IBDNetwork Announces a Call for Companies for Consumer Technology Event: Under the Radar

SAN FRANCISCO, March 31 /PRNewswire/ -- 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

  Advisory Board
  -- Mark Albert, Partner, Perkins Coie
  -- Barbara Angius Saxby, Founder and Principal, Accelent Marketing
  -- Rajeev Chand, Senior Equity Research Analyst Wireless Technologies,
     Rutberg & Co.
  -- Janet Coyle, Consul (Investment), UK Trade & Investment
  -- Duncan Davidson, Venture Partner, VantagePoint Venture Partners
  -- Alay Desai, Director of Business Development, Microsoft
  -- Lara Druyan, General Partner, Allegis Capital
  -- Ken Gullicksen, Partner, Morgenthaler Ventures
  -- David Hornik, Partner, August Capital
  -- Jerry Iwata, VP, Technology & Life Sciences & Managing Director,
     Venture Capital Group, Comerica Bank
  -- Mike Jung, Principal, JP Morgan Partners
  -- Larry Marcus, General Partner, WaldenVC
  -- Morgan McLintic, Vice President, LEWIS PR
  -- Shaukat Shamin, Venture Partner CTO, NeoCarta
  -- Rod Werner, VP, Technology & Life Sciences & Managing Director, Venture
     Capital Group, Comerica Bank

  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.

  Demographics
  -- Start-up CEOs -- 35%
  -- VCs -- 30%
  -- Senior Execs -- 17%
  -- Service Providers -- 10%
  -- Press/Analysts -- 5%
  -- Other -- 3%

  About IBDNetwork

Founded in September of 1999, IBDNetwork is the first membership-based organization to accelerate dealmaking. IBDNetwork explores the business side of technology through events and newsletters that cover the latest innovative technology, partnerships, company growth, business models, and investment strategies. IBDNetwork's community is comprised of VCs, CEOs, and VPs of business and corporate development from both private and public companies -- typically the company "forecasters" that need to understand new market opportunities and trends to help plan their companies' strategic initiatives.