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29/10/2005

Welcome to this second edition of Les Blogs.

Introduction

Why have we started to organize the Les Blogs conference ?

A frustration. I have always been so sorry that there were not enough cool conferences around the Web generally in Europe. If you are European, you have to go often to the US to meet the key players and network with the movers and shakers. I am not saying there are none, but not enough, and there was no international event around blogs.

A new World is here

Don't you feel the rules and our world are changing ? Don't you feel changed by what many people call the Web 2.0 ? We believe as most of you that the way we work, the way we learn and teach, the way we interact with one another and more generally our expectations and relationships to other people, the institutions, the business world and politics are changing dramatically.

It is not only about blogging, it's about changing the way we think

What defines this new way of thinking and acting ? Difficult to say, let's try to define it together. I would say that transparency, openness and collaboration are the key values that drive this phenomenon. It is not only about blogging, not only about social software and other tools, it is much broader. Of course bloggers are at the forefront of this way of life: unformal, friendly, no powerpoint and no ties...

Let's define together these new values and understand :
1. How they challenge the corporate world
2. How they change the media landscape
3. How they bring more democracy in politics
4. How education evolves
5. What are the tools used and how we can all best benefit from them
6. Where we are going in the near and longer term future

If the first edition of Les Blogs was a successful gathering of 250+ people from 25 Countries, we would like that the second edition on December 5th and 6th translates into something more concrete.

Of course we will be there to meet each other, have fun and business, but we could also build together a collaborative document on a wiki that helps everybody better understand what's happening and help change a bit our World using these tools in the best possible way.

Everybody is welcome to join and just listen and network, however as I see that hundreds of posts were posted during the first edition and more than 2000 pictures posted on Flickr, we could may be also use our willingness and energy to share with everybody to try to build something together, as we started on the European Blogosphere Wiki.

If you wish, you can enter the conversation and contribute to the Les Blogs companion wiki it is just starting.

The idea is to go through these six questions together both speakers and participants. Every participant can contribute to the panel before the session on the panel to help build the conversation.

After brief introductions, our panelists will engage with the moderator, each other and the audience to discuss the topics on the wiki.

Welcome to this second edition of Les Blogs.

Loïc Le Meur, Guillaume du Gardier and Elisabeth Albrycht

28/10/2005

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Speaker : Jian Ni

As Senior Business Development Manager of Lifeblog team in Nokia Multimedia, Jian Ni is responsible for creating new business opportunities and developing strategic partnership around Nokia Lifeblog application and services.

Jian Ni joined Nokia in February 1995. He held various positions of product development and technology management in Nokia Group’s mobile handset divisions.

Before joining Nokia, Jian Ni was a research assistant in Tampere University of Technology, Finland and worked as a software engineer in Beijing Keli Co., China.

Jian Ni received his MBA from Rutgers University, USA, and M.Sc & B.Sc. from Tsinghua University, China. He is a member of Beta Gamma Sigma and holder of 3 patents. He is married and has one child. In his spare time, he enjoys nature photography.

Platinum Sponsor - Nokia

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Disillusioned with the slow and costly 3G technology, FON founder and CEO Martin Varsavsky decided it was time for people to enjoy  internet mobility. Launched in November of 2005,  FON aims to build a unified WiFi Network allowing members of the FON community to share not just bandwidth but experiences and ideas. Its free and simple-to-use open source software lets you share your bandwidth by converting your existing access point into a FON hotspot and lets you connect for free on other FON access points.

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Stanislas Magniant

Stanislasmagniant_1Stanislas Magniant is the founder of Netpolitique.net, a leading French website and blog about online political communication and social mobilization created in 2000. Netpolitique.net features numerous interviews with the movers and shakers of the field worldwide, along with academic research, key resources and a collaborative weblog dedicated to online politics in and outside of France.

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Hubert Burda Media is a privately held global media company with origins in printing and publishing. In addition to its core magazine publishing, it is active in printing, online, radio, television production and direct marketing. Considered to be one of the most innovative companies in the media industry, it provides 235 publications worldwide, 64 in Germany and 171 outside. In 2002, group turnover rose to 1.857 billion euros.
The company has been successful with its magazines in news (Focus), fashion (Elle, freundin, InStyle, Burda Modemagazin), entertainment (Bunte, Freizeit Revue), home and gardening (Das Haus) and consumer electronics (Chip). An early pioneer in the interactive electronic media market, it is today a major supplier of German language content on the Internet with “Tomorrow Focus MSN”,one of Germany’s largest general interest portals.

