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Tony Conrad is Co-founder and CEO of about.me and Founder/Venture Partner at True Ventures. He will be a speaker at the Blue track at Webit Global Congress 2014. He holds a BS in Telecommunications, with a minor in Business, from Indiana University. In addition to founding about.me and blog search engine Sphere (acquired by Aol) he is also a member of the True Ventures founding team, leading investments in Automattic (WordPress.com), Blue Bottle Coffee, MakerBot, Typekit, High Fidelity and more. His interests include being a dad, travel, architecture, the Cubs, scuba and IRONMAN triathlons. Tony is originally from a small Indiana farming community, has lived in Paris, Jakarta, New Dehli, and New York and currently lives in San Francisco. Tony Conrad will be a speaker at the blue track of the Global Webit Congress. To meet Tony Conrad and hear what he has to share book your ticket at an early bird price now.

Mark Shuttleworth is best known for founding Ubuntu the popular free operating system for desktops and servers, and Canonical. Mark Shuttleworth the 40 year old British and South African entrepreneur, is also an astronaut and the first citizen from an African country to travel in space in 2002. Mark has an exciting and challenging career. While studying finance and IT at the University of Cape Town, Mark founded Thawte, a company specializing in digital certificates and cryptography that was acquired in 1999 by VeriSign. In 2000 he founded HBD, an investment company, and setup the Shuttleworth Foundation, which funds innovative change in society by supporting Fellows and investing in their projects. In 2002 he visited the International Space Station as a member of the crew of Soyuz mission TM34. After a tour of schools in South Africa promoting science and mathematics for aspiring astronauts he started work on Ubuntu. Mark also champions design-driven development and has a focus on quality and cadence in the engineering work done at Canonical. Mark Shuttleworth is one of the exciting keynote speakers at the Leaders of the Future Tech Summit at the Global Webit Summit in October. Here is your chance to meet Mark Shuttleworth at the Leaders of the Future Tech Summit. REGISTER NOW!

We are getting closer to the Global Webit Congress. You have been wondering who the Speakers at the Leaders of the Future Tech Summit are. We have the pleasure to announce who they are. Moreover, they are a lot and very qualified professionals from leading companies changing the tech scene. They are so many and every day we are adding more and more. Nevertheless, just to give you a glance at these fine professionals here are some of them: Justin Kan (Co-founder Ycombinator/Twitch/Justin.tv) Mark Shuttleworth (Founder Ubuntu & Canonical) Tony Conrad (Co-founder and CEO of about.me, Founder/True Ventures) Nicolas Burton (Founder BlaBlaCar) Brady Forrest (Highway1) Diede van Lamoen (Stripe) Linus Dahg (Partner, Wellington-Partners) Bakhrom Ibragimov (EBRD) Jason Ball (Investment Director, Qualcomm Ventures) Max Niederhofer (Partner, SunStone Capital) Cem Sertoglu (Partner, EarlyBird Venture Capital) Ben Medlock (Co-founder/CTO SwiftKey) Pat Phelan (CEO & Co-founder Trustev) Peter Fredell (CEO, Seamless) JP Rangaswami (Chief Scientist, Salesforce.com) Yossi Vardi (Prominent Investor) Tzahi (Zack) Weisfeld (Co-Founder, Head of Microsoft Ventures Europe & Global Accelerator Program) Dmitry Chikhachev (Co-founder & Managing Partner at Runa Capital) Sina Afra (Co-founder of Markafoni & Investor) Tomasz Czechowicz (Founder and CEO at MCI Group) Eric Van der Kleij (Founder & Head of Level39) Ayelet Noff (Founder and CEO, Blonde2.0) Alexander Galitsky (Managing Partner, Almaz Capital Partners and Skolkovo Board Member) ... And many more   Hurry up! Get an early bird ticket while they are still available.

Some on-line games will succeed, some will not. But the Helsinki-based, Grand Cru’s has raised venture capital funding to build the free-to-play game. Instead of a good wine they have created Supernauts, a social world-building game, that just two weeks ago, has hit a million downloads in just six days after its release. That is quite an achievement especially in the crowded and highly competitive multi billion game industry. The game received editor’s choice rank in 40 countries in the Apple App Store and is also in the “best new games” category in 155 countries. 

We’re super happy to announce that Supernauts has reached ONE MILLION players in just six days! Thank you all! pic.twitter.com/b2Gwed2EzA — Supernauts (@TheSupernauts) July 1, 2014

Grand Cru has raised more than $16 million to date from Idinvest Partners, Qualcomm Ventures, Nokia Growth Partners, Signia Venture Partners and Lifeline Ventures.  One year ago Jason Ball decided to make an investment into the gaming space – an area where many investors fear to tread. Will it be a success? Time will tell. Jason Ball is a Director at Qualcomm Ventures Europe and is based in London. He currently serves as a board member or observer for Bitbar, Blippar, Cambridge Temperature Concepts, Grand Cru, Videoplaza, Wonder PL and Wrapp. Jason has also led Qualcomm Ventures investments in Arteris (acquired by Qualcomm) and We7 (acquired by Tesco). He is one of the speakers at the Leaders of the Future Summit. Don't miss the chance to meet Jason Ball.

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