After the great success of  Summer Academy 2008 a further event called Winter Academy 2009 will be organized in March 2009 in cooperation with tech2b. The event is part of the Entrepreneurs Academy which concentrates on national as well as international business preparation.

In various workshops participants will learn and experience issues such as…

• International entrepreneurship: scaling up your business (English-speaking pitch, expanded business model, an overview of and dealing with international investors to optimize the yield model)
• Team building and team stability
• Train your presentation style, discussion and negotiation tactics
• Presenting to investors roundtables

SPANTEC presented their entire product portfolio in Vienna, and demonstrated the first live version of their NEON technology to a selected pool of experts.

NEON is a generic, efficient and wireless sensor platform and can be used in fields where enormous amount of data being collected as well as processed and interpreted. Based on special network technology and modular structures of the network nodes, the system is easy to install and upgradeable at any time. Additionally, it is easy to configure for any user.

CEO Armin SPANTEC Blaha hosted the event and presented the innovative technology together with Thiemo Hunger and Stefan Leipte, the two technical experts. It was followed by an open discussion concerning status quo and future steps of the company. With this event SPANTEC set an important step for building a succesful company.

Expert Pool:
DI Alexander Revesz (Wissenschaftlicher Mentor),  LKT-Laboratory for  Plastoc Engineering
Dr. Andreas Schrempf, University of Applied Sciences for Medical Engineering
Dr. DI Arnold Baca und DI Philipp Kornfeind, ISW-Institute for Sports Science, Department for Biomechanic and Sport Information Technology
Dr. Werner Kurschl, University of Applied Sciences Hagenberg