Harnessing The Power of AI for Tech Transfer Professionals with Peter Bittner and D’vorah Graeser

AI is transforming the tech transfer industry, but how can we stay ahead of this rapidly evolving technology and fully leverage its capabilities? In this episode, we explore how AI is becoming an essential tool, helping accelerate licensing deals, identify the right industry partners, and market innovations more effectively.
To dive deeper into these advancements, we offer a sneak peek into our upcoming 4-week virtual course, The Future of Tech Transfer: Leveraging AI to Find & Secure Licensing Deals (autm.net/event...) . This course is designed to equip you with practical AI skills that can revolutionize your approach to tech transfer.
It covers topics ranging from finding ideal industry partners to crafting personalized marketing strategies, all while emphasizing AI tools that boost efficiency and productivity in tech transfer offices. We also address the importance of adopting AI now to avoid falling behind in this fast-moving field.
Joining us are the course’s expert instructors: Peter Bittner, founder and CEO of The Upgrade, who has helped organizations like NASA and Apple close the AI skills gap, and Dr. D’vorah Graeser, founder and CEO of RocketSmart.io, a platform using AI to connect universities with top corporate partners.
In This Episode:
[02:14] This course is intended to look at AI from the perspective of a tech transfer professional. It's about using AI tools to make the process faster and more productive.
[03:37] AI tools can help innovations find the right commercial home and the right partner to commercialize the innovation and bring it to market.
[04:42] These tools will help tech transfer professionals find the right contact and make the right case.
[05:24] D’vorah talks about challenges for tech transfer offices finding corporate partners.
[06:42] Peter talks about the wide range of tools that they'll be covering in the course.
[10:32] D’vorah talks about how AI tools can help with invention summaries by defining the essence of the summary in regular language or from a business perspective.
[12:20] One way to craft a stronger pitch is to find the buyer side persona. Who is the buyer? How to identify the correct buyer persona?
[14:17] The pre-recorded modules of the live course will give everyone a foundation. The live part of the course will show how the tool can be used within specific contexts.
[15:13] There will be a pre-recorded module before every live module that corresponds to the content.
[16:40] Peter talks about how AI will allow all storytellers to do more with less.
[18:06] They're going to have office hours titled, Ask Us Anything About AI.
[20:04] D’vorah also encourages everybody to join the AI Special Interest Group. She also has a book coming out. They want to scale down AI for specific fields.
[22:51] D’vorah and Peter talk about the specifics of the modules and how busy people can fit the class into their schedules.
[24:34] Peter shares an AI success story and how AI enables a small team to be scrappier and more productive.
[27:21] How AI is going to evolve over the next 5 to 10 years and the possibilities of reducing friction.
[29:02] We talk about why tech transfer professionals should get involved in AI right now.
Resources:
The Future of Tech Transfer: 4-Week Virtual Training Course: October 15 - November 7 (autm.net/event...)
Peter Bittner - The Upgrade (www.peterbittn...)
Peter Bittner LinkedIn ( / peter-j-bittner )
Dr. D’vorah Graeser - Rocket Smart (www.rocketsmar...)
Dr. D’vorah Graeser LinkedIn (www.linkedin.c...)