Thank you to all the non-profits who applied for a free booth at Web 2.0 Expo New York’s Non-Profit Pavilion. We will review the candidates and announce the chosen charities later this week.

Our Non-Profit Pavilion is a way for us to give back to those who are using the Web in innovative ways to change the our communities in the local and global sense. Stop on by the Expo Hall floor during our Web 2.0 Expo New York conference this November to meet with representatives from these great charities.

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Kaitlin Pike is the Community Manager for Web 2.0 Expo. She can be reached @w2e.

I know we’re all digital people but I’ve always been a big fan of ‘black and white and read all over.’

So I’m thrilled to see the theme of Web 2 Summit included in this USA Today article:

Everything from cellphones to common digital cameras is “being turned into eyes and ears for applications,” says Tim O’Reilly, the founder of O’Reilly Media who is credited with inventing the term Web 2.0. “Data is being collected, presented and acted upon in real time. It’s all about immediacy and instantaneous data.”

The need for speed

The need for data speed has inspired O’Reilly to come up with a new phrase, “Web squared,” to describe the evolution of the Web as we know and use it. O’Reilly and John Battelle, founder of Federated Media Publishing, coined it in a white paper preceding their Web 2.0 Summit conference in San Francisco next month.

Web 2 Summit :: October 20-22 :: Westin, San Francisco

Program co-chair John Battelle of Web 2 Summit will be posting a series of “Ask the CEO” articles on Searchblog - to get input from this community on the burning questions you want to ask the amazing line up decision-makers and industry leaders we’re featuring in 2009′s #WebSquared conference.

So starting with Brian Roberts, CEO of Comcast – what’s on your mind? Read the full article here and share your thoughts. Get your questions asked on stage!

About Brian and Comcast -

Under his leadership, Comcast has grown into a Fortune 100 company with $34.3 billion in revenues, 24.2 million customers and 100,000 employees. Comcast’s content networks and investments include E! Entertainment Television, Style Network, Golf Channel, VERSUS, G4, PBS KIDS Sprout, TV One, and ten sports networks operated by Comcast Sports Group and Comcast Interactive Media, which develops and operates Comcast’s Internet businesses, including Comcast.net.

Recently, Web 2.0 Summit program co-chair John Battelle (with Tim O’Reilly) announced that extraordinary new speakers, sessions, and sponsors have been added to the Web 2 Summit schedule. These speakers (one of whom was recently interviewed by Jon Stewart – see clip below) will inject coverage of tech policy, the economic crisis, and education reform into this year’s conversation:

Carly Fiorina – Having taken the first formal steps toward a formal bid for U.S. Senate, Fortune Magazine’s Most Powerful Woman in Business will grace our stage for a conversation about politics, her potential candidacy, and how what she learned at the helm of HP might prepare her for the only place more competitive than the Valley: Washington D.C. Should she continue her candidacy, Fiorina will be running against a powerful and long-standing California incumbent — Democrat Barbara Boxer.

Aneesh Chopra – America’s first ever appointed CTO will join us this year, in conversation with Tim O’Reilly. A charismatic figure and proven leader, Chopra is charged with developing national strategies for technology investments — overseeing the U.S. Government’s $150 billion R&D budget. By promoting and implementing technological innovation, the CTO’s goal is to create jobs, reduce health care costs, and keep our nation secure.

Austan Goolsbee – Chief U.S. Economist, member of the Council of Economic Advisers, serving the executive office as staff director on the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board (PERAB) — an outfit established within the Department of Treasury charged with analyzing and understanding the state of our financial markets, banking and commerce systems in order to inform decision making around economic policy. Between the CEA and PERAB, Austan is working to fix America’s economic standing both domestically and internationally. No small feat.

I’m excited to hear insights from Carly, Aneesh, Austan, and the slew of additional CEOs and industry leaders we’ll be hearing from this Oct 20-22. Here’s a preview of Austan’s interview with Jon Stewart on the Daily Show – it’s both entertaining AND informative.

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MORE AT WEB 2 SUMMIT

Special Web Squared Installation
Presented in partnership with the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts (GAFFTA) — a San Francisco-based collective dedicated to building social consciousness through digital culture — data visualization artist Aaron Koblin will debut a 10-screen exhibit on the theme of Web Squared. Koblin is best known for his collaboration on the Radiohead album using lasers and sensors to create a 3D data-based music video.

New Program: High Order Ignite

High Order Ignite is a session of rapid-fire presentations that highlight companies and technologies that may well change the world. A mashup of O’Reilly Media’s community Ignite talks and Web 2.0′s High Order Bits, five hand-selected companies will have exactly five minutes on stage. The winner, chosen by sponsor Omidyar Network, will receive a meeting with eBay founder Pierre Omidyar.

Take a look at the full line up and schedule of the Web 2 Summit program here. And if you’d like to join us, you can find additional details, and a ‘request for invitation‘ form on our website.

