Hosts & Sponsors
Hosts
Long Island High Technology Incubator
 The Long Island High Technology Incubator (LIHTI), whose dedicated facility
opened in 1992 as Long Island’s first new technology start-up facility,
has grown to 72,000 square feet. LIHTI enables clients, from biotech
to materials to software, to access the world-class research assets of
the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Graduates have hundreds
of employees regionally and earned almost $100 million last year.
State University of New York at Stony Brook
 Ranked
in the top three public research universities, the State University of
New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook is the critical intellectual resource
for a high-technology region larger than 19 states. Campus incubator
graduates employ several hundred Long Islanders and earn $100 million
in annual corporate revenues. Campus researchers won more than $140
million in competitive funds last year and state designations as the
Center of Excellence for Wireless and Information Technology and the
STAR Center for Biomolecular Diagnostics and Therapeutics. Campus
technology transfer accounts for the SUNY system’s top 15 national
position and only FDA-licensed drugs.
Sponsors
Community Development Corporation of Long Island
 Community
Development Corporation of Long Island is a not-for-profit, U.S. Treasury-certified
Community Development Financial Institution and
Small Business Administration Microloan intermediary, with a special
focus on providing loans and technical assistance to small businesses “below
the radar” of traditional lenders, promoting job creation, and
fostering economic and community development as well as affordable housing.
Deloitte & Touche
 Deloitte & Touche, a leading global professional services firm, provides
a broad range of accounting, auditing, tax and management consulting
services through 82,000 people in more than 130 countries. The Tri-State
Technology, Media & Telecommunications practice serves clients in
the computer software, telecommunications, networking, publishing, multimedia,
semiconductor, electronic systems and life-science industries. Our high-tech “thought-leadership” knowledge
is embedded in our services to help clients succeed at all stages of
their business growth cycle.
Hauppauge Industrial Association
 The Hauppauge Industrial Association is a vigorous, award-winning business
organization representing nearly 1,500 companies with more than 50,000
employees, and occupying one of the largest industrial parks in the
eastern United States.
Long Island Power Authority
 The Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) became Long Island’s nonprofit
electric utility on May 28, 1998. Today, LIPA delivers electricity to
nearly 1.1 million customers in Nassau and Suffolk Counties and the Rockaway
Peninsula in Queens. LIPA is highly rated for service restoration, ranking
in the top tier for uninterrupted service among all New York State utilities
with above-ground service. For more information on LIPA and its programs
go to www.lipower.org.
Long Island Software & Technology Network
 The Long Island Software & Technology Network (LISTnet) is the largest
technology organization in New York State, with more than 1,000 company
members and more than 80 sponsors. Our mission is to promote the growth
of technology companies on Long Island and to have our region recognized
as one of the Tech Centers of Excellence. We do this through major technology
events, our incubator and helping to form strategic alliances between
companies. See our Web site at www.listnet.org for more information.
New York State Small Business Development Center
 The New York State Small Business Development Center (SBDC) is a statewide
network of 23 regional centers and 31 full-time outreach locations
delivering quality small business advisement, training and research
to entrepreneurs and individuals who want to start or improve the performance
of a business. Administered by the State University of New York, the
SBDC partners with the Small Business Administration, New York State
and higher education in support of small and medium-size New York businesses.
The SBDC has helped more than 200,000 New York businesses locate more
than $2 billion in funding.
Town of Brookhaven Industrial Development Agency
 The Town of Brookhaven Industrial Development Agency is a public benefit
corporation of New York State authorized to facilitate the acquisition,
construction, reconstruction and equipping of manufacturing, warehousing,
research, commercial and industrial projects. It facilitates fund-raising
to accomplish these purposes by issuing its negotiable, tax-exempt
and taxable bonds and notes.
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