Wasim Ahmad

The Next Big Thing Startup Competition will shine the spotlight on some of the most valuable new and up-and-coming companies in the advertising, marketing and digital media space. A group of panalists have narrowed down the finalists to five promising technologies and/or services startups to be featured at ad:tech 2017! The program foucus is to introduce these newcomers to the ad:tech audience and to bring their companies to the next level.

Each featured company is in the early… Show more

The Next Big Thing Startup Competition will shine the spotlight on some of the most valuable new and up-and-coming companies in the advertising, marketing and digital media space. A group of panalists have narrowed down the finalists to five promising technologies and/or services startups to be featured at ad:tech 2017! The program foucus is to introduce these newcomers to the ad:tech audience and to bring their companies to the next level.

Each featured company is in the early stages of their funding, and provide a technology or service that could potentially bring new value to our advertising and marketing audience. These finalists represent the best and brightest in a variety of emerging technology platforms.

Finalists:

Instreamatic is an AI-powered platform for voice-activated advertising.

Netra Inc. helps enterprise make sense of imagery by enriching photos & videos to understand what consumers value & aspire to for insights & targeting.

Captiv8 identifies influencers for brands through personality archetypes, brand affinity & 30+ data points to predict virality.

Vyrill Inc. helps consumer brands drive 78% higher product activation with user generated brand safe video content.

Clinch is a Dynamic Video Creative company that powers personalized video ads on desktop, mobile, social, and OTT to drive branding, sales, and loyalty.

The Next Big Thing presentations will take place on day 2 of ad:tech NY, Thursday Nov 2 in the Keynote Hall at the Metropolitan Pavillion. The judges will be selecting one winner while the audience will be responsible for the Audience Choice Award.
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Brought in to relaunch brand, positioning and handle mobile launch

• Instituted new research into company brand and positioning using brand perception survey of customers, board, team and industry analysts
• Developed new branding, positioning, messaging and presentations using results of survey and collaborative workshops with management team
• Directed product launch of mobile application security intelligence solution in conjunction with RSA Security conference

Launch of RainStor into Big Data space as provider of first database on Hadoop. Using compression technology to dramatically reduce the costs of Big Data storage infrastructure and acceleration of analytics on Hadoop.

Project involved TCO model, infographic, executive videos and new big data oriented messaging

The Voltage Security Live 2011 customer summit was held on November 11, 2011. It focused on data-centric security and featured several leading Voltage customers, such as American Express, Wells Fargo, State Street and others, who discussed how they have implemented encryption projects for email encryption, data-centric encryption and end-to-end payment encryption. Also keynoting was Eric Ouellet, Research Vice President with Gartner Group, who is currently working on a new analysis of how… Show more

The Voltage Security Live 2011 customer summit was held on November 11, 2011. It focused on data-centric security and featured several leading Voltage customers, such as American Express, Wells Fargo, State Street and others, who discussed how they have implemented encryption projects for email encryption, data-centric encryption and end-to-end payment encryption. Also keynoting was Eric Ouellet, Research Vice President with Gartner Group, who is currently working on a new analysis of how companies use encryption. Show less

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