2003 Conference on Information Technology Presented by the League for Innovation

Jack Uldrich is the president of The NanoVeritas Group, a consultancy that focuses on helping educators, businesses, venture capitalists, and governments understand, evaluate, prepare for, and profit from nanotechnology. Clients include leading venture capital firms, governments, and Fortune 100 companies. He is the author of The Next Big Thing is Really Small: How Nanotechnology Will Change the Future of Your Business. (Crown Business, 2003), and is currently writing a new book, Big Thinkers Think Small: An Investor’s Guide to Nanotechnology, which is due out in the spring of 2004. Uldrich has also written numerous articles on the topic of nanotechnology in The Futurist, Minneapolis Star Tribune, CityBusiness, Futures Research Quarterly, Minnesota Business, and the Saint Paul Pioneer Press, and he is a senior associate of the Foresight Institute and a charter member of the NanoBusiness Alliance.

Uldrich was the Director of the Minnesota Office of Strategic and Long Range Planning under Governor Jesse Ventura (1999-2002) and he has also served as a naval intelligence officer and as a civilian policy analyst for the Pentagon.

Uldrich is a graduate of Drake University and received his master’s degree in public administration from the University of Minnesota’s Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. His wife, Cindy, and their two children live in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is a frequent speaker on the nanotechnology lecture circuit and has spoken before the Foresight Institute, The NanoBusiness Conference, The World’s Futurist Society, and dozens of trade associations and investment clubs.