Florida Business Incubation Association partners in the DEMO FALL 2012 event in Santa Clara.

Orlando, Fla., -- The Florida Business Incubation Association was invited to be a partner organization for the DEMO FALL 2012 event. The DEMO in Santa Clara Oct. 1-3 will showcase 70 of the best and brightest companies demonstrating their products for the first time. Some will be companies you’ve already heard of, others will be startups, but all of the tech companies will be new and dynamic. For those unfamiliar with DEMO, it’s where companies like Netscape, Salesforce, TiVo, VMWare, and E-Trade all got their start. More recent DEMO alumni include Fusion-io (which went public last year and has a market cap of $3 billion) and SuccessFactors (acquired for $3.4 billion in February). Dr. Thomas O’Neal, president of the Florida Business Incubation Association, said he is thrilled to be a partner from Florida and assist in an event for entrepreneurs. “We should do everything in our power to support entrepreneurs here in the US. It will benefit everyone, and hopefully we will start seeing more cooperation among different programs like this occurring across US in the future,” Dr. O’Neal said. More info regarding DEMO Fall 2012 is found at www.demo.com About the Florida Business Incubation Association (FBIA) Since its founding in 1998, the Florida Business Incubation Association has held bi-annual statewide meetings and been a unified voice for all the Florida incubators. FBIA plays an integral role in developing and/or identifying programs that help provide greater service to incubator clients. FBIA teams up annually with the National Business Incubation Association (NBIA) to award conference scholarship opportunities to Florida incubation professionals. Please visit FBIA on www.fbiaonline.org or on Facebook on www.facebook.com/FLBIA