Devin Fell, co-founder of Sentiré Medical Systems, discusses his company and technology during Technology Showcase Day July 14 at Fuller Lodge. Fell discussed his company’s patented Perf-Alert, which is a monitoring system that alerts surgeons to bowel perforations during laparoscopic surgery. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
Scott Ziegler, co-founder of Space Kinetic, discusses his company and technology during Technology Showcase Day July 14 at Fuller Lodge. Ziegler is a NM LEEP fellow and Space Kinetic has become a cleared defense contractor with a vision for redefining national security space’s future. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
Ilayda Samilgil, co-founder and CEO of LLume/Organic Robotics Corporation, makes a presentation during Technology Showcase Day July 14 at Fuller Lodge. She touched on her company’s Chest Strap, which measures the maximum amount of oxygen that an individual can utilize during intense or maximal exercise, ventilation, breathing pattern and more without a mask or skin contact. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
LANL News:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) hosted Technology Showcase Day July 14 at Fuller Lodge. The event was part of the 2024 ScienceFest. Fourteen individuals, which included LANL post-docs, representatives of start-up companies and participants of the New Mexico Lab Embedded Entrepreneur Program (NM LEEP) unveiled their businesses or technologies in a series of presentations.
After each presentation, a group of judges: Richard Sudek, Hall Martin, Victoria Silvkoff, Ward Hendon and Katherine Binney asked questions of the speakers. Duncan McBranch served as emcee.
Communications and External Affairs’ Tricia Ware explained the event’s primary purpose was to demonstrate how innovations from LANL become products in the marketplace and how the LANL shares its technology and talent with start-up companies to test and develop products. The primary audiences for Tech Days are entrepreneurs who might want to collaborate with the Laboratory, investors who may be interested working with the entrepreneurs, and government employees in the economic development sector who want to be aware of the Lab’s programs to help New Mexico businesses expand or to encourage other businesses to relocate to New Mexico.
The first four presenters were NM LEEP fellows, which Ware explained receive a stipend, $100,000/year for two years. Some of the dollars come from Laboratory royalties and some come from the State of New Mexico’s Technology Readiness Gross Receipts initiative. The remaining presenters. The NM LEEP fellows developed their own technologies and then applied for the NM LEEP opportunity administered by the Laboratory and the Los Alamos Commerce and Development Corporation, Ware said. They are working with LANL experts to improve their product ideas and build their business opportunities. The second group of presenters were internal Laboratory postdocs and employees discovering commercial pathways for their technologies.
Vignesh Chandrasekaran, a postdoc researcher with expertise in quantum information science and nanotechnology, discusses his quantum interconnect technology that could be the basis of existing computer networks being able to network with quantum computers. Chandrasekaran finished the Entrepreneur Postdoc Program in May. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com