DEMO: The Launchpad for Emerging Technology

Who attends DEMO?

DEMO attracts the most-insightful media, the most-critical venture capitalists, the most-respected technology business development professionals, the most-connected corporate IT professionals, and the most-promising new technology companies in the world.  15,000 people have attended DEMO over the past 19 years.

The most innovative people in the world

Game changers. Market shifters. Entrepreneurs. The best and the brightest. The big guns. The hidden gems. Public. Private. You name it. DEMO defines it.  Seventy of the world’s most carefully vetted emerging companies will present at DEMO 09. The men and women behind the vision and development of each product are truly some of the most innovative people in the world.  

Take a look at some of the innovators who have graced the DEMO stage.  People like Marc Benioff, Dianne Green, Sergey Brin, Marc Andreesson, Shai Agassi, Jean-Louis Gassée and Eric Schmidt to name a few.  Each chose DEMO in order to gain the immediate exposure, insight, experience, and continued funding they needed to change the way the world does business, communicates, innovates, learns, entertains, and lives through the products they launched.

Top enterprise and consumer technology press

The world’s leading technology press and bloggers come to DEMO to be there first hand when new technologies emerge. When presenters break out the next big thing, the press breaks the story. At DEMO 09, expect to see journalists for national, worldwide, and local magazine and broadcast outlets, such as Business Week, CBS Television, CNET, Forbes, GigaOm, InfoWorld, Los Angeles Times, Mashable, Network World, PC World, Popular Science, Read Write Web, Reuters, San Jose Mercury News, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal and USA Today—all who regularly attend DEMO. Each demonstrator averages more than 3 million media impressions due to the coverage reported at the show.

Leading venture capitalists, angels and other investors

DEMO delivers new trends and trendsetters, not trend followers.  The VCs, angels and other investors attending DEMO are there to see truly disruptive technologies that are not only redefining markets but also creating new ones.  In six minutes, they’ll either “get it” or not and can decide whether a product gets their further attention or not.  VCs who have attended and subsequently provided billions of dollars in funding to DEMO companies include: Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Kleiner Perkins, Highland Capital, Longworth, Matrix, Mohr Davidow, Morganthaler, Polaris, Sierra, Sequoia, Thomas Weisel and many, many more.

Big company strategists and corporate development officers

With a keen interest in trend spotting and emergent technologies, corporate development officers come to DEMO because they know that the products launched are well-developed, well-funded, launch-ready opportunities with most of the bugs worked out. Companies who have recently attended and subsequently acquired DEMO companies include Cisco, Dell, Google, Hearst, Intel, Iron Mountain, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia, Symantec, Viacom, Yahoo!, and many more.

The most recognized service providers

DEMO is also the place to be for top public relations professionals, marketing advisors, legal consultants, and anyone else with vested interests in meeting companies on the rise—companies that may have all the technical expertise and brains in the world, but not the specialized services all successful companies need to proceed in a competitive marketplace.

Experienced entrepreneurs
If birds of a feather flock together, then DEMO is a refuge for forward-thinking entrepreneurial futurists who demand to see the latest trends, technologies, innovations, and ideas. Here, they can network with like-minded high-flyers, learn from the best and brightest in the field, and meet the press, VCs, investors, and business development officers who may—in future conferences—see them on the DEMO stage.