Infrastructures for Innovation: Financing Innovation in Houston Today for Tomorrow
Houston has been a leader in the innovation-based economic sector for more than a century. What’s being done, and what needs to be done, to keep Houston on track for the 21st century?
Thought leaders in the technical, entrepreneurial, health-care, and policy arenas from across the country will come together at the T. T. Chao Symposium on Innovation to explore
- Houston’s role in a technologically based society compared with that of tech hubs, such as the Bay Area and Boston
- How to help Houston build a sustainable financial infrastructure for innovation
- Philanthropy’s role in sustaining start-ups
Conference Schedule
5:00 p.m.: Registration and Refreshments
5:30 p.m.: Opening Remarks
Albert Chao, Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Foundation
Robert G. W. Anderson, President and CEO, Science History Institute
5:45 p.m.: Keynote Speaker
Jack Gill, Chair, Gill Foundation of Texas, and Founder, Houston’s GOOSE Society
6:30 p.m.–8:00 p.m.: Panels
Success Stories of Houston Innovation
Building and Sustaining a Financial Foundation
8:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m. Closing Reception