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Austria Showcase
Austria-Israel Music Tech | Tel Aviv
September 06, 2017 | AYEKA Coworking Space
www.advantageaustria.org
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PREFACE
On the occasion of DLD Innovation Festival Tel Aviv 2017, Austria will showcase a
selection of its most innovative and promising young startups and institutions from the
music tech and interactive scenes, inspiring the audience with their clever ideas and
ingenious technologies and demonstrating how they have contributed to put Austria on
the world map as a cutting-edge and creative country.
Austria’s presence at this year’s DLD is an initiative of ADVANTAGE AUSTRIA, Austria’s
official trade promotion organisation, in partnership with Vienna Business Agency, GIN
Global Incubator Network, Austrian Airlines and TMT Tel Aviv Music Technology.
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PROGRAM AUSTRIA SHOWCASE
09.30 REGISTRATION
10.00 GET TOGETHER AND OPENING WORDS
Maggie Childs, Moderator
Patrick Sagmeister, COO ADVANTAGE AUSTRIA
Reanne Leuning, ADVANTAGE AUSTRIA Creative Industries
10.10 PRESENTATIONS OF THE SPONSORS
Vienna Business Agency
GIN Global Incubator Network
Austrian Airlines
10.30 PRESENTATION OF START-UPS AND FINGERFOOD MADE BY
STEFAN DORFNER
A New Day
Admeant
Artivive
Epiphanic
Fretello
Karajan Institute
Lilly Panholzer
Medical University of Vienna
My Alfred
Rate My Tate
13.00 INDIVIDUAL TALKS & NETWORKING
After pitching, there is time for networking amongst journalists,
investors and players of the music tech scene.
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ADVANTAGE AUSTRIA
WWW.ADVANTAGEAUSTRIA.ORG
Contact:
Günther Schabhüttl
Reanne Leuning
Günther Schabhüttl Marlene Burgstaller
Reanne Leuning
ADVANTAGE AUSTRIA, with its 110
offices in over 70 countries, provides a
broad range of intelligence and business
development services for both Austrian
companies and their international
business partners. Our 800 employees
and 35 consultants around the world can
assist you in locating Austrian suppliers
and business partners. We organize more
than 1,200 events every year to bring
business contacts together. Other
services provided by ADVANTAGE
AUSTRIA offices range from introductions
to Austrian companies looking for
importers, distributors or agents to
providing in-depth information on Austria
as a business location and assistance in
entering the Austrian market.
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TMT TEL-AVIV MUSIC TECH COMMUNITY & WEDEA INNOVATIVE INSTITUTE
REVITAL HOLLANDER
Contact:
Revital Hollander
Revital Hollander
Revital Hollander is a musician,
a computer scientist and a creator. She is
engaged in research and development in
music technology, entrepreneurship, and
education. Revital teaches music
technology and computer science at
Wedea, COMAS, IDC, MTA and Rimon
School of Music. Revital was head of
mobile systems software specialization
and in the upcoming academic year she is
opening the first music-tech
specialization for computer science at
COMAS. In the high-tech industry,
Revital served as a software developer,
team leader, entrepreneur and as a
consultant to Rimon School and start-
ups, especially in music industry. Revital
is the founder and organizer of the Israeli
Music Technology community "Tel-Aviv-
Yafo Music Technology (TMT)". She
organizes music technology conferences
and workshops which connect musicians,
artists, researchers, developers,
entrepreneurs and communities from
overseas.
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MAGGIE CHILDS
MODERATOR
Contact:
Maggie Childs
Maggie Childs
Maggie Childs is Editor in Chief of
Metropole. Originally from New York, she
has called Vienna home for 18 years. Her
long-form writing specializes in business,
profiles and interviews.
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STEFAN DORFNER
CHEF
Contact:
Stefan Dorfner
Stefan Dorfner
Food-Design Project - the taste of music.
A symphony of Austria’s finest Music
Tech Start Ups served by Innovation.
