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Belgian Webmission
San Francisco, 7-­‐15 May 2011

Webmission
CONTACT
Jenny Lwabandji
E-­‐mail : belgians@webmission.be
Tel : +32 474 350190
Webmission is a 1 week trip of Belgian entrepreneurs to global hotspots of web/tech
innovation with the mission, promote Belgian Web, Tech & Mobile entrepreneurship
abroad, by increasing its visibility and international network.
The original Webmission was a grassroots collaborative effort by 3 Belgian
entrepreneurs to travel to San Francisco in May 2009 and since then we have held
three consecutive webmission to the Valley with 2 main events. A Belgian dinner where
we meet Belgians working in the Bay area and a Belgian pitch & demos event at the
local startup scène.
http://webmission.be
http://twitter.com/webmission
http://facebook.com/webmission
http://www.meetup.com/webmission

Startups & entrepreneurs

Auctelia
http://www.auctelia.com
CONTACT
François-­‐Xavier Bellot, CEO
E-­‐mail : fxbellot@auctelia.com
Tel : +32 495 633591
Auctelia is an online platform that helps industries to manage their heavy assets the
best way at all stage of their life cycle from maintenance to disposal.
The platform is composed of three main features:
• Auctelia provides maintenance officers with an equipment breakdown
identification tool and a service history tool while providing managers with strong
online reports for cost control and budget forecast purposes.
• Auctelia helps managers in the decision making process about the end of assets’
life by providing in depth analysis of equipment costs combined with market data.
• Auctelia provides a turn-­‐key sale solution via an online auction platform. The
online auction platform is already available. The other features will be available
soon on the cloud.

BuboBox.com
http://www.bubobox.com
CONTACT
Koen Stevens
E-­‐mail : info@bubobox.com
Tel : +32 496 250947
Research shows that people are highly influenced by other reviews online. Text reviews
are subjective though and often experienced as unreliable. Video reviews are rich,
more transparent and have proven to increase conversions.
Bubobox brings high-­‐quality video testimonials to every device and will reward
contributors through social and gaming mechanisms.
We do this by providing a freemium widget, which can be embedded onto every device
and will make it very easy to automatically gather and show customer video
testimonials.
BuboBox is a Founder Institute graduate and we strongly believe customer video
reviews to be the next evolution of online word-­‐of-­‐mouth, and we would like to play a
major role in this.

checkthis
http://checkthis.com
CONTACT
Frédéric della Faille, Product Manager
E-­‐mail : f@checkthis.com
Tel : +32 496 278178
Checkthis is a beautifully simple publishing tool designed for the new web.
No set-­‐up. Optional sign-­‐up. Just publish and share the link in seconds.

CityPlug.com
http://www.cityplug.com
CONTACT
Frederic Monet, Managing Director
E-­‐mail : frederic@cityplug.be
Tel : +32 475 505506

IcyWeyes
http://www.icyweyes.com
CONTACT
Nicolas Frenay, CEO
E-­‐mail : nicolas.frenay@icyweyes.com
Tel : +32 479 695510
IcyWeyes is a start-­‐up company that provides fresh scalable solutions for the growing
market of content viewing on mobile devices, this in light of the need for more
personalized content and location based services.
IcyWeyes provides mobile video interactivity through scalable technology; it introduces
a new customer oriented scalable e-­‐commerce business model to the mobile (video)
market, and creates, by integrating with various partners, the full mobile open (video)
ecosystem.
The IcyWeyes platform will be first used as a mobile video activation platform, in a later
stage the PAAS architecture can be re-­‐used for developments of other mobile VAS.

Knowledge Plaza
http://knowledgeplaza.net
CONTACT
Antoine Perdaens, CEO
E-­‐mail : a.perdaens@knowledgeplaza.net
Tel : +32 497 270013
Knowledge Plaza is a Social Knowledge Management platform combined to a powerful
information diffusion aspect. Our clients like EDF, PMU, Lafarge or Suez use KP to
collaboratively and securely collect various type of information such as links,
documents, and e-­‐mails, contextualize them and make them accessible internally or to
their clients and partners via dynamic portals. Knowledge Plaza is also used by our
clients to exchange and discuss information about their market and competition, to
document their projects, and stimulate their innovation.

