Emerging Companies Summit

5th Annual Emerging Companies Summit
March 20, 2013

The Emerging Companies Summit showcased promising companies sharing the latest disruptive technologies revolutionizing mobile and computer industries.

The Summit featured company presentations, amazing product demos and opportunities for networking among companies, investors, key decision makers, and leading consumer, business and trade press.

EMERGING COMPANIES OPENING ADDRESS

09:00 – Jeff Herbst, Vice President of Business Development, NVIDIA
The opening address included an overview of NVIDIA’s GPU ecosystem development activities.

CEO ON STAGE AGENDA

09:20 – Marriott San Jose Ballroom 4
This lively and fast-paced program provided invited CEOs an opportunity to present their companies, products and strategies to a panel of investors, analysts and technology leaders, who in turn provided insightful feedback.

Time	Company	Speaker	Market
09:20	Total Immersion	Laure Leblanc-Negri	Augmented Reality Software and Solutions

	SynerScope	Jan-Kees Buenen	Big Data Analysis and Rendering

	Hanweck Associates	Jerry Hanweck	High Performance Finance Analytics

	Fuzzy Logix	Partha Sen	Predictive Analytics with GPUs for Financial Services, Pharmaceutical and Healthcare

10:40	Coffee Break

10:50	Murex	Pierre Spatz	Software for Trading, Risk Management and Processing

	Splashtop	Mark Lee	Interactive Sharing of Applications, Media Content and Files

	bim+	Christian Ehl	Open cloud Batch Image Processor

12:00	Exhibits / Lunch – Hall 1

14:00	Panel: How Technology Will Shape the Future Monetization of Visual Content

	MirriAd	Mark Popkiewicz

	Cortexica Vision	Steve Semenzato

	PricewaterhouseCoopers	Blake White

	MixedMediaWorks	Ted Mico

	Moor Insights & Strategy	Patrick Moorhead

15:00	Cortexica Vision	Iain Mcready	Bio-inspired Vision System Enabling Intelligent Image Recognition

	Oculus VR	Brendan Iribe	Virtual Reality Headset for Immersive Gaming

	OUYA	Julie Uhrman	Android Game Console

15:50	Coffee Break

16:00	Athentech Imaging	Brad Malcolm	Computational Photography, Image Optimization Processing

	SoftKinetic	Michel Tombroff	Multiplatform Gesture Recognition

	Fluid	Neil Patil	Cloud-based Rendering Tools

17:00	Morpheus	Fabien Beckers	Non-invasive, Accurate Structural Heart Disease Diagnostic Tool

	Ubitus	Wesley Kuo	Cloud-enabled Rich Media Services

	Mainframe2	Nikola Bozinovic	Cloud Workstation Platform

18:00	Exhibits / Happy Hour – Hall 1


Click here to see this year's panelists.

THE "ONE TO WATCH" AWARDS

20:00 – Fairmont Regent Club
The "One to Watch" awards recognized innovation and the top five start-ups at ECS based on technology value, market opportunity, market impact and "wow" factor, shared $85,000 worth of prizes.

The 2013 "One to Watch" awards winners:

	Fluid is a maker of a cloud-based, on-demand virtual merchandising suite that incorporates product customization and 3D dynamic imaging. www.fluid.com
	Morpheus Medical is a creator of the first non-invasive heart disease diagnostic tool. www.morpheusmedical.net
	Oculus VR is the originator of a virtual reality headset for immersive, stereoscopic 3D gaming. www.oculusvr.com
	Splashtop is a provider of high-performance remote desktop applications, and the first two-time winner of an ECS award. www.splashtop.com
	SynerScope is the inventor of an extreme-scale analytics tool that lets users easily explore huge data sets using interactive images. www.synerscope.com

WHAT THEY'RE SAYING ABOUT ECS

"The companies at this year's ECS showed great breadth in innovations that harness the power of GPUs. We saw a wide range of technology that will change the market and create whole new business opportunities."

— Jeff Herbst, Vice President of Business Development, NVIDIA

"We were blown away by the amount of innovation and science at the show, and honored to be recognized among so many talented and successful companies. The rapid advancement in GPUs has enabled Scaleform to deliver rich 3D experiences, including stereoscopic 3D user interfaces."

— Brendan Iribe, CEO, Scaleform

The next generation of robots will depend on parallel computation, and NVIDIA is making that possible. By using GPUs to power machine vision and reactive, real-time motion planning in uncertain environments, our software can control robots in ways that were previously unthinkable.

— Alan Peters, CTO, Universal Robotics