Press Release
Contact: Robert Caudle |
Phone: (919) 549-7500 ext. 107 |
CED Now Accepting Demo Applications for Tech 2007
Apply by June 30 for Early-Bird Demo Application Discount
June 18, 2007, Research Triangle Park, N.C. – The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) is now actively seeking demo applications from across the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic for its 17th annual Tech conference. Scheduled for October 10-11 at the Friday Center in Chapel Hill, N.C., Tech 2007 presents an opportunity for technologists of any stage or size to display their innovations to investors, potential corporate and strategic partners, technology professionals, entrepreneurs, and national and regional media.
This year, company demos and featured speakers will focus on the disruptive technologies that are reshaping today’s industry and setting the course for the future.
Demo applications are now being accepted online at www.cednc.org/conferences/tech. Apply to demo by June 30 for the early-bird demo application discount. The final demo application deadline is July 27. Demo presenters will be selected no later than 50 days prior to the conference.
The Tech Demo Room will showcase 40 innovative technologies from entrepreneurial companies, university groups, corporations and research institutions. Demo participant selection will be based on level of innovation and “demo-ability.” Selected demo participants will be eligible for the 5th Annual People’s Choice Awards, which will be voted on by conference attendees at the October 10-11 event.
“Tech 2007 will showcase the most up-to-date and relevant technology that is pushing today’s industry into completely new arenas,” said CED President Monica Doss. “By providing a platform through which conversation can start, attendees will leave with valuable information from renowned keynote speakers and innovation leaders.”
“CED’s Tech 2006 event offered Preation real value in two ways,” said Aaron Houghton, president and CEO of the Triangle-based Web development company. “First, Tech provided us with a structured outlet for showcasing our new technology to local investors, partners, and technologists. Second, the conference walked us through the application and demonstration process which, through being so craftily prepared, required us to think deeply about our technology and business model and how we would communicate this information with our first real audience. Since the event we’ve continued to meet folks who know our name and what we do after seeing us at Tech 2006 or hearing about us in related promotional materials.”
The Tech 2007 conference co-chairs are Mark Larson, an audit partner with Grant Thornton, LLP and Mike Saber, attorney with Smith Anderson Blount Dorsett Mitchell & Jernigan, LLP. Tech 2007’s Demo Recruitment and Selection Committee chair is Rik Vandevenne, principal with River Cities Capital Funds.
About CED: The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) is a private, non-profit organization formed in 1984 to identify, enable and promote high growth, high impact entrepreneurial companies and to accelerate the entrepreneurial culture of the Research Triangle and North Carolina. Headquartered in the Research Triangle with a divisional office in Wilmington, CED is the largest and oldest entrepreneurial support organization in the nation with more than 4,000 members representing over 1,100 entrepreneurial companies, financiers and professional firms. CED provides education, mentoring and capital formation resources to new and existing high-growth entrepreneurs through annual conferences, seminars, workshops and programs on entrepreneurial management and finance. www.cednc.org
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