DEMO: The Launchpad for Emerging Technology

Welcome and Opening Remarks
Chris Shipley, Executive Producer, DEMO Conferences

Live from DEMO It's...
DEMO, streaming in HD. This event is being broadcast live to thousands of people who couldn’t be here in person, thanks to the latest streaming technology from DEMO alum BitGravity.
Demonstration by:
BitGravity

Doing More with Less
In these times, “efficiency” is the watchword. With fewer resources and more to do, we have to leverage technology to get the most value from every effort. This first group of products is all about productivity, getting more from our time, our communications and our technology resources.
Demonstrations by:
Ontier, Inc.
Transformyx, Inc.
Vokle, Inc.
Technicopia, LLC
Cc: Betty, Inc.
Citrix Online
Zuora, Inc.
Document Depository Corporation, LLC

Stimulating the Economy
Nothing drives the economy as much as spending. As we all tighten our belts, these applications help us get the most bang for our limited bucks, no matter if we’re buying or selling.
Demonstrations by:
Home-Account, Inc.
Zipadi Technologies, LLC
7 Billion People, Inc.
Liquid Media, LLC

A Green(er) DEMO
Face it: A production the size and scale of DEMO, even the more modest scale of DEMO 09, leaves a pretty big carbon footprint. This year, DEMO is taking steps to reduce, reuse and reclaim. You’ll notice it in the reduction of printed material and the recycled materials in the attendee bag.And thanks to eFormic, DEMO is offsetting 1,000 tons of CO2 emissions, enough to cover the production of the event, the travel of the demonstrating class and then some.
Demonstration by
eFormic, Ltd.

Welcome Back
Chris Shipley, Executive Producer, DEMO Conferences

iLove My iPhone
And every other mobile phone and application I can get my hands on. We have become tremendously dependent on smart phones for far more than calls. We use them for business, entertainment and all means of communication. We even use our mobile phones to assert our identities.
Demonstrations by:
Coveroo, Inc.
Promptu Systems Corp.
HAM-IT, Inc.
Asurion Mobile Applications, Inc.
bluBuzz, LLC
Skout, Inc.

Venture Capital in the Post Recession
Most investors agree: Significant shifts in the economics of innovation and the startup ecosystem are pressuring traditional venture capital models. This will be a wide-ranging conversation on how the current economy is affecting VCs and resetting expectations for entrepreneurs and investors, and how the inevitable disruption of the recession will change (or not) the venture business.
Moderator: Matt Marshall, Co-Executive Producer
Panelists:
Josh Kopelman, Managing Partner, First Round Capital
Eric Tilenius, Founder & Managing Partner, Tilenius Investments
Chris Wand, Managing Director, Foundry Group

Hard to Imagine...
Hardware. It’s one market category that we wouldn’t have guessed would heat up as the consumer markets cooled down. But, indeed, we saw more consumer hardware in advance of this DEMO event than we have during boom times. Herewith, our favorites:
Demonstrations by:
Always Innovating, Inc.
Avaak, Inc.
Qualcomm MEMS Technologies, Inc.

The Shift to Social Entrepreneurship
DEMO alumni Advanta’s ideablob site attracts thousands of new business ideas each month. Remarkably, the vast majority of top ideas are coming from young entrepreneurs who are choosing to start sustainable, socially responsible businesses in a manner that seeks financial gain but doesn’t put that objective above social, climate or ethical impact. Meet three young entrepreneurs who are changing the world, and quite possibly the face of business.
Hosted by Ami Kassar, Chief Innovation Officer, Advanta and President, ideablob Corp.

Social Entrepreneurs:
Suneet Bhatt, Co-founder, Dream Village
Efe Osagie, Founder, Lead Now Fellows
Xander Page, Director, Sales & Marketing, BeRewarding.com

The Life You Save
David Jacobs understands all too well the challenges of kidney donor matching. After a complicated and time-consuming search to match donor pairs, Jacobs developed an efficient matching algorithm that clinics are now using to find best matches. The software has already saved a handful of lives and is destined to profoundly impact the organ transplant process.
Demonstration by:
Silverstone Solutions, Inc.

