New York Investors Conference Announces Participating Companies for May 15th-16th Event

The 2006 conference will provide an efficient forum to broaden the financial community’s awareness of a wide variety of New York’s finest companies and their executive management teams, who will have the opportunity to present and respond to questions about the performance, strategic initiatives, and future outlook of their organizations to interested investors. This year we are proud to announce the college of Nanoscale Science and Engineering of the University at Albany ("CNSE") will serve as co-sponsor, when the annula invest in New York conference is held in Albany this spring, the New York Stae Investors Conference Announced today.

Scheduled for May 15 and 16 at the Albany Marriott Hotel, the event gives publicly traded companies located in New York an opportunity to make presentations before a select group of investors, venture capitalists, fund and portfolio managers and money managers, as well as local and state government officials and the leading members of the business community.

This year, using a theme of "Nanotechnology: The Next Economic Frontier," emerging nanotechnology companies will also make presentations on the innovative technologiesthey've developed that will drive the future of the host of industries, including health care, energy/environment, electronics, software and defense. 

"Nanotechnology plays a crucial role not just in the Capital Region market, but in our global economy as well," State Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno said. "New York State has become a global leader in nanotechnology research and development and emergence of new, innovative technologies will provide investors with significant opportunities. Investing in new scale science will create more promising careers for New Yorkers and ensure the advancement of our state's economy in a highly competitive 21st century market. This conference will held spread the word about nanotechnology business in the Capital Region."

"Senator Bruno is an outstanding choice as keynote speaker for the Invest in New York conference. his vision and support for nanotechnology, along with that of Governor Pataki and Speaker Silver, is already paying dividends in terms of attracting new jobs, companies and investment to New York State," said Dr. Alain E. Kaloyeros, vice president and chief administrative officer of CNSE. "At the same tiume, the conference provides a superb venue at which to show case the growing impact nanotechnology is having on the business world, and to give investors insight into a new generation of companies that are destined to provide significant investment oppotunities."

"The New York State Investors Conference is pleased to welcme back Senator Bruno as our keynote speaker this year. His message of creating new jobs and new opportunities for New Yorkers is clearly on target," said Rene LeRoux, executive director of the NYS Investors Conference. "It's also a pleasure to engage the College of Nanoscale science and engineering." "The facility at the University at Albany Nanotech Center is among the most impresive, state of the art, nanotech facilities in the country."