EuroStart, a San Francisco–based venture fund, announces today their list of prestigious speakers at the California Tech Showcase, a unique technology transatlantic gathering, (www.californiatechshowcase.com) during the World Investment Conference in La Baule, France, June 4th to June 6th 2008.
The event is designed to encourage quality interactions between the presenting emerging growth companies from around the world and European technology and business leaders. Each company has 7 minutes to present and 7 minutes for Q&A from a panel of experts.
The companies will present and meet executives from:
Elaia Partners, Renault Group; T–Systems Multimedia Solutions; Orange, British Telecom; Bouygues Telecom; Alcatel Lucent; SFR Development; T–Mobile Venture Fund; France Telecom; Siemens, Virgin, Burda, DDB, Bosch, Turenne Capital, Vivendi, Genesys, Iris Capital, Total, Alstom, Peugeot, EDF, Nokia, Infineon, NYSE Euronext"¦
Over 200 one–on–one meetings will be organized on site by EuroStart to allow for rapid and lucrative engagements. "We are very pleased with the prospective of this second edition which validates that these two communities wanted to meet but simply needed the right platform to do so," says Jean Bernard Guerrée, founder of the California Tech Showcase.
Partners and sponsors of the event include Invest in Western France, Dow Jones Venture Source, VLAB MIT/Stanford Venture Lab, Europe+ Foundation, Nair & Co., Inc., Rumeur Publique NYSE Euronext Stock Exchange, the State of California, Avenir Finance, La Tribune.
