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/