Every Friday morning from 7:30-8:30 a.m. in the UT Outreach Center (1201 Oak Ridge Turnpike) we host a breakfast meeting for our members and guests. We invite speakers that share interesting and pertinent information. Our members enjoy the opportunity to network with senior management of the federal and business community in a casual environment while staying up-to-date on key issues.
If you are not a member and would like to attend, please contact us at info@eteconline.org or 865-483-4577.
Please make plans to join us at 7:30 a.m. at the UT Outreach Center, 1201 Oak Ridge Turnpike, for coffee and breakfast snacks.
A map to the meeting location can be found on the website under Meetings Info & Map.
Upcoming Meetings:
May 2008
May 2- David Cochran, QualPro, Topic: "Nuclear Weapons and Beyond – The “Experts” are wrong 75% of the time"
May 9 - Kent A. Dorr, Senior Program Manager, CH2MHILL Topic: "Securing the 2012 London Olympics"
May 16 -Steve Creamer, Energy Solutions
May 30 – No Meeting (2008 Tennessee Valley Corridot National Summit, Huntsville AL)
January
January 4 - Annual Meeting/ Ray Orbach, DOE Undersecretary for Science
January 11 - Andrew Armbrust, President Philotechnics
January 18 - Roy Kramer, Retired SEC commissioner and known as the "father of BCS," Bowl Championship Series
January 25 - Board Meeting
February
February 1 -Gary Goff, Roane State Community College President, "Business case for an Educated Workforce"
February 8 -Jeremy Smith, ORNL
February 15-Dr. Joseph DiPietro, Vice President for Agriculture at University of Tennessee
February 22 - Board Meeting
February 29 - Randy Spickard, National Security Programs at B&W Y-12/ Uranium Center of Excellence
March
March 7 -Gerald Boyd, DOE-Oak Ridge Office Manager
March 14-Mike Ward, CIO Covenant Health
March 21-No Meeting (Good Friday)
March 28-Board of Directors
April
April 4 –Bob Cochran, President of B&W Technical Services, Inc.
April 11 – Ian Anderson, Director of Spallation Neutron Source
April 18- Congressman Zach Wamp
April 25 – Board of Directors
January
January 5 - Michael Blackwell, Dean, UT College of Veterinary Medicine
* January 10, 2007, 7:30-9:00 a.m. ETEC/Blount Partnership Joint Meeting at Maryville College. Speaker: Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr. Chairman of the Board of the Cypress Fund for Peace and Security, Washington, D.C.
January 12 - ORHS Seimens Scholars, presenting their national championship program
January 19 - Dee Haslam, President/CEO, RIVR Media
January 26 - Dennis Spurgeon, Associate Secretary of DOE, Nuclear Energy (tentative) and/or ETEC Board Meeting
* Quarterly Regional Meeting in Blount County
February
February 2 - Reinhold Mann, Associate Laboratory Director - Biological and Environmental Sciences, ORNL
February 9 - Steve Creamer, CEO, EnergySolutions
February 16 - Tom Rogers, President & CEO, Technology 2020
February 23 - ETEC Board Meeting
March
March 2 - Dan Baker, Executive Director, UT Law Enforcement Innovation Center
March 9 - Glenn Kline, General Partner, Innovation Valley Ventures
March 16 - Gordon Livingston, Cytogenetics Biodosimetry Laboratory, ORAU
March 23 - ETEC Board Meeting
March 30 - Larry Satkowiak, Director, Nuclear Nonproliferation Program, ORNL
April
April 6 - No ETEC (Good Friday)
April 13 - Congressman Lincoln Davis (TN-04)
April 20 - Roger Hubbard, CEO, Molecular Pathology Laboratory Network
April 27 - ETEC Board Meeting
May
May 4 - Mike Howard, Senior Vice President - R&D, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
May 11 - John Drake, Group Leader, Computational Earth Sciences Group, ORNL
May 18 - Stan Bieleski, Director of Andros Products/Business Operations, REMOTEC
May 25 - ETEC Board Meeting
June
June 1 - Ed Kraft, Technical Director, AF Arnold Engineering Development Center, Tullahoma TN
June 8 - Gerald Gibson, President, Maryville College
June 15 - Cindy McConkey, Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications, SCRIPPS Networks
June 22 - ETEC Board Meeting
June 29 - Joe Ferguson, The Enterprise Center, Chattanooga (Topic: High Speed Ground Transportation Program/Maglev)
* June 25 - Regional Meeting in Blount County:
ETEC / Blount Chamber Partnership Joint Meeting at the Blount Chamber in Maryville. Speaker is Ted Sherry, Manager for the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Y-12 Site Office. Please rsvp to Nicole, allen@eteconline.org or 483-4577 if you are planning to attend.
July
July 6 - No ETEC (Fourth of July Holiday)
July 13 - Larry McNamara, Perma-Fix Environmental Services, Inc.