Mindspark
http://mindspark.eu
CONTACT
Stanislas Rusinsky
E-­‐mail : sr@mindspark.eu
Tel : + 32 496 454590
MINDSPARK PRESENTS MEDTALK
http://medtalk.in
My wife and I attend may seminars. She's pediatrics. After a
one of her conference she saved a child with a newly
published research protocol.
But we can't attend all seminars and remember their
enormous amount of info.
MedTalk is a solution to encode and bring those conferences to the web and on most
of the current platforms.
With easy to use software and curated quality content; full-­‐text search on both the
speech and slides, to help doctors find the relevant data quickly.

MuseScore
http://musescore.org
http://musescore.com
CONTACT
Thomas Bonte
E-­‐mail : thomas@musescore.com
Tel : + 32 485 367030
If there is one constant in people's musical life, it's their need for sheet music. Finding
that right piece of sheet music, tailored to your instrument, playing skills and
preferences, can be unfortunately a heavy job. Not so with MuseScore which wants to
tackle this global problem.
MuseScore is the leading free and open source music notation software to create sheet
music. It is available for Windows, Mac and Linux, and translated in more than 35
languages. With more than one million downloads and 100 000 downloads on a
monthly basis, MuseScore is proving to become a very decent alternative for the
expensive commercial software such as Sibelius and Finale. Music education worldwide
is adopting MuseScore because it's free, easy to use and makes beautiful sheet music.
MuseScore.com can be introduced as the Flickr of sheet music. You can easily upload
and share your sheet music made with MuseScore, as well as download sheet music
from others. MuseScore.com is operating under the freemium business model, users
can buy more storage for their sheet music as well as access to advanced features.
Once the sheet music is online, it's instantly available for smartphones and tablets such
as the iPad, through an open API. With MuseScore, the production, distribution and
consumption sheet music is entering a new life away from paper. Finally, sheet music
gets a truly social life.

Shallibuy.it
http://shallibuy.it
CONTACT
Didier Vermeiren
E-­‐mail : didier@shallibuy.it
Tel : +32 495 258875
Shall I Buy mobile app allows shoppers to log and share their purchase intentions and
share that with friends to get instant feedback on the go.
Online shopping is very efficient as you can easily find information/reviews/prices of
products.
Offline shopping does not provide such efficiencies, but it still represents 97% of the
overall retail industry.
Today we see that consumers are slowly altering the retail landscape by using
technology to communicate with relatives from the store, e.g. 50% of the consumers
are using smartphones in stores to take pictures of products.

Sitebase
http://www.sitebase.be
CONTACT
E-­‐mail : info@sitebase.be
Tel : +32 472 505 082
You can contact Sitebase to have a website or web application created. Besides that
you can also count on Sitebase for search engine optimization and hosting. That way
you don’t have to contact several companies. Sitebase arranges everything for you that
is needed to have your website working as it should. Underneath the section ‘Services’
you will find more information about what we do exactly.
When we create a website we always follow the same method. You will play an
important role in it and you will follow from nearby every step in the development
process. That way you can ask for changes and have the design adjusted at any time. It
is important for us that you are aware of every step we take during the entire
development phase and that you agree with each step. It is the best way to create a
product that corresponds 100% to your wishes.

Streetmark
http://streetmark.com
CONTACT
Arnaud Coomans, CEO
E-­‐Mail : arnaud.coomans@gmail.com
Tel: +32 474 940695
Streetmark let you bookmark anything, anywhere!
Streetmark is an iphone application that let you share and discover what's around you.
Fashion victim? Design addict? Fan of Architecture? Take a picture and let Streetmark
remember its location and share it with your friends!

