If you missed the second Vision Hampton Roads Regional Day on Friday, May 6, 2011, here are video presentations and resources:
60-second 2011 Regional Day Promo video
Hampton Roads: We Have What the World Needs video
From Governor Bob McDonnell, Congressman J. Randy Forbes and Senator Mark R. Warner, a Welcome Message video
The Honorable Alan Krasnoff, Mayor of the City of Chesapeake, welcomed nearly 500 attendees to the Chesapeake Conference Center. Mayor Krasnoff video
Jack Ezzell, President and CEO of ZEL Technologies and Chair of the Hampton Roads Partnership, explained why this event was taking place. Mr. Ezzell video
Dana Dickens, President and CEO of the Hampton Roads Partnership: “Vision Hampton Roads is a roadmap for prosperity; it focuses on expanding and diversifying the local economy and positioning Hampton Roads as a strong, competitive and internationally recognized global leader. Achieving this Vision requires careful planning, recognition of our interdependence and regional collaboration, and it opens our communities to greater resources and opportunities. Last year’s Regional Day laid out a bold Vision, a strategy for the future. Today’s Regional Day serves as the first Vision performance report to the interdependent communities that make up Hampton Roads. Today’s program expands last year’s message: In Hampton Roads, we not only need each other … we also have what the world needs …now. I encourage you to visit VisionHamptonRoads.com to see what each task force is doing … and maybe even join one!” Mr. Dickens Introduction and Vision Hampton Roads Report video
Keynote: Aneesh Chopra is the United States Chief Technology Officer and in this role serves as an Assistant to the President and Associate Director for Technology within the Office of Science and Technology Policy. He works to advance the President’s technology agenda by fostering new ideas and encouraging government-wide coordination to help the country meet its goals from job creation, to reducing health care costs, to protecting the homeland.
Aneesh Chopra video
Aneesh Chopra’s “Challenge to Hampton Roads” presentation (PDF)
Resources shared by Mr. Chopra:
- http://Data.gov provides public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.
- http://Challenge.gov is an online challenge platform administered by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) in partnership that empowers the U.S. Government and the public to bring the best ideas and top talent to bear on our nation’s most pressing challenges. This platform uses prizes and challenges to promote innovation.
- http://www.EDA.gov/i6 The $12 million i6 Green Challenge is an important component of President Obama’s Startup America initiative to promote American innovation and win the future. The multi-agency competition builds on the success of last year’s initiative by encouraging Proof of Concept Centers and promoting green growth to increase our nation’s competitiveness and accelerate the economic recovery.
- http://rd-dashboard.nitrd.gov The R&D Dashboard beta web site provides an initial look at U.S. Federal Investments in Science and Research from two agencies; the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) from years 2000-2009. The R&D Dashboard will expand in a future iteration to include ALL federal research and development spending and expanded information on outputs.
- http://www.StartupAmericaPartnership.org is a coalition of mentors, advisors, funders, major corporations and service providers to deliver strategic and substantive resources to help entrepreneurs start and scale companies.
- http://www.BrightScope.com provides open government data helps entrepreneurs find hidden problems that small businesses may incur, for example, excess 401k fees for investment advisory services.
- https://manufacturinghub.org/topics/OpenFOAM Manufacturing Hub’s OpenFOAM is an Open Source Modeling & Simulation Software.
- http://sr.grc.nasa.gov The NASA Glenn Research Center offers their Software Catalog which includes publicly available software codes for the release to US citizens.
- http://OpenMDAO.org is offered by NASA Langley Research Center to advance the science of Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization (MDAO) by promoting collaboration and cooperation among industry, government, and academia through the use of open-source tools.
- http://wiki.directproject.org The Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) Direct Project develops specifications for a secure, scalable, standards-based way to establish universal health addressing and transport for participants (including providers, laboratories, hospitals, pharmacies and patients) to send encrypted health information directly to known, trusted recipients over the Internet.
- http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/DSO/Programs/Education_Dominance.aspx The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Defense Sciences Office uses “Education Dominance” software that adapts to how students learn just like the nation’s best teachers, inspiration for the proposed ARPA-ED.