Stefan Dorfner has played an essential
part in creating the concept of
introducing start-ups and their products
by serving the finest fingerfood.
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START-UPS & COMPANIES
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A_NEW_DAY, SASCHA BÈM
WWW.ANEWDAY.CC
A_NEW_DAY
Contact:
Sascha Bém
Sascha Bèm
Alexander “Sascha” Bém is composer,
drummer, author and media
professional. His years of experience
include two worlds: As co-writer and
drummer in the bands Paradise Now!
and CORE Sascha has been touring and
releasing records internationally. As
media professional, (chief) editor and
freelance author he has been working for
newspapers, magazines, online media
and film. With A_NEW_DAY Sascha
combines as composer and author music
and multimedia, storytelling and
spirituality, club sound and theatre
elements, new technologies and
archetypical themes.
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A_NEW_DAY, CLEMENS HANDLER
WWW.ANEWDAY.CC
A_NEW_DAY
Contact:
Clemens Handler
Clemens Handler
Clemens Handler has refined the art of
storytelling for its most sensitive
audience. Since he founded handler
productions with his wife Angela in 1998,
it has become an influential family
theatre company, attracting 1,5 million
visitors. Acting as author, composer and
director, Clemens has continually
expanded its portfolio, integrating a
range of projects from dramatic
consulting to large-scale entertainment.
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ARTIVIVE
HTTPS://ARTIVIVE.COM/
Contact:
Codin Popescu
Codin Popescu
We offer an open AR platform and an app
with tailor-made features for
creatives and artists. Our approach is to
let the artists, from painters,
photographers to graffiti and tattoo
artists, create the narrative and the
art. We are providing the corresponding
solution, gradually extending
and adapting the features of our tool to
the specific needs of artists and
organize content creation workshops to
help artists find their way
around digitalization.
We also work together with venues, such
as museums, galleries, festivals,
theatres and present tailored solutions.
All in all, we provide a custom made,
reliable, fast and scalable infrastructure
for the best experience of the
visitors, prolonging visitation time and
thus increasing the emotional
binding.
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CREATIVE REGION LINZ & OBERÖSTERREICH
HTTP://CREATIVEREGION.ORG
Contact:
Georg Tremetzberger
Georg Tremetzberger
CREATIVE REGION Linz & Upper Austria
is a public funded initiative aiming to
support the growth and success of the
creative sector. CREATIVE REGION is a
hub for people and communities of the
CCI, a platform for information and
services, an atelier for ideas and
projects, and a networking organisation
for the reinforcement of the creative
sector. CREATIVE REGION develops and
implements support programmes and
has the capability to adapt its offers to its
target group.
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EPIPHANIC
HTTP://EPIPHANIC.IO
Contact:
David Khassidov
David Khassidov
Epiphanic is a Vienna based Innovation &
Matchmaking Agency, mainly focusing on
the German speaking countries & CEE
regions.
We are constantly screening and scouting
for innovation, as well as supporting
investors, corporates and startups to
make their business cases a success. In
addition we organise exclusive business
summits for our partners and network
members and connect the innovative
hubs and talents of the CEE countries
with the vibrant markets of Austria,
Germany and Switzerland. We intend to
explore the possibilities with the Israely
market.
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FRETELLO
WWW.FRETELLO.COM
Contact:
Florian Lettner
Florian Lettner
Fretello is the smartest way to learn
guitar. As your personal guitar teacher
Fretello is available every time you pick
up your guitar, giving you fun and
engaging exercises and the essential
feedback that helps you become the
guitar player you always wanted to be. Its
Core Audio Technology allows Fretello to
understand what users play. It thus can
provide them with invaluable feedback
for every practice session as well as
compute the best way to practice to take
their playing to the next level.
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KARAJANMUSICTECH
WWW.KARAJAN-INSTITUT.ORG
Contact:
Matthias Röder
Matthias Röder
The Eliette and Herbert von Karajan
Institute is the media company that
manages the music, films, brands and
trademarks of Herbert von Karajan. It is
also the founder of the Karajan Music
Tech Conference.
