Joe Sabol

Organizer for "Best Practices for Entrepreneurs and Start-ups" at Canadian Society for Chemical Engineers Conference CSChE, October 24-27, 2021 (Montreal, Quebec and hybrid/virtual). CCEC 2021 is Canada’s premier event for chemical engineering innovation, collaboration, and research and we plan a special symposium on chemical business, in support of the theme "Molecules to Enterprise".

Organizer of "Chemical Business: Resources & Best Practices" at Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting (RMRM) of the American Chemical Society, October 20-23, 2021.

Program Chair for Division of Small Chemical Businesses, American Chemical Society Virtual National Meeting, August 22-26, 2021. (Eight symposia.) Organizer for SCHB "Decarbonizing the Chemical Enterprise" (four speakers) and Division of Professional Relations PROF "COVID: Lessons Learned in Resilience" (four speakers).

Chemical Business: Resources & Best Practices, at 44th Great Lakes Regional Meeting (GLRM) of the American Chemical Society, June 6-10, 2021. (Six speakers.)

Organizer of symposium "Carbon Dioxide Pivot Point: Advancing the Circular Economy" at 25th Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference, June 14-18, 2021. This symposium holds presentations around viable industrial processes that capture, use, or transform carbon dioxide into value-added chemicals and materials or otherwise remove from the atmosphere. Sustainable production and a circular economy utilize raw materials that are inexpensive or considered a nuisance byproduct. Carbon dioxide is the… Show more

Organizer of symposium "Carbon Dioxide Pivot Point: Advancing the Circular Economy" at 25th Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference, June 14-18, 2021. This symposium holds presentations around viable industrial processes that capture, use, or transform carbon dioxide into value-added chemicals and materials or otherwise remove from the atmosphere. Sustainable production and a circular economy utilize raw materials that are inexpensive or considered a nuisance byproduct. Carbon dioxide is the largest example and unfettered release contributes greatly to atmospheric trapping of heat and subsequent climate change. Speakers will present topics such as scalable chemical manufacturing using carbon dioxide as a raw material; renewable hydrocarbon production, including use of algae to produce lipids, and processes that utilize sunlight, directly or by splitting water. (16 Speakers.) Show less

Organizer for Chemical Business Practices for Global Challenges at Pacifichem 2021, December 16-21, 2021 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Symposium description: Start-up, small, and growing businesses are a major source of economic development within the Pacific Rim countries and scientific, technology, and engineering advances in the commercial sector are measured by their utility in the global community. Technical competence remains the core for students of chemistry, science, and engineering, but an… Show more

Organizer for Chemical Business Practices for Global Challenges at Pacifichem 2021, December 16-21, 2021 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Symposium description: Start-up, small, and growing businesses are a major source of economic development within the Pacific Rim countries and scientific, technology, and engineering advances in the commercial sector are measured by their utility in the global community. Technical competence remains the core for students of chemistry, science, and engineering, but an increasing fraction of graduates are projected to find employment outside the traditional academia and large industry sectors. Interdisciplinary, innovative, and nimble small entities are taking a larger share of the market and successful entrepreneurs leverage their skill-set to overcome the market barriers that exist with large and established competitors. This session will hold toolkit and best practices so as to provide attendees with perspectives for building future success. Beyond technical skills, this symposium will focus on international issues regarding business collaboration, intellectual property, markets, finance, safety, design, cultural norms, and communication. (Originally scheduled December 2020, but postponed due to COVID pandemic.) Show less

IP basics, securing intellectual property (IP) and avoiding common IP pitfalls. P. Lauro
Grow your business with recipes for marketing success. S. Cohen
Creating and sustaining a viable service-based business in the chemical sector. J. Sabol
Top 10 steps to business success...and missteps to avoid. J. Allen, G. Arnold
The story of Cohera Medical, Inc. E. Beckman
The Institute for Entrepreneurial Excellence: Helping your business start, grow, and
prosper. J. Ciotti
2:50 478.… Show more

IP basics, securing intellectual property (IP) and avoiding common IP pitfalls. P. Lauro
Grow your business with recipes for marketing success. S. Cohen
Creating and sustaining a viable service-based business in the chemical sector. J. Sabol
Top 10 steps to business success...and missteps to avoid. J. Allen, G. Arnold
The story of Cohera Medical, Inc. E. Beckman
The Institute for Entrepreneurial Excellence: Helping your business start, grow, and
prosper. J. Ciotti
2:50 478. True story: A wandering career path based on instinct and intuition. P. E. Yeske
3:10 479. Traveling from academia to entrepreneurship. C. P. Horwitz
3:30 Break
3:50 480. Bootstrapping a chemical company in the Steel City. B. Bosley, B. Bosley
4:20 481. The story of Liquid X Printed Metals. B. Vasy
4:40 482. Member benefits, programming, and entrepreneurial activities from the ACS Division of
Small Chemical Businesses SCHB. J. Sabol Show less

All of the speakers had great insight and/or great stories to tell about starting and running a small business in the chemical sector.

