Tiecon Southeast 2013

Our keynote speakers include: Don Panoz, Founder of Chateau Elan Winery & Resort and Panoz Motorsports, and credited with tremendous contributions to inventing the nicotine patch; Dr. Kiran Patel, a leading entrepreneur, community leader and philanthropist whose several achievements are only matched by his demonstrated acts of charity around the globe; Dr. Sid Gautam, Founder and Director of STEP (Society to Educate People) and Founder of the Center for Entrepreneurship at Methodist University; Dr. Tim Fox, a medical physicist and co-founder of Velocity Medical Solutions, LLC; and Dr. Ashok K. Goel, Director of the Design & Intelligence Laboratory at Georgia Institute of Technology, and a Co-Director of the Institute’s Center for Biologically Inspired Design.