Conference Agenda Announced for 4th Annual NanoBusiness 2005, Nanotechnology's Foremost Business Conference

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 29, 2005--The NanoBusiness Alliance, the world's leading nanotechnology trade association, today announced details of its conference program for the 4th annual NanoBusiness 2005 conference and exhibition, to be held May 22 - 25, 2005 at the New York Marriott Financial Center hotel in New York City. Complete event information can be found at http://www.nanoevent.com .

"Designed for the key stakeholders in the business of small technology, the NanoBusiness 2005 conference has been programmed to provide our hundreds of attendees with everything they need to know to profit from the transformation of nanotechnology into nanobusiness," said Vincent Caprio, event director.

The complete conference program can be viewed online at http://www.nanoevent.com/program.php, and highlights include:

-- Multi-Market Opportunities for Nanotech

-- Alternative Sources of Funding for Nanotech Startups

-- Angels to IPO: Is the Current Financing Model Broken?

-- Strategies for Monetizing Nanotech Patents

-- Top 10 Nanotechnologies for the Developing World

-- Is Nanotech the Future of Pharma?

In addition, NanoBusiness 2005 will play host to the BCC Science and Technical Program, and will also feature the NanoBusiness Alliance's Investor's Forum, including public company presentations by FEI Company, Veeco Instruments, Nanophase Technologies, Nucryst Pharmaceuticals and Combimatrix Corporation.

"As the business of nanotechnology has matured since our inaugural conference three years ago, our conference program has not only had to keep pace with rapid developments," said Nathan Tinker, conference chairman," but has also had to present a forward-looking view of the business landscape. Toward that end, we believe we have programmed our most comprehensive and important conference to date."

About the NanoBusiness Alliance

The NanoBusiness Alliance is the first industry association founded to advance the emerging business of nanotechnology. The NanoBusiness Alliance creates a collective voice for the emerging small tech industry and is developing a range of initiatives to support and strengthen the nanotechnology business community. Exciting initiatives include research and education, public policy and awareness, public relations and promotion, networking, industry support and mentoring programs.

F. Mark Modzelewski, Nathan Tinker and Josh Wolfe of Lux Capital founded the Alliance in 2001. The leaders of the nanotechnology community including Co-Chairmen venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson of Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Herb Goronkin, the noted nanotechnology visionary who recently retired from Motorola, head the Advisory Board of the Alliance.

The Alliance is headquartered in New York City and has offices in Washington, D.C. and Denver, Colorado.

For more information about the NanoBusiness Alliance, please visit: www.nanobusiness.org.