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By Amarendra Bhushan for CEOWORLD Magazine Updated:February 19, 2009
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CEOWORLD Magazine is delighted to be among the Media Partners of the Plugg Startups Rally 2009 to be held on Thursday 12 March 2009 at Belgacom Surf House, Brussels.
Plugg is a one-day conference with a clear focus on celebrating entrepreneurship and innovation in Europe and raising global awareness for those European start-ups in the Web / Mobile 2.0 field that stand out in the crop.
Plugg aims to provide a hands-on view on what’s happening in Europe, what the continent’s (dis)advantages are compared to other regions and what the future will hold for its digital industry.
The Plugg Startups Rally 2009 will feature speakers by leading authorities and experts:
Mike Butcher (TechCrunch UK / Ireland)
Mike Butcher is mostly known as editor of TechCrunch UK & Ireland, where he covers English and Irish start-ups much like its overseas counterpart TechCrunch, often also delivering commentary on the European startup and venture capital industry.
Mike is a journalist and a new media expert. A former editor of New Media Age magazine, he has since written for national newspapers including The Financial Times and The Guardian, and magazines including The New Statesman. He has launched or relanched several media web sites and in 2004 he was voted ‘One of the 100 Innovators of the UK Internet Decade’ by GfK NOP, the fourth-largest custom research business in the world. He has appeared on BBC News, Sky News, Channel 4 and Bloomberg.
Gerd Leonhard (Media Futurist)
The Wall Street Journal calls Gerd Leonhard ‘one of the leading media futurists in the world’. He is the Co-Author of the influential book ‘The Future of Music’ (2005, Berklee Press), as well as the author of ‘Music 2.0’ (published in January 2008), ‘The End of Control’ essays (online here) and of ‘Open is King- Stories from the Future of Media’ (late 2008, some previews are here).
Gerd’s background is in music (he won the Quincy Jones Award in 1986 and is a graduate of Boston’s Berklee College of Music) as well in technology and the Internet (LicenseMusic, Inc. and Sonific LLC).
Inmaculada Martinez (Stradbroke Advisors)
Inmaculada Martinez is one of the world’s leading digital media strategists, described by FORTUNE and TIME as one of Europe’s top talents in Human Factors and Social Engagement through technology.
Switching a career in the financial markets at Goldman Sachs and The Institute for Infrastructure Finance, she joined Cable & Wireless in the mid-1990s to form their New Technologies Advisory, specifically focused on the Internet and IP services. Co-founder in 1999 of Escape Velocity, a 3i-funded AI software company in the early days of mobile services and selected by Lehman Brothers as one of the Top 20 Software startups to watch, her work delivering transformational technologies to clients has continued to-date.
Bart Decrem (Founder & CEO, Tapolous)
Bart Decrem about-me is the CEO of Tapulous. Originally from Belgium, he now lives and works in Silicon Valley. His first entrepreneurial venture was at the age of 13, when he started a weekly magazine for Belgium’s leading (only, in fact) underground radio station while working as a DJ there. In 10th grade, he got kicked out of catholic school for being a troublemaker. His parents briefly considered sending him to a tradeschool, but thought better of it when they saw him handling a hammer and nail. Instead, he finished high school at an international school in Brussels, which is where he developed his flight-risk tendencies. Not ready to get a job, he moved to the US and got a law degree at Stanford. He never did practice law (the closest he got to the firm life was a summer stint at McKinsey).
Pat Phelan (Founder & President, Cubic Telecom / MAXRoam)
Pat Phelan is the founder and President of Cubic Telecom, a well known disruptor in telephony circles and one of the leading voices of Voice 2.0. Pat has developed a number of unique products for the USA, UK and Irish markets including MAXroam, and is a board member of Global Roaming, a NASDAQ listed company.
Pat Phelan has been involved in the telecoms arena for over 10 years and has deep experience in both the US and European markets. His first step into the market was the building of the first callshop and internet café software, a successful product still in use today by over 100 internet cafés worldwide. Pat launched Ireland’s first independently owned phones cards in 1999 and continues to trade in this market in a numbers of countries, with the business hitting 5-7 million minutes termination per month.
Fred Destin (Atlas Venture)
Fred Destin is a General Partner at Atlas Venture. He invests primarily in digital media (DailyMotion, Zoopla), e-commerce (PriceMinister, Seatwave) and technology enabled businesses (KDS, NTR Global). He previously ran OM Technology Investments where he served on the board of numerous companies including SGI-spinoff Kasenna, Xerox-PARC spinoff Inxight Software (acquired by BOBJ), CapitalIQ (acquired by S&P) and Rainfinity (acquired by EMC).
