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Dec 11 & 12 : LeWeb3 Program

Yet another great last minute addition to the program of LeWeb3 - now merely a week away! It is with great pleasure we announce a session on December 12 with Delia Cohen, Executive Director of the groundbreaking event - Pangea Day.

And of course, other huge news is that Janus Friis will be making a very rare on-stage appearance at LeWeb3 2007!

And we can't forget another superb addition - the renowned Doc Searls - who will take to the LeWeb3 stage, also on December 12!

So make sure you plan your schedule to stay through the very end of LeWeb3 so you don't miss these very special conversations.

Now to the program ...

STARTUP DOCK - DECEMBER 11&12 2007  

On December 11 - StartUp Competition

 On December 12 - The Workshop Track

PLENARY DOCK - DECEMBER 11, 2007  

08h30 - 08h40   
Welcome to the Evolution/Revolution - Loic Le Meur

08h40 - 09h25    
Web 2.0 - The Dark Side
Dan Rose - Facebook
Laurent Haug - LIFT Conference (moderator)
Michel Jaccard - attorney
Jaewoong Lee - Daum Communications 
Chris Alden - SixApart

09h25 - 09h40
Persistent communication and its impact on being social:
Evan Williams - Twitter/Obvious  

09h40 - 10h00    
Making your information social
Kevin Rose - DIGG in conversation with Sarah Lacy - Author

10h00 - 10h20
Why books and school lectures still exist
Hans Rosling

10h20 - 11h00    Coffee Break 

11h00 - 11h20 
What is social about design
Philippe Starck

11h20 - 11h50   
The Internet's impact on design
Mattias Luefkens - World Economic Forum (moderator)
Brent Hoberman - mydeco
Rafi Haladjan - Nabaztag
Iris Ben David - StyleShake.com 

11h50 - 12h05
Technology's impact on corporate culture
Nelson Mattos - Google

12h05 - 12h20
Storytelling and technology - evolution of society
June Cohen - TED Conference

12h20 - 12h35
Personalization 2.0 ...3.0 ... the projection of personal image
Jonathan Medved - Vringo

12h35 - 14h30    Lunch

14h30 - 14h55   
Social Media: Is it killing our society ?
Eric Archambeau - Wellington Partners (moderator)
Andrew Keen - Author
Emily Bell - The Guardian

14h55 - 15h40   
Bringing social to software: Radical change is coming. Are we ready ?
Marc Canter - Broadband Mechanics (moderator)
Tariq Krim - Netvibes
Hans Peter Brondmo - Plum
Patrick Chanezon - Google
Susan Kish - European Energy Forum

15h40 - 16h00   
Beyond compression and access to discovery - the new frontier
Professor Karlheinz Brandenburg - Fraunhofer Society

16h00 - 16h35
A Music 2.0 Debate: Where do we go from here?
Ralph Simon - Mobile Entertainment Forum/Americas (moderator)
Eric Baptiste - CISAC
Gerd Leonard - The Media Futurist

16h35 - 17h20  Coffee break

17h20 - 17h30
Who needs musicians?
Tal Chalozin - Garage Geeks ... and a special guest

17h30 - 17h55
Digitized Worlds
Joi Ito - Neoteny

17h55 - 18h30
A Debate: Casual vs. Serious Games
Jeff Clavier - SoftTechVC (moderator)
Mathieu Nouzareth - Boonty/Cafe.com
Hubert Thiblot - Curse

18h30 - 18h45
Disruption and Innovation
Hugh Macleod - Gaping Void

18h45 - 19h30
Is there reality to a virtual world economy?
Sasha Frieze - Virtual Worlds Forum (moderator)
Clay Shirky - New York University
Marc Samwer - European Founders Fund
Mattias Miksche - Stardoll

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PLENARY DOCK - DECEMBER 12, 2007  

08h30 - 08h40   
Opening Remarks
Loic Le Meur

08h40 – 08h55
Mobility, Multimedia and the Consumer's Impact
Ari Virtanen – Nokia

08h55 – 09h30
Making things personal...investing
Danny Rimer - Index Ventures (moderator)
Mark Read - WPP
Oliver Jung - Angel Investor
Jean-David Chamboredon - 3i
Morten Lund – Angel Investor