W4 Invited Session: Start-ups and Small Businesses: Success Stories and Tool Kits
Sponsoring Units: FIAP

Top 10 Steps to Business Success, Gianna Arnold
Learnings from an Entrepreneur: How to Start a Consulting Practice Debra Bowes
The Road from University to Small Business Kimberly Brown
The Untapped Entrepreneurial Frontier: Transferring Innovation from the Laboratory to the Market Shirley Collier

Masha Petrova organized “Computer Modeling: The Wave of the Future and its Benefits for Small Business Owners,” Thursday August 26, 2013, 8:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. This session was about the latest tools available and examples of how computer modeling has helped small companies advance in the market. Great session!!

Organized and presided over SCHB's technical program at ACS 240th national meeting, Boston MA, August 22-26, 2010.

Organized and presided over SCHB's technical program at ACS 239th national meeting, San Francisco CA, March 21-25, 2010.

Organized SCHB symposia at ACS Central Regional Meeting, Cleveland OH, May 20-23, 2009.

Organized SCHB symposia at ACS Great Lakes Regional Meeting, Lincolnshire IL, May 13-16, 2009.

ENFL Division of Energy and Fuels
ACS National Meeting
San Diego
March 2022

Organizer of "Sustainable Path for the Chemicals and Materials Sectors" at Atlantic Basin Conference on Chemistry, December 13 – 16, 2022.

Atlantic Basin Conference on Chemistry (ABCChem) technical program.

Linking the World Through Chemistry

13-16 DECEMBER 2022 | MARRAKECH, MOROCCO

www.ABCChem.org

ACS Fall 2022
Chicago

Organizer and Presider of Symposia

I&EC Sustainable Chemicals, Energy, and Materials Use

SCHB Sustainable Chemical Business in a Changing World

Division of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry (I&EC), Bonding the Chemical Enterprise with Decarbonization

ACS March 2022
San Diego

Organizer and Presider of

I&EC Bonding the Chemical Enterprise with Decarbonization

ENFL & MPPG Sustainable Energy Technologies: Bonding Concept with Commercialization

Program Chair for Division of Small Chemical Businesses SCHB, American Chemical Society Virtual National Meeting, April 5-16, 2021. (Five symposia, 27 speakers.) Organizer/Presider at SCHB "Climate Public Policy" (four speakers) and Division of Professional Relations PROF "COVID Lessons Learned" (six speakers).

Speaker and Panelist in Symposium: F.BI01: "Early Career Development—Insights from Academia and Industry" at Materials Research Society, Fall 2020 Meeting. This presentation holds the speaker's perspective on the technical, business, and regulatory elements that were encountered when opening a start-up and maintaining a 20-year solo business, serving science and engineering-related customers. November 27-December 4, 2020.

Workshop Leader for "Business Not Taught in Science Class" presented to student attendees at Sigma Xi Annual Meeting, November 5-8, 2020. Description: Business skills and relationship building are key to anyone desiring to have a significant role in addressing the complex problems facing our global society. Science classes generally focus on technical core competence, e.g., biology, chemistry, engineering, physics. Many academics also understand the importance of public speaking, writing… Show more

Workshop Leader for "Business Not Taught in Science Class" presented to student attendees at Sigma Xi Annual Meeting, November 5-8, 2020. Description: Business skills and relationship building are key to anyone desiring to have a significant role in addressing the complex problems facing our global society. Science classes generally focus on technical core competence, e.g., biology, chemistry, engineering, physics. Many academics also understand the importance of public speaking, writing, safety, and cost-benefit analysis as they apply to the subject. Running a successful commercial enterprise does not require an MBA, but providing a product or service that solves a problem is important. As revenue and market share grow, the “cash-oxygen” that is generated can secure equity and fund new ventures. This workshop holds toolkit and best practices so as to provide attendees with perspectives for building commercial success into the future, including the foregoing, and international norms, successful collaboration, design, and communication. Show less

Program Chair for Division of Small Chemical Businesses, American Chemical Society Virtual National Meeting, August 17-20, 2020, theme: Moving Chemistry from Bench to Market. (36 speakers.)

