More than just a conference, Twiistup is LA’s biggest technology EVENT. Twiistup combines a showcase for innovation, a platform for thought leaders and an audience of entrepreneurs, media and investors all wrapped in a unique, stylized environment that rivals a Hollywood production.

The Program

1. Demos from 10 startups showing off the hottest new technology
2. Sessions from some of the biggest names in technology and media
3. An exclusive themed after party so you can meet other entrepreneurs and attendees

What are people saying about Twiistup?

We launched ExpenseBay in July at Twiistup 6 … As a direct result of people we met at Twiistup 6 we’ve had investment interest from multiple sources and made the cover story of ReadWriteWeb.

—Eric Sikola CEO/Founder ExpenseBay
www.expensebay.com

Twiistup is the gift that keeps on giving. Being able to say that we showed off at Twiistup has given us the credibility to recruit a rock star CEO and consistently gets us into customer meetings that would never have happened otherwise. And they throw one heck of a party.

—William W. Chow Founder, Mobophiles
www.mobolize.com/

1. Michael Jones, COO of MySpace
2. Dan Benyamin, co-founder and CEO CitizenNet
3. Rahul Sonnad, founder and CEO Geodelic
4. Chamillionaire, Grammy winning and Platinum selling artist
5. Peter Guber, Chairman and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment, former Chairman of Sony Pictures
6. Kevin Pereira, co-host Attack of The Show, G4 TV
7. Dave Waldman, CEO of Bccthis
8. Peter Lee, Partner Baroda Ventures
9. Loren Bendele, CEO of Savings.com
10. Ralph Barbagallo, CEO, FLARB LLC
11. Ezra Roizen, Investment banker, co-host Vator Box on VatorNews, Ackrell Capital
12. Richard Rosenblatt, founder, Chairman and CEO of Demand Media
13. Anurag Jain, CEO, Gigzee
14. Christopher Macho, Founder and CEO, WeFridge
15. Babette Pepaj, founder/CEO, BakeSpace
16. Ben Parr, co-editor, Mashable
17. Steve Raymond, VP Product/Strategy, Comcast Digital Entertainment
18. Paul Graham, founder and Partner Y-Combinator
19. Mark Suster, Partner / VC, GRP Partners
20. Brian Deagon, Reporter, Investors Business Daily
21. Tyler Crowley, Dir of Corp Dev and Strategy, Mahalo
22. Neil Patel, Co-founder, Crazy Egg / KISSmetrics
23. Justin Kan, Founder/President, Justin.tv
24. Rick Heitzmann, Managing Director, FirstMark Capital
25. Jolie O’Dell, Writer / Community Manager, Read Write Web
26. Brian Newton, Managing Member, Aurum Ventures
27. Gilad Elbaz, CEO, Factual Inc
28. Jason Nazar, Founder & CEO, DocStoc
29. Clark Landry, Co-Founder, Top Level Domain Holdings
30. Dmitry Shapiro, CEO, Veoh
31. Lisa Stone, co-founder / CEO, BlogHer
32. Efren Toscano, CEO, TechZulu
33. Rajul Kadakia, Co-Founder and CEO PixyKids
34. Kieve Huffman, Co-Founder, Dather
35. Geordie Carswell, Co-Founder, Diversion Marketing Inc.
36. James Sanderson, Founder/CEO, qThing
37. Emrah Kovacoglu, CEO, Total Beauty Media
38. Craig Shapiro, President of GOOD.is
39. Howard Postley, COO / CTO, 3ality Digital
40. Bambi Francisco, founder and CEO of Vator.tv
41. Christopher Bell, COO, Shopping Syndicate LLC
42. Grant Gordon, Founder, Infomercial.tv
43. Jason Lankow, CEO, Column Five Media
44. Laurie Sullivan, Reporter, Online Media Daily/MediaPost
45. John MacAdam, CTO Ming.ly
46. Joe Coleman, CEO, CashCrate LLC
47. Pete Cashmore, founder and CEO of Mashable
48. Sheila Marmon, CEO, urbanAdserve
49. Marsha Collier, Radio Host / Author, KTRB Computer and Technology Radio
50. Sanjay Sabnani, CEO, CrowdGather, Inc.
51. Oded Noy, Founder & CEO, Social Approach
52. Barb Dybwad, Senior Editor, Mashable
53. David Lewis, CEO & Founder, Cashbaq
54. Benjamin Kuo, Editor/Publisher, SoCalTECH
55. Arjun Dev Arora, CEO / founder, ReTargeter
56. Michael Schneider, CEO / founder, Mobile Roadie
57. Scott Sangster, President (2010), Tech Coast Angels
58. Braxton Woodham, CTO, Tap11
59. Dan Machock, VP, Finance, Business.com
60. Rob Kramarz, President, Intelliversity
61. Allison Baek, Co-founder, Meengles
62. Dana Harris, Editor, Variety
63. Zach Piester, Managing Partner, Silver Creek Partners Inc.
64. Anne Gallagher, CEO, 2DCodeMe
65. Francisco Ramos, Founder, bidsie
66. Mark Jeffrey, CEO, Project W
67. Deven Soni, VC Highland Capital Partners
68. Robert Scoble, Technology Blogger
69. Amy Kramer, President, Counterintuity, LLC
70. Casey Horton, CEO, tryda
71. Otis Chandler, CEO, Goodreads
72. Steven Sobolevsy, VP of Technology, Razorgator, Inc
73. Robert Scott, CEO Skip Smasher
74. Steve Lupinacci, Founder, YourView
75. Gerry Campbell, CEO, Collecta
76. Stuart Nowell, COO Yontoo
77. Alex Bard, CEO, Assistly
78. Queena Kim, co-host/producer 89.3 FM KPCC
79. Nick Desai, CEO, FitOrbit
80. Dave McClure, Seed Investor / Master of 500Hats, Founders Fund/ 500Hats
81. Brian Solis, New media author and consultant
82. Dan Martell, Co-Founder, Flowtown
83. Shoieb Yunus, Founder & CEO, Vpype
84. Mehran Rende, CEO, e-Brands
85. Aaron Crayford, CEO, Rippol
86. Robert Jadon, Investor Tech Coast Angels
87. Mark Schmulen, Co-founder, NutshellMail
88. Clark Benson, founder / CEO, Ranker
89. Eric Ries, the Lean Startup
90. Brian McLoughlin, Partner, GRP Partners
91. Leila Janah, founder and CEO of Samasource.org
92. Alex Quilici, co-founder Quack / CEO YouMail, YouMail
93. Vivek Sodera, Co Founder, Rapleaf
94. David Oxstein, CEO Oxstein Design Labs
95. John Waller, CEO X1 Technologies
96. Michael Bahlitzanakis, Founder, VP Business Development, City
97. Brad Gilreath, Founder, Mapicurious
98. Tom Campbell, CEO, eSnipe
99. Paul Bartlett, Partner Rho Ventures
100. Isaac Garcia, CEO of CentralDesktop
101. Om Mailk, founder CEO GigaOm

