Businesses large and small are the biggest buyers of technology. The product launched in this session give businesses a leg up in productivity, communications, sales, developer tools, and IT.

Demonstrators:

Shoobx, Inc.
MakeTime Inc.
Contract Room, Inc.
Suvola Corporation
Primary Data

The modern mobile era is already 7 years old.  While  it still has legs, we are already seeing the first hints of what might come next: Wearables, the Internet of Things, Virtual Reality (finally), or something completely unexpected. In this deep dive, mobile analyst Benedict Evans gives us a glimpse of what the next 7 years might look like.

Demonstrators:

Valet Anywhere
Skillpocket
PathSense.
IQ Technology, Inc.

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It now costs less than $1,000 to sequence a human's DNA, compared to $10 million less than a decade ago. But sequencing DNA is only reading the genetic code. What if you could write it at a similar cost? Cambrian Genomics is a startup that has figured out a way to "laser print" DNA at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars per genome and dropping. As the price to print DNA comes down, what kind of genes will be designed to change the properties of plants and people? Cambrian Genomics CEO Austen Heinz will show us what's possible when DNA can be designed and manufactured cheaply.

Would you believe that 100 million Americans have criminal histories? Your competitors aren’t hiring from this overlooked talent pool of hustlers. Join us as Catherine Hoke, Founder & CEO of Defy Ventures, presents shocking stories of transformation with America’s biggest underdogs. Serving as an entrepreneurship training program and start-up incubator, Defy “transforms the hustle” of formerly incarcerated drug dealers and gang leaders, equipping them to become legal CEOs. Defy has financed and incubated 71 start-ups in the past two years, and hosts Shark Tank-style business plan competitions, in which Defy’s Entrepreneurs-in-Training compete for $100,000 in start-up financing. Defy has just expanded from NYC to the Bay Area and is recruiting executive mentors and competition judges. Catherine, who used to work in VC/PE, was recently recognized by Fast Company as one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business. She will be joined onstage by two Defy students who will unveil their business ideas.

Notable startups with fast-growing products take the stage to talk about their traction and how they got it, followed by 5 minutes Q&A in the hot seat with Cory Johnson, anchor & editor-at-large for Bloomberg Television.

Peter Thiel was the first outside investor in Facebook, co-founded both PayPal and Palantir, and is one of Silicon Valley's leading venture capitalists. He also taught a course on startups at Stanford, which is now a book: Zero To One. In this very social Founder School, he will draw from his course and book to deliver some new thinking on how to build the future by mixing founders with technology.

Join us and Launch-A-Rama sponsor, Primary Data under the big top behind the San Jose Convention Center at the end of the DEMO day to celebrate great beginnings at DEMO 2014. Action sport collective Rodeo Revolution, featuring riders from the X-Games and Nitro Circus, will be trying to hit the rafters with high-altitude stunt jumps. Guests will be able to join in the action by launching themselves in a 20-foot free fall and testing their courage in a 40-foot high jump slide. Free food and drink will keep the fun flowing all night long at this DEMO party that is sure to go down in history.

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At its core the internet is a communications medium, especially now as it becomes more and more mobile. This session will explore how mobile apps are changing the way we communicate with one another.

Demonstrators:

GlanceAT, Inc.
Kandid
Lifebox
Klink
MeshMe, Inc.

As sensors and computer chips make their way into more and more devices in our homes, factories, and businesses, we are approaching a time when there will be more smart "things" than computers or even mobile devices. These startups are building products for a future when trillions of devices are connected to the network.

Demonstrators:

Yonomi
Measurance, Inc.
Seed
Bluvision, Inc.
Iotera

One of the big debates as we build out the Internet of Things is whether it needs a central hub to control it, or if everything just connects to one big network on an ad hoc basis (kind of like the Internet). In this onstage interview with one of the leading designers of the Internet if Things, we explore what the future holds.

Before launch, most of a startup’s energy is focused on building the first product. After launch, it’s all about execution. Khosla Ventures partner Keith Rabois will share his operating playbook. As the former COO of Square, an operating executive at Slide, PayPal, and LinkedIn, and an early investor in YouTube, Keith knows how to take great products and scale them up into great businesses.

New data on the products and startups gaining the most traction in both consumer and enterprise.

Computing is moving from our phones to wearables that track every step, handshake, and heartbeat. How do you design products for a wearable world, and what problems can these wearables now solve?

It's never been easier to get seed funding for a startup idea and "seed" rounds are getting bigger and bigger. Is this a good thing? New data and trends in startup funding offers a more nuanced perspective.

Notable startups with fast-growing products take the stage to talk about their traction and how they got it, followed by 5 minutes Q&A in the hot seat with executive producer Erick Schonfeld.

DEMO alum Steve Papa started Endeca in 1999, and sold it twelve years later to Oracle for $1.1 billion. Along the way, he learned how to solve thorny problems and sell search and smart data technologies to the enterprise. In this Founder School, he shares some hard-fought lessons for how startups can tackle the enterprise market.

Winners of the DEMO Wearable World Hackathon and the Traction Showcase will present onstage in rapid-fire, 90-second pitches.

Winners from DEMO Global events in Africa and Brazil will present onstage in rapid-fire, 90-second pitches.

The DEMO God Awards are a longstanding favorite at each DEMO Conference. An award is given to four demonstrating companies for their ability to present a great product, with its position in the market and compelling features, differentiate it from the others.