Les Blogs 2.0 Program

Monday, December 5th
How is blogging challenging the Corporate World ?
8h30-9h30	Welcome buffet breakfast & Registration sponsored by Nokia
9h30-9h45	Opening Remarks
	Loïc Le Meur, Executive VP, Six Apart, France
9h45-10h30	Naked Conversations
	Robert Scoble, Technical Evangelist, Microsoft, USA Shel Israel, USA
10h30-11h	Networking break, sponsored by Altaïde
11h-12h15	How is blogging affecting corporations ?
	Moderated by Gilles Klein, Journalist, France Philippe Borremans, Public Relations Manager, IBM, Belgium Georges-Edouard Dias, Director of Internet & E-business, L'Oreal, France Michel-Edouard Leclerc, France Jaanus Kase, Skype, U.K. Adriana Cronin-Lukas, U.K. Martin Varsavsky, Fon
12h15-14h15	Networking lunch, sponsored by Fon
How is blogging and citizen publishing changing the media landscape ?
14h15-15h15	Citizen Journalism and mainstream media
	Moderated by Thomas Crampton International Herald Tribune Rebecca MacKinnon, Global Voices, USA Joël de Rosnay, Agoravox, France Marcel Reichart, Hubert Burda Media, Germany Cathy Nivez, Europe 1, France Ethan Zuckerman, Global Voices co-founder
15h15-16h15	Investing 2.0 : The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
	Jeff Clavier, Softtech VC, USA  Rodrigo SEPULVEDA, France David Hornik, August Capital, USA Simon Levene, Yahoo!, US Session description
16h15-16h45	Networking break
16h45-17h30	How blogs influence politics ?
	Davide Casaleggio, Blog of Beppe Grillo, Italy Thierry Solere, Boulogne Billancourt vice city mayor, France Kevin Anderson, BBC World Service, UK Stanislas Magniant, Netpolitique, France Christophe Grébert, MonPuteaux.com, France
17h30-18h30	Blogs and education
	Eric Briys, Cyberlibris, Belgium Ewan McIntosh, University of Stirling, Scotland U.K Carl-Frédéric De Celles, iXmédia, Québec Santiago Íñiguez, IE-Instituto de Empresa business school, Spain
20h...	Networking dinner & party in Paris. Sponsored by Edelman
We are pleased to invite all participants to the Les Blogs 2.0 party, sponsored by Edelman on Monday December 5th. Join us celebrating the new way of thinking at the Barramundi restaurant-lounge. Music, French food and open bar all night.
Tuesday, December 6th
What are the tools used and how we can all best benefit from them ?
8h30-9h30	Buffet breakfast, Sponsored by Nokia
9h30-10h00	Opening Remarks
	Mena Trott, co-founder, Six Apart, USA
10h-11h	RSS Panel
	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 Session description
11h-11h30	Networking break
11h30-12h15	Podcasting, Photo & Video Blogging
	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 description
12h15-13h45	Networking lunch sponsored by Hubert Burda Media and Skype
14h00-14h30	How to socialize in the year 2055
	Moderated by Suw Charman, U.K. Anina, France Marc Canter, USA Hugh MacLeod, U.K.
14h30-15h45	Tracking/Listening to the Online World
	Introduction : Marie Rouet, President Edelman, France 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 description
15h45-16h15	Eight ideas that will really revolutionize the 21st century (and why blogging isn't one of them)
	Ben Hammersley, Italy
16h15-16h45	Networking Break
16h45-18h00	Closing session : the future.
	Reid Hoffman, Linked In, USA Yat Siu, Outblaze, China Christian Lindholm, Yahoo!, UK Sam Sethi, Vecosys, UK Helen Copnall, MSN UK, UK

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