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27/10/2005

Speaker : Marcel Reichart

Managing Director Marketing and Communications, Hubert Burda Media
Blog : Marcel Reichart Blog

Marcel ReichartDr. Marcel Reichart (1972, Germany) studied corporate management, political science and history in Koblenz (WHU), Lyon, Washington D.C. and Rome. During his doctorate (Stuttgart University) he acted as personal advisor to former German Federal Minister of Economy Dr. Otto Graf Lambsdorff and as a consultant, amongst others, for Roland Oetker. In 2000, Dr. Reichart co-built the European media incubator ‘Venturepark’ formed by Pixelpark, Goldman Sachs, Telefónica and BertelsmannSpringer as well as its investments (Sportgate).

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Speaker : Joël de Rosnay

Director of strategy, Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie in Paris' La Villette
Blog : Agoravox

Joël De RosnayA doctor of science and prolific writer on scientific matters, de Rosnay is a specialist in advanced technologies. Currently director of strategy at the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie in Paris' La Villette, he previously worked as research associate at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and director of research applications at the celebrated Pasteur Institute in Paris. His most recently published work is "Symbiotic Man - A Look Into the Third Millennium".

Speaker : Rebecca MacKinnon

Research Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and SocietyRebecca MacKinnon
Blog : rconversation

Rebbecca  is currently a research Fellow at the Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Her main project there is Global Voices: an experimental effort at creating a global citizens' media index and blogging community. she also consults, speaks, and writes on global participatory media.

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Speaker : Thomas Crampton

Correspondent, International Herald TribuneThomas Crampton
Blog : en Anglais (avec Joi Ito)
Blog : en Français (avec Loïc Lemeur)

Thomas Crampton has worked as a correspondent for the International Herald Tribune for nearly a decade, reporting from five continents, writing a column on Asia and leading the newspaper's coverage of Asian politics, economics and culture.

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Speaker : Ethan Zuckerman

Research fellowEthan Zuckerman, Berkman Center for Internet and Society
Blog : "My Heart's in Accra..."

Ethan Zuckerman is an activist, blogger and geek, living in Western Massachusetts and working in Cambridge as a research fellow at the Berkman Center. As co-founder of Global Voices, he's interested in ways that citizen's media can address longstanding biases in the news media.

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Speaker : Martin Varsavsky

Founder, Fon
Blog : Martin Varsavsky

Martin Varsavsky

Martin Varsavsky is an Argentine entrepreneur, founder of five successful companies in the past 20 years.

In 1984, while still in college, he started his first business, Urban Capital Corporation, a NY-based real estate developer. This was soon followed in 1986 by Medicorp Services, a Canadian biotechnology company, that quickly became a pioneer in AIDS testing. His third business, Viatel Ltd., Martin’s first venture into the world of telecom, was founded in 1991 and still runs successfully today.

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Speaker : Loïc Le Meur

Executive VP, Six Apart SA
Blog : Loïc Lemeur

LoicLoïc is a well-known French entrepreneur, Executive Vice President at Six Apart, the leading weblog software company and founder of Ublog, one of Europe's leading blogging tools providers and hosting services. Prior to joining Six Apart EMEA, Loïc founded and served as CEO for several companies in France, including Tekora, an ASP-driven website publisher for small businesses; RapidSite France, the first shared Web hosting company launched in France. Rapid Site France was sold to France Telecom and B2L, one of the first Web agencies launched in France, with clients including Chanel, 20th Century Fox, and Mars, which was sold to BBDO, a leading advertising group. Loïc is also a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum.

Speaker : Neville Hobson

Speaker: Neville Hobson

Communicator, blogger, podcaster
Blog: NevOn

Neville Hobson, ABC, is an accredited communication practitioner with 25 years hands-on and leadership experience in public and media relations, marketing communication, employee, compensation and benefits communication as well as investor and financial relations. He helps companies use effective communication to achieve their business goals.

Based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, since 1999, Neville is one of the leading European early adopters and influencers in new-media communication for business. He blogs daily at NevOn (www.nevon.net) with commentary and opinion on business communication and technology; and co-presents "For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report" (www.forimmediaterelease.biz), a twice-weekly business podcast at the intersection of online communication, business and technology.

