January
January 19: Book presentation "Hoek Af"
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Our Founder Bruno Lowagie was featured in "Hoek Af" a book published about entrepreneurs in Belgium. |
February
February 2: European Business Awards, National Champions Benelux, Brussels
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iText was awarded the National Public Champion Award for Belgium, thanks to a popular vote. Thank-you for voting! |
February 18: Tech Startup Day, Brussels
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iText participated in Tech Startup Day, Brussels and Bruno, per usual, pitched new ideas for iText. |
February 22-25: Mobile World Congress, Barcelona
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This year, iText was present at the Mobile World Congress for the first time. It was also the first event where iText shared a booth with Hancom and Thinkfree. |
February 24 Inc 5000 Europe ranking 1308
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We are proud to rank #1308 in the Inc. 5000 Europe for 2016. |
March
March 11-19: SXSW, Austin, TX
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iText joined Startups.be and the Belgian delegation at SXSW and took Austin by storm. |
April
April 6-7 Documation
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We joined other document enthusiasts at Documation in Paris. |
April 11: New CEO- Stephan Engelen joins iText
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We welcomed Stephan to the iText team! |
April 21 iText 7 Launch
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We proudly launched the iText 7 platform, a re-write of our popular iText 5 code- with more modular structure and add-on options to meet your needs, flexibly. |
April 26-29: GIDS, Bangalore
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Some of our team traveled to India for the Great Indian Developers Summit (GIDS) and had a great time talking about iText 7 and Open Source PDF. |
May
May 11-13: Japan IT-week
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Next our APAC team took on Japan IT week, and had a great time getting into the IT scene. |
May 12: Entrepreneur of the Year Award
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We always knew our Founder, Bruno was special - but it's nice to know others agree. He was nominated "Entrepreneur of the Year" in Belgium. |
May 16-20: ISO Meeting Ghent
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Part of our commitment to continuous innovation in the PDF space is being a part of the ISO Committee. This May, iText hosted the ISO Committee in Ghent to talk about PDF 2.0 and more. |
May 10-12 Document Strategy Forum, Chicago
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Our team ventured to the windy city for DSF 2016. We had great conversations about ways iText can help with many large organizations' document strategy. |
May 16-19 OSCON Austin
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We said "howdy" to the folks in Austin at OSCON, talking about open source PDF, iText 7 and our minifigs. |
June
May 31 - June 3: Communicasia
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At Communicasia, we teamed up with our partner MDS to present a joint booth - with great success. |
June 13-15: PDF Days Berlin
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In June we joined our fellow PDF enthusiasts at PDF Day Berlin to talk about iText and the newest PDF standards. |
June 16-17: European Business Awards, National Public Champion, Milan
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We were acknowledged for winning the National Public Champion: Entrepreneur of the year at their Gala in Milan. |
June 20 American Business Awards, Bronze Stevie
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We were honored with an American Business award - a Bronze Stevie for "Most Innovative Tech Company of the Year" at the ABA gala in NYC. |
June 29: Flanders Investment & Trade: Export Lion
| We were nominated as an "Export Lion" by Flanders trade and investment. Meaning that we were considered in the top 3 companies, under 50 employees in Flanders. That is pretty cool. |
July
Apparently we all went on vacation in July? I guess one month without a crazy travel schedule is good for us.
August
August 2-3: Technology in Government, Australia
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We headed down under for Australia's Technology in Government event. |
September
September 18-22: JavaOne
We headed back to San Francisco for another great year at JavaOne. We had a blast talking to developers about their projects and taking lots of pictures like the tourists we are.
September 26-28: COEX Seoul - Soft Wave
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We headed to South Korea for COEX Seoul- Soft Wave and set up shop to talk iText. |
October
October 17-19 OSCON London
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Our trip to jolly old London was well worth it to talk shop with our UK Open Source PDF users. |
October 21 International Business Awards, Rome event (Silver Stevie)
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iText was awarded a silver stevie award for "Most Innovative Company of the Year" in Europe. |
October 21-22: Open Source India Days, Bangalore
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We really liked the energy of the OSI Days, Bangalore. Bruno gave a talk on "Open Source, an introduction to IP and legal" that was really well received. |
November
November 7-11: Devoxx
| The Dev team headed over to Devoxx, BE and two of our own FILLED AN ENTIRE ROOM for their talk "Oops, I broke my API". They even were asked to repeat the talk for another event next year. |
November 16: Failing Forward
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Our own Bruno Lowagie presented the trials and successes of building iText, if you are fluent in Dutch, here is the video ONTMOET ROLMODEL: BRUNO LOWAGIE . |
November 16: #40 in Deloitte's Fast 50
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For the fourth year in a row, iText was nominated as one of the 50 fastest growing companies in Belgium. We won in 2014 and came in 2nd place in 2015, but this year we ranked #40 with 109% turnover. |
November 25: PDF Day Australia
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Back in Oz we teamed up with our partner MDS again for the first ever PDF Day in Australia. Our own Raf Hens had a talk about accessibility, following on the show's theme this year. |
November 28-December 2: ISO Committee meeting, Sydney
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As a member of the ISO Committee, we stayed in Sydney after PDF Day, Australia to talk about PDF 2.0. |
November 28-December 2: AWS Re:Invent, Las Vegas
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No year is complete without a trip to Vegas, right? We made it near the end of the year for AWS Re:Invent. A great way to end our trade show year. |
December
December 15
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| All three of our offices wish you and yours a memorable new year. We are looking forward to seeing what 2017 will bring for iText and for you. |
