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Swiss Innovative Telecom Business Opportunities

Program

Swiss Innovative Telecom Business Opportunities

This showcase of 8 Swiss innovative start-ups, with the exceptional participation of André Kudelski, aims to gather international entrepreneurs, start-ups, investors, scientists, decision takers as well as professionals in the telecommunications industry.

This event is organized jointly by the CCSO and the Geneva Economic Development Office (DEEE), with the help of the Swiss Commission for Technology and Innovation (CTI start-up) and the Geneva Universities of Applied Sciences.

This "Swiss Innovative Telecom Business Opportunities" event is part of the Showcase presentations of the ITU (International Telecommunications Union) at Telecom 2003 and will be monitored by First Tuesday.

Panel moderated by
Geneviève Morand, CEO Rezonance.ch

Welcome by

- Department of Economy, Labour and Foreign Affairs

- Faris Sabeti, Head of CTI Start-up Coaching

Elevator pitch with:

Télésonique
The founders Adel Labib, President and CEO
and François Callegaro, Vice-President, have won the Award for "Entrepreneur of the Year 2003" in the start-up category.
Founded in 1998, Télésonique is an independant telecommunications operator based in Geneva, offering fixed telephony services to consumers and SMEs, ADSL and dial-up internet access, calling cards and wholesale services to telecom operators throughout Europe.

Opening speech by

André Kudelski, President and CEO Kudelski Group
The Kudelski group is active in the area of data protection and broadband security and is permanently challenged by technological changes. Mr Kudelski's company is a worldwide leader in this area, and he will share his experiences and his successes with the new entrepreneurs.

Panel with

Echovox SA
Kurt Hemecker, vice president
Echovox SA is one of the leading paneuropean premium rate mobile messaging solutions provider including SMS, MMS and Mobile Micro-Payment. Echovox also provides turnkey mobile entertainment solutions such as chat, voting, quizzes, games and MMS based applications

A4 Vision SA
Kelly Richdale, founder and managing director EMEA
A4 Vision SA develops and licenses advanced identification systems and tracking solutions, using 3D facial imaging and recognition technology.

JAST Sàrl
Stefano Vaccaro, director
Jast Sàrl is a Swiss start-up company active in the development of planar antennas and microwave solutions for wireless terrestrial and satellite communication systems. Jast offers innovative multi-system antennas for mobile telecommunications.

Transmedia Communications SARL
Natalia Tsarkova, co-founder and chief content officer
Transmedia Communications SARL is a Geneva start-up that specializes in media syndication to broadband networks. The first broadband content aggregator in Switzerland, TransMedia clears rights for high-end TV or film programs and brands, associates them with state-of-the-art Media Transaction Technologies and provides them for distribution over broadband platforms on a revenue-share basis. TransMedia’s mission is to maximize media transactions over broadband.

Spiderphone SA
Pierre Wellner, founder and CEO
Spiderphone is a Swiss startup founded in July 2003 as a partnership between Spiderphone.com in New York and the IDIAP research institute in Martigny. Spiderphone offers web enhanced audioconferencing solutions.

Werft22 AG
Henning Timcke, director
The company was founded in 2003 to focus on Sdreamland(R) Service, the Swiss Technology Award winning innovative solution for mastering production, Digital Rights Management and distribution of interactive multimedia content through wireless broadband networks. High quality playback on mobile devices, such as laptops and PDAs.

Interactive Communication Group (ICG SA)
Marc Hempel and Patrick Ashworth
ICG SA is a media company offering intelligent solutions to digital communication. ICG markets two products Ad-booster(Online rich media advertising) and i-comm(online direct marketing) across Europe and supplies to leading media companies such as Yahoo EuropePublicis, Adlink, and Publigroup.

TeleGlobal SA
Erik Holst-Roness, CEO
TeleGlobal SA is a Swiss Company that has developed a unique patented cost-effective payment mechanism - SNAP - that delivers electronic payments for multiple purposes, such as mobile phone Top-Up, e-commerce, m-commerce and WiFi access, to a greater number of consumers (multi-channel delivery, no age limit), all whilst reducing the cost and guaranteeing payment to merchants.

Q&A with the participants
Followed from 16h00 to 18h00 by 2 hours networking and cocktail
on stand LAKE GENEVA REGION (Palexpo , Halle 4, stand No 4149)