Emerging Technologies and iRobot CEO to Headline CED's Tech 2006 Conference; Demos Include Southeast and Mid-Atlantic Technologies; Mobile Robotics Expert Colin Angle Joins Keynote Lineup.

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) has confirmed more demo technologies and announced that award-winning entrepreneur Colin Angle, CEO and co-founder of iRobot, will provide featured remarks at Tech 2006. CED's Tech 2006 conference is scheduled for Oct. 11 at North Carolina State University's McKimmon Center in Raleigh.

Angle joins previously announced speakers 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, in providing featured remarks at CED's 16th annual conference.

An expert in the field of mobile robots, Angle designed the behavior-controlled rovers for NASA that led to the Sojourner exploring Mars in 1997. Angle's current company, iRobot, has also gained international attention through its behavior-based, artificially intelligent robots. To date, more than 2 million iRobot Roomba(R) Vacuuming Robots have been sold worldwide, and over 500 iRobot PackBot(R) Tactical Mobile Robots have been deployed worldwide, mostly in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In addition to announcing Angle as a keynote speaker, CED has added more technologies from the across the region to participate in the Tech 2006 demo room:

--6th Sense Analytics (Morrisville, N.C., www.6thsenseanalytics.com)

--DeltaSphere Inc. (Durham, N.C., www.deltasphere.com)

--Digitalsmiths (Beaufort, SC, www.digitalsmiths.com)

--Fortune Interactive (Raleigh, N.C., www.fortuneinteractive.com)

--GET Interactive (Winston Salem, N.C., www.getinteractive.tv)

--ImagineOptix Corp. (Raleigh, N.C., www.imgineoptix.com)

--InnerOptic Technology, Inc. (Chapel Hill, N.C., www.inneroptic.com)

--NBKJ, LLC (Apex, N.C., www.ipvisual.com)

--Preation (Raleigh, N.C., www.preation.com)

--RadarFind Corporation (Research Triangle Park, N.C., www.radarfind.com)

--Sensory Analytics, LLC (Greensboro, N.C., www.sensoryanalytics.com)

--TransLoc, Inc. (Raleigh, N.C., www.transloc-inc.com)

--TriE Medical, Inc. (Morrisville, N.C., www.triemedical.com)

--UpSNAP (Davidson, N.C., www.upsnap.com)

--Visitar, Inc. (Morrisville, N.C., www.visitar.com)

--VisorTech (Research Triangle Park, N.C.)

--VitalChart (Research Triangle Park, N.C., www.vitalchart.com)

The previously selected Tech 2006 demo participants include:

--Advanced Liquid Logic (Research Triangle Park, N.C., www.liquid-logic.com)

--INI Power Systems, Inc. (Cary, N.C., www.inipower.com)

--CardioVascular Resonances, LLC (Greenville, N.C., www.cvrmed.com)

--NC Bionics Lab, North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC, http://www.ncbionics.org)

--rPath (Raleigh, N.C. www.rpath.com)

--University Genomics, Inc. (Chapel Hill, N.C.)

--University of North Carolina (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)

"To investors and business leaders around the country, demo companies at Tech 2006 are the face of the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic's cutting-edge technology community," said Chris Matton, partner with Kilpatrick Stockton and co-chair of the conference. "These demo participants represent the best of the region's innovative technology companies."

In addition to technology demos and keynote speakers, CED's Tech 2006 will feature interactive panel discussions from technology and business experts. Pre-conference sessions and a networking reception are also being planned October 10 at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center in the RTP. Visit www.cednc.org/tech for more details.

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.