LeWeb3 program
version 0.56
This program is subject to changes. Please keep sending me (blog@loiclemeur.com) ideas for great speakers, this is very helpful. Speakers with (*) are confirmed.
Startup room: in room B Web 2.0 startups will present their company/business model in short pitches during the two days. Please add your company to the wiki on the startups page if would like to present it at the conference. A selection will be made from this list if we cannot accommodate all startups (a vote or the LeWeb3 advisory board will make the selection). YOU NEED TO BE FULLY REGISTERED AT THE CONFERENCE TO QUALIFY (come on, it's cheap :-).
Main room:
Monday, December 11th
Opening remarks
Loïc Le Meur - Six Apart - France *
Where is web2.0 going ?
Keynote: Michael Arrington - Techcrunch - USA *
Bridging the conversation: how are the tools evolving ?
David Fischer - MySpace.com - UK
Andrew Anker - Vox / Six Apart - USA *
Dave Sifry - Technorati - USA *
Stephanie Booth - Cocomment - Switzerland *
Oleg Tscheltzoff - CitizenBay *
Scott Rafer - MyBlogLog - USA *
Enterprise 2.0
Lee Bryant - Headshift - U.K. *
Ross Mayfield - SocialText - U.S.A. *
European entrepreneurship 2.0: can Europe compete against Silicon Valley ?
Niklas Zennstrom - Skype
Tariq Krim - NetVibes - France *
Brent Hoberman - Last Minute.com - U.K. *
Ola Ahlvarsson - Sweden *
Marc Samwer - European Founders Fund GmbH - co-founder of Jamba - Germany *
Martin Varsavsky - Fon - Spain *
Pierre Chappaz - Wikio - France *
Marc Simoncini - Meetic - France *
Cedric Maloux - AllPeers - Czech Republic *
Will there be a Web 2.0 bubble ?
Jeff Clavier - SoftTech VC - US *
Ouriel Ohayon - TechCrunch - Israel *
Danny Rimer, Index Ventures - U.K. *
David Hornik - August Capital - USA *
Tuesday, December 12th
The death of TV and radio
Gabriel McIntyre - XoloTV *
Anil de Melo - MobuzzTV *
Rodrigo Sepulveda - Vpod.tv *
speaker - YouTube or Google Video
Young generations 2.0: Web & mobile communities
danah boyd - Phd student in SIMS at Berkeley & social media researcher at Yahoo *
Life 2.0: are digital worlds creating a virtual life better than our real life ?
Kevin Slavin - Virtual games in the real world - area/code - USA *
Neville Hobson - VP New Marketing, Crayon, a company headquartered in Second Life - UK *
Claus Dahl - Imity - prototyping real life in Second Life - DK *
Ewan Spence - Combat Cards blog - U.K. *
Ulla-Maaria Mutanen - Thinglink - Finland *
The World 2.0: defining a World Citizen 2.0
Hans Rosling - Best speech ever on globalization (see Hans at TED) - Author of Gapminder - Professor of International Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden * (speech on Monday 14h30)
David Weinberger - blogging our way to democracy - USA *
Thomas Crampton - International Herald Tribune *
JP Rangaswami - BT - U.K.
Mario Asselin - Education 2.0 - Canada *
Marc Canter - Broadbandmechanics - Food 2.0 *
Hugh MacLeod - GapingVoid - Love 2.0 *
Yossi Vardi - Israel *
Hossein Derakhshan - Internet censorship and democracy - Iran *
Lary Brilliant - Google.org - tentative