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Liaise was founded in Silicon Valley in 2008 by a pair of Aussies with a singular passion: to help people work faster, smarter and more easily with others. We’ve achieved this goal by developing what we call Business Interaction Management—a fundamental rethinking of how people actually interact and work with one another. Today Liaise stands poised to have a profound impact upon the future of individual and organizational productivity, while becoming a leading force in the $34 billion collaboration market.

Web: http://www.liaise.com

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Learn more and attend DEMO Conference:

Visit: http://www.democonference.com

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The feel you get when you enter the ballroom at DEMO is unlike any other conference. Each company is given just six minutes on the DEMO stage to truly demonstrate how their product will change the world. No PowerPoint or flashy corporate presentations allowed. Just the founders and the technologies many are staking their careers on… it doesn’t get any more straightforward and fast paced than that.

While the DEMO stage is the place to see each technology unveiled, the Demonstrator Pavilion is where the real action is. It’s a perfect environment to network, research, form meaningful and strategic relationships, and—yes—even close some deals. Here, investors and potential partners can get a close up look at the latest trend-setting technologies. It’s not just a place for more face time but for more eyes-on-the-product time. Unlike at trade shows, no demonstrator can dominate the conference with marketing collateral, signage, whiz-bang graphics, and alluring giveaways. The professionally managed and ergonomic Demonstrator Pavilion is a level playing field. And there is no bad spot on the floor. Everyone has the same visibility keeping the attention laser focused on the products, not on the size of the booth, funding, or corporate backing.

Video by Tim Reha, DEMO Live Host and CEO of New Media Synergy

About Rentalic:

Rentalic provides an innovative online rental marketplace that enables person-to-person renting among friends, family, colleagues, and neighbors. Rentalic enables individuals or businesses to rent items, services, and real estate to/from each other. Rentalic’s platform helps the “people who need stuff” connect with the “people who have stuff”. Rentalic’s philosophy of “Rent | Share | Be Green” fosters reuse and sharing of goods, thereby reducing the carbon footprint while enabling people to save money and earn money.

Rentalic Mission
To help people save money, make money, and save the environment by encouraging reuse and sharing through person-to-person renting.

Rentalic Vision
Help make the world a better place by building economically and environmentally sustainable communities.

Visit: http://www.rentalic.coom Rentalic Website
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Learn more and attend DEMO Conference:

Visit: http://www.democonference.com

Follow:  http://www.twitter.com/demotweets

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/DEMOconference

The feel you get when you enter the ballroom at DEMO is unlike any other conference. Each company is given just six minutes on the DEMO stage to truly demonstrate how their product will change the world. No PowerPoint or flashy corporate presentations allowed. Just the founders and the technologies many are staking their careers on… it doesn’t get any more straightforward and fast paced than that.

While the DEMO stage is the place to see each technology unveiled, the Demonstrator Pavilion is where the real action is. It’s a perfect environment to network, research, form meaningful and strategic relationships, and—yes—even close some deals. Here, investors and potential partners can get a close up look at the latest trend-setting technologies. It’s not just a place for more face time but for more eyes-on-the-product time. Unlike at tradeshows, no demonstrator can dominate the conference with marketing collateral, signage, whiz-bang graphics, and alluring giveaways. The professionally managed and ergonomic Demonstrator Pavilion is a level playing field. And there is no bad spot on the floor. Everyone has the same visibility keeping the attention laser focused on the products, not on the size of the booth, funding, or corporate backing.

Video by Tim Reha, DEMO Live Host, CEO of New Media Synergy http://www.newmediasynergy.com

Rebecca is currently serving as the Executive Director of the Northwest Entrepreneur Network (NWEN), a non-profit membership organization providing entrepreneurs with the tools and connections they need to succeed.  http://www.nwen.org .

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Thanks to Stephen Brashere and Janis Event Photos

Social Media / Real-Time Event Production provided by:  New Media Synergy, Bank and Office Interiors, SteelCase Media:Scape

Event 4G Wireless Broadband Sponsored by CLEAR - http://www.clear.com Contact Matthew Wall 425-250-8464

Video produced by Tim Reha, New Media Synergy. http://www.newmediasynergy.com  Follow: @newmediasynergy | @timreha

Category: Enterprise Software and Services. Visit: Gwabbit.com Follow: http://twitter.com/gwabbit

The gwab-o-sphere contact cloud is the latest from 2009 DEMOgod winner gwabbit, maker of award-winning gwabbit contact capture products for Outlook and BlackBerry. The gwab-o-sphere is the worlds first automatic contact cloud. Essentially a universal remote control for contact management, the cloud receives contacts automatically from gwabbit contact capture products, then syncs with key contact repositories like Salesforce.com. The gwab-o-sphere automatically monitors contacts for changes, maintaining the most current and accurate source of contacts available.

