DEMO 07 Conference Celebrates the Empowered Individual
Conference to Introduce 68 Powerful Business and Consumer Technologies
The DEMO 07 stage program opened today in Palm Desert, launching 68 new personal and corporate computing technologies into the marketplace. Now in its 17th year, the DEMO conferences are proven forums for catapulting products, ideas, and startups into the national consciousness. DEMO 07, which kicked off last night with a lively welcome reception, will conclude Thursday night after an information-packed day full of live product demonstrations and industry analysis.
Chris Shipley, product analyst and DEMO executive producer, took the stage this morning to welcome the DEMO audience and offer her analysis of the state of the technology industry, noting that individuals have become an incredibly powerful influence on the design and adoption of new technology. Her keynote address also emphasized the strength of innovation across the spectrum of the industry, from consumer hardware to enterprise software, from user interface design to business process automation.
“Everyday people have become incredibly powerful because of the technology they use every day,” said Shipley. “Over the past 24 months, a confluence of factors has conspired to put individuals at the center of the technology universe. Web-delivered applications let you decide which tools you’ll use for work and for play. IP telephony and near-ubiquitous wireless connectivity are transforming voice and phone into an application platform that keeps you connected and informed. A host of beautifully designed services allow you to reach out to millions of fellow consumers with the click of a button. Throughout this conference, you’ll see many facets of these trends and begin to understand how the empowered consumer changes everything.”
Introducing …
Following Shipley’s address, 15 companies presented their innovations live on stage, demonstrating the benefits and problem-solving value of their technologies. According to DEMO tradition, each company had six minutes to demonstrate its product to a packed ballroom full of industry insiders, savvy business people, and the critical eye of the nation’s press. Product introductions included:
Eyejot, Inc. — Eyejot is the first, comprehensive, client-free video-messaging platform, offering consumers and businesses the ability to create and receive video messages in a self-contained, spam-free environment.
Jaman.com, Inc. — Jaman is a social network for people to discover, enjoy and share world cinema.
Kauffman Innovation Network, Inc. — The iBridge SM Network is a non-profit entity that provides the transparency and access to university-developed innovations that will lead to next-generation products.
QTech, Inc. — reQall is a memory organization and reminder aid that enables consumers to use their phones or computers to record anything they say the instant they think of it
Shipwire.com — Shipwire.com allows merchants to easily and quickly outsource the entire process of receiving, warehousing and shipping merchandise.
Symantec Corp. — Symantec Identity Initiative is a multi-factor authentication solution that will enable consumers to securely use their identity online and assert facts about themselves without fear of compromise.
Total Immersion — D’FUSION software enables the real-time integration of interactive 3D graphics into live video flows via standard PC devices and compatible with HD.
ZINK Imaging, LLC. — ZINK Digital Imaging Technology embeds color-dye crystals into ZINK paper for affordable, durable and high-quality prints and enables anywhere printing from camera phones and digital cameras.
The conference program continued this afternoon, with a look at five new technologies that provide a strong architecture and unmatched support mechanisms designed for today’s increasingly complex, Web-facing businesses.
Integrien Corp. — Integrien Alive is integrity management software that enables IT organizations to predict and prevent service slowdowns or outages before they impact the business.
SailPoint Technologies, Inc. — Compliance IQ helps organizations track, analyze and assess user access privileges to critical business applications and data.
SOASTA, Inc. — SOASTA Concerto is an easy and powerful visual environment for automating Web testing, enabling any developer, sales engineer, business analyst or tester to quickly create complex parallel message streams for testing and certifying Web applications.
SupportSoft, Inc. — support.com is expert tech support for consumers comprised of two services: System TuneUp, which helps computer users speed up their computers in under an hour, and Security Audit, which helps consumers secure their computers from today’s malicious software threats.
Triumfant, Inc. — Triumfant Resolution Manager is enterprise software that uses analytics to identify anomalies and resolve computer problems.
