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Global Innovation Summit + Week in Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley, Calif. (PRWEB) February 14, 2014
The Global Innovation Summit +Week is the world’s leading event focused on fostering systemic innovation in startup communities and across companies, cities and countries. The main event, Global Innovation Summit, seeks to grow innovation ecosystems that can stimulate the creation of breakthrough products, design new solutions to big challenges, and catalyze sustainable economic growth and wealth. Last year, the event brought together 400 participants from 49 countries. Sponsors include Bing (Microsoft), United Nations Foundation, City of San Jose, USAID, DLA Piper, Kaufman Fellows and SVForum. The Summit is to be held on Feb 17-19 at the San Jose Marriott.
The Global Innovation Summit presents the greatest-ever gathering of rock stars of innovation, entrepreneurship and technology. Our lineup crosses cross multiple sectors: startups, social impact, academia, and the creative arts. Steve Blank, startup guru with a remarkable career in 8 high-tech companies; AnnaLee Saxenian, pioneering Berkeley scholar on innovation networks; Wayne Silby, the “godfather” of impact investing; Danae Ringelmann, Founder & Chief Customer Officer at Indiegogo; Brad Feld, TechStars, Author of Startup Communities; David Tennenhouse, Corporate VP Technology Policy of Microsoft; Nancy Pfund, among the most successful impact investors ever; Eric Ball, SVP of Finance at Oracle; plus many more speakers.
The Global Innovation Summit offers the newest insights, cutting-edge tools and “Design Labs”. The attendees will learn why designing ecosystems can enhance the future of business, innovation, and human potential. The Design Labs will teach attendees on how to create and prototype solutions by applying design thinking to the hardest systemic challenges. Our facilitation team also runs the design lab at Davos’s World Economic Forum.
The Global Innovation Week is a consortium of 20+ leading groups in the region that are co-hosting affiliated activities related to innovation ecosystems. The gathering is a week-long festival to be held throughout the Bay Area, February 17-21. Events include: women & innovation, indoor street festival, int’l tech transfer panel, bike tour, Estonian technology, Brazilian creativity, software platforms, life science incubation, a play about Buckminster Fuller, and many more.
The Art of Innovation is an indoor street festival sponsored by the City of San Jose. The creative spirit will be on display for an eclectic evening of arts & culture, performances & exhibition, music & media. Our partner Anno Domini Gallery is organizing an event with 40+ artists and performers, exploring a range of innovative styles. It happens on the evening of Wednesday, February 19 at San Jose Convention Center. FREE to attend.
The Global Innovation Week events include:
The Art of Innovation sponsored by the City of San Jose and by Anno Domini Gallery
Apps to Platforms: The Hows & Whys by SVForum
The Women & Innovation Lab by Cascadance
Bike Tour of Stanford University Campus by STLGip Law Firm
Technology Transfer Models and Impact on Innovation: An International Discussion by STLGip Law Firm
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Creativity & Innovation in Brazil by BayBrazil
Convening the Conveners by Opportunity Collaboration
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Driving Disruption: An Evening with Women Entrepreneurs by The Center for Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership and Silicon Vikings
Startup Showcase by T2 Venture Creation
T2 Venture Creation, a Silicon Valley firm that grows startup companies and helps communities design innovative ecosystems, is organizing the event. According to CEO Victor W. Hwang, “Silicon Valley is rolling out the red carpet to the world. This is the first time that so many key organizations in the Valley have joined together to share ideas and practices on how to build innovative communities. Our vision is to create the biggest ever gathering of the world’s ecosystem builders. We want this to be a global conversation among innovators from all walks of life, from all corners of the planet.”
A more in-depth look at how to cultivate entire ecosystems to support innovation will be held at the beginning of the week with the Global Innovation Summit on February 17-19, 2014. This event will engage attendees as they build their own ecosystem in a dynamic breakout, listen to innovation leaders from throughout the world and network with entrepreneurs, executives, scientists, inventors, venture capitalists, journalists, investors, policy makers, social entrepreneurs, and innovation thought leaders from more than 50 countries who strive to make a difference.
Hwang enforces that mission by adding, “Our vision is to make geography irrelevant to innovation. Every innovator deserves a fighting chance to pursue a dream, wherever they happen to be.”
Attendance to the Global Innovation Summit is by invitation only, but interested candidates can apply for an invitation at http://www.innosummit.com and click on the registration link.
ABOUT GLOBAL INNOVATION SUMMIT
The Global Innovation Summit (http://www.innosummit.com) on February 17-19, 2014 is a conference in Silicon Valley on how to foster the growth of innovation ecosystems to drive entrepreneurship, technology, and economic impact. The first Summit in 2012 brought together over 400 innovators from 49 countries, representing governments, corporations, venture capital, NGOs, startups, and academia. The Global Innovation Summit is the centerpiece of Global Innovation Week, which features multiple events and activities throughout the region. The weeklong affair was organized by T2 Venture Creation, a Silicon Valley venture firm and ecosystem design studio.
ABOUT GLOBAL INNOVATION WEEK
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CONTACT INFORMATION: Christina Wu, Director of Marketing, T2 Venture Creation, christina(at)t2vc(dot)com 213-952-6534
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HATCH Pitch Startup Competition Announces SXSW Finalists
Houston, TX (PRWEB) February 14, 2014
A handful of startups now have four minutes to win it. HATCH pitch, the revolutionary startup pitch competition, announced today the finalists for its upcoming March 10 event at SXSW Interactive Startup Village.
