The second annual TechCrunch Europe ChristmasCrunch combines our annual TechCrunch Europe meetup and Festive Christmas party, in one handy gift-wrapped package. This year we’re basing it the hot theme of realtime streams and the event in London features some of the hottest realtime startups in the world today, many of which are based in London. Our ‘realtime’ live video stream is below as is information on our speaker and sponsors.
SCHEDULE
Christmas Crunch Programme
14.00 Registration
14.20 – Intro by Mike Butcher, Editor, TechCrunch Europe
14.30 – Keynote
James Whittaker, Tweetdeck “Where the biggest realtime desktop application goes next”
14.50 – Presentation
“The future of realtime sentiment tracking”
Jennie Lees, Festbuzz
15.10 – Presentation
“Future of Realtime Conversations with Seesmic”
Marco Kaiser, Seesmic
15.30 – Panel – Realtime Services
Roberto Bonanzinga, Balderton
Eileen Burbidge, Ambient Sound Investments
Mario Menti, Twitterfeed
Mark Rock, AudioBoo
16.10 – Coffee break
16.30 – Keynote
Nick Halstead, CEO Tweetmeme
“The future of Realtime Content and News”
16.50 – Presentation
David Maher Roberts, The Filter
“The realtime effect on entertainment content”
17.10 – Presentation
Daniel Tenner, Woobius
“How Google Wave affects the future of realtime collaboration”
17.30 – Panel 2 – Content
Tim Bradshaw, Financial Times
William Fischer, Twitter Jobsearch
Ian Hogarth, Songkick
Tim Morgan, Mint Play
Alberto Nardelli, Tweetminster
18.10 – TechCrunch Pitch!
3 MINUTE PITCHES
1. Smidgn – Jonathan Markwell
2. Stupeflix.TV – Francois Lagunas
3. Kuwala – Bastian Lehmann
4. Yasmo Live – Areti Kampyli
5. Koogaloo – Alex Bogdanovski
6. Nsyght – Geoffrey McCaleb
7. FollowThing – Matthew Ogston
1 MINUTE PITCHES:
1. Rippl – Doug Chisholm
2. Urbankite – Frank Sykes
3. Zubworld – Paul Woodman
4. Friendbinder – Richard Cunningham
5. VISULAND – Paul Bohus
6. FatStudent – Dimitar Stoyanov
7. Nurphy – Neil Cauldwell
8. Imsense – Dorothy Briggs
9. Catwalk Genius – Helen Brown
10. TweetSwitch – Sebastien Marion
Iain Dodsworth (TweetDeck)
Iain Dodsworth is the CEO of TweetDeck, a Twitter desktop client. Prior to founding TweetDeck, Iain was a senior flex developer for Prudential Financial, which he joined in June 2007. Before joining Prudential, Iain was a developer at Dashbrook (2006-2007), PriceWaterhouse Cooper (2003-2006), and a Digital Text consultant and developer for BSkyB (200-2002). In 1999, He co-founded and served as CTO for Sirens Communications corp., an internet industry startup based in Palo Alto. Iain holds a BSc. from Sheffield Hollam University in Systems Modeling.
James Whittaker (TweetDeck)
James is UX & UI Architect at TweetDeck. He is an experienced professional web developer who has worked in the defense, banking and consumer sectors over the last 10 years. James specialises in web standards development, usability and interaction design, along with the creation of Rich Internet Applications using Adobe Flex, Flash and AIR technologies. He is currently an Adobe Community Expert and an international speaker on the Flash Platform and desktop applications with AIR.
Jennie Lees (Festbuzz)
Jennie Lees is the founder of Edinburgh-based FestBuzz, a Twitter sentiment analysis tool which turns microreviews into star ratings. Before bringing sentiment analysis to social media and the real world, Jennie was researching towards a PhD at Cambridge. She has also spent several years at AOL Weblogs Inc writing and leading videogaming blogs, as well as a short spell as a professional gamer with the PMS Clan.
Marco Kaiser (Seesmic)
Marco is Director, Engineering at Seesmic. He has worked in the industry for 12+ years as a web and software developer. Marco is the creator of the Adobe AIR application, Twhirl, which began development in the summer 2007 and was subsequently acquired by Seesmic. He’s based near Hamburg, Germany.
Mario Menti (Twitterfeed)
Mario is founder, TwitterFeed, a service to send blog and RSS updates to a Twitter account automatically. He’s an online market research expert with 20 years experience in the market research software space, having worked as Solutions Architect for GMI (Global Market Insite, Inc.) and SPSS.
