Day Two of the DEMO Fall 2012 Conference, world-renowned for
launching the most innovative technology products in the industry,
featured provocative new innovations in the areas of social,
infrastructure, health and education technology, as well as
insightful expert conversations about the prospects and impact of
these exciting technologies and applications. Over the past two
days, 77 demonstrators and six Alpha Pitch companies representing
11 countries -- from Russia to Israel to Japan -- have taken the
stage to showcase today and tomorrow's most innovative
technologies.
DEMO executive producer Matt Marshall hosted one-on-one
conversations with Twitter Co-Founder Evan
Williams, discussing lessons learned from a lifetime of
entrepreneurship, and Scott Case, CEO of the Startup America Partnership, on supporting young,
high-growth companies and the expansion of Startup America in
regions across the U.S. Marshall also conducted a one-on-one
conversation with Salesforce.com COO George
Hu about successfully funding a company and managing multiple
revenue streams. Rounding out the day's speakers was The IT Buyer
Perspective panel, including executives from Intuit, Fox Group and NASA, who shared insights into the needs of the modern
CIO and how entrepreneurs can provide even more value.
"Whether they were addressing the growing need for digital
education or the next generation of infrastructure that will
connect users to their increasingly complex technologies, this
year's demonstrators were impressive," said Marshall. "We look
forward to watching these companies grow and witnessing the next
pain points they choose to address."
Other speaker highlights from day two included top executives
and expert "sages."
- Google, Foundry Group, Telefonica Digital and Greylock Partners
executives offered insights into the ever-growing social technology
market;
- IBM Venture Capital, Microsoft, Founder Institute and SoftTech
VC executives discussed innovations in the infrastructure
technology market;
- Health in Reach, Rock Health and DCM executives spoke to
exciting health and education technology markets.
DEMO gives both emerging and established companies from around
the world the opportunity to showcase technologies in a unique
forum. As part of this, Showcase winner Callision from Callision
and Angel Alley winner Drink City from Drink City also took the
stage.
This year's DEMO Fall product debuts in the social,
infrastructure, health and education space include everything from
a platform that connects college students to careers through alumni
to a suite of tools that can diagnose Alzheimer's in individuals
well in advance of clinical diagnosis.
Today's introductions included technologies designed for:
- The evolving and increasingly intuitive social market;
- The innovative infrastructure market;
- The booming and collaborative health technology market;
and
- The much-needed education technology market.
Highlights from Day Two technology introductions included:
Social Technologies: Apparent from Karaboo
- A private and secure social network for parents of children 2-8
years old that simplifies the scheduling of playdates. Barrel of
Jobs from Barrel of Jobs - Delivers a turnkey social recruiting
solution that rewards individuals to share jobs through their
online networks creating exponential exposure. Blipboard from
Blipboard - A mobile app that alerts users to cool things nearby
via a Twitter-like interface. Connecting Student & Alumni
through jobs from Flinja - A service platform targeted for students
& alumni within colleges across the U.S. GIViNGtrax from GIViNG
gets RESULTS - A cloud-based multi-user marketplace that transacts,
promotes and engages businesses, their employees and customers in
giving. Gnzo from Gnzo Inc. - Instantly compresses and transmits
large volumes of video images. Go-Matic from Go Factory, LLC - A
mobile, social app that helps groups of people connect, have fun,
and share the stories they experience together. iSocialite from
DreamWare - Enables users to organize their lives around daily
micro-events and allows users to keep in touch with existing
friends and meet new ones. Itography from Itography LLC - Brings
people and products together using a geo-based virtual item
collection game; brands build loyalty, while players complete
collections and earn real rewards. KLIQ from KLIQ Mobile - Lets
people connect via mobile and share video, regardless of their
association with any one particular social network. MyPref from
MyPref Inc. - A preference storing and notifying application that
simplifies the consumer experience and makes it more relevant.
Personalized App Discovery Engine from Hapoose - An innovative app
discovery engine that provides personalized app recommendations and
relieves consumer's burden in finding great apps. RecBob from
RecBob - Building the largest network of organized sports players,
teams and fans by providing tools that eliminate headaches with
social fun-ctionality. Seek.ly from Seekly LLC - Video speed
dating; a five minute video chat for online daters to find out in
five minutes or less if they want to meet offline. Tellagence from
Tellagence - Predicts behavior to build the best network of
relationships for ultimate reach of brand messages. SURE
(SUstainable REcognition) from Sustainable Reference - A global
scoring system that gauges users' sustainable impact and shares
points up and down the supply chain. Vilynx from Vilynx - A cross
platform solution that manages personal videos from anywhere.
www.piecewise.com from PieceWise, Inc. - A platform for
crowdsourcing project plans that are open-source, reducing projects
to tiny pieces, and reverse bidding on project pieces. YouBetMe
from Social Bet Inc. - Exploits both social networks and the
booming mobile app economy to deliver the ultimate social
experience for those who enjoy betting on simply anything.
Infrastructure Technologies: codEnforcer
from Softarex Ltd - A Cloud Enterprise Quality Software Development
Environment for complete source code analysis, improvement,
modification, optimization, documenting and reengineering.
Eco-Green Data Safe (EGDS) from H2Tran Inc. - Enables real-time
web-scale interactive images and videos based on content analysis.
