I was at Re-mix today and there was a buzz around about David Burela and his incredible team’s entry into the Imagine Cup for Australia.  Insiders were telling me he was a shoe-in, others were telling me it was in the bag for David.   After all, the project has the endorsement and approval of the leader of the National Party (for Australia) and the head of the Farmer’s Federation of Victoria.

 

David actually got to demo the product at the lunch session for Remix and captivated the attention of the complete room for the time he was talking about it.

 

We all know that the ‘fat lady has to sing’ and at the time I left she wasn’t singing, but she was warming up.   The upshot was – by unanimous decision – Readify’s David Burela and his team are the AUSTRALIA WINNERS OF THE IMAGINE CUP AND ARE ON THERE WAY TO PARIS!

 

Multiple people at Microsoft believe that David’s team didn’t just do a “university project” but came up with an incredibly viable business proposal that investors will be interested in.

 

The project incorporates Silverlight and Virtual Earth as part of its system – two big buzz technologies for Microsoft at the moment.

 

David’s team won out over three other finalists who were being coached by the mentor who led last year’s team to victory.

 

His whole team was immediately interviewed by Tony Sarno, Editor of APC Magazine. Tony was also one of the judges and was incredibly excited about it. 

 

A huge congratulations from Readify David. 

Maybe its on the back of a mining boom (thats not news to anyone) or maybe its just the right time for Readify but what a great time for Readify to launch a Perth office.  Andy Lamb has hit the ground running and already it seems Readify is making a name for itself locally.  We have scheduled a mini series of our 'ever popular on the East coast' RDN series - starting with:

 

 

Seriously, if you have not seen these guys present you've really missed out.  I'm even going to fly over for it - so see you there  :)