plugMedia-IBBT-Plug and Play goes international
Posted by Christel DeMaeyer
Plug and play techcenter goes international. Plug and play is an incubator in Silicon Valley, Sunnyvale California. Plug and Play hosts country paviljons at hteir headquarters in Sunnyvale.
This Tuesday August 17th IBBT and plugMedia together with Flanders Investment and Trade, will sign the agreement for a Belgian paviljon. Needless to say that we are pretty excited about this! To introduce Belgian Companies to plug and play there will be a roadshow in december with business people and VC's from Silicon Valley in Belgium, this will be orgnaized by IBBT and plugMedia. Keep abreast as we will have some video material on this moment next week!
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the future of plugMedia
Posted by Christel DeMaeyer
From September on plugMedia will go into a new life. plugMedia will go under the umbrella of 'The Studios'. We will continue to serve interesting seminars, conferences and international missions in the US and Europe.
In this perspective we will ask a yearly memeberfee of 75 euro. To start this process you will receive a mail in September, with the question wheter you want to stay a member yes or no. Those who don't want to pay but still want stay informed, will NOT receive reductions on events that we organize, others who pay will have special discounts where applicable.
The memberfee will be valid from 1th of September 2010 - 31 August 2011. With a renewal every year.
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mipTV 2010
Posted by Christel DeMaeyer
mipTV 2010 – Show Us the Money, Go Mobile and Keep Your Eye on the Screenagers: They are Not Like Us!
It’s the first time in 8 years I was in Cannes, France with no pressure to sell anything yet the word I heard most during the mipTV 2010 conference was “monetize”.
The message couldn’t be clearer: The free internet ride is over. It’s time for users start paying for good content. They just have to get used to the idea first and good payment models have to be created.
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MIPTV 2010 TV and social experience
Posted by Christel DeMaeyer
Een uitgebreid verslag op mijn blog
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PlugMedia on a mission with Flanders Investment and Trade
Posted by Christel DeMaeyer
Just recently plugMedia - Howest went on a mission with Flanders Investment and Trade, and with our prime minister Kris Peeters and Minister Ingrid Lieten from innovation and media.
It was an intensive program, but worthwile and interesting to network and visiting companies from California. Mainly in Silicon Valley an Los Angeles. For plugMedia the main interest were Plug and play techcenter in SIlicon Valley. Plug and Play tech center is an incubation or accelerator for startups in high tech, mainly ICT.
Flanders Investment and Trade signed a letter of intent to work together wtih Plug and Play techcenter to establish a close partnership with the Flanders Region, and to eventually get startups from Belgium into the Flemish Paviljoen at the Plug and Play techcenter.
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