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Emerce and CM are launching a brand new event called the mobile convention on April 1st 2010 and as you may have suspected Incubator Exchange is part of it. In one of our new theme based sessions, we will invite a selection of corporations with a strong involvement in mobile, incubators with mobile spin-offs and pioneering mobile visionaries and startups for a private get together for all things mobile in Beurs van Berlage.

Attendees for the closed expert session will get the chance to attend the Mobile Convention event afterwards, and get a taste of new possibilites and opportunities in the mobile realm. With over 30 keynote speakers among which Russell Buckley (AdMob) and Steve Wing (The Guardian), Raimo van der Klein (Layar) and Emil Salonen (Mobiento), this is a not to miss opportunity to stay ahead. Please send us an email (info at incubatorexchange.nl ) if you want to attend (very limited seating capacity).
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Strategyn, Dialogues House and Incubator Exchange would like to invite you personally
to join an exclusive get-together with other innovation and marketing specialists and
special guest Tony Ulwick (author of “What Customers Want: using outcome-driven in-novation to create breakthrough products and services”).

We all recognize that innovation is one of the few and perhaps the only consistent source of long-term competitive advantage in most industries and markets. Yet in so many organizations the innovation process is broken! How do we know this? Because cross industry success rates for new product innovations continue to hover around a dismally low 10-30%.

It is of vital importance for companies to improve their innovation success rate. This afternoon provides an important foundation for that change.

Tony Ulwick will demonstrate how companies can develop a well-founded plan for growth using the latest thinking and research on innovation. You will leave knowing how to turn your innovation process into a lean, linear and predictable process. A process with proven tools that can be deployed in any organization to dramatically improve the success rate of innovation, create market growth opportunities and boost the bottom line.

In this afternoon you will learn:
• How to identify hidden opportunities in mature markets
• How to uncover uncontested space, blue oceans
• How to identify which ideas, technologies and acquisitions have the best potential
• A methodology for executing innovation with the right inputs in the right sequence
• Advanced innovation theory, tools and techniques for identifying and prioritizing oppor-tunities

Who should attend?
Directors, General Managers, Managers; anyone whose role it is to ensure that their company’s products and services gain profitable market share Marketing, R&D, Business Development, Product Management, Divisional Management, C-level executives.

All businesses will benefit from this presentation including companies from Industry, Retail, Banking and Insurance, IT, Trade and Services. Per company a maximum of four people can attend.

Registration information and details
Please confirm your attendance by sending an email to Miranda.Schot-Rovers@nl.abnamro.com

This event will take place at the Dialogues House (for address details, please visit
www.dialogueshouse.nl), from 14:00-16:00.
Dialogues House is located next to Amsterdam Bijlmer station
Parking space is limited. If you would like to reserve a parking space,
please reply timely with confirmation of your number plate

About Tony Ulwick
Author of bestselling book “What customers want”, a distinguished lecturer
and world thought leader in the field of innovation. Over the past 20
years, Tony Ulwick has developed a groundbreaking methodology which is
emerging as a new global standard for the front end of innovation,
changing the way leading companies approach markets and pursue
opportunities. Tony Ulwick is founder and CEO of Strategyn.

About Strategyn
Strategyn is a global leader in innovation management and a pioneer in
Outcome-Driven Innovation. Strategyn’s methodology, built upon the
theories of its founder, Tony Ulwick, transforms innovation management
from an unstructured business process into a lean, linear, and predictable
discipline. Strategyn assists companies worldwide in discovering business
opportunities and in institutionalizing structured innovation processes
within their organizations. Strategyn offices are located in the United
States, United Kingdom, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Austria, Poland
and Australia.

About Incubator Exchange
Incubator Exchange was founded by Dialogues Incubator, Mediaguild and Emerce to improve the exchange of contacts, ideas and opportunities among leading innovators in the Benelux. With a fast growing network of multinationals, venture capitalists and incu-bators, Incubator Exchange is rapidly evolving into one of the leading innovation net-works within the Netherlands.

We’er proud to present our fresh and new Guild Member: De Monsters. De Monsters is a design studio run by three Interaction Designers: Paul Reijnierse, Erik van de Wiel and Ferdi Koomen. At Media Guild they are working on their innovative workflow tool Blackbox.

Blackbox may be a only a prototype yet, this doesn’t mean it’s being unnoticed. During Flash in the Can 2009 in Amsterdam, De Monsters were asked by Adobe to demonstrate the early prototype of Blackbox during the opening keynote which can be seen below. And on the 26th and the 27th of June De Monsters will be in Zürich, Switzerland to present at the newest Flash conference in Europe: Flash at the Lake. (more…)

E has been voted as best start-up during The Next Web conference is Amsterdam. The social networking tool, meant to bridge the real and virtual world, was elected as best start-up by the jury as well as the audience of the conference.

After their successful pitch (see blog below) on Thursday, the reward came on Friday: E won the competition out of 20 ambitious start-ups! But that was not the only good news for E last week. During The Next Web the Guild Members announced that Khris Loux, CEO of JS-Kit in Silicon Valley, signed up to be part of their board. And if that’s not enough; Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, YouTube, Twitter, Hyves, Netlog, Bebo, Vimeo, Blogger, Digg and many more social networks are now connected with E. (more…)

7scenes has been honored with the Official Honoree nomination by Webby Awards. Of the nearly 10,000 entries submitted to the 13th edition, fewer than 15% were distinguished as an Official Honoree. This honor signifies an outstanding caliber of work.

Perhaps the next big Internet frontier, the Mobile Web has outgrown its infancy to become the next truly exciting avenue for content, services and commerce. The inaugural Webby Mobile Winners, Nominees, and Honorees have shown the foresight and ingenuity to excel within a quickly changing and increasingly fragmented Mobile Web universe.

As a result of the superior quantity and quality of sites entered, the 13th Annual Webby Awards recognized sites and teams that demonstrated a standard of excellence. 7scenes has the honor to be one of them in the category Mobile Web, experimental and innovation.