To attend the competition and register for the conference, go to: http://www.wisconsintechnologycouncil.com/events/ent_conf/

Contestants listed below will present beginning 4 p.m. Tuesday at the Pfister, 424 E. Wisconsin Ave., and ending just before the evening reception. About $200,000 in cash and in-kind prizes will be awarded to those contestants and 13 other finalists. Winners will be announced at Wednesday’s conference luncheon. Wisconsin Commerce Secretary Aaron Olver will speak.

Ankit Agarwal, ImBed Biosciences                                           Life Sciences

Jim Blair, FlexTec Managed Virtual Network                           Information Technology

Kristin Benson Ellsworth, Peeps Eyewear                                 Business Services

Patrick Heaney, NCD Technologies                                          Advanced Manufacturing

Karl Holt, Aero-Stream Septic Remediation                              Advanced Manufacturing

Jim Maerzke, Lever Propelled DCD Wheelchair                       Advanced Manufacturing

Chris Meyer, Sector67                                                             Business Services

Don Noskowiak, Liveyearbook                                                Information Technology

Rishi Shah, Flying Cart LLC                                                     Business Services

Ryan Shepherd, PhylloTech                                                      Life Sciences

Nancy Sielaff, Population Manager                                           Information Technology

Joe Vosters, Friendly Bed Systems                                           Life Sciences

ImBed Biosciences is a biomedical systems company developing advanced materials for wound care and surgical applications. ImBed’s platform technology involves ultra-thin polymer coatings with precise loadings of silver nanoparticles that will enable manufacturing of unique antibacterial biologic wound dressings.

FlexTec Managed Virtual Network is a fully-managed virtual desktop infrastructure. FlexTec delivers robust cloud-computing based IT network services to businesses.

Peeps Eyewear designs and markets quality childrens’ optical frames and accessories, providing positive “first glasses” experiences for pre-school children who GET to wear glasses. The trademarked, optical frames, books and dress-up accessories are packaged in treasure boxes.

NCD Technologies has developed a new process for decreasing thickness and improving the adhesion of nanocrystalline diamond coatings to tungsten carbide, micro-end mills. This process creates significant improvements in cutting performance, afforded by NCD coatings, that are commercially viable.

Aero-Stream designs, manufactures and markets a patented, proven, environmentally beneficial product to maintain and restore septic systems.

Lever Propelled DCD Wheelchair uses the combination of linear to rotary motion conversion and levers to produce a user-powered wheelchair that is as capable as a battery powered wheelchair and more portable than a manually powered wheelchair.

Sector67 is a non‐profit center for technology, prototyping and advanced manufacturing (hacker space) providing tools, equipment, and member networking to people in the southern Wisconsin area interested in creating innovative technology and working with the community.

Liveyearbook is reinvigorating an iconic American institution, the school yearbook. Liveyearbook’s Software as a Service platform offers schools the editorial control they need and improved economics while letting students create custom yearbooks online and/or in traditional print formats that cover the entire year.

Flying Cart LLC is a subscription-based web application for the creation and management of online stores. Customers get their own store website with credit card processing, an administrative interface for managing products and orders, automated marketing tools, and full integration of Facebook so they can quickly find customers through friends and family.

PhylloTech is an agricultural biotechnology company that is developing broad-spectrum natural product fungicides for the environmentally-friendly control of plant pathogens. The core technology of PhylloTech is a family of antimicrobial proteins, termed phylloplanins, which are naturally secreted as defenses to plant leaf surfaces.

Population Manager is a software solution that supports an ongoing flow of health-care data. It is a web-based tool that provides physicians, hospitals and other health care stakeholders with structured views of quality measures that can be used to improve patient care, reduce costs and compare performance to evidence-based standards.

The Friendly Bed System consists of framework (over and under a bed) that accommodates a full range of optional features to improve the safety, mobility, and comfort of elderly and or disabled users.

All finalists have survived three rounds of judging in the contest organized through the Wisconsin Technology Council, which produces the contest in conjunction with the Wisconsin Innovation Network, the Wisconsin Angel Network and other statewide affiliates. The contest began in late January with 285 entries from about 100 communities.

This year’s contest sponsors: 5Nines/Matador Consulting; Aberdean Consulting LLC; American Transmission Co.; Associated Bank; Earth Information Technologies; Epiphany Law; Fitchburg Technology Campus; Foley & Lardner LLP; Frontier Airlines; The Gialamas Company; The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel and Journal Interactive; Kollath & Associates, CPAs; The Luminis Group, Ltd.; Madison Area Technical College; Madison Gas & Electric Co.; McAllen TECH Campus; Michael Best & Friedrich LLP; Murphy Desmond; PercipEnz Technologies, Inc.; Perkins Coie; Quarles & Brady LLP; Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c.; Ruedebusch Development & Construction; Rusk Prairie Group; Smith & Gesteland LLP; State of Wisconsin Investment Board; TDS Telecom; University Research Park; Wisconsin Department of Commerce; WisBusiness.com; Wisconsin Angel Network; Wisconsin Tech College System; Wisconsin Technology Council; WTN Media; and Xcel Energy.

Other highlights of the eighth annual Entrepreneurs’ Conference include:

The annual “Seize the Day” award luncheon on Tuesday, June 8. This year’s winner is Bill Linton, CEO and founder of Promega.

Headline speeches by Dave Berkus, past chairman of California’s Tech Coast Angels and one of the nation’s most prolific angel investors, who will also host a conference workshop; Eric Apfelbach, chief executive officer of ZBB Energy Corp. in Menomonee Falls; Sue Marks, founder and CEO of Brookfield-based Pinstripe Inc., a privately‐held, venture‐backed human resources and recruitment process outsourcing firm; and Robert Okabe, a veteran Chicago-area investor and managing director of RPX Group, where he leads the firm’s efforts to assist universities, research institutions and corporations in creating startups.

