Who Is Eligible

Any and all application developers worldwide; subject to specific rules).

What’s At Stake

Fame, glory and recognition as Launch Pad finalists at Enterprise 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, November 2-5, 2009; plus a free exhibit station on the show floor for our Four Finalists.

Selection Process

Round 1: Twitter Pitch. E2 staff narrow down the field of entrants to 8 quarter-finalists. Deadline: Sep 25, 2009.

Round 2: Three Minute Video. A round of voting by the E2 community to select our 4 Launch Pad finalists. Deadline: Oct 9, 2009.

Those 4 finalists will be announced in late October and will asked to give a 5 minute demonstrate of their applications live on the keynote stage at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, CA, November 2-5. The winner will be chosen by conference attendees after the four finalists deliver their demo. The full schedule is on the specific rules and key dates page.

Round 2 - Video Submissions

If you’re one of the lucky 8 Quarter-Finalists Chosen by The Enterprise 2.0 Team, please create a 3-minute video showing your enterprise 2.0 tool and upload it to YouTube.

Please note your video must:

Not be longer than 3 minutes
Title your video with your company name and/or product name
Include your company or product description in the video description
Add the following text at the end of your video description: “Please vote for us on Enterprise 2.0 Launch Pad at http://launchpad.e2conf.com/vote-now/“
Be tagged with keywords: Enterprise 2.0 Launch Pad, e2conflp, Enterprise 2.0 and e2conf
Once your video is uploaded, please email the link to the video to the Enterprise 2.0 Launchpad chairperson , Paige Finkelman at pfinkelman@techweb.com
We will notify you when your video has been approved and we will embed the video along with a vote button on the on http://launchpad.e2conf.com/vote-now/ when the public voting begins on October 9th, 2009.

Here are some detailed instructions on how to upload a video to YouTube:

If you do not have a YouTube account, create one here: http://www.youtube.com/create_account
Once you’re logged in you can upload a video here: http://www.youtube.com/my_videos_upload
YouTube accepts video files from most digital cameras and camcorders, and cell phones in the .AVI, .MOV, .WMV, and .MPG file formats.
Your video must be smaller than 2GB to be uploaded