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CED Confirms First-Round Demo Participants for Tech 2007
Final Round Selections Will Be Announced in the Coming Weeks
August 28, 2007, RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. – The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) today announced a partial list of demo participants selected to display their groundbreaking technologies at the Tech 2007 conference.
Scheduled for October 10-11 at the University of North Carolina’s Friday Center located in Chapel Hill, N.C., CED’s 17th annual Tech conference will showcase more than 35 demo participants from throughout the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic. Companies will present today’s newest and most innovative technologies to hundreds of potential strategic partners and customers, investors, and corporate executives and entrepreneurs.
The 14 first round Tech 2007 demo participants are (partial list):
- AP Solutions Inc. (Cary, N.C., www.aplasmasolution.com)
- Calyptix Security Corporation (Charlotte, N.C., www.calyptix.com)
- C Change Surgical LLC (Winston-Salem, N.C., www.cchangesurgical.com)
- Grancrete Inc. (Durham, N.C., www.grancrete.net)
- LOC-AID Technologies Inc. (Boca Raton, Fla., www.loc-aid.net)
- Magnus Health Portal (Raleigh, N.C., www.magnushealthportal.com)
- Modality LLC (Durham, N.C., www.modalitylearning.com)
- NovaVision Inc. (Boca Raton, Fla. www.novavision.com)
- ParagonDx LLC formerly Gentris Diagnostics Inc. (Morrisville, N.C., www.ParagonDx.com)
- PogoHealth (Cary, N.C., www.pogohealth.com)
- Potomac Photonics (Lanham, Md., www.potomac-laser.com)
- TIRF Technologies Inc. (Morrisville, N.C., www.tirftechnologies.com)
- Yap Inc. (Charlotte, N.C., www.yapme.com)
- Zua Scene (Glen Allen, Va. www.zuascene.com)
“The first group of demo selections demonstrates the growing diversity of emerging technologies, not only in our own region, but from across the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic,” said CED President Monica Doss. “The level of innovation these companies bring to the table is something all those attending the conference can appreciate.”
Along with showcasing their ground-breaking, novel technologies, Tech 2007 offers the selected innovators the opportunity to unite with the industry’s top business influencers and creators. For more details on the partial list of confirmed demos, visit www.cednc.org/conferences/tech/2007/demo_participants. The complete list of demo participants will be announced in the coming weeks.
In addition to demos of the latest breakthrough technologies, Tech also presents attendees with the opportunity to engage themselves in interactive panel discussions with technology and business experts, and to gain insight from previously announced featured speakers Najmi Jarwala, President of Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications USA, and Edward Iacobucci, CEO and President of DayJet Corporation.
More details about CED’s Tech 2007 conference can be found online at www.cednc.org/tech.
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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