You’ve a few days left before we close our Early Price period (Deadline: September 22), and not much longer after until we start selling out of passes.
Haven’t had time yet to look through this year’s amazing content, speaker lineup and after hours parties? Fear not: We’ve put together a quick list of the top reasons to head to NYC for this year’s premier event for web professionals.
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We’re back for a fifth year of intense talks, high-level keynotes, a lively expo hall, and – of course – parties.
This year, Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2011 will teach you how to unlock the digital economy.
Encompassing the Web, mobile networks and connected devices, the digital economy spawns a host of new businesses every year. But how, exactly, do you become the next Groupon, Foursquare or Zynga? Who’s doing the smart stuff, making money and making a difference?
At our show in March, we’ll reveal the key pieces of the digital economy and the ways you can leverage important ideas for your own success. We’ll apply the economic filter to data collection, social connections, social media platforms, browser successes, old media in new channels, global commerce and much more.
Register now using code websf11bl20 to save 20% on all conference passes. Need help convincing your boss to send you to Web 2.0 Expo? Check our our Business Case.
What’s New This Year
Conversations
First up, our Conversations. Instead of holding just traditional speaker-and-audience sessions, we’re also creating a handful of 50-minute round-table conversations that you can join. But space is limited! We’re signing on an appealing list of Web 2.0 experts, each of whom will introduce a topic and then facilitate a discussion for up to 30 people—which is all the room holds. If you get into one of these sessions, you’ll be expected to lean in and join the conversation, not just sit back and listen. We’ll announce the moderators and specific topics in the coming weeks.
Startup Showcase
Launched at our New York 2010 show this past fall, our evening Startup Showcase event will bring approximately 30 startups demoing in one large room. Web 2.0 Expo attendees and a panel of judges from the investor community will have 50 minutes to visit the demos and listen to the pitches—we’ll sound a chime every five minutes, letting people know it’s time to circulate. As they walk around, attendees will vote on their favorite demos. At the end of the hour, the judges will announce their top picks along with the audience favorite. These winning startups will then each give a pitch and have an on-stage conversation with the judges.
A formal call for companies to participate in the Startup Showcase will open in late January. Make sure you are signed up for our bulletin to be notified when the call opens. Check out our Startup Showcase video from our New York show.
Product Track
Our conference is broken into several discipline-focused tracks such as Social Media or Design & UI. New this year is our Product track, featuring such session as
From Product Zero to Product Hero: How to Build a Great Web 2.0 Product
Don’t be a Digital Dinosaur: Design for the Space Between
Design Essentials For Developers
From Product Zero to Product Hero: How to Build a Great Web 2.0 Product
Don’t listen to yourself: successfully re-designing Latin America’s leading e-commerce platform
And More
Stay tuned to this blog, our bulletin, and our Twitter account (@w2e) for more updates on what’s new for Web 2.0 Expo this year.
See you in March!
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Kaitlin Pike is the Community Manager of Web 2.0 Expo. She can be reached @kcpike or @w2e.
Last night at Web 2.0 Expo New York we held our first ever Startup Showcase featuring 27 new up-and-comers in the Web world. After 50 minutes of demoing to a packed room of attendees, three picks went on stage with Tim O’Reilly (O’Reilly Media) and Fred Wilson (Union Square Ventures) to have a conversation and get grilled.
The Winners
Tim’s Pick: food52
Fred’s Pick: Glympse
People’s Choice: hour.ly
Thanks to .CO for sponsoring this great community event. (And check out Fred’s post about the event: Is There A New Type Of Crowdsourcing VC?)
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Kaitlin Pike is the Community Manager of Web 2.0 Expo. She can be reached @w2e or @kcpike.
Web 2.0 Expo’s keynotes and speaker interviews from Tuesday are now available for you to watch. We’ll update this playlist throughout the week with more videos of our sold out show. Enjoy!
Wednesday
Paola Antonelli (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
Charlie Kim (Next Jump, Inc.)
Bret Taylor (Facebook)
Ann Miura-Ko (FLOODGATE)
Fred Wilson (Union Square Ventures) & Tim O’Reilly (O’Reilly Media)
Rana Sobhany (Independent)
Thursday
Baratunde Thurston (The Onion)
Tom Conrad (Pandora Media)
Anil Dash (Expert Labs) & Ryan Sarver (Twitter) & Bret Taylor (Facebook)
Lukas Biewald (CrowdFlower) & Leila Chirayath Janah (Samasource)
Jonathan Miller (News Corporation) & Tim O’Reilly (O’Reilly Media)
Nick Bilton (The New York Times R&D Labs)
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Kaitlin Pike is the Community Manager of Web 2.0 Expo. She can be reached @w2e or @kcpike.