“If we are going to solve the world’s most pressing problems, we must put the power of the Web to work – its technologies, its business models, and perhaps most importantly, its philosophies of openness, collective intelligence, and transparency. And to do that, we must take the Web to another level. We can’t afford incremental evolution anymore.”

- Tim O’Reilly and John Battelle, “Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On”

Web 2.0 Expo is about much more than business development and learning useful new skills. It’s about disrupting and changing the system we live in.

We value those who work to better our community, whether that’s the local area or in the world community. Because of this, we are again setting up a Non-Profit Pavilion. This Web 2.0 Expo tradition has hosted such organizations as ChangingthePresent, Amoration, Creative Commons, Donorschoose, Knowmore, Social Actions, USIBA and the University of Denver CIS Program.

If you’re a non-profit organization that is using Web 2.0 technologies to support your cause, mission, or community goals, we invite you to apply for a spot in our Pavilion.

We will choose 10 non-profits to participate in the Pavilion (located on the Expo floor). Each organization will be supplied with a booth space, on-site branding and inclusion in the events guide, completely free of charge.

To apply, fill out the form below. The deadline to apply is September 27.

Organizations must be a registered 501c3 to participate. Space is limited to 10 non-profits. An internal Web 2.0 Expo committee will select the booth recipients and announcements will be made the week of September 28.

Thank you.

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Kaitlin Pike is the Community Manager of Web 2.0 Expo. She can be reached @w2e.

A recession is a great time for us to learn new tricks. If you’re looking to increase your value to your company (or as a freelancer or entrepreneur), you need to get in touch with the right teachers and take the right courses. Whether you are a developer, designer, or social media strategist, you can find both gurus and focused sessions at the Expo covering everything you need to learn to increase your potential.

Better yet, we’ve organized a quick list of 7 essential sessions for each of these three specialties to help guide you on your journey.

If these lists don’t suit your fancy (or don’t necessarily apply to your career), message us on Twitter @W2E to ask for help in deciding which sessions to attend. If you’re getting the free Expo Hall Only pass (discount code: webny09snex), we can help point you to all the great free events at Web 2.0 Expo, including our popular unconference, Web2Open. You’re also encouraged to send us your own personalized Web 2.0 Expo schedule to help others decide what to attend. Either post your list in the comments, on our Facebook Fan Page, or just Tweet it to us. Check out the conference schedule to put yours together.

See you in New York!

Developers’ Essential 7 Sessions for Upping Your Game

1) Mobile App Stores: The Developers’ Perspectives

2) The Software Systems That Scale Twitter

3) Best and Worst Practices Building Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) from Adobe and Microsoft

4) HTML5: Open Web Graphics, Animation and Video with SVG

5) Best Practices for Building Cross-Browser Addons

6) Improving Front-End Performance in Mature Web Apps

7) Latency Trumps All

For You Designers: 7 Sessions to a Better Look, Feel, and UX

1) CSS3 for Working Web Designers

2) Good Design Faster

3) Thinking Visually

4) Bootstrap Usability: Enhancing Your Product on a Shoestring Budget

5) Designing the Experience Curve

6) The Human Interface (or: Products are People, Too!)

7) Sketchboards & Prototyping—Methods for Rapid Design

7 Sessions to Improve Your Social Media Strategy

1) Business and Community in the Facebook Era: Preparing for a New Kind of Customer Relationship

2) Let’s Get Engaged! The New Customer Relationship Landscape

3) Marketing via Fan Boys/Fan Girls: Your Customers As Your Brand Evangelists

4) They Shall Know Us By Our Dialtone

5) Social Media Protocols: What You Need to Know BEFORE Your Team Starts Posting, Tweeting and Commenting

6) Effective Twitter for Business

7) Sparking a Crush: Attracting and Retaining New Users

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Kaitlin Pike is the new Community Manager for Web 2.0 Expo. She can be reached @W2E

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve added two new keynote speakers to our already impressive list:

Jascha Franklin-Hodge is a founding partner of Blue State Digital, where he currently serves as the Chief Technology Officer. Blue State Digital spearheaded Obama for America’s extensive online fundraising, constituency building and peer-to-peer networking initiatives, all of which helped to create momentum for Obama’s successful presidential campaign. Jascha managed the team that built and ran the my.barackobama.com technology platform, and worked directly with Obama for America’s New Media team in providing the tools and platform to engage supporters, donors and volunteers. In addition, he managed the server and systems infrastructure that powered the Obama web presence.

