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Small Times NanoCon International is being held September 20-22, 2006 at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The photos included here are from the Best of Small Tech Awards luncheon held on Thursday, Sept. 21. It was the fifth annual edition of the awards, which honor achievements in the categories of product, company, business leader, researcher, innovator, advocate and lifetime achievement.
The winners were written about in the September/October issue of Small Times magazine.
Sept. 22, 2006 — Attendees of NanoCon 2006 witnessed the announcement of Small Times’ Best of Small Tech Awards on Thursday in Las Vegas. The current issue of Small Times magazine presents a list of winners and runners-up, as well as descriptions of their products and contributions.
Sean Murdock, executive director of the NanoBusiness Alliance, received the award for Advocate of the Year, and hit a particularly relevant note with comments to the attendees. “These awards are not about ‘I’,” Murdock said. “They are about ‘we,’ about the industry as a whole. It is due to the support of many people both in this room and outside of it that nanotechnology has grown to the level it is now at.”
For a list of the winners, check out the press release.
Professor Morinobu Endo of Shinshu University in Japan accepted the 2006 Best of Small Tech lifetime achievement award.
After accepting his award, Dr. Endo gave a brief presentation about the history of carbon nanotubes, his research into manufacturing processes, and some of the current and future products that take advantage of carbon nanotubes.
Greg Schmergel, chief executive of Nantero, poses with Patti Glaza, vice president and group publisher of Small Times. Nantero, which is developing nanotube-based memory, was a finalist in the company of the year category.
Sean Murdock, executive director of the NanoBusiness Alliance, accepts the advocate of the year award.
Tim Jenks, chief executive of NeoPhotonics, speaks briefly after accepting the business leader of the year award.
Jie Zhang, principal staff engineer at Motorola, and Patti Glaza, vice president and group publisher of Small Times. Zhang was a finalist in the researcher category.