The Open Innovation Demo Cup is about products; it requires timed, live demonstrations; and does not allow slide presentations! In recognition of the difficulty of communicating the power and value of Open Source projects on stage in a short 8 minutes, the Demo Cup will honor outstanding presentations.
The Open Innovation Demo Cup is about products; it requires timed, live demonstrations; and does not allow slide presentations! In recognition of the difficulty of communicating the power and value of Open Source projects on stage in a short 8 minutes, the Demo Cup will honor outstanding presentations. Chosen for their style, passion, clarity, and sometimes for their sheer fun, these Open Innovation Awards reward a unique ability to deliver a great product and position it in the market, to show off its most compelling features, to differentiate it from other products — and along the way to entertain a tough and critical Open World Forum audience.
Why apply?
The Open Innovation Summit’s history of identifying and helping to launch groundbreaking Open Source projects, coupled with our incredible mix of investors, journalists and major technology audience make the Open Innovation Demo Cup the optimal springboard for announcing your Open Source products and solutions. Whether your goal is to announce yourself, to start commercial launch or to secure your next round of funding or a strategic partnership, apply now to the Open Innovation Demo Cup.
Candidates should submit an Executive Summary (a short version of their business plan, max 5 pages long) with a Logo for their Open Source project or solution, together with an overview of their application, and a 1/2 page text explaining how they expect to perform their demonstration. A screencast or video of a demonstration would also be helpful for the jury, but not mandatory at this point.
Please contact [email protected] to get started.
The judges will convene to assess the submissions and select the top 12 finalists by July 31st, 2010. Press releases and media activities will go out on the selected finalists starting September 1st, 2010.
The Open Innovation Summit – being staged in Paris on September 30 and October 1 2010 – has been recognized as an important showcase and deal-making forum in Europe and worldwide. It is the launchpad for innovative Open Source technologies, products and services.
Cap Digital, a member of the ENoLL Community, co-organizes this unique event.
Profile of Cap Digital can be found here.
About the event:
Having made a key contribution to the Internet revolution, the Free/Open Source movement is now starting to fundamentally transform the whole fabric of technology and knowledge, and the way businesses and people use it. This is opening up colossal opportunities, and also giving rise to some tough challenges. How can organizations and individuals alike take advantage of the Free/Open Source way to strenghten their competitiveness and to support innovation?
How can public institutions and governments make use of it to kick-start the economy and employment? What technological, economic and societal breakthroughs in Free/Open Source can we expect in the future? It is on order to explore these issues that the Open World Forum is being held. Founded in 2008 by a heavyweight group of communities and IT players, the Open World Forum is the premier global summit meeting in this field, bringing together decisions-makers from across the world.
About the venue:
EUROSITES GEORGE V
28 avenue George V – 75008 Paris
Registration and info on this site.