Visit The Next Web for free!

I just heard about a great initiative developed by Erwin Blom and Arne Hulstein in the Netherlands; if you are a start-up and you want to visit The Next Web, a leading Internet industry conference in Europe, you can get sponsored if you send in a short (3 minute) video clip explaining why you think you deserve to be funded. They are now raising funds and have raised 3500 Euro in a matter of days. This amount will be matched by The Next Web people so it looks like at least 10 people will be able to attend this event for free. What a great idea. Read all about it here:

Of course, Conference Bay offers the opportunity to make a bid for a seat at conferences such as these, and we are normally able to get good discounts as well (40-50% off is the average) but I love this initiative as it is so simple and targetted. We will certainly start working on a short video to see if we can get sponsorship to visit The Next Web, we’ll need it because our flight to Europe will already be quite expensive…

Conference Bay goes global with new look!

The long wait is over! Conference Bay has launched a new website to celebrate the fact that we will from now on list conferences worldwide. In the first months of our existence we focused on Asia Pacific, mainly to test the concept and improve the website further, but we have received so many requests from places like the US, Europe and the Middle East that we have opened up completely. The number of conferences on our site is now increasing rapidly. This gives our customers more choice and helps Conference Bay live up to our promise to provide a complete high quality overview of conferences worldwide.

The bidding for conferences is now also well under way. People are starting to realise that making a bid for a conference is a great way to save money and organisers are delighted to sell some additional seats they otherwise would not have sold.

We have started to get noticed by some influential blogs out there; Killer Startups is one of them. Click on the button below to vote for us so that we can become ’startup of the week’ on this site.

Please keep sending us your feedback and comments. We know that there is still a lot we can add to the site to make it even better and we always try to act quickly on suggestions we receive. If you have not already done so, please register with us so that we can keep you up to date on new developments on our site.

Stay tuned for more soon!