Here is the Gwabbit presentation at DEMOSpring 2010.

Visit: http://www.demo.com for information about DEMOFall 2010 hosted Septermber 13-15 in Silicon Valley.

Barry Hurd, my partner and I worked to provide new exposure opportunities for the 2010 DEMO companies by leveraging integrated HD video interviews via DEMO TV, social media strategies and universal search engine optimization.  In addition, we setup an internet monitoring dashboard to help companies track news coverage, social media mentions and other internet content such as photos and videos. The end goal is to provide DEMO with a leading-edge, real-time events platform that will provide new avenues to drive exposure for the presenting DEMO companies.

It was very interesting to see all of the details that goes into hosting a conference of this type that provides international media exposure. The production team and technology to create the event was impressive. Speakers commented that the DEMO pre-event preparation team was first class and provided a lot of value for their dollars. Then there was the media exposure. I met people from every major news organization both traditional and from new media outlets such as Mashable.com . Lastly, DEMO has done a great job to attract investors from angels to VCs and corporate venture funds.

Follow DEMO Spring 2010 Action on the Internet

Main Website: http://www.demo.com | DEMO Spring 2010 Alumni Profiles | DEMOgods Awards | DEMO Video Library

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/DEMOconference

Twitter: @demotweets | Twitter Search #demospring10

DEMO Dashboard Internet Monitoring

Enjoy these photos from the DEMO Spring 2010.

If you are interesting in new technology companies, then visit the DEMO Spring 2010 Alumni Companies.

DEMO AWARDS

DEMO HIGH LIGHTS

DEMO Spring 2010, Tuesday March 23 - Enterprise Technologies

DEMO Spring 2010 Monday, March 22 - Social, and Cloud Media Technologies Afternoon Session.

DEMOSpring 2010, Monday March 22 - After Dark

DEMOSpring 2010 Sunday, March 21- Welcome Reception and CEO Deal Making Dinner

DEMOSpring 2010 Sunday, March 21 - Behind the Scenes

I was blessed to part of DEMO Spring 2010 #demospring10 this year. Enjoy the videos here with global entrepreneurs who are making it happen.

TedxSeattle Discussion
February, 5th, 5:30pm-8pm
Rat and Raven (http://www.ratandraven.com), University District.
5260 University Way NE Seattle, WA 98105 - 206 524 3166
Complementary, No Registration Required.

Street parking up there on the Ave is free and available at that time.  Happy hour specials include $2 off the entire menu (bar food, mostly standard with some twists); $3 wells, $3 domestic drafts and $4 imports (and $2 PBR if that is to your taste). We have reserved the *upstairs deck* (covered year-round and heated.

As part of this discussion, I will present ideas for filming, streaming and live synthing the event using an integrated internet dashboard approach.  We will be looking for student volunteers to learn about this approach and work on the TEDxSeattle event.  If all goes well, we will pitch this work to the main TED based on our efforts here.  This presentation will go on around 6:00pm .

About TED - Technology, Entertainment, Design.

We are building the TEDxSeattle New Media Team working with UW MCDM faculty, students and the public to create a real-time events system. Join us to learn more and visit http://www.ted.com and http://www.tedxseattle.com to better understand the history and philosophy of TED - Technology, Entertainment & Design.

About Real-Time Event Synthing

At the TedxSeattle event I will host a short demo and brainstorming session focused on what I have coined “Real-Time Event Synthing”.  Click here to launch a very basic demo with an internet dashboard that is pulling information about keyword “Tim Reha” across Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, YouTube Videos, Photos and even a click-to-call Skype channel.

Today, we are in a hyper-convergence point where a number of innovations are taking place from HD video chipsets that encode H.264 video in real-time to new consumer media consumption devices such as Apple’s iPad. These converging technologies and social adoption will drive the future of real-time events production.

In the past, events were typically one-to-many communicaiton affairs with a finite group of people who fit into a conference center. I always thought this was odd because there could be 100,000 people interested in an event’s topic that can only host 250 guests because of a finite space.  Events in the past have also typically one-way without a coordinated back-channel for information from the event guests. With the advent of Twitter’s webservices and integration with uStream.TV we now have an effective internet global broadcast system and backchannel communication system that is in the form of an RSS feed. Lastly, events in the past were not captured or streamed live in HD due to limited broadband penetration and video streaming web services.

