DEMO will kick off its spring conference next week in Palm Springs, Calif. The conference is one of the leading gatherings of cutting-edge startups.

Next week, Matt Marshall, founder of VentureBeat, will be sharing the stage with Chris Shipley, DEMO's long-time executive director. Marshall will be taking over the tech conference at the end of this year. 

Here's a list of the startups that will be attending. 

7 Billion People
Always Innovating
AppZero
Asurion Mobile Applications
Avaak
BitGravity
bluBuzz
Cc:Betty
Citrix Online
Coveroo
deskNET
Document Depository Corp.
eFormic
Ensembli
Evri
Gazaro
HAM-IT
Home-Account
HowSimple
Jadoos
Kutano
Liquid Media
Ontier
Primal Fusion
Promptu Systems
Purewire
Qualcomm MEMS Technologies
Qubes
Silverstone Solutions
Skout
SmartyCard
Symantec
Technicopia
Transformyx
Vokle
Xandros
XMARKS
Zipadi Technologies
Zuora