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Emerging Companies Summit 2010, part of NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference, was held September 21-23 at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, California. This event is your chance to see the world’s most innovative startups showcase their new technologies in a wide range of market segments. An impressive lineup of 60 emerging companies will describe their latest technology in the fields of:

• Stereoscopic 3D
• Gesture Recognition
• High Performance Computing
• Computer Vision
• Cloud Computing
• Video Processing
• Imaging
• Medical Imaging and Visualization
• …and more

Emerging Companies Summit Schedule (Subject to Change)

	Tues 9/21	Wed 9/22	Thur 9/23
9:00 AM	Opening Keynote	Day 2 Keynote	ECS Fireside Chat with Jen-Hsun - Co-Founder & CEO, NVIDIA
10:00 AM		ECS Opening with Jeff Herbst, VP of Business Development, NVIDIA	ECS CEO on Stage featuring Aqumin, RTT, and Scalable Display
11:00 AM	ECS Rehearsals	CEO on Stage featuring Elemental Technologies, Geomerics, and Milabra	ECS CEO on Stage featuring EDGE3, ICD, and Universal Robotics
12:00 PM	Lunch/Exhibits Networking	Lunch/Exhibits Networking	Lunch/Exhibits Networking
1:00 PM
2:00 PM	ECS Rehearsals	ECS CEO on Stage featuring Allegorithmic SAS, Bunkspeed, and miGenius	Panel: The "New Normal" For Building Emerging Companies Based On Disruptive Technologies
3:00 PM	ECS Rehearsals	Panel: GPUs for Computer Vision	ECS CEO on Stage featuring Natural Motion, OptiTex, and Useful Progress
4:00 PM	ECS Rehearsals	ECS CEO on Stage featuring Cooliris, Jedox Business Intelligence, and Playcast	ECS CEO on Stage featuring Cinnafilm, Perceptive Pixel, and Total Immersion
5:00 PM	ECS Rehearsals	ECS CEO on Stage featuring Empulse, Rocketick, and Softkinetic	Closing Keynote & Reception
6:00 PM	Happy Hour/ Exhibits/Networking	Happy Hour/ Exhibits/ Networking
7:00 PM

New Format

This year, we are introducing a new program called “CEO on Stage,” which invites the heads of a select group of startups exhibiting at the GPU Technology Conference to present on stage in the Emerging Companies Summit plenary sessions.  In a lively and fast-paced exchange, CEOs will each have 8 minutes to introduce their companies and 8 minutes to interact with a panel of industry analysts, investors and technology leaders.  Representatives of Adobe, Google, Barclays Capital, UBS, Page Mill Ventures, Microsoft, Sony, and more have already registered for the full conference.

These companies will be selected by an advisory committee that includes:

1. Jon Peddie, President, Jon Peddie Research
2. Drew Lanza, Partner, Morgenthaler Ventures
3. Franck Diard, Chief Software Architect, NVIDIA

In addition to presentations from exciting new companies, ECS 2010 will feature several panel discussions. They include:

•	Computer Vision on GPUs Covering facial, gesture, human motion, and biometrics recognition; augmented reality; and robotic computing.
	Moderated by: Panelists:	Jon Peddie, President at Jon Peddie Research Joe Stam, NVIDIA Yoram Yaacovi, Microsoft Israel, R&D Center Sam Cox, Milabra Janko Mrsic-Flogel, Mirriad Tom Dean, Google Inc.
•	The 'New Normal' for Building Emerging Companies Based on Disruptive Technologies
	Moderated by: Panelists:	Jeff Herbst, VP of Business Development at NVIDIA Garrett Herbert, Deloitte & Touche LLP Bill Frauenhofer, Citigroup Global Markets Andrew T. Sheehan, Sutter Hill Ventures Eric Jensen, Cooley LLP
•	Fireside Chat with Jen-Hsun Huang, NVIDIA CEO and co-founder
	Moderated by:	Quentin Hardy, national editor at Forbes magazine.

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About the NVIDIA GPU Ventures Program
The GPU Ventures Program is a global initiative whose aim is to identify, support and invest in early stage companies leveraging the GPU for visual and other computing applications. Visit the GPU Venture Zone for more information.

See ECS 2009 Archives.