Seattle never sleeps: a young, booming innovation hub as this year’s guest at the Technology Symposium
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Elisabeth-Herz-Kremenak-Saal
Plenary
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in englischer SpracheSeattle, the biggest city in the US Northwest, has established itself as a new innovation hub for founders. Around the famous University of Washington and numerous industrial innovation giants like Amazon, Boeing or Microsoft, an ideal innovation environment has emerged.
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Christina LOMASNEY
Co-Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer, Modumetal, Inc., Seattle, WA
| Christina Lomasney is the CEO, president and co-founder of Modumetal. Together with her team, she is realizing the company’s vision of revolutionizing the way major industries approach the design and production of advanced metal coatings and parts. Today, Modumetal is pioneering nanolaminated metals manufacturing to enable the deployment of these ultra-high performance metals in a growing number of large-scale industrial and consumer applications. Christina has worked in the research, development and commercialization of advanced materials technologies for more than a decade, starting at The Boeing Company, where she served in engineering roles including in Phantomworks’ advanced metals manufacturing department. Christina later founded Isotron Corporation, an advanced materials company, which today holds a portfolio of advanced materials technologies and commercial products for environmental cleanup and restoration. Christina currently serves on the Board of Directors of ASTM International. Christina holds a BS in Physics from the University of Washington, where she completed undergraduate research in electrochemistry and graduate studies toward a MS in Applied Physics. She has published and is named inventor on several pending patents in large-scale environmental remediation and nanostructured materials applications. |
Allan STEPHAN
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Carewave Medical, Inc., Seattle, WA
| Allan Stephan, a Seattle technology entrepreneur/CEO, currently focused on non-pharmaceutical relief of pain. |
Ph.D. Buddy D. RATNER
Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering and Michael L. & Myrna Darland Endowed Chair in Technology Commercialization, College of Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
| 1967 | B.S., Brooklyn College |
| 1972 | Ph.D., Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn |
| Research Interests: | |
| Biointerface synthesis, modification and characterization | |
| Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine | |
| Synthesis and characterization of polymeric biomaterials | |
| Healing, inflammation |
