March 24th, 2016
The Wright Brothers Institute held the kickoff of its Market-Pull Commercialization pilot of the Dayton Metro Plan for Economic Diversity project, funded by DoD’s Office of Economic Adjustment (OEA).
The WBI Market-Pull Commercialization Model aims to reduce the risk for technologists and investors, while providing commercial opportunities for the region’s extensive R&D assets and for federal laboratories, particularly AFRL.
WBI demonstrated how this model will work and how Dayton’s technology developers can engage in this opportunity. Using the market area of Precision Agriculture, WBI discussed how you can engage in the process. Future market areas will be Energy, Human Performance, and Environmental Monitoring.

America Makes Overview
Charts on America Makes presented by John Wilczynski

Add. Man. for Air Force
Slides presented by Dan Berrigan on Additive Manufacturing for Air Force Applications.
What People are Saying About This Collider
We came to meet potential clients and hear about what was going on in the Dayton area. Our goal was to help improve our network.Survey Respondent
Great conversations, great to see old faces and meet new ones. Also a fantastic to feel the passions this group has!Adam Clark, Tangible Solutions
Excellent intro to America Makes. The AM vendor displays and chance to dialog were great as well.Les McFawn