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2024 NC SBIR Showcase
September 13, 2024 @ 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Free

Highlighting Success, Sharing Best Practices
Complimentary Insights from Expert Panelists
This complimentary, half-day series of panel presentations will feature SBIR grant winning companies sharing lessons learned; reverse pitch/advice from SBIR Program Managers at federal agencies; SBIR/STTR program overview and the real story on the odds of winning SBIR grants – all to benefit founders and companies in the SBIR non-dilutive funding space and beyond.
Location: In person at First Flight or via Zoom.
Agenda
- 1-1:10 p.m. Welcome
- Krista Covey, President, First Flight Venture Center
- 1:15-2:45 p.m. Investor PanelTimely and Timeless Investor Insights – Beyond SBIR/STTRs Moderator: Mary Musacchia, RTP Angel Fund, First Flight Navigator
- Shawna Cannon Lemon, IP Attorney, Angel Investor
- Robbie Hardy, Mentor Capitalist
- Lister Delgado, Managing Partner | IDEA Fund Partners
- Pat Gouhin, CEO, Angel Capital Association
- 2:45-3 p.m. Break / Switch over to breakout rooms
- 3-3:30 p.m. Dave Ouvy – Medical Leverage presentation
- 3-3:30 p.m. Randy Simpson – Tech Opp presentation
- 3:30-4 p.m. Krista Covey FAST Highlight
- 3:30–4 p.m. Ecosystem Panel
- Eva Garland, CEO/President, Eva Garland Consulting, SBIR Program 2024-2025
- John Hardin, NC Commerce
- Ramya Vijapurapu and Andrea Giska, SBTDC







