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Industry Visionary Flip Filipowski to Keynote InfoTech 2004
CED Also Finalizes Demo Participant Lineup for 14th Annual Conference
July 27, 2004, Research Triangle Park, NC – The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) today announced that Andrew J. “Flip” Filipowski, an award-winning entrepreneur and Chairman and CEO of Winston-Salem’s SilkRoad Equity, will deliver the keynote address at InfoTech 2004 on Oct. 8 at the Sheraton Imperial Hotel in the RTP. In addition, CED has finalized the InfoTech 2004 demo participant lineup with 27 North Carolina-based technologies on display.
Presented by CED in partnership with UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, MCNC, RTI and TiE-Carolinas, the 14th annual InfoTech conference (www.cednc.org/infotech) will highlight North Carolina's multi-billion dollar IT industry and explore the latest industry trends and new business opportunities.
Named one of the 100 most influential individuals in the technology field in 2000 by Upside magazine, Flip Filipowski has founded several successful IT companies. He currently devotes all of his energy to his new enterprise, SilkRoad Equity, a North Carolina-based investment firm focused on new and emerging technologies used for developing collaborative web applications. Prior to founding SilkRoad Equity, Filipowski founded divine, inc., in 1999 and served as its CEO until May 2003. In 1987, Filipowski founded PLATINUM technology, inc., which grew from a startup to the eighth-largest software enterprise in the world, reaching $1 billion in revenue before its sale to Computer Associates International, Inc. in 1999 for nearly $4 billion, the largest acquisition of a software company at the time.
In addition to announcing a keynote speaker, CED has also finalized the conference’s demo participant lineup with 7 additional cutting-edge technologies from across North Carolina:
- End II End Communications, Inc. (Charlotte, NC -- www.endiiend.com)
- IBM – Extreme Blue Program (RTP, NC – www.ibm.com/extremeblue)
- IBM – Corporate Strategic Design (RTP, NC – www.ibm.com/technology)
- Inlet Technologies (Cary, NC -- www.inletHD.com)
- Institute for Innovations (Carolina Beach, NC -- www.institute4innovations.com)
- Polyview Technologies Inc. (Apex, NC)
- Red Hat, Inc. (Raleigh, NC -- www.redhat.com)
The previously selected InfoTech 2004 demo participants include the following:
- Animated Communications (Chapel Hill, NC -- www.3dchor.com)
- CipherOptics Inc. (Raleigh, NC -- www.cipheroptics.com)
- clearTXT, Inc. (Apex, NC -- www.cleartxt.com)
- Covelight Systems (Cary, NC -- www.covelight.com)
- Devici, Inc. (Durham, NC -- www.devici.com)
- EMC Corporation (RTP, NC -- www.emc.com)
- FormRouter, Inc. (Cary, NC -- www.formrouter.com)
- InnerOptic Technology Inc. (Chapel Hill, NC -- www.inneroptic.com)
- Integrian, Inc. (RTP, NC -- www.integrian.com)
- Level 8 Systems (Cary, NC -- www.level8.com)
- MCNC – Grid Computing and Networking Services (RTP, NC -- www.mcnc.org /gcns )
- Memscap, Inc. (Durham, NC -- www.memscap.com)
- NavoWave, Inc. (Raleigh, NC -- www.navowave.com)
- NORLINX (Raleigh, NC -- www.norlinx.com)
- NuLambda, Inc. (Chapel Hill, NC)
- QlikTech, Inc. (Raleigh, NC -- www.qliktechinc.com)
- Refense Technologies, Inc. (Raleigh, NC -- www.refense.com)
- RTI International (RTP, NC -- www.rti.org)
- StrikeIron, Inc. (Durham, NC -- www.strikeiron.com)
- TapRoot Systems Inc. (Morrisville, NC -- www.taprootsystems.com)
More details on the InfoTech 2004 demo participants are available online at http://www.cednc.org/conferences/infotech/2004/demos/.
Beyond the demo exhibits and Filipowski’s keynote address, the conference will also feature other speakers and panel discussions on key IT trends and other issues facing the industry. Sponsorship opportunities and registration details are available online at www.cednc.org/infotech.
About CED : The Council for Entrepreneurial Development, located in Research Triangle Park, NC, is a private, non-profit organization formed in 1984 to stimulate the creation and growth of high-impact companies in the greater Research Triangle region. CED provides education, mentoring and capital formation resources to new and existing high-growth entrepreneurs through annual conferences, seminars, workshops and monthly programs on entrepreneurial management and finance. CED, which celebrates its 20 th anniversary in 2004, is the largest entrepreneurial support organization in the nation with more than 3,500 members representing 1,000 entrepreneurial companies, financiers and professional firms. www.cednc.org
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