Evtron CELL from Evtron - An energy-efficient, modular, scalable
storage system capable of 4.6 PB of data in one rack while still
customizable to different environments. Omnicloud from Omnicloud -
The easiest way to host web projects; publishes projects quickly,
runs any software stack and scales to infinity. Momentum/Inertial
powered pumps and compressors from Gravitational Systems
Engineering, Inc. - Green solutions to traditional pumping or
compression applications. Nubefy from Nubefy - Addresses IT service
management by providing tools and insight on how to manage cloud
infrastructures efficiently through an ecosystem of providers.
TraitWareID from Acuity Systems, Inc. - Authenticates the end user
and certain personality characteristics of their device to create
an Identity Binding Token.
Health Technologies: bandu from Neumitra -
Develops mobile technologies to monitor and manage the effects of
stress during daily life through biofeedback alerts from
personalized analytics. Novusport Interactive System from Novusport
- A social media game designed to promote global sport
participation, including 20 sports and 145 predefined activities.
VPC from NeuroTrack Technologies - A suite of tools that can
diagnose Alzheimer's in individuals well in advance of clinical
diagnosis.
Education Technologies: Birdeez from
EcoLek LLC - A mobile app and social network that allows the 48
million bird watchers in the U.S. to identify birds and then
collect and share their sightings. ICG from Innovation Choice Group
LLC - A professional online network to help scientists find rapid
solutions to their questions. Learn27 from Social27 - Takes
eLearning from monologue to dialogue with tools that harness the
collective intelligence of everyone involved in the learning
process via a Facebook-type environment. LFE.com from LFE.com - A
software and marketing vehicle that provides experts an easy method
for sharing their knowledge for compensation.
DEMOgod Award™ Winners The DEMOgod Awards
are presented to the DEMO companies that exhibit exceptional
potential to thrive in the market while inspiring and stimulating
the DEMO audience. Congratulations to the following companies that
were honored with DEMOgod Awards during DEMO Fall 2012:
- bandu from Neumitra
- Birdeez from EcoLek, LLC
- ElectNext from ElectNext
- Flinja from Flinja
- RentLingo from RentLingo (Alpha Pitch)
- VPC from Neurotrack
People's Choice Award - IDG's Million Dollar
Media Prize Winner Also announced this afternoon was the
winner of the People's Choice Award, which includes a $1M IDG Media
Prize, an exclusive multimedia advertising package, given to a
single demonstrating company that was chosen by DEMO Fall 2012
attendees. The multi-faceted media package will consist of a
six-month advertising campaign promoting the launch of the selected
innovations across the most relevant IDG brands including CIO,
Computerworld, InfoWorld, Macworld, Network World, and PC World,
among others, as well as the DEMO and VentureBeat websites. Matt
Marshall honored the following company with this exciting
award:
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DEMO Fall 2012 Sponsors DEMO Fall 2012
Platinum Sponsors: AARP, Citrix Startup Accelerator, Microsoft
BizSpark, PlugandPlayTechCenter.com, Porter Novelli, Square1Bank,
Startup America Partnership and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich &
Rosati.
DEMO Fall 2012 Gold Sponsors: ABD, The Brenner Group, Comerica
Bank, Cooley LLP, Host of Ideas Funding & Awards for Startups,
IBM, Invest Northern Ireland, J.P.Morgan, Merrill Lynch, NEC,
Northern Trust, NASDAQ OMX, NYSE Euronext, SCALEit, SecondMarket,
Silicon Valley Bank, Social Radius, TriNet, VCNetwork, William
Blair and WilmerHale.
DEMO Fall 2012 Showcase Sponsors: 9Freedom, Aegis, BlueSEQ,
Boingo Wireless, Bonfire, Callision, Charlie, CoPatient, CoreMobile
Networks, Inc., Curvanade, Gimbal, Gorilla Expense, iKnode, KnowRe,
Jamplify, Lifeproof, MePIN, MySmark, Naked Wines, NeoGeno, Percipo,
The Travel Innovation Summit, Phorego, Profitero, Pumodo, Qualcomm
Labs, Ready Set Sync, Remove the Background, Scrible, Sqream
Technologies, The Eye Tribe, Tikkera and Zero Mail.
DEMO Fall 2012 Angel Alley: Acertiv, Bia, Bloodhound,
Cloudmetrix, CoraCove, Drink City, Get Art Up, SpydrSafe and
Verbble.
DEMO Fall 2012 Marketing Partners: Band of Angels, Blumberg
Capital, BoogarLists, Churchill Club, Conference Guru, Conferize,
CoolBlue Press, DFJ Frontier, Environmental Business Cluster,
ExpertCEO, Florida Business Incubation Association, FilmAngels,
Girls in Tech, Growth Nation, GuidewireLabs, Haking IT Security
Magazine, HealthTech Capital Healthcare Conference 2012, Investor's
Circle Fall Venture Fair & Forum, Information Technology
Entrepreneur Network, Keiretsu Forum, Kloudtrack, MagicSauce Media,
Marketwire, Mass Challenge, Mobile Experience Innovation Center, My
Capital, The Next Women, North Bay Angels, Octane Medical Device
& Investor Forum, Online Publishers Association, PariSoma
Innovation Loft, Private Capital Network, Private Capital Network,
Startup Maryland, Startup Missouri, Startup Texas, Tech Coast
Angels, Tech Wildcatters, Technology Management, TechZulu, TEEC
Angel Fund, Tribe of Angels, Ubergizmo, VentureChoice, We Blog the
World, Wireless Industry Partnership and Taylor Design.
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