Meet, in the evening of June 11th, in Timișoara City Business Centre, C Building, an interesting team of startup people showcasing how an extraordinary project can grow from one user to more than 10 million users, staying in an Eastern European city, at 3 hours drive distance from Timisoara!
Prezi.com is a Budapest-based startup built on an initial idea that generated an immersive, zooming visualisation tool needed for professional purposes by the highly creative architect Adam Somlai-Fischer as an alternative to the classic, linear, often uninspiring and dull, PowerPoint type presentation apps.
Based on the 2007 initial zooming tool coded by Adam for his own use, with the total involvement of the two other co-founders, Peter Halacsy and Peter Arvai (since 2009), Prezi evolved to a complex, yet easy to use, collaborative presentation creating, editing and visualising tool, with web, desktop and iPad versions. The company that developed it attracts almost 1 million new users monthly, building a robust, always cash-positive business, being still headquartered in Budapest, with a San Francisco office, staffed by more than 70 employees. They only accessed significant (cca 15MUSD) investment last November.
The Prezi story will be shared with Timisoara tech and entrepreneurial communities by Peter Halacsy (CTO), Peter Kovacs (Talent Scout) and Andrei Boghiu (Product Manager).
The 4 hours of the event will be structured in a format including both plenary sessions on general aspects on Prezi, the product and the company, and two sessions of parallel specialized sections.
The program of the event is the following:
Time Content
17.30 - 18.00 Registration + welcome coffee
18.00 - 18.15 Formal opening and introduction of the Prezi guests
18.05 - 19.00 Keynote speaches. Q&A
19.00 - 19.15 Coffee break and networking
19.15 - 20.15 Session1
Section A: Product management
Section B: Flavours of Agile software development at Prezi
20.15 - 20.45 Break and networking
20.45 - 21.45 Section 2
Section C: Raising money for your tech startups
Section D: Architecturing and implementing scalable infrastructure
21.45 - 22.00 Conclusions
22.20 - Local beer tasting in the city (details to follow)
For registration, those interested should fill in the form at
http://bit.ly/PreziTM.
For further details please use radu.ticiu [at] it-incubator.ro.
The event is organized by Timisoara Software Business Incubator with the support of:
Tritium Consulting
Romanian Association of Electronics and Software Industries - Timisoara Branch
Mots Agency
Net Interaction,
AIESEC Timisoara,
Multimedia Center of "Politehnica" University of Timișoara
West University of Timisoara.