Direct Video Link: Innovations in Hampton Roads
From our Digital Masters of Ceremony (DMCs): “We have ‘Breaking News’ about global innovations discovered right here in America’s First Region. Hampton Roads is not only attracting new business and nurturing existing business, but also “grow your own” technology-based, entrepreneurial enterprises. With innovative ideas and entrepreneurs ready to successfully commercialize the wealth of research in Hampton Roads, the region is embracing the culture of entrepreneurism; a culture that is a requirement for innovation.”
Watch the video above and visit http://InnovateHamptonRoads.com to meet just a few of the featured entrepreneurs creating here in Hampton Roads, USA. The video debuted at the second Vision Hampton Roads Regional Day held Friday, May 6, 2011, at the Chesapeake Conference Center.
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Closing with a call to action, Dana Dickens, President and CEO of the Hampton Roads Partnership: this is our “man on the moon” moment. Mr. Dickens “Call to Action” video
For more photos of Regional Day, visit FLICKR. Photo credits: Bob Harper Photography www.BobHarperPhotography.com and NASA Images.
Our avatar DMCs were hard at work during the entire program. Here are their presentations on YouTube:
- Invitation to be seated
- Mayor Krasnoff’s introduction
- Pledge of Allegiance
- Political messages introduction
- Dana Dickens’ introduction
- Innovate!HamptonRoads closing of event
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May 7, 2011 at 10:00 am (UTC -4)
White House tech guru cheers on local entrepreneurs
By Josh Brown
The Virginian-Pilot
© May 7, 2011
CHESAPEAKE
One of the Obama administration’s top technology policy officers called on area leaders Friday to work together to spur the growth of the technology sector in Hampton Roads.
“There has never been a better time to be an innovator, as an entrepreneur or an entrepreneur inside a corporation that’s looking to introduce new products and services,” Aneesh Chopra, the White House’s chief technology officer, told several hundred business leaders and city officials at the Chesapeake Conference Center.
The event was hosted by the Hampton Roads Partnership, a coalition of business, political and academic leaders.
Chopra touted the White House’s initiatives to help provide information to the public and encourage entrepreneurship through websites such as Data.gov and Challenge.gov.
“We’ve got to have an entrepreneurial culture in the government,” he said. “We want startups.”
The meeting highlighted the partnership’s recent transformation of the Hampton Roads Research Partnership into the Innovate Hampton Roads initiative. In March, the partnership was awarded a $500,000 federal grant to help launch the program aimed at encouraging technology startup companies.
At last year’s meeting, the partnership released its 130-page document called “Vision Hampton Roads” that outlined the region’s strengths and weaknesses and detailed how leaders should work together.
E. Dana Dickens, the partnership’s president and CEO, said growing technology companies is vital to the area’s long-term health.
“In that time frame between 9/11 and today, federal spending in Hampton Roads has almost doubled,” Dickens said. “Seventy percent of the growth we have enjoyed came from the military and federal spending.”
He added: “We have to diversify our economy.”
Josh Brown, (757) 446-2318, josh.brown@pilotonline.com
http://hamptonroads.com/2011/05/white-house-tech-guru-cheers-local-entrepreneurs
HR Partnership
May 7, 2011 at 10:01 am (UTC -4)
Hampton Roads challenged to be innovative
By Veronica Chufo, vchufo@dailypress.com | 247-4741
3:28 p.m. EDT, May 6, 2011
CHESAPEAKE — The White House’s top technology officer challenged Hampton Roads to take the reins on innovations involving modeling and simulation, aviation, energy, education and health-care delivery.
“There has never been a better time to be an innovator,” said Aneesh Chopra, the nation’s chief technology officer and former Virginia secretary of technology.
Chopra was the keynote speaker Friday at Vision Hampton Roads Regional Day, an event organized by the Hampton Roads Partnership that drew about 450 people to the Chesapeake Conference Center in Chesapeake. Vision Hampton Roads is a strategy to diversify the region’s economy, about 45 percent of which is tied to defense spending.
