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European Tech Awards, The Europas. Voting opens.

Posted by Stefano Bernardi On June - 24 - 2009

tc_europasAt the beginning of the month, TechCrunch Europe announced The Europas, an event that “will honour the best tech companies and startups across the web and mobile scene from across the continent of Europe.”

Today voting opens, you can choose for each category the 5 finalists that will then compete to get the award.
These are the categories:

  • Best Web Application Or Service (EMEA)
  • Best Design
  • Best Bootstrapped Startup (less than 3 years old)
  • Best Social Innovation (which benefits society, EMEA)
  • Best Enterprise / B2B Startup (EMEA)
  • Best Cleantech / Environmental Startup (EMEA)
  • Best European / Real World Gadget (EMEA)
  • Best Entertainment Application or Service (EMEA)
  • Best Mobile Startup (EMEA)
  • Best Mobile Application (EMEA)
  • Best Startup Founder(s)
  • Best Investor (VC or Angel fund, EMEA)
  • Best Investor Personality (EMEA)
  • Best New Startup, Summer 2008-2009

Vote for your favorite startup!
The awards ceremony will take place in London from 6pm Thursday, July 9, at Delfina and will have a calvalcade of tech stars attending from the tech scene, including, amongst others:

  • Michael Birch, co-founder of Bebo
  • Stefan Glaenzer, co-founder of Last.FM
  • Sarah Lacy, author & TechCrunch editor
  • Tariq Krim, founder of Netvibes.

I will be in London for the event, please contact me if you plan on attending and would like to meet.

Be sure to buy your tickets.

CloudCamps around Europe: Paris, Barcelona and London

Posted by Stefano Bernardi On June - 9 - 2009

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CloudCamps are unconferences, in the classic barcamp style, where early adopters, developers, businesses and end users exchange ideas about Cloud Computing. Topics range from the classic Infrastructure as a service (Joyent, Amazon Ec2, Nirvanix, etc), Platform as a service (BungeeLabs, AppEngine, etc), Software as a service (salesforce.com) to every new technology related to “the cloud”.

Here are the 3 european dates for this summer:

If you are interested in cloud computing you should definitely attend one in your area.

Upcoming European Startup Conferences and Events

Posted by Stefano Bernardi On April - 16 - 2009

Here is a summary of the most important upcoming events in Europe.
We will try to cover as much of them as possibile.