The event took place on October 6th at 13.00pm at Club Yalta, Sofia organized by the Bulgarian Institute for Management and Technology, Bulgarian ICT Cluster and Sofia University.
Bulgaria has been selected to host the regional semi-finals. The participants presented projects for innovative technology. All the projects were in the form of a business plan and were evaluated by a jury of international and regional experts from the academic and business area.
WINNING PROJECTS
First prize award - USD 20,000
Conlo
Innovative software platform for alternative channels to end-users of consumer loans and other bank products
TEAM – Petya Asenova, Bogomil Tsekov and Nikolay Prokopiev – Bulgaria
Finalist at Intel+UC Berkeley Technology Enterpreneurship Challenge – 2006
Second prize award - USD 10,000
Xvision
Location based content software platform
TEAM – Tomas Batrla and Marek Zidek – Czeck Republic
Finalist at Intel+UC Berkeley Technology Enterpreneurship Challenge - 2006
Third prize award – Audience Award – USD 2,500
Ice Gel
An exciting new nano-scale carbonated ice for the soft-drinks and ice-cream market with a vast array of flavours
TEAM - Ákos Kriston, Norbert Molnár and József Miklós - Hungary
Participating countries at the event this year were: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Turkey.
A jury comprised of experts in the high-tech area and university professors evaluated the quality and opportunities of the proposed projects.
JURY
Prof. Mark Harris
INTEL EDUCATION
Director, Higher Education & Research, European Union Region
Prof. Technology Entrepreneurship, University Politehnica Bucharest
Prof. Entrepreneurship in IT, University of Sofia, Bulgaria
Marcin Hejka
INTEL CAPITAL
Director, Strategic Investments - Eastern Europe, responsible for sourcing, analyzing and completing strategic equity investments in Central Eastern European Region.
Vice President of the Polish Venture Capital Association since 2004
Daniel Star
INTEL CAPITAL
Director, Israel, Central and Eastern Europe
Peter Statev
Chairman of the Managing Board of the Bulgarian ICT Cluster , Member of the Board of Association for Telecommunications
Pavel Ezekiev –
Director -Deutsche bank - Bulgaria
The organizers try to promote innovative thinking at the universities as well as among business and technology leaders and to foster their meeting with technology investors. |
