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Our 2008 Partners
For over a decade, Pop!Tech has been honored to partner with a number of the world’s best companies and institutions. These organizations help us create and share the unique Pop!Tech experience, and achieve our mission to inspire people everywhere to change the world through the power of extraordinary ideas.
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OPEN(SM) is the American Express business division dedicated exclusively to serving the needs of small business owners and their companies. OPEN builds on the prestige, flexibility, and global support that American Express it known for to help small businesses grow. With products, services, and tools designed specifically to help businesses thrive financially, earn rewards, and save, OPEN helps Business Cardmembers find new business opportunities. www.open.com.
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Canaan Partners is a global venture capital firm that invests in visionary entrepreneurs and provides them with the networks, insights and operational guidance required to build world-class technology and healthcare companies. With over 20 years experience, $3 billion under management and a worldwide footprint, the firm takes an active and committed role in the companies in which we invest, and has completed more than 70 mergers and acquisitions and 52 IPOs. Canaan has offices in California, Connecticut, India and Israel.
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Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) is a leading provider of information technology, consulting and business process outsourcing services. Cognizant’s single-minded passion is to dedicate our global technology and innovation know-how, our industry expertise and worldwide resources to working together with clients to make their businesses stronger. With more than 40 global delivery centers and over 59,000 employees, we combine a unique onsite/offshore delivery model infused by a distinct culture of customer satisfaction.
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frog design is a global innovation firm that helps companies create and bring to market meaningful products, services, and experiences. The company's cross-disciplinary process reveals valuable consumer and market insights and delivers lasting, humanizing solutions across multiple technologies, platforms, and media. frog has extensive experience developing breakthrough mobile applications and services on a global scale for Fortune 500 clients. Committed to driving social change through innovation, frog is contributing service design expertise to Project M to ensure that all aspects of the user experience are carefully crafted for maximum usability, value, and relevance to the end user.
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As the first luxury automotive company selling low-emission hybrid vehicles, Lexus is a leader in offering products that minimize the impact on the earth without sacrificing style and luxury. Lexus proudly offers three vehicles that feature hybrid technology: RX 400h, GS 450h and LS 600h L and an all new hybrid model to come in 2009. Lexus also is bringing like-minded individuals and companies together through its Hybrid Living initiative, a series of events and a web portal that showcases luxury products made with sustainability top-of mind. Lexus Hybrid Living helps to define and inspire a new eco-luxury lifestyle by featuring furniture, fashion, art, food, architectural structures and other products that are kinder to the environment. Lexus is proud to sponsor Pop!Tech 2008.
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Launched in 1994, the MTN Group is a multinational telecommunications group, operating in 21 countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. The MTN Group is listed on the JSE Securities Exchange in South Africa and as at 30 June 2008, MTN recorded 74,1 million subscribers across its operations in Afghanistan, Benin, Botswana, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Cyprus, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Guinea Republic, Iran, Liberia, Nigeria, Republic of Congo (Congo Brazzaville), Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Syria, Uganda, Yemen and Zambia. The MTN Group is a global sponsor of the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™ and has exclusive mobile content rights for Africa and the Middle East. Visit www.mtn.com.
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The National Geographic Society is one of the world’s largest nonprofit scientific and educational organizations, with a mission to increase and diffuse geographic knowledge while promoting conservation of Earth’s cultural and natural resources.
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Nokia Siemens Networks is a leading global enabler of communications services. The company provides a complete, well-balanced product portfolio of mobile and fixed network infrastructure solutions and addresses the growing demand for services with 20,000 service professionals worldwide. Nokia Siemens Networks is one of the largest telecommunications infrastructure companies with operations in 150 countries. The company is headquartered in Espoo, Finland. www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com
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Steelcase, the global leader in the office furniture industry, helps people have a better work experience by providing products, services and insights into the ways people work. The company designs and manufactures architecture, furniture and technology products.
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The Surdna Foundation is a family foundation established in 1917 by John Emory Andrus. Based in New York City, the foundation holds more than $990 million in assets. Surdna’s grantmaking focuses on the environment, community revitalization, effective citizenry, the arts, and the nonprofit sector, with annual grantmaking of approximately $37 million.
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Text 100 is a global public relations agency working with progressive and innovative companies around the world to manage and build brands. The agency’s globally-minded consultants offer industry expertise and specialized knowledge in local markets across 31 offices in 21 countries around the world. With eight practices (including Clean Tech, Corporate Social Responsibility and Peer Media) combined with a leadership position in the social media revolution, Text 100 delivers advanced communication across the globe. Text 100 represents market leaders including Cisco, Fujifilm, IBM and Xerox. Named Best Midsized Agency to Work for by The Holmes Report, Text 100 is also renowned for its commitment to the growth of its people and industry leading benefits
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Thomson Reuters is the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. Thomson Reuters combines industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial, legal, tax and accounting, scientific, healthcare and media markets, powered by the world’s most trusted news organization. With headquarters in New York and major operations in London and Eagan, Minnesota, Thomson Reuters employs more than 50,000 people in 93 countries. www.thomsonreuters.com
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Timbuk2 Designs, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets bags, packs and accessories for the outdoor, bicycle and travel markets. Timbuk2 was founded in 1989 by a San Francisco bicycle messenger and is best known for its signature tri-panel, multi-color design and distinctive swirl logo. Timbuk2 enables consumers to build their own bag by selecting fabrics and colors that are unique and personal. Additional information on Timbuk2 and its products can be found at www.timbuk2.com. The company is privately held and based in San Francisco.
