LeWeb'08 Program

LeWeb'08 is the #1 Web conference in Europe with 1500 participants from 40 Countries on Dec 9-10th in Paris. We have just announced our theme this year, LOVE! 30 Startups will also present in the startup competition room and there will be plenty of networking space, likely with a few beds, like last year...

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During the 2 days of conference, our speakers will be interviewed on stage by the following reporters, bloggers:

• Michael Arrington, Co-Founder & Editor, TechCrunch
• Dan Farber, Editor-in-Chief, CNET News
• Steve Gillmor, The Gillmor Gang
• Om Malik, Editor in Chief GigaOm
• Jennifer L. Schenker, Correspondent, BusinessWeek
• Robert Scoble, Video Blogger, Fast Company

• Kara Swisher, Co-Executive Editor, AllThingsD.com; Blogger, Boomtown; Co-Executive Producer, D: All Things Digital

DAY 1 - DEC 9, 2008 – PLENARY ROOM

08h00 – 09h00

WELCOME BREAKFAST sponsored By Cabinet Cotty Vivant Marchisio & Lauzeral

08h45 – 09h00
 Opening remarks
Geraldine & Loïc Le Meur – LeWeb Founders

09h00 – 09h20

Dan’l Lewin - Microsoft Corporation , Corporate Vice President for Strategic and Emerging Business Development. Interviewed by Steve Gillmor, The Gillmor Gang

09h20-09h40

Fireside Chat with Nikesh Arora - SVP, Google and President, EMEA Operations & Loïc Le Meur

09h40-10h00

David Weinberger - Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society,Harvard University

10h00 – 10h30

Chris DeWolfe Co-Founder & CEO, MySpace.com

10h30 – 11h00

COFFEE BREAK sponsored By Codeur.com

11h00 – 11h20

Itay Talgam, Conductor

11h30 – 11h50

Linda Avey - Co-Founder, 23AndMe, Inc.

12h00 – 12h45 

Helen Fisher - Visiting Research Professor, Rutgers University

12h45– 14h15

LUNCH BREAK

14h30 – 15h10

Paulo Coelho, Author

15h10 – 16h00

Loving Brands Online - Panel

Panelists:


• Georges-Edouard Dias, Team Leader, Internet & e-Business, L’Oreal

• Stephanie Hospital, Vice President Marketing and Business Development Orange Audience and Online Advertising Division
• Matthias Lüfkens, Associate Director, World Economic Forum

• Marc Mathieu, Senior Vice President, Global Brand Marketing & Creative Excellence, The Coca-Cola Company

• Michael Tchao, General Manager, Nike TechLab

• Moderator: Dan Farber, Editor-in-Chief, CNET News

16h00 – 16h20

Yossi Vardi - Investor & Entrepreneur

16h20 – 16h45 

COFFEE BREAK

16h45 – 16h50 

Mike Butcher - UK & Europe Editor, TechCrunch

16h50-17h00
Introduction with Morten Lund, Lund XY Global Ventures
Brief chat with Loïc Le Meur

17h00 – 17h40 

Money Talks: How scared should we be of the markets crash?- Panel

Panelists:


• Eric Archambeau, General Partner, Wellington Partners

• Jeff Clavier, Founder & Managing Partner, SoftTech VC

• Martin Varsavsky, CEO Fon
• Fred Wilson, Partner, Union Square Ventures

• Moderator: Ouriel Ohayon, General Manager, LgiLab, Editor, TechCrunch France

17h40 – 18h10 

Fireside Chat with Marc Simoncini - Founder & CEO, MEETIC & Loïc Le Meur

18h30 – 21h00
Netvibes hosts a Cocktail Party for LeWeb Participants near the 104.

22h00 – 02h00
LeWeb’08 Party with MySpace.com

DAY 2 - DEC 10, 2008 – PLENARY ROOM

08h00 – 09h00 

WELCOME BREAKFAST

09h00 – 09h20 

Opening remarks: Why Are We In Paris?
 Surprise Guest & 
Loïc Le Meur

09h20 – 10h00 

Platform Love: Getting Along - Panel
Panelists:


• David Glazer, Director of Engineering, Google
• Dave Morin , Senior Platform Manager, Facebook

• David Recordon, Open Platforms Tech Lead , SixApart
• Moderator: Marc Canter - CEO, Broadband Mechanics

10h00 – 10h20
Love of Education: A shifting paradigm

Robin Good - New Media Innovator, Explorer, Independent Publisher,
Master New Media

