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DEMOfall 09 - The Launchpad for Emerging Technologies

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Serious Venture Investment
Over the past five years, companies that have presented at DEMO have raised more than $3.5 billion in venture investment after they appeared at DEMO.

Unparalleled Press Coverage
DEMO products have cumulatively received an estimated 3 billion press impressions.
Over 200 million media impressions in the weeks following each show. Each presenter averages close to 3 million media impressions at the event.

Products and Services that are now Household Names
The DEMO experience has helped introduce new products and services that have become well-known brands in both the business and consumer markets:

  • Adobe Acrobat
  • Sun's Java
  • Netscape Navigator
  • Palm Computing
  • WebEx
  • TiVo
  • E-Trade
  • Google’s first venture into mobile search
  • GarageBand.com
  • Leapfrog
  • Shopping.com
  • Skype’s first implementation for mobile handsets
  • Placeware, the foundation for Microsoft Live Meeting
  • Autonomy
  • salesforce.com
  • VM Ware
  • Linden Labs’ LindenWorld, the precursor to SecondLife
  • NetObjects
  • Boingo Wireless
  • Ugobe
  • Yodio
  • Vringo
  • BuzzLogic
  • Jajah
  • Shazam Entertainment
  • Sprout
  • coComment
  • Yuuguu
  • Blinkx
  • ffwd.com
  • Liquid Planner
  • Aliph’s Jawbone mobile headset
 

An unprecedented history of Acquisitions
DEMO alumni sessions have shown exceptional returns - 25% of the companies at DEMO 2004 were acquired, 20% for DEMO 2005, for example. More than 40 demonstrating companies were acquired in the last four years alone. Cisco, Google, Microsoft, Motorola, Symantec and Yahoo! have all gone to the well more than once, acquiring multiple DEMO companies. If acquisition is a measure of success, the DEMO list is long and impressive:

  • Half.com (eBay)
  • Five Across (Cisco)
  • Picasa (Google)
  • Homestead Technologies (Intuit)
  • Pluck (Demand Media)
  • Ribbit (BT)
  • Sonaptic (Wolfson Microelectronics)
  • Teleo (Microsoft)
  • Elastic Networks (Paradyne Networks)
  • Allaire Corp (Macromedia)
  • UpShot (Oracle)
  • Bigonthenet (Azeus)
  • Reactivity (Cisco)
  • Expert City (Citrix)
  • Magnifire (F5)
  • Good Technology (Motorola)
  • Pantero (Progress Software)
  • Our Pictures (Simple Star)
  • Mail Frontier (Sonic Wall)
  • IMLogic (Symantec)
  • TurnTide (Symantec)
  • Whole Security (Symantec)
  • Xfire (Viacom)
  • Oddpost (Yahoo)
  • IronPort (Cisco)
  • Kaboodle (Hearst)
  • Nexo (Shutterfly)
  • Serious Magic (Adobe)
  • Infomersion (Business Objects)
  • JotSpot (Google)
  • Livevault (Iron Mountain)
  • Mediabolic (Macrovision)
  • Onfolio (Microsoft)
  • Avvenu (Nokia)
  • Lusora (Western Standard Energy)
  • Livedeal (YP Corp)
  • Kenai (Forum)
  • Insors (Iocom)
  • Streamload (Mediamax)
  • Trimergent (Microsoft)
  • Inxight Software (Business Objects)
  • Live Picture (MGI Software)
  • Determina (VMWare)
  • Zing (Dell)
  • Grand Central (Google)
  • Koral (salesforce.com)
  • Autoxray (SPX)
  • Stata Labs (Yahoo)
  • Zone Labs (Checkpoint)
  • Mailblocks (America Online)
  • SightSpeed (Logitech)
  • AvantGo (Sybase)
  • Danger, Inc. (Microsoft)
  • Personify (Accrue Software)
  • Handspring (3Com/Palm)
  • Good Technology (Motorola)
  • Flarion Technologies (Qualcomm)
  • Preventsys (McAfee)
  • SalesLogix (Symantec)
  • Kana Communications (merged with Silknet)
  • Loudcloud (EDS)
  • Digital Impact (Acxiom)
  • Bitfone (HP)
  • Plumtree Software (BEA Systems)
  • Softbook (Gemstar)
  • CustomerSat.com (MarketTools)
  • Epicentric (Vignette)
 

28 conferences, 18 years - DEMO’s record remains unparalleled.
DEMO has been trusted as a launch venue by major brands, companies with the resources to choose any event or create one of their own. These companies include:

  • IBM
  • Micrografx
  • NEC
  • Borland International
  • Microsoft
  • Caere
  • NTT
  • Intuit
  • Electronic Arts
  • Kodak
  • Oracle
  • Plantronics
  • Electronics for Imaging
  • Logitech
  • ViewSonic
  • Adobe Systems
  • Fujitsu
  • Lotus Development
  • Nokia
  • Hewlett-Packard
  • Philips
  • Symantec
  • Xerox
  • Intel
  • Trend Micro
  • File Maker
  • America Online
  • CNET
  • BestBuy
  • Lenovo
  • Yahoo!
  • Real Networks
  • Motorola
  • Wyse Technology
  • Openwave Systems
  • Symbol Technologies
  • 3Com/Palm Computing
  • Acer America
  • Citrix Systems
  • Seagate.
 

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DEMOfall 09
The edge you’ve been looking for
September 21-23, 2009
Palm Desert, CA