Introduction: David Hornik, General Partner, August Capital.
Judges: Andrew Lacy, Senior Vice President & Head of Studios for Disney Mobile, Disney Interactive Media Group (DIMG).
Steve Rubel, SVP, Director of Insights, Edelman Digital.
Nicolas Vanbremeersch, CEO, Spintank.
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Vision
At waze, our vision is to work in cooperation with drivers worldwide to create the world's first live driving map, providing users with the real-time road intelligence they need for better everyday driving.
Our Product
Waze is a social mobile application that enables drivers to build and use real-time road intelligence. The service includes constantly-updated road maps, alerts on traffic and accidents, and data providing users with the fastest route to get to wherever they need to go.
Map and traffic updates are automatically collected and generated as users drive with waze activated, but drivers can also actively report and update other users with what's happening on the road including accident alerts, police traps, weather hazards, cheap gas offers and more. And the best part? Because the map and all of its content is driver-generated, waze is completely free for users.
At waze, we encourage developers to build additional applications for drivers using our live maps. We pro