DEMO-VentureBeat tour hits DC on Wednesday: Pitch your company!

Come join us at a meetup in Washington, DC, this coming Wednesday for drinks, and to hear some pitches from cool technology companies.
We’ll be at the Public Bar from 6-8pm.
I’m bringing VentureBeat and DEMO to town, as part of tour of the country to find entrepreneurs with the most disruptive technologies (guys like Dr. Yoram Levanon, left, who unveiled award-winning technology at last month’s DEMO conference that can listen to peoples’ voice and actually determine whether they are love). By visiting DC and other cities, we’re looking to invite the next bunch of entrepreneurs to launch later this year at the DEMO conference in Silicon Valley.
Co-hosting this event with us is nClud, a local web design shop focused on interactive and visual design (nClud designed VentureBeat’s site, for example).
Come by if you’re an investor, an entrepreneur, or anyone else interested in innovation, and you want to connect with other folks in the community. We’ll go from 6-8pm. Just make sure you register here.
We’re also inviting up to six companies to give three-minute pitches about their current product plans. If you’re an entrepreneur and interested in pitching, sign up here, and we’ll let you know by Monday whether you’ve been selected.  You’ll get to pitch the audience of investors, entrepreneurs, DEMO alumni and other professionals in attendance.
Among folks who we’ve already accepted to pitch are Kevin Dewalt, a former employee of In-Q-Tel who has many ties with the local DC community, and is part of the “Lean Start-up” movement being evangelized by folks like Eric Ries. Dewalt is helping the National Science Foundation commercialize some of its projects, and is working on his own startup idea in bio-informatics, exploiting the new wave of research that lets people buy their human genome for $1,000.
With DEMO Spring only a week behind us, we’re already actively considering applications as we build the class of demonstrators for DEMO Fall. Apply to launch here. If you get your application in by the early deadline of May 31, and you’re accepted, we’re giving special concessions on accommodations during the conference. Registration is open, too, for attendees. We’re offering a bargain price of only $975 (about a third of the regular price) for people signing up by April 15.
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