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KRIZH POS.ITIVE AFFAIRS
WWW.KRIZH.COM
Contact:
Heidemarie Kriz
Heidemarie Kriz
We are an international power house for
ideas and concepts for commercial and
retail projects combining architecture,
design, art and music in a very
professional, consistent and tasteful way.
POSitive affairs is a highly specialized
consultancy agency with over 20 years of
experience. Today’s smartest retailers
have a 360-degree view of the customers
and deep insights into their behavior.
POSitive affairs helps companies create
new, innovative store concepts, providing
customers with a seamless, unparalleled
shopping experience, therefore boosting
brands and sales.
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MEDIZINISCHE UNIVERSITÄT WIEN
WWW.MEDUNIWIEN.AC.AT
Contact:
Michael Gharzouzi
Michael Elias Gharzouzi is a
neuroscientist and a musician who is
currently finishing both his MD and PhD
at the Medical University of Vienna.
His current PhD project entitled „The
Development of an assessment system
for profiling the effects of auditory stimuli
on the autonomic nervous system and
immune function“ led to a collaboration
with the company Schiller Medizintechnik
GmbH. Together they developed a
software that allows to measure how
exactly his patients/study participants
react to musical stimuli, thereby giving
the means to devise musical therapies
that can be precisely adapted to a specific
person’s needs, whether those are
medical in nature or simply consist in a
healthy person’s daily routine.
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MYALFRED
HTTP://MYALFRED.IO
Contact:
Gregor Pichler
Phillip Baldauf
Gregor Pichler
myAlfred is an artificially intelligent
butler that helps its users to find time for
important things in their lifes. We all
know the problem of making an
appointment with multiple people. Just a
vague time span such as “next week in
the evening” is enough and all friends
can be invited. myAlfred will take care of
finding the perfect time for the event. The
best thing is, no one must check the
calendar once. Additionally, myAlfred will
be gaining more and more skills over
time. Such skills will include making
reservations at restaurants, booking
holidays and more.
Phillip Baldauf
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LILLY PANHOLZER
WWW.LILLYPANHOLZER.COM
WWW.ALLDSGN.COM
Contact:
Lilly Panholzer
Lilly Panholzer
Lilly Panholzer is a Canadian-Austrian
designer, illustrator and art director
based in Vienna.
Lilly is co-founder of Alldsgn Studio, a
multidisciplinary art direction firm, as
well as founder of Lilly Panholzer
Illustrations. With Allsdsgn and
independently, Lilly creates conceptual
illustrations for newspapers, magazines
and packaging for clients around the
world. Her portfolio ranges from
collaborations with editorial companies
to visual artwork design for articles and
reports to packaging illustrations for
consumer brands, as well as the art
direction of personal projects.
All of Lilly’s work is influenced by a
background living in three contrasting
cities and cultures: she was born and
raised in Toronto; she studied and lived
in Barcelona for a decade; and she has
lived in Vienna for over 14 years.
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RATE MY TATE
WWW.RATEMYTATE.COM
Contact:
Stephan Mauracher
Mario Rosin
Stephan Mauracher
Rating must be fast, easy and
meaningful!
RateMyTate (RmT) is specialized in
developing and applying new rating
systems. Placing ratings or feedback is
key, from customer satisfaction
measurements and product/service
assessments to social media. The RmT
rating system is used within the RmT app
as well as on physical RmT feedback
terminals. The app works as a personal
market research tool in the creative
sector and attempts to become a Big
Data project when the user base grows
accordingly. The rating system will
furthermore be implemented on third-
party platforms.
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SONOPHILIA
WWW.SONOPHILIA.COM
Contact:
Seda Röder
Seda Röder
Founded by Seda Röder aka “the Piano
Hacker”, Sonophilia is an invitation-only
network of international executives,
artists, scientists and tech
entrepreneurs. The members of the
Sonophilia network meet many times a
year in private gatherings (Salons and
Retreats) to discuss and explore creative
synergies between different disciplines.
