LeWeb London Conference: June 5 & 6th 2013 - Westminster Central Hall

The ninth LeWeb Conference held in Paris last December once again brought together over 3,500 business owners, entrepreneurs, investors, bloggers and tech enthusiasts from 78 countries to take part in Europe´s biggest event dedicated to the web industry.

Following the success of the annual Paris event, organisers Geraldine and Loic Le Meur launched the second edition of LeWeb summer session in London with a central theme : « Sharing Economy ».

More than a trend, the exploration of a revolutionary Mindset. This year, LeWeb London´s topic will tackle a completely new behavior that has emerged in just a couple of years. It represents thousands of new businesses in the making. With disruption at its heart, the sharing economy is primordial to understand. Beyond its impact, there is also this incredible resonance. The media has been all over it. The Sharing Economy is designed by new entrepreneurs from a generation who know how to thrive during chaotic times, having lived and continuing to live through crisis after crisis. Many of these startups symbolize more than a company, but a new movement and set of beliefs. More than learn about the main actors of the industry, their new platforms and business models, but also about the key values people have to embrace now to survive and even shine in the shift we are living, a shift that started with the digital revolution.

Many well-known players from Silicon Valley will be on stage to share the fruits of their experience

Wednesday, June 5

7h30-8h45 : Doors open, registration, networking time with partners, Welcome Buffet Breakfast

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

09h15 : Joanna Shields, Chief Executive, Tech City Investment Organisation

09h45 : Joe Gebbia, Co-Founder, Airbnb - 10h15, Chad Dickerson, CEO, Etsy

10h45 : Jeremiah Owyang, Partner, Altimeter Group

11h25 : Lisa Gansky, Chief Instigator, Mesh Labs

11h50 : Julien Smith, CEO & Alex Payne, Co-Founder & CTO, Breather

12h10 : Maxwell Bogue, Co-Founder & CEO, Wobbleworks LLC, makers of the 3Doodler

12h30-14h30 : Lunch

14h30 : Chris Chabot, Founder & CEO, Snapsation

15h15 : Leah Busque, Founder & CEO, TaskRabbit

15h35 : Spaces for New Communities, Moderated by Zach Bell, Co-Founder & 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

16h05 : Nick Halstead, Founder & CTO, DataSift Inc

17h05 : Cedric Giorgi, Founder, Cookening, The Sharing Economy, Connecting Cultures

Thursday, June 6

7h30-8h45 : Doors open, registration, networking time with partners, Welcome Buffet Breakfast

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

09h15 : Axelle Tessandier, Founder, Axl Agency

09h35 : John Perry Barlow, Co-Founder, Electronic Frontier Foundation

10h05 :Chris Guillebeau, Writer, Entrepreneur and Traveler

10h25 :Larry Harvey, Founder, Burning Man & Executive Director,

Black Rock City, LLC & Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb

10h55: Martin Källström, Founder & CEO, Memoto

11h15 :Matt Brittin, President, Northern & Central Europe, Google

11h35: Martin Varsavsky, Founder & CEO, Fon

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

12h30-14h30 Lunch

14h40: Nicholas Brusson, Co-Founder & COO & Frederic Mazzella, Co-Founder & CEO, BlaBlaCar

15h00: Frerk-Malte Feller, European President, Zipcar

15h20 : Sharing Economy Money Panel, Samir Desai, Co-Founder & CEO, Funding Circle, Raffael Johnen, Co-Founder & CEO, Auxmoney.com, Renaud Laplanche, CEO, Lending Club - 15h50, Mark Suster, General Partner, GRP Partners

16h10: The Pros & Cons of Bitcoin, Anthony Gallippi, Co-Founder & CEO, BitPay, Roger Ver, Founder & CEO, MemoryDealers.com

16h40 :Lily Cole, Founder, impossible.com

17h00 : Start-Up Competition Finals Featuring All-star Judges, Competition Overview, Chris Shipley, Host, LeWeb Start-Up Competition, Finalist company demos

17h55 : Awards and closing remarks

About LeWeb:

LeWeb Paris is Europe´s number one event for the web industry.

By December 2012, LeWeb London+Paris has grown to 5000 participants, 80+ countries, 600+ journalists, 100+ sponsors, Thousands of tweets and blog posts.

In December 2013, LeWeb was acquired by Reed MIDEM, a leading organiser of international tradeshows and conferences.

For the second year, LeWeb is 2 "rendez-vous" LeWeb is an exceptional entrepreneurial gathering, with hundreds of Internet startups and companies, leaders, innovators, venture capitalists, journalists, bloggers on stage and within the room.

The second edition of LeWeb London will gather again this year nearly 2,000 entrepreneurs from 60 countries around the theme "Digital Hippies and the Sharing Economy"

LeWeb London will take place June 5-6, 2013 in Central Hall Westminster.

For more information, please visit http://london.leweb.co/