It wouldn’t be a successful Web 2.0 Expo without a barrel full of parties, mixers, and evening entertainment. Also, exotic libations and tasty grub.
Get to know your fellow attendees and potential future clients and colleagues by heading to our official and community events. Read below for a sample of what’s going on.
Ignite Web 2.0 Expo NY
Monday, September 27 at 7:00pm
Location: Empire Ballroom
If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Around the world geeks have been putting together Ignite nights to show their answers. Hosted by conference co-chair Brady Forrest. Read more>>
Sponsored by
Opening Reception
Tuesday, September 28 at 5:15pm
Location: Sponsor Pavilion
All attendees are invited to an opening reception immediately following the keynotes. Grab a drink and catch up with old friends and new. Read more »
Sponsored by
The Liar Show
Tuesday, September 28 at 6:30pm
Location: Empire Ballroom
The Liar Show is a live storytelling event — with a twist. Read more »
Sponsored by
Tweet Up
Tuesday, September 28 at 9:00pm
Location: The Sheraton Link
Looking for something to do in the evening at Web 2.0 Expo? Come Tweet Up with other attendees in The Sheraton Link, located onsite at this year’s Web 2.0 Expo New York. Grab a beer with colleagues and talk about all things web. Read more »
Sponsored by
Startup Showcase
Wednesday, September 29 at 5:30pm
Location: Empire Ballroom
This year at Web 2.0 Expo, we’re hosting our first ever Startup Showcase. Highlighting the startup ecosystem’s creativity and variety, the Showcase will give you a chance to see the newest Web 2.0 companies entering the market. Read more »
Sponsored by
Tweet Up
Wednesday, September 29 at 9:00pm
Location: The Sheraton Link
Looking for something to do in the evening at Web 2.0 Expo? Come Tweet Up with other attendees in The Sheraton Link, located onsite at this year’s Web 2.0 Expo New York. Grab a beer with colleagues and talk about all things web. Read more »
Sponsored by
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Kaitlin Pike is the Community Manager of Web 2.0 Expo. She can be reached @w2e or @kcpike.
Register here with code webny10scm4 to save 25% on Web 2.0 Expo conference passes.
Our friends at Ignite NYC are putting together another exciting installment of their entertaining series for the opening night (Sept. 27) of Web 2.0 Expo New York. And they’ve just announced the list of speakers and topics:
What is Ignite?
If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Around the world geeks have been putting together Ignite nights to show their answers. Hosted by conference co-chair Brady Forrest, this evening event takes place Monday, September 27 to kickoff Web 2.0 Expo New York. See you there!
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Kaitlin Pike is the Community Manager of Web 2.0 Expo. She can be reached @w2e or @kcpike.
Register here with code webny10scm4 to save 25% on Web 2.0 Expo conference passes.
Today we’re announcing the list of participating companies in our first ever Startup Showcase at Web 2.0 Expo New York. These startups beat out submissions from a very, very large list of proposals. Thanks to everyone who applied!
If you’d like to see these companies demo at Startup Showcase, be sure to register today with discount code webny10scm4. All conference pass holders will have access to the Showcase, including those with our $175 Web 2.0 Expo Lite pass (which is even less expensive if you use the discount code). Without further ado, here’s the list:
About Startup Showcase: Highlighting the startup ecosystem’s creativity and variety, the Showcase will give you a chance to see the newest Web 2.0 companies entering the market.
On Wednesday night, September 29, we’re going to have approximately 30 startups demoing in one large room. You’ll have 50 minutes to check them all out and vote for your favorites (we’ll sound a chime every five minutes, letting people know it’s time to circulate). At the end of the hour, Tim O’Reilly (O’Reilly Media Inc.) and Fred Wilson (Union Square Ventures) will each announce their top pick along with the audience favorite. These three startups will then each give a pitch and have an on-stage conversation with Tim and Fred.
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Kaitlin Pike is the Community Manager of Web 2.0 Expo. She can be reached @w2e or @kcpike.
Register here with code webny10scm4 to save 25% on Web 2.0 Expo conference passes.
