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ArabCrunch DEMO 09 is the Arab world’s launchpad event for emerging technologies, developed by startups or by established companies.

ArabCrunch DEMO 09 is a conference hosted this time by ArabCrunch in association of student entrepreneurs society (DART) at Princess Sumaya University for Technology’s ( PSUT) campus, with the support of several generous sponsors e-marketing mena, maktoob, and Ikbis also with the support of great media companies: Mahshable, Addustour newspaper and The Star newspaper.
The event will take place February 23th, 2009 at the Friendship auditorium at Princess Sumaya University for Technology (PSUT), Amman, Jordan.

The event has selected a number of the most innovative and promising startups and established companies from around the Arab world, so they can launch and demo their products during the event.

We are creating a platform where early-stage, and mostly unfunded, companies could take center stage and demo in front of fellow entrepreneurs, CEOs, venture capitalists, IT professionals, IT students, media, and early tech adapters. We chose these startups based purely on their innovation, without regard to their own financial resources. We try to help those startups thrive and succeed. Whilst for established companies we have more thorough inspection of their offerings.

Launchpad:
• Adhere from Citex Software: an open-source mobile advertising platform .

• weNear from eSpace: a location based framework that connects people's Interest.

• Ishki: The Arab complaints Web 2.0 vortal.

• MailPacks: SaaS auto responder.

• Al-Khawarizmy: Beyond the words Arabic embedded Search.

Speakers:

*Herve Cuviliez: Managing-Director, KuvCapital.

*Khaled Jabasini: Founder and CEO, E-Marketing MENA.

*Sumaya Kazi, Executive Director and Editor-in-Chief at The CulturalConnect, Senior Social Media Manager at Sun Microsystems.


Why Attend:

The event is an effort to bring enthusiasm to newly launched companies and products, find great innovation, spot technology trends, and learn from the experience of emerging startups and current corporate players.
World and regional class keynote speakers will be present at the event to give speeches, sharing their know-how and expertise in managing and running great innovative global and regional companies, thus sparking vigorous discussions and debates during the event.

The events ends with a networking reception to bring Entrepreneurs, CEOs of established ICT companies, venture capitalists, corporate decision makers, developers and engineers, IT professionals, IT students, media, and early tech adapters, together igniting new relationships that can help everybody in their business and to further deepen the knowledge sharing.

Event’s Goal:
The event aims to spread entrepreneurial spirit around the Arab world, and help Arab originated startups, and the existing Arab made newly launched products to thrive and succeed.

About the organizers:

About ArabCrunch:
ArabCrunch is one of the first Arabian originated Blogs, that is dedicated to profiling and reviewing Arab originated tech startups and existing Internet and Mobile companies, and their products and services, especially in Web 2.0 and Mobile 2.0.

http://www.arabcrunch.com

About DART:

In an effort to translate theory into practice; DART was founded in September, 2004. DART is the student’s entrepreneurship society at PSUT’s campus. The DART name and logo resembles an arrow hitting a target. It is also an acronym for: Dream, Aim, Reach and Target. DART students work hard to bridge the gap between students in the academic world and companies in the business world.
They focus on promoting the entrepreneurial spirit amongst PSUT students as a style of life. In the ICT-oriented youth society we live in, the increasing demand for highly competent graduates makes us realize the pressing need to be innovative and aware of the ever evolving labor market.