• Speakers


    • James Mackie James Mackie

      Speaking: Saturday afternoon

      Topic: How Cloud Computing can Help Startups

      Bio: J

      ames Mackie, 29 years old. Left Forest public school at 16 and became a full time ColdFusion web Developer, then upgraded to ASP and then .NET so had been a full-time employed web developer for 10 years. Single handedly built a website called fivepounds.com in my spare time, within 1 year after launch we had 5,000 members all paying £10 per month. I then setup Appiam an IT support company 4 years ago, next years projected TO is £1m. Setup VESK earlier this year with £250K investment, live desktops now in the hundreds so are already self funding, if growth is consistent we should hit 1,000 desktops in the next 12 months.


    • Marc Ortmans Marc Ortmans

      Speaking: Friday evening

      Topic: Startups & Brand Communications

      Bio: Marc is the man behind the creation of the Global Entrepreneurship Logo! An independent consultancy advising and assisting businesses with the creation and management of their brand communications.

      Services include naming, brand strategy, sourcing, creation and management of identity, communications, products and launches. We create brands from a blank sheet of paper and re-energise existing ones. From SMEs to global brands, we provide the strategy, guidance and support to enable you to establish a successful brand quickly and cost effectively. We aim to maximize ROI and provide the tools to manage your brand day to day. Our expertise, ideas and management skills have enabled enterprises, products, services and events to achieve their potential

  • Activity...

    • RT @seanrmurphy: Have to start banging the drum - startup weekend dublin - may 7-9, ndrc - http://bit.ly/cD2Xl6 #swdub 23 hrs ago
    • RT @thubten: Even after two days, the momentum from @StartupWeekend Portland is palpable! Such a powerful experience! 1 day ago
    • How do you societies welfare to improve? How do you improve wellbeing? Get more people to start more firms. #GEC (via @cmccann7) 2 days ago
    • RT @cmccann7: "Raising the relevance of entrepreneurship to the youth is critically important" - Dr. Tayeb Kamali #GEC 3 days ago
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  • Organizers


    • Jeremy Tanner Jeremy Tanner

      Bio: I’m @Penguin on Twitter, but Jeremy to my mother and the law. A geek, startup junkie and party crasher from Detroit, now based out of Boulder.

      Likes: Motorcycles, mountains and suede shoes; Hates: Artificial grape flavor, smog and motorists who cross the double yellow in the canyons. What I’m up to… Consulting / speaking on social tools and strategy. Drawing attention, teaching folks to listen, helping marketing and PR folks figure out what time it is. The internet didn’t make you awesome, it just exposed your awesomeness to the world. I help expose your awesome. Catch me at a meetup, at 248.990.3862 or at jeremy at jeremytanner.com Head Facilitator for Startup Weekend Running Startup Weekends from the ground. Averting disaster. Securing last minute locations. Sponsor relations. Mediator. Ringmaster. Team Member. Food Getter. Project Manager. Promoter. Blogger. Videographer. Doorman. Community Builder. In short, the startup Scottie Pippen, dishing out the assists that make the attendees awesome. Boulder Ambassador Reppin’ Boulder when I’m out of town, welcoming visitors when I’m around. Organizing community events, luring talented tech folks to the Front Range. Attender of meetups, shaker of hands. One part tour guide, two parts party host. Your man on the ground, your guy with a guest room. Let me know if you’re headed out this way. Producer and Host of Where the Fun’s At Where the Fun’s at (WTF@) is a webshow hosted by myself and Andrew Hyde on happenings in Boulder and around the US. Speaking at: Ignite Boulder – Practical Party Crashing – 10/29/08 Thin Air Summit – New Media Landmines – 11/8/08 Ignite #3 – What Biz Dev Can Learn from the Seduction Community – 2/18/09 SXSW ‘09 – How Social Networks are Killing the Revolution – 3/15/09 Module Midwest Digital 09 – Learning to Listen – 4/10/09 BoCo – 10/2/09 BlogWorld – The Blog as a Community Springboard – 10/17/09


    • Lukas Burger Lukas Burger

      Bio: My name is Lukas Bürger I was born in the south of Austria and my hometown is Feldkirchen. After the grammar school my education was only about art and design.

      With 16 I had my first experiences with local and international companies and I have made some design concepts and small production products for them. I graduated 2009 with my design education at the higher technical school Ferlach. Now I am studying MA for Product + Space at the Kingston University London and I will graduate in October 2010. I am very interested in technical design concepts and in my free time I am working on concepts for different design awards.


    • Siegfried Strauss Siegfried Strauss

      Bio: Siegfried Strauss, 24, made and born in Austria! I started my design career with 16 when i first got photoshop 7! I learned it next to some technical school! My interrests in design became stronger and stronger so i decided to study it, first in College in Ferlach and now MA for Product + Space in Kingston England.

      In my freetime I worked with and for the local ski & snowboard industrie, did diffent type of graphics for diffrent purpose and a big car manufactorer in Austria! My hobbies are mountainbiking, swimming, skiing and snowboarding, art & graphics, drumming and a bit party…