Innovative Crop of Companies Plus Several New Programs and Awards Round Out DEMOfall 09; New products ranging across consumer and enterprise fronts take the stage; DEMOgod, People's Choice Award winners announced
SAN DIEGO - September 23, 2009 - DEMOfall 09 concluded today with 24 companies giving 6-minute live presentations; six AlphaPitch companies giving 90-second product previews; DEMO's long-standing Executive Producer, Chris Shipley, closing what will be her final conference by honoring 16 legendary alumni with Lifetime Achievement Awards; and Co-Executive Producer, Matt Marshall, presenting alongside Chris Shipley this year's DEMOgod awards and the special IDG Million Dollar Media Prize to the two selected demonstrator recipients of the People's Choice Award. The conference was also exclusively broadcast live on the Web through BitGravity's BG Live(TM) video stream in 85 countries worldwide.
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"DEMO continues to be an amazing showcase of innovation. It is an honor to recognize 16 entrepreneurs for their past achievements and a privilege to have played a part in the launch of 56 great products this week," said Chris Shipley, Executive Producer of the DEMO Conferences. "DEMO is a very special platform and community and it's been my great pleasure and privilege to lead DEMO for the last 13 years. I look forward to watching Matt build on this platform and take it to new heights."
Highlights from today's technology introductions include:
Technologies for Working Smarter:
-- Answers.com - a one-stop shop that harnesses over 250 reference sources
and a wiki database to provide users with the world's best licensed
and user-generated content for fast-fact lookup as well as deep
research.
-- Weels Corp.'s Web on Weels - a tool that enhances the browsing
experience using hosted software that features a seamless drag-and-drop
interface, allowing users to share any aspect of a page -- images,
videos, navigation bars -- with friends and colleagues.
-- Article One Partners, LLC's AOP Patent Studies - a technology that
uses open innovation to research patent validity, adding a crucial level
of review to the U.S. patent system that can strengthen legitimate
patents and reduce unjust patent monopolies.
-- Kryon Systems, Ltd.'s Leo - the next generation of help tools for
Windows, with the ability to perform the needed action for the user in a
step-by-step, interactive manner in real time.
-- LeapFILE, Inc.'s LeapFILE Folder - a provider of on demand managed
file transfer that eliminates the cumbersome steps of uploading and
downloading files from Web portals and enables instantaneous and
unfettered collaboration between people.
-- Symform, Inc.'s Symform Cooperative Storage Cloud -a solution that
effectively redistributes the cloud to enable managed service providers
to offer virtual cloud services to their small enterprise customers with
the same security, reliability, and cost-benefits of large data storage
technology.
-- Anaplan, Inc. - an on-demand business suite and revolutionary
"snap-plug-and-play" architecture that automatically connects
applications and transforms the way companies large and small plan and
manage their everyday business activities.
-- Liaise, Inc. - a business interaction management solution that provides
revolutionary email organization capabilities by intelligently and
automatically capturing KeyPoints in your messages, and providing
summaries, calendar integration and reports.
-- I.ndigo, LLC's Dekks - a solution that seamlessly and easily
captures the informal knowledge inherent to a smarter business to help
employees properly route their issues and give management insight into
the pulse of the enterprise.
-- Hashwork - a social business tool with the ability to integrate Google
Calendar and Twitter, as well as file editing and management, to equip
everyone in your company to "work socially" by connecting and
sharing Twitter-style with customers, partners and others.
-- Gogrok Technology Corp. - a secure, high-performance P2P platform that
integrates desktop sharing and voice functionality to allow people to
communicate face-to-face over the Internet to solve personal and
business issues.
-- Zorap, Inc. - a consumer video chat service designed to deliver quality
video and audio in lower-bandwidth environments so friends can share and
simultaneously experience almost any type of audio or visual media in
virtual casual gathering places.
-- Faculte's Broadcast Studio - a web-based multimedia communication
platform designed to help organizations take their business
communications to a new level by producing, distributing and managing
interactive video presentations quickly and at minimal cost.
