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The Micro-enterprise Inventors Program of Oregon (MIPO) and the Oregon Small Business Development Center Network (OSBDC) will host the SBIR/STTR 2012 National Conference: Crack the Code an event that welcomes entrepreneurs, businesses, government agencies, innovators, universities, and community partners to Portland, Oregon.

SBIR/STTR are competitive federal government grant programs that fund small businesses to develop innovative, high-risk technologies with the goal of increasing private sector commercialization into the marketplace.
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Sandhiprakash (Sandhi) Bhide

Intel Corporation
Senior Strategist and Technologist
Oregon
Sandhiprakash (Sandhi) Bhide is a Senior Strategist and Technologist focusing on future mobile devices and machines. His job involves looking at emerging usages/user-experience/usage-models, evolution of 15+ technology vectors, evolution of business models and making sure all three make business sense for Intel. He is responsible for developing insights into the future by closely working with industry visionaries, research labs, technologists, researchers, and ethnographers and conducts very early path-finding. He looks at areas where normally product groups do not. Sandhi serves as an early path finder for future CPU and other Intel products seven years out. He has 34+ years in high-tech and 19+ years at Intel in a variety of positions in HW, SW, System architecture and development, business and strategy development, program management, strategic and product marketing and has also worked across many geographies. Sandhi is a recognized expert on Multimodal and Adaptive or Natural Interfaces, Context-Aware Computing, and Sensors. His most recent focus area is Internet of Things (IoT), wearable/ambient computing,smart/advanced sensors, M2M, Smart Cities, Smart Energy, Agriculture, Transportation, Health, Security, Education, and Communication. He has a BE in Electronics and Telecommunication from University of Pune, India; MS in Computer Science from University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY specializing in Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Machine Vision, and an Executive MBA in Strategic Management from the University of Oregon where he was a Salutatorian. Sandhi, a fun loving true Oregonian has lived in Beaverton, Oregon since 1984 with his wife and 2 grown-up children. Besides his passion for future technologies and innovations, he loves to sing Bollywood music and uses his talent to support a charity which provides free cataract operations for the financially challenged people in rural India. He plays five musical instruments one of which includes his vocal chords.