Organized "Carbon Dioxide: Systems-Inspired Design on Recovery and Re-use" symposium, at 24th Green Chemistry & Engineering Virtual Conference, June 15-19, 2020. In the spirit of “systems-inspired design” this symposium presents viable processes that can use/re-use “waste” carbon dioxide as a raw material into process streams. Speakers presented concepts and practices that demonstrate viable scale-up design and industrial engineering that use carbon dioxide as an input stream and mitigate… Show more

Organized "Carbon Dioxide: Systems-Inspired Design on Recovery and Re-use" symposium, at 24th Green Chemistry & Engineering Virtual Conference, June 15-19, 2020. In the spirit of “systems-inspired design” this symposium presents viable processes that can use/re-use “waste” carbon dioxide as a raw material into process streams. Speakers presented concepts and practices that demonstrate viable scale-up design and industrial engineering that use carbon dioxide as an input stream and mitigate discharge.
(Five speakers.) Show less

Review panelist for National Science Foundation, Directorate of Engineering, Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems research proposals, March 2020.

Organized "Business not taught in science class" at Sigma Xi Annual Meeting, November 14-17, 2019, Madison, Wisconsin. (Four speakers.)

Organizer of "International Chemical Business: Best Practices" at 2019 Rocky Mountain-Southwest Regional Meeting (RMRM/SWRM) of the American Chemical Society, November 13-16, 2019, El Paso Tx. (Eight speakers.)

Program Chair for Division of Small Chemical Businesses, American Chemical Society 258th National Meeting, August 25-29, 2019, San Diego. (Five symposia, 33 speakers.)

Entrepreneurs Tool Kit: Resources & Best Practices at 50th Central Regional Meeting CERM of the American Chemical Society, Midland MI, June 4-8, 2019. (Six speakers.)

Organized "Carbon Dioxide: Closing the Loop on the Ultimate Raw Material" at 23rd Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference (GC&E), Reston VA, June 11-13, 2019. (Six speakers.)

Entrepreneurs Tool Kit at 43rd Great Lakes Regional Meeting GLRM of the American Chemical Society, Lisle IL, May 1-4, 2019 (five speakers).

Program Chair for Division of Small Chemical Businesses, American Chemical Society 257th National Meeting, March 31-April 4, 2019, Orlando. Seven symposia, 41 speakers.

Organized Entrepreneurs Tool Kit: Resources and Best Practices, Alternative Science Careers, and Chemistry & Public Policy: Energy & Elections at 71st SERMACS, Augusta GA, October 31-November 3, 2018.

Program Chair for Division of Small Chemical Businesses, American Chemical Society 256th National Meeting, August 19-23, 2018, Boston. 25 speakers on topics of interest to start-ups and small and growing businesses in the chemical sector.

Program Chair for Division of Small Chemical Businesses, American Chemical Society 254th National Meeting, March 18-22, 2018, New Orleans.

Program Chair for Division of Small Chemical Businesses, American Chemical Society 254th National Meeting, August 20-24, 2017, Washington DC.

Symposium Organizer for Sustaining Business Development in the Chemical Sector, Industrial Chemistry Division, Canadian Society for Chemistry 100th Annual Meeting, May 28-June 2, 2017, Toronto
Small and medium size businesses are a major source of economic activity in North America and scientific, technology, and engineering advances in the commercial sector are measured by their utility in the world community. This symposium provides perspectives on the inherent challenges in driving… Show more

Symposium Organizer for Sustaining Business Development in the Chemical Sector, Industrial Chemistry Division, Canadian Society for Chemistry 100th Annual Meeting, May 28-June 2, 2017, Toronto
Small and medium size businesses are a major source of economic activity in North America and scientific, technology, and engineering advances in the commercial sector are measured by their utility in the world community. This symposium provides perspectives on the inherent challenges in driving growth in the commercial sector. Speakers addressed (1) practical tools for growing businesses, including intellectual property protection and licensing, strategic planning and partnership/alliance strategies, expansion from domestic to international markets; and (2) narrative stories from principals in the chemical and related (high-tech materials, energy, pharmaceutical/bio-tech, and analytical instrumentation) sectors, revealing their experiences regarding innovation, perseverance, competition, and overcoming market barriers. Growing businesses need to juggle investment capital, infrastructure, personnel, and market barriers and attempting to conduct business in foreign countries compounds the issues. Successful small businesses leverage their entrepreneurial skill-set to overcome the barriers and maintain growth.
Part of Industry Day at the conference, which is directed at forging connections (particularly Canada-USA) across the chemical industry and academia through targeted symposia and networking activities. Show less

Program Chair for Division of Small Chemical Businesses, American Chemical Society 253rd National Meeting, April 2-6, 2017, San Francisco.

Program Chair for Division of Small Chemical Businesses, American Chemical Society, 252nd National Meeting, August 21-25, 2016, Philadelphia.