Next Generation APIs, Platforms, and Services
-- 80legs - an on-demand service that delivers the bandwidth and computing
power of over 50,000 computers, allowing anyone to crawl and analyze
large amounts of Web data.
-- Scientific Media, Inc.'s DOTGO - a new mobile publishing platform
that makes it easy for anyone with an Internet domain name to rapidly
and cheaply publish information using a variety of mobile technologies.
-- VicMan Software, Inc.'s pho.to platform - a platform that enables
websites of any scale to employ advanced photo editing and manipulation
functionality with minimum investment.
-- Zuora's Z-Commerce for Media - the first online commerce platform
for media companies to manage their online and offline subscribers.
-- NativeTung, LLC - an advanced language translation platform that enables
websites to easily establish multi-language content channels that
maximize global audience reach and engagement online.
-- Digitrad Communications' OrganIP - a new consumer voice service
through a Web browser that allows a person to call someone simply by
using the person's name, making voice calling possible through any
online community, social network, or phone.
-- CallSpark!, Inc. - a mobile technology that delivers a new kind of phone
call experience with real-time content from social networks,
location-based search, reviews and listed public information before,
during and after a call.
Smarter, More Social Marketing Tools
-- Burt AB's Rich - an ad campaign analytics tool targeted to creative
agencies that enables agencies to estimate the amount of attention
consumers pay to an ad by using predictive modeling and machine
learning.
-- ePulze - a search engine that automatically monitors and analyzes the
opinion, perception and sentiment expressed in the news, comments and
reviews for various subjects and topics.
-- Glam Media, Inc.'s Tinker.com - the first application that lets
publishers create live topics, news and events, moderate and curate the
feeds so it gives brand advertisers a trusted way to engage with users
of the real-time Web by enabling search, browsing and discovering
real-time conversations on social media.
-- RumbaFish Technologies, Inc.'s RumbaFish Engagement Platform - an
engagement platform that lets companies leverage social activity, easily
create interactive online campaigns, and update those campaigns
everywhere with a click in a way that is measurable.
AlphaPitches
-- Nubli, Inc.'s EmailSmarts - a personal email assistant which helps
users easily find the most important emails, managing email information
overload and increasing productivity, within an easy to use dashboard
with status of all messaging related actionable items.
-- Traffic Talk, LLC - a free voice based networking application that helps
drivers avoid or escape traffic jams and find the best routes through an
audio conference where other drivers share their own traffic
information.
-- Dubzer - a website translation software that helps businesses scale
their websites across multiple cultures by allowing them to choose the
content that should be modified, define the translation process at a Web
page level and publish updates on demand without having to reengineer
the site.
-- Enroute Systems Corp.'s ShipIt! - a state-of-the-art shipment
management solution that provides businesses with rules-based carrier
and service selection, label and manifest creation, and shipment
tracking to help reduce shipping costs, improve shipment reliability and
predictability and lowers the carbon footprint.
-- Melior Technologies, Inc.'s GuruStorms - an interactive
brainstorming site that offers users a team of online experts available
on demand to provide ideas and solutions to queries posted in exchange
for the chance to win a cash reward.
-- ShareGrove, Inc. - an online service that aggregates and streamlines
Web-based consumer conversations and media content in real time over a
single Web interface.
Innovation on the Horizon: A Look into R&D Labs - Search
On Wednesday afternoon, the second of the two-part "Innovation on the Horizon" series took place. The discussion, titled "A Look into R&D Labs - Search" was hosted by Donna Dubinsky, Founder, CEO, and Board Chair at Numenta, Rob Haitani, Chief Product Officer at Vitamin D, Inc., and Dick Lyon, Research Scientist at Google.
Lifetime Achievement Awards
In honor of Chris Shipley's 13th and final year as the DEMO Executive Producer, DEMO honored 16 legendary alumni with Lifetime Achievement Awards for their significant contribution to the advancement of technology. Each attending award recipient took the stage and participated in an interactive town hall open forum allowing DEMOfall attendees to hear from and pose questions to the exclusive group of world-renowned innovators. The full list of Lifetime Achievement Award honorees can be found here.
