Converging Technologies Bar Association launch

Walek & Associates organized a press conference in New York on Feburary 27, 2004, announcing the launch of the Converging Technologies Bar Association, a Walek & Associates client, was announced at a press conference in New York on February 27, 2004. The CTBA is the first bar association in the world that addresses the legal, policy, regulatory and societal impact of converging technologies in the 21st century.

Presenters at the CTBA press conference (from left): Mihail C. Roco, Ph.D., senior advisor for nanotechnology at the National Science Foundation, chair of the U.S. National Science and Technology Council’s Subcommittee on Nanoscale Science, Engineering and Technology and honorary chair of the CTBA; attorney Sonia E. Miller, founder and president of the CTBA; Jonathan L. Bing, New York State Assembly member for the 73rd District; Phillip J. Bond, Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology at the U.S. Department of Commerce and an honorary member of the CTBA.