Our vision for Web 2.0 Expo NY looks like this: smart leaders, looking toward the future of the web, gather together in a lively venue to meet, exchange ideas, and get a serious dose of inspiration. You make connections, you learn a lot, you have fun.
Here’s what Expo NY looked like last year: smart leaders, looking toward the future of the web, gathered in the vast lobby of the Javits Center and had a hard time finding our show at all. The Web 2.0 Expo signs were obscured by the much larger banners of a manufactured chemicals show that was in town the same week–and the conference portion of our show, in line with the Javits layout, was in the basement.
New York hosts not only a burgeoning tech startup scene, but also thousands of people who lead tech adoption in sectors like media, fashion, finance and the arts. Attendees of Web 2.0 Expo have repeatedly told us that they’re part of these groups, and they’re looking to our show to help them connect. So while Javits, like most expo halls, has acres of space designed to show off everything from new cars to fancy packaged foods, it’s not an ideal place for the Web 2.0 community to meet.
This year, to better align the venue with our vision and our attendees’ needs, we’re moving to the Sheraton Hotel & Towers in midtown. It’s better suited to fostering the kinds of connections we care about and, excitingly, it lets us hold evening program onsite.
We’ve cooked up three great nights. On September 27, we’re bringing back an annual Expo favorite: Ignite, a fast-moving series of entertaining and enlightening presentations (with all-new speakers). On September 28, we’re hosting The Liar Show: four people tell outrageous tech stories–but only three are true. Grill the storytellers and guess which is fiction. On September 29, we’re holding Startup Showcase, in which 30 young companies demo their products, and you help pick three to join Tim O’Reilly and Fred Wilson for onstage pitch sessions. Of course, our evening events all include food and bevvies.
What else would you do with a conference-friendly hotel space?
[Cross-posted to O'Reilly Radar.]
We’re pleased to introduce a brand new program at Web 2.0 Expo New York this year that’s specifically designed to get your new company great exposure in front of hundreds of potential users, investors, as well as Tim O’Reilly and Fred Wilson: Our Startup Showcase.
The application period ends August 2, so apply now. If you want to attend Startup Showcase as an audience member, register here with code webny10scm4 to save 25% (even our Web 2.0 Expo Lite pass gets you in).
The Format
On the third day of Web 2.0 Expo New York – Wednesday, September 29 – approximately 30 startups will demo in one large room. We’ll provide you with a small table and room for two people to demo—you’ll bring a laptop (or two) and a founder (or two).
Web 2.0 Expo attendees will have 50 minutes to see all the demos, and a bell will chime every 5 minutes letting people know it’s time to move to another table. As they walk around the hall, attendees will vote on their favorite startup.
After the 50 minutes is up, Tim O’Reilly and Fred Wilson will each announce their top pick along with the audience favorite. These three startups will then each give a pitch and have an on-stage conversation with Tim and Fred.
Who Should Apply?
For more information and to submit your application, check out our Startup Showcase page on the Web 2.0 Expo New York site or contact us @w2e.
Good luck!
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Kaitlin Pike is the Community Manager of Web 2.0 Expo. She can be reached @w2e or @kcpike.
Come to Web 2.0 Expo New York 2010 with a heavily discounted or FREE pass this year by playing in our bi-annual “Tweet This” Contest. Read on for more info:
“Use discount code [FAKE] for 25% off a Web 2.0 Expo NY conference pass—discount ends Sept 19! #w2e http://oreil.ly/czJyUt”
Tweet this sentence to enough of your friends, and you could earn a deeply discounted or free full-price Web 2.0 Expo New York conference pass. Every time someone buys a conference pass using your personalized discount code (which we will send you—read on), you get an additional 10% off the cost of a full-price pass. That’s on top of the 25% discount we will give you for participating.
If you already have a conference pass, you’re still more than welcome to participate. Although the credits you accrue will not work toward the pass you already purchased (retroactively that is), you will be able to earn another deeply discounted or fully paid-for pass for a friend or colleague.
You can also use your credits toward Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2011. One last thing—although we think Twitter is the easiest way for you to spread this deal, there is no restriction as to where you can post your code! Feel free to email your friends or post it on your Facebook account.
We are limiting this contest to the first 100 people who apply – so hurry! The discount code you are given will only work through September 19, so the sooner you start spreading the word the better.
Post any questions in the blog comments section or message us @w2e on Twitter.
Good luck!
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Kaitlin Pike is the Community Manager of Web 2.0 Expo. She can be reached @w2e or @kcpike.
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