Program

The EIPBN 2025 Startup Contest is designed to support entrepreneurs, students, research staff, and faculty transition early-stage technologies into scalable ventures. The contest is the most visible way to present an innovation related to our founding topics of electron, ion and photon beam technology as well as micro-/nano-fabricated devices enabled by these patterning or novel nanomanufacturing techniques.

The Startup Session will begin with Veronica Savu, the winner of the 2012 Startup Contest, and now the CEO of Morphotonix. She will talk about high-tech entrepreneurship, and how Morphotonix grew out of the Startup Contest. Ventures participating in the Startup Contest will then be invited to pitch to the conference audience. The pitch will be presented live. The format for the pitch will be a 3-minute pitch followed by 2 minutes of Q&A with the audience. EIPBN 2025 Startup Contest winners will be announced later on the same day. 

The winner will receive a sponsored exhibitor package consisting of an exhibition booth and services displaying your business for two days, Wednesday, May 28 through Thursday, May 29. The winner of the Startup Contest will be announced on eipbn.org and honored at EIPBN 2025 conference dinner on Thursday evening (one complimentary ticket will be waiting for the winner).

This contest is ideal for any venture developing a technology that is related to any of the topics in the technical scope of the conference. The contest encourages participation from all ventures incorporating new technical findings from any of EIPBN’s fields of scientific interest. Entry is open to startups at any stage of development – from early ideation to technology validation and growth. This contest aims to support the transition of technology and ideas from the lab into a scalable venture.