Celebrate Invention 2022 Recap
10/24/2022
Thursday, October 13, 2022 | 1:00pm–6:00pm | Michigan Union, 2nd Floor
In Partnership with
Program Recap
1:00–3:00pm: Ecosystem Fair
Room 2210 ABC, Michigan Union, 2nd Floor
Attendees were able to meet with commercialization support services that can help advance their research to the market. They could also discover translational research funding opportunities and meet startup investors.
Participating organizations:
| Accelerate Blue Fund (ABF) |
| Innovation Partnerships Startup Incubator (IPSI) |
| BBC Entrepreneurial Training and Consulting |
| Center for Entrepreneurship (iCorps) |
| iCorps (CFE) |
| Center for Socially Engaged Design |
| Center for Surgical Innovation (CSI) |
| Desai Accelerator |
| Economic Growth Institute’s Small Company Innovation Program |
| EXCEL Lab at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance |
| Fast Forward Medical Innovation (FFMI) |
| Great Lakes Discovery (GLD) |
| Coulter |
| Michigan Rise Fund / Red Cedar Ventures |
| Michigan Small Business Development Center (SBDC) |
| Michigan-Pittsburgh-Wyss Regenerative Medicine Resource Center |
| MINTS |
| MTRAC Innovation Hub for AgBio at Michigan State University (Advance) |
| Advance Grant at Michigan State University (MTRAC Ag Bio) |
| MTRAC Innovation Hub for Advanced Applied Materials at Michigan Tech |
| MTRAC Innovation Hub for Advanced Computing at Wayne State University |
| MTRAC Innovation Hub for Advanced Transportation at University of Michigan |
| MTRAC Innovation Hub for Life Sciences at University of Michigan |
| optMize |
| Weil Institute for Critical Care Research and Innovation |
| Zell Lurie Institute (ZLI) |
2:00–3:00pm: 2022 Distinguished University Innovator of the Year Award Panel
Pendleton Room, Michigan Union, 2nd Floor
“Harnessing the Power of Michigan to Drive Ann Arbor’s Tech Transformation”
Panelists
Wei Lu
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
2022 Distinguished University Innovator of the Year Award Recipient
Rick Wallace
Chief Executive Officer and President of KLA
Mingyan Liu
Peter and Evelyn Fuss Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Dave Wentzloff
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Eric Michielssen
Louise Ganiard Johnson Professor of Engineering, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Associate Dean for Research-College of Engineering
3:00–6:00pm: Reception
Rogel Ballroom, Michigan Union, 2nd Floor
Featured startup and project demonstrations and a networking reception to recognize the contributions of our community of innovators.
Featuring these U-M startups, technologies and projects:
| CRISPR-Cas3 |
| Digital External Ventricular Drain (DEVD) Device |
| Minutes |
| Mitovation |
| MONSTR sense |
| New Haptics |
| Plasma Water Purification |
| PREACT |
| Ulendo |
| xBOT |