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28 VADABING LUIS VERA United States SHAZUR A SIR A PÉREZ DE LA COBA | HIGINIO PARDO United States VAR SIT Y NEWS NETWORK RYAN VAUGHN United States VadaBing is a SaaS company that is developing an online shopping platform that utilizes a combination of virtual reality and mobile technologies to connect retailers (and their brands) to consumers in order to create a better shopping experience. The company started working with a wine retailer late in 2015 and has recently landed a contract to implement the system with Staples, the leading office supply retailer in the U.S. Shazura is the real-time visual search engine, database-independent platform. Shazura´s disruptive new approach and internationally patented image recognition retrieval algorithms accurately understand images and videos like humans do. Its visual search API finds visually similar and identical images/videos without having previously seen them; that is, without any training, classification, verbal tagging nor database dependency. Shazura's technology adapts to real-time changes (100M+ new images/day) and is 100% scalable. It can be applied to multiple image-driven sectors like online retail (improving up-and cross-selling), stock image providers (using visual search queries), online publishers (monetizing visual content) and social media (identifying visual trends). Varsity News Network (VVN) provides an all-in-one communications suite for high school athletic directors. Their communication platform allows athletic departments to update schedules, scores, and social media with the push of a button and build an engaged community around every team automatically. They are the exclusive provider for almost 10% of the US market — growing daily — with the ability to generate revenue via nearly every aspect of school sports.