Fred writes a widely read blog at www.freddestin.com where he attempts to share how VCs think about the business of funding innovation and is a board member for Seedcamp, the pan-European seed funding initiative.
Alain Heureux (President,IAB Europe)
Alain Heureux has been active in marketing since more than 20 years creating several service companies across Europe : the CPM Group specialised in field-marketing, direct marketing and sales promotion, a web agency called Virtuology active in Brussels, London and Paris and a full integrated marcom agency named Tagora acting in several European markets.
Alain Heureux has always been very active in professional associations creating the field-marketing association in the early nineties called ADMH-IFMA, and today operating since five years as President of Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Belgium, but also as of January 2007 as President of IAB Europe covering 18 countries. Alain is trying to create the House of Communication (The Egg) in Brussels together with the entire associative world of the communication industry building a unique location dedicated to Creativity, Innovation and Technologies.
Lisa Sounio (Chairman, Dopplr)
Brand and design expert Lisa Sounio is co-founder, former CEO and current Chairman of Dopplr, the online service for intelligent business travellers worldwide. Prior to Dopplr in 2004, Lisa founded Sonay, a consultancy specialized in design strategy and PR. Sonay’s clients include Nokia, Kone, Artek and Marimekko.
During the 2007 fall TV season Sounio was a judge and investor on the Finnish version of “Dragon’s Den”, the popular and controversial “pop-idol for entrepreneurs” television format. Sounio writes regular media columns, gives lectures and teaches marketing in the University of Art & Design Helsinki.
Yakov Sadchikov (President and CEO of Quintura)
Yakov Sadchikov is President and CEO of Quintura, a visual-based site search, analytics and monetization solution for online content publishers and bloggers. In August 2005, he founded Quintura with two partners. With a team of software developers, he had improved the site search experience using new, neural network-based technology. Yakov heads the strategic direction and external development of the company with web publishers, strategic partners, and investors. In this position, he also oversees the overall operations of the company.
Anil Hansjee (Head of Corporate Development EMEA, Google)
Anil joined Google in September 2006 as Head of Corporate Development for Europe, Middle East and Africa, based in London. Prior to joining, Anil was a Principal with the venture capital firm IDG Ventures, where he was board director of one of their portfolio companies, the mobile music company, Shazam Entertainment. Between mid 2000 and end of 2001, Anil was a Vice President for corporate finance with Bear Stearns International in London. Between mid 1997 and mid 2000, Anil was a member of Chase Manhattan Bank’s corporate finance group both in New York and London.
Anil joined Chase’s corporate finance team after spending the first 7 years of his professional career as a software engineer first with UBS then Chase. Anil has a BSc.(Hons.) in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science from Edinburgh University and has an MSc. in Finance at London Business School.
Paul De Decker (Managing Director Belgium and Luxembourg, Sun Microsystems)
Since September 2006, Paul De Decker holds the position of Managing Director for Belgium and Luxembourg. Paul joined Sun Belgium in 1992 as the company was just starting its Belgian Operations. He was asked to lead the presales team that would actively contribute to the explosive growth for Sun in Belgium and Luxembourg.
In 1998 he joined the Northern Europe management team as Manager for the systems engineers, guiding the SE community across Scandinavia, Finland, Benelux, Middle Europe and C.I.S. (the former Russian republics). Building on his passionate drive for real customer-focused business, he took on the challenge of Client Solutions Director for Central and Northern Europe in 2002, leading the Solution Selling and Technical communities across the region, in close collaboration with the different Country Managers and the Corporate teams.
Dr. M. Claire Van de Velde (Director Valorization & Business Development)
Ms Claire Van de Velde has two core tasks as the Director of Valorization and Business Development: drafting know-how agreements with industry and the business community, and identifying opportunities for commercializing IBBT’s research results.
Claire started her professional career as a scientific researcher in the Department of Biology, which is part of the Faculty of Applied Sciences at the University of Ghent. She also obtained her doctorate there.
At the end of the 80s and 90s, she was a staff member of the Flemish Interuniversitary Board (VLIR) and the Flemish Board for Scientific Policy (VRWB).
Jury
Frank Maene – Big Bang Ventures
Soren Jessen Nielsen – NorthCap Partners
Reshma Sohoni – Seedcamp
Steven Coppens – GIMV
Inmaculada Martinez – Stradbroke Advisors
Ouriel Ohayon – LGiLab / TechCrunch France
Max Niederhofer – Atlas Venture
Ravit Lichtenberg – Ustrategy
Davor Hebel – Fidelity Ventures
Robert Schrimpff – TVM Capital
Nicolas Celier – Alven Capital
Bart Becks- Eburones
Matthäus Krzykowski – Venturebeat
For more information on the Plugg Startups Rally 2009, or to participate, please visit plugg.eu.
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