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Speaker: Kevin Anderson

Journalist, BBC World Service

Kevin Anderson has been an online journalist for 10 years. From 1998 until this April, he was the Washington reporter for BBCNews.com, the award winning news website of the BBC. During his time in Washington, he covered two US presidential elections, two midterm elections, the impeachment of Bill Clinton, the attacks of 11 September 2001 as well as general coverage of technology, US politics and national security.
During the 2004 US presidential election, he wrote a weblog that covered the Republican and Democratic party conventions, the general campaign and presidential debates as well as a 17-day tour of the US, talking to voters about the issues important to them. His editors found that the weblog talked about issues outside of the mainstream news agenda and sparked a lively, well informed discussion about healthcare, the war in Iraq and retirement savings.
In April of this year, he came to London to write a blogging strategy for BBC News. He has taken the lessons learned from his weblog and writing the blogging strategy to help launch a new interactive radio programme on the BBC World Service called World Have Your Say.

Speaker : Guillaume du Gardier

Director Online Communications, Edelman Paris
Blog : PR Thoughts

Guillaume du Gardier is Director Online Communications at Edelman Paris.
First french PR blogger and PR podcaster, he blogs daily at www.prthoughts.com.

He started his career as co founder and director of Trait d’Union a tech boutique which made it to the top 10 in its category within a 7 year span. In march 2004 he founded PR Planet, a PR agency specialized in IT and Consumer Marketing. In november 2004, he launched Blogging Planet, the first european consultancy specialized on new communications tools as blogs, wikis, podcast and RSS.

He launched the CEO Bloggers' Club (www.ceobloggers.com), an international club gathering 95 CEO members around the world.

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Speaker : Olivier Dufour

CEO, Skema
Blog : http://olivier2571.neufblog.com/

Olivier Dufour, 34, is an atypical and experienced entrepreneur. World class expert in IT and content policies, he founded SkemA in 2002, after a 4 years R&D program. SkemA soon became the european leader for video self-production technologies, for the web, the mobile, and camcorders.
Graduate from INSA de Lyon and Washington University in St Louis (Missouri), Olivier Dufour first joined France Telecom’s IT division as a designer, then project manager, and project director.
In 1998, this talented engineer joins Sofrecom to drive major international projects ; Jordan, New-Caledonia, Europe, Olivier Dufour travels the globe for 4 years during which he creates several content syndication companies. He’s an expert in IP, content editing, e-government and administration, video over Internet.

Speaker : Philippe Borremans

Public Relation Manager, IBM Belgium & Luxembourg
Blog : Conversationblog

Philippe BorremansPhilippe Borremans holds a Public Relations Diploma from the INIREP, Institut International des Relations Publiques and started his career at Porter Novelli International, a global public relations agency. During his 4 year stay as a PR Consultant he worked for companies like FedEx, Iomega and the Association of Plastic Manufacturers in Europe. In October 1999 he was asked to join IBM Belgium in the function of Public Relations Manager for IBM Global Services for Belgium & Luxembourg. Today he is responsible for all external communications of the company in these 2 countries and holds a European coordination role for IBM’s activities in the context of online PR and blogging. Next to his full time job at IBM Philippe started his own training company called Conversation.be in June 2005. He coaches PR and marketing professionals on the use of blogging and RSS and provides media training for business executives.

Speaker : Mark Fletcher

VP & General Manager of Bloglines, Ask Jeeves
Blog : WingedPig

Mark FletcherMark is a successful serial entrepreneur, software developer and investor, with over 20 years experience in software development and high tech. Mark's career in high tech begin in the early 1980s. Since then, he has worked in several areas of computer science, including graphics, visualization and medical systems. Mark has been on the Internet since the late 1980s and is an expert on email systems and scalable Internet services.

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Speaker : Ben Hammersley

Journalist
Blog : Ben Hammersley

Ben HammersleyBen Hammersley is an English emigré, living in Florence, Italy, with his wife, three greyhounds, and the Renaissance. Galileo's little finger is in a jar only 400 yards from his desk. For a day job, he writes for the British national press, appearing in The Times, The Guardian and The Observer, but in his free time, he blogs excessively at www.benhammersley.com. As the author of Content Syndication with RSS, he survived the Great Fork Summer, and as a journalist he has been accosted by the secret police of two countries. To this day, he doesn't know which was worse.

