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CED Selects 10 Demo Participants for Tech 2006
Final Line-up of Tech 2006 Demos Will Be Confirmed by Late August
August 21, 2006, Research Triangle Park, NC –The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) has selected 10 demo participants from North Carolina, Tennessee and Maryland to display their technologies at Tech 2006. Scheduled for Oct. 11 at North Carolina State University’s McKimmon Center in Raleigh, CED’s 16th annual Tech conference will offer demo participants an opportunity to showcase their technologies to hundreds of investors, potential strategic partners and customers, corporate executives and entrepreneurs.
CED accepted demo applications through August 4. CED is continuing the Tech 2006 demo selection process and will announce more confirmed demo participants from across the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic by the end of August.
The recently selected Tech 2006 demo participants include the following:
- Advanced Liquid Logic (RTP, NC, www.liquid-logic.com)
- INI Power Systems, Inc. (Cary, NC, www.inipower.com)
- CardioVascular Resonances, LLC (Greenville, NC, www.cvrmed.com)
- NC Bionics Lab, North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC, www.ncbionics.org)
- rPath (Raleigh, NC www.rpath.com)
- University Genomics, Inc. (Chapel Hill, NC)
- University of North Carolina, Department of Pediatrics (Chapel Hill, NC)
- Sicel Technologies (Morrisville, NC, www.siceltech.com)
- Shimadzu Scientific Instruments (Columbia, MD, www.ssi.shimadzu.com)
- Smartvue Corporation (Nashville, TN, www.smartvue.com)
Lister Delgado, chair of the Tech 2006 demo selection committee and vice president of Durham-based NC IDEA, said the first group of selected demo participants showcases a broad spectrum of industries and technologies.
“These 10 demo participants epitomize the diversity of emerging technologies throughout the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic,” said Delgado. “They represent a strong sampling of the incredible amount of innovation in our region’s technology economy.”
Tech 2006 will showcase innovative technologies from entrepreneurial companies, university groups, corporations and research institutions; and unite the creators of exciting, novel technologies with the industry’s top business influencers and creators. For more details on the confirmed demos, visit http://www.cednc.org/conferences/tech/2006/demo_participants/.
In addition to cutting-edge technology demos, CED’s Tech 2006 will also present keynote speakers and interactive panel discussions from technology and business experts. Previously announced featured speakers include David Bonderman, founder of Texas Pacific Group (TPG) and Newbridge Capital; Marc Lautenbach, General Manager of IBM Americas; and Jim Steele, President of Salesforce.com.
About CED: The Council for EntrepreneurialDevelopment (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. 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. In July 2005, Wilmington’s Coastal Entrepreneurial Council merged with CED to create CED-Coastal, a divisional office focused on entrepreneurial development in Wilmington and throughout North Carolina’s entire coastal region. 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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