Nearly 20 panel discussions, workshops and special sessions under the “Pathways to Innovation” theme.

Plenty of chances to network over food and refreshments!

Register or learn more by visiting www.wisconsintechnologycouncil.com/events/ent_conf.

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But I am not young compared to this overachiever:

Wisconsin schoolboy entrepreneur lands government mowing contract

WisBusiness.com: Tech executives express signs of optimism about state’s economy now – and in coming year

http://host.madison.com/wsj/business/article_f9247d5e-61cd-11df-864f-001cc4c03286.html

Twenty-one entries from 10 communities are competing in the finalist round of the seventh annual Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest.

The contestants have survived two rounds of judging in the contest organized through the Wisconsin Technology Council, which produces the contest in conjunction with the Wisconsin Innovation Network, the Wisconsin Angel Network and other statewide affiliates. The contest began in late January with 284 entries.

“The business plans in the final round reflect some of Wisconsin’s core technology strengths, as well as the fact that entrepreneurs can be found in all corners of the state,” said Mark Bugher, chairman of the Tech Council.

The 21 plans selected for the final round will be joined by the winner of the Northeast Wisconsin Business Plan Contest and by award-winning plans from two university-based contests, bringing the total number of finalists to about two dozen.

Ideas from this year’s crop of finalists include products or services in energy generation, “green” materials and products, software, health care and Internet services. Entries were submitted in four categories: Advanced Manufacturing, Business Services, Information Technology and Life Sciences.

Contestants will submit a 20-page business plan for review by a panel of 79 judges established by the Tech Council, which is the non-profit and non-partisan science and technology adviser to the governor and the Legislature. Each plan describes the core product or service, defines the customer base, estimates the size of the market, identifies competition, list members of the management team and provides key financial data.

The finalists’ executive summaries as well as those filed by semi-finalists are available for inspection by accredited investors through the Wisconsin Angel Network, which has 25 member angel networks, private equity funds or corporate strategic partners.

About $150,000 in cash and in-kind prizes have been pledged thus far for the 2010 contest; first prize in the statewide contest is worth $50,000 in cash and services. Prize winners will be announced June 8-9 at the Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Conference in Milwaukee.

Sponsors of the 2010 so far include: 5Nines/Matador Consulting; Aberdean Consulting LLC; American Transmission Co.; Associated Bank; Earth Information Technologies; Epiphany Law; Fitchburg Technology Campus; Foley & Lardner LLP; The Gialamas Company; Johnson Block CPAs; The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel and Journal Interactive; Kollath & Associates, CPAs; The Luminis Group, Ltd.; Madison Area Technical College; Madison Gas & Electric Co.; McAllen TECH Campus; Michael Best & Friedrich LLP; Midwest Airlines; Murphy Desmond; PercipEnz Technologies, Inc.; Perkins Coie; Quarles & Brady LLP; Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c.; Ruedebusch Development & Construction; Smith & Gesteland LLP; State of Wisconsin Investment Board; TDS Telecom; University Research Park; Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek, S.C.; Wisconsin Department of Commerce; WisBusiness.com; Wisconsin Angel Network; Wisconsin Technology Council; WTN Media; and Xcel Energy.

Finalists for 2010 are listed below. Reporters wishing to contact individual contestants may do so through the Wisconsin Technology Council by calling 608-442-7557 ext. 27.

Roxanne Allaire                   Free Energy System                              New Berlin
Jim Blair                               FlexTec Managed Virtual Network       Madison
Kristin Benson Ellsworth   Peeps Eyewear LLC (child vision)     Madison
Mohammad Yusuf Haroon  AdPorts.com                                        Madison
Patrick Heaney                   NCD Technologies (nano-coatings)  Madison
William Henry                      SLAM Inc. (software-as-service)        Madison
Pramote Hochareon          Isolated heart cooling device          Vadnais Heights, Minn.
Karl Holt                               Aero-Stream Septic Remediation      Hartland
Rick Hood                            Green Isle Resources (biodiesel)    Appleton
Aaron Larner                       Viz Chart EMR Software                      Madison
Jeff LeDuc                            SolarWindow                                        Appleton
Jeff Leismer                         VibeTech, Inc.                                       Sheboygan
Jim Maerzke                         Lever-propelled DCD wheelchair     Kenosha
Dan Nickchen                      Liveyearbook                                         Greenville
Rishi Shah                            Flying Cart LLC (web application)    Waukesha
Ryan Shepherd                   Phyllotech (ag-biotech)                        Madison
Nancy Sielaff                         Population Manager (software)         Madison
Gurindar Sohi                      Multicore Software                                 Madison
Craig Tarr                            Solar for Indoor Pools                            Hudson
Joe Vosters                         Friendly Bed Systems                            Appleton
Bryan Woodhouse             S.E.W.S. (medical training)                   Edgerton
Alexy Zdanovsky                Alpha Universe (pathogen detectors)    Madison

From the site:

If you are curious about drawing, always wanted to learn, or use it every day, this event is for you! An unconference-style event means you can come and go as you please, even from session to session, and that  you get to propose and even present the sessions you think would be most interesting.

 EMSystems LLC, a Milwaukee-based provider of web-based health care information technology solutions for the public health and emergency services markets, has been acquired by Intermedix Corp. of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

http://www.biztimes.com/daily/2010/5/3/florida-company-acquires-emsystems-of-milwaukee