LeWeb’12 Paris Conference
Program announcement
December 4, 5 and 6 – Les Docks, Paris.
The 9th edition of LeWeb will be held December 4th , 5th and 6th at Les Docks de Paris – Porte d’Aubervilliers. Produced by Géraldine and Loïc Le Meur, Europe’s largest event dedicated to the web industry is expecting more than 3500 attendees including entrepreneurs, professionals, investors, bloggers and aficionados.
“Internet Of Thinks” is the theme of the 2012 edition.
Among the most expected speakers:
Brent Hoberman,
Co-Founder, PROfounders
Capital, Chairman, made.com
&
Founder & Chairman, mydeco.com
/ Brian Solis, Principal, Altimeter
Group
/ Henri Seydoux, Founder & CEO, Parrot
/ Kevin
Systrom, Co
-Founder & CEO, Instagram
/ Robert Scoble,
American blogger, technical evangelist, and author, Rackspace
/
Pascal Cagni, Former General Manager and Vice President Apple Europe
,
Middle-East, India, and Africa / David Marcus, President, Paypal
/
Marko Ahtisaari, Executive Vice President, Design, Nokia /
Phil
Libin, CEO, Evernote
/ Katie Stanton, Vice President of
International Market Development, Twitter /
Peter Deng, Director
of Product Management, Facebook
/ Renaud Laplanche, CEO, Lending
Club
…
Program below and via http://paris.leweb.co/
LEWEB’12 PROGRAM
Subject to changes
DAY 1 - DEC 4, 2012
PLENARY ROOM 1 - PULLMAN BUILDING
9h00
Doors Open, Networking time with partners
10h00
Surprise Opener
10h05
Opening remarks
Geraldine & Loic Le Meur, LeWeb
Founders
10h15
Ariel Garten, CEO, Interaxon
10h45
Tony Fadell, Founder & CEO, Nest Labs, Inc. & John
Markoff, Senior Writer, New York Times
11h15
Tech Spotlight: Alex Hawkinson, Founder & CEO,
SmartThings
11h30
Alexander Ljung, Founder & CEO, SoundCloud
11h50
Scott Harrison, Founder & CEO, charity:water
12h30-14h00- LUNCH BREAK
14h05
Misha Lyalin, Chairman & CEO, ZeptoLab & Frederic
Lardinois, Writer, TechCrunch
14h25
Phil Libin, CEO, Evernote & Loic Le Meur, Founder,
LeWeb
14h45
To be announced
15h15
Katie Stanton, Vice President of International Market
Development, Twitter & Jamillah Knowles, UK Editor, The Next Web
15h35
Peter Deng, Director of Product Management, Facebook &
David Kirkpatrick Founder & CEO, Techonomy Media
15h55
Dalton Caldwell, Co-Founder & CEO, App.net
16h15
Tech Spotlight: Adam Wilson, Founder & Chief Software
Architect, Orbotix
16h25
Yossi Vardi, Pioneer, Investor, Entreprenuer
16h45
Tech Spotlight: Carly Gloge, Co-Founder & CEO, Ubooly
16h55
Fred Potter, Founder & CEO, Netamo
17h15
Tech Spotlight: Phil Bosoa, CEO & Andy Gelme, CTO, LIFX
17h25
Benjamin Cichy, Chief Software Engineer, NASA's Mars
Science Laboratory, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
17h55
Closing remarks -Geraldine & Loic Le Meur, LeWeb
Founders
DAY 2 - DEC 5, 2012
PLENARY ROOM 1 - PULLMAN BUILDING
08h00-09h00
Welcome Buffet Breakfast
09h00
Surprise Opener
09h05
Welcome Back, Geraldine & Loic Le Meur, LeWeb Founders
09h15
Our heads are in the Cloud!
Moderator: Robin
Wauters, European Editor, The Next Web
Panelists:
Aditya
Agarwal, Vice President of Engineering, Dropbox
Brad Garlinghouse,
CEO, YouSendIt
Werner Vogels, CTO, Amazon
09h45
David Jones, Global CEO, Havas & Euro RSCG Worldwide
and
Co‐Founder, One Young World & Paul Papadimitriou, Founder,
Digital Intelligence
10h05
Marko Ahtisaari, Executive Vice President, Design,
Nokia
10h25
David Marcus, President, Paypal & Loic Le Meur,
Founder, LeWeb
10h45
Steven Guggenheimer, Corporate Vice President,
Developer & Platform Evangelism Group, Microsoft
11h05
Dr. DJ Patil, Data Scientist in Residence, Greylock
Partners
11h20
Amber Case, Cyborg Anthropologist & Founder, Geoloqi,
Inc.