Speaker : Reid Hoffman

Chief Exective Officer, LinkedIn

Reid HoffmanReid is currently CEO and co-founder of LinkedIn. Prior to LinkedIn, Reid was Executive Vice President of PayPal. At PayPal, Reid was in charge of all business relationships: business development, corporate development, international, government relations, and banking/payments infrastructure. During his tenure at PayPal, Hoffman was instrumental to the acquisition by eBay and was responsible for partnerships with Intuit, Visa, MasterCard and Wells Fargo. Reid also has held management roles in large technology companies, including Fujitsu Software Corporation and Apple. Currently, in addition to LinkedIn, Reid serves on the Board of Directors for SixApart and Mozilla Corporation. Reid graduated with distinction from Stanford University with a B.S. in Cognitive Science and from Oxford University with a Master’s degree in philosophy.

Speaker : Yat Siu

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Outblaze

Yat SiuYat Siu is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Outblaze, the first company to tap the market demand for multi-lingual community-oriented Internet messaging services. In 1998 Outblaze pioneered the provision of multi-lingual online community services that allowed other companies to offer such services to their users without having to develop or buy expensive platforms themselves.

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Speaker : Jason Calacanis

Chief Executive Officer, Weblogs, Inc. Network
Blog : calacanis.com

Jason CalacanisMr. Calacanis is a highly regarded expert on issues related to media, finance, technology, the Internet and public policy. Calacanis regularly appears in the press and has been featured in and appeared on media outlets including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Wired, The Charlie Rose Show, 60 Minutes, CNN, CNBC, CNNfn, Bloomberg, Fox News, ABC News, and Nightline.

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Speaker : Christian Lindholm

Christian Lindholm

Vice President of Global Mobile Products, Yahoo!
Blog : Moving experiences

I joined Yahoo! in the beginning of September 2005 as Vice President of Global
Mobile Products. My responsibility is global creation of the different mobile products Yahoo! makes, such as their mobile optimized portal, e-mail and instant messaging phone clients. Before joining Yahoo!, I worked ten years for Nokia in various roles in the areas of user interface, product creation and venturing.

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Speaker : Robert Scoble

Technical Evangelist, Microsoft
Blog : Scobleizer

Robert Scoble is a "technical evangelist" who works for Microsoft and maintains the popular blog, Scobleizer. Besides blogging, Scoble is part of the Channel9 MSDN Videos team producing educational and evangelist mini-films targeted towards students and professional developers.

Although Scoble often promotes Microsoft products like Tablet PCs and Windows Vista, at the same time he criticises his own employer and praises its competitors (like Apple and Google).

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Speaker : Yann Motte

VP Product Management, Yahoo!

Yann MotteAs an ESSEC graduate, Yann Motte started his career with Paribas in Tokyo and Paris, in the M&A department. When he first discovered the Internet, he decided to move to the U.S.A. to pursue an MBA at the Harvard Business School. Upon returning to Europe, he integrates the Yahoo! European Headquarters in London, where he becomes a Product Manager-communication & personalisation. In February 2003, he is named Product & Services Director for Yahoo! France, and quickly becomes VP Product Management for Yahoo! Europe in June 2004.

Speaker : David Sifry

Founder and CEO, Technorati
Blog : Sifry's alert

David Sifry David Sifry is Founder and CEO of Technorati, a real-time search engine that keeps track of what is going on in the blogosphere — the world of weblogs. A serial entrepreneur with more than 19 nineteen years of software development and industry experience, before founding Technorati, Sifry was cofounder and CTO of Sputnik, a Wi-Fi gateway company. Before that, he cofounded Linuxcare, where he served as CTO and vice president of engineering. Sifry also served as a founding member of the board of Linux International and was on the technical advisory board of the National Cybercrime Training Partnership for law enforcement. He appears frequently on panels and lectures on a variety of technology issues, ranging from wireless spectrum policy and Wi-Fi, to weblogs and open-source software. Sifry earned his bachelor’s degree in computer science at Johns Hopkins University.

Speaker : Salim Ismail

CEO and co-founder, PubSub

Salim IsmailSalim Ismail, CEO and co-founder, brings to the company a combination of technology expertise, general management and several years of successful entrepreneurial experience.

Salim started his career as a software engineer with CSC Europe, where he spent five years building large-scale database applications for blue chip companies. He then joined ITIM Associates, a boutique consulting firm headquartered in London, as a business and technology strategy consultant. For five years, he provided consulting expertise to senior management at the largest companies in Europe, and led several large projects for companies like Philips NV, NatWest Bank, Europcar, Whitbread, Carlson WagonLit and the UK Home Office.