10h20 – 10h40

Chris Anderson - Curator, TED

10h40 – 11h10

COFFEE BREAK

11h10 – 11h40

Love Entrepreneurship Your Own Way: Two perspectives on starting a business

• John Buckman - Founder & CEO, Magnatune.com

• Reid Hoffman - Chairman and President, Products, LinkedIn
• A moderated discussion with Loïc Le Meur


11h40 – 12h00

Dr. Brian Cox - The School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester

12h00 – 12h30

Love of Entrepreneurship
Jason Calacanis - CEO, Mahalo
Q&A Moderator: Kara Swisher, Co-Executive Editor, AllThingsD.com; Blogger, BoomTown; Co-Executive Producer, D: All Things Digital

12h30 – 13h00 

Marissa Mayer - Google, Vice President, Search Products and User Experience

13h00 – 13h30

Sharing Love
 - Joichi Ito – CEO, Creative Commons

13h30 – 15h00

LUNCH BREAK

15h00 – 16h00

Start-Up Competition Awards and Winners

16h00 – 16h30 

Dr. Werner Vogels, VP & Chief Technology Officer, Amazon.com

16h30 – 17h15

European Originals - Start-Up Companies That Are Uniquely European - Panel

Panelists:


• Jacques Antoine Granjon, CEO & Co-Founder vente-privee.com

• Jonas Birgersson ,Chairman, ViaEuropa

• Klaas Kersting, Gameforge
• Lukasz Gadowski – Team Europe
• Moderator: Jennifer L. Schenker,Correspondent, BusinessWeek

17h15 – 17h45
Fireside Chat with Gary Vaynerchuk - Host, Wine Library TV.com – Loic Le Meur


DAY 2 - DEC 10, 2008 – LeWeb “Deep Discussion” Stage

9h15 – 10h00

Your Mobile is Your Love Device: Nokia

10h00 – 10h30
 The Revenge of Email - Panel

Panelists:


• Nick Heys Founder & CEO, Emailvision

• Jason Calacanis, CEO, Mahalo

• Moderator: Robert Scoble, Video Blogger, Fast Company

10h30 – 11h10
 Social Advertising: Where’s the Love? - Panel

Panelists:

• Philip J. Kaplan, Founder & President, Products, AdBrite
• Travis Katz, Vice President, International Development, MySpace
• Lorenz Bogaert – Co-founder & CEO, Netlog.com
• Seth Sternberg – Co-founder & CEO, Meebo
• 
Moderator: Scott Rafer - CEO, Lookery

11h10 – 11h50

Love in Motion: Why are Mobile Social Networks booming?What makes them tick? Who is using them? A global look at the developments, demos and a convivial chat with pioneers

Panelists:


• Dr. KF Lai - CEO & Co-Founder, BuzzCity

• Ewan Spence - WuBud

• Antonio Vince Staybl - CEO & Co-Founder, itsmy.com (a Gofresh company)

• Moderator: Ferhan Cook - Publisher mobiadnews.com & President Any Screen Productions Ltd, UK

11h50 – 12h30

Big Love: Embracing Asia's Market Explosion - Panel

Panelists:

• Chang W. Kim
• Masashi Kobayashi, Co-Founder & Managing Partner Infinity Ventures
• Kaiser Kuo, Group Director of Digital Strategy Ogilvy China
• Frederick Henry Saurat - CEO & Co-founder The TMS Way Ltd HK
• Moderator: Thomas Crampton

12h30 – 12h50

Modesty & Shamelessness on the Web - presentation/discussion

Who do we like, love and relate to online?
And what are we ready to give them about ourselves?


• Dominique Cardon - Sr. Researcher, Orange Labs

• Daniel Kaplan - CEO, FING

 

Comments

[Mikael Benfredj]

French version : Putain ça déchire !

English : holly shit that's fantastic !

[Buck]

The video is awfully jerky, for someone developping a video webservice, it's quite disturbing....

[François Labbé]

Hello and Bonjour and kenavo,
à part écouter tous ces merveilleux speakers, comment peut on faire pour rencontrer des gens..Y a t il des espaces et occasions prévues pour cela? (sinon, ai peur que les stars reconnaissent et rencontrent les stars/ et basta). Merci,
François/ Navigaia

[pnc]

whaou!
c'est le festival de cannes?

[yann]

je propose Le zoom de la rédaction sur leweb'08 le 11 decembre
merci de prendre contact avec webintoftv
contact@webinfotv.com

[Raj]

What? this is great!

[Adamgilly]

Final process of selecting a new venue place for this year event is going on.
The Conference will still be early December, of course still in or near Paris, likely to be Dec 9th and 10th.
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Adam

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