TBAN - Technology Business Alliance of Nevada

Living in Las Vegas, the Gaming Industry is all around us.

Explore the impact of “new” technology on the gaming industry. Learn about the gaming industry’s adoption curve. Discuss the compliance management, regulatory issues on gaming, and IT companies. Understand the observations of an outsider to gaming from a technology industry perspective.

William P. (Bill) Fasig is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of BMM Compliance for the Americas. In this capacity, Bill is responsible for all aspects of BMM’s business and operations in North and South America. Prior to BMM, Bill enjoyed a long career in the information technology, marketing and communications industries. He has served on the executive staff of some of the largest global IT enterprises such as Apple, Compaq, and VeriSign.

BMM Compliance is a global professional service and product testing firm that provides testing, assurance, certification, compliance management and advisory to help its clients meet and manage the technical product requirements of regulated gaming.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008
11:30 AM – 1:20 PM
LAWRY’S THE PRIME RIB - 4043 HOWARD HUGHES PKWY

"Managing Early Stage Drug Development"  
Dr. Peter Sausen, Covance Laboratories  
October 29th, Wednesday - Open to the Public
The Nevada Cancer Institute
One Breakthrough Way, Las Vegas, NV 89135 
11:30 AM Check-in, Speaker & Lunch 12 PM Cost: FREE!Please RSVP-Judy at 839-7222 or jrebholz@cvbt.com or go to www.NevBio.org

Dr. Peter Sausen of Covance Laboratories focuses on early stage drug development. He leads a team of scientists and project managers to help drug companies with their drug development needs from preclinical safety assessment through Phase II clinical trials. Dr. Sausen received his Doctorate in Toxicology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1992.  He completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology and has worked at G.D. Searle and Eli Lilly, before moving to Covance in 2005.  He co-authored, "Effective Project Management for Multi-Sourced Early Drug Development." He will talk about the IND application and the CTA application processes, what to watch out for and the pitfalls to avoid. In addition, he will address some of the problems that will delay the Phase 1 and Phase 2 trials.

Covance is a drug development services company. The company has over 8,000 employees.  Covance supports biotech organizations and has graciously flown Dr. Peter Sausen to Las Vegas for this meeting. NevBio appreciates their support.  We also want to thank Nevada Cancer Institute for hosting this meeting.

(All PhDs, MDs & Adv’d Degrees -Drink Free)

October 29th, Wednesday - 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Brio Tuscan Grille - The Patio at Town Square
6605 Las Vegas Boulevard S., Las Vegas, NV 89119
Please RSVP - Judy at 839-7222 or jrebholz@cvbt.com

NevBio is hosting a cocktail party for Dr. Peter Sausen of Covance Laboratories. Dr. Sausen is speaking at the NevBio lunch meeting earlier in the day. Even if you cannot make the lunch meeting, please join us for this opportunity to meet Dr. Sausen and others in the life science community. Please forward this invitation. Remember all PhDs, MDs and those with advanced degrees drink free! We will also have appetizers. If you haven’t been to Town Square and the Brio, this is a great time to go.

The Brio Tuscan Grille      Town Square

  NevBio at the Brio    Bio on the Vine

Nevada Telecommunications Company Pioneers Deployment of Millimeter Wave Spectrum

1Velocity, a Nevada-based telecommunications company, has been named one of the top 50 emerging companies in the U.S. in the fifth annual FundingPost Pitching Across America(TM) competition.

1Velocity provides Ethernet private line and Internet connections to businesses and public institutions on a proprietary carrier-class metro Ethernet network built on the recently commercialized “millimeter wave” (70 to 95 GHz) spectrum. This network is the fastest local exchange network in the country, with the ability to deliver breakthrough speeds and capacities ranging from eight megabits per second (8Mbps) up to 2.5 gigabits per second (Gbps) with extremely low latency.

FundingPost (http://www.FundingPost.com), a company that introduces entrepreneurs to investors, established the Pitching Across America competition in which 130 venture capital funds and angel investors judged more than 300 business summaries from emerging companies nationwide. This year’s competition was the largest venture capital competition ever organized. Emerging companies were evaluated on their current stage of development (customers, revenue), competitive advantage and need in the marketplace and their feasibility for success.

"Our venture capital judges found 1Velocity’s business summary really compelling because they could understand the need that it meets,” said Joe Rubin Director, FundingPost. “Major enterprises and governments will dramatically use more bandwidth in coming years and the ‘millimeter wave’ spectrum provides an extremely cost effective solution to the ‘last mile’ problem. 1Velocity is the pioneer nationally in the deployment of this spectrum and is making great progress in commercializing this technology for telecommunications purposes."

The “last mile” is the final portion of delivering connectivity from a communications provider to a customer. A term commonly used by the telecommunications and cable industries, the last mile is typically seen as an expensive challenge because connecting individual homes and businesses is a considerable physical undertaking.

"We are all honored to receive this recognition from such an impressive list of companies and to have garnered national attention," said Mike Ballard, CEO of 1Velocity. "FundingPost has given us an opportunity to reach an excellent selection of visionary investors. While our customer base continues to grow, the right funding partner can accelerate our progress and the creation of significant company value."

At the October 17 Awards Gala Luncheon, TBAN presented the 2008 TechNevada Honors to this year’s recipients.

More photos here

2008 TechNevada Hall of Fame – North Donald Bently, Bently Nevada Corporation	Technology Company of the Year Selling Source, LLC - Derek LaFavor, CEO
2008 TechNevada Hall of Fame – South Rick Gray, Wynn Design and Development	2008 TechNevada Hall of Fame – South Guy Laliberté, Cirque du Soleil Accepting for Mr. Laliberté,
Technology CIO of the Year Laura Fucci, Clark County, Nevada	Technology Transplant of the Year Allegiant Airlines, Maurice J. Gallagher, CEO
Technology Educator of the Year John Snyder, Advanced Technologies Academy	Technology Entrepreneur of the Year Frank Yoder, Advanced Information Systems
Technology Star in the Public Sector Vegas PBS	Technology Startup Company of the Year K2 Energy Solutions