I am writing to thank you for the tremendous effort you put forth to make EDC's 7th annual Life Science conference a great success. The comments back have been just terrific, and I didn't have a single complaint about anything, not even the plastic cups and forks. People said that it was the best conference of its type, the perfect size, the right conversation, very informative, perfect venue, great food, great looking materials, brilliant speakers...all good!

Everything went off without a hitch, despite our last minute agenda change, videotaping, additional PowerPoints, etc. and I received a lot of compliments about the professionalism of "my staff" and the great energy that we bring to everything that we do.

Thank you so much for your hard work and commitment to EDC - I couldn't do it without you!

Jane Teague
Executive Director
Enterprise Development Corp. of South Florida

Your hard work showed in the implementation of the first annual International Brain Conference at UCF – thank you for making it a success! I look forward to working with you and another successful event next year.

Sincerely,
Kristen Colton
Consumer Marketing Specialist
Florida Hospital
Cancer Institute & Neuroscience Institute

Kiminobu Sugaya, Ph.D.
Professor of Molecular Biology and Microbiology
Director of Stem Cell Laboratory
University of Central Florida , Orlando, FL 32816

Dear Kimi:

I've just returned from another meeting (NIA Council meeting at NIH) and got delayed writing you this note.
First, I must congratulate you for doing an excellent job in putting together the IBC-2008 Conference and working very hard to make it a grand success. Organizing such a meeting wasn't an easy task. I consider myself fortunate to be able to participate in this meeting for over two days, and look forward to more such meetings in UCF. Please extend my sincere appreciation to Dr. Ira Goodman, Christa, Stephanie and your other colleagues. Second, I congratulate for your great presentation, which would be quite useful to all present there. Finally, I sincerely thank you for taking me to your university, labs and other places.

Wish you all the best.
Deb

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Debomoy K. Lahiri, Ph.D.
Departments of Psychiatry
and of Medical & Molecular Genetics
Indiana University School of Medicine
Institute of Psychiatric Research

I was an attendee at the recent SPIE DSS conferences (03/17-03/20) at the Marriott World Center, Orlando, FL. On the last day of the conference, you were kind enough to invite me to a special lunch presentation by Dr. Milton Chang at this parallel conference.

At first, I was somewhat skeptical, since it was already the last day of the SPIE conference, and I was just plain exhausted at that point. However, at the end I was really glad that I had attended, and so thank you again for inviting me to that presentation. I thought what Dr. Chang said was probably one of the best presentation that I had attended for that whole week. To me, that was not just a “Home Run”, it was “Out-of-the-Park”!!!! I hope you send a copy of that presentation to every college and high school campus in Florida, because I think every college and high school students (regardless of their disciplines) should hear that message from Dr. Chang, which was truly inspirational. I think and believe the next generations of Milton Changs are out there in already in these college and high school campuses, they just need the right encouragements and guidance to become ready.

Once again, congratulation on a job well done!
Best regards
William Wan, Lockheed Martin

Christa:
Thank you for making all the arrangements to work so perfectly for the Florida Innovation 2008 Showcase!

With best wishes,
Milton
Milton Chang
www.incubic.com

Christa, first I want to say to you that you are a person I have come to admire and respect beyond words. You handled the complex inter-workings of this event with grace and aplomb in spite of setbacks and issues completely outside your control. I think you deserve an award for having to do much with too little resources. It’s a privilege to know you.

Lilian Myers
UCF Venture Lab
Marketing Committee Co-Chair, Florida Innovation Showcase 2008