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Speaker : Marc Canter

Founder Broadband Mechanics
Blog : Marc's Voice

Marc CanterMarc is involved in promulgating open standards for new kinds of micro-content; including people (FOAF), media (OpenMedia) and events (OpenEvents.)  Broadband Mechanics designs and builds digital lifestyle aggregators (DLAs) for customers like Ziff-Davis Media (1UP.com), Tribe.net, and AlwaysOn Network.  Broadband Mechanics is also working with Laszlo Systems to build hot compelling interfaces for these DLAs (which are the next generation portal.) Prior Marc founded a company named MacroMind which became MacroMedia. Marc was part of the team that created the first multimedia player, the first cross-platform authoring system and the world's leading multimedia platform.

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Speaker : Richard Edelman

President and CEO, Edelman
Blog : Richard Edelman

Richard EdelmanRichard Edelman is the president and CEO of the world's largest independent public relations firm with 1800 employees in 40 offices worldwide. Edelman, named 2003 Agency of the Year by The Holmes Group, has been a leader in public relations since it was founded in 1952.

Richard Edelman was named president and CEO in September 1996. Prior to that, he served as president of Edelman's U.S. operations, regional manager of Europe and manager of the firm's New York office.

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Speaker : Greg Reinacker

Founder and CTO, NewsGator Technologies
Blog : Greg Reinacker's Weblog

Greg ReinackerGreg Reinacker is the Founder and CTO of NewsGator Technologies, which is the leading platform vendor for content aggregation software and services. Greg's background includes extensive technical consulting work for companies such as Galileo International, as well as several successful commercial software ventures including companies such as McGraw-Hill. Greg is widely recognized in the weblog and RSS arenas, publicly speaks about RSS, and is a vocal proponent of business uses of RSS and syndication technologies.

Speaker : Steve Olechowski

Cofounder and COO, FeedBurner
Blog : Line of site

Steve is cofounder and COO of FeedBurner. He is a recognized expert in mobile communications and wireless technologies, and has helped many companies implement their strategies in the wireless world.

Steve most recently held Vice President positions in charge  of Development, Product Management, and Product Marketing  at 724 Solutions Inc. There he was responsible for setting  direction for the next generation of device independent,  multimodal, and active wireless applications, and working with mobile operators to define their VASP (value added service platform) architectures. Steve's career spans a number for  corporate, consulting and startup experiences including lead  technical management roles at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture),  Digital Knowledge Assets, and Burning Door LLC. He also co-founded  Spyonit.com, the alerting and messaging platform acquired in 2000 by 724 Solutions.

Steve holds a degree in Computer Studies and Economics from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. On most Saturdays in the fall he can still be found on the south 40 at Ryan Field.

Speaker : Dana VanDen Heuvel

Director of Business Development, Pheedo, Inc
Blog : Dana VanDen Heuvel

Dana VanDen HeuvelI'm Dana VanDen Heuvel, a Wisconsinite living in, well, Wisconsin! At present, I am the the Director of Business Development for Pheedo, Inc.

Prior to that, I ran my own consulting practice focused on weblogs and Internet marketing called BlogSavant. Before that, I was the Director of Internet Marketing & Sales Technology at KI, a Wisconsin-based office furniture manufacturer, responsible for KI’s Internet presence.

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Speaker : Santiago Iñiguez de Onzoño

Dean of Instituto de Empresa
Blog : BizDeansTalk

Santiago
IñiguezSantiago Iñiguez de Onzoño studied at Madrid~s Complutense University and Oxford University, UK. Iñiguez de Onzoño is a Doctor of Law and holds an MBA from Instituto de Empresa.

Iñiguez has worked as a management consultant and has played an active role in the field of quality control in executive education. He has been Director of External Relations at IE during which time he led international initiatives like the creation of the Sumaq Alliance, a platform for executive education comprised of Instituto de Empresa and seven leading business schools from Latin America. Iñiguez is Professor of Strategic Management and, as of August 2004, is Dean of the school.

