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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 27, 2004 Research Triangle Park, NC – The Council for Entrepreneurial
Development (CED) today announced that Andrew J. “Flip” Filipowski, an
award-winning entrepreneur and Chairman and CEO of Winston-Salem’s SilkRoad
Equity, will deliver the keynote address at InfoTech 2004 on Oct. 8 at
the Sheraton Imperial Hotel in the RTP. In addition, CED has
finalized the InfoTech 2004 demo participant lineup with 27 North
Carolina-based technologies on display. Presented
by CED in partnership with UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, MCNC, RTI and
TiE-Carolinas, the 14th annual InfoTech conference (www.cednc.org/infotech) will highlight
North Carolina's multi-billion dollar IT industry and explore the latest
industry trends and new business opportunities. Named one of the 100 most influential individuals in the
technology field in 2000 by Upside magazine, Flip Filipowski has founded
several successful IT companies. He currently devotes all of his energy to his
new enterprise, SilkRoad Equity, a North Carolina-based investment firm focused
on new and emerging technologies used for developing collaborative web
applications. Prior to founding SilkRoad Equity, Filipowski founded divine,
inc., in 1999 and served as its CEO until May 2003. In 1987, Filipowski founded
PLATINUM technology, inc., which grew from a startup to the eighth-largest
software enterprise in the world, reaching $1 billion in revenue before its
sale to Computer Associates International, Inc. in 1999 for nearly $4 billion,
the largest acquisition of a software company at the time. In addition to announcing a keynote speaker, CED has also
finalized the conference’s demo participant lineup with 7 additional
cutting-edge technologies from across North Carolina: ·
End II End Communications, Inc.
(Charlotte, NC -- www.endiiend.com)
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IBM – Extreme Blue Program (RTP, NC
– www.ibm.com/extremeblue) ·
IBM – Corporate Strategic Design (RTP, NC
– www.ibm.com/technology) ·
Inlet Technologies (Cary, NC -- www.inletHD.com) ·
Institute for Innovations (Carolina
Beach, NC -- www.institute4innovations.com) ·
Polyview Technologies Inc. (Apex,
NC) ·
Red Hat, Inc. (Raleigh, NC -- www.redhat.com)
The previously
selected InfoTech 2004 demo participants include the following: ·
Animated Communications (Chapel
Hill, NC -- www.3dchor.com) ·
CipherOptics Inc. (Raleigh, NC -- www.cipheroptics.com) ·
clearTXT, Inc. (Apex, NC -- www.cleartxt.com) · Covelight Systems (Cary, NC -- www.covelight.com)·
Devici, Inc. (Durham, NC -- www.devici.com) ·
EMC Corporation (RTP, NC -- www.emc.com) ·
FormRouter, Inc. (Cary, NC -- www.formrouter.com) ·
InnerOptic Technology Inc. (Chapel
Hill, NC -- www.inneroptic.com) ·
Integrian, Inc. (RTP, NC -- www.integrian.com) ·
Level 8 Systems (Cary, NC -- www.level8.com) ·
MCNC – Grid Computing and Networking Services (RTP, NC
-- www.mcnc.org/gcns) ·
Memscap, Inc. (Durham, NC -- www.memscap.com) ·
NavoWave, Inc. (Raleigh, NC -- www.navowave.com) ·
NORLINX (Raleigh, NC -- www.norlinx.com) ·
NuLambda, Inc. (Chapel Hill, NC) ·
QlikTech, Inc. (Raleigh, NC -- www.qliktechinc.com) ·
Refense Technologies, Inc. (Raleigh,
NC -- www.refense.com) ·
RTI International (RTP, NC -- www.rti.org) ·
StrikeIron, Inc. (Durham, NC -- www.strikeiron.com) ·
TapRoot Systems Inc. (Morrisville,
NC -- www.taprootsystems.com) More
details on the InfoTech 2004 demo participants are available online at http://www.cednc.org/conferences/infotech/2004/demos/.
Beyond the demo exhibits and Filipowski’s keynote address,
the conference will also feature other speakers and panel discussions on key IT
trends and other issues facing the industry. Sponsorship opportunities and
registration details are available online at www.cednc.org/infotech. About CED:
The Council for Entrepreneurial Development, located in Research Triangle Park,
NC, is a private, non-profit organization formed in 1984 to stimulate the
creation and growth of high-impact companies in the greater Research Triangle
region. CED provides education, mentoring and capital formation resources to new
and existing high-growth entrepreneurs through annual conferences, seminars,
workshops and monthly programs on entrepreneurial management and finance. CED,
which celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2004, is the largest
entrepreneurial support organization in the nation with more than 3,500 members
representing 1,000 entrepreneurial companies, financiers and professional
firms. www.cednc.org ### Contact: Robert Albright | CED Public Relations
Manager | ralbright@cednc.org |
919-549-7500 ext. 123
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