DEMO Spring 2012 Announces Full Lineup of Industry Expert Panelists
Attendees to Experience Live Product Demonstrations From Today and Tomorrow's Top Innovators
(firmenpresse) - FRAMINGHAM, MA -- (Marketwire) -- 04/16/12 -- , world-renowned for launching the most innovative companies in enterprise, mobile, cloud computing, consumer, social media and disruptive technologies, today announced its full agenda of top venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and global technology leaders for DEMO Spring 2012, on April 17-19, 2012, at the Hyatt Regency in Santa Clara. At DEMO Spring 2012, 75 demonstrator companies from 12 countries -- from Israel to Norway to Istanbul -- will spend six minutes each launching their ground-breaking new products and services designed to revolutionize today's corporate and home lives.
For the past 22 years, the DEMO conference has excelled as the launch platform for industry changing start-ups, and this year is no exception with demonstrations from companies in five categories including DEMO Mobile, DEMO Enterprise, DEMO Social and Media, DEMO Consumer, and DEMO Cloud. After each group of industry-specific demonstrators, expert sage panelists will take the stage to provide their dynamic commentary and feedback on the demonstrations.
"DEMO remains a one-of-a-kind experience for attendees via the superior launch demonstrations and top-notch speaker lineup of VC's, entrepreneurs, and other industry leaders," said DEMO executive producer Matt Marshall. "We are thrilled to once again present a packed agenda of game-changing and thought-provoking sessions to our attendees."
DEMO Spring 2012's complete lineup of includes:
David Lawee, Vice President, Corporate Development, Google
Aaron Levie, CEO and Co-Founder, Box
Zach Nelson, President and CEO, NetSuite, Inc
Brad Smith, CEO, Intuit, moderated by Jon Fortt, Technology Correspondent, CNBC
Mike Abbott, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Larry Augustin, CEO, SugarCRM
Frank Chen, Partner, Andreessen Horowitz
Jeff Clavier, Managing Partner, Softech VC
David, Friedberg, CEO, The Climate Corporation
Ross Fubini, Partner, Kapor 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
Christine Herron, Director, Intel Capital
Jody Holtzman, Senior Vice President, Thought Leadership, AARP
Sheila Jordan, Senior Vice President, Communication and Collaboration IT, Cisco Systems
Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ)
Joe Kraus, Partner, Google Ventures
Jason Krikorian, General Partner, DCM
Aileen Lee, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Claire Lee, Head of Partnerships, Emerging Business Team, Microsoft
John Lilly, Partner Greylock Partners
Darryl McDade, Platform Strategy and Evangelism, Microsoft Corporation and Executive Producer, "Ctrl+Alt+Compete"
Jeff Mullen, Founder and CEO, Dynamics, Inc.
Bill Nguyen, Founder & CEO, Color Labs
Peter Pham, Co-Founder and Partner, Science
Shervin Pishevar, Managing Director, Menlo Ventures
Will Price, CEO, Flite
Harshul Sanghi, Managing Partner, AMEX Ventures, Enterprise Growth, American Express
James Slavet, Partner, Greylock Partners
Dana Stalder, General Partner, Matrix Partners
Matt Thomson, General Manager of Developer and Platform Evangelism, Microsoft Corporation
Nirav Tolia, Co-Founder and CEO, Nextdoor.com
New this year is the conference mobile app, created by DEMO alumnus , which serves as a digital guide for conference attendees. Through the conference app, available for iPhone, iPad via iTunes, Android via the Android Market and other devices via HTML5, attendees can view and explore the complete DEMO Spring 2012 schedule including demonstrator company information; check-in to sessions and meeting areas; and view feeds of other attendee activity, including social media. You can download the mobile app for your device here: .
Furthermore, 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. For more information about any of the DEMO conferences or to register to see the headline makers of tomorrow at DEMO Spring 2012, visit the newly re-launched and reserve your spot today.
Stay connected with DEMO through the communities on the following sites:
Facebook:
LinkedIn:
Twitter:
DEMO Spring 2012 Platinum Sponsors: AARP, Dynamics, Fusion-IO, Microsoft BizSpark, PlugandPlayTechCenter.com, Porter Novelli and Startup America Partnership.
DEMO Spring 2012 Gold Sponsors: Citi, Citrix Startup Accelerator, Comerica Bank, Cooley, LLP, IBM, Invest Northern Ireland, J.P.Morgan, LOUD3R, Merrill Lynch, NEC, Northern Trust, NYSE Euronext, SecondMarket, Silicon Valley Bank, Social Radius, Topaz Partners, TriNet, VCNetwork, Wells Fargo, William Blair and Wilson Sonsini Goodrick & Rosati.
DEMO Spring 2012 Showcase Sponsors: 4Mads, AgeTek, Business Planning HQ, Carr & Ferrell, Game Maki, George Mobile, Hoiio API, Monaca, OmniStrat, PhoCusWright, Scribit, ShareWith911.com, The Falls Event Center, Venturocket, YouEye, Zirtu and Zadara Storage.
DEMO Spring 2012 Strategic Partners: BoogarLists, The California Stock Exchange, Churchill Club, Conference Guru, Conferize, Cool Blue Press, Environmental Business Cluster, Expert CEO, Hawai'i Angels, Keiretsu Forum, Mass Challenge, Mobile Groove, New Media Synergy, Parks Associates, pariSoma, Tech Coast Angels, TechZulu, ubergizmo and Wireless Industry Partnership.
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: .
IDG Enterprise, an International Data Group (IDG) company brings together the leading editorial brands (CFOworld, CIO, Computerworld, CSO, DEMO, InfoWorld, ITworld and Network World) to serve the information needs of our technology, security and financial-focused audiences. As the premier hi-tech B2B media company, we serve our reader and advertiser audiences by delivering award-winning content, community, conversation and conversion solutions across our entire portfolio of websites, events, magazines, products and services. In addition, the CIO Executive Council is a peer advisory service that delivers on the business, technology, and leadership needs for the world's elite CIOs and their respective staffs. For more information, visit .
Additional information about IDG, a privately held company, is available at .
's mission is to provide news about innovation for forward-thinking executives. The New York Times called VentureBeat one of the "best blogs on the Web," and now syndicates VentureBeat's articles. Reuters and many other publishers also run VentureBeat articles.
All product and company names are trademarks of their respective companies.
Leslie Denson
Porter Novelli
(512) 241-2232
Themen in dieser Pressemitteilung:
Unternehmensinformation / Kurzprofil:
Datum: 16.04.2012 - 14:24 Uhr
Sprache: Deutsch
News-ID 135320
Anzahl Zeichen: 0
contact information:
Town:
FRAMINGHAM, MA
Kategorie:
Hardware
Diese Pressemitteilung wurde bisher 195 mal aufgerufen.
Die Pressemitteilung mit dem Titel:
"DEMO Spring 2012 Announces Full Lineup of Industry Expert Panelists"
steht unter der journalistisch-redaktionellen Verantwortung von
DEMO (Nachricht senden)
Beachten Sie bitte die weiteren Informationen zum Haftungsauschluß (gemäß TMG - TeleMedianGesetz) und dem Datenschutz (gemäß der DSGVO).