Details and slot sign ups for Wildcard Demo night coming soon.  Wildcard demo slots will be open to all Showoff applicants attending Twiistup based on available space.

Remember FINAL Deadline for Showoff applications is Friday. APPLY HERE

Showoff Applications are now open. 

Showoffs will be selected in two rounds with preferential consideration given to round one applicants. Round one closes Friday November 13th at 11:59 PM. Round two closes Friday December 11th.

NOTE: Only Showoff Winners will receive complimentary admission to the event. 

Each showoff selection will receive:
• A Showoff table, power and wifi during exhibit hours
• Stage time for presentation and Q&A Session
• One full event pass
• Your logo on Twiistup.com and other event promotions
• A free MarketWire press release and access to event Press

NOTE: Showoff companies will be required to attend a free pitch rehearsal prior to the event. We will make reasonable accommodations for companies traveling from out of the area. 

Showoff winners will be chosen by:
• Jeff Cohn – venture consultant to MHS Capital focused on: online marketing services, mobile and software infrastructure.
• Rick Smith – co-founder of Crosscut Ventures, a Los Angeles-based seed stage venture capital firm.
• Jim Andelman – co-founder and general partner at Rincon Venture Partners 
• Mark Suster – GRP Partners, venture capital. Former VP Product Mgmt Salesforce.com & 2-time CEO and entrepreneur 
• Hamet Watt – CEO of WV Labs and Entrepreneur in Residence at True Ventures 
• Francisco Dao – Producer of Twiistup

Meet them all July 30-31 at Twiistup 6!

