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Having attended ESTC in the past, it is rewarding to see how it is improving and gaining momentum year after year. The organization of the event was excellent and the quality of the speakers was very good as well. That combined with a great wealth of professionals attending as general public and savvy venture capitalists, made the best ESTC so far.

For us the event went quite well also. We had the opportunity to pitch our start-up for the Innovation Seed Camp prize. We did not make it this time, but we learnt some very valuable lessons and received very positive feedback. Next year we will try to win! By the way, congratulations to our friends from Collibra who won the competition, the guys really deserve it. Other than that, we made new contacts and found interesting business opportunities to follow up. All in all, very positive for us.

As the proverb says: “from defeat to defeat we will win the war because we will have learnt from our mistakes”.

See you next year at ESTC 2010!

On December 2^nd and 3^rd we will be attending the ESTC 2009 in Vienna. This is one of the most relevant meet-ups in Europe for semantic technology guys. The conference is one of the main industry events in Europe for Semantic technology. This year’s event promises to be very attractive especially for start-ups. playence was selected among many competing submission to participate in the Innovation Seed Camp (ISC), an elevator pitch competition that has attracted a lot of  talent. There will also be opportunity for mentoring session with angel investors and VCs. In case you happen to be around this is a great networking opportunity and I am sure it will be fun to see what’s going on in the semantic start-up arena. See you there!