Category: leweb

Sharing Economy Money Panel Moderated by: Nina Dos Santos, News Anchor & Correspondent, CNN World Business Today Samir Desai, Co-Founder & CEO, Funding Circle Raffael Johnen, Co-Founder & CEO, Auxmoney.com Renaud Laplanche, CEO, Lending Club For established industries, the sharing marketplace — with rapidly shifting social, cultural, and technological disruptions — is forcing them to […]

Chris Guillebeau, Writer, Entrepreneur and Traveler I was thinking about what can I share, what can I contribute to this conversation. I wanted to talk about adventure and travel. But adventure is almot an opposing value to optimisation, efficiency etc. I recently finished an adventure to visit every country in the world, over 11 years. […]

John Perry Barlow, Co-Founder, Electronic Frontier Foundation Photo by:Luca Sartoni – http://www.heisenbergmedia.com/ I’ve been a hippie since sometime in 1965,when I quit being a beatnik. I’m fine with it, as part of what it’s meant, is that I know which side I am on in the struggle between certical and horizontal, religion and net and […]

Nick Halstead, Founder & CTO, DataSift Inc How Social Sharing Built a Billion Dollar Market Nick Halstead has been at the heart of the social sharing economy for five years, creating the world’s first social sharing button and building a business upon the data that it generated. Nick will talk about the evolution of the […]

Boys and their Toys – The Google Glass Phenomenon Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb Robert Scoble, American blogger, technical evangelist, and author Rackspace Ben Metcalfe, Co-host, LeWeb’13 London Co-Founder, WP Engine Loic will be joined by Robert Scoble and Ben Metcalfe for this sure to be entertaining session.   Hear from these ultra early adopters their […]

Chris Chabot, Founder & CEO, Snapsation Chris has been a driving force of the social web for as long as it’s been been around. As a lead engineer on OpenSocial, Developer Advocate for Google on open web standards, and a founding member of the Google+ team, he’s always worked on creating new connections between people […]

Julien Smith, CEO, Breather With a dynamic team such as Julien & Alex, their new venture is sure to be disruptive. Julien, a New York Times bestselling author, who’s work focuses on adaptation and change, but not the “think out of the box” clichés that most companies embrace. Instead, his work draws from a deep […]

Jeremiah Owyang, Partner, Altimeter Group The Collaborative Economy:  How People, Startups, and Corporations build a new Market Industry Analyst Jeremiah Owyang, will share findings from a recent research on the Sharing Economy.  He’ll highlight the trends in the startup space, including verticals served, funding, and forecast what types of startups that will make it –and […]

 Douglas Atkin, Head of Community & E-staff Member, Airbnb Photo by: “Luca Sartoni – http://www.heisenbergmedia.com/” Wants to talk about a movement for the sharing economy. To grow the community. Grow the collective power. To stand up against the entrenched interests that stands in their way. Why?  There is an opportunity. There is enthusiasm. The players […]

Joe Gebbia, Co-Founder, Airbnb & Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb Photo by: “Luca Sartoni – http://www.heisenbergmedia.com/” Joe talked about how he set up, the idea behind it. It was triggered by a huge conference, filling up the hotels and decided to see if there was a way to connect people to the space in his […]

Joanna Shields, Chief Executive, Tech City Investment Organisation & Matt Cowan, Writer & Broadcaster An interview with Joanna, again all about London and the start up scene – the role of TechCity. (There was little actual information/evidence – just a general talk) Photo by: “Luca Sartoni – http://www.heisenbergmedia.com/” Some points: They have changed the investment […]

Welcome to London! Moderated by Ben Metcalfe, Co-host, LeWeb’13 London Co-Founder, WP Engine Brent Hoberman, Co-Founder, PROfounders Capital, Chairman, made.com & Founder & Chairman, mydeco.com Eric Van der Kleij, Head of Level39 Eze Vidra, Head of Campus, Google ; Photo by “Luca Sartoni – http://www.heisenbergmedia.com/” BM: what changes have been happening in London? BH: there […]

For the next few days, I’m at Le Web London which is all about the sharing economy. There’ll be lots of liveblogging! Loic Le Meur introduced the 2 day programme, welcoming everyone and opening the sessions with his definition of the sharing economy. A quick summary of his Slide Share talk: There is a new […]

Liveblogged – so mistakes Matt Mullenweg, Founder, Automattic & Om Malik, Founder & Senior Writer, GigaOM WordPress powers 17% of top million sites. it’s fun but also a responsibility, wanted to create open source publishing but also wanted to create sustainable business. So Automattic – those are the services that pay. Growing it to be […]

liveblogged – with mistakes Brian Solis, Principal, Altimeter Group Two years ago, discussed the Human API, where you body is open to connections. The internet of things is not just devices and data. I like the concept of superheroes and experiences. You have an opportunity to define what we are going to do as consumers. […]

Liveblogged – may be mistakes Ramon de Leon, Social Media Marketing, Dominos Pizza Markets for 6 Dominos stores in Pizza. Uses social media to drive sales! Told us his tips. Be prepared to create and share content. THat’s what people do – create and share content. He is prepared to capture all the time – […]

So half way through the conference and what are my impressions? The internet of things is complicated. Is it just on your phone? Is it the quantified self? Is it toys? Is it switches and buttons that you put round your house? is it embedded processors in cars and coffee machines. One thing that is […]

Liveblogged – may be mistakes Amber Case, Director of Esri R&D Center Portland, Cyborg Anthropologist & Former CEO, Geoloqi, Inc. We have devices that need to be looked after, fed and comforted. With our phones, we are all cyborgs. It is a symbiotic interaction between you and a machine. It is about having devices that […]

liveblogged – there will be mistakes Dr. DJ Patil, Data Scientist in Residence, Greylock Partners It’s about the data of things, rather the internet of things. The power of the things is that they produce data. The phone, the tablet, the PC. But there’s more. The fitbit, the jawbone. Things that measure sleep or activity […]