Wondering who’s coming? Here’s just a sample. These are CONFIRMED Attendees with hundreds more…this is not just an invite wish list.  These people will be at Twiistup, will you?

1. Saeed Amidi, CEO of Plug n Play, Investor, Co-founder of Amidzad Partners

2. Wil Schroter, CEO of Go BIG Network, serial entrepreneur

3. Rick Calvert, Founder of Blogworld

4. Dinesh Ravishanker, CEO of CallFire

5. Isaac Garcia, CEO of CentralDesktop

6. Sanjay Sabnani, Chairman and CEO of CrowdGather

7. Dimitry Ioffe, Co-founder and CEO of The Visionaire Group

8. Mike Walsh, Founder and CEO Leverage Software

9. Cyan Banister, CEO of Zivity, investor Facebook, Slide etc.

10. Merav Knafo, Founder of iJoomla

11. Adam Zbar, CEO of Zannel

12. Marc Mertes, CEO of Seso.net

13. Jeff Haas, Co-founder of Ringorang

14. Jason Calacanis, CEO of Mahalo

15. Tom Dare, COO of Tsavo

16. Brian Solis, Author, Founder of Future Works

17. J.R. Johnson, CEO of Lunch.com

18. Adam Bernhard, CEO of Hautelook

19. Andy Sack, General Partner/Angel Investor Founders Co-op

20. Scott Sangster, Investor/President of Organic Startup

21. James Montgomery, CEO of Montgomery & co. CEO of Digital Coast Ventures

22. Vince Thompson, Managing Partner at MiddleShift

23. Afsoun Yazdian, CEO of Gogolingo

24. Brooke Burke, Television Personality, co-CEO of ModernMom

25. Brian Deagon, Investor’s Business Daily (Media)

26. Umair Mufti, Founder and CEO of Sparcq

27. Christian Gammill, co-Founder of The Graph

28. Brad Feld, Founder of Mobius Venture Capital

29. Scott Seward, President of Tuesday Creative

30. Alec Shankman, Head of Reality at Abrams Artists

31. Chamillionaire, Grammy Award winning Musician

32. Ian Rogers, CEO of Topspin Media

33. Ben Huh, CEO of ICanHasCheezburger

34. Michelle Robbins, Director of Technology, Third Door Media

35. James Andelman, General Partner, Rincon Venture Capital

36. Dave McClure, Investor The Founders Fund

37. Chris Redlitz, Partner Transmedia Capital (VC)

38. Lee Fox, Founder of KooDooz.com

39. Steve Beauregard, Managing Partner at Regard Ventures

40. Eric Sikola, CEO of Expensebay

41. Charles Proctor, Los Angeles Business Journal (Media)

42. Robby Berthume, President Epsilon Concepts/ LA Digital Directory

43. Stuart Halperin, CEO of Ultimate Movie Site

44. Quincy Jones III (QD3) Music Producer, Entrepreneur

45. Chris Tolles, CEO of Topix

46. Jason Nazar, CEO of DocStoc

47. Adam Weinroth, VP of Strategic Marketing at Demand Media

48. Firas Bushnaq, CEO of Boxador

49. Sheila Marmon, CEO of UrbanAdserve

50. Don Mosites, CEO of Streamy

51. Justin Kan, Founder of Justin.tv

52. Chris Brogan, President of New Marketing Labs

53. Eric Hung, CEO of Educator

54. Michael Schneider, CEO of MobileRoadie

55. Paige Craig, Angel Investor, Founder of the Lincoln Group

56. John Morris, Partner GKM Ventures

57. Krisztina Holly, Vice Provost for Innovation at USC

58. Nick Braun, Partner NCT Ventures

59. Brett Butterfield, CEO of PixelPipe

60. Mark Suster, Partner GRP Partners (VC)

61. Jennifer Van Grove, writer for Mashable (media)

62. Jolie O’Dell, writer for ReadWriteWeb (media)

63. Dmitry Shapiro, Founder and CEO of VEOH

64. Lisa Rosenblatt, Co-founder of iMall, co-CEO of ModernMom

65. Beau Laskey, Managing Director of Steamboat Ventures

66. Babette Pepaj, Founder and CEO of BakeSpace

67. Jeff Yasuda, Founder and CEO of Blip.FM

68. Andy Liu, co-Founder of Buddy.TV

69. Trey Shelton, CEO of Music Interactive

70. Mohamed Alkady, CEO of After 10 Studios

71. Mike Prasad, CEO of GirlGamer

72. John Trickett, President of Immergent

73. Taryn Southern, Producer, TV host

74. Andrew Lee, CEO of JamLegend

75. Ben Kuo, Founder and Editor of SoCalTECH

76. Marty Poulin, CEO of ShadyLogic

77. Rob Angarita, co-Founder of Cramster