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Chris Shipley, Executive Producer, DEMO Conferences

A Smarter Internet...
In these tough times, everyone is looking for an advantage. These tools, delivering capabilities from more accurate information discovery to more efficient information sharing, leverage the Internet as a tool for business and personal advantage.
Demonstrations by:
Ensembli, Ltd.
Evri, Inc.
Purewire, Inc.
Qubes, Inc.
XMARKS
Gazaro, Inc.
HowSimple, LLC
Primal Fusion, Inc.
Kutano Corp.

Smarter Systems...
It’s not enough for us to work smarter; our computers and operating platforms need to be more productive, too. These products improve performance, save time and more efficiently manage the systems on which we depend.
Demonstrations by:
Xandros, Inc.
Symantec Corp.
Jadoos, Inc.
deskNET SA
AppZero Corp.

...And a Smarter You
Not you, exactly, but you’d be a smart parent to enroll your kids in this next application. It works on so many levels, providing engaging ageappropriate learning in using smart incentives that can be a lesson unto themselves.
Demonstration by:
SmartyCard

Leading Capital Efficient Companies
Capital efficiency. That’s the byword for any venture in these tough times and it is certainly the credo of these DEMO company CEOs. Each company has embraced the challenge of building and leading capital efficient companies from very different perspectives. How are they running their diverse companies in the face of recession? How is the economy resetting expectations for business growth? How are these CEOs coping and managing their boards and investors, as well as their teams?
Panelists:
Joel Bomgar, Founder & CEO, Bomgar Corporation
Eileen Gittins, Founder & CEO, Blurb
Paul Pluschkell, Founder & CEO, Spigit
Dr. Wade W. Ren, Chairman, Founder & CEO, Diigo

DEMObeat
DEMObeat brings together the best characteristics of DEMO and VentureBeat, sparking conversations on stage at DEMO 09 that will persist as themes across the next months and through DEMO’s and VentureBeat’s communities online and off.

These three conversations — moderated by VentureBeat founder Matt Marshall — explore and focus our attention on emerging innovations that will change the landscape.

New tools bringing more energy efficiency
One of the most vital issues facing the world is the need to reduce carbon emissions. One way is to be smart about creating energy efficiencies, and the upside to this is the potential for more jobs. Smart energy metering companies, together with smarter buildings and smart materials are leading the way as we move towards a more sustainable economy. This panel seeks to bring together some of the sharpest minds in the cleantech industry for a preview of some of the most brilliant energy efficiency inventions now in the works.
Panelists:
Robin Baker, Vice President of Business Development & Markets, AMEE
Thomas Sly, Business Development Manager, Google
Adrian Tuck, CEO, Tendril

How sharing social data across the Web will change lives and business
Major players such as Google, MySpace and Facebook are rolling out ways for other Web sites to access their user data. Such data, including status updates and other real-time information, promise to become increasingly important for consumers and businesses. Already, companies are using real-time information to respond to customer complaints. Younger players such as Twitter have grabbed increasing buzz in this area, and the corporate world is taking a closer look at how they can incorporate these feeds and other data into how they work. The point of this panel is to explore what projects are in the works, what opportunities are being created, and what this will mean for consumer and business life over the next three years. It will also explore how industry-wide efforts to create standards for sharing user data are helping or not.
Panelists:
Max Engel, Product Lead, MySpaceID
Kevin Marks, Developer Advocate, Google
Dave Morin, Senior Platform Manager, Facebook
Joseph Smarr, Chief Platform Architect, Plaxo

Productivity 2.0: How new tools are making people more productive
A mix of Web and social media technologies are making people more productive. Social networking, wikis, online collaboration, and ondemand software are combining in new ways and being adapted to the work environment, but also to individuals’ private lives. More dynamic operating systems are creating smart phones that can keep people tethered together to their other devices, workplaces and colleagues in ways not seen until now. This panel highlights companies that are leveraging this technology and pushing productivity to new heights.
Panelists:
Jeff Pierce, Manager, Mobile Computing Research Group, IBM Research Almaden
Raju Vegesna, Evangelist, Zoho

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