thank you, Michael
awesome space, really good to be here
I wish to tell you a short story about my company, about my project
so at the beginning there was an idea and we were motivated, we were inspired
but we didn't have a clue what kind of business are we starting
my name is Zbynek and I'm a founder of project called GINA. By the way,
I'm the guy in the middle. I just wanted to make sure that you are
all going to make the right association with my name would you state you might?
and
this is the GINA project. Our motivation at the beginning was to create a tool
for mission control, authentical communication for the people walking in the field, for professionals
and this tool was intended for rescuers, for example. We started to work on this
project in late two thousand and nine. And you may remember that in two thousand
ten in January there was a huge earthquake in Haiti
this earthquake, this event was really meaningful to us and influenced the project a lot.
We realised that what we are doing, actually, what we are working on, can make
a huge difference in this world and it can help to save more lives of
people. So we started to work with rescuers, with professionals hailing to Haiti, actually, to
rescue mission
and we managed to provide them with first version of GINA system only a few
weeks after the earthquake
we realised that in that time the project is getting to be something more... more
serious than just a student project. But but we were fortunate there was programs and
competitions like Imagine Cup. Imagine Cup gave us great inspiration to solve the whole tons
of problems. Starcube gave us knowledge how to establish a company, how to create a
business plan. It was really great, because we didn't have an idea about that, we
are just technicians and IT guys who
and JIC of course, the incubation program, we are proud to be part of it.
This program has given us the space to grow
the GINA is company... GINA is a company which is right now at age one
and half year I'd say and during this year we managed to create several projects
which
are heading toward by meaning. Such projects are: Cholera in Haiti dot com, Haiti Situation
dot com. This projects often refers to some crisis situation in the world. We also
managed to create and establish representations in
such countries like Haiti, Japan and quite recently, even in Afganistan
first year of our existence we turned the GINA from this GIROADS project into a
living company and I'm really happy that after first years of existence we became a
profitable company we have acceptation of any external investment and this year we are projecting
and trying to reach the turnover counting tens of millions czech crowns
so
what... what Starcube meant for me? Starcube was really great to our business. It really
helped us to go and now we can say that we are here for anyone
who needs to map the situation, who needs to coordinate the people in the field
with great accuracy
who needs to improve and increase the safety of staff in the field
and here we are, GINA software
thank you for your attention