Message from Jeremy: To all Tech IT Easy readers, who could obviously not necessarily remember the initial announcement, I have invited blogger Lucien to write about Web 2.0, China, and many other things that happen to interest him at the moment. Lucien, they’re all yours!
The ChinaVenture Annual Conference 2007 will kick off in Beijing on Apr 12th, 2007. Driven by the upsurge in VC investment in 2006, ChinaVenture is organizing this Conference 2007 to provide a forum for investors to plan their future investment strategies in China. Investors from all over the world will meet and share the experiences and wisdom about investing in China and brainstorm about future investment opportunities in the Chinese market.
The theme of this conference is “Capturing the New”. New trends, new opportunities and new challenges will be discussed at the conference. New investment strategies will be highlighted.
A former Microsoftie, Christian Goaziou is the founder of iGraal, a browser-embedded seamless cash back company.
It’s still exclusively available in France, but I recommend it highly to all French residents – in either its IE7 or Firefox version.
At Capital IT yesterday, a yearly Mar-Tech & Finance high tech start ups – VC matching event in Paris, Jean-Christophe Baillie, the founder of robotics development framework Gostai, pitched an assembly of investors on how Gostai would kick MS Robotics Studio out of the market. Baillie’s point is that robotics, like the micro computer industry in the early 80s, still run on proprietary ‘operating systems’. In other words, in robotics, it’s not as if there was one platform (like Windows) on which everybody can devise and run software. Gostai aims at take the lead in operating systems for robotics, like Microsoft did in micro computers. Gostai’s framework, URBI, allows for writing – for instance – a small asking a Sony AIBO in 3 lines of code whilst writing the same application using Sony’s Open-R platform would have ‘cost’ around 200 lines. 25 world-renowned university research centers have already adopted URBI.
There’s no doubt that robots are to be a HUGE market (several robots in each home, probably interacting); in my opinion, the questions are “when?” and “where?”. The “where?” question looks sort of solved, as Gostai’s founder emphasized on the many partnerships and business development efforts he was planning to put on South Korea and Japan, where the market is more mature less immature.
I don’t know anything about Robotics, but my intuition suggests me that Microsoft should take Gostai extremely seriously.
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