09h30 - 09h45
Why we need to blow things up
Dan Dubno

09h45 – 10h00
Why Enterprise 2.0...isn't
JP Rangaswami - British Telecom

10h00 – 10h45
Defining today's innovation: A recap of the start-up competition
Cathy Brooks - LeWeb3 Content Curator (moderator) and including our start-up judges:

• Scott Rafer - Lookery
• Mark Oiknine – 3i
• Julien Codorniou – Microsoft
• Eric Archambeau – Wellington Partners
• Andreas Schlenker – Partech International
• Ouriel Ohayon – Lightspeed Gemini Internet Lab
• Thomas Crampton – Journalist
• Rodrigo Sepulveda – Vpod.TV
• Simon Levene – Accel Partners
• Martin Duval – Orange
• Ola Ahlvarsson – Result
• Steffi Czerny – Hubert Burda Media/DLD
• Erik Stuart – eBay
• Mattias Ljungman – Atomico Investments
• Alex Vieux – Red Herring
• Saul Klein – Index Ventures/SeedCamp
• Cecile Moulard – Badiliz
• Guillaume Buffet – Singapour
• Olivier Abecassis – TF1
• Om Malik - GigaOM
• Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet – PDG PriceMinister
• Yoav Andrew Leitersdorf –YL Ventures
• Michael Arrington – TechCrunch
• Christian Lindholm – Fjord
• Frederic Court – Advent Ventures

10h45 – 11h00
Evolving innovation
Dave Winer - Scripting News; In conversation with Loic Le Meur

11h00 - 11h40    Coffee Break

11h40 - 11h55
Evolving entrepreneurship
Martin Varsavsky – Fon; In conversation with Loic Le Meur

11h55 - 12h15
Internet pollution and how to stop it
Jason Calacanis - Mahalo

12h15 – 12h30
Interface Design and user Experience
Shahram Izadi – Microsoft Research

12h30 – 12h45
New and improved biological methods for data transfer
Yossi Vardi

12h45 - 13h00
Turning the tables: What happens when the users are in charge
Doc Searls

13h00 – 14h45    LUNCH

14h45 - 15h45
Television Reborn
Jeff Pulver - Pulver.com (moderator)
Nir Ofir - BlogTV
Robert Scoble – PodTech
Cyrille  de Lasteyrie "Vin-Vin" - Seesmic

15h45 – 16h15
Rattling the Cage - a conversation with a disruptive entrepreneur
Janus Friis - Joost 

16h15 - 16h35
An environmental rift - where technology fits in
Tom Raftery

16h35 – 16h50
A generational rift - What's happening with technology leadership?
David Weinberger - Author

16h50 – 17h00
A Big Idea: Connecting the world through film
Delia Cohen - Pangea Day

17h00 - 17h45
Social networks tackling social issues - a session in partnership with UNHCR
Craig Johnstone - The UN Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees
LeWe3 Digital Champions and some very special guests.

Dec 12 - StartUp Dock Program : Workshop track

Since new posts have gone up about the main stage program and the start-up competition judges, it couldn't hurt to provide the final program update for the track of sessions taking place on the start-up stage on day two of LeWeb3 2007.

Without further ado, here it is!

Competition Stage Panel Sessions -€“ December 12, 2007

08h45 - 09h30
The technology that makes it all work - a showcase of Google Maps & Analytics
Jean-Francois Wassong - Google
Alan Boydell - Google

09h30 -€“ 09h50
The Digital Society - Towards Participatory Culture
Nimrod Kozlowski - PLYMedia

09h50 -€“ 10h10
Digital Media: The Future, a workshop discussion
Gerd Leonard - Media Futurist

10h10 -€“ 10h55
Evolution of social networks -€“ how old school is becoming new
Moderator: Jeff Clavier - SoftTechVC
Alexander Diehl - BMW
Lisa Sounio - Dopplr
Marko Ahtisaari - Blyk

10h55 -€“ 11h10
Virtual worlds: Real infrastructure
Gilbert Reveillion - PMC LaSer

