LeWeb

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RESEARCH AND DEEP DIVES  GigaOM Research will lead three workshops designed to explore the latest trends and assess the potential and viability of these sectors.

We're very happy that now all of LeWeb videos are on Youtube, and you can watch back at home the wisdom, ideas and knowledge shared by our speakers on stage the past. Here's the videos of all our program: 

09h00 Opening Remarks, Geraldine & Loic Le Meur, LeWeb Founders

09h25 Welcome to London!

Moderated by Ben Metcalfe, WP Engine

Brent Hoberman, CoFounder, PROfounders Capital, Chairman, made.com & Founder & Chairman, mydeco.com

Eric Van der Kleij, Head of Level39

Eze Vidra, Head of Campus, Google

09h50 Joanna Shields, Chief Executive, Tech City Investment Organisation & Matt Cowan, Writer & Broadcaster

10h05 Joe Gebbia, CoFounder, Airbnb & Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb

10h30 Douglas Atkin, Head of Community & Estaff Member, Airbnb

10h45 Chad Dickerson, CEO, Etsy & Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb

11h10  Jeremiah Owyang, Partner, Altimeter Group

11h30 Lisa Gansky, Chief Instigator, Mesh Labs

11h50 Julien Smith, CEO, Breather

12h10 Maxwell Bogue, CoFounder & CEO, Wobbleworks LLC, makers of the 3Doodler

14h35 Chris Chabot, Founder & CEO, Snapsation

14h55 Jeremy Stoppelman, Founder & CEO, Yelp & Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb

15h15 Rytis Vitkauskas, CoFounder & CEO, & Viktoras Jucikas, CoFounder & CTO, YPlan

15h25 Leah Busque, Founder & CEO, TaskRabbit & Francine Lacqua, Anchor & EditoratLarge, Bloomberg Television

15h45 Spaces for New Communities

Moderated by: Zach Bell, CoFounder & COO, Share Practice

Audrey Buchanan, Partner, Curator and Director of Digital, Summit

Ingrid Sanders, Founder & CEO, popexpert.com

Natalie Spilger, Partner, Curator and Director of Community Building, Summit

16h15 Boys and their Toys – The Google Glass Phenomenon 

Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb

Robert Scoble, American blogger, technical evangelist, and author Rackspace

Ben Metcalfe, WP Engine

16h35 Nick Halstead, Founder & CTO, DataSift Inc

16h55 Ruling the App Store 

Moderated by: Robin Wauters, European Editor, The Next Web

Julien Codorniou, Head of European Platform Partnerships, Facebook

Erik Lammerding, CoFounder, N3TWORK

Raf Keustermans, CoFounder & CEO, Plumbee

17h25 Tony Espinoza, CEO, Couchsurfing 

17h45 Milo Yiannopoulos, Journalist, Broadcaster and Entrepreneur 

09h00 Welcome Back, Geraldine & Loic Le Meur, LeWeb Founders

09h10 Axelle Tessandier, Founder, Axl Agency

09h30 Benita Matosfka, Founder & Chief Sharer, The People Who Share

09h35 John Perry Barlow, CoFounder, Electronic Frontier Foundation

10h05 Chris Guillebeau, Writer, Entrepreneur and Traveler

10h30 Larry Harvey, Founder, Burning Man & Executive Director, Black Rock City, LLC & Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb

11h00 Martin Källström, Founder & CEO, Memoto

11:20 Surprise Meditation Session - Ingrid Sanders

11h20 Mark Suster, General Partner, GRP Partners

11h40 Alexa Varsavsky, CoFounder & Director of Product & Carolina Garcia, CoFounder & Director of Marketing, MODABOUT

11h50 Martin Varsavsky, Founder & CEO, Fon

12h10 John Battelle, Chairman & CEO, Federated Media Publishing & Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb

14h35 Marieke Hart, Founder, Shareyourmeal.net

14h40 Nicolas Brusson, CoFounder & COO & Frederic Mazzella, CoFounder & CEO, BlaBlaCar

15h00 FrerkMalte Feller, European President, Zipcar & Mike Butcher, EditoratLarge, TechCrunch

15h20 Sharing Economy Money Panel

Moderated by: Nina Dos Santos, News Anchor & Correspondent, CNN World Business Today

Samir Desai, CoFounder & CEO, Funding Circle

Raffael Johnen, CoFounder & CEO, Auxmoney.com

Renaud Laplanche, CEO, Lending Club

15h50 Cedric Giorgi, Founder, Cookening

16h00 The Pros & Cons of Bitcoin

Moderated by Martin Bryant, Managing Editor, The Next Web

Anthony Gallippi, CoFounder & CEO, BitPay

Shakil Khan, Head of Special Projects, Spotify

Roger Ver, Founder & CEO, MemoryDealers.com

16h30 Lily Cole, Founder, impossible.com

16h55 StartUp Competition Finals featuring Special Judges

Philippe Botteri, Principal, Accel Partners

Lukasz Gadowski, CoFounder & Partner, Team Europe

David Hornik, General Partner, August Capital

16h55

Competition Overview, Chris Shipley, Host, LeWeb StartUp

Competition

17h38 Antonin Leonard, CoFounder, OuiShare Benjamin Tincq, CoFounder, OuiShare

17h55 Awards and closing remarks

The three finalists of the LeWeb Startup Competition powered by HP just presented on LeWeb main stage, after being chosen by the jury afteer yesterday's pitches

After much deliberation, the jury came to a decision...

