Technology Companies Get Chance To Pitch To World
For Immediate Release
Wellington, October 14, 2009 - Following a successful pilot last year, Wellington to the World (W2W) returns next month to help technology companies pitch themselves to a global audience.
Organised by
the Wellington region’s premier networking organisation
for IT professionals, Unlimited Potential (UP), this
year’s W2W is being held on November 17 as part of Global
Entrepreneurship Week.
“With its link-up with
Global Entrepreneurship Week celebrations, we are hoping
this year’s W2W will attract innovators, entrepreneurs and
technology investors from all around New Zealand,” UP’s
W2W Project Manager, Paul Spence, says. “This year’s W2W
offers a huge opportunity for Wellington’s technology
sector to gain global recognition.”
W2W is free to
attend. It will present a live technology showcase featuring
pitches from selected and groomed Wellington technology
companies, speeches by well-known industry representatives
and concludes with a networking session.
This year’s
theme for the half-day event is ‘Going Global with Your
Technology Business’. Keynote speaker is internationally
renowned blogger, Wellington-based Richard MacManus, whose
ReadWriteWeb site is ranked as one of the world’s leading
technology blogs. Other speakers are Ben Young
(entrepreneur, author and marketing guru) and John Watt
(nanotechnology pioneer and MacDiarmid Young Scientist of
the Year).
Paul Spence says UP is staging W2W in an
effort to strengthen the Wellington region’s
entrepreneurial ecosystem by building bridges between
technology innovators, entrepreneurs and investors. “Our
aim is to support technology start-ups with great potential
by building up a knowledge base offering to the
world.”
The Wellington region boasts a high
concentration of creative and technology-related industries,
ranging from digital animation and software to
nanotechnology, and is recognized as a leading technology
hub.
During W2W, emerging high tech companies will be
filmed making their pitches and the video footage will be
circulated via UP’s YouTube channel, KEA's global network
of Kiwi expatriates as well as through other online
channels.
Presentations from last year's W2W event
can be viewed on UP’s YouTube channel:
Event
Details:
When: 2pm, Tuesday 17th November,
2009
Where: Civic Suite, Level 2, Wellington Town
Hall, Wakefield Street,
Wellington.
Cost:
Free.
To register visit: http://www.up.org.nz/w2w09/
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