11h35
Pascal Cagni, Former General Manager and Vice President
Apple
Europe, Middle-East, India, and Africa & Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb
11h55
Tech Spotlight: David Cann, Co-Founder, Double Robotics
12h05
Media heavyweights weigh in on iOt
Moderator:
Adrian Monck, Managing Director, Communications & Media, World Economic
Forum
Vivek Badrinath, Senior Executive Vice President, France
Telecom Orange &
CEO of Orange Business Services
Bruno
Patino, Senior Executive Vice President, Strategy & Digital & Director
France
Télévisions Group & France 5
12h30-14h00 - LUNCH BREAK
14h05
Tech Spotlight: James Park, Co-Founder & CEO, Fitbit
14h20
Tech Spotlight: Cedric Hutchings, Co-Founder & General
Manager, Withings
14h30
Bill Tai, Angel Investor, Venture Captialist &
Kiteboarding Athlete & Susi Mai, Pro Kiteboarder
14h50
Scott Dunlap, Successful Entrepreneur, Award-Winning
Blogger, Ultra Distance Trail Runner
15h10
Tech Spotlight: Gil Blander, Founder, President & CSO,
InsideTracker
15h20
Michael Lazerow, CMO, Salesforce Marketing Cloud &
Robert Scoble, American blogger, technical evangelist, and author,
Rackspace
15h40-15h55
Danae Ringelmann, Co-Founder, Indiegogo
15h55
Kevin Systrom, Co-Founder & CEO, Instagram & MG
Siegler, General Partner, CrunchFund
16h20
Money makes the world go round
Moderator: Mike
Butcher, European Editor, TechCrunch
Eric Archambeau, General
Partner, Wellington Partners
Jeff Clavier, Founder & Managing
Partner, SoftTech VC
Sonali De Rycker, Partner, Accel Partners
Albert
Ganyushin, Head of International Listings, NYSE Euronext
16h50
John Hering, Co-Founder & CEO, Lookout
17h10
Rafi Haladjian, Founder, Sen.se
17h30
Brian Shul, Former Air Force Fighter Pilot & Speaker,
Author & Photographer
18h15
Closing remarks -Geraldine & Loic Le Meur, LeWeb
Founders
DAY 3 - DEC 6, 2012
PLENARY ROOM 1 - PULLMAN BUILDING
8h00-09h00
Welcome Buffet Breakfast
09h00
Surprise Opener
09h05
Welcome Back, Geraldine & Loic Le Meur, LeWeb Founders
09h15
Tech Spotlight: Philipp Bolliger, Founder & CEO,
Koubachi
09h25
Tech Spotlight: Ludovic le Moan, CEO, SIGFOX
09h35
Ramon de Leon, Social Media Marketing, Dominos Pizza
09h55
Renaud Laplanche, CEO, Lending Club
10h15
Tom Conrad, CTO & EVP of Product, Pandora & Sarah
Lane, Host & Producer, TWiT Network
10h30
Tech Spotlight: Raphael Pirker, Founder, Team Black
Sheep
10h40
Munjal Shah, Entrepreneur in Residence, Charles River
Ventures
10h55
Henri Seydoux, Founder & CEO, Parrot & Loic Le Meur,
Founder, LeWeb
11h10
Tech Spotlight: Cameron Robertson & Paul Gerhardt,
Co-Founders, Apigy Inc.
11h20
Brian Solis, Principal, Altimeter Group
11h40
Tom Katis, Founder & CEO, Voxer & Alexia Tsotsis,
Editor, TechCrunch
12h00
Tech Spotlight: Sascha Klement, Founder, Managing
Director, & CTO, Gestigon
12h10
Ben Kaufman, Founder & CEO, Quirky & Jamie Siminoff,
Chief Inventor, Edison Junior
12h30-14h00 - LUNCH BREAK
14h05
Tech Spotlight: Marcus Schappi, CEO, Ninja Blocks
14h15
Matt Mullenweg, Founder, Automattic & Om Malik,
Founder & Senior Writer, GigaOM
14h35
Mike North, Ph.D., Co-Founder & CEO, Reallocate.org
14h55
Start-Up Competition Finalist Demos & Awards Ceremony
Featuring All-Star Judges:
Brent Hoberman, Co-Founder, PROfounders Capital, Chairman, made.com &
Founder & Chairman, mydeco.com
Other judges to be announced
14h55
Competition Overview, Chris Shipley, Founder & CEO,
Guidewire Labs
15h00
Finalist company demos and Q&A with judges
16h00
Presentation of Awards
16h05
Closing remarks
Geraldine & Loic Le Meur, LeWeb
Founders
DAY 2 - DEC 5, 2012 - PLENARY II - EIFFEL BUILDING
SOCIAL BUSINESS TRACK
10h00-10h30
Girls in Tech Roundtable
10h30-11h00
Let’s Get Our Game on!