THE WINNERS ARE....

1) Pricing Assistant (France) - a service that optimizes the pricing of online stores.

2)  Genetrainer (UK) - the world’s first fully automated, genetically-guided fitness product. The system provides you with personalised training plans, exercises and advice derived from your own DNA, giving you a faster and more measurable way of achieving your individual training goals.

3) MyPermissions (Israel) - a suite of security tools for protecting personal privacy online. It monitors all applications across social networking sites and in the cloud, including Facebook, Twitter, Google, LinkedIn, Dropbox and more, and gives users control over the data that apps are able to access.

You can soon check our Youtube Channel to see the videos with the pitches. 

We'd like to thank everyone who helped make this competition a success, our partner HP, everyone who applied, the startups that presented, the people who voted online and, of course, our incredible jury on day one, and to the final jury that was on stage: 

Philippe Botteri, Principal, Accel Partners Lukasz Gadowski, Co-Founder & Partner, Team Europe David Hornik, General Partner, August Capital

Netatmo just announced it raised 4.5 Million Euros for International Growth and the founder Fred Potter tells us his fundraised was much due to his meeting with former head of Apple Europe Pascal Cagni at LeWeb Paris 2012.

DataSift, one of our partners, in partnership with Tableau has an awesome set of data about LeWeb attendance and the people viewing at home.

(Awesome Illustration by Natalka Design)

Great! LeWeb is around the corner (next June 5-6th) and you are attending. (No? You should!) Now what? It's LeWeb O'Clock.

We've decided to prepare a little guide to help you take the most out of LeWeb.

Before LeWeb

Sleep well. Seriously. During the event you'll have meetings, and dinners, and you'll probably be pretty tired. Take time ahead to be fresh and ready for the event.

Get enough business cards. Over 1000 participants are expected. You'll likely not meet 1000 people, but be ready with enough business cards for all the partners, investors, press and friends you'll meet during the two days of event.

Download and install the official LeWeb app by Mobile Roadie. It's a great way to keep track of the good content shared during the event and a time-saver for quick and useful information. 

Take time to navigate through our networking tool, Presdo Match. Try and contact some of the people you want to meet ahead of time to make sure you schedule meetings.

A lot of good content will be shared on stage - specifically on the sharing economy, a topic you should follow. Take a look at the program and select ahead of time which sessions you'd like to attend. It will save you time and stress during the event. 

If you still don't have hotel, take a look here as this might help.

Keep an eye on Twitter, Facebook and Google+ for updates.

Don't forget the charger for your phone, tablet or computer - you'll need it.

During LeWeb

Be early to the venue. There will be a lot of people trying to get the badges. Be sure you don't miss a thing by being there ahead of time and getting checked-in. We open the venue at 7.30 on both days. 

Keep an eye on Twitter, Facebook and Google+ for program changes and other important information.

Connect with other people attending the event on social networks.

Don't leave your belongings unattended - we can't be responsible if they get lost or stolen.

Stop by our partners stands and check what they are doing. Most are top companies driving their sectors so it's worth a check. 

Be sure to check the Startup Competition powered by HP where many of the great companies of tomorrow will be presenting. 

Keep your phone, computer or tablet battery up, you don't want to be off when you need it.

Have fun! 

After LeWeb

Let us know your feedback, on social networks or otherwise. 

Be sure to follow-up with the people you met at LeWeb.

Are you ready? ;-0

Mike McCue is a long time Sillicon Valley entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Flipboard. He was also a speaker at LeWeb 2011 in Paris where he launched his iPhone app on stage (see video below). 

Mike met LeWeb co-founder Loic Le Meur yesterday at the #D11 conference and shared the awesome graph you see above with us. The spike is his stage presence at LeWeb. Mike tells us that his LeWeb talk was the largest user growth event as of the date of that LeWeb and largest press exposure Flipboard had. And what you see in the graph are active users, not signups. 

If collaborative consumption is the commerce of 21st century, how do we support it with 21st-century design catered to the community rather than to individuals?

New Yorkers Making Connections on Airbnb (by Airbnb)

I love this video Airbnb made in July 2011, just shared by Joe Gebbia on Twitter.