PHILADELPHIA and CHIPPENHAM, England, January 22 /PRNewswire/ --
ikordo, the free online meeting planner that organizes and schedules meetings, will be a gold sponsor at the DEMO 08 conference, to be held from January 28th - 30th 2008 in Palm Desert, CA at the JW Marriott Resort and Spa. DEMO is the premier launch venue for new products, technologies and companies. As a young technology company in the Web 2.0 arena, ikordo selected DEMO as a key venue to showcase its online scheduling service. Delegates at the conference will have the opportunity to schedule their onsite or follow up meetings by visiting the ikordo meeting pod in the Sponsor Networking Lounge.
"As the collaborative workspace evolves and new and emerging technologies make effective team collaboration more of a reality, ikordo strives to perfect the task of scheduling meetings, which is extremely important to the flow of productivity in a department or organization," said Jim Cook, CEO at ikordo. "Individuals and organizations feel the pain of scheduling on a daily basis. Shared calendars and server-based calendar and scheduling systems are hindered by cross-organizational limits as well as the inevitable reality that organizing a meeting is a human process. Our goal for ikordo is to make people's lives easier by attacking the problem of scheduling from a totally different approach that doesn't require different working behaviors," added Jim.
Meeting organizers simply provide ikordo with details of their meeting, together with a window of time in which the meeting must be held. ikordo then acts like a virtual assistant by sending out email invites and by interpreting plain English responses via natural language technology, building up a picture of each person's availability. It then negotiates with each attendee until a meeting time is agreed. ikordo's approach is unique in that work habits do not have to change, and attendees are not forced to log-in, visit a Web site or register for the service.
"We are excited about the opportunity to sponsor DEMO and to allow attendees to get a first hand look at ikordo by trying it out at our meeting pod," concluded Jim.
About ikordo
ikordo was conceived by IT industry entrepreneur Jim Cook. Jim recognized that meetings are an essential part of modern business life, but that arranging them is increasingly becoming an arduous task, sometimes taking hours and ultimately hindering productivity.
The process of negotiation to find a time and date that fits with everyone's schedule requires meticulous planning and, more often than not, the power of persuasion. ikordo was developed to make scheduling and organizing meetings simpler to allow teams to focus on productivity. ikordo does not require software downloads or shared calendars. It uses Natural Language technology to communicate and negotiate with attendees via email in plain English to find a convenient time.
ikordo is owned and operated by Volutio Ltd. Volutio is a privately held company based in Chippenham, UK and is funded by UK based investors, Eden Ventures.
About DEMO
Produced by Network World Events and Executive Forums, the semi-annual DEMO conferences focus on emerging technologies and new products, which are hand-selected from across the spectrum of the technology marketplace. The DEMO conferences have earned their reputation for consistently identifying tomorrow's cutting-edge technologies, and have served as launch pad events for companies such as Palm, E-Trade, Handspring, and U.S. Robotics, helping them to secure venture funding, establish critical business relationships, and influence early adopters. Each DEMO conference features approximately 70 new companies, products and technologies. For more information, visit www.demo.com.
You can learn more about DEMO here: http://www.demo.com/conferences/demo08/index.php
To keep updated on ikordo news, visit www.ikordo.com.
Web site: http://www.ikordo.com http://www.demo.com
Kathleen Tremblay, +1-267-255-4142, kathleen.tremblay@ikordo.com, for ikordo
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