Succeeding at SBIR/STTR Grants

Learn

• Strategies for improving proposal funding success rates
• Key components of winning SBIR/STTR proposals
• Common barriers to SBIR/STTR success and approaches to overcome them
• Illustrative case studies that demonstrate how companies produce winning proposals
• About a new “Phase Zero” program from the National Science Foundation
• Tips for communicating directly with SBIR/STTR program officers to improve odds of success

Guest Presenters:
Kirk Macolini, Founder& President, InteliSpark
InteliSpark is a hands-on business development consulting firm specializing in securing non-dilutive funding for start-ups through the Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR), Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR), and other government research funding programs.

Panel presentation by SBIR awardees in our region

Tom Schryver, UNY-iCorps/Cornell University

Fee includes printed materials and lunch