11h10 -€“ 12h00
Breaking the status quo - building a business designed for disruption
Moderator: Jeff Clavier - SoftTechVC
Tim von Torne - Cellity
Jan Andresen - Weblin
Daniel Ek - Spotify
Zvi Schreiber - G.ho.st

12h00 -€“ 12h15
User generated content - an asset to drive disruptive technology adoption
Christophe Camborde - Steek
Thierry Mayette - Orange
Olivier du Besset - Neuf Cegetel

12h15 - 12h30
The small screen goes big time - television evolved
Jeff Pulver - Pulver.com

12h30€ - 13h00 
Monetization in the Web 2.0 world
Moderator: Ouriel Ohayon
Frederic Montagnon -€“ Nomao
Jeremie Berrebi - Zlio

13h00 -€“ 14h30     LUNCH

14h30 -€“ 15h30
Mobile and web convergence
Moderator: Ouriel Ohayon
Scott Beaumont - RefreshMobile
David Marcus - EchoVox
Daniel Appelquist - Vodafone
Florent Pitoun - Webwag
Jean-Louis Constanza - Orange

15h30 - 16h00
Citywide Wi-Fi - The Challenge and the Promise
Moderator: Esme Vos - MuniWireless
Philippe Llau - TDF France
Jean-Bernard Magescas - FON France

16h00 - 16h30
Open talk about OpenSocial - presented by Google and some of their partners
Eric Tholomé - Google (moderator)
Marc Mayor - MySpace
Eric Didier - Viadeo

LeWeb3 - a little history and an overview

In my wanderings of Silicon Valley events, there's a fellow whose path I've crossed many times.  After our last connection at the most recent STIRR event, he asked if we could sit down to do an interview for his video podcast about the evolution of media (specifically the blogging/journalism dynamic). So yesterday afternoon he and I sat down to chat.

What, you might ask, does this have to do with LeWeb3? Good question.

In the time between our agreeing to talk and actually sitting down this fellow, Zennie Abraham, had done a bit of digging and found out about my work with LeWeb3. So after a few minutes of chat about media we dove into a deep conversation about LeWeb3 - primarily focusing on the event's history and talking a bit about this year's event.

So as the calendar days whip quickly towards this year's event on December 11 and 12, I wanted to share this little history lesson for those of you who might not know from whence this great event came.

 

LeWeb3 2007 - Final workshop track program!

We've had a few minor adjustments to our second track of sessions for the second day of LeWeb3 2007. These sessions will take place on December 12 on the same stage as the start-up competition, which will have taken place the previous day.

Competition Stage Panel Sessions -€“ December 12, 2007

08h45 - 09h30
The technology that makes it all work - a product showcase by Google

09h30 -€“ 09h50
The Digital Society - Towards Participatory Culture
Nimrod Kozlowski

09h50 -€“ 10h10
Digital Media: The Future, a workshop discussion
Gerd Leonard - Media Futurist

10h10 -€“ 10h55
Evolution of social networks -€“ how old school is becoming new
Moderator: Jeff Clavier - SoftTechVC
Alexander Diehl - BMW
Lisa Sounio - Dopplr
Marko Ahtisaari - Blyk

10h55 -€“ 11h10
Virtual worlds: Real infrastructure
Gilbert Reveillion - PMC LaSer

11h10 -€“ 12h00
Breaking the status quo - building a business designed for disruption
Moderator: Jeff Clavier - SoftTechVC
Tim von Torne - Cellity
Jan Andresen - Weblin
Daniel Ek - Spotify
Zvi Schreiber - G.ho.st

12h00 -€“ 12h15
Now it's personal -“ building a business on the personalization trend
Dan Cohen - Pageflakes 

12h15 - 12h30
The small screen goes big time - television evolved
Jeff Pulver - Pulver.com

12h30€ - 13h30 
Monetization in the Web 2.0 world
Moderator: Ouriel Ohayon 
Frederic Montagnon -€“ Nomao
Jeremie Berrebi - Zlio

13h30 -€“ 14h30     LUNCH

14h30 -€“ 15h30
Mobile and web convergence
Moderator: Pending
Scott Beaumont - RefreshMobile
David Marcus - EchoVox
Daniel Appelquist - Vodafone
Franck Poisson - Webwag

15h30 - 16h00
Wireless  - the municipal challenge
Moderator: Esme Vos - MuniWireless
Philippe Llau - TDF France
Jean-Bernard Magescas - FON France

Start-up Competition Contestants Selected!!!

