If you live in Europe or want an excuse to visit, join me at the upcoming LeWeb conference in Paris, produced by Geraldine and Loic Le Meur, on December 9-10. The conference program is up and the speakers list is top notch (although, oddly, mostly American). Tickets are here.
TechCrunch is a media partner (which means we’ll be covering the event extensively), and we will be holding a party on the last night of the event as well.
They expect 1,500 or so attendees from 40 countries. See the video below, as well as Geraldine’s attempt to explain the theme of the conference this year: Love. (meh)
See you there.
Impressive list of speakers! One question though: is this an English-speaking event? Just making sure
yes, it is.
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Why is this in Paris?
Le Web is an awesome event, but the reason I organize the Plugg conference comes down to one quote from your post, the one about the speaker list being mostly American.
But kudos to Loïc and Geraldine, and see everyone in Paris
Plugg is awesome too.
Because the French really fancy themselves!!! And although Loic lives in SF, he is responsible for 0.05% of the Total French GDP and needs visitor dollars to keep it going …… [only joking]
wow, it’s awesome . I wil tell my friends in Germany.
I’m glad that the tickets are priced to put off the average joe blogger like me. You wouldn’t want the riff raff there making the place all dirty.
I wouldn’t, but it’s a personal preference :!
I’m not sure you can put an event of this scope on in Paris without charging people a lot to attend. They could scale down the event and put it somewhere else, but then it is something else entirely (and there are lots of events like that). So, make your purchase decision and deal with it.
sure it is a great event. Wish i could come.
china ,to far
Am I reading it right that if you get chosen by the startup competition you still pay 1500 euros? TechCrunch 50 is such a great value for startups.
India. Too far! Ever thought of doing something here in ASIA??
OK. Looks like an interesting event. But even 950 € + 19% VAT are some sort of fat, considering that you further need a room in Paris and a ticket to travel there.
Aren’t there any fair price tickets from your “media partner” stock available??
you know, I don’t think they’ve offered us a discount to pass on to people. if they do, I’ll add it.
can’t wait!
I would love to go this event! Good list of speakers too.
These events are all the same. Seem to me like they following the same template. Here is the template.
1. Get a few friends from microsoft and as them to speak.
2. Get our web2.0 buddies and ask them to speak.
Talk about wasteful spending
thanks for being a partner for all these years Michael, can’t wait to have fun in Paris again.
We will definitely consider a discount code for TechCrunch readers, as well as a few free tickets to win.
“Discount Code” sounds really fair. Could you please get Michael to throw out the details here as soon as you have them fixed?
by the way, if any TC reader wants to get to LeWeb as a blogger for free, we won’t give many passes but here is how:
http://climbtot...for-leweb-paris