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Speaker : Mena Trott

Co-Founder and President, Six Apart
Blog : Mena's Corner

Mena TrottMena Trott is co-founder and president of Six Apart, the company behind The Movable Type publishing platform, TypePad weblogging service and, after an acquisition in January 2005, LiveJournal, an online community organized around personal journals. Named one of Fast Company's "Fast 50 for 2004" and PC Magazine’s "People of the Year" for 2004, Mena has been involved in the weblogging space since she began publishing to her own weblog, dollarshort.org, in early 2001. She speaks regularly at industry conferences -- having appeared at Supernova, AdTech, DEMO 2004 and The Wall Street Journal’s "D: All Things Digital." Mena can be found writing about weblogging and Six Apart at Mena’s Corner.She lives in San Francisco with her husband and co-founder of Six Apart, Ben Trott.

Speaker : Scott Rafer

Chairman, Wireless Ink

Blog: rafer.wirelessink.com

Scott Rafer is chairman of Wireless Ink, the mobile publishing service and portal. He was most recently CEO of Feedster, a rapidly growing blog search engine and advertising network. Before Feedster, Rafer co-founded WiFinder, the World's Largest Hotspot Directory; Fresher Information, a provider of immediate content indexing technology; and FotoNation, a creator of connected photography solutions. Prior to his adventures in Silicon Valley, Rafer led the Internet products group at Kodak Hollywood, and worked in investment banking at Needham & Company. He graduated from the Jerome Fisher Program in Management & Technology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Speaker : Shel Israel

Co-Author, Naked Conversations & Editor-in-Chief, Conferenza
Blog: It Seems To Me

Shel Israel writes and speaks about blogging, communications and innovation. He also consults with startups as a senior strategy and communications advisor. He is co-author of Naked Conversations, How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers, with Microsoft’s Robert Scoble. He is working on a second book and serves as editor-in-chief of Conferenza Premium Reports, the leading newsletter covering technology industry executive conferences.

A self-proclaimed recovering publicist, Israel spent more than 20 years as a PR executive specializing in technology startups. Among more than 100 companies, he’s worked with Sun Microsystems, SoundBlaster, PowerPoint, Filemaker, MapInfo, Virtual Vineyards and very briefly, Napster. Visit his web site at http://www.itseemstome.net.

Speaker : Fergus Burns

Chief Executive Officer, Nooked
Blog : Nooked

Fergus BurnsFergus Burns is the CEO of Nooked. Nooked provides on-demand services that help enterprises create, publish, syndicate, discover and measure RSS feeds.
Prior to starting Nooked, Fergus worked with a number of start-ups as an advisor. Previously he worked for Microsoft in both Europe and the US.
He is a computer science graduate of the University of Ulster.

Speaker : Ewan McIntosh

Development Officer, University of Stirling
Blog : Edubloger

Ewan McGregorI am currently Development Officer for the Modern Languages Virtual Environment. This learning portal will be the model for every subject area in the world's biggest intranet, the Scottish Schools Digital Network - so we'd better get it right! I am an employee of the University of Stirling, at the Scottish Centre for Information on Language Teaching, working extensively with Learning and Teaching Scotland in Glasgow and giving conferences across the UK. I'm still learning to drive :-(

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Speaker : Eric Briys

President and Co-founder, Cyberlibris
Blog : Cyberlibris

Eric spent fifteen years in the academic world as a Professor of Finance. After having taught at the CERAM, and then in Canada and the United States, he joined the Groupe HEC, chairing the Finance and Economics department, the Doctoral Program and the Institut Supérieur des Affaires (ISA).
His main areas of research were in derivatives markets, insurance, risk and asset liability management. He has published some thirty scientific papers and eight reference books. One of his books was awarded the Sunday Times Book of the Week distinction.

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Speaker : Georges Edouard Dias

Director of Internet & E-business, L'Oréal S.A

Previously L'Oréal's VP of Interactive Development in New York, Georges Edouard Dias, is now based in Paris. Since joining L'Oréal S.A. in 1984, Dias has held several marketing positions, including VP Marketing for Vichy. In 1996, with the coming of the Internet age, Dias joined L'Oréal's communications department and began developing the first L'Oréal website, www.loreal.com, as well as generating a global Internet strategy for the company. In 1999, he was brought to L'Oréal in New York to develop an online strategy for the individual brands as well as to develop a corporate site for the U.S., which launched in June, 2000. During his time in New York, Dias has effectively developed a network of people devoted to the interactive strategy of the company. "I'm leaving a team of people that are highly dedicated to e-business at L'Oréal USA," says Dias. "And that is ultimately the greatest reward." Realizing the scope of his talents, from corporate development to setting up strategic alliances, Dias has been recruited back to Paris to work as Director of Internet & E-business at L'Oréal S.A. There, reporting to Beatrice Dautresme, General Manager of Strategic Development, his mandate has been to move the corporation's Internet activity and involvement to the next level. Capitalizing on what has been done in the U.S., Dias focus on the global Internet strategy for L'Oréal S.A. and is responsible for creating synergies on a global level within the area of interactive media.

