DEMO Spring 2012 Announces Keynote Speakers and Powerful Lineup of Industry Sage Panelists
Attendees Invited to Exclusive Screening of "Ctrl+Alt+Compete" Which Chronicles Startups' Paths to Launch
(firmenpresse) - FRAMINGHAM, MA -- (Marketwire) -- 03/21/12 -- , world-renowned for launching the most innovative companies in enterprise, mobile, cloud computing, consumer, social media and disruptive technologies, today announced its keynote speakers and first round of industry expert panelists for DEMO Spring 2012. Global technology industry leaders, venture capitalists, press, and entrepreneurs will gather on April 17-19, 2012, at the Hyatt Regency in Santa Clara, to experience launch demonstrations from today's top innovators and to hear commentary on the state of startups and technology today.
For the past 22 years, the DEMO conference has consistently featured high-quality panelists and speakers ranging from renowned venture capitalists to technology leaders and veteran entrepreneurs. After each group of industry-specific demonstrators from the DEMO Mobile, DEMO Enterprise, DEMO Social, DEMO Consumer, and DEMO Cloud categories, relevant sage panelists will take the stage and offer a unique layer of context to DEMO Spring 2012 by providing feedback, thoughts and insights on the innovative launch demonstrations.
DEMO Spring 2012's keynote speakers and include:
David Lawee, Vice President, Corporate Development at Google
Aaron Levie, CEO, Box
Brad Smith, CEO, Intuit
Mike Abbott, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Larry Augustin, CEO, SugarCRM
Jeff Clavier, Managing Partner, Softech VC
David Cohen, Founder and CEO, Techstars
Satish Dharmaraj, Managing Director, Redpoint Ventures
David, Freidberg, Founding CEO, The Climate Corporation
Ross Fubini, Advisor, Kabor Capital
Chuck Ganapathi, Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Accel Partners
Tom Gillis, CEO, Bracket Computing
Bill Gurley, General Partner, Benchmark Capital
David Gutelius, Chief Social Scientist, Jive Software
Trevor Healy, CEO, Amobee
Christine Herron, Director, Intel Capital
Sheila Jordan, Vice President, Communication and Collaboration IT, Cisco Systems
Jason Krikorian, General Partner, DCM
Joe Kraus, Partner, Google Ventures
Aileen Lee, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Claire Lee, Head of Partnerships and Emerging Business, Microsoft.
John Lilly, Partner Greylock Partners
Bill Nguyen, Founder & CEO, Color Labs
Peter Pham, Partner, Science
Shervin Pishevar, Managing Director, Menlo Ventures
Will Price, CEO, FLITE
Clara Shih, CEO, Hearsay Social
James Slavet, Partner, Greylock Partners
Dana Stadler, General Partner, Matrix Partners
Nirav Tolia, Co-Founder & CEO, Nextdoor.com
"Hearing, and more importantly learning, from our speakers and sage panelists is one of the highlights of the DEMO conferences," said DEMO executive producer Matt Marshall. "We are excited to bring an influential group of seasoned entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and industry titans together with a stellar class of demonstrators for what promises to be another successful DEMO event."
Sponsored by Microsoft, this year's attendees will experience an exclusive screening of the documentary film "." The documentary takes a revealing look at the startup and emerging business scene through the eyes of five founders and their teams, which includes DEMO Spring 2011 alumnus . The documentary tells a story of passion, fortitude, and insanity that is bringing a startup to life.
Furthermore, the DEMO conferences recently traveled on a six city, four country DEMO Innovation Tour where conference organizers met with entrepreneurs from Austin, Texas to Istanbul. DEMO continues to showcase the most disruptive products regardless of geography through DEMO Spring as well as the recently hosted DEMO Asia in Singapore on March 1, 2012, which hosted 73 companies from 14 countries, and the upcoming DEMO Brazil, taking place September 1 - 2, 2012 in Sao Paulo.
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Produced by the IDG Enterprise events group in conjunction with VentureBeat, the DEMO conferences in the United States, Asia and Brazil focus on emerging technologies and new products innovations, 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. For more information on the DEMO conferences, visit .
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. To subscribe, go to:
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