LANL News:
The Richard P. Feynman Center for Innovation at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has teamed with the New Mexico Start-Up Factory to kick off the 8th Annual DisrupTECH Showcase – a celebration of “disruptive technology’ created by the brilliant minds at LANL.
This year’s festivities will be hybrid (virtual and in-person) and held 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Aug. 3, at LANL and online.
This event is free and open to the public. In-person attendees will have access to a very unique networking opportunity and will have the opportunity to engage with scientists before and after the presentations.
The featured presentations include technologies from across the Lab that have potential applications in the commercial sphere.
Founded in 2014, DisrupTECH has quickly built a reputation for being one of the most exciting technology-focused events in New Mexico. It is known for showcasing technologies that have the potential to ‘disrupt’ existing markets or to potentially create new ones.
The Feynman Center at Los Alamos originally launched this event with the vision of celebrating the innovation and technology developments at LANL, while educating the community and providing professional development for research staff and post-doctoral graduates. DisrupTECH continues to connect entrepreneurial-minded scientists to investors, regional leaders, policy makers and industrial partners.
“DistrupTECH has been providing information, presentations and professional development for Postdocs and researchers at LANL for the past eight years,” said Managing Director John Chavez of the New Mexico Start-Up Factory and entrepreneurial coach. “This year we have another group of presentations that celebrate the technologies, entrepreneurial energy and the post-doctoral researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratories.”
This year’s program will feature eight Laboratory projects:
Hard tech technologies:
- Kalpak Dighe (J-6): K-Modules: Capacitive Energy modules for Pulsed Power Applications;
- Vlad Henzl (NEN-1) and Ann Junghans (NEN-1): BioGoo – Revolutionizing crime scene investigations with high-efficiency forensic sampling;
- Jeff Inman (HPC-DES): Streaming Network Computing;
- Ryan Mier (SIGMA-1): Rapid Prototyping for Forming Tools Through Additive Manufacturing;
- Vitaly Pavlenko (AOT-AE): Automated Growth of Photocathodes; and
- Harshul Thakkar (MPA-11): Carbon Membranes for Hydrogen Production and Carbon Capture.
Software technologies:
- Manvendra Dubey (EES-14): Find Gas Source (FIGS) Neural Network Software; and
- Garrett Ransom (HPC-SYS): The Grand Unified File Index (GUFI).
“We have seen some of the most innovative technologies emerge from Los Alamos National Labs and have had the pleasure of working with the inventors through our Mentorship Program,” Chavez said. “It is exciting to see all of their hard work come together to create a brilliant, cohesive and, most importantly, understandable platform to present their innovations to the community. It is truly an incredible honor to be a part of such a great, locally supported event.”
Prominent events such as DisrupTECH would not exist without the help of our sponsors. The State of New Mexico Economic Development Department (NMEDD) has developed programs and initiatives to support their mission to “enhance and leverage a competitive environment to create jobs, develop the tax base and provide incentives for business development”.
NMEDD has supported the event for the past 8 years and helps connect LANL scientists to the community. DisrupTECH is also supported by the New Mexico Bioscience Authority, the State’s first public-private partnership designed to build a new model of bioscience industry and ORC Tech, LLC (Optical Radio Communications Technology), a technology development company created by the New Mexico Start-Up Factory with the primary goal of advancing a portable wireless signal booster from prototype through commercialization.
For more information about DisrupTECH or to purchase tickets, visit www.LANLDisrupTech.com. For more information about the Los Alamos National Laboratory, visit www.lanl.gov or email Colleen Pastuovic at cpastuovic@lanl.gov. For more information about the New Mexico Start-Up Factory, visit www.nmsuf.com.
About Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory, a multidisciplinary research institution engaged in strategic science on behalf of national security, is operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC, a team composed of Bechtel National, The University of California, BWXT Government Group and URS, an AECOM Company for the department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration. Los Alamos Enhances national security by ensuring the safety and reliability of the United States’ nuclear stockpile, developing technologies to reduce threats from weapons of mass destruction and solving problems related to energy, environment, infrastructure, health and global security concerns.
About The New Mexico Start-Up Factory
The New Mexico Start-Up Factory specializes in sourcing and transitioning laboratory technologies into investable companies. In our innovative model, we work with scientists and entrepreneurs striving to develop their innovations with the end goal of executing a commercialization strategy and implementing a strong business infrastructure. Through our program, technologists are coached through the validation of the technology and market and are then paired with the right management team. A commercialization and business plan/model is formed and if all signs point to a good market opportunity and promising technological development, a company is formed. Companies and scientists that successfully complete the educational piece of the program are open to investment from the NMSUF Fund.
