Our Real Time Stream Crunchup is only a week and half away (get tickets here). We’ve been working hard to pull together the best startups, investors, engineers, and marketers developing products and platforms which take advantage of real-time data and communications in new ways. The real time stream is fast becoming a dominant metaphor for consuming information, increasingly displacing or at least transforming the traditional Web page. It has implications for startups, venture investors, media, search, and business, in general. We’ll explore all of these facets in panels, on-stage interviews, demos, and a roundtable.
Twitter to Facebook have already embraced the stream, but they are only the beginning. An whole new ecosystem of real time stream platforms and apps is emerging before our eyes. In fact, so many companies wanted to demo their product launches at the CrunchUp that we had to turn some away. But we still managed to fit in about a dozen demos, many of them will be seen for the first time.
The speakers lineup includes founders and executives from Twitter, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, FriendFeed, TweetDeck, Meebo, WordPress, Seesmic, Virgin America, Tweetmeme, Qik, and more. Individual panels will do deep dives into the market opportunity, the real time platforms, real time search (something I am very excited about), and real time business. By real time business, I mean how businesses are adapting to the stream as a tool for marketing, brand management, customer engagement tool, internal communications, and even resource allocation. Putting together this conference has opened my eyes as to how far-reaching the real time stream is already, and these are early days.
I hope you can join us to see for yourself. Below is the (almost final) agenda:
Real Time Stream CrunchUp (Agenda)
Friday, July 10, 9:00 am – 4:45 pm
Fox Theatre, 2223 Broadway, Redwood City
Get CrunchUp tickets HERE for $295, which includes a ticket and expedited check-in to the August Capital party.
Press contact: Daniel Brusilovsky
9:00 – 9:45 am
The Real Time Opportunity
Q&A with leading angel investors John Borthwick and Ron Conway, moderated by Michael Arrington and Steve Gillmor.
9:45 – 10:30 am
The Real Time Moment
- Jack Dorsey, Twitter
- Chris Cox, Facebook
- Bret Taylor, Friendfeed
- Erick Schonfeld, TechCrunch (moderator)
10:30 – 10:55
Real Time Communication Demos
- WordPress, Andy Skelton
- Netvibes, Freddy Mini
- Meebo, Sandy Jen
- AOL, Frank Gruber
- Adobe Wave, John Shapiro
- Additional STEALTH demos
10:55 – 11:05 am
Break
11:05 – 11:30
Real Time Application Demos
- Seesmic, Loic Le Meur
- PeopleBrowsr, Jodee Rich
- Wowd, Boris Agapiev
- Additional STEALTH demos
11:30 – 12:15 pm
Real Time Search
- Gerry Campbell, Collecta
- Matt Cutts, Google
- Kimbal Musk, OneRiot
- Vipul Ved Prakash, Topsy
- Edo Segal, Investor and founder Relegance
- Sean Stutcher, Microsoft
- Danny Sullivan, Search Engine Land
- Erick Schonfeld, TechCrunch (moderator)
12:15 – 12:30 pm
Real Time Mobs
Michael Arrington and Robert Scoble talk about the darker side of the stream
12:30 – 1:45 pm
Lunch
1:45 – 2:15 pm
Real Time Media Demos
- 12Seconds.tv, Sol Lipman
- Qik, Bhaskar Roy
- Magma, Andrew Baron
- Additional STEALTH demos
2:15 – 2:30 pm
Business Demos
- SocialMedia, Somrat Niyogi
- Twitturly, Joel Strellner
- Bantam, John Rourke
- Salesforce, Kraig Swensrud
- Microsoft Silverlight
2:30 – 3:15 pm
Real Time Business
- Porter Gale, Virgin America
- John Ham, Ustream
- Eric Marcoullier, Gnip
- Ross Mayfield, SocialText
- David Sacks, Yammer
- Maynard Webb, LiveOps
- Tim Young, SocialCast
- Erick Schonfeld, TechCrunch (moderator)
3:15 – 3:30 pm
Break
3:30 – 4:45 pm
Real Time Roundtable
- Chris Cox, Facebook
- Iain Dodsworth, TweetDeck
- Nick Halstead, Tweetmeme
- David Hornik, August Capital
- Loic LeMeur, Seesmic
- Dan’l Lewin, Microsoft
- Kevin Marks, activity stream junkie
- Bret Taylor, Friendfeed
- Max Ventilla, Aardvark
- Craig Walker, Google
- Andreas Weigend, Stanford and Berkeley
- George Zachary, Charles River Ventures
- Steve Gillmor, TechCrunchIT
- Erick Schonfeld, TechCrunch
All details are here.
Press, please email Daniel Brusilovsky for press consideration to attend the CrunchUp and August Capital outing.
August Capital Tickets
Friday, July 10, 5:30 – 10:00 pm
2480 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA
Get tickets NOW, courtesy of Eventbrite. They’ll go fast, so grab them now. UPDATE: Round of tickets sold out. Final batch of tickets will be released next week.
Tickets are $20 to help manage the guest list and minimize no shows. Due to extremely limited availability, we regret that tickets are non-transferrable and non-refundable. If you use your name to purchase multiple tickets, your guests must arrive with you to check in at the door.
Demo tables, photowalls, games and other sponsorships are available to make a memorable impression with MeetUp attendees. Please contact Jeanne Logozzo or Heather Harde to learn more about sponsorship packages and custom opportunities.
Big Time Thank Yous to Our CrunchUp Sponsors
Product Sponsors: Glam Media Lab’s Tinker live conversation moderation, Tokbox live video chat, Ustream live video streaming, Bantam Live, Charles River Ventures and mailspace cc:Betty.
Demonstration Sponsors: Seesmic, OneRiot, PeopleBrowsr, Mashery, IDrive, Sun Start-Up Essentials, Meraki, SocialFeet, Tapulous, Loopt, Grey Goose Vodka, Future Works, Gaping Void and Stormhoek Wines.
Event Sponsors: Eventbrite for ticketing and MediaTemple for hosting, Topix, ReTargeter, Coveroo, Pandora.
Please contact Jeanne Logozzo or Heather Harde to learn more about sponsorship packages and custom opportunities. Additional details here.