Mark Rock (AudioBoo)
Mark Rock is the man behind Audiboo, an innovative mobile application for audio blogging. Stephen Fry, Tony Blackburn & Rory Cellan-Jones are amongst the many people who use it on a regular basis. Mobile is growing, and is more and more important, and Mark will be giving us an insight into the powerful nature of this new technology and the companies plans for the future of audio. Audioboo emerged out of work that its parent company, Best Before Media, did with Channel 4 in its bid to set up a number of innovative DAB radio stations in 2008. Mark was previously co-founder of design & technology company, Static 2358 Limited. As well as running a successful broadcast design agency [FilmFour, Channel 4, Sky One and Star TV in Asia], Static owned & operated the interactive TV games Channel, PlayJam, on Sky & Cable in the UK, TPS & Canal+ in France and Cablevision in the US. Static had successful financing rounds with Sky, HSBC and Casenoves before being sold to ITV middleware provider Open TV in 2001 for $60m.
Eileen Burbidge (Investment Director at Ambient Sound Investments)
Based in London, Eileen leads ASI’s business development and sources new investment projects. Prior to joining ASI, Eileen held senior leadership roles in business, product, and market development at Yahoo!, Skype, PalmSource, Openwave, Sun Microsystems, Apple and Verizon Wireless. She holds a BS in Engineering Computer Science degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Roberto Bonanzinga (Balderton)
Roberto is a Partner at Balderton Capital (formerly Benchmark Europe). Prior to joining Balderton, Roberto spent 15 years working with entrepreneurs in the US and in Europe. Most recently, Roberto acted as an interim CEO for Jambaz and non-executive director/adviser to numerous companies including Jaiku (acquired by Google NASDAQ:GOOG), Mobango, Piczo, Woome and our own portfolio company Pageflakes. He has a B.A. in Business Administration from Bocconi University in Milan, Italy, and a European Commission-sponsored MSC in Electronic Information Management from Sheffield University in the UK.
Nick Halstead (CEO Tweetmeme)
Nick is the CEO and Founder of fav.or.it, the company behind Twitter meme tracker Tweetmeme. Nick has been in development for 20 years, 15 of which were in the highly competitive games industry. He has a passion for all things technical and is still responsible for development at the 10 person team at fav.or.it.
David Maher Roberts (The Filter)
David is CEO of The Filter. At the age of 24, he successfully raised the funds to launch Unique, the first student lifestyle magazine, and The Game, a European football magazine. David went on to become the publishing director at Future Games in 2001 where he served as the board director responsible for the entire portfolio of 10 magazines, 2 websites, and 80 employees. After 2 years, he completed the Advanced Management Program (at Ashridge Business School), and then founded Future Plus, a creative agency. From June 2004-December 2006, he also served as the New Media Director for Future’s entire European web operations and lead the European launch of GamesRadar.com. After leaving Future, David served as the New Media director at iSporty.com and he was the founder and senior partner of Digital-dna LLP.
Daniel Tenner (Woobius)
Daniel Tenner is CTO and co-founder of Woobius, a web-based document sharing tool for architects, engineers and designers. This is his second start-up. Daniel spent four years consulting at Accenture with large investment banks. One day, he decided that there were more exciting and fun things to do in the world, and went start-upping instead. He holds a Masters in Physics from Oxford University. He also blogs at danieltenner.com and on various other sites.
Ian Hogarth (Songkick)
Ian got a master’s in machine learning at Cambridge and loves dystopian robot takeover narratives. Seven years ago, Ian realized being a choirboy came with no street cred, so he started DJing hip-hop, funk, drum & bass, and grime. Ian quit his job at Bain & Company, Singapore to start Songkick.
Alberto Nardelli (Tweetminster)
Alberto is the Co-founder & CEO of Tweetminster, which tracks and measures the pulse of UK politics. He is also the CEO of UnLtdWorld.com an online platform for social entrepreneurs. Previously, he acted as Special Projects Manager at TakingITGlobal, leading the overhaul of creative programmes, which included an online art gallery, a publication and a series of initiatives implemented in a range of cities and aimed at fostering cultural understanding amongst young people.
William Fischer (Twitter Jobsearch)
William is Director of WorkHound, the company behind Twitter Jobsearch. He’s also co-founder of DVD Station, Inc., a world-class media/entertainment retail systems company, that introduced the first direct download of movies at retail, built systems deployed by Sony, Barnes & Noble, and Hollywood Video, and launched a multi-state retail chain named 2005 Retailer of the Year. Founder/CEO of Form & Figure Media Inc. and Chase Thompson Publishing. Previous marketing and GM experience at threerings.com, more.com, and Ebates.com. Acknowledged in Chris Anderson’s, The Long Tail, as an expert on digital entertainment/search.
Venue:
Gilgamesh Restaurant Bar & Lounge
The Stables Market
Chalk Farm Road, London
NW1 8AH
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SPONSORS
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UKTI
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CO-SPONSORS
Press Association
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Mixcloud
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