for entrepreneurs, inventors, and academics who are involved in startups for the first time and interested in a primer on areas of FDA regulation.

9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. USPTO Open Desks

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Regency EF Hallway USPTO staff will be available for one-on-one meetings to answer questions on patent, trade secret, trademark, domain name, and copyright protection and enforcement. Please note that Federal government employees are unable to provide specific legal advice.

10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Coffee Available Regency EF Foyer 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. FDA Open Desks Regency EF Hallway FDA staff will be available for one-on-one meetings to answer

general FDA-related questions. FDA staff are unable to provide specific regulatory advice at these meetings.

11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Luncheon Available Independence Center A 1:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. NSF One-on-One Meetings (continued) Regency E Ballroom 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Dawnbreaker One-on-One Meetings (continued) Potomac Rooms 3-6 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Coffee Available Regency EF Foyer 5:00 p.m. Workshop Concludes