30+ inspirational speakers, whom have spoken at TED, DLD, World Economic Forum, Le Web and other high-profile events, joined together to lead discussions on topic of Innovation in Technology, Creativity and Entrepreneurship at The Inspire Conference, held 7-8 June, at The Senate House in the University of London.
Visit the Inspire Conference website for a full speaker list.
Prior to the conference, Launch48, the organization that hosted the event, held a competition for 10 exhibition spaces solely dedicated to startups.
The 10 winners from the Launch48 competition:
- Gavurin ? A light weight, cloud based data visualization tool called G-View, designed to allow anybody, regardless of technical expertise, to manipulate, explore and get insight from data via attractive, intuitive visualizations.
- MarketInvoice -�Marketinvoice is an online marketplace for invoices, where small companies can sell invoices due from large corporates due in 30, 60 or 90 days to a network of investors.
- colourDNA ? colourDNA helps you discover new things to enjoy in life through Social Discovery. Whether you?re looking for a new restaurant, movie, book or band, you no longer have to rely only on the suggestions of your small network of friends or risk the faceless written review sites. By sharing what you love, you get matched with new things to try out based on the interests of people with similar tastes
- SourceRail ? SourceRail is an advanced media monitoring tool with the capability to monitor the web for specific mentions of companies, competitors, clients, products, services or topics.
- Eventasaurus ? Eventasaurus is a dashboard for online event services. Dubbed ?Tweetdeck for events?.
- Lutebox ? Lutebox is a social entertainment hub, where users can instantly stream premium entertainment content while socializing with friends through video-chats and simulcasts.
- OWJO ? Owjo is a social commerce service. Uniquely it handles transactions within the widget so users are not pushed off facebook (or any other platform that owjo works on) to a payments system.
- HipSnip ? HipSnip is a personal shopping application to get product advice, and solves the consumer problem of deciding what products to buy (e.g. which TV is best for them) by plugging into social networks such as Facebook and Twitter and profiling the products people know about. HipSnip enables consumers to get product advice and reviews through their social groups or through the expert HipSnip community.
- Blippar ? Blippar is the soon-to-launch universal mobile platform that will enable any smart-phone-owning consumer to interact with and pull content from any physical ad creative whether outdoor, on pack, on page or in-store.
- Tastebuds ? Tastebuds is a dating site for music fans. The site has 20,000 users, half of whom have been active on the site in the last month, with over 10,000 messages being sent between them every week.
According to Ismail Elshareef?s Code(ish), Silicon Valley Geek, Entrepreneur, and Visionary, and Inspire Conference attendee:
The 4 Main Themes of the event:
- Social Entrepreneurship: Advocating innovation and tech talent to promote a better world.
- Innovation in Emerging Markets: Using innovation to empower people all over the world.
- Simplicity: Simple is the key to lasting innovation.
- Gamification: Innovation + Technology + Game Theory = New Business
A summary of Ismail's main takeaways from the conference were:
- Transparency is key to all successful business ventures.
- If you need to explain to the user how to use your product, you have done someone wrong.
- Value is subjective, relative and contextual.
- We make up our attitudes to explain our actions.
- Feedback Loop can make or break your business.
- Don't think outside the box. Find the right box and think within it.
- If you're not disrupting, you are iterating. If you're iterating, you will be disrupted.
- We need to fit technology into our lives, not the other way around.
- Empathy leads to Success.
- Persistence is more important than passion.
- The Future is in Disruption.
- Data needs to be computable.
- Angry Bird and The Adjacent Possible
If you?re looking for funding and want to work with other startups, check out Launch48 now for the opportunity to go straight to the interview stage of the application process at Oxygen Accelerator, a UK-based acceleration and investment program.
Launch48 definitively gives innovative start-ups Better: Pedestrian Crossing - Space - Access.
Source: http://www.thenextwomen.com/2011/06/28/launch48-10-start-winners
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