July 20 - Dr. John Petersen, President, University of Tennessee
July 27 - ETEC Board Meeting
August
August 3 - Tom Bray, CEO, Walden Reserve, LLC
August 10 - Greg Sedrick, CIO, UT Space Institute
August 17 - Congressman Heath Shuler, 11th District, North Carolina
August 24 - ETEC Board Meeting
August 31 - No ETEC (Labor Day Holiday)
September
September 7 - George Dials, General Manager, Y-12 National Security Complex.
September 14 - Bob Eby, Director, American Centrifuge Engineering & Manufacturing Project, USEC, Inc.
September 18 - Joint Blount Chamber/ETEC Meeting - Dana Christenson speaking on ORNL's Energy portfolio
September 21 - Bob Wetherbee, Vice President, Market Strategy, Alcoa Inc.
September 28 - ETEC Board Meeting
October
October 5 - Dr. William Bass, Professor Emeritus, University of Tennessee
October 12 - Dr. Ron Townsend, President, ORAU/ORISE
October 18 - Meeting and Tour of Central Training Facility, 4:00-6:00 p.m. (Wackenhut)
October 19 - Alan Lowe, Baker Center
October 26 - ETEC Board Meeting
November
November 23 - No ETEC (Thanksgiving Holiday)
November 9 - Dr. Thom Mason, Director, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
November 16 - ETEC Board Meeting (SBIR emphasis with Terry Payne)
December
December 14 -Dr. Paul Lisowski, GNEP Deputy Program Manager & Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fuel Cycle Management, Office of Nuclear Energy, DOE / Annual Party Breakfast
December 21 - No ETEC (Christmas Holiday)
December 28 - No ETEC (New Year's Holiday)
January
January 6 - Todd Smith, Executive Director, Knoxville Museum of Art
January 13 - Chuck Shoopman, Tennessee SBIR Proposal Center
January 20 - Tom Kilgore, President & Chief Operating Officer, TVA
January 27 - ETEC Board Meeting & Preston Gates Program with Jim Rogan
February
February 3 - Allen Packwood, Director, Churchill Archives at Cambridge University
February 10 - Dr. Allen Edwards, President, Pellissippi State Technical Community College
February 17 - Rick Davis, Director of Cummings Research Park, Huntsville, Alabama
February 24 - ETEC Board Meeting
March
March 3 - Ambassador Linton Brooks, Under Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Security and Administrator, NNSA
March 10 - Rebuilding our Community: Oak Ridge High School Project Update
March 17 - Incubating Technology Businesses-Tech2020’s CEG featuring: Protein Discovery, Sunlight Direct, and MycoGenomics
March 24 - ETEC Board Meeting
March 31 - Dr. Jeff Wadsworth, Director, ORNL at Knoxville Museum of Art
April
April 7 - George Dials, President and General Manager, Y-12 National Security Complex
April 14 - No ETEC, Good Friday
April 21 - Bill Hall, M.D. - Emerging Medical Technologies: DaVinci Robot
April 28 - ETEC Board Meeting
May
May 5 - Joe Petrolino, President and CEO, NTRC Inc.
May 12 - Chris McKinney, Director, Office of Technology Transfer and Enterprise Development, Vanderbilt University
May 19 - Thomas Zacharia, Associate Laboratory Director for Computing and Computational Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
May 26 - ETEC Board Meeting
June
June 2 - Informal Coffee / Networking Forum
June 9 - Jeff Cornett, President and COO, National Safe Skies Alliance
June 16 - Phil Andrews, New Product and Business Development Manager, Boeing - Oak Ridge
June 23 - Jimmy Allen, Tennessee Valley Authority
June 30 - No ETEC (Fourth of July Holiday)
July
July 7 - Dale Ditmanson, Superintendent, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, at Pellissippi State Technical Community College
July 14 - Bill Bruce, President, BRI Energy
July 21 - Drew Ruble, Editor, Business TN Magazine
July 28 - ETEC Board Meeting
August
August 4 - Congressman Jimmy Duncan, 8:00 a.m. at NTRC
August 11 - Mike Hughes, President, Bechtel Jacobs
August 18 - Gerald Boyd, Oak Ridge Office Manager, Department of Energy
August 25 - ETEC Board Meeting
September
September 1 - No ETEC (Labor Day Holiday)
September 8 - Michael Reitermann, President, Molecular Imaging Division, Siemens Medical Solutions
September 15 - TBA
September 22 - Hazel O'Leary, President, Fisk University
September 29 - ETEC Board Meeting
October
October 6 - Ted Sherry, Manager, NNSA Y-12 Site Office
October 13 - Owen Stevens, Manager, Y-12 Environmental Compliance, BWXT Y-12
October 20 - Brian Jones, Senior Vice President, DPRA Defense Systems Group
October 27 - ETEC Board Meeting
November
November 3 - Zach Wamp, U.S. Representative, 3rd District
November 10 - Ned Sauthoff, Director of U.S. ITER Project, ORNL
November 17 - ETEC Board Meeting
November 24 - No ETEC, Thanksgiving Holiday
December
December 1 - Larry Peck, President, SAIC
December 8 - ETEC Annual Meeting at Oak Ridge Mall
December 15 - Year in Review, Business Mtg, Holiday Gathering
December 22 - No ETEC (Christmas Holiday)
December 29 - No ETEC (New Year's Holiday)