ikordo 'Schedules Time' to Sponsor DEMO 08

PHILADELPHIA and CHIPPENHAM, England, Jan. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- ikordo, the
free online meeting planner that organizes and schedules meetings, will be a
gold sponsor at the DEMO 08 conference, to be held from January 28th - 30th
2008 in Palm Desert, CA at the JW Marriott Resort and Spa. DEMO is the
premier launch venue for new products, technologies and companies. As a young
technology company in the Web 2.0 arena, ikordo selected DEMO as a key venue
to showcase its online scheduling service. Delegates at the conference will
have the opportunity to schedule their onsite or follow up meetings by
visiting the ikordo meeting pod in the Sponsor Networking Lounge.
"As the collaborative workspace evolves and new and emerging technologies
make effective team collaboration more of a reality, ikordo strives to perfect
the task of scheduling meetings, which is extremely important to the flow of
productivity in a department or organization," said Jim Cook, CEO at ikordo.
"Individuals and organizations feel the pain of scheduling on a daily basis.
Shared calendars and server-based calendar and scheduling systems are hindered
by cross-organizational limits as well as the inevitable reality that
organizing a meeting is a human process. Our goal for ikordo is to make
people's lives easier by attacking the problem of scheduling from a totally
different approach that doesn't require different working behaviors," added
Jim.
Meeting organizers simply provide ikordo with details of their meeting,
together with a window of time in which the meeting must be held. ikordo then
acts like a virtual assistant by sending out email invites and by interpreting
plain English responses via natural language technology, building up a picture
of each person's availability. It then negotiates with each attendee until a
meeting time is agreed. ikordo's approach is unique in that work habits do
not have to change, and attendees are not forced to log-in, visit a Web site
or register for the service.
"We are excited about the opportunity to sponsor DEMO and to allow
attendees to get a first hand look at ikordo by trying it out at our meeting
pod," concluded Jim.
About ikordo
ikordo was conceived by IT industry entrepreneur Jim Cook. Jim recognized
that meetings are an essential part of modern business life, but that
arranging them is increasingly becoming an arduous task, sometimes taking
hours and ultimately hindering productivity.
The process of negotiation to find a time and date that fits with
everyone's schedule requires meticulous planning and, more often than not, the
power of persuasion. ikordo was developed to make scheduling and organizing
meetings simpler to allow teams to focus on productivity. ikordo does not
require software downloads or shared calendars. It uses Natural Language
technology to communicate and negotiate with attendees via email in plain
English to find a convenient time.
ikordo is owned and operated by Volutio Ltd. Volutio is a privately held
company based in Chippenham, UK and is funded by UK based investors, Eden
Ventures.
About DEMO
Produced by Network World Events and Executive Forums, the semi-annual
DEMO conferences focus on emerging technologies and new products, which are
hand-selected from across the spectrum of the technology marketplace. The DEMO
conferences have earned their reputation for consistently identifying
tomorrow's cutting-edge technologies, and have served as launch pad events for
companies such as Palm, E*Trade, Handspring, and U.S. Robotics, helping them
to secure venture funding, establish critical business relationships, and
influence early adopters. Each DEMO conference features approximately 70 new
companies, products and technologies. For more information, visit
www.demo.com.

You can learn more about DEMO here:
http://www.demo.com/conferences/demo08/index.php

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Kathleen Tremblay, +1-267-255-4142, kathleen.tremblay@ikordo.com, for ikordo