This was hard.

More than 120 companies submitted applications for our competition, and the vast majority were really  good. But there were only 30 slots to offer, so we had to make some tough decisions.

Here's how it worked:

The process began with a review of the applications themselves. Applicants submitting to the competition found that every field was "required". This was done to ensure that we had the same set of data to review for each company. The form asked for background on the company, details about the technology/product and even a field that asked why they felt they deserved to be chosen.

While everyone put text into all the fields (because it was required to submit), there was a strong differentiation among candidates at this first level. Quite a few companies failed to provide the critical details that would allow us to consider the application in any depth, offering merely a few words or a short sentence in explanation and saying nothing whatsoever about what their technology did, what problem they solved and how they were differentiated in the market.

Without complete data it was impossible to consider these companies. That narrowed our list of competitors from about 120 companies to around 65-70 companies.

From there, a number of things were weighed:

• What was the problem the company was trying to solve? Is it a big existing market, a growing market or an emerging market?
• Does the solution the company offers merely echo other solutions on the market or is it truly differentiated?
• If it's in a crowded market, does the company clearly differentiate itself or its product, explaining how they will rise above the noise?
• Do they have a clearly delineated plan for revenue?
• Will they have something they can physically show in a demo?
• Will the company be either announcing itself or launching a brand new product or solution at LeWeb?
• Also in an attempt to give as many companies opportunity as possible, we also considered if the company was one that had participated at LeWeb last year and tried to give a chance to newcomers.
  

As we considered those factors, the list narrowed to 50.

It was at that point we reviewed again whether the company had someone registered for the conference. More than half of them did not. As explained in detail on the application as well as on the various posts we published about the competition, a key requirement for companies in this competition is that to be considered, someone from the company must be registered to attend the conference. There is no charge to enter, but the competition it is only open to registered attendees for LeWeb3.

All 50 of the companies selected at this point were sent an email stating clearly that they had to ensure at least one person from the company was registered to attend. They were asked to reply and provide the name of the person who had been registered (especially if it was different than the name of the contact on the application that had been submitted).  This email gave a deadline for completing that registration.

After the deadline for that registration passed, we reviewed the list again and checked it against registration. A number of companies opted to withdraw from the competition at this point, and others failed to respond or register.

This narrowed our list to 38 companies for consideration. 

We then reviewed the balance of market sectors and broke down the final 38 into groups -  B2B/enterprise, video, mobile, consumer - as we wanted to try for a fairly balanced representation across categories. Going back through the applications again, we considered the companies against each other in each of the categories and some of the companies slipped lower on the list against their category peers. We also at that point reviewed the geographic balance as we wanted to ensure representation from many countries.

After much deliberation and review, we narrowed the list further, and have now come to our final list of 30 competitors for the 2007 LeWeb3 Start-up Competition.

Thanks to all who submitted and congratulations to our finalists.

The selected companies will be contacted separately with details about the criteria for their presentations, explanations of the process, and information about a pre-conference rehearsal day that will hosted by one of our sponsors on December 10.

With that, we present to you, this year's competing class and the schedule for presentations:

Start-up Competition Schedule - December 11, 2007
11:00 - 11:10    Zyb
11:10 - 11:14    Wichro
11:20 - 11:30    Erepublik
11:30 - 11:40    Yooplus
11:40 - 11:50    RTGI
11:50 - 12:00    Yoowalk

12:30 - 12:40    Siteheart (Walk2Web)
12:40 - 12:50    Creative Ions
12:50 - 13:00    Semingo
13:00 - 13:10    Floobs
13:10 - 13:20    Adpay.tv
13:20 - 13:30    PLYMedia
13:30 - 13:40    Screenvision
13:40 - 13:50    SplitGames
13:50 - 14:00    CTXGames

14:30 - 14:40    LouderVoice
14:40 - 14:50    WooMe
14:50 - 15:00    WaveStorm
15:00 - 15:10    Wixi
15:10 - 15:20    Zoomorama
15:20 - 15:30    Alenty
15:30 - 15:40    DIGICorp
15:40 - 15:50    Holistis
15:50 - 16:00    CodaSystem

16:30 - 16:40    Babelgom
16:40 - 16:50    Caleido
16:50 - 17:00    eXo Platform
17:00 - 17:10    G.ho.st
17:10 - 17:20    BlueKiwi
17:20 - 17:30    SaleMiner

Start-up Competition Contestants to be announced later this week

The good news is that we got some great applications.