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Yahoo! is a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide. Yahoo! seeks to provide online products and services essential to users' lives, and offers a full range of tools and marketing solutions for businesses to connect with Internet users around the world.
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Friends
 | Behance is a company founded on the mission of organizing the creative world. We design products and services that empower the creative world to make ideas happen. |  | dotSUB has created browser based tools and the first video platform to enable any video to be subtitled from its original language into scores of other languages - in an open, collaborative, ‘wiki’ type environment. dotSUB’s vision, using video, is to substantially remove language and cost as barriers to cross-cultural communication, by empowering a global network of human translators to become involved with stories about which they are passionate. |  | Festo is a leading global manufacturer of pneumatic and electromechanical systems, components and controls for industrial automation, with 56 national headquarters serving more than 180 countries. For more than 80 years, Festo has continuously elevated the state of manufacturing with innovations and optimized motion control solutions that deliver higher performing, more profitable automated manufacturing and processing equipment. Our dedication to the advancement of automation extends beyond technology to the education of current and future automation and robotics designers with simulation tools, teaching programs, and on-site services.
|  | Hashrocket is an expert consultancy group that uses best-of-breed technologies like Ruby on Rails to deliver the highest quality software in the least amount of time. We take great pride in helping a diverse group of energetic, forward-looking organizations meet their goals in both business and the community. |  | Inkling is a Chicago-based company that helps organizations tap into the collective wisdom of their employees, peers, and customers to improve forecasting processes, predict key corporate metrics, identify promising future innovations, and forge new communication and collaboration channels. Inkling's prediction market platform, Inkling Markets, is leveraged by numerous industry-leading corporations, start-ups, academic, non-profit, and Government institutions. Information about Inkling’s services can be found at http://www.inklingmarkets.com.
|  | Know Technology, LLC is a Camden and Portland-based IT Solutions and Support Services company. Founded in 1998 as a quality Network System Design and Security Services provider for medium-sized businesses in New England and throughout the U.S, Know Technology is focused on delivering IT solutions and support services to our client partners. We leverage our extensive and wide-ranging expertise and take full advantage of the resources made available to us by our vendor partners, to deliver proven technology solutions which will maximize the return on our clients' technology investment. Visit us at www.knowtechnology.net |  | Maine Media Workshops is a non-profit educational organization offering year-round workshops for photographers, filmmakers, and media artists. Students from across the country and around the world attend courses at all levels, from absolute beginner and serious amateur to working professional; also high school and college students. Professional certificate and MFA programs are available through Maine Media College. The curriculum honors historical forms and practices of image making while embracing new technologies and modes of creative expression. |  | Meru Networks develops and markets wireless infrastructure solutions that enable the All-Wireless Enterprise. Its industry-leading innovations deliver pervasive, wireless service fidelity for business-critical applications to major Fortune 500 enterprises, universities, healthcare organizations and local, state and federal government agencies. Meru's award-winning Air Traffic Control technology brings the benefits of the cellular world to the wireless LAN environment, and its WLAN System is the only solution on the market that delivers predictable bandwidth and over-the-air quality of service with the reliability, scalability and security necessary to deliver converged voice and data services over a single WLAN infrastructure. Founded in 2002, Meru is based in Sunnyvale, Calif. For more information, visit www.merunetworks.com
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| nGen Works is a skilled team of professionals in the fields of technology, design, communication, research and user interaction. And we take our passion for interactive design seriously. This combination of technological know-how, consumer insight, communications strategy and execution creates a complete approach to solutions for our clients. Ultimately, every decision we make focuses on helping your company by enhancing and simplifying your user's experience |  | sigmaQ is one of the leading packaging suppliers in the world, dedicated to helping customers grow their business through our commitment to their success, deep knowledge of their needs and objectives, unsurpassed expertise, and constant dedication to developing creative solutions. |  | Swans Island Blankets was the vision of Boston lawyers John and Carolyn Grace, who in the early 1990s launched their enterprise on Swans Island, off the coast of Maine's Acadia National Park, and built it into a successful business. At every turn, the Graces stayed true to their original promise of keeping everything as authentic as possible: hand-reared sheep, homemade organic dyes, weaving on hand looms, wool from rare black and brown sheep—all of which contributed to creating beautiful blankets. The company has grown and now operates out of Northport about two hours south of the island under the direction of Bill Laurita other friends of the Graces, still working with local farmers, weavers and finishers. While the core collection is hand-woven summer and winter blankets, it now also includes baby blankets, throws, pillows, wraps, and scarves. The company continues to innovate without losing its connection to its own roots and to the design traditions embodied in its hand-woven products. Recent additions to the line include merino scarves and throws and rediscovered greens and yellows, all hand dyed with natural colors made right in the studio.
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