Exhibitor Enquiry for Engage | Invest | Exploit 2010

On Wednesday 12th May 2010, Informatics Ventures will be holding their 3rd annual investor showcase in the morning and over lunch, then in the late afternoon we are delighted to be bringing to Edinburgh the UK's first TechCrunch Europe event outside of London.

EIE'10 will feature demonstrations and pitches from 50 ventures across Scotland's Software, Web, Mobile, Informatics and Computer Science scene.

If you would like your startup/spinout/venture to be considered for a place at EIE'10 please complete this ENQUIRY FORM.

NOTE: completing this form does not guarantee you a place, the Informatics Ventures team will respond with either an invitation to demo/pitch at the event or a polite decline and reasoning for this.

Before you complete the enquiry form, please ensure that you meet the following criteria:

• Your venture is based in Scotland (either at a Scottish University or your Company is Registered in Scotland)
• You are a technology/science based venture with high-growth potential

TechCrunch Edinburgh (3pm-late) is separately ticketed, so to secure a place at this please visit:

http://www.amiando.com/tcedinburgh.html

12th May AGENDA:

9.30am-10.30 > Registration, networking, posters and demonstrations.

10.30am-10.45am > Welcome to EIE'10 by Andrew Mitchell (bio), Informatics Ventures

10.45am-noon > Pitches from six rigorously selected startups and spinouts.

noon-1.30pm > Lunch, networking, posters and demonstrations.

1.30pm-2.45pm > Interactive Panel discussion: Commercialising Scotland's Science: From the Cool Comfort of the Laboratory to the Cruel Crucible of the Marketplace.

2.45pm-3pm > Prize giving for best demo' / poster.

From 3pm > TechCrunch Edinburgh event hosted by TechCrunch Europe at the Informatics Forum and after-party at Revolution.

PANEL DISCUSSION:

From the Cool Comfort of the Laboratory to the Cruel Crucible of the Marketplace. (* ref)

This interactive and engaging panel will feature:

* The inspiration for the panel topic is based on work by Kenneth P Morse and the MIT Entrepreneurship Center.

Investors and others from the entrepreneurship ecosystem can register for EIE'10 by contacting Andrew Mitchell:

email: andrew.mitchell@ed.ac.uk

twitter: http://twitter.com/roomitchell

LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/roomitchell

EIE'10 is free for investors and entrepreneurs, therefore is by invitation only. This engagement is made possible through a partnership of funding from the European Regional Development Fund, Scottish Enterprise and the University of Edinburgh.

Company "crib sheets" from EIE'09.

Photos from EIE'09.

Guy Kawasaki keynote from EIE'09.

Video summary of Engage | Invest | Exploit 2009:

"Start prototyping, and just jump into it, not work for this perfect world:- all the money that you need, no competition, growing market, perfect employees, that day is never going to come. So just get into it"
Guy Kawasaki
Engage | Invest | Exploit , Informatics Forum, Edinburgh
29th April, 2009