Cuvelier Company
http://www.cuveliercompany.com
CONTACT
Jean-­‐Christophe Cuvelier
E-­‐mail : jcc@cuvelier.be
Tel : + 32 477998106
Cuvelier Company is focused on all the computer's aspects. Cuvelier Company will help
you with all your IT questions.
From consulting to developments.
We can help to all the IT aspect of your business. The main objectif of the company is
Computer Sciences.
I'm a web and technologies enthusiast, a belgian web entrepreneur and a passionate
developer. I felt into computer when my parents offered me my first Commodore 64.
Since then, I'm just a computer lover. I'm also a mac addicted.
I've plenty projects in my pocket, but too soon to talk about them ;-­‐)

Storify.com
http://storify.com
CONTACT
Xavier Damman, CTO
E-­‐mail : xdamman@gmail.com
With Storify you can create stories using tweets, flickr images, youtube videos,
facebook messages and more. It's the new typewriter for the social media age. Early
users include the New York Times, Al Jazeera, Washington Post, and more. These news
organizations have been using Storify to tell the stories of the people in Egypt, Libya
and Japan. They give a new human perspective of the events. We also have a lot of
bloggers who are using Storify to cover conferences, share interesting discussions they
witness on social media or to tell their stories using what they posted during a trip or
they friend have posted during their wedding.

Bluemetis
http://bluemetis.com
CONTACT
Laurent Duchateau
E-­‐mail : laurent@bluemetis.com
Tel : +44 7775604873

Alma In Silico
http://www.alma-­‐in-­‐silico.com
CONTACT
Pierre-­‐Yves Gilson
E-­‐mail : py.gilson@gmail.com
Tel : +32 497 610039
Laboratory activities in biotechnology and biomedical fields have a lot of manual
operations that do not take advantage of modern IT technologies.
This may also affect the management of orders and experiments or storage and
processing of data.
Our solution?
Alma In Silico developed a web application that exposes the services provided by the
laboratories, storage and processing of data.
This portal is based on a layer of web services allowing us to interconnect the various IT
resources that our customers need.
The storage is based on cloud technologies and is enriched with the ability to attach
data processing actions, again on the cloud, such as external grid systems.
Alma In Silico thus provides the multiple missing links between laboratories, their
clients and the cloud resources.

NetEvents.be
http://www.netevents.be
CONTACT
Dieter Kraewinkels, Managing Director
E-­‐mail : dieter@netevents.be
Tel : +32 475 339090

ABCResto.be
http://www.abcresto.be
CONTACT
Eric Rodriguez, Founder
E-­‐mail : thewavyx@gmail.com
Tel : +32 474 503418
ABCResto.be is a restaurant directory focused on the user experience.
The website is like a social network of food addicts. User comments and ratings help
you to find and discover a restaurant.
Particular attention was given to the search function. The goal is to find a restaurant as
quickly as possible. It is even possible to find a restaurant with only 4 clicks and no
keyboard!
On abcresto.be you'll find:
• a map search,
• an advanced search (several cities and / or more food types)
• free online reservation with restaurant partners
And that's not all! abcresto.be is a social recommendation engine. Based on your
profile, your favorite restaurants and food types, we suggest restaurants "a la carte". It
is very easy to discover new places to satisfy your culinary tastes.
Restaurant owners will also benefit from all these features. The administration panel
allows you to update any information simultaneously (eg Carte, Lunch, Menu, ...) on
abcresto.be and on the restaurant website.
The creators of this website bring new and fresh ideas for the industry. abcresto.be is
still working on additional features: restaurant suggestions, mobile application, ... It
seems there is a new player in the world of belgian restaurants!
We wish you a great time, enjoying food with us.
Eat it! Taste it! Share It!

Collectionista
https://market.android.com/details?id=net.lp.collectionista
CONTACT
@pjv_
Twitter : http://twitter.com/@pjv_
If you like collecting objects, you like to carry your precious collection with you at all
times. You never know when you might come across a new asset and need to know
what you can trade or what exactly you already own.
Collectionista is an app for your Android phone, fresh off the drawing board and into
the Market. Manage your collection of books, music CDs, and more! In its current beta
state you can add items by scanning their barcodes or by entering details manually. You
can organize them into collections you maintain yourself.
Designed as a general Android app to keep hold of any collections, Collectionista aims
to fit in with the system and other apps, natively. Emphasis is on a beautiful
presentation and a sound user experience. Examples are the book and CD covers that
are automatically fetched off the Internet, but which you can also change if you want
to.
The goal is to become a manager of not only these typical media collections, but also of
classic collectibles or even plain day-­‐to-­‐day items. Expect new ones to be added in the
future.