Ching-Yung Lin is a Research Scientist and Project Lead at IBM| T. J. Watson Research Center. Since 2006, Dr. Lin has been the lead on the IBM SmallBlue project. SmallBlue is an IBM Corporation effort including worldwide Research, Software, and Service divisions. Inside IBM, this platform has been capturing and analyzing both people networks, document networks, and the cross-layer links between people and documents. An external product version of this platform (IBM Atlas) is available to other organizations. His research mainly focuses on multimodality signal analysis and complex network analysis, with applications on machine learning, distributed computing, embedded vision system, social computing and security. In 2003, Dr. Lin created and led more than 100 researchers in 23 worldwide research institutes for the first large-scale collaborative video semantic annotation project.

Visit our keynotes information page for more information.

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Kaitlin Pike is the new Community Manager for Web 2.0 Expo. She can be reached @W2E.

Hi Web 2.0-ers. I hope you’ve had a nice summer. Today marks the start of September, which to me signifies the start of the fall conference season, and what a season it’ll be.

The teams at O’Reilly Media and TechWeb have been diligently programming and producing these past two months – preparing for the second Web 2.0 Expo New York this November – and launching Gov 2 Summit & Showcase in a few short weeks, held in Washington D.C.

Gov 2.0 Summit: The Platform for Change. Over the past fifteen years, the rise of the World Wide Web has resulted in remarkable new possibilities and business models reshaping our culture and our economy. Now the time has come to reshape government. Gov 2 is chaired by Tim O’Reilly and Richard O’Neil (The Highlands Group), alongside an intelligent program committee – read on to see the speaker lineup or schedule.

Web 2.0 Expo New York. The Power of Less. Constraints drive creativity, whether in business models, design paradigms, or platforms. The power of the small screen, the thin client, the streamlined interface. The power of small teams, or even going solo. The paradox of power: sometimes the best way to gain power is to give it away, which is why during these challenging times, we are learning that nothing builds brands like a nurtured community. The power of data: of data-centric business models, and the power of data to inform our decisions and to focus us on what matters. The power of less is the power of creative destruction. It’s the power to change the world. See how to participate here!

And in between the two we’ll manage to host our fifth Web 2 Summit this Oct 20-22, an event I’m particularly proud to announce as this year I have the pleasure of working with program chair John Battelle to help it come to life. He just published the speaker line up and festivities. Exciting stuff!

Headliners I’m particularly interested in hearing is U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra - the man in charge of our $150 billion R&D budget; Steve Schneider – Program Director at WestEd who is establishing the first-ever standard for technology literacy across the U.S. (by 2012); Cynthia Warner – president of a biofuel company that just might have the answer to… well, energy – and Austan Goolsbee – Chief Economist for President Obama. He bantered well with Jon Stewart on the Daily Show, keen to see hear his opinions live on stage in front of a roomful of peers. Oh, and last but not least, eager to feed the little hungry geek that lives inside me with the info from Brady Forrest’s ‘Human Sensors Discussion’ – oh, that’ll be good.

In general, there are lots of things that impress me about a conference –

• its intelligence
• its ability to connect peoples, ideas, communities
• its momentary existence (because no two conferences are ever alike)
• its seamless execution (at least when event director Meghan Reilly is at the helm)
• its energy

And I’m really looking forward to experiencing all of that at Summit this fall. Earlier in the year Tim [O’Reilly] and John established the theme #WebSquared – an extension of 2008’s Web Meets World philosophy – and the schedule we’ll be announcing this week is comprehensive and relevant to the issues we are facing as a society today.

From Tim & John -

In our first program, we asked why some companies survived the dotcom bust, while others had failed so miserably. We also studied a burgeoning group of startups and asked why they were growing so quickly. The answers helped us understand the rules of business on this new platform.

Chief among our insights was that “the network as platform” means far more than just offering old applications via the network (“software as a service”); it means building applications that literally get better the more people use them, harnessing network effects not only to acquire users, but also to learn from them and build on their contributions.

Today, we realize that these insights were not only directionally right, but are being applied in areas we only imagined in 2004. The smartphone revolution has moved the Web from our desks to our pockets. Collective intelligence applications are no longer being driven solely by humans typing on keyboards but, increasingly, by sensors. Our phones and cameras are being turned into eyes and ears for applications; motion and location sensors tell where we are, what we’re looking at, and how fast we’re moving. Data is being collected, presented, and acted upon in real time. The scale of participation has increased by orders of magnitude.

Today, the exponential growth of Web has made its technologies service as the backbone of our everyday lives. If you want to discover more on the topic – download the whitepaper, and share your opinion on the Web Squared.

So there you go. That’s the reason we’ve all been so quiet here… there is a lot going on and we want you to explore and enjoy these live events. But if you can’t be with us in person, as always, you can catch the keynotes and recorded content on the various Blip.tv channels. There is currently only archived content, 2009 videos will get posted to these channels within a week of the event.

• Gov 2 Events
• Web 2 Summit
• Web 2 Expo

Stay tuned for more conference information and community announcements. Once again, let the games begin!

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Note: Janetti Chon is now Web 2 Summit’s Producer at Battellemedia, a partner of O’Reilly Media & TechWeb.