The bad news is that it's taking us a touch longer than anticipated to narrow the field.

We will have our list posted in a day or so and appreciate your patience!

LeWeb3 2007 - Workshop session track added!

Per the previous post, we had such great response to the program with much interest in additional subjects and topics that we have developed a second track of sessions for day two of LeWeb3.

The sessions outlined below will take place on the Startathalon Stage at LeWeb3 2007 on December 12. Unlike the main stage program, these sessions are a bit longer in duration and will allow for Q&A with the audience.

Startathalon Stage Workshop Sessions at LeWeb3
December 12, 2007

09h30 – 10h00
Technology and Democracy
Nimrod Kozlowski

10h00 – 10h30
Digital Media: The Future, a workshop discussion
Gerd Leonhard – The Media Futurist

10h30 – 11h15
Monetization in the Web 2.0 world
Moderator – Ouriel Ohayon
Pierre Chappaz
Pascal Rossini – AdsClick
Frederic Montagnon - Nomao

11h15 – 11h45
Virtual worlds: Building a real infrastructure
Gilbert Revillion - PCMC at LaSer

11h45 – 12h45
Breaking the status quo – building a business designed for disruption
Moderator – Jeff Clavier
Cellity – Tim von Torne CEO
Weblin - Jan Andresen: CEO
Spotify - Daniel Ek:  Co-founder
G.ho.st – Zvi Schreiber

12h45 – 13h15
Municipal wireless: What's taking so long?
Moderator– Pending
Esme Vos – MuniWireless
Philippe Llau - TDF France
Jean-Bernard Magescas - FON France

13h15– 14h15 
Mobile and web convergence
Moderator – Ferhan Cook – any screen productions
RefreshMobile - speaker TBD
EchoVox – David Marcus
Daniel Appelquist - Vodafone
Webwag – Franck Poisson, Co-founder & CEO

14h30 – 15h15
Now it’s personal – building a business on the personalization trend
Moderator: Ouriel Ohayon
Jonathan Medved, Vringo
Dan Cohen, Pageflakes

Start-up application process closed!

A quick note to let you all know that the start-up competition deadline has now officially passed and we are no longer accepting applications.

In the next week we'll be reviewing applications and if there are any questions or we need further information from you we'll be in touch.

We intend to screen the applications and make our final selection to be announced on November 5.

Thanks to all of the great companies that took the time to submit their companies and products for consideration ... We have a GREAT pool of candidates. It may sound cheesy to say, but even on a brief first read, you're all winners and we only regret that there's only room for 30 of you.

Important update on start-up competition

As we near our deadline for the start-up competition applications, there's a very important reminder for all companies that have submitted. In order for your company's application to be considered, at least one person from your company must be registered to attend the conference.

Companies whose applications are submitted and who do not have a registered attendee will not be considered.

The form to register an attendee for the conference is here.

Bringing our theme to life - version 2 of the LeWeb3 2007 conference program

Stuffing a great volume of content into two mere days is a daunting task. Invariably subjects get left out in the programming process, and so we have done our best to compile a wide range of topics, perspectives and voices for this year's conference.

It bears mentioning that this is not the final version of our program. Some sessions will change, a few may shift times, a couple may drop off and there is certainly room to add some more. So if there are session topics or speakers you have mind that fit within our theme ("Evolution in Technology ... Revolution in Behavior") by all means, send them along.

We also are still coordinating with several speakers for sessions that, because they are still only partially baked, have been left off the program at this stage. But from here on out things will start moving fast and furious so fasten your seat belts and get ready for rapid acceleration with updates on the program - including audio and video interviews with some of our speakers - as well as details of our evolving start-up competition.