Julien Codorniou,
Head of European Gaming Partnerships, Facebook
Alisa Chumachenko,
Founder & CEO, Game Insight
Riccardo Zacconi, Co-Founder &
CEO, King.com
11h00-12h00
Ignite @ LeWeb
Hosted by Jared Goralnick,
Founder & CEO, Awayfind.com
12h30-14h00 - LUNCH BREAK
14h00-15h00 - Facebook Workshop
15h15-18h00 - Social Business Track
15h15 - 15h20
Welcome
Cédric Giorgi, Curator & Host,
LeWeb Social Business Track & Co-Founder, Cookening
15h20 - 15h35
Tom Smith, Founder, GlobalWebIndex
Key Figures about Brands & Consumers’ Engagement on Social Media
15h35 - 15h50
Jessica Gioglio, Public Relations and Social
Media Manager, Dunkin' Donuts
How Dunkin' Donuts Keeps Its
Passionate Fans Running on Social Media
15h50 - 16h05
Q&A with Ekaterina Walter, Global Social
Innovation Strategist, Intel
16h05 - 16h20
Martin Oetting, Partner & Chief Research
Officer, trnd AG
Word of Mouth: Myths and Realities
16h20 - 16h35
Alexis Thobellem, Global Evian Digital
Manager, Danone Group
Brand Curation & Digital Impressionism
16h35 - 16h50
Mike Volpe, Chief Marketing Officer, HubSpot
Keynote
title to be announced
16h50 - 17h05
Q&A with Jud Valeski, Co-founder & CEO, Gnip
17h05 - 17h30
Panel - How Mobility Brands Become Social
Patrick
Hofstetter, Chief Digital Officer, Renault
Dr. Torsten Wingenter,
Global Coordination Social Media Marketing, Lufthansa German Airlines
PLENARY II - DAY 3 - DEC 6, 2012 - PLENARY II - EIFFEL BUILDING
SOCIAL BUSINESS TRACK
09h15-10h15 - Facebook Workshop
10h30-12h30 - Social Business Track
10h30 - 10h45
Eric Hazan, Partner, McKinsey & Company
A Report on Social Networks
10h45 - 11h00
Joel Bloch, Co-Founder, Tag'by
Social
Marketing and Retail
11h00 - 11h15
Michel Levy-Provencal - Co-Founder & CEO
JoshFire
Brands and the Internet of Things
11h15 - 11h30
To be announced
11h30 - 11h45
Q&A with Lars Silberbauer Andersen, Head of
Global Social Media, LEGO
11h45 - 12h00
Q&A with Sylvain Noailly, Marketing Director,
Rossignol
12h00 - 12h30
Panel- The Future of Social Media Management
Amy
Millard, Vice President, Marketing, Hearsay Social
Jeffrey Rohrs,
VP, Marketing Research & Education, Exacttarget
12h30-14h00 - LUNCH BREAK
14h00-15h00 - Social Business Track
14h00 - 14h15
Q&A with Brian Fitzgerald, Head of
Mobilisation and Digital Networking, Greenpeace International
14h15 - 14h30
Q&A with Michael Amar, Founder, ifeelgoods
14h30 - 14h45
To be announced
14h45 - 15h00
To be announced
DAY 1 - DEC 4, 2012 - PLENARY II - EIFFEL BUILDING
STARTUP COMPETITION PART
11h00-12h30 - Session 1
11h00-11h10
- Introduction
Chris Shipley, Co-Founder & CEO,
Guidewire Labs
Judges:
Adrian Aoun, Founder & CEO, Wavii
Roberto Bonanzinga, Partner,
Balderton Capital
Megan Quinn, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield &
Byers
11h10 - Recommend
11h25 - Lyncos Technologies SL
11h40 - Biletu.com
11h55 - Alleantia S.r.l.
12h10 - World Climate Credit
12h30-14h00 - Lunch Break
14h00-15h15 - Session 2
14h00-14h10
- Introduction
Judges:
Philippe Botteri, Principal, Accel Partners
Brad Hunstable,
Co-Founder & CEO, Ustream
Michael Marquez, Co-Founder, Code
Advisors
14h10 - kWIQly
14h25 - Argus Labs
14h40 - wiMAN
14h5 5 - Snapeous
15h15- 16h30 - Session 3
15h15-15h25
- Introduction
Judges:
Tony Conrad, Founder, About.me & Sphere, Founding Member & Venture
Partner, True Ventures
Andrew McCormack, Partner, Valar Ventures
Eric
Van Der Kleij, Founder, Adeptra
15h25 - Agent of Presence
15h40 - INTOINO
15h55 - qunb
16h10 - Ujoolt
16h30-17h40 - Session 4
16h30-16h40
- Introduction
Judges:
Frédéric Court, General Partner, Advent Venture Partners
David
Hornik, General Partner, August Capital
16h40 – Phonitive
16h55 – Be-Bound
17h1 0 – Green momit S.L.
17h25 - Closing remarks
About LeWeb:
LeWeb Paris is Europe's number one event for
the web industry.
In 2011, nearly 3 500 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 has been 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.
www.leweb.co
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