Applications were received from early stage tech startups in 14 countries and 17 US states. Finalists were selected based on a range of criteria including how revolutionary the idea is, how the company is making life better, what’s great about the startup founders and team, and how scalable and sustainable their product is. Each participant will present their business plan to a panel of corporate, angel, and venture investor judges in front of a well-connected audience at SXSW Interactive on March 10, 2014.
“We are overwhelmed by the quality and diversity of the startups who applied,” said Greg Wright, HATCH pitch founder. “I am excited to see the impact these young companies will have on their respective industries.”
The 2014 HATCH pitch SXSW finalists are:
Bit6 – With just a few lines of code, Bit6 lets developers add communication capabilities to any app.
bop.fm – Creates a home for every song on the internet and lets you easily share it with anyone.
BRCK – It’s the easiest, most reliable way to connect to the Internet, for people and things.
ePatientFinder – Empowers physicians to connect patients with tomorrow’s treatments today.
idealAsset – The match.com for innovation and intellectual property.
Neural Analytics – Simplifying brain injury diagnosis using healthcare informatics.
Ranku – Search engine for 100% online degrees from traditional universities. Kayak 4 degrees.
Seratis – Makes team transparency and healthcare coordination easy. Find out who else is looking after your patient and send secure messages.
SmartestK12 – Make your classwork and homework assignments smarter with SmartestK12.
SupaPass – Musician’s subscription fanclub: SupaFans fund new music for special access to favorite bands.
Virtuix – Virtuix Omni Fully Immersive Gaming Platform.
YouEarnedIt – A simple, fun, and flexible way to recognize your people and foster happiness at work.
The selected companies will each have four minutes to pitch their revolutionary startup before fielding questions from the judges, including Nicole Glaros (Managing Director Techstars NY), Rahul Sood (General Manager, Microsoft Ventures), John Frankel (Partner, ff Venture Capital), Kerry Rupp (CEO, DreamIt Ventures), Blair Garrou (Co-founder and Managing Director, Mercury Fund), Balaji Gopinath (VP of Emerging Technology, Turner Broadcasting/Media Camp), Rick Pleczko (Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Austin Ventures), Unity Stoakes (President and co-founder, StartUp Health), Neal Murthy (Managing Director, Indalo Solutions), Rami Essaid (CEO and Co-Founder, Distil Networks and HATCH pitch 2012 winner), and MC Missy Krasner (Exec in Residence at Canvas Venture Fund).
For those who did not make it to the finals, HATCH pitch and Qukku have partnered to host the “Are you HATCH-worthy?” crowd-voted video contest. Winning videos will be played at the HATCH pitch event. In a one-minute video, contestants should present their company and vision in a fun and entertaining way. This contest is open to any early-stage startups. For more details and to apply, visit Qukku (http://qukku.com/contests/AreyouHATCH-worthy93). Contest submissions and voting end on March 3.
HATCH pitch is open to all SXSW Interactive, Gold, or Platinum badgeholders.
About HATCH pitch
HATCH pitch is the revolutionary pitch competition for tech startup companies making life better. Playing to capacity audiences at SXSW in Austin the past two years, HATCH pitch returns to SXSW Interactive on March 10, 2014. Previous winners Distil Networks, RideScout, and Realty Mogul have garnered phenomenal attention from the press and investment communities. Distil received a $ 1.8 million seed investment from a HATCH pitch judge after winning HATCH pitch 2012. To learn more go to http://www.hatchpitch.com or connect with us on twitter @HATCHPITCH and Facebook at facebook.com/HatchPitch.
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Profitable Business Idea: Internet Caf
Starting a new business is a risky endeavor; even the most researched and well-thought-out business plan doesn’t guarantee results or success. This is why so many people end up losing their passion to open a new business and follow their dreams. But what if there was a way to open a new business in one of the most popular growth industries in America and receive free consultation? According to SweepsCoach, one of the leading Internet gaming café companies in the industry, there is.
Here is a look at the Internet café sweepstakes industry and how you can get free support when launching what is quickly becoming the most popular and profitable business idea in America.
Business overview: A sweepstakes Internet café business is similar to a computer gaming café: Customers pay a certain amount of money to sit behind a computer and play a variety of PC games. The only difference when it comes to a sweepstakes business is that consumers play sweepstakes games instead of traditional PC games. The selection of games is usually determined by what is most popular in the local area.
The cost of launching this type of business varies depending on the number of sweepstakes machines, location and the prices of your lease or rent.An Internet café franchise start-up can cost as little as ten to fifteen thousand dollars to several hundred thousand dollars.
The Market:Sweepstakes Internet cafes are opening up everywhere throughout the United States as a legal and profitable business.Customers end up paying a lot of money to play computer sweepstakes machines and compete for prizes while business owners enjoy the profits. What’s more, through the use of web-based internet sweepstakes software, entrepreneurs don’t have to purchase an onsite server or point of sale for each location and therefore save a ton of money.
The support: SweepsCoach offers free consultation for entrepreneurs interested in launching a sweepstakes internet café.For more than 10 years, SweepsCoach has helped launch more than 200 gaming centers internationally and across the U.S, and can help entrepreneurs with every step of the process.
This includes initial planning, software and hands-on training. Most importantly, SweepsCoach builds and delivers the computer sweepstakes machines. The technical team at SweepsCoach will provide onsite installation and training.
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