Last week, Dassault Systemes with the 3DEXPERIENCE Lab were a Bronze Partner at the world's top startup event at San Francisco! Let's discover our positionning and trends.

TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco: September 5-7, 2018

What is TechCrunch Disrupt?

TechCrunch Disrupt is the world’s leading authority in debuting revolutionary startups, introducing game- changing technologies, and discussing what’s top of mind for the tech industry’s key innovators.

Disrupt gathers the best and brightest entrepreneurs, investors, hackers, and tech fans for three days of exploration and learning found nowhere else in the industry.

As their success has grown each year, the area for demo space and startup booths was bigger to welcome entrepreneurs:

• 8,000+ attendees from around the world
• 20 Startup Battlefield contestants
• 550 exhibiting startups from 19 countries and dozens of verticals
• 63 world-renowned speakers—35% of whom are women
• 6M+ global visitors to TechCrunch.com during Disrupt—+50% YoY • 10M+ cross-platform video views of Disrupt programming

The main categories on TCDisrupt was: AI, AR/VR, Blockchain, Biotech/Healthtech, Fintech, Gaming, Privacy/Security, Space, Mobility, Retail or Robotics/IoT/Hardware.

In the showcase area, the startups were supported by their local incubators or Governemental organisation as Germany, Japan, Corean, Taiwan (Startup Stadium), .... which we remind them our program is global and local for all international companies.

Highlights on Youtube video

What did we do?

It was our first time at TCDisrupt. So this year, our partnership was composed by:

• Booth Area with 9m2 showcasing our program for Startups

@AB and @GS was part of this event with myself. They were a huge support to promote the 3DEXPERIENCE Lab and identify the right innovations that could apply for the Lab but also for one of our DS Entrepreneur program:

• 3DEXPERIENCE Lab program
• Global Entrepreneur program from VS
• Solidworks for Entrepreneur

• Video Break in the Main Stage on Day 2, showcasing our 2 min Mission Video in front of +800 people

• Startup Challenge all along these 3 days to source Disruptive Startups + Selection of the 6 best one for 2 min pitch + award of the best one with announcement on stage + photo booth, communication, ... We have seen lot of startups. Some of them did not have time to submit their projects so we plan to convince them to fill in our form on our website in order to become the next generation of leads.

18 startups applied for the challenge coming from different industries and countries, facing lot of challenges.

• Uatag from Ukraine on Life Theme
• Garbi Can from USA on IoT
• Glorious Labs from UK on Social VR
• RollRR from USA on IoT
• Resonado from USA on LifeStyle theme
• Vessel 5 from Australia on IoT
• MakerBrane from Lebanon on LifeStyle Theme
• Vtrus from USA on Industry 4.0
• Mule Robotics from USA on Learning Experience
• Voxon Photonics from Australia on LifeStyle Theme
• Ciari Guitars from USA on LifeStyle Theme
• MailGuard from USA on Life Theme
• Autolift from Czech Republic on LifeStyle Theme
• TwoIoT from Taiwan on IoT and Blockchain
• Next Plus on Industry 4.0
• Skriware from Poland on IoT > about Mars and application for Children @RB
• Circadia from UK on LifeStyle
• Roboduels from USA on Robotics

Among these startups we selected those 6 for a pitch session with Q&A

• Garbi Can from USA on IoT
• Glorious Labs from UK on Social VR
• RollRR from USA on IoT
• Resonado from USA on LifeStyle theme
• Mule Robotics from USA on Learning Experience
• TwoIoT from Taiwan on IoT and Blockchain

and the winner who meet the 3 criteria of the 3DEXPIERENCE Lab (Disruptive Product, Collective Intelligence and Positive Impact for the Society) was : GARBI CAN. An interesting project on City Theme and IoT @VM

Trends

Among the amazing projects we have discovered at TCDisrupt on VR:

ORBAI > makes Artificial Employees that do real jobs with vocation-specific AI, and verbal interfaces to their holographic or robotic bodies @DN

Augmented Intelligence BodyMap > BodyMap™ Pro is a complete set of human anatomy learning tool designed for medical students and professionals. @GK @DN

Virtue, Immersive Healthcare > bold new approach to mental health. Virtue is an award-winning startup that applies the research-proven benefits of immersive technology to improve mental

VOXON, Creators of the world's most advanced 3D volumetric display. 3D volumetric technology that brings digital content to life

• 3DLOOK: Develops the most advanced mobile body scanning tech for apparel brands and e-commerce and retail. @DN @VB

On Mobility trends, BYTON had a big booth at the center of the exhibition.

• Einride: A cargo and freight company that designs and builds technologies for transportation systems.

TomTom showcased the last apps with a VR Experience diplayed as a game.

On HealthCare, we need to follow this trend and startups like these two ones on the same topic:

Mira: The world's smartest, clinically-proven ovulation and fertility tracker @GK @SD if this startup could be interested by the Lab

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Kegg: Making fertility care affordable and natural contraception possible @SD @GK

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