Reception - 5:30 p.m.
Lecture - 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
The convergence of Nano – Bio and Information Technology is accelerating and transforming our society. Please join us as representatives of the insurance, business, science and regulatory communities gather to examine this convergence and disuss collaboration on proactive international governance to ensure that technological, economic, environmental and societal benefits are achieved in a responsible, sustainable and coherent manner.
Mike Roco is the founding chair of the U.S. National Science and Technology
Council'ssubcommittee on Nanoscale Science, Engineering and Technology (NSET), and
is the Senior Advisor for Nanotechlology at the National Science Foundation. Dr. Roco is
credited with thirteen inventions, contributed over two hundred articles and twenty books
on multiphase systems, computer simulations, nanoparticles and nanosystems. Dr. Roco
is recognized as a leading global authority on trends in emerging technologies, and societal
implications.