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It was the first time I attend Innovate Europe in Zaragoza, and I just loved it ! We were showing both Meccano Spykee and our latest wireless project the Ki’i Frame both based on our hardware CNX modules and our software stack. Our so-called booth, with was rather a table + chairs was right at the entrance of Zaragoza’s Teatro Principal where the conference was taking place … and what a succes we got ! Everyone was amazed by Spykee wandering around the theater playing sounds and blinking leds. If we already had had a few boxes they would have beeen all sold in a couple of minutes. Ki’i Frame also really got our audience enthousiastic ! With the usual pitch “you can give it to your mother and then remotely change the pictures you want her to see” or “if you like diving, you can watch live when people uploads new images on the Flickr diving group”, everyone was starting to imagine how digital imaging just got a lot easier !

But the most important thing is certainly the quality of the people that were present, bright young entrepreneurs (Florent, Franck, Olivier), bright experienced entrepreneurs (Rodrigo, Marc, Tariq…) all with awesome project and ideas to share, VCs, analysts… and I even had the pleasure to finally meet Martin Varsavsky, Fon’s CEO who was honored with an “Entrepreneur of the year” award.
Thanks Chris, Tina, Cathy and all the Guidewire team to letting me in and thanks Lucie-Anne for your time and disponibility during the event, following you always lead to nice encounters ;).
Some more pics available on my flickr.

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