LeWeb3 on Dec. 11-12 in Paris
Ouriel Ohayon
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TechCrunch is co-hosting this year’s LeWeb3 in Paris, France December 11th and 12th, an event organized by Loic Le Meur of SixApart. It is a two days conference to discuss the next generation web and mobile services, virtual games/communties, old and new media and other topics. Last year the event gathered 450 web entrepreneurs, key players and bloggers from 25 countries.
A great panel of speakers with a european focus has been gathered (Niklas Zennström/Skype, Martin Varsavsky/Fon,..) and many startups will be invited to showcase (you can register here startups wiki if you are interested). The program is online and will be updated as additional speakers join are confirmed.
A wild party will also be organized the night of the first day. Michael Arrington, Sam Sethi from TechCrunch UK and myself will of course be there. It will probably be the biggest or one of the biggest web event this year in Europe.
1000 participants, bloggers, VCs and angels, startups, journalists internet passionate are expected there. The conference is english. The registration fee for this event will be 300 EUR - about 380 USD (VAT excluded) if you register before Nov 11th or 500 EUR - about 630 USD(VAT excluded) from Nov 11th to Dec 10th. It includes also breakfast, lunch and attendance to the party. Registration is now open.
A blog has been designed with all the details of the event as well as a conference wiki.
Must Attend? Ok, give me a plane ticket.
Last years event was very good. With regard to the other big event coming up: The Techcrunch 8 party. I’m unable to attend so I’m auctioning off my ticket along with a $1500 voucher for the 40/40 club. All going to charity. If interested http://cgi.ebay.ie/ws/eBayISAP.....:LCA:IE:31
Having grown up in Paris for a significant portion of my life and as a fluent French speaker, I hope to be able to attend this event. Would also be great to be included in the startups presenting.
france and the internet?
wonderful - as synonymous as britain and fine food.
so, when can we expect the www to mandate french as its native tongue?
what’s up with the requirement to register for socialtext to be considered for attendance? a little much.
Web3.0 or just the 3rd LeWeb?
I thought the French had their own version of the Internet…somehting like ‘La Grande Vitesse Ordinateur’
“A wild party will also be organized the night of the first day. Michael Arrington, Sam Sethi from TechCrunch UK and myself will of course be there.”
Grammar… please!
nemrut:
minitel?
Last year was really only worth it for Mena losing her sh** on stage.
David, wasnt that thing running on a 9600 baud modem. I have this picture in my of the French still wearing bell bottoms and cursing at their little minitel boxes..merde..merde..merde..!
David/Nemrut> you would be surprised to see how advanced France is in terms of broadband access, triple play offers and 3g penetration.
As Ouriel points out, you guys should check the download speed offered by ISPs and wireless carriers over there - “real” broadband comes to mind. My mom is getting 10x my (Palo Alto) bandwidth for half the price.
And yes, the conference is in English as it gathers people from all around Europe, the US and Asia.
Ouriel/Jeff: I was just poking fun at the minitel
Have fond memories of using one around age 6. And for sure, anything has to beat my very slow Comcast cable connection, who’ve been having incredible routing problems lately :-/
Are there going to be a plug-in for our laptops? I mean my battery dies after two ours.
As Jeff points out, a current broadband bundled offer in Paris goes something like this: 20Mb ADSL, IPTV, PSTN voice and VoIP unlimited inside France for 40 euros. There are approximately 12 million broadband subs in France. They may have been late to start, but the French are very Internet savvy and the competition has really improved the offers and uptake. (In the interest of full disclosure, I work for Orange.)