Innovation in Manufacturing

130 Executives & business leaders attended a special presentation by the Texas-Israel Chamber of Commerce regarding "Innovation & Manufacturing" at UTD on August 19th, 2009. Sponsors included: Elbit Systems of America, Texas Instruments, Perot Systems, Jackson Walker, Presidio, Waldman Brothers, Winstead PC, The Bruc Group, Hillwood, Paetec, The Microscopy Market, & Python EFK, The exciting program of powerhouse speakers featured state-of-the-art solutions using specific case studies from Healthcare and Life Sciences, IT, Semiconductors, Nanotech, and Homeland Security.

• VanDuzen President & CEO, Nancy Hairston
  Rapid prototyping machines and materials are evolving into direct digital manufacturing systems that produce production parts right from CAD files. VanDuzen's MedCad is the leader in Biomedical model development for 3D visualization and manufacturing.
• Elbit Systems President and CEO, Raanan Horowitz
  Elbit Systems is a leading provider of high performance products and system solutions focusing on the defense, homeland security, commercial aviation and medical instrumentation markets.
• Texas Instruments World Wide Manager Medical Electronics Solutions, Shekar Rao
  TI is now applying their expertise to healthcare, using innovative analog and embedded processing technologies to improve the way people see, monitor their health, and minimize pain. Dr. Rao is also a key player in the major standards' organization, IEEE.