Speaker : Elizabeth Albrycht

Co-Founder, New Communications Forum
Blog : CorporatePR

Elizabeth AlbrychtElizabeth Albrycht is a 15-year veteran of high technology public relations practice co-founder of the New Communications Forum, a conference series designed to bring journalists and marketing and PR professionals together to learn how to use participatory communications tools. She is on the advisory board and is the research and publications committee chair for the Society for New Communications Research. She has authored articles on blogging, RSS and other new tools for PRSA's Tactics magazine, the IABC's CW Bulletin, the New Communications Blogzine and the Future of Work eNewsletter, and has presented teleseminars and in-person seminars on new communications tools for PRSA. She is a member of the Future of Work, PRSA and the IAOC. She blogs about PR and corporate communications at CorporatePR and is the editor of Future Tense, a Corante blog that explores the future of work. Elizabeth was recently named one of the most influential PR bloggers by Intelliseek.

Speaker : Adriana Cronin-Lukas

Partner, Big Blog Company
Blog : Bigblogcompany or Mediainfluencer

Adriana Cronin-LukasAdriana Cronin-Lukas was released from Balliol into the community in 1996, serving her time as a management consultant with a Big Five firm in Central and Eastern Europe - ‘management’ and ‘consultancy’ meaning something to businesses in those parts of the world.

All this came to an end in 2002 when it became obvious that blogging is much more enjoyable than real work. Since then, the blogging has become her main preoccupation and a route to regaining sanity lost somewhere on the fourth floor of a tall, marble-encrusted building in the City. Adriana has applied her analytical powers to the potential of blogging and would like to make sure that companies also understand that markets are conversations. Occasionally she gets accused of problem-solving.

Session : Investing 2.0 : The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Investing 2.0 : The Good, The Bad and The Ugly -  Dec. 5th - 16h - 17h 

Social Media and more broadly, Web 2.0, have seen a flurry of activity over the past 18 months: startups creation, VC financing, mergers and acquisitions, established players jumping in the fray,... This panel, made up of key witnesses of the Web 2.0 phenomena, will take a retrospective, and sarcastic, look at key trends in this "frothy" market, and where it might go from there.

Session : Tracking/Listening to the Online World

Tracking/Listening to the Online World -  December 6th - 14h45-15h45

No one can afford to be blind and deaf in this new online world. Our
panelists will discuss the current state of the art for tracking what
is happening in the blogosphere, giving tips and advice on how to keep
up with the rapid changes in technology.

Moderated by Guillaume du Gardier

  • Mark Rogers, CEO, Market Sentinel, UK
  • Salim Ismail, CEO, PubSub, USA
  • David Sifry, CEO, Technorati, USA
  • Yann Motte, VP Product Management,
    Yahoo! Europe, U.K.
  • Mark Fletcher, Founder, Bloglines, USA

Session : Podcasting, Photo & Video Blogging

Podcasting, Photo & Video Blogging - December 6th - 11h30-12h15

With the ongoing improvement in high speed bandwidth, especially the new
3G networks being deployed in Europe, early adopters are beginning to
jump on the photo and video bandwagon, adding graphics and short videos
to their blogs, and even creating pure video blogs. This panel will
highlight some of these early uses, discuss the challenges and, as with
the preceding panel, talk about ideas for future video technologies.

Moderated by Neville Hobson

  • Bertrand Lenotre, Podemus, France
  • Jian Ni, Senior Business Development Manager,
    Nokia Lifeblog, Finland
  • Olivier Dufour, Founder, Skema, France
  • Roy Lindeman, Partner, Readspeaker, Sweden
  • Gabe McIntyre, Xolo.tv

Session : RSS Panel

RSS Panel - December 6th - 10h-11h

RSS is the enabling technology for participatory communications, providing syndication for blogs, wikis, podcasts, videocasts, etc. This panel will discuss the best ways to use RSS, both to publish and subscribe to information.

