Andrew Lacy, SVP Disney Mobile, Co-Founder Tapulous to Keynote at ANZA TechNet’s Australian Innovation Showcase, November 9
A dozen Australian entrepreneurs will showcase their leading-edge innovations at the ANZA Technology Network Gateway to the US Executive Summit Australian Innovation Showcase at Silicon Valley Bank in Santa Clara, from 6pm to 9:30pm on Tuesday, November 9.
Representative of the Australian tech scene, the Showcase provides a first-look at a broad spectrum of smart technologies to Silicon Valley insiders who hold key connections to the US market and sales, partnering and funding opportunities.
ANZA’s 2010 Gateway to the US companies include a unique entertainment and media platform, software that interprets ‘brain signals’ to control electronic devices, enterprise solutions that turn management challenges into profits, specialist speech recognition technology, cutting-edge tools for web developers including a new database and a smart solution that trumps the universal remote market.
In addition to showcasing Australian companies new to the US market, ANZA will present two Australian-founded companies making waves in Silicon Valley: ThreatMetrix, which has just closed a $12.1 million round and Whereoscope, a recent Y Combinator participant.
“Relative to its population of 21 million people, Australia consistently outperforms in innovative technologies it delivers to the global marketplace,” said Viki Forrest, CEO of ANZA Technology Network. “The Gateway to the US Australian Innovation Showcase underscores the remarkable talent that bubbles up Down Under and celebrates the success it has achieved locally in Silicon Valley.”
Andrew Lacy, Senior Vice President at Disney Mobile will deliver the evening’s keynote. Lacy, an Australian entrepreneur and co-founder of Tapulous, creator of Tap Tap Revenge, sold his company to Disney earlier this year. (Read more)
Note: Tickets for the event are $35 and are available here. All pre-registered guests will be entered into a draw to win a roundtrip International Business ticket from Los Angeles to Sydney on Richard Branson’s newest international airline, V Australia. Proudly brought to you by Advance, V Australia is the official partner airline of the 2010 Gateway to the US Executive Summit.
Kathy Drasky regularly writes about online culture. Her marketing and communications work with the ANZA Technology Network, Advance Global Australians and with various Australians and Australian enterprises has led to at least a dozen trips Down Under.
An accomplished digital photographer, her photos have appeared in 7×7 Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle and Google Schmap.
