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— As UW-Milwaukee Chancellor Mike Lovell prepares to move to Marquette University, he’s not ruling out recreating a research partnership similar to a successful one between UWM and Johnson Controls.

Lovell and Johnson Controls’ MaryAnn Wright told attendees at the Wisconsin Tech Summit at the GE Healthcare Institute in Waukesha yesterday about the existing partnership. The partnership has generated seven patents, drawn more than $35 billion in federal grant money and created a path for promising UWM students to become Johnson Controls scientists.

“One of the great things about me going to Marquette is that I will be uniquely positioned to create partnerships that no one’s ever thought of before,” said Lovell. Lovell told reporters he’s well-acquainted with faculty at Marquette’s engineering school and had been approached, shortly before accepting the chancellorship at UWM, to consider a partnership between the two schools.

Wright, a vice president of engineering and product development, stressed the partnership between UWM’s College of Engineering and Johnson Controls won’t end with Lovell’s departure.

“This transcends Mike and I,” she said. “We wanted a partnership that has such deep roots and is so meaningful that regardless of where we happen to be, it will continue to live on and thrive.”

But she also didn’t rule out a future collaboration, noting Johnson Controls has a research partnership with Milwaukee School of Engineering and also partners with UW-Madison to do battery and systems testing at the Wisconsin Energy Institute in Madison.

Read more about the presentation:

http://www.wisbusiness.com/index.Iml?Article=320430

— Representatives of 16 major Wisconsin companies participated in a “speed dating” program at the summit.

The company reps heard pitches from entrepreneurs eager to sell their products or solicit angel funds.

“The idea for the ‘speed dating’ event is that major companies and emerging companies don’t always travel in the same orbit,” said Tom Still of the Wisconsin Technology Council, which organized the event.

About 54 start-up firms signed up to give their 15-minute pitches at the summit.

Read more from the event:

http://www.wisbusiness.com/index.Iml?Article=320428

— For the past several decades, the Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce has run an old-school business expo with rows and rows of booths set up trade-show style.

No more. The chamber is going 21st Century at its “neXXpo” gathering today in the Alliant Energy Center Exhibition Hall. The event features a forward-looking program that Chamber President Zach Brandon said “will redefine what a business expo delivers with information what’s being created and who’s emerging.”

More than 750 people from around the state have signed up for the event, which will run from 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Brandon said attendees will see and experience what’s next in business products and services at exhibition booths focused in five zones: manufacturing, startup, sustainability, talent and technology. In addition, the event will include a variety of seminars, a luncheon with keynote speaker and billionaire venture capitalist J.B. Pritzker, a pressure-filled business pitch contest and a two-hour networking program.

Read more about the event:

http://www.wisbusiness.com/index.Iml?Article=320429

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