“I can’t imagine it continuing. I can’t imagine it staying level,” Dana Dickens, president and chief executive of the Hampton Roads Partnership, said of federal defense spending. “Innovation represents our best opportunity to diversify the economic base of the Hampton Roads economy.”
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Part of that strategy involves helping local technology-based businesses to grow and flourish, he said.
Chopra’s address suggested five ways that Hampton Roads could be a part of a burgeoning innovation economy.
•Modeling and simulation: Mod-sim has powered advances in big corporations and defense. The same approach should be made available to small and medium businesses, improving manufacturing processes and increasing competitiveness.
•Modernize the aviation sector: The Federal Aviation Administration is committed to reducing flight delays by 35 percent, cutting carbon emissions by 14 million and saving $1.4 billion gallons in fuel consumption by 2018.
•Health-care delivery: Hampton Roads can invent tools and services as the health-care system evolves to make the system more accountable for keeping people healthy. Virginia is already at the forefront of an electronic medical records sharing pilot project involving the VA, DOD and Bon Secours Virginia.
•Education: The future educational system must focus more heavily on engineering, science and math, Chopra said.
•Energy: Virginia is already at the center of efforts to modernize the grid, and Virginia Tech is behind efforts to improve the efficiency of power cords from 75 percent to 90 percent, Chopra said.
Copyright © 2011, Newport News, Va., Daily Press
http://www.dailypress.com/business/dp-nws-regional-day-20110506,0,7018081.story
HR Partnership
May 17, 2011 at 12:04 pm (UTC -4)
Region must innovate to diversify economy
Posted: May 13, 2011
By Danielle Walker
danielle.walker@insidebiz.com
The country’s chief technology officer, Aneesh Chopra, gave an energetic call for action to the Hampton Roads region earlier this month.
“America is at its best when we invest in the building blocks of innovation,” he said, adding that the region must support the growth of innovative companies to take advantage of its economic potential.
In May 2009, President Obama selected Chopra as the nation’s chief technology officer. He was Virginia’s secretary of technology from January 2006 to April 2009.
Chopra delivered that call to action before more than 500 people who attended Vision Hampton Roads’ second regional day May 6. Attendees gathered at the Chesapeake Conference Center to hear about economic development through technology and innovation.
As the keynote speaker, Chopra outlined ways for Hampton Roads to tap into the high-tech market.
“The time is now,” he said, challenging Hampton Roads leaders to take advantage of the region’s tech industry potential. “There’s never been a better time to innovate.”
Earlier that day, Jack Ezzell, Hampton Roads Partnership board chair and president of Zel Technologies in Hampton, welcomed attendees to the event, which marked the accomplishments of Vision Hampton Roads’ first year.
Vision Hampton Roads is an economic plan for the region, involving strategies to advance its stance in the global economy.
Dana Dickens, president and CEO of Hampton Roads Partnership, said that the vision would serve as a roadmap for prosperity in the region.
“We are doing well, particularly when you compare us to other regions in the country,” Dickens said. But if the region doesn’t develop its technology industry it could be left vulnerable, he said.
“Innovation represents our best opportunity to diversify the economic base of our community,” Dickens said later.
During his presentation, Chopra challenged attendees to:
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Consider how modeling and simulation assets can empower manufacturing and be used by local companies, from mom-and-pop businesses to large companies.
* Modernize the region’s aviation sector to help improve the industry’s cost efficiency, lessening flight delays and fuel consumption.
* Transform the health care system and encourage health providers to think anew about what they can do to keep communities healthier.
* Develop a learning system that works, focusing on science, engineering and mathematics, since the system is shifting from a reliance on print to digital technology.
* Unleash a clean energy revolution, to make electronics and other everyday resources more energy-efficient.
In closing, Dickens said about the recession, it’s not a matter of when, as much as how, we will recover.
“We have to diversify our economy, and it will take the entire region to do it,” Dickens said.
If local leaders and the community can change the paradigm of dependency into innovation, “Hampton Roads can take the road less traveled, and we will be all the better for it,” he said.
http://www.insidebiz.com/news/region-must-innovate-diversify-economy
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