In the hopes of attracting investment dollars, this year's event will see 70 companies get 6 minutes each on stage to strut their high-tech stuff.

Here's a quick look at a handful of presenters from A to Z.

But in high tech numbers always come first.

6th Sense Analytics will unveil a data-collection platform for measuring unstructured processes. In its first implementation the technology is targeted at monitoring and measuring software development projects, on or offshore.

With Eclipse as the backbone for most Java development, 6th Sense taps into the infrastructure of all development technologies that plug into Eclipse to give managers an inside look at the status of a project.