NNDA to host tech expo in May

The Northern Nevada Development Authority will host an exposition for the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology in Reno next month.

The exposition, ESTECH 2010, is focused on the clean room and controlled environment industry and will be held in the Atlantis Hotel and Convention Center on May 3-6.

The keynote speaker will be Tim Sands, the director of the Birck Nanotechnol-ogy Center at Purdue University.

Among the topics to be covered include clean room design and nanotechnology.

NNDA member and Washoe County resident Anne Marie Dixon, who is the former president of the IEST, helped bring the conference to Reno.