With that, I give you version 2 of our conference program for LeWeb3 2007.


DECEMBER 11, 2007  

08h30 - 08h45   
Welcome to the Evolution/Revolution - Loic Le Meur

08h45 - 09h15    
The global village reconstructed: Evolution of social networks and changes behavior
Matt Cohler - Facebook

09h15 - 10h00    
Web 2.0 - The Dark Side
Laurent Haug - LIFT Conference (moderator)
Michel Jaccard - attorney
Jaewoong Lee - Daum Communications
Joanna Shields - Bebo

10h00 - 10h30    
Making your information social
Kevin Rose - DIGG in conversation with Sarah Lacy - Author

10h30 - 11h15    Coffee Break 

11h15 - 11h45 
What IS social about design
Philippe Stark

11h45 - 12h10   
The Internet's impact on design
Brent Hoberman - MyDeco.com
Rafi Haladjan - Nabaztag
additional speakers TBD

12h15 - 14h30    Lunch

14h30 - 15h00   
Social Media: Is it killing our society ?
Andrew Keen - Author
Emily Bell - The Guardian

15h00 - 15h45   
Bringing social to software: Radical change is coming. Are we ready ?
Marc Canter - Broadband Mechanics (moderator)
Tariq Krim - Netvibes
Hans Peter Brondmo - Plum
Patrick Chanezon - Google
additional speakers TBD

15h45 - 16h00   
Ripping a new music standard
Professor Karlheinz Brandenburg - Fraunhofer Society

16h00 - 16h30   
Music 2.0: Where do we go from here?
Ralph Simon - Chairman Emeritus & Founder Mobile Entertainment Forum - Americas (moderator)
Eric Bauptiste - CISAC
Gerd Leonhard - Media Futurist

16h30 - 16h45   
Who needs musicians ?
Tal Choizen - Garage Geeks ... and a special guest

16h45 - 17h30    Coffee Break  

17h30 - 18h00  
Digitized Worlds
Joi Ito

18h00 - 18h30   
Casual vs. Serious Games
Mathieu Nouzareth - Boonty/Cafe.com
Hubert Thieblot - Cursed

18h30 - 19h15   
Is there reality to a virtual world economy ?
Sasha Frieze - Virtual Worlds Forum (moderator)
Clay Shirky - NYU
Marc Samwer -  European Founders Fund
Mattias Miksche - Stardoll
additional speakers TBD

LeWeb3 Party ....with

 

DECEMBER 12, 2007

09h00 - 09h10   
Opening remarks  - Loic Le Meur

09h10 - 09h30   
Things that go bang
Dan Dubno

09h30 - 10h15   
Making things personal ... investing
Danny Rimer - Index Ventures (moderator)
Mark Read - WPP
Oliver Jung - Angel Investor
Jean David Chamboredon - 3i

10h15 - 11h15    
What is innovative today ?
The Start-up Competition judges talk about the contest and we reveal the winners   
Start-up judges and top three companies from the competition

11h15 - 12h00    Coffee Break  

12h00 - 12h15    
Internet pollution and how to stop it
Jason Calacanis - Mahalo

12h15 - 12h30    
Personalization 2.0 ...3.0 ... the projection of personal image
Jonathan Medved - Vringo

12h30 - 13h00   
Taking flight: Personalized travel in the air
Esther Dyson in conversation with Vern Raeburn, Eclipse Aviation

13h00 - 14h30    Lunch   

14h30 - 14h50   
Digital Media: The future
Gerd Leonhard - Media Futurist

14h50 - 15h30    
TV Reborn
Jeff Pulver - Pulver Media (moderator)
Benjamin Bejbaum - Daily Motion
Nir Ofir - BlogTV
Joost (speaker TBD)

15h30 - 16h00   
Rattling the Cage
a conversation with a disruptive entrepreneur
Joost (speaker TBD)

16h00 - 16h20   
An environmental riff - where technology fits in
Tom Raftery

16h20 - 16h40   
Technology and Democracy - social behavior in social networks
David Weinberger - author

16h40 - 17h30   
Social networks tackling social issues - a session in partnership with UNHCR   
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the LeWe3 Digital Champions and some very special guests