CED Selects 10 Demo Participants for Tech 2006; Final Line-up of Tech 2006 Demos Will Be Confirmed by Late August.RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK Research Triangle Park, research, business, medical, and educational complex situated in central North Carolina. It has an area of 6,900 acres (2,795 hectares) and is 8 × 2 mi (13 × 3 km) in size. Named for the triangle formed by Duke Univ. , N.C. -- The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED (Capacitance Electronic Disc) An earlier videodisc technology from RCA that was released in 1981 and abandoned five years later. Like phonograph records, the analog disc contained grooves that a stylus rode over. ) has selected 10 demo participants from North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. , 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 (1) (Rapid Transport Protocol) The protocol used in IBM's High Performance Routing (HPR) system. (2) (Realtime Transport Protocol) An IP protocol that supports real time transmission of voice and video. , N.C., www.liquid-logic.com) --INI Power Systems, Inc. (Cary, N.C., www.inipower.com) --CardioVascular Resonances, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control (Greenville, N.C., www.cvrmed.com) --NC Bionics Lab, North Carolina State University History
--rPath (Raleigh, N.C. www.rpath.com) --University Genomics, Inc. (Chapel Hill, N.C.) --University of North Carolina, Department of Pediatrics (Chapel Hill, N.C.) --Sicel Technologies (Morrisville, N.C., www.siceltech.com) --Shimadzu Scientific Instruments (Columbia, Md., www.ssi.shimadzu.com) --Smartvue Corporation (Nashville, Tenn., 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 David Bonderman (1942 - ) is a founder of Texas Pacific Group (TPG) and its Asian affiliate, Newbridge Capital. Prior to forming TPG in 1991, Mr. Bonderman was Chief Operating Officer of the Robert M. Bass Group, Inc. (now doing business as Keystone, Inc. , founder of Texas Pacific Group (TPG TPG Texas Pacific Group TPG Tapping TPG Transports Publics Genevois (Geneva, Switzerland public transportation) TPG Test Pattern Generator TPG TNT Post Group TPG Trésorier Payeur Général ) and Newbridge Capital; Marc Lautenbach, General Manager of IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Americas; and Jim Steele Jim Steele, born Edinburgh 11 March 1950, is a former footballer, who helped Southampton F.C. win the FA Cup in 1976. Playing career Early career After leaving school, Jim was a trainee mechanical engineer with the National Coal Board. , President of Salesforce.com. About CED: The Council for Entrepreneurial Development, headquartered in Research Triangle Park with a divisional office in Wilmington, is a private, non-profit organization formed in 1984 to stimulate the creation and growth of high-impact companies in the Research Triangle and North Carolina. 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. 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. www.cednc.org. |
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