DEMOfall 2007 Presenting Companies Announced

I’m really looking forward to the DEMOfall conference next week in San Diego — and, since I’m now working for a few days at my place in San Clemente, I only have an hour’s drive south to get there. The press announcement just came out earlier today, per usual procedure on the Friday before, announcing the innovations to debut at this year’s fall event. 
Wow, it’s another fire-hose of pitches from hot, new startups — there’s no place a guy like me would rather be! The twice-yearly DEMO conferences, now in their 17th year, are known for seeking out and showcasing important new technologies that usher in new methods of computing. [DEMO is produced by Network World Conferences, a unit of tech publishing giant IDG.]

DEMOfall ’07 is taking place September 24-26 at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina. It will introduce 69 carefully vetted products and services (see below) to "an audience of investors, business development executives, media, pundits, and fellow entrepreneurs."  I would expect attendance in the neighborhood of 700, based on past experience. Presenters include both early-stage and established companies.

The event begins at 6 p.m. Monday evening with an outdoor welcome reception alongside  the harbor. The conference itself then runs all day on Tuesday and Wednesday, culminating in a dinner and panel discussion Wednesday night.  The complete schedule is available here.

DEMO conferences tend to feature a mix of technologies from across the whole spectrum of the technology industry — everything from consumer Internet startups and other consumer technologies, to enterprise software and enabling technologies and other new ventures focused in B2B markets, and everything in between. The press release called out this sampling of some of the technologies that will be introduced at next week’s event:
* a visually engaging, interactive, 3D-animation slot machine game.
* a powerful “bubble of security” tool that protects consumers as they bank and shop online.
* a conference call system that calls you, so every meeting begins on time.
* technology that enables mobile device users to find search results with lighting speed and accuracy.
* an automated check-in service for doctors’ waiting rooms, delivering immediately relevant health and wellness information to the patient.
* business execution software for SMBs, which keeps the entire team on track.
* fast, reliable storage technology for today’s digital age.
* a new MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) application for Facebook.
* a music entertainment service that allows users to collectively listen and re-mix musical compositions on their cell phones.
* a one-click service for improving the quality of videos captured on cell phones andlow-end digital cameras.

This DEMO event is truly global.  We’ll see presenters from several countries besides the U.S., including Russia, Switzerland, New Zealand, Australia, France, Ireland, England, Canada, Israel, and India.

The DEMOfall ’07 demonstrators are as follows:

360desktop Pty Ltd., Victoria, Australia
Advanta, Spring House, PA
AgendiZe, Grapevine, TX
Apprema Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
Attendi Inc., New York, NY
BatchBlue Software LLC, Barrington, RI
CashView Inc., Palo Alto, CA
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., Redwood City, CA
ClipBlast!, Agoura Hills, CA
coComment, Geneva, Switzerland
CodaSystem France S.A., Paris, France
CornerWorld, Dallas, TX
Digital Fountain, Fremont, CA
Diigo Inc., Reno, NV
DimDim Inc., Burlington, MA
earthmine Inc., Berkeley, CA
EncryptaKey, Cypress, CA
Exalead Inc., New York, NY
FastCall411 Inc., Hollywood, CA
Fluid Innovation Inc., Austin, TX
Fusion-io, Salt Lake City, UT
Generate Inc., Maynard, MA
Glam Media, Brisbane, CA
Global Communications Inc., Houston, TX
Global Mobile Technologies LLP, San Francisco, CA
Graspr Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
iForem Inc., Redwood Shores, CA
InstaColl, Bangalore, India
Jasper Wireless, Sunnyvale, CA
kannuu Inc., Dallas, TX
LiveMocha Inc., Bellevue, WA
LogMeIn Inc., Woburn, MA
LongJump, Sunnyvale, CA
matchmine LLC, Needham, MA
MetaRADAR Inc., San Bruno, CA
mig33, Burlingame, CA
MotionDSP Inc., San Mateo, CA
mSpoke Inc., Pittsburgh, PA
MuseStorm Ltd., Yahud, Israel
Myndnet, East Palo Alto, CA
Myxer, Deerfield Beach, FL
Ncursion, Carlsbad, CA
PeopleJam Inc., Los Angeles, CA
Phreesia Inc., New York, NY
PlanHQ, Wellington, New Zealand
Prolify Inc., Waltham, MA
Propel Software Corporation, San Jose, CA
Proxure, San Luis Obispo, CA
Pudding Media Inc., San Jose, CA
Quire Inc., Mountain View, CA
Qumranet, Santa Clara, CA
Real Time Content Ltd., Ipswich, England
RedSquare Ventures Ltd., Moscow, Russia
RelevantMind Corp., Berkeley, CA
SceneCaster, Richmond Hill, Canada
SpaceTime, New York, NY
spigit, Pleasanton, CA
Sway Inc., Middleton, WI
Talari Networks Inc., Cupertino, CA
Trovix, Mountain View, CA
Truphone, London, England
Tubes Networks Inc., Boston, MA
Tungle Corporation, Montreal, Canada
Vello, Mountain View, CA
Vitarati Inc., San Luis Obispo, CA
Vyro Games Ltd., Dublin, Ireland
WMS Gaming, Waukegan, IL
Your Truman Show Inc., San Francisco, CA

For the
first time, DEMO is offering press and bloggers at the event open access to the video
files of all 69 demonstrators’ live stage presentations, PR contact Becky Sniffen tells me, to enhance coverage of the conference. They’re also offering us several edited video segments that
chronicle DEMOfall itself — a behind-the-scenes or man-on-the-street
look at the people and products of DEMO. These videos will be available
to us press registrants during and after the conference — so look for more video coverage of this event to be out there on the web, more than any other previous DEMO event.