The Business Roundtable's fall meeting will feature presentations from two young Oklahoma entrepreneurs - whose teams received the coveted Innovation Award at the recent Donald W. Reynolds Statewide Business Plan competition. The Roundtable is an Innovation Award sponsor.

Michelle Witt, University of Tulsa and Brendon Quick, University of Oklahoma - were leaders of successful business teams that qualified for $50,000 in in-kind commercialization services from community businesses in the fields of legal, marketing, branding, web and data and networking opportunities.

They will discuss their company's business plan and efforts to move their products to commercialization at the October 7th Roundtable membership meeting.

Witt is with Cryptic Solutions, a start-up company that has developed "Red Vault", a proprietary USB inscription key that protects confidential data residing on document imaging machines.

Quick is with Synthesized NanoCoatings, LLC, a company that has created a patented nanotechnology-based fabric enhancing treatment for use with cotton.

Both companies have great potential and represent the Oklahoma's growing technology based economy.

The Oklahoma Bioscience Association is a new, not-for-profit, statewide membership organization created to advance the growth of Oklahoma's bioscience cluster. The Oklahoma Business Roundtable is supporting start-up of this important organization.

On June 17-20, a 90 person delegation representing the Bio Association, research professionals, Oklahoma City and the Department of Commerce personnel, attended Bio 2008 in San Diego. The Oklahoma group manned a large exhibit booth throughout the conference and sponsored a reception for 195 invited guests, hosted by Lt. Governor Jari Askins. A total of 20,000 global bio-science related professionals attended the conference.

The Roundtable assisted seven Oklahoma company researchers with their travel expenses to attend this important Bio conference. The purpose was to allow these individuals to showcase their work and become more familiar with the national and international aspects of the Bioscience industry.

The Oklahoma Business Roundtable was a key sponsor of the 7th Oklahoma Aerospace Summit/Expo & Training Day, held June 23-25, 2008, in Oklahoma City.

The event set an attendance and an exhibitor record - with over 1200 registrations and 103 exhibitors. Lt. Governor Jari Askins served as keynote speaker.

This year, Roundtable funding was primarily directed to support of the inaugural Aerospace Training Day. The entire day was dedicated to bringing education and training, industry and government leaders together to inform each other and develop action plans and tactics to help nurture and grow Oklahoma's future aerospace workforce. Over 100 educators were in attendance.

Norman, Oklahoma has been named 6th "Best Place To Live" in the recent CNN/Money Magazine listing of America's Top 100 best small cities.

The survey praised Norman for its low cost of living, education programs (including OU), educated workforce and surprising cultural aspects. It said, "People flock to Norman from around the world to study and teach - and then to stay and raise a family."