The program at Sonophilia Retreats and
Salons consists of keynotes, panels,
workshops and concerts, all of which
share the motto: “innovation is applied
creativity”.
Sonophilia Retreats and Salons are
worldwide unique events devoted to
celebrating human creativity and attract
international leaders from business, arts
and technology to Austria.
Seda Röder is a graduate of the
Mozarteum (2006) and Hochschule für
Musik und Theater in Munich (2007), she
taught music history and performance at
Harvard and M.I.T. She is a Senior
Advisor to the Silicon Castles Accelerator
in Salzburg and teaches “creative
transformation and innovation culture” at
the Urstein Institute.
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VIENNA STATE OPERA
WWW.WIENER-STAATSOPER.AT/ WWW.STAATSOPERLIVE.COM
Contact:
Christopher Widauer
E christopher.widauer@wiener-
staatsoper.at
Christopher Widauer
In 2013, Vienna State Opera as one
of the world’s leading opera houses
(300 sold out performances, 60
different operas and ballets, 600.000
patrons per season) has launched
the first global live streaming
service for opera. With 45 live events
per year, two channels,
synchronized second screen content
and a regular programme in UHD it
sets a new benchmark for the
digitalization of cultural events.
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ADMEANT
WWW.ADMEANT.COM
Contact:
Gabriel Ben-Zie
Gabriel Ben-Zie
Admeant is an advertising agency
focused on growth marketing, whose
founder Gabriel Ben-Zie recently
moved from Tel Aviv back to Vienna. His
clients are, among others, farfetch,
fiverr, freeletics, wegfinder.
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SPONSORS
GLOBAL INCUBATOR NETWORK GIN
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GLOBAL INCUBATOR NETWORK GIN
WWW.GIN-AUSTRIA.COM/INDEX.HTML
Contact:
Jürgen Rattenberger
Jürgen Rattenberger
The Global Incubator Network GIN is the
single point of contact for startups,
investors and incubators interested in the
Austrian and the European markets
respectively. GIN connects entrepreneurs
and investors as well as incubators and
provides an international network of key
players in innovation and finance. With
great expertise in the Austrian startup
ecosystem, GIN offers exciting services
tailored to fit your individual needs.
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VIENNA BUSINESS AGENCY
WWW.VIENNABUSINESSAGENCY.AT
Contacts:
Gerhard Hirczi
Sabine Ohler
Daniel Chladek
Gregor Posch
Gabriele Tatzberger
Daniel Chladek Sabine Ohler
Gregor Posch Gerhard Hirczi
The Vienna Business Agency is the first
point of contact for national and
international companies of various
sectors and sizes – from startups to large
companies. It offers advice, real estate,
financial funding and a wide variety of
services and activities, free of charge and
multilingual. With the Vienna Startup
Package selected international startups
are being supported to develop their
business idea in Vienna.
Gabriele Tatzberger
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AUSTRIAN AIRLINES
WWW.AUSTRIAN.COM
Contact
Efrat Doron
www.austrian.com
Austrian Airlines is Austria’s largest
carrier, operates a global route network of
approximately 130 destinations, being
particularly dense in Central and Eastern
Europe, and connects Austria and Israel
as well. Austrian Airlines is part of the
Lufthansa Group,.Europe’s largest airline
group, and member of the Star Alliance
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CONTACT INFORMATION
ADVANTAGE AUSTRIA Vienna
Office for Creative Industries
Reanne Leuning
Wiedner Hauptstrasse 63
1045 Vienna
Austria
T +43 5 90 900 36 13
F +43 5 90 900 11 36 13
W www.advantageaustria.org
ADVANTAGE AUSTRIA Tel Aviv
Austrian Embassy – Commercial Section
Günther Schabhüttl
25, Hamered Street
6150001 Tel Aviv
Israel
T +972 3 51 68 685
F +972 3 51 68 580
W www.advantageaustria.org/il
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