- WINBC Member Update: Dr. William Spat from IOTO International
- Last Minute Update! More Great Reasons to Attend MoMoVan on April 7th
- Entrepreneurship Panel: Mike Satterfield and Michael "Luni" Libes
- Bringing Products to Market Panel: Sig Luft, Michael "Luni" Libes and Razmig Sarkissian
- Program Details
Michael Bidu met with Dr. William Spat at NAVTEQ’s LBS Challenge Awards Show at CTIA Las Vegas this week and asked him to present at MoMoVan.
Dr. Spat, from IOTO International, agreed and will give us a 5 minute update on emerging transportation systems and where their company is in product development.
"Nobody at IOTO will ever tell you where to go," says Dr. Spat. "Instead, we use your travel requests to price, route, and optimize transportation systems so that you can get to where you want to go calmly, efficiently, and yes, elegantly."
Their mission, simply stated, is to reduce dependence on the private automobile by offering attractive urban transportation options.
You can find out more about IOTO here: www.ioto.ca
A Canadian, an American and a Frenchman will help you solve the problems of taking your products to market and improving your entrepreneurship.
Don't miss this session if you want to hone your entrepreneurial spirit and successful speed to market tips from the insiders. Of course, we'll also have some opinionated discussions for you, the usual free pizza, a complimentary Granville Island beer, and plenty of networking. Don't miss this MoMoVan!
| Date: | Monday, April 7, 2008 | |
| Time: | 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM | |
| Location: | Granville Island Brewing (GIB Taproom), 1441 Cartwright Street, Vancouver, BC | |
| Tickets: | FREE to WINBC Members | |
| FREE to WINBC Sponsors and Partners | ||
| FREE to Students | ||
| $20 to Non-members of WINBC and at the door | ||
| Space: | Limited to 80 people | |
| Free parking, free food, and first beer free. Program subject to change without notice. | ||
 Registration deadline: Saturday, April 5, 2008 |
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Mike Satterfield, Partner, Yaletown Venture Partners, Vancouver
Mike brings over 25 years of entrepreneurial and senior operating experience in the software industry to the Yaletown team. Mike leads Yaletown investments in Thetus and Zeugma Systems, which was recently named one of Light Reading's Top Ten New Start-Ups in the world.
Mike has built product development and management teams in Canada and the US, devised and executed business plans, established strategic partnerships, raised venture capital from US and Canadian investors, and participated in the sale of two companies he founded. Prior to co-founding Yaletown, Mike was CEO of Simba Technologies (acquired by Pivotal).
Prior to that he co-founded Paradigm Development, a Vancouver-based contract software development firm whose client roster included Microsoft, Adobe and Symantec. Mike is on the advisory board of technology CEO mentoring organization, "AceTech Emerging", is the Scientific Advisory Board chair of Neil Squire Society, and is a director of the Vancouver Aquarium. Mike has a B.Sc. degree from the University of British Columbia.
More about Yaletown Venture Partners: www.yaletown.com/
Michael "Luni" Libes, Chief Architect, Medio Systems, Seattle, US
We couldn't get Luni as keynote speaker for our wireless summit (www.pnwsummit.com) in January but after I met with him last Friday, he graciously apologized for bailing out at the very last minute and agreed to share his amazing experience of bringing innovative products to market with our BC wireless community.
A Medio co-founder, Libes is a serial entrepreneur who has designed, developed, and shipped over 50 commercial products over the last 15 years. Most recently, Libes was the head of Mforma's Application Studio, leading the company's efforts beyond mobile games. An early Mforma employee, he helped build the company's developer support, handset porting, and quality assurance departments. Prior to Mforma, Libes co-founded 2WAY Corporation, designing and developing enterprise-scale collaboration and instant messaging software. Libes and the other founders of 2WAY are Smithsonian Laureates, and 2WAY's primary software product was inducted into the Smithsonian's Permanent Research Collection.
Before 2WAY, Libes founded and was CEO and CTO of Nimble Corporation. Nimble developed and licensed software for the early handhelds from Sony, Motorola, Panasonic, Philips, and EO, plus early wireless pioneers McCaw Cellular, AT&T Wireless, and General Magic. Prior to Nimble, Libes was an architect on IBM's Workplace OS. Libes received his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics/Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, and Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Washington.
