My Recap of LeWeb 2010

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Leweb 2,500 entrepreneurs, leaders, investors, bloggers, journalists gathered together for 2 days in Paris on December 8-9, 2010 for an annual event those in the technology industry now know well – LeWeb.

The leading event in Europe for all things Web 2.0 and digital was held at a venue called The Docks, which is an area with more of a campus feel to it than anything else. Combine campus feel with urban and warehouse layout and you have 3 separate halls and tents that sponsors, vendors and speakers called “home” for two snowy days last week.

LeWeb brings together the most influential audience in the Internet ecosystem largely from Europe although I met entrepreneurs from Israel, Australia, South Africa, Ireland, Canada and the states during the event itself as well as the after networking gatherings and private dinners, my more notable experiences from the event.

Some of the speakers from this year included Carlos Ghosn, Marissa Mayer, Dennis Crowley, Alexander Tamas, Sebastien de Halleux, and Michael Arrington to name a few. The format on the main stage was not unlike last year – it combined Q&As, panel discussions and keynotes.

Take a look at my posts and videos on Gary Vaynerchuck, Foursquare’s Dennis Crowley, the Joe Green interview from Causes, Robert Scoble’s interview with Mitchell Baker, and the two-part video clip on the start-up competition which includes winners Waze from Israel (traffic), Paper.ly (publishing) from Switzerland and Super Marmite from France (food).

Also take a look at the Pearltrees recap video that Tom Foremski took — Patrice Lamothe and his team launched TEAM at LeWeb this year and their booth was by far, the most creative, interesting and compelling booth at the conference. (and yes, while I DO — disclosure — consult for them, it simply was the best. Enuf said).

Robert Scoble also interviewed Patrice Lamothe on TEAM’s capabilities which you can read here including a video clip. Additional pieces worth reading are Alastair Goldfisher’s piece on PE Hub, the ZDNET piece by Sam Diaz and Alexia Tsotsis post on TechCrunch.

Below is a Pearltree for the best of what happened at LeWeb and it includes video, blog posts, speakers, the schedule and more.

Below are some random shots I took on site with some contributions in the collection by Rodrigo as noted.

Mozilla’s Mitchell Baker

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The food at conferences in Paris are — let’s just say — different

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Foursquare’s Dennis Crowley, Renee Blodgett, Robin Wauters from Techcrunch Europe (yes, it snowed) — taken on Ben Parr’s iPhone

Dennis crowley renee blodgett and robin wauters at leweb
Judges who were largely investors give feedback to the three start-up competiton winners

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Gary Vee, as passionate as ever, gives the closing keynote.

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Start-up demos on the main stage

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Fergus Burns and Daire Hickey over from Dublin

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Loic Le Meur delivers an incredible set of entrepreneurs, investors and visionaries to the LeWeb audience

Loic LeMeur on leweb stage (6)
Present, present, present……..

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Pearltrees blogger lunch in the trendy Alcazar along Rue Mazarine not far from Odeon

Pearltrees blogger lunch (40)
F.ounders networking dinner

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Renee Blodgett, Robert Scoble, Ben Parr

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After hours networking dinner

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Gabe Rivera and Patrice Lamothe explore Pearltrees TEAM, a new feature launched at LeWeb

Pearltrees blogger lunch (75)
Paddy Cosgrave and Frederic Lardinois

Pearltrees blogger lunch (54)
David Hornik moderated the start-up competition

David hornik loic le meur (6)
Jeremiah Owyang – one for the panel……

Jeremiah and others ask dennis crowley questions (3)
Jon Fine and Laurel Touby

Jon fine and laurel touby (2)
Networking

Founders dinner at leweb (8)
Julien Pot, a French TV producer shows those credentials

Julien pot media friend of yves at bar in st germaine des pres (2)
The Next Web team showed up from Amsterdam

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360 Capital Partners Dinner

Founders dinner at leweb (31)
Trending after hours in The Marais

Founders dinner at leweb (35)
Priorities….

Pearltrees blogger lunch (68)
Nicole Simon and Anina

Pearltrees blogger lunch (78)
Tom Foremski, Francois Rocaboy

Pearltrees blogger lunch (79)

Yves Eudes from Le Monde too busy covering WikiLeaks and Julian Assange to attend LeWeb

Yves in bar near st germaine des pres (2)
Salim Ismail from Singularity University in the Pearltrees booth

Pearltrees booth at leweb day1 (7)

Mike Butcher (photo taken by Rodrigo)

Mike butcher taken by rodrigo
Below taken by Rodrigo

Renee blodgett carlos diaz blue kiwi taken by rodrigo sepulveda shulz at leweb
Thomson Crampton over from Hong Kong (taken by Rodrigo)

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Massages in front of the blogger lounge

Scoble in blogger lounge (4)
Rodrigo Sepulveda

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Demo time

Pearltrees booth at leweb day1 (22)
Foursquare’s Dennis Crowley on the LeWeb stage telling his ‘story’

Dennis crowley from foursquare at leweb (4)

Paul Papadimitriou

Founders dinner at leweb (32)
Ben Parr for pre LeWeb cafe and all that……

Ben parr at les deux margots (4)

Disclosure Note: I am a consultant for Pearltrees.

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