About Popkomm-IMEA
For the 5. time, Popkomm presented the “Innovation in Music &
Entertainment Award” (Popkomm-IMEA) in 2008.
The best and most innovative idea in the digital music business was to receive the accolade plus a free booth and full accreditation with a value of 1,320 Euro for Popkomm 2009 as well as a prize money of 3,000 EUR. All final participants can benefit from extensive media attention during the event.
The winner of Popkomm-IMEA 2008 is:
Kyte (USA) is a mobile and online platform which enables everyone, from consumers to the media to entertainment groups, to produce and distribute digital content, live or on-demand, via the internet, social networks or cell phones. Kyte has already entered into strategic partnerships with international media groups, providers of cell phone services and cell phone manufacturers, including Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Telefónica, Nokia Groth Partners, Steamboat Ventures, TeliaSonera, DoCoMo Capital, Holtzbrinck and Swisscom.
You can find more information on Popkomm-IMEA, our IMEA-partners & the IMEA-jury on this site: www.popkommawards.com.
Popkomm-IMEA 2008 Jury
Michael Bornhäusser, born in Karlsruhe in 1961, became one of the pioneers of private radio in Germany. With the firms that he founded and led, such as MMK AG, Pixelpark and, above all, the Basel-based software company Secure Digital Container AG (SDC), he has been a trailblazer in the development of software for multimedia communication and digital rights management (DRM), as well as in the encoding and protection of music and film against copying. Bornhäusser teaches at the University of St. Gallen and is a member of the team that coordinates the Basel region’s i-net think tank.
Julie Meyer, born in 1966 in the USA, is the head of Ariadne Capital, an investment and consulting company that operates around the world. She became known as the founder of First Tuesday, an innovative network for company start-ups and investors that had its origins in a London bar and was partially responsible for the dotcom boom. Meyer has been associated with such well-known names as CarPhone Warehouse, Morse and Skype. The Wall Street Journal lists her as one of the 30 most powerful women in Europe.
Charles Grimsdale, born 1962, has had over two decades of experience as an entrepreneur and manager in the software industry. Together with the musician Peter Gabriel, in 2000 he set up the company On Demand Distribution (OD2), which rapidly became established as one of the leading distributors of music on the internet. He is currently a partner in the British company Eden Ventures, based in Bath, which provides capital for promising software developers.
It will be up to these three people to decide on the recipient of the Popkomm-IMEA 2008. The previous winners of this highly sought-after business prize have been Trivid GmbH from Tübingen, which developed a clip generator (2007), the American company Royalty-Share for its royalty software (2006), kSolo.com, also from the USA, for the world’s first internet-based karaoke application (2005), and the British online music distributor PlaylouderMSP (2004).
The six finalists will receive coaching from the three jurors who will each help their selected companies to prepare their presentations for the final at Popkomm. Following the presentations the attending delegates will then decide who should receive the coveted IMEA trophy.
Popkomm-IMEA 2008 Host
Paul Brindley Managing Director MusicAlly — Host Popkomm-IMEA 2008
Paul Brindley is the Managing Director and co-founder of MusicAlly. Paul has a background as a musician and a political researcher. Having played bass with The Sundays, Paul went on to work as a researcher in Tony Blair's private office at the House of Commons, before picking up again with music by writing New Musical Entrepreneurs, a report into the impact of new technology on the UK music industry, published by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) think-tank in March 2000. He was also called in to advise the UK Government on the policy implications of technology and new media.
Partners of Popkomm-IMEA 2008
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Musikmarkt |
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