Technology Commercialization Workshops – Workshop 4: TechGrowth

FEE:  FREE

Description: Overwhelmed at the prospect of selling to the Government? Here’s the help you need. Learn about the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program and federal contracting opportunities through Fed Biz Opps, as well as selling to city and state purchasing departments. Also, presented will be information on registering with the federal System for Award Management (SAM) and getting on bidder’s lists for city and state procurement opportunities.

Specific objectives include:
• How to locate funding opportunities within the Federal Government.
• Registrations necessary to do business with the Federal Government.
• What the SBIR/STTR programs are and how they work.

Speaker(s): Sanjay Dhole is a Technology Program Coordinator for Maricopa SBDC. He works with tech startups by helping them put together business plan, feasibility analysis, SBIR/STTR proposal preparation, investor readiness and other activities. Prior to joining SBDC, Sanjay founded and operated two Arizona based businesses in the area of IT Software and Finance.

Sanjay holds Masters in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University and Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology. He worked for Microchip Technology and Intel Corp. as Product and Design Engineer prior to starting his entrepreneurial career. You may contact Sanjay at sanjay.dhole@domail.maricopa.edu.