8:00 to 8:30am Continental Breakfast
8:30 to 8:45am WELCOME: Elaine Johnson
8:45 to 10:15am

Biotechnology is an industry that transforms scientific knowledge into marketable products and services. This session highlights innovative educational programs that expose technical program students to real world business aspects of biotechnology.

Linda R. Rehfuss, Ph.D. Dean, Math, Science & Advanced Technology Montgomery County Community College Blue Bell, Pennsylvania

Tamara Goetz, Ph.D. Salt Lake Community College Jordan Applied Tech Center West Jordan, Utah

Sengyong Lee, Ph.D. Biotechnology Program Chair Ivy Tech Community College Bloomington, Indiana

Lisa Seidman, Ph.D. Bio-Link North Central Region Director Madison Area Tech College Madison, Wisconsin

10:15 to 10:30am BREAK
10:30am to Noon
Seventy-five percent of the biopharmaceutical manufacturing workforce is composed technicians in production, quality, validation and process development. As pressure on the biopharmaceutical sector to get drugs into the marketplace accelerates, industry is partnering with education on the delivery of biopharmaceutical manufacturing education and training to students and incumbent workers. This session features Industry-Education Collaboratives around the nation, in Puerto Rico and Ireland that are working together to build the biomanufacturing education and training and workforce infrastructure for their regions.

PR Bioscience Alliance (www.biotechpr.org) Carlos Tollinche Director of Scientific Affairs INDUNIV Research Consortium San Juan, Puerto Rico

Juan Pablo Gutierrez Executive Director Plant Manager Amgen-Puerto Rico Juncos, Puerto Rico

Bio-Futures of Indiana Andy Cothrel V.P. of Operations Roche Diagnostics Indianapolis, Indiana

Todd Murphy, Ph.D. Biotechnology Program Chair Ivy Tech Community College Indianapolis, Indiana

Northeast Biomanufacturing Center & Collaborative (NBC2) (www.biomanufacturing.org) Sonia Wallman, Ph.D. Director of NBC2 New Hampshire Community Technical College Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Michael Cicio V.P. Operations, Plant Manager Portsmouth, NH Lonza Biologics, Inc. Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Noon to 1:30pm Lunch and NETWORKING
1:30 to 3:00pm

Community college programs often include an internship or apprenticeship. This session will explore the value of work experience by illustrating Internship and Apprenticeship programs. Interns, apprentices and faculty will describe their experiences.

Russ Read (and Intern) Executive Director National Center for the Biotechnology Workforce Forsyth Technical Community College Winston-Salem, NC Mica Welsh, FTCC

Ellyn A. Daugherty (and Intern) Biotechnology Educator San Mateo Biotech Careers San Mateo, California Video Interview with Boris Video Interview with Julia

3:00 to 3:15pm BREAK
3:15 to 4:45pm

A frequently asked question is "Can community and technical college graduates become employed in the biotechnology industry?" There is no better way to learn the answer than to hear from the successful employees themselves. The session will begin with remarks from Victoria Bradshaw, Secretary for the California Labor & Workforce Development Agency. This Agency has a budget of $12.9 billion with 12,500 employees. Following her comments, five graduates from community and technical colleges in different regions of the nation will tell their stories. The message is clear that community and technical colleges are preparing a skilled workforce and public funding is assisting biotechnology programs to prepare the much needed workers.

Jim Crawford, Forsyth Technical Community College

Kelsey Ruddick, Mass Bay Community College

Marlena Jackson, City College of San Francisco

Tori Barron, WiCell Research Institute

4:45 to 5:00pm Wrap-Up/BIO 2008 in San Diego