Wepika
http://wepika.com
Café Numérique
http://www.cafenumerique.be
CONTACT
Edouard Seynaeve, CTO
E-­‐mail : edouard@wepika.com
Tel : +32 498 177319
Edouard Seynaeve, co-­‐founder and manager of Wepika, Café Numériques organizer,
PHP developer, thinker, speaker, optimistic, and DIY lover!
His professional live goes around two activities, his e-­‐commerce agency and Café
Numériques' nights; the first one as a job and the second as a hobby.
With his partner Christophe Gillard, they created Wepika.com, a company specialized
in the development of online stores. The services of Wepika cover the development of
e-­‐commerce websites, webmarketing strategies and the design of eBay Stores. Wepika
is capable of managing 100% of the e-­‐commerce activity of his clients (except for
logistics).
The Café Numériques are free weekly meet-­‐ups which objective is to promote
innovation and initiate as many people as possible into new technologies. Every
Wednesday night, a thematic night accessible to everyone is organized. The “Café
Numérique Bruxelles” is community gathering between 30 and 100 "technophiles"
every week since October 2009, it celebrates its 70th night this coming 15th of June
2011. Since December 2010, a new session started in Liège, gathering around 40
people on average every two weeks. The subjects treated go from teaching over the
Internet, online journalism, the new smartphones, passing by the domestics and the
participation to movie previews, etc.

Nectil
http://www.nectil.com
CONTACT
François Dispaux, CEO
E-­‐mail : hello@nectil.com
Tel : +32 496 253216
NECTIL PRESENTS OFFICITY
http://www.officity.com
Officity is an open-­‐source web applications platform.
For users, Officity is like Access or Filemaker on the web.
You can create, expand, and share web applications
directly from your Excel files and manage your data right
away.
For developers, Officity is more like a Windows or Mac OS on the web. You can quickly
prototype, create and distribute sophisticated web applications based on the most
popular open source knowledges and servers in the world.
NECTIL PRESENTS KAITEN
http://www.officity.com/kaiten
Kaiten is a new navigation model for web applications.
Unlike conventional applications where each screen
replace another without continuity, Kaiten stacks the
screens side by side horizontally, like columns, and
provides a continuous user experience.
You will recognize one of our inspiration ^.^ We scale it, we push it to the limit and
create a model which is:
Device-­‐independent: Kaiten adapts to the screen resolution, from one column on
smartphones, to 5 columns or more on a 30" screen.
Better usability
• Space and time continuum: everything at sight
• Instant breadcrumb: go back and forth without having to reload
• Simple & intuitive: each panel provides contextual info and actions
• Usage continuity: users don't have to learn several applications
• Full-­‐featured: users don't have to use subset apps on mobile devices
• Scalable: adding features is easy as forking a new branch

fabnet
http://DICoDE-­‐book.com
CONTACT
Fabian Tilmant
E-­‐mail : fabian@fabnet.be
Tel : +32486286190
Fabian is busy writing a handbook to help stimulating innovation in digital ecosystems.
Based on a Value Chain model analyzed and used through cases at IME Business School
in New York, Fabian used his past experiences, readings and connections in order to
move further. Through device, telecom, media and regulation components, Fabian
reveals how the User has been empowered and has taken control on these actors. And
positive and negative consequences on innovation.
Thanks to a strategic tool (DICoDE Strategies) and an economic tool (DICoDE Business
Models), Fabian enables organizations active in these ecosystems to define the
potential for innovation of the products and services in their current roadmap. These
tools also allow to understand stakes, partnerships and limits of these ecosystems in
order to optimize digital presence of each company.
Fabian hopes to share his tools and his ideas with as many people as possible during
the Webmission. He's already spending the previous week in NYC to connect with some
interesting people from East Coast.
You can follow the whole creation process on his blog: www.DICoDE-­‐book.com