Over the years I have worked at or attended major events from the Future in Review to my own Venture All Stars events. I have always thought the “note taking” process at the event was archaic and not very “social” tapping the greater knowledge of the group. The idea of group notes and automated artificial intelligent internet spiders / robots seemed like a next step in event production innovation.

Imagine you are at an event with your laptop and a new iPad tablet.  On the tablet you have the real-time TEDxSeattle event dashboard with different tabs that correspond to each speaker and section of the event.  This provides you with multimedia content, social media conversations and deep information across hundreds of real-time information sources. It is like a real-time, continually updated multimedia notebook for an event.

A real-time time event synthing team that works like “real-time multimedia disc jockeys” (RTDJs) to build data feeds, annotate websites, setup new event data tabs and more. Much of the event information is synthesized into the dashboard in advance of an event. Then during the event, the team focuses on adding new data gleaned from audience questions, speaker points via annotated screen captures, tagging live photo streams and more.

Every participant both in the room and viewing remotely via internet teleconference is also part of the real-time event synthing team. We leverage the use of unique hashtags such as #TEDxSeattle to create search queries across web services. Guests are instructed to “tag” their photos, videos, Tweets and other information using the official hashtag. Then our real-time events team is able to pull the tagged information and post it to the real-time event dashboard.

The big is idea is that a huge amount of data and back channel “social” content is purified, tagged, categorized and pulled to the dashboard and updated in real-time. After the event participants will view a continued thread of multimedia information related to the event and further social media conversations. 

Background

I am an old-school DJ and music remix artist that also live video djs “VJs” to create a combined audio and visual performance. In addition, I help as a catalyst for the Northwest Audiovisualists Group (NWAV) where we share ideas for live multimedia performances by leveraging creativity and technology.

The act of mixing multiple multimedia sources in real-time is where my core DNA and inspiration for “event synthing” comes from.

For my Venture All Stars events, the objective was to leverage media in new ways to highlight our Venture All Star companies, members and sponsors. In 2004, I rented the Chateau Ste Michelle winery for our NASDAQ sponsored awards event. At this time Podcasting was emerging, so we setup a “radio style” recording studio at one area of the event. Our CEO’s and sponsors loved to have the chance to tell their stories. Then I worked with a partner Eyeplay.TV to build the Venture All Stars TV studio in the Chateau Ste Michele’s Barrel Room. Lastly, we hired a professional photographer to capture hundreds of high quality photos. The big idea here was to capture all types of rich media—videos, photos and audio podcasts and then distributed the media via our website, email newsleter and blog. The rich media also was turned into our sponsorship package for the next year’s event.

In 2007 I worked as the new media advisor for the Future in Review known as “FiRE” a top technology conference. For the Future in Review I setup an array of social media and web service accounts for everything from photos to live uStream.TV video streaming. My task was also to create Future in Review TV our own private label media channel recorded at the event.

At the IABC’s 2009 Social Media / Web 2.0 Summit I had the pleasure to work with the event organizer to setup a number of social media accounts, live stream channel and on-site video studio. We created an event instruction sheet to coordinate guests to tag their event posts on Twitter, etc. using a hashtag #iabcseattle . This event was good test to use “social media tagging” that is fundamental to event synthing.

Last year at Searchfest 2009, Oregon, I observed Amber Case, known as “caseorganic” using Skitch to annotate website screen captures. She was also using Yahoo Pipes in concert with Netvibes dasboards to create and view “purified” data feeds. I have played around with Yahoo Pipes and Netvibes before but not in the hyper-fast fluid manner that Amber was rocking the keyboard. She literally had worn out the paint on her Macbook.

At the 2009 Seattle Wine Awards, I set up the real-time events team with live video stream, HD video recording studio, Twitter team, Bloggers / Press, social media accounts, Netvibes Dashboard, Yahoo Pipes and more. I set up a real-time media room at Seattle’s historic Rainier club where the event was hosted.

This month we hosted the NW Audiovisualist’s (NWAV.org) monthly event in Portland, Oregon to highlight creativity and technology. Below is a summary of the event to spark new ideas that tie into the above notions social + real-time intereractive media. 

I believe that we are in a massive cycle of convergence that will re-create the notion of “social media”. Today, social media is more about “social” than “media” because the media production tools are still somewhat fragmented, expensive and hard to integrate quickly.  This next year we will see this rapidly change with the launch of the Apple iPad and downward pricing pressure on multimedia laptops, Pico Projectors, HD video cameras and other converging technologies.

