November conference to examine
knowledge-based partnerships

Chad Holliday, chairman and chief executive officer of DuPont, and Abby Joseph Cohen, partner and chief U.S. investment strategist with Goldman Sachs & Co., will be featured speakers at a University of Delaware conference, “Creating Knowledge-Based Partnerships: Challenges and Opportunities,” to be held Friday, Nov. 2, in Clayton Hall, on the Laird Campus in Newark.

The conference is the first in a new series of programs designed to engage University, government and business leaders in the challenges and opportunities for partnership and to highlight opportunities for enhanced future partnerships. The Nov. 2 conference will consider issues in corporate governance, alternative energy, life sciences, environment and agriculture, and advanced materials in a series of panel discussions.

“Since arriving at UD, I have been impressed by the opportunities for partnerships among higher education, business and government at all levels,” UD President Patrick Harker says. “I look forward to strengthening the University’s contribution
to such partnerships.

“With global competition, knowledge-based partnerships will play an increasingly important role in the advancement of the state, the nation and the University,” he says. “This conference is an important first step in identifying Delaware’s strengths and in laying the groundwork for increased partnerships between the state’s academic institutions, government and the private sector.”

The daylong conference will include a welcome by Delaware Gov. Ruth Ann Minner, a morning talk by Holliday on “Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future” and luncheon remarks by Cohen. Several business, government and educational leaders will participate in panel discussions.

The conference is sponsored by UD, the Office of the Governor, the Delaware State Chamber of Commerce, the Delaware Public Policy Institute, the Delaware Business Roundtable, First State Innovation, Select Greater Philadelphia and The News Journal.

Cost of this conference is $25, and registration deadline is Oct. 26.

Additional information about the conference is available at [www.udel.edu/partnerships]. z