Track News & React

Matt Marshall, Editor-in-Chief, VentureBeat and Co-Executive Producer, DEMO Conference 

Here’s the latest batch of judges who will be at the DEMO conference next month in San Diego. They’ll help award the $1 million media prize to the best of the 60 companies launching new technology products at the event.

We’ve already announced that a list of all-star alumni will also be on hand for the Sept. 21-23 conference as well as the first bunch of judges here. We’ll be making more announcements shortly.

Read more

Matt Marshall, Editor-in-Chief, VentureBeat and DEMO Co-Executive Producer

I’m delighted to announce the first few judges who will be at the DEMO conference next month in San Diego. They’ll help award the $1 million media prize to the best companies launching their products. I’ll be announcing more judges over the coming days.

Read more

Throughout the United States, and indeed on five continents, entrepreneurs and product champions are preparing for their six-minutes on the DEMO stage and, more importantly, their two days in the DEMO pavilion.   Each of these 60 demonstrators and another 10 very early-stage Alpha Pitch startups, is asking the same questions: What’s it take to be a DEMOgod?  What’s my perfect pitch?

Read more

DEMOfall 09 marks the final conference for DEMO’s longtime executive producer Chris Shipley. Over the past 13 years and 24 DEMO conferences, Shipley has evaluated over 20,000 applications to select nearly 1,500 leading-edge innovations to launch on the DEMO stage. The success of many of these companies is a testament to Chris Shipley’s deep knowledge and experience in identifying the pioneering technologies of tomorrow.

Read more

As the selections of products and companies for the DEMOfall 09 event come to a close, we are beginning to see patterns.  Without fail, casting the widest net, traveling around the world, talking to hundreds of companies large and small, our process at DEMO teaches us as much about the bigger trends than as it does about any single “hot” company that might make it into the mix.

This Fall, sixty companies from five continents will present at DEMOfall. (If anyone knows of a great product coming from Africa or Antarctica, we’d sure like to know about it.)

Read more

Take a look at the latest DEMOfall 09 agenda!  Of course, one of the key reasons you come to DEMO is to see the most promising new products and prototypes of 2009. Each company, carefully vetted and selected by co-executive producers, Chris Shipley and Matt Marshall.

Read more

Note: Chris was in Taipei this week speaking at the IDEAS Show, a showcase of new ideas and young companies sponsored by Taiwan’s Institute for Information Industry.  This is the text of her talk.

It is an honor to be invited back to the IDEAS Show to talk to you about “The Next Emerging Web.”   It is especially interesting to address this topic as the sequel to my talk here last June, in which I asked “Now what?” 

Read more

If you’ve ever developed a technology product, you know that there’s always the tendency to hedge your bets.  You aim for a launch target, of course, but always have a contingency plan if development timelines slip.

Read more

Every  time I get together with iForem, Inc. founder and DEMO alum Stephen Pieraldi, I come away feeling I’ve had a provative conversation that will impact my thinking in the weeks ahead.  A conversation we had earlier this week was no different, except that our discussion sealed my belief that tech entrepreneurs and investors are carelessly tossing about the term “capital efficiency” without embracing its real meaning.

Read more

With the class of DEMOfall 09 demonstrators coming together, we’re beginning to see the trends that define this year and next.  And given what’s happening in the economy, we shouldn’t be surprised. The market place is (almost) all business.
 

Read more