Unfortunately, Dialogues Technology did not get a ticket to the global final of InnoVista. We congratulate the winners and thank the organizers.

All in all, our involvement in the development of FansFirst, the innovative ticketing platform, was remarked and rewarded with this participation in the Tata InnoVista European Round that took place in London, on 4th of April.

This nomination, next to NAVTEQ Special Topic Prize award from European Satellite and Navigation Competition in 2010, enforces what Dialogues Technology stands for: innovation, agile development and competent software developers.

Dialogues Technology is in the European final of TATA Innovista 2011 competition. One of the reasons acceding to the final is the innovative and agile approach to the software developed behind Fans First platform.

Bastiaan Walenkamp (follow him on Twitter) together with Timo Mulder (Dialogues Incubator) will be on Monday, 4th of April, in London to present Fans First platform, and Dialogues Technology’s software work for the concept, in front of a jury. The jury will decide which participants go further in the Global Final, which will take place this year in Mumbai.

About InnoVista

This competition is about breakthrough innovations, just in 2010 a number of 1700 innovation teams participated from around the world.

Again, this nomination strengths the business and software innovation capability of our company. Finger crossed on Monday.

Updates to come

A week already passed from out trip to Munich. Dialogues Technology, as you may know already, has won the NAVTEQ Special Topic Prize for a mobile parking application. Our application was picked from a poll of other 82 ideas.

We started on Monday, with a lunch meeting with one of NAVTEQ representatives, where he told us more about NAVTEQ and how our collaboration will proceed. Since it is about an incubation period, it will be very interesting.

Later that evening we attended the award ceremony in the Allerheiligen-Hofkirche. The whole Dialogues Technology team was invited on the stage, in the applause of the all the ceremony attendees. We received a Galileo satellite trophy and diplomas, a truly nice feeling of achievement and recognition of our innovative power.

The evening continued with a state reception in one of the ballrooms of the Munich Residence, where we had the opportunity to meet other participants of the competition, as well persons coming from different backgrounds that were interested in new business ideas.

The following day we visited the Galileo Control Centre and the German Aerospace Center, where Bastiaan and Martin presented the application and gave a live demo (something that impressed the audience since most of the participants came with ideas and concepts).

What we achieved is winning a competition with a bright innovative idea, simple execution and easy to use solution. In the end, this is what we are proud of: a concept & software development company with innovative power.

The European Satellite Navigation Competition is a global network for high-tech regions and international technical experts. The competition stands for getting early development of software applications based on satellite navigation systems.

The award ceremony will take place on the 18th and 19th of October in Munich, Germany. Our directors Marc van Gent and Bastiaan Walenkamp, with our senior developer Martin Koel and business developer Tudor Cobalas will represent Dialogues Technology in Munich.

NAVTEQ Special Topic Prize, the prize that Dialogues Technology won, is concentrated on finding innovative developments in the field of navigation and location-based services for mobile devices.

You can find more information about the competition here.