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IBDNetwork Announces a Call for Companies for Consumer Technology Event: Under the Radar (11/4/2005)

Start-ups to Apply for a Presenting Spot and Under the Radar Innovation Award

IBDNetwork (International Business Development Network) today announced a call for companies for its second Under the Radar one-day event, featuring the hottest, early-stage companies in the consumer technology space. Under the Radar will take place on May 31, 2005, at the Microsoft campus in Mountain View, CA.

IBDNetwork is looking for nominations from companies in the following sectors:

Digital Home/Automation
-- Digital media management, storage, devices

Internet
-- Search/recommendation engines -- desktop, e-commerce, listings, vertical -- Digital content storage and sharing (e.g. personal private networks, video, music, photo sharing) -- RSS/podcasting/blogging -- P2P technologies -- music, radio, file sharing, social software

Wireless/cellular entertainment services
-- Location-based applications, music, information services, games, photos, streaming media

Others:
-- Gaming -- Next-generation advertising (e.g. optimization/listings, networks) -- Application/device combinations

Guidelines for Submissions/Criteria for Selection
The deadline for submissions is April 15, 2005. Please submit your company using the online form at http://www.ibdnetwork.com/events/speaker_form.php or email IBDNetwork at the following address: content@ibdnetwork.com IBDNetwork and its program advisory board will be selecting companies that are "just under the radar" but quickly gaining traction.

Eligibility requirements
-- Companies can be any of the following: privately funded, bootstrapped, or the recipient of no more than a SERIES B round of VC funding -- Must have a minimum of two paying customers -- Must have a minimum of one industry partnership -- US-based companies -- must be interested in partnership opportunities, follow-on VC funding, or speaking opportunities -- Non-US companies -- must be interested in finding US-based partnerships, US-based VC funding, or setting up a US-based office

The IBDNetwork research team and its advisory board will review each nominee. Companies will be selected for their robust technology solutions and early successes in landing customers and key partnerships.

Event Format
-- 4 company CEOs will have five minutes to pitch to a panel of VC "judges" -- The judges will pose several questions to the CEO after each presentation (another 5 minutes) -- After all the presentations have been made, the audience members will have an opportunity to ask questions -- The audience and the judges will then review the merits of each company's plan and identify the company most likely to succeed via secret ballot -- The Audience Choice winners will be announced at the end of the session. Judges' picks for Top Innovator in each category will be determined at the end of the day

Audience Profile
Attendees are the "dealmakers" of Silicon Valley: CEOs, senior VPs of business and corporate development from private and public companies, press and VCs. Audience size is 250 executives.

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