DEMOgod Award(TM) Winners
Each conference DEMO unveils a new class of the industry's upcoming technologies, and it always proves difficult to pick and choose the most exceptional products. The desirable DEMOgod Awards are given to those that show outstanding potential to succeed in the market while motivating and exciting the DEMO audience. Congratulations to the seven companies that Chris Shipley and Matt Marshall honored with DEMOgod Awards during DEMOfall 09:
-- Emo Labs Inc.'s Emo Invisible Speaker Systems
-- Hevva, LLC's Local Dirt
-- Intelius, Inc.'s DateCheck
-- Pinyadda, Inc.
-- ShareGrove, Inc.
-- Twirl TV, LLC
-- Zorap, Inc.
People's Choice Award - IDG's Million Dollar Media Prize Winners
The winners of the $1M IDG Media Prize, an unprecedented new multimedia advertising package, were also announced this afternoon, awarded to the top enterprise and consumer technologies that presented at the DEMOfall 09 conference. 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 magazine, Computerworld, InfoWorld, Network World, PC World and The Industry Standard, among others, as well as the DEMO and VentureBeat Web sites. A panel of industry luminaries from the DEMO ecosystem - venture investors, corporate development officers, proven entrepreneurs, technology reporters and bloggers - evaluated each demonstrator's onstage launch and overall value proposition in order to determine the two prize recipients. Chris Shipley and Matt Marshall honored the following two companies with this exciting award:
-- Consumer Award Recipient: Emo Labs Inc.'s Emo Invisible Speaker
Systems
-- Enterprise Award Recipient: Liaise, Inc.
DEMOfall 09 Sponsors & Strategic Partners
Platinum sponsors of DEMOfall 09 are Boston Interactive, the Institute for Information Industry, the Invest in France Agency, Microsoft BizSpark, Porter Novelli, Qualcomm and Sun Microsystems. BluePoint Venture Marketing, Comerica Bank, Connect Public Relations, Cooley Godward & Kronish, National Science Foundation, NEC, NYSE Euronext, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Rothstein Kass, Silicon Valley Bank, Sixnology, Symantec, The Bogart Group, TriNet, VCNetwork and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati are gold sponsors. Strategic Partners include Angelsoft, Guidewire Group, IDG Ventures, National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), The Demo Coach, and VentureBeat.
The official DEMOfall 09 Live Broadcast Sponsor is BitGravity BG Live(TM).
About the DEMO Conferences
Produced by Network World Events and Executive Forums, the DEMO conferences in the United States, China, and Europe focus on emerging technologies and new products, which are hand - selected from across the spectrum of the technology marketplace. The DEMO conferences have earned their reputation for consistently identifying tomorrow's cutting - edge technologies, and have served as launch pad events for companies such as Palm, E*Trade, Handspring, and U.S. Robotics, helping them to secure venture funding, establish critical business relationships, and influence early adopters. Each DEMO conference features approximately 70 new companies, products and technologies. For more information on the DEMO conferences, visit http://www.demo.com/[http://www.demo.com/].
The DEMO community also benefits from the award winning DEMOletter. A weekly e - newsletter designed to reach the people who are creating companies, building products and launching new ideas, DEMOletter provides smart insight and analysis of entrepreneurial business issues.
About International Data Group (IDG)
International Data Group (IDG) is the world's leading technology media, events, and research company. IDG's online network includes more than 450 Web sites spanning business technology, consumer technology, digital entertainment and video games worldwide. IDG publishes more than 300 magazines and newspapers in 85 countries including CIO, CSO, Computerworld, GamePro, InfoWorld, ITworld, Macworld, Network World, and PC World. IDG's lead-generation service, IDG Connect, matches technology companies with an audience of engaged, high-quality IT professionals, influencers, and decision makers.
IDG is a leading producer of more than 750 technology-related events including Macworld Conference & Expo, LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, Entertainment for All Expo (E for All), DEMO, and IDC Directions. IDC, a subsidiary of IDG, is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events. Over 900 IDC analysts in more than 90 countries provide global, regional, and local expertise on technology and industry opportunities and trends.
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