Exercise Your Creativity
The DEMO program went on to explore tools for everyday people to use to create and publish video, print, music and advertising. “Today’s technology consumer has the ambition and the tools to publish their musings, e-sell their art, collaborate on music, and, in every way, put their creative selves online,” said Shipley. “At DEMO, powerful new technologies are making this process more attractive for both the creator and the consumer.” Companies launching technologies in this category were:
Bling Software, Inc. — Bling Player allows consumers to enjoy visually stunning and data-rich Web content without the slow response time typically found in today’s mobile offerings.
ink2 Corporation — The ink2 platform takes the previously untapped and underdeveloped market of digital assets found on content-rich Websites and enables revenue creation for their owners.
Magnify Networks, Inc. — Magnify.net empowers online publishers to integrate user-generated video into their existing Web offerings.
Mixpo Portfolio Broadcasting, Inc. — Mixpo is a personal publishing tool that lets you manage your videos, photos and audio across multiple Websites, blogs and social networks right from your desktop.
Panjea.com — Panjea.TV enables individual users to create their very own TV channel for free and to invite friends, fans, and colleagues to watch.
SplashCast, Inc. — SplashCast is a media syndication platform enabling anyone to easily create and syndicate online channels of mixed-media content.
ThePort Network, Inc. — Blerts is the first graphics-based RSS alert utility that notifies users when their most important RSS feeds are updated.
VUVOX Network, Inc. — VUVOX is an easy-to-use, online and mobile media-creation service that enables consumers to capture, produce and instantly share their life experiences.
Yodio, Inc. — Yodio is an online community that features a proprietary audio-publishing service that makes it fast, easy, and fun to produce short, high-impact audio casts.
On tonight’s DEMO schedule is the always-entertaining DEMO Jam Session, during which entrepreneurs, executives, media and VCs show off their musical talents onstage to the amazement of their peers. eJamming, Inc. concluded today’s stage demonstrations, and prepared the DEMO audience for the Jam Session, with a live presentation of its eJamming AUDIO+MIDI product, which connects musicians online in real-time and in sync. This enables them to collaborate, play, write, record, rehearse, teach and learn together.
Tune in tomorrow for more news from DEMO 07.
DEMO 07 Sponsors
IronPort Systems is the underwriter of DEMO 07. Sponsors of DEMO 07 are Decision Counsel, First Round Capital, Global Communications, Porter Novelli, Seagate Technology, Sun Microsystems, and Symantec. The Guidewire Group is a strategic partner of DEMO 07. Our media partners are American Venture Magazine, MIT Technology Review, PR Newswire, TechConfidential/The Deal, and VentureCapitalConferences.com. Marketing partners are Conference Guru, Harvard Business School Association of Orange County, Investor’s Circle, Kauffman eVenturing, the National Science Foundation, the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), OCTANe, Tech Coast Angels, VC Experts, and VentureChoice.
About the DEMO Conferences
Produced by Network World Events and Executive Forums, the semi-annual DEMO conferences 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/ .
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 Network World
Network World, Inc., the Leader in Network Knowledge, empowers network IT executives through education, information and community. Network World, an IDG company, is the leading provider of news, analysis, reviews, events and education on information technology. Network World publishes the leading newsweekly, Network World, hosts the most active online communities ( http://www.networkworld.com , http://www.javaworld.com , http://www.linuxworld.com , and http://www.demo.com ), and produces educational seminars and events worldwide. Network World’s portfolio of strategic marketing programs provides marketing and agency professionals with the tools to generate high-quality leads, optimize marketing campaigns, and create new revenue opportunities. Additionally, Network World is the event organizer of DEMO and DEMOfall, the leading events for new technology innovation.
About IDG
International Data Group (IDG) is the world’s leading technology media, events, and research company. IDG publishes more than 300 magazines and newspapers in 85 countries including CIO, CSO, Computerworld, GamePro, InfoWorld, Macworld, Network World, and PC World. IDG’s online network includes more than 400 Web sites spanning business technology, consumer technology, digital entertainment, and gaming worldwide. IDG is a leading producer of more than 170 technology-related events including LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, Macworld Conference & Expo, DEMO, and IDC Directions. IDC, a subsidiary of IDG, is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events. Over 850 IDC analysts in 50 countries provide global, regional, and local expertise on technology and industry opportunities and trends. Additional information about IDG, a privately held company, is available at http://www.idg.com .
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