The eighth LeWeb Conference held in Paris last December once again brought together over 3,500 business owners, entrepreneurs, investors, bloggers and tech enthusiasts from 76 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 decided to start a summer session in London. The theme : "Faster than Real Time".
Many well-known players from Silicon Valley will be on stage to share the fruits of their experience, including : Chad Hurley, Venture Advisor / Niklas Zennstrom, CEO & Founding Partner, Atomico Ventures / Kevin Systrom, Co-Founder & CEO, Instagram / Jamie Oliver, Television Personality / Eric Van Der Kleij, CEO, Tech City Investment Organisation / Brent Hoberman, Co-Founder, PROfounders Capital & Co-Founder & Chairman, mydeco, made.com / Bradley Horowitz, Vice President, Product Management, Google / Phil Libin, CEO, Evernote / Christian Hernandez Gallardo, Director, Platform Partnerships, Facebook / Tom Katis, Founder & CEO, Voxer / Jeff Clavier, Founder & Managing Partner, SoftTech VC / Tim O´Brien, GM, Platform Strategy Group, Microsoft Corp. / Robert Scoble, American blogger, technical evangelist, and author, Rackspace / Paul Davison, Founder & CEO, Highlight
Program :
Plenary 1 - Tuesday, June 19
FASTER THAN REAL TIME "´ PART I
| 7h30-8h45 | Doors open, registration, networking time with partners | |||
| Welcome Buffet Breakfast | ||||
| 09h00 | Lindsey Stirling, Hip Hop Violinist | |||
| 09h05 | Opening remarks - Geraldine & Loïc Le Meur, LeWeb Founders | |||
| LeWeb London Kick-Off with Special Guests | ||||
| Brent Hoberman, Co-Founder, PROfounders Capital & Co-Founder & Chairman, mydeco, made.com | ||||
| Eric Van Der Kleij, CEO, Tech City Investment Organisation | ||||
| 09h20 | Eric Hazan, Partner & Philipp Nattermann, Partner, McKinsey & Company | |||
| 09h40 | Jamie Oliver, Television Personality & Kevin Systrom, Co-Founder & CEO, Instagram with Loïc Le Meur, LeWeb Founders | |||
| 10h15 | Bradley Horowitz, Vice President, Product Management, Google & Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb | |||
| 10h45 | Ben Ling, COO, Badoo & Robert Scoble, American blogger, technical evangelist, and author, Rackspace | |||
| 11h05 | Aaron Levie, Co-Founder & CEO, Box & Mike Butcher, European Editor, TechCrunch | |||
| 11h25 | Team Uber vs. Team Hailo | |||
| Travis Kalanick, Co-Founder & CEO, Uber | ||||
| Shervin Pishevar, Managing Director, Menlo Ventures | ||||
| Adam Valkin, Partner, Accel Partners | ||||
| Jay Bregman, Co-Founder & CEO, Hailo | ||||
| 11h50 | Phil Libin, CEO, Evernote & Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb | |||
| 12h10 | Jean-Louis Constanza, Founder & CEO and Giles Corbett, Head of Libon, Orange | |||
| 12h15 | Christian Hernandez Gallardo, Director, Platform Partnerships, Facebook & Jamillah Knowles, UK Editor, The Next Web | |||
| 12h35-14h30 | Lunch | |||
| 14h30 | Lindsey Stirling, Hip Hop Violinist | |||
| 14h35 | Welcome back & Check in with Hugh MacLeod, Gaping Void | |||
| 14h40 | Gil Hirsch, Co-Founder & CEO, Face.com | |||
| 14h45 | Martha Lane Fox, UK Digital Champion & Michael Bracken, Executive Director of Digital, Government Digital Service, Cabinet Office with Roxanne Varza, Startup/Tech J | ournalist | ||
| 15h05 | Joe Fernandez, Co-Founder & CEO, Klout, & Alexia Tsotsis, Writer, TechCrunch | |||
| 15h25 | Eric Migicovsky, Founder & Lead Designer, Pebble Technology & Loïc Le Meur, LeWeb Founder | |||
| 16h05 | Tom Katis, Founder & CEO, Voxer & Loïc Le Meur, LeWeb Founder | |||
| 16h25 | Jeremiah Owyang, Partner, Altimeter Group "´ | |||
| "Three themes to thrive in real time" | ||||
| 16h45 | Jason Goldberg, Founder & CEO & Bradford Shane Shellhammer, Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer, Fab | |||
| 17h10 | Martin Varsavsky, Founder & CEO, Fon | |||
| 17h30 | Sebastian Siemiatkowski, Co-Founder & CEO, Klarna & Tim Bradshaw, Financial Times | |||
| 17h45 | Efe Cakarel, Founder, MUBI | |||
| 17h50 | Disruption in Finance Roundtable | |||
| Errol Damelin, Founder & CEO, Wonga,com | ||||
| Samir Desai, CEO and Co-Founder, Funding Circle | ||||
| Renaud Laplanche, CEO, Lending Club | ||||
| 18h20 | Lindsey Stirling, Hip Hop Violinist |
Plenary 1 - Wednesday, June 20
FASTER THAN REAL TIME "´ PART II
| 7h30-8h45 | Doors open, registration, networking time with partners | |||
| Welcome Buffet Breakfast | ||||
| 09h05 | Welcome back remarks | |||
| Geraldine & Loïc Le Meur, LeWeb Founders | ||||
| 09h15 | Money Panel | |||
| Moderated by: Jonathan Goodwin, Lepe Partners | ||||
| Roberto Bonanzinga, Partner, Balderton Capital | ||||
| Jeff Clavier, Founder & Managing Partner, SoftTech VC | ||||