Speakers and a panel discussion on issues around starting and running a business in the chemical sector. Symposium Organizer for Entrepreneurs' Tool Kit: Resources and True Stories, at ACS Northwest Regional Meeting NORM 2016, Anchorage AK, June 26-29, 2016.

Entrepreneurship in the Chemical Community, at Central Regional Meeting CERM 2016 of the American Chemical Society, Covington KY, May 16-18, 2016. Organized speakers and a panel discussion on issues around starting and running a business in the chemical sector. May 16-18, 2016.

Computers in Chemistry: Bridging the Gap between Clients & Software; Start-up Businesses in Drug Discovery; Cannabis: Exploring the Chemistry, History, & Future; Entrepreneurs' Poster Session.

Organizer for "Small Businesses Reaching Out for Market Share: Tool Kit and Success Stories" at Pacifichem, December 15-20, 2015 Honolulu HI.
Start-up and small businesses are a major source of economic growth within the Pacific Rim countries and scientific, technology, and engineering advances in the commercial sector are measured by their utility in the broader, world-wide community. This session provided perspectives on the challenges, excitement, and do-overs that are inherent in… Show more

Organizer for "Small Businesses Reaching Out for Market Share: Tool Kit and Success Stories" at Pacifichem, December 15-20, 2015 Honolulu HI.
Start-up and small businesses are a major source of economic growth within the Pacific Rim countries and scientific, technology, and engineering advances in the commercial sector are measured by their utility in the broader, world-wide community. This session provided perspectives on the challenges, excitement, and do-overs that are inherent in launching and driving growth in the commercial sector. Speakers will address (1) practical tools for small business owners, including intellectual property protection, licensing, technology transfer, capital formation, strategic planning, partnership/alliance/marketing strategies to commercialise opportunities domestically and internationally; and (2) narrative stories from principals in the chemical, high-tech materials, energy, pharmaceutical/bio-tech, and analytical instrumentation sectors, revealing their experiences regarding innovation, perseverance, competition, and overcoming market barriers. Limited investment capital, infrastructure resources, and personnel experience create market barriers for start-up and small businesses when seeking and securing customers, clients, and contracts; attempting to conduct business in foreign countries compounds the issues. Successful small businesses have determined how to leverage their entrepreneurial skills to overcome the barriers that exist with large, established competitors. Small entities are characteristically nimble, innovative and accept a higher level of risk. Perspectives for building entrepreneurial success.
Other sessions from SCHB members:
Evolving Nature of Scholarly Communication: Connecting Scholars with Each Other and with Society, Jennifer Maclachlan; Small Businesses Reaching Out for Market Share: Tool Kit and Success Stories, Joseph Sabol, Adam Blunn;
Advances in Terahertz Spectroscopy and Imaging, Anis Rahman. Show less

Entrepreneurs’ Tool Kit: Resources and True Stories, at SWRM/SERMACS, Memphis TN, November 4-7, 2015.

Program Chair for Division of Small Chemical Businesses Program at ACS 250th National Meeting, August 16-20, 2015, Boston MA.

Entrepreneurs’ Tool Kit: Resources and True Stories, ACS Joint Great Lakes Central Regional Meeting, Grand Rapids MI, May 2015.

Program Chair for Division of Small Chemical Businesses Program, ACS 249th National Meeting, Denver, March 2015.

Symposium Organizer for Visualization Insights from Big Data: Envisioning Science, Engineering, and Innovation - AAAS 2015 Annual Meeting Symposium, February 12-16, 2015, San Jose CA.
Advanced data mining and visualization techniques can be used to extract patterns and trends from large and complex datasets. Resulting visualizations help manage, navigate, and understand vast amounts of information; support new discoveries and questions; and are a great tool to communicate science to a… Show more

Symposium Organizer for Visualization Insights from Big Data: Envisioning Science, Engineering, and Innovation - AAAS 2015 Annual Meeting Symposium, February 12-16, 2015, San Jose CA.
Advanced data mining and visualization techniques can be used to extract patterns and trends from large and complex datasets. Resulting visualizations help manage, navigate, and understand vast amounts of information; support new discoveries and questions; and are a great tool to communicate science to a general audience. This interdisciplinary session brings together experts from chemistry, engineering, science policy, and art to showcase visual solutions that are instrumental in achieving high return on investment; science mapmakers who use visual analytics to identify emerging areas of research and innovation, calculate the impact of science policy interventions, and predict science and technology trends; and visual techniques that render the abstract into the concrete using computer graphics and cinematic approaches. This session will be extremely visual to highlight novel information mining and imaging techniques that enhance understanding and improve daily decision-making. Friday, 13 February 2015: 8:00 AM-9:30 AM
Room LL20D (San Jose Convention Center) Show less

All of the speakers had great insight and/or great stories to tell about starting and running a small business in the chemical sector.