More about Medio Systems: www.medio.com
Sig Luft, Founder & CTO – Zeugma Systems, Burnaby, Canada
Very few companies in our community can show the strength of a management team like Zeugma's. It is a truly world class company that you need to know about. Sig Luft sounds like one of those German brands that can't go wrong about engineering.
Siegfried Luft is the founder and CTO of Zeugma Systems and has over 15 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. Prior to Zeugma Systems he was a co-founder of Siara Systems which merged with Redback Networks. As founding President and General Manager of Siara Research Canada, the Canadian subsidiary, Siegfried and his team developed the first release of the SmartEdge 800 which contributed significant revenues for Redback Networks.
Prior to Siara Systems, Siegfried held a Senior Architect role and was part of the founding team at Fiberlane Communications. Fiberlane later became Cerent Corporation, which was acquired by Cisco Systems. Siegfried began his career at MPR Teltech, where he held various engineering and leadership positions.
Siegfried has a number of pending patents related to optical protection mechanisms, highly scalable distributed systems, and tiered service routing. Siegfried holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Victoria.
Last December Zeugma raised $22.5 million Series B financing and was the only BC company that was selected from the ten that presented at our SPIF event (part of the Pacific Northwest Wireless Summit) to present in front of The Telecom Council in Silicon Valley.
More about Zeugma Systems: www.zeugmasystems.com
Michael "Luni" Libes, Chief Architect, Medio Systems, Seattle, US
A Medio co-founder, Libes is a serial entrepreneur who has designed, developed, and shipped over 50 commercial products over the last 15 years. Most recently, Libes was the head of Mforma's Application Studio, leading the company's efforts beyond mobile games.
More about Medio Systems: www.medio.com
Razmig Sarkissian, Integration & Test Manager - Mobile Distillery SAS, France
On his way back from CTIA Las Vegas to France, Razmig will stop in Vancouver and share not only his experience about some of the products they develop but also his impressions about CTIA.
Razmig is part of the technical team, responsible of the test and integration of new devices into the Mobile Distillery solution, of the integration tool's development and of leading some of Mobile Distillery's projects inside the R&D team.
At CTIA, Mobile Distillery and its partner Innaworks presented the latest version of their fully automated Java-Brew porting solution on the Innaworks. The jointly integrated solution now addresses network connectivity (Http) and local file access mobile applications.
The combination of Celsius, the award-winning automated Java porting software, with alcheMo, the market leading automated Java to BREW porting solution, allows developers to create individually optimized applications for a multitude of BREW and Java handsets from a single source code in just a few clicks!
More about Mobile Distilery here: www.mobile-distillery.com
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EVENT MODERATOR Michael Bidu, Executive Director, WINBC ELEVATOR PITCHES Do you have a good idea? Do you need feedback on your pitch? Do you need to take your product to market faster? Send an email to: michael@winbc.org We thank Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) for sponsoring The Mobile Monday Vancouver series and wavefront™ (Accelerated Commercialization) for sponsoring this event. |
MobileMonday Vancouver is an open forum held for the global community of wireless industry professionals. It fosters cooperation and networking among interest groups, industry people and their companies by providing the logistics and opportunities for personal and virtual contacts.
Everyone is welcome!
- Visionaries, entrepreneurs, innovators, developers, designers, investors
- Students, Ph.Ds, professors from UBC, SFU, UVIC and BCIT and elsewhere
- WINBC members and Non-members with an interest in wireless technology
- Members of other technology associations and government agencies
- Members of local media, new media, Web 2.0 and blogging community
Because together we can do more.
- We hope to open a long-lasting conversation that is relevant to the wireless and Web 2.0 community in Vancouver, BC and the world.
- We want to increase opportunities for casual networking, for identifying quality local talent, accessing early stage companies, building strategic partnerships and developing more business and businesses.
- We want to continue promoting local innovation and collaboration in the wireless and Web 2.0 industry, from small start-ups, to large companies, to research labs.