| Michael Marquez, Partner, CodeAdvisors | ||||
| Danny Rimer, Partner, Index Ventures | ||||
| 09h45 | Paul Davison, Founder & CEO, Highlight & Milo Yannopoulos, Founder & | |||
| Editor-in-Chief, The Kernel | ||||
| 10h00 | Riccardo Zacconi, Co-Founder & CEO, King.com | |||
| 10h15 | Nick D´Aloisio, Founder, Summly | |||
| 10h30 | Gabe Rivera, Founder, Techmeme & Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb | |||
| 10h35 | All-Star Entrepreneurs Discuss the Future | |||
| Chad Hurley, Venture Advisor | ||||
| Kevin Rose, Angel Investor | ||||
| Niklas Zennstrom, CEO & Founding Partner, Atomico Ventures | ||||
| 11h05 | Shakil Khan, Head of Special Projects, Path & Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb | |||
| 11h25 | Tim O´Brien, GM, Platform Strategy Group, Microsoft Corp. | |||
| 11h40 | Henrik Berggren, Readmill | |||
| 11h45 | Caroline Ghosn, Co-Founder & CEO, The Levo League & MG Siegler, General Partner, CrunchFund | |||
| 12h00 | Sam Shank, Co-Founder & CEO, HotelTonight | |||
| 12h10 | Baratunde Thurston, Comedian | |||
| 12h30-14h30 | Lunch | |||
| 14h30 | Welcome back | |||
| 14h35 | Check in with Hugh MacLeod, Cartoonist, gapingvoid | |||
| 14h40 | Michael Schneider, CEO, Mobile Roadie | |||
| 15h00 | Hiroshi Mikitani, Chairman & CEO, Rakuten & Tim Bradshaw, Digital Media Correspondent, Financial Times | |||
| 15h20 | Andreas Constantinou, Ph.D., Founder & Managing Director, VisionMobile | |||
| 15h35 | Alexander Ljung, Founder & CEO, SoundCloud | |||
| 15h55 | Josh Elman, Principal, Greylock Partners | |||
| 16h00 | Dr. DJ Patil, Data Scientist in Residence, Greylock Partners | |||
| 16h15 | Nick Halstead, Founder & CTO, Datasift | |||
| 16h30 | A Debate: Andrew Keen, Internet Entrepreneur & Broadcaster vs. Robert Scoble, American blogger, technical evangelist, and author, R | ackspace | ||
| 16h55 | Juan Diego Calle, Founder & CEO, .CO Internet S.A.S & Loïc Le Meur, LeWeb Founder | |||
| 17h00 | Start-Up Competition Finals & Awards | |||
| 18h00 | Closing remarks |
Plenary 2 "´ Tuesday, June 19
STARTUP COMPETITION "´ Schedule coming soon
Plenary 2 - Wednesday, June 20
SOCIAL BUSINESS TRACK
| 09h45 | Welcome Remarks | |||
| Cédric Giorgi, LeWeb + Jeremiah Owyang, Partner, Altimeter Group | ||||
| The social businesstrack´s place at LeWeb, what to expect today, and some figures behind the importance of social for companies | . | |||
| 09h55 | Social Media Numbers | |||
| Jan Rezab, Co-Founder & CEO, Socialbakers | ||||
| 10h10 | Creating Business Value Through Social Media: Organization and Measurement, Maria Poveromo, Director, Social Media, Adobe Sys | tems, Inc. | ||
| 10h25 | Q&A with Mikkel Svane, Founder & CEO, Zendesk | |||
| 10h40 | Q&A with Madlen Nicolaus, Senior Marketing & Community Manager, Salesforce Radian6 | |||
| 10h55 | How non profits use social media ? | |||
| Roberto Kusabbi, Manager, Communities & Social Media, Multimedia, British Heart Foundation | ||||
| Euan Semple, Director, Voice | ||||
| Cédric Giorgi, LeWeb | ||||
| 11h35 | The power of tools | |||
| Moderator: Jeremiah Owyang, Partner, Altimeter Group | ||||
| Luca Benini, Managing Director, Europe, BuddyMedia | ||||
| Rebecca Quinn, Director of EU Strategy & Operations, Wildfire Interactive | ||||
| 12h00 | Q&A - A Luxury Brand on Social Media | |||
| Carla Henny - Yves Saint Laurent Beauty & Fragrances (L´Oréal Luxe) | ||||
| 12h15 | Q&A - How American Express use social media for service, engagement and even to drive commerce | |||
| Bradley R. Minor, Vice President of Social Media Communications, American Express & Jeremiah Owyang, Partner, Altimeter Group | ||||
| 12h30-14h30 | Lunch | |||
| 14h30 | Sandy Carter, Vice President, Social Business Sales and Evangelism, IBM Corporation | |||
| 14h45 | Q&A with Soraya Darabi, Co-Founder, Foodspotting & Cédric Giorgi, LeWeb | |||
| 15h00 | Q&A with Fraser Kelton, COO, Getglue | |||
| 15h30-15h35 | Closing Remarks |
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For more information, please visit http://london.leweb.co/
About LeWeb:
LeWeb Paris is Europe´s number one event for the web industry.
In 2011, nearly 3500 participants from 76 countries and 400 journalists attended LeWeb. Many prestigious speakers have taken part in previous editions, including Karl Lagerfeld, Carlos Ghosn, Shimon Peres, Philippe Starck, Paulo Coelho and Rania de Jordanie.
In June 2012 will be held at Westminster Central Hall in London, the first summer edition of the LeWeb conference.
LeWeb´12 Paris will be held at Les Docks de Paris "´ Porte d´Aubervilliers - 50 Av. du Président Wilson, Saint Denis La Plaine.
