December 3, 2020
Monday, June 8, 2015
出现美洲在本周的舞台上发布了南佛罗里达州的技术社区,评论非常有利。它似乎迈阿密 - 以及为美洲建立技术中心的努力 - 可能开始超越嗡嗡声。该地区已被注意到。
To be sure, there was plenty of buzz at the four-day event stretching from downtown to Miami Beach. From Las Vegas style lights, stages and national TV sets, to celebrity sightings and a shoulder-room-only hip-hop party, there was no mistaking this was Miami. But with more than 10,000 attendees and 500 companies participating from 50 countries, it was clear that if some of them came for the spree, they stayed for the tech.
eMerge Americas was a huge undertaking, “but when I saw this high school kid [competing] on center stage passionately telling about his business, it’s worth it. When I heard someone in the startup competition received a half-million-dollar term sheet, it’s worth it,” said Manny Medina, founder of the conference. “I promise eMerge Americas will get bigger and better with your support,” he told attendees Tuesday at Miami Beach Convention Center.
许多人首次发现社区的深度。
“It’s very cool,” said Miami Heat star Chris Bosh, who served as a judge in the competition for late-stage startups. “I can’t say I knew how many startups are here, but I have a good sense of it now. There are not only so many here but they are thriving.”
In an interviewbefore the competition, Bosh said he was not yet an investor in any Miami tech companies — but after the conference, he will be. For the first time, all the judges agreed to invest their own money in the winners. Bosh will now have a stake in VSNMobile, a Fort Lauderdale company that has developed a technology for seamless 360-degree high definition images. (Think a 360-degree version of a GoPro camera, with applications for outdoor sports, security, video conferences and drone overviews.)
vsnmobile赢得了阶段的竞争,奖项来自法官的投资100,000美元。沉闷岛海滩的灾难是早期的赢家(投资50,000美元)。与虚拟医生的访问一样,征集使用专业医疗来源来帮助用户确定潜在的条件,可能的补救措施以及去寻求帮助的地方。奥兰多的Joox音乐是一名以奖励为基础的音乐证券交易所,是大学赢家(25,000美元)。
Ricardo Weisz, an investor who helped organize the Startup Showcase for eMerge Americas, said there were more high-quality startups in the competition this year. “The audience was better too — more investors, clients, potential customers — they were all very happy with that,” he said.
鲍勃·狄金森(Bob Dickinson)退休为嘉年华游轮总裁,他表示,他去年错过了出现,但今年的时间表会出席。特别是吸引力是有机会亲自看到Deepak Chopra - 一位非传统发言者为商务会议。“出现的特别是它是推动信封,而不仅仅是在科技中,而且在商务会议应该是什么,”狄碧森说。
Chopra并没有让人失望。80本书的作者43种语言,其中22个畅销书,以及Chopra基金会的创始人分享了他的见解on well-being, combining the science and the spiritual.
Chopra的五大支柱的个人福祉是睡眠,冥想,运动和运动,情感,最后和食物(这是健康的东西,没有任何处理)。如果你只能做一件事,请尝试“感恩的日记”,他说。每天晚上那天写下你感激的五件事。他说,在一项研究中,单独的行动产生了显着的改善。
他说,对于企业家来说,练习良好的习惯和他们的注意力可以让他们更加开明的领导者。他建议他们成为良好的听众,并创造具有情感联系的团队,共同的视野和互补优势。
“Your business has to be global and affect people,” said Chopra, who is working with venture capitalists on a “Just Capital” project to put humanity back in profits. “The purpose of a business is to improve the quality of life,” he said.
Like many attendees, Lenny Chesal, CMO of Host.net, was impressed by Chopra’s remarks. “If people follow his thinking and beliefs, the world would be a better place. Hopefully everyone left there with at least one action item to change their lives and make a difference.”
事实上,发言者画了狂欢。另一个最爱:Comen Unitedicure Ceo,SiriusXM创始人和作者的首席执行官Martine Rothblatt,who spokeon Monday.
“Martine is working on the future, but in the present. She is a futurist working on real time. Her ability to be a serial inventor is remarkable because every one of her inventions is of huge consequence and impact to humanity,” said Adriana Cisneros, CEO of Cisneros Group. “She must have one of the most fascinating minds in our world.”
Rothblatt是Transcender,也参加了机智,女性创新和技术,一个单独的扬声器轨道,旨在提高女性参与。
虽然机智扬声器的质量赢得了高度赞扬,但对该概念的评论很混合。
“I loved the emphasis on women and that a whole day was dedicated to the contributions of women in entrepreneurship and technology… But it would be great to see the topics and presenters interspersed throughout the conference so that it is not siloed,” said Maxeme Tuchman of Teach for America. Joanna Popper, a media executive, agreed. “Ideally you don’t want to have a need for something like WIT, but we aren’t there yet.”
Beyond the speakers and panel discussions, eMerge — like most conferences — was about the networking, especially in the lively expo hall, filled with startups seeking funding, university and company exhibits, and booths from a half-dozen countries including Holland, Taiwan, Mexico, Spain and Israel.
去年,以色列之际,attende代表es; this year, they hosted a showcase booth. “The feedback we got from a lot of people who attended last year was positive,” said Israeli Consulate spokesman Ariel Roman. “Miami is at the beginning,” he said, and is making progress explaining that the city more than a sun-and-fun destination.””We see eMerge expanding tremendously.”
展位中的公司包括DigiSense,它为婴儿和老年人提供了一种传感器;EZFace,它允许女性几乎“尝试”来自包括Loreal和Cover Girl在内的主要化妆品公司的化妆阴影;和移动式,它创造了汽车制造商使用的碰撞避免系统,包括捷豹和日产和包括FPL的商业舰队。
Like last year, the conference closer was a center stage one-on-one conversation between conference founder Manny Medina and Armando Christian Pérez — better known as Pitbull — that included the entertainer’s blockbuster year (four No. 1 hits), challenges in the music business, his varied business enterprises, his Sports Leadership and Management Miami charter school and the chip on Miami’s shoulder.
“In Miami we grow up with a chip on our shoulder,” he said. “We’re told we’re never as good as New York or L.A. or Chicago. I love New York and L.A. and Chicago — but there’s nothing in the world like Miami,” he said to cheers.
“我喜欢喧嚣,我爱人告诉我我不能做点什么,”说。他建议猛烈的学生,“记住”在“不能”这个词中可以,在'不'是做的,在'不可能'中是可能的。
“我有一个惊人的机会。我的成长教会了我这一切都是关于艰苦的工作。“
And while originally his motivation might have been proving the naysayers wrong, today he gets as much from passing the bounty on.
“当我看到有人受到我动力的时候,我真的很有动力......这不是关于这笔钱,这是关于旅程,能够讲述故事。你不能与你一起接受...... [成功]是关于你留下的东西,遗产。“
eMerge’s second year success, he said, is proof of the Hollywood truism, “if you build it, they will come,” from the film梦想港湾。但他说,“这绝不是一个梦想。醒来活着;让它成为现实。“