Soon we will start to see collaborative music and media production across social networks in real-time. WiMAX wireless broadband penetration and increased broadband over cable and fiber will add velocity to the new “social + digital interactive media” convergence. Multi-Touch screens, computer vision, gestural inputs via FLIR thermal sensors and other sensors will collide to create new interactive media experiences.  These technologies will then enable a new level “Augmented Reality” experiences that will merge the digital world with the real world and create a new generation of business models.

Visit http://www.modestudios.com/#/home and click the bottom right link “Interactive Installations” to better understand what is possible today.

Northwest Audiovisualist’s, January 2010 Portland Event - Multi-touch Extravaganza Meetup

NWAV.org is a group working to perpetuate a grass-roots movement that educates and inspires a new wave of synergy across computer, music and visual technology. Currently, we are connecting the NW new media and audio-visualist community from Portland, Oregon to Vancouver B.C. .

Visit: http://www.nwav.org for events and information
Follow: http://www.twitter.com/nwav
Friend up: Facebook Fan Page

NWAV Event Photos

Second Story Installations

Thomas Wester from Second Story will share details on how they built the Market Data Mirrors using OpenGL and the Body Collective using VVVV.

“Integrated into the architecture of the Bank of America Tower trade floor elevator bank, the Market Data Mirrors interact with live data feeds and visualize financial information on a mirrored surface. These dynamic 3-D visualizations bring form, color, and motion to live market data in an intelligent and elegant manner, allowing viewers to quickly grasp current data and market trends over time. The different data sets—indexes, commodities, rates, and currencies—are realized in colorful patterns and shapes on different planes, each taking their turn on the stage communicating their value, volume, and historical trajectory.”

Christian Bannister Demonstrated his Multi-Touch Sound Storm AV Cutup System Subcycle Labs

Chris demonstrated his multitouch audio cutup system. As you will see in the videos and photos below the system looks space-age and demonstrates what is possible by blending various technologies together to create a new concept in audio visual music synthesis.

multi-touch the storm - interactive sound visuals - subcycle labs from christian bannister on Vimeo.

This type of experimentation is a great way to explore new paradigm shifting “experiences” that merge music production and visual synthesis. I am sure that if you put a traditional piano and Christian’s Multi-Touch system next to each other in a mall, that 99.9% of the people would gravitate to the multi-touch system. I can imagine tying this system to a performance recording system that then syndicates across the social sphere.

We have yet to even “scratch the surface” of what people will create with the new Apple iPad using multi-touch audio and visuals. The business implications are global and may re-shape how music is created in the future. Now you see that the NWAV.org group is not a bunch of “ravers” playing with electronic music and visuals. The group is made up of cutting edge experts, creatives, musicians and visualists who are working to spread knowledge how to merge technology with creativity.

Brandon Thompson aka Middleman

Brandon demoed a few a songs and answered questions on building and running a one-man show. In his demonstration we watch both music and audio working in sync to create a new performance experience. This is the future of real “music television” or “music videos” because CPU and GPU speeds allow us to mix music and visuals in parallel.

”?” from middleman on Vimeo.

The experience as a performer and spectator is a whole lot more exciting and fun when our eyes are connected to our ears. This is why huge global acts like U2 and Nine Inch Nails merge the two mediums at rock concerts.

Brandon’s system leverages - Ableton Live, VDMX, Quartz Composer, Molar and a Monome music interface.

NWAV Seattle Events History

In 2007 I hosted the first “New Media Synergy” underground media event at my loft space in Pioneer Square. The idea was to create a non-corporate type of technology gathering that explores new media technology. From my standpoint most of the best new technology ideas bubble up from the underground, thus Seattle was in need of a place to gather without the typical business crowd mix where everyone is trying to sell you something.

The next year in 2008 I connected with Bryant Place via the multi-touch music interface company called Jazz Mutant, famous for their space-age looking Lemur touch-interface product. Bands such as Daft Punk use the Lemur for live music shows because of it’s progressive multi-touch design.  A few month’s later, Bryant connected me up with Surya Buchwald, known for is creation of Los Angeles Audio Visualists group (LAVA). Surya moved to Portland, Oregon, and started NWAV to bring LAVA style networking and events to the Northwest region.  Shortly after his move to Portland, we connected online and then collaborated to create the first Seattle NWAV event (and follow up events) with a number of video dj “VJ” friends in Seattle like T.J. Davis, Scobot, Bob Bonniol, Jacob Stone among others. This is how our NWAV Seattle group started as a grass roots effort. I want to add that Surya Buchwald is one of the most down to earth and nicest people I have ever met. He is very open and shares his technology, ideas and secrets.