78. David O. Sacks, CEO of Geni and Yammer

79. Mike Macadaan, VP of Product at MySpace

80. Will Chow, CEO of Mobophiles

81. Jodee Rich, CEO of PeopleBrowsr

82. Richard White, Founder and CEO of Uservoice

83. Micah Baldwin, VP of Business Development, Lijit Networks

84. Neil Patel, Angel Investor, co-founder of CrazyEgg and KissMetrics

85. Brandon DiMassa, VP Digital Media Syndication, TVGuide

86. Efren Toscano, CEO of TechZulu (media)

87. Marsha Collier, Host of Computer and Technology Radio KTRB (media)

88. Erin Broadley, LA Weekly (media)

89. Dave Waldman, VP or Business Development for Twistbox

90. David Holifield, President of Interfuel

91. Ed Haslam, CEO of Diddit

92. Rich Rotzang, Founder of SocialToddler

93. Mark Gibbs, writer Network World (media)

94. Mark Yawitz, co-Founder RealityWanted

95. Hiten Shah, co-Founder CrazyEgg and KissMetrics

96. Michael Abraham, CTO Circle Limit Media

97. Ryan Born, CEO of AudioMicro

98. Ben Widhelm, CTO of Elephant Drive

99. Richard Blakely, CEO of Influxis

100. Peter Lee, Partner Baroda Ventures

101. Michael Jones, COO of MySpace

The Full Event: If you want to see the All-Star speakers, meet the big players in the Venture Capital community and have an opportunity to spend time with the media, then get the Full Event pass. The night portion is great fun, but we created the day portion for the serious players to take care of business before the party started. I loved the Twiistup evening as much as anyone, but I wanted to bring the heavy hitters back into the mix. Of course the Full Event Tickets include the evening too!

The Evening Mixer: If you liked Twiistup just the way it was and you can’t get the time off work, don’t worry we still know how to throw a party – we even brought back the open bar. Twiistup 6 goes 80’s Tech Prom style with the Purple Rain lounge and the Atari 2600 game room. Mix, mingle, drink, and meet the Showoffs!

Twiistup is also proud to support our friends at Social Media Club. The social media community has always been a big part of Twiistup and we’re hoping Chris can make it to Twiistup as our guest to continue spreading the word on the good work of SMC.

A quick note about Parking. Self-Parking at the Hilton is $9 flat rate with validation and Valet is $14 flat rate with validation…yes Twiistup will validate.

Just a little more than 2 weeks to Twiistup and tickets are starting to go so get yours here.

Dmitry Shapiro founder and CEO of Veoh – Dmitry started Veoh with a very short to-do list: First, democratize. Open the business of television-once strictly a members-only deal-to a virtual community of broadcasters. Second, connect those broadcasters with new, global audiences, hungry for a limitless world of compelling programming to fill every niche interest, and desire. Before he imagined Veoh, Dmitry built Akonix Systems, one of the leading P2P network security companies with over 1.5 million deployed enterprise licenses in companies such as Viacom, Disney, Newscorp, and Cingular. Before that, Dmitry led the technology groups at CollegeClub, a 4 million member online college community and Fujitsu Telecommunications.

Justin Kan Founder of Justin.TV – Founded in October 2006, Justin.tv is the largest online community for people to broadcast, watch and interact around live video. With more than 41 million unique visitors per month and 428,000 channels broadcasting live video, Justin.tv is the leading live video site on the Web, enabling users to create real-time connections with others around the world. Headquartered in San Francisco, Justin.tv is funded by: Y Combinator, Alsop Louie Partners and Draper Associates.

If you haven’t seen the updated list of speakers, you can check it out here. Stay tuned, we’ll be putting out the final schedule soon.