The initial lineup of influential senior-level executives, entrepreneurial innovators, technologists, financiers, analysts and pundits for Web 2.0 Summit 2010 has been released.
Speakers include
Ari Emanuel (Co-CEO: William Morris Endeavor Entertainment)
will.i.am (Musician/Producer: Black Eyed Peas)
Carol Bartz (CEO: Yahoo!)
Evan Williams (CEO: Twitter, Inc.)
Frank Quattrone (CEO: Qatalyst Partners)
Jack Dorsey (Creator, Chairman and co-founder: Twitter)
Mary Meeker (Managing Director: Morgan Stanley)
Reed Hastings (CEO: Netflix)
Richard Rosenblatt (Co-Founder, Chairman, CEO: Demand Media Inc.)
Robin Li (Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO: Baidu, Inc.)
Susan Lyne (CEO: Gilt Groupe)
Nikesh Arora (President, Global Sales Operations and Business Development: Google)
Web 2.0 Summit is returning to the Palace Hotel in San Francisco this year. Space is limited and attendance is by invitation only, so submit your request for an invitation today.
We look forward to seeing you this November 15-17!
(This post is cross-posted from the Web 2.0 Summit blog http://blog.web2summit.com/)
and all Web2Open community members who led sessions!! Thank you for your ideas and enthusiasm.
Janetti Chon aka @janerri is the producer for Web2Open 2010. She is an independent producer, writer, and community-builder working in the technology industry. Please find her at janerri.com.
Rhomobile, one of six on-stage presenters, won the People’s Choice Award at our annual Launch Pad event yesterday after pitching to a panel of judges and a large crowd in our keynote room.
(The Launch Pad program, sponsored this year by Elance and supporting sponsor, Zoosk, is a unique public forum designed to spotlight new products or technologies being introduced to the Web 2.0 market. )
“We’re very excited and pleased to win the People’s Choice award at this year’s Web 2.0 Expo Launch Pad program,” said Adam Blum, Rhomobile CEO. “Rhomobile designed Rhodes to appeal to web developers and that targeting seemed to resonate with the Web 2.0 audience. We can’t think of a better venue to receive an award. Winning Launch Pad validates the Rhodes approach to use your web skills to write native apps.”
In addition to Rhomobile, the People’s Choice winner, AskYourTargetMarket.com, Engleasy (winner of last weekend’s Startup Weekend Bay Area), Pearltrees, Strings and Stupeflix also presented. Each of these finalists had the opportunity to showcase their new ideas on stage in front of the Web 2.0 Expo audience and receive real-time feedback from the following judges: Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb, Ellen Pack of Elance and Brian Singerman of Founders Fund.
Thanks to all our participants, judges, sponsors, and audience members!
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Kaitlin Pike is the Community Manager of Web 2.0 Expo. She can be reached @w2e or @kcpike.
The tech scene in NY crackles these days with a growing sense of community. Our attendees say they’d like the show to reflect and support that, so we’re shifting to a venue where people can better connect. Instead of holding Web 2.0 Expo at the Javits Center, we’ll be at the Sheraton at 51st & 7th, a hotel with great conference facilities.
The new location means that our announced dates for NY have changed. Mark your calendars for our new dates: September 27 – 30, 2010.
We’re currently reviewing proposals for speakers in NY, and we’re excited about the program that’s shaping up. In early June, look for announcement of the schedule.
Meantime, save the dates for September and plan for a Web 2.0 Expo with strong new opportunities to learn from and meet up with other people who are passionate about working on the web.
We’ve kicked off the second (and last) day of the community unconference… the grid is almost full for the day. We’ll take a short break at lunch, but be back at 12:40pm and here some of these great afternoon sessions:
* Multi-Platform Marketing: Lessons from the Trenches by @theMixAgency founder Vanessa Camones
* Social Media Monitoring & Measuring That Works by @theMaria
* Intermission: Startup Advice from Hollywood by @gregarious
Our keynote stage functions as a platform for exciting announcements and in-depth conversations about the Web 2.0 world. See the collection of keynote videos and speaker interviews in our YouTube playlist.
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Kaitlin Pike is the Community Manager of Web 2.0 Expo. She can be reached @w2e or @kcpike.
As part of our annual traditions, we are once again hosting a Non-Profit Pavilion as part of the Expo Hall. These 9 non-profits work to better our local, global, and online communities using Web 2.0 technologies as part of their efforts. Be sure to stop by the Expo Hall today to check out how they’re changing your world:
5 for Fairness
5 for Fairness is an online community dedicated to fostering fairness for girls worldwide through collective grantmaking. Members contribute $5 to our Grant Account and create Teams for organizations they believe in. When we have $5000, we vote on which Team deserves our grant. Then we start again.
ACLU of NoCal
What’s the ACLU doing at Web 2.0? Come learn more about the Demand your dotRights campaign and pick up a copy of Privacy and Free Speech: It’s Good for Business, a primer for companies about how to avoid costly privacy and free speech mistakes that bury the bottom line.
Code for America
Code for America was founded to help the brightest minds of the Web 2.0 generation transform city governments. What if, instead of cutting services or raising taxes, cities could leverage the power of the web to become more efficient, transparent, and participatory? Come find out how you can help.
Eureka Fund
Eureka Fund empowers people to participate directly in our energy future. Through online innovation campaigns, we connect people who are passionate about energy and the environment with scientists who have transformative solutions that need support.
Games for Democracy
Not-for-profit Games for Democracy aims to reinvigorate democratic discourse through the use of serious games. We use Web 2.0 technologies to facilitate online Innovation Games® that build consensus and enable the receiving and prioritization of input from stakeholders, through collaborative activities that produce the engagement and joy of play.
Give to Asia
Give2Asia, a US 501(c)3 public charity, promotes and inspires philanthropy by delivering services that meet the needs of donors and the Asian communities they care about. Founded in 2001 by The Asia Foundation, we serve 8,500 donors in the United States resulting in over $130 million in charitable giving for Asia.
Internet Systems Consortium
Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation best known for the open source software BIND and ISC DHCP. ISC operates the F-root nameserver, DLV registry and provides secondary DNS services. ISC also offers professional services related to our open source products such as support, training and consulting.
Philanthropedia
Philanthropedia is a new social venture that helps donors give with confidence because they know their contributions are having a real impact. On our webpage www.myphilanthropedia.org, we highlight nonprofit Expert Funds, which feature outstanding nonprofits recommended by hundreds of foundation program officers, researchers, policy makers, and nonprofit executives.
SETI Institute
The mission of the SETI Institute is to explore, understand and explain the origin, nature and prevalence of life in the universe. We believe we are conducting the most profound search in human history – to know our beginnings and our place among the stars.
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Kaitlin Pike is the Community Manager of Web 2.0 Expo. She can be reached @w2e or @kcpike.
The folks attending the Web2Open unconference on-site tomorrow and Wednesday at Web 2.0 Expo (Moscone West) will experience something rarely seen at other conferences… sunshine all day long!
Check out the sweet digs for our community gathering. This is one of three rooms along the 2nd floor outer corridor.
Stop by for some coffee, to power up your laptop, find a co-working table, network with attendees, and participate in some great sessions.
May 25th, 2010 |
