The WBTshowcase is not only a business plan competition; you actually practice your concept and access licensees, so it’s very attractive and effective.
-- Sten Wendel, TamperSeal, Sweden

As a venture capitalist, I’ve see thousands of business plans. The WBTshowcase helps entrepreneurs realign their thinking by taking them outside of their work. Great scientists are not yet necessarily great business people.
-- Richard Helfrich, Alameda Advisors, Inc.

The WBTshowcase is one of the year's most interesting collections because it brings together both academics and federal labs to talk about subjects far off the beaten path of Silicon Valley. It fits our charter better than other conferences.
-- Bill Reichert, Garage Technology Ventures

The DoD gets a lot of leverage from the WBTshowcase, from identifying technologies that might fit a military need to moving the technologies in which we're invested.
-- David Appler, U.S Department of Defense

This event has opened my eyes to a new way of thinking about technology. We are hoping to commercialize within three years, so I have a lot to learn! We’ve made some excellent contacts with VCs and others that can help us with our commercialization – people that we wouldn’t have been able to meet elsewhere, all in one place.
-- Dimitri Karamanev, University of Western Ontario

The U.S. is under tremendous competitive stress; we require the replacement of old technologies by new innovations. The WBTshowcase does a great job by representing a nice mix of disciplines and industries, and I was also impressed by its international dimension.
-- Dr. Mihail C. Roco, National Science Foundation

As a startup company looking towards the next stage of commercialization, our WBTshowcase award should be critical. I will make sure that others in Wisconsin hear about and attend this event – the WBTshowcase makes the market for us.
-- Dr. Ayla Annac, Invivosciences LLC