Partners & Sponsors

AWEX
www.wallonia-­‐export.be
www.wallonia-­‐international.be
CONTACT
Philippe Suinen, CEO
E-­‐mail: mail@awex.be
Tel : +32 24218211
The Wallonia Foreign Trade and Investment Agency (AWEX) is the Wallonia Region of
Belgium's government agency in charge of foreign trade promotion and foreign
investment attraction. The agency has a worldwide network of 107 Economic and
Trade Attachés.
As a foreign trade agency, AWEX carries out a mission of promotion and information
for the bene-­‐ fit of both Wallonia and the foreign business community.
Upon request, AWEX assists buyers, decision-­‐makers, importers and foreign prospects
by:
• Providing economic data on Wallonia and its export potential
• Disseminating information on products and services from companies located in
Wallonia
• Identifying companies in Wallonia for international partnerships
• Distributing lists of exporters from Wallonia
As a foreign investment agency, AWEX -­‐ via its Office for Foreign Investors (OFI) -­‐ has
an overall responsibility for the attraction of foreign investment in Wallonia. This
includes seeking out and pro-­‐ viding information to potential foreign investors. The
Agency also offers a pro-­‐active follow-­‐up service to investors already established in
Wallonia. In addition, it is in charge of identifying new foreign investors for the
acquisition of industrial sites under restructuring process.

AWT.be
http://www.awt.be
CONTACT
Carmelo Zaccone, Expert in telecom & network
E-­‐mail : cz@awt.be
Tel : +32 475 586782
The “Agence Wallonne des Télécommunications” (Walloon Telecommunications
Agency) is an organisation of public interest which general mission is to promote the
information and communication technologies (ICT) and their use in the Walloon
Region. This mission is expressed through three fundamental priorities: technology
monitoring, consultancy and promotion.
The AWT is also:
The www.awt.be portal, dedicated to promoting the convergence and distribution of
ICT in Wallonia.
The Vigie database, that includes over 1000 companies operating int the ICT sector in
the Walloon Region.
The e-­‐business incentives: a financial support for creating an e-­‐business site, and
another for using the services of a consultant specializing in e-­‐business (RENTIC).
The “coupole e-­‐learning”, responsible for promoting and developing e-­‐learning in the
Walloon Region and French Community.

Brussels Export
www.brussels-­‐export.be
CONTACT
Jacques EVRARD, Managing Director
E-­‐mail : infos@brussels-­‐export.irisnet.be (Export)
Tel : +32 2 8004000
Brussels Export promotes the internationalization of the Brussels economy.
Brussels Export aims to enhance and improve the export capacity of Brussels’
companies by:
• offering customized assistance through its worldwide network of economic and
trade representatives;
• organizing collective promotional and prospection activities such as trade
missions abroad, group stands at international exhibitions, seminars and
invitations of foreign buyers and decision-­‐makers;
• granting financial incentives to companies tackling foreign markets;
• providing strategic information on foreign markets and business opportunities.
Brussels Export also helps foreign companies to identify well-­‐targeted potential
Brussels’ business partners (have a glimpse at our database www.brussels-­exporters.be).

IBBT
http://www.ibbt.be
CONTACT
Heiko Desruelle, Coordinator
E-­‐mail : heiko.desruelle@intec.ugent.be
Tel : +32 472766691
IBBT, the Interdisciplinary institute for BroadBand Technology, is a Flemish research
institute aimed at ICT innovation. The interdisciplinary teams have carried out over 250
research projects in close collaboration with over 700 partner organizations since the
foundation in 2004. These projects strive for the joint development of innovative
applications in various domains such as health care, mobility & logistics, culture &
media and green ICT.

FIT
http://www.flandersinvestmentandtrade.com
CONTACT
Koen ALLAERT, CEO
E-­‐mail : info@fitagency.be
Tel : +32 (0) 2 504 87 11
Flanders Investment & Trade agency promotes sustainable international business, in
the interest of both Flanders-­‐based companies and overseas enterprises.
Whatever sector you are involved in, Flanders Investment & Trade (FIT) will help you
establish contact with the Flemish companies you are looking for. This includes not only
products or services you may be sourcing, but also various types of business
relationships, from joint ventures to technology transfers.
At another level Flanders Investment & Trade enhances Flanders’ position as the
gateway to Europe for inward investors. The agency identifies, informs, advises and
supports overseas enterprises by establishing production and research facilities,
contact centers, headquarters, logistics operations and the like in Flanders, the
northern region of Belgium.

Telenet
Belgian telecom, internet and digital
TV provider
Alec Hance
Graphic, Web & UI Designer
MAXROAM
Global roaming SIM card with
worldwide coverage.
TCS Digital World
ICT Marketing company
Printbox
Print agency on textile
Knowledge Plaza
Social Knowledge Management platform

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