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Nanotech 2008 & Clean Technology 2008 Advance Registration Ends May 23

21:01 EDT Tuesday, May 13, 2008

BOSTON (Business Wire) -- The Nano Science and Technology Institute (NSTI) today announced the deadline for Advance Registration is May 23rd for the co-located Nanotech 2008, TechConnect Summit and Clean Technology 2008 events. Nanotech 2008, TechConnect Summit and Clean Technology 2008 events take place in Boston, Massachusetts' Hynes Convention Center on June 1 - 5, 2008. These are the premier industry events on nanotechnology, clean technology and corporate licensing and partnering in the world.

In addition to the showcases over 300 companies and organizations exhibiting at the events, the conference programs includes over 1,000 technology and business presentations in every area of nanotechnology and some 300 in clean technology. More than 100 early stage companies are presenting at TechConnect Summit joining a host of Fortune 500 companies presenting their corporate technology needs. Additional sessions include government program reviews, an early stage company showcase and expanded vertical industry coverage.

The full nanotechnology program can be found at http://www.nsti.org/Nanotech2008 and at http://www.csievents.org/Cleantech2008/ for Clean Technology 2008 and http://techconnect.org/Summit2008/ for TechConnect. The following is a partial list of confirmed speakers:

Ray O. Johnson        Andres E. Carvallo        Paul Dickerson
Chief Technology      Austin Energy             US DOE
 Officer
Lockheed Martin       Duncan Macleod            Steven Xanthoudakis
 Corporation          Shell Hydrogen            Merck

Andrew Zaske          Doborah Morrisset         Thomas Keller
General Electric -    Chrysler                  GlaxoSmithKline
 Water
                      David Vieau               Nicole Bieri
Bruce M. Pratt        A123 Systems              Novartis
Genzyme Corporation
                      I. Dairanieh              Tinh Nguyen
Wilber James          Beyond Petroleum (BP)     NIST
RockPort Capital
 Partners             Lewis Norman              Naoki "Nick" Sugimoto
                      Halliburton               Honda Motor
David Henderson                                  Corporation
XPV Capital           Henry Wong
                      Intel                     Chad A. Mirkin
Mark Mielke                                     Northwestern
BASF Future Business  Sharon L. Nunes            University
 GmbH                 IBM
                                                S. DePasquale
R. Shanker            Daniel L. Laird           GE Venture Capital
Dow Ventures          Sandia National
                       Laboratories             Peter Antoinette
D. Kalez                                        Nanocomp Technologies
Pacific Crest Capital D. Kopans
                      Fat Spaniel               Sarah Audet
Shyam Venkatesh                                 Medtronic
Omron                 L. Szablya
                      Grid Point                Angela Belcher
Sally C. Gutierrez                              MIT
EPA                   Joseph Strakey
                      CTO DOE National Energy   Jens Rieger
Tony Maull, Jr.                                 BASF
Ernst & Young         David A. Weitz
                      Harvard University        J. Cooke
Anna Moore                                      Toyota
Harvard Medical       Sotiris E. Pratsinis
 School               Swiss Federal Inst. of    Cyndi Tucker
                       Tech.                    ConocoPhillips
John Sheehan
Livefuels             Patti Glaza               Valery A. Petrenko
                      CTSI                      Auburn University
Soren Nohr Bak
Grundols              Fang Changxin             Vladimir Torchilin
                      Toyota & Think Energy     Northeastern
Jake M. Reder                                    University
Cabot Corporation     Jack A. Roth
                      University of Texas       Mark N. Milton
Rich Mannherz          Cancer Center            Tempo Pharmaceuticals
Analog Devices
                      Bahram Farahmand          Piotr Grodzinski
Ian A. Bowles         The Boeing Company        National Cancer
Commonwealth of                                  Institute
 Massachusetts        Jerry Hallmark
                      Motorola                  Anna Stradner
Daniel E. Rardon                                Nestle-University of
PPG Industries        Vinayak P. Dravid          Fribourg
                      Northwestern University
Scott R. Manalis                                Wilson Poon
MIT                   Michael Pratt             The University of
                      Boston University          Edinburgh
David Douglas
Vice President, Eco   Joshua Dickinson          Dean Ilievski
 Responsibility       WateReuse Foundation      Alcoa
Sun Microsystems
                      Alois Popp                L.B. Kane
Fiona Case            Unilever                  WholeFoods Market
NSTI
                      Kieran Drain              Roy M. Palk
Sam Bhattacharyya     Nanogram                  New Horizons
Savannah River                                   Consulting
 Nuclear Solutions    Mitch Tyson
                      Advanced Electron Beam    John S. Chapman
David Wright                                    DuPont Central
Vanderbilt University T. Bailey                  Research
                      Evergreen Solar
Srinivas Iyer                                   Christopher J. Noren
Los Alamos National   Peter Moller              New England Biolabs
 Laboratory           GE IP Equity
                                                A.C. Smith
B. Raemy                                        Lehman Brothers
Carbon Capture
 Corporation                                    J. Grossman
                                                Soltage
Yaron Jacobs
C.Q.M.

Ezra Green
Clear Skies Solar
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The Nanotech conference provides a multi-industry perspective on corporate R&D as well as the commercialization and product development of micro and nanotechnologies. Clean Technology 2008 is a multi-disciplinary and multi-sector conference on global sustainability addressing advancements in traditional technologies, emerging technologies and clean business practices. The Clean Technology ecosystem enables a growing set of knowledge-based technologies, products or services designed to improve operational performance, productivity or efficiency while reducing costs, inputs, energy consumption, waste or pollution. TechConnect Summit is a showcase of prescreened, advanced technologies and early stage companies specifically in nanotech, cleantech and biotech.

About NSTI:

The Nano Science and Technology Institute (NSTI; www.nsti.org) is chartered with the advancement and integration of nano and other advanced technologies through education, collaboration and research services. NSTI accomplishes this mission through its offerings of continuing education programs, conventions, scientific and business publishing and custom research services. NSTI produces the annual Nanotech conference and trade show. Nanotech 2008, celebrating its 11th year, is expected to attract over 3,500 industrial, academic, business and governmental attendees from around the word. It is the largest gathering of the nanotechnology industry in the U.S. The event is a unique gathering of the scientific and business community working on the development and commercialization of nano and small-scale technology. NSTI was founded in 1997 as a result of the merger between various scientific societies, and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts with offices in California and Switzerland.

for NSTI
Sarah Wenning, 925-901-4959
wenning@nsti.org

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