Echelon 2010 - over and out
Echelon 2010 came on the first two days of summer for the enjoyment of all techies, entrepreneurs and investors.
First Day
After everybody settled in, the official opening speech was given by Mohan Belani, as a quick preview of things to come. Following him, Dave McClure and a Panel Discussion with some VCs with great Silicon Valley experience shared their view on what’s the future and how the APAC region fits in their agenda.
One of the presentations that impressed me the most was given by Aneace Hadded from Taggo on new opportunities for tech entrepreneurs in Web 2.5. He spotted a fundamental problem in the existing payment systems. Helped by great experience and by some thoroughly researched slides, he made his point about what points your idea should hit in the market. His classification of products as “vitamins”, “painkillers” and “cocaine” was memorable. Of course, cocaine products make the most revenue, go figure.
The afternoon was dedicated to startups pitching their ideas, in lightning sessions, which, no matter the result, is always great for founders to validate their ideas.
Second Day
Second day was opened by Bret Terrill, Zynga, one of the persons in the best position to give an overview on social gaming. Later in the day, 2 talks were dedicated to how the actual execution of the earth-shaking ideas entrepreneurs (think) they have. Simone Brunozzi from Amazon Web Services tried to explain why use the mythical cloud and Carl Coryell-Martin, from PivotalLabs, walked the audience trough the process of development at PivotalLabs, pointing out why professionalism in development allows an application to be scalable and maintainable.
Last 100 meters
A panel consisting of most of the key speakers, Geeks On a Plane and local entrepreneurs summed up Echelon 2010, moderated by the gentlemen from This Week in Asia. The audience had quite some interesting questions in the Q&A sessions.
Wrapping it up
The speakers were very open and experienced. The venue was welcoming and the organizers, to video streaming and twitter buzz, to startups were pretty well prepared.
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