Moderated by Elizabeth Albrycht

  • Fergus Burns, CEO, Nooked, USA
  • Scott Rafer, Chairman, Wireless Inc, USA
  • Dana VanDen Heuvel, Pheedo, USA
  • Steve Olechowski, COO & Co-Founder,
    FeedBurner, USA
  • Greg Reinacker, NewsGator Technologies, USA

Speaker : Jeff Clavier

Jeff ClavierFounder and Managing Partner, SoftTech Venture Consulting
Blog : Software Only

Based in Palo Alto (CA), Jean-Francois "Jeff" Clavier is the Founder and
Managing Partner of SoftTech Venture Consulting, a firm providing services to the “software ecosystem”, primarily early stage consumer Internet startups. Jeff will typically get involved as an advisor, board member or part-time executive, focusing on business development, fund raising, and strategy matters.
His current areas of interests include next generation search, social media (blogging, syndication, aggregation), and open source. These are also the primary topics covered on his blog, Software Only - alongside venture capital, startup and industry news, conferences,...

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Speaker : Suw Charman

Suw Charman is a renowned social software expert who specialises in the application of blogs and wikis in business. An independent consultant, she works with companies in the UK and America advising on the use of blogs both behind the firewall and as marketing and external communications tools. A well known blogger, Suw keeps a number of blogs, including Chocolate and Vodka, Strange Attractor, and Blogiculum Vitae. She is also Executive Director of the Open Rights Group, a British digital rights organisation.

Speaker : David Hornik

Investor, August Capital
Blog : Venture Blog

David Hornik

David joined August Capital in 2000. He invests broadly in information technology companies, with a focus on enterprise application and infrastructure software and consumer facing software and services. Prior to joining August Capital, David was an intellectual property and corporate attorney at Venture Law Group, Cravath Swaine & Moore, and Perkins Coie LLP. In his legal practice, David represented high tech startups in all aspects of their formation, financing and operations, including Yahoo!, When.com (AOL), Sonique (Terra Lycos), Pure Payments (Excite@Home), BuyDirect (Beyond.com) and Ofoto (Kodak). David has an eclectic technology background.

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Speaker : Om Malik

Om MalikSenior writer, Business 2.0
Blog : GigaOM

Om Malik is a San Francisco-based senior writer for Business 2.0. He has covered technology and telecom for over a decade for publications like Forbes, and Red Herring. Om has contributed to The Wall Street Journal, The Economist and MIT Technology Review. He is the author of Broadbandits: Inside the $750 Billion Telecom Heist. His daily rants on tech/telecom and broadband can be found at his often updated blog.

26/10/2005

2004 Highlights

Session2 Thousands of blog posts and pictures were blogged before, during and after the first edition by the participants who have actually been speaking and publishing on the Web more than the speakers themselves.

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25/10/2005

The point on security in Paris

NightinparisActually, they aren't any problem to connect with airports from Paris by train, security is very good.

You can still spend the night walking in Paris without any problem and it's still one of the best-looking city in the world.

The "state-of-emergency" measures are applied in suburbs communities around the city and departments like Seine-Saint-Denis but not IN Paris.

Please note that the violence that has swept across France for almost two weeks are waning as the government imposes security measures. It's been over two weeks since riots were sparked by the accidental deaths of two teenagers allegedly hiding from police.

13/10/2005

Hotel Recommendation

Were are pleased to announce a special rate at the Champerret Elysées Hôtel *** for the conference.

Single Room : 116 €/night
2 persons Room : 129 €/night

Please mention Conference LES BLOGS 2.0 for you reservation.

Address:
129 Avenue de Villiers
75017 PARIS
Tel: +33 1 47 64 44 00
Fax: +33 1 47 63 10 58
email: Hotel Champerret

10/10/2005

Where is the Event

We can now annouce where the event LES BLOS 2.0 will take place on december 5th & 6th

Address:

Salle_1NEGOCIA
8, avenue de la Porte de Champerret
75838 Paris cedex 17




Métro : Porte de Champerret / Louise Michel
Bus : 84 / 92 / 93 / 163 / 194 / 165 / PC
Car park : Parc de Champerret

If you  want to book an Hotel, you can select in the area of the Paris Palais des congrès wich is not far away or XVII  arrondissement.
More hotels recommendations will be announced shortly and the wiki opened

Plan

03/10/2005

Confirmed speakers to date

The list of confirmed speakers to date are:

Platinum Sponsors

Gold Sponsors

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