Press Release
Contact: Rosalyn Gell |
Phone: 919-549-7500 ext.107 |
CED’s InfoTech 2005 Spotlights Emerging IT Trends
ZumaTek, Inc. Wins People’s Choice Demo Awards
October 13, 2005, Research Triangle Park, NC – The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) hosted its 15th annual InfoTech conference today, with more than 650 people in attendance. The conference, held at the RTP Sheraton Imperial Hotel and Convention Center, connected entrepreneurs, investors, university researchers and others in the technology community.
InfoTech 2005 featured 10 concurrent panel sessions, 24 technology demos from across North Carolina, and keynote addresses from Walt Mossberg, personal technology columnist for the Wall Street Journal, and Kristina Johnson, dean of Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering.
Mossberg kicked off the conference with a keynote speech on emerging technology trends. “Cutting edge technology innovations are increasingly being developed by smaller companies and organizations,” said Mossberg. “These smaller companies are growing because they are developing clever software that seamlessly integrates with clever hardware.”
During lunch, Johnson discussed breakthrough technologies at Duke and emphasized the importance of collaboration among industries. “The most successful emerging technologies will be a result of powerful collaborations across industries,” said Johnson.
In addition, all of the InfoTech 2005 demo participants were eligible for the 3rd Annual People’s Choice Awards, which were voted on by conference attendees. Durham-based ZumaTek, Inc. received the most votes, with Morrisville-based Field2Base collecting the second most votes. Both companies will receive several thousand dollars of free marketing consulting services from Maverick Marketing. These services can include any marketing or public relations services the company requires such as copywriting, design or new product public relations services.
For addition information on InfoTech 2005 or to learn more about upcoming CED events, please visit www.cednc.org.
About CED: The Council for Entrepreneurial Development, headquartered in Research Triangle Park with a divisional office in Wilmington, is a private, non-profit organization formed in 1984 to stimulate the creation and growth of high-impact companies in various North Carolina innovation centers. In July 2005, Wilmington’s Coastal Entrepreneurial Council merged with CED to create CED-Coastal, a divisional office focused on entrepreneurial development in Wilmington and throughout North Carolina’s entire coastal region. CED provides education, mentoring and capital formation resources to new and existing high-growth entrepreneurs through annual conferences, seminars, workshops and programs on entrepreneurial management and finance. CED is the largest and oldest entrepreneurial support organization in the nation with more than 4,000 members representing over 1,100 entrepreneurial companies, financiers and professional firms. www.cednc.org.
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