Penton Enters Into Alliance To Produce Trade Shows & Conferences.Penton Media Penton Media, Inc. (OTC: PTON.OB), founded in 1892, is a diversified business-to-business media company. Penton Media is a mass media corporation that publishes and produces over 40 magazines, 80 trade shows, and 47 web sites. (Cleveland, OH) has entered into a strategic partnership with the NanoBusiness Alliance (New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of ; nanobusiness.org), a nanotechnology nanotechnology: see micromechanics. nanotechnology Manipulation of atoms, molecules, and materials to form structures on the scale of nanometres (billionths of a metre). industry association, to produce a series of trade shows, conferences and venture capital events focused on the nanotechnology industry and other, related emerging "small" technologies. The first event under the partnership, "NanoBusiness Spring," will be held in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. in May. In addition, a venture capital summit is being scheduled for third quarter 2002. Penton said the new partnership will produce events designed to educate financial and business leaders and develop opportunities for nanobusiness professionals to interact and network. The events are being produced to provide "attendees with all the tools and information required to push research and application development toward commercialization, as well as showcase the ongoing integration of small tech products into the global economy," the company said. "NanoBusiness Spring" will consist of three main venues: NanoBusiness, with panels covering such topics as investment, public policy and international perspectives; Emerging Markets, with panels covering advances in applications and commercialization of nano (1) Billionth (10 to the -9th power). See space/time. (2) Refers to the nanotech industry in general. See nanotechnology. (3) See iPod nano. and small technologies; and, Technological Issues, with panels covering the problems of working at the micro and nano level. |
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