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Pixable at the World Innovation Summit

Friday, July 31st, 2009
HITlogoAt the end of June, Pixable was present at  the World Innovation Summit (WIS). We attended the WIS event because Pixable was selected as one of the top 20 global startups with best growth potential. We went in representation of MIT.

For three day, gurus, inventors and entrepreneurs met and networked to learn the latest trends in innovation and its role as the way out of the global economic crisis, to share strategies to face the challenges ahead and drive the business projects with great potential. Among the plenary speakers I saw Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Ray Kurzweil (most famous inventor and futurist in the world), Gary Hamel (world most influential business thinker), Vijay Govindarajan (from Tuck) and Michael Eisner (former CEO of Walt Disney). As an inventor, Ray Kurzweil has been called the new Thomas Edison. I recommend listening to any of his talks or reading about his predictions of the future, including his famous book “The Singularity in near“. It was fascinating to hear his predictions about how medicine is transforming into an information technology, which by its nature advances at an exponential rate implying “radical life extension“.

The World Innovation Summit also featured the first edition of the Global Entrepreneurship Competition, an international early-stage tournament that called for start-ups from around the world with high future growth projections, in total 28 projects from 21 countries out of 10,000 initial submissions. This was a pioneering initiative bringing together entrepreneurs and investors from around the world at the World Innovation Congress HiT Barcelona.

Pixable was the startup with highest number of votes for the audience favorite award with over 350 votes. Thanks to everyone for voting! The best part of the congress was the networking events and the PR coverage (together with Ray’s talk). We were interviewed by reporters from the BBC, CNN, or El Pais. Now we have been nominated to the World Economic Forum Davos Technology Pioneers 2010. The PR through the event has helped us to start early conversations with very interesting partners.

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Candidacy for WEF Davos Technology Pioneers 2010

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

Pixable has been nominated as a World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneer Candidate for the class of 2010, as a result of being finalist of the Global Entrepreneurship Competition of HIT Barcelona.

The World Economic Forum is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging leaders in partnerships to shape global, regional and industry agendas. It is well known by organizing the Annual Meeting in Davos in January every year, which integrates the top decision-makers from all sectors of global society in the most representative way.

The Technology Pioneers Community is one of the most widely recognized initiatives of the World Economic Forum. To be selected as a Technology Pioneer, a company must be involved in the development of technology innovation and have the potential for long-term impact on business and society. In addition, it must demonstrate visionary leadership, show the signs of being a long-standing market leader – and its technology must be proven. Past recipients of the recognition include Google, Business Objects and Dr Reddy’s Laboratories. When selected, Technology Pioneers attract worldwide media attention – in the past Time, BusinessWeek and Red Herring have covered the award.

Among other activities, recipients of the award get invited to the Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos and Annual Meeting of the New Champions in China.

You can find more information about the recognition and past recipients of the award in World Economic Forum website:

www.weforum.org/techpioneers


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