Billion Dollar Babies
Kevin Cryan
CSIRO/MIS, Business Development
Tuesday 23 May at 11am
Abstract
Globally investment is chasing innovative technologies that have the capacity to create new products or companies that have the potential to create vast wealth. To scientists, and many outside of the investment community, the recipients of this investment such as many of the dot com companies seem to be more smoke and mirrors then legitimate generators of wealth. So what drives the thinking behind these investments, and what are the likely outcomes? This presentation will look at these issues and discuss how CSIRO, and Australian research more generally, may play a role in the creation of these new products and companies. Included will be a case study on Viator Systems, and the Electronic Travel Planner initiative being developed by Viator Systems based on CSIRO technologies.
Hope this fills the bill Stephen. Now I just have to hope I can pull this together on Saturday. I would like to meet with yourself, or whoever looks after the technology of the presentation itself, early on Tuesday to make certain there is no problems with the PowerPoint presentation.
Short resume
Kevin is a Commercial Development Manager in CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences. His work involves commercialisation of CSIRO research, primarily with Service Sector industries, through the development of licensing/royalty agreements, consultancies, joint ventures and spin- offs. Recent major initiatives include the development of a software rostering product, e-commerce products for the tourism industry, options pricing software and CSIRO Key Account Manager for the Commonwealth Bank. He is also a Legal Practitioner, Supreme Court of New South Wales. Kevin has an Honours B.A. Commerce and Economics from University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Laws from University of Technology, Sydney. (taken from http://www.cmis.csiro.au/Kevin.Cryan/)
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