| 0:00:15 | thank you, Michael |
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| 0:00:18 | awesome space, really good to be here |
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| 0:00:21 | I wish to tell you a short story about my company, about my project |
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| 0:00:27 | so at the beginning there was an idea and we were motivated, we were inspired |
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| 0:00:32 | but we didn't have a clue what kind of business are we starting |
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| 0:00:35 | my name is Zbynek and I'm a founder of project called GINA. By the way, |
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| 0:00:40 | I'm the guy in the middle. I just wanted to make sure that you are |
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| 0:00:43 | all going to make the right association with my name would you state you might? |
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| 0:00:48 | and |
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| 0:00:50 | this is the GINA project. Our motivation at the beginning was to create a tool |
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| 0:00:55 | for mission control, authentical communication for the people walking in the field, for professionals |
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| 0:01:01 | and this tool was intended for rescuers, for example. We started to work on this |
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| 0:01:06 | project in late two thousand and nine. And you may remember that in two thousand |
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| 0:01:12 | ten in January there was a huge earthquake in Haiti |
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| 0:01:16 | this earthquake, this event was really meaningful to us and influenced the project a lot. |
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| 0:01:22 | We realised that what we are doing, actually, what we are working on, can make |
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| 0:01:26 | a huge difference in this world and it can help to save more lives of |
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| 0:01:31 | people. So we started to work with rescuers, with professionals hailing to Haiti, actually, to |
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| 0:01:36 | rescue mission |
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| 0:01:37 | and we managed to provide them with first version of GINA system only a few |
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| 0:01:43 | weeks after the earthquake |
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| 0:01:48 | we realised that in that time the project is getting to be something more... more |
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| 0:01:53 | serious than just a student project. But but we were fortunate there was programs and |
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| 0:01:59 | competitions like Imagine Cup. Imagine Cup gave us great inspiration to solve the whole tons |
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| 0:02:04 | of problems. Starcube gave us knowledge how to establish a company, how to create a |
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| 0:02:10 | business plan. It was really great, because we didn't have an idea about that, we |
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| 0:02:14 | are just technicians and IT guys who |
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| 0:02:17 | and JIC of course, the incubation program, we are proud to be part of it. |
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| 0:02:23 | This program has given us the space to grow |
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| 0:02:30 | the GINA is company... GINA is a company which is right now at age one |
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| 0:02:36 | and half year I'd say and during this year we managed to create several projects |
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| 0:02:41 | which |
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| 0:02:42 | are heading toward by meaning. Such projects are: Cholera in Haiti dot com, Haiti Situation |
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| 0:02:47 | dot com. This projects often refers to some crisis situation in the world. We also |
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| 0:02:52 | managed to create and establish representations in |
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| 0:02:56 | such countries like Haiti, Japan and quite recently, even in Afganistan |
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| 0:03:03 | first year of our existence we turned the GINA from this GIROADS project into a |
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| 0:03:08 | living company and I'm really happy that after first years of existence we became a |
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| 0:03:12 | profitable company we have acceptation of any external investment and this year we are projecting |
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| 0:03:19 | and trying to reach the turnover counting tens of millions czech crowns |
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| 0:03:27 | so |
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| 0:03:30 | what... what Starcube meant for me? Starcube was really great to our business. It really |
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| 0:03:37 | helped us to go and now we can say that we are here for anyone |
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| 0:03:41 | who needs to map the situation, who needs to coordinate the people in the field |
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| 0:03:45 | with great accuracy |
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| 0:03:47 | who needs to improve and increase the safety of staff in the field |
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| 0:03:52 | and here we are, GINA software |
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| 0:03:55 | thank you for your attention |
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