It’s that time of year again. Conference season is in full-swing in Israel and abroad. While Israel has already hosted the Presidential Conference Facing Tomorrow, a cleantech conference and the Israel Venture Association’s Annual Hi-Tech Conference, and has many more conferences scheduled for the next few months, momentum is starting to build for major European conferences that will take place towards the end of the year. Two major conferences towards year’s end include DEMO Germany in October and LeWeb ’08 in December.

DEMO Germany is currently being promoted in Israel and is recruiting Israeli companies with IT-related technologies that have yet to be launched in Europe to register. Here are some interesting facts related to Israeli tech companies and DEMO Germany that was included in an email sent to an Israeli listserv I’m on:

        -DEMO Germany is an off shoot of the original DEMO conference in the United States and launched in Europe in 2007.

        -Out of the 20 selected Demonstrators were from Israel. According to Israel-on-Blog, the companies were:  Cellotrip, Decell, Fring, Hurricane, Locationet, MORE IT, Nareos,
Telemessage, and Velingo.

        -DEMO Germany is Europe’s Launchpad for Emerging Technology.

        -Only 35 selected companies will be invited to demonstrate their new products. Of the 35 finalists, it is expected that up to 10 will be Israel companies.

How come Israeli tech companies have succeeded in the past at DEMO Germany?
“DEMO looks for either startups or established companies, with truly innovative products, that have not yet been launched in Germany, that will make a significant contribution to their market’s state-of-the-art, that will change the dynamics of the marketplace, and have a management team capable of delivering the product to the market.”

Early bird registration is going on now.