What's LeWeb3 Conference?

There is a digital battle brewing across Europe - a battle to generate   interest and understanding of the Internet and its greater impact on society.

LeWeb3 is Europe's forum where the people who are engaged in this effort - Web   innovators, entrepreneurs and bloggers - gather to discuss trends, debate   issues and decide where the market needs to go next. Last year's crowd   included 1300 delegates from 37 countries. In 2007 we anticipate 2000 people   and hope to expand our reach around the globe as well.

  A mission: grow the european Internet sector

When this conference began in 2004, Europe's innovation ecosystem was very   disjointed. Geography, culture and technological limitations created an   environment that lacked a cohesive vision or common principals. Over the last   several years, the region has evolved, and while we do not yet have the   Silicon Valley ecosystem, we are moving forward. At LeWeb3 2006, we began   moving the conversation further by opening an exchange with politicians. This   is a start. We need to talk to them and they need to understand us. Looking   ahead we must continue to push the envelope. We need to encourage risk taking   in Europe, teach entrepreneurship at school, make fiscal reforms to encourage   creation of more start ups supported by investment from business angels and   venture capitalists. The Internet creates millions of jobs in the United   States. Why not in Europe?

The gathering of influencers at LeWeb3 creates an environment for impact -   companies finding funding, key partnerships, great visibility. In the early   editions of LeWeb3 Netvibes and Daily Motion found their first angel investors   and key partners. By LeWeb3 2006, they were on stage making the news and going   international. Tens of startups concluded strategic partnerships, got funding   or even got sold following LeWeb forums. And the roster of speakers during   this conference's short history is impressive. In the last three years   speakers have included world leaders such as Shimon Peres and Nicholas   Sarkozy; and globally recognized authors, bloggers and entrepreneurs such as   Jason Calacanis, Joi Ito, Doc Searls, Yat Siu and Yossi Vardi.

Background

The idea for LeWeb3 began in March 2004 when Loic   Le Meur and Six   Apart, launched the first version of the event under the name LesBlogs.   The idea was simple: get the most influential bloggers into one room. In the   first year, 250 bloggers from more than 15 Countries joined the event at the   French Senate in Paris.

   The first edition, in March 2005

The second edition in December 2005, called LesBlogs2,   gathered about 500 participants from 25 Countries, mostly European. The program covered topics bloggers were focusing on at that time: how is blogging   affecting corporations; citizen journalism; how blogs influence politics;   blogs and education; as well as key technologies for bloggers such as: RSS,   podcasting and search. The growth in year two required and received financial   support from sponsors such as Six Apart, Edelman, Microsoft, Nokia,   Vpod, Fon, Skype, Bullguard, Hubert Burda Media and also some media sponsors   such as top French radio Europe1 and the International Herald Tribune.

   The second edition, in December 2005
 
 
   The third edition, LeWeb3 2006

 

   Based on the market evolution, in 2006 the conference name was changed from   LesBlogs to LeWeb3 -   representing the fact that blogs were only one topic in an event about the   Internet future in general. 1300 people from 37 countries and 5 continents joined the event in Paris in December 2006. The two-day program discussed the future of the Internet, Open Source, Web 2.0, financing models,   the impact on business and enterprise 2.0, ecommerce, building a global   company, Europe versus Silicon Valley, the new dawn of media (press, radio,   TV), how young generations communities behave and grow, the future of   online gaming, virtual worlds, mobile and much more. An impressive roaster of   sponsors such as Orange, Google, Nokia, Microsoft, Six Apart, Netvibes, Fon,   Vpod, Sky-Click, Wengo and SMSconnect made the event possible as well as many   media partners: TechCrunch, Europe1, i>tele as well as a coverage by 300+   journalists.
 
   The event turned into a unique entrepreneurial gathering, with hundreds of   Internet startups on stage and in the rooms as well as venture capitalists.   The 2006 edition was also the launch of the Start-up Corner. In partnership   with Guidewire Group, LeWeb3's Start-up Corner was a stage where 50 emerging   european entrepreneurs presented their businesses. We have brought world class   non-tech people like Hans Rosling, Nobel laureate Shimon Peres and two French   presidential candidates into the same forum as world class tech people like   Niklas Zennstrom, danah boyd and David Weinberger.
 
 
   Niklas Zennstrom and Hans Rosling
 
 
   danah boyd and David Weinberger
 
   Politics and the Internet has always been in the program of LeWeb3, and in   2006 this was a heavy emphasis. In addition to the panel topics, Nobel Prize   Shimon Peres and at the time presidential candidates Nicolas Sarkozy and   François Bayrou, addressed the audience. We can proudly say now we had two   countries' Presidents talk at LeWeb3, President Sarkozy and President Peres.
 
 
   President Nicolas Sarkozy and President Shimon Peres
 
   The presence of such polical leaders created a huge reaction on the blogs,   making the conference #1 search on Technorati search engine for a week. The controversy was mainly a reaction about organiser Loic Le Meur not having warned the other   speakers in advance of their presence, program changes and asking the audience   if they agreed with the change. The politicians took up a total of about 1h30   out of an 18 hour conference. In 2007 the participants will be more   involved in the entire program creation, using blogs and the facebook group   for LeWeb3.

 

Word of mouth based event

It is only through word of mouth from blogs and social software that   participants heard about and joined LeWeb3, no emails were sent, no online or   offline ads were bought in any media. The participants join LeWeb3 to interact   with their peers and be as active as the speakers on stage, it is not a   traditional conference where people sit and listen being passive.They speak,   write on their blogs, talk, chat, podcast and create more content, augmenting   the content on stage.

Our stage presentations and speakers are catalysts for the conversations that   come from the participants - before, during and after the event itself.

To-date the participants of LeWeb3 have amassed a vast library of content   about this gathering. There are 608,000   pages talking about LeWeb3 in Google, 2500+   blog posts in technorati, 4000+   photos tagged lesblogs in Flickr and about 5000   photos tagged leweb3, 50   videos in YouTube and more on   vpod (check them here and   select conferences at the bottom of the screen).

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