Thanks to Shannon Clark, Web 2.0 Expo’s wonderful blog partner for writing up this post. Folks, you’re getting tips from a true SF connoisseur of great food so if I were you, I’d eat up this post (and yes, bad pun intended). Click here for full article.
Reposted from O’Reilly Radar, author Sarah Milstein.
As I’ve written here recently, we’ve got some amazing sessions scheduled for Web2Open–the free unconference hosted by Web 2.0 Expo in SF this week. One that I’m particularly excited about is a new experiment, “Practice Your Customer Pitch.”
We’re bringing in five startups who will get two minutes each to give their customer pitch (not their VC pitch), as if meeting a potential customer at a cocktail party (i.e., no slides but OK to drink if you want). To give them feedback, we’ve assembled a top-notch panel of serial entrepreneurs and marketing experts. It’s not a competition, so there’s no judging or ranking—just discussion among the entrepreneurs, panelists and other session attendees.
We’re trying this idea for the first time, so who knows how it will go? But in the entrepreneurial spirit, we’ve mitigated our risks: even if the format doesn’t sing, the session can only be a hit given the participants. (Thanks to Sean O’Malley for helping us connect with a lot of these folks.)
The rather impressive panel:
*Rashmi Sinha, moderator. SlideShare CEO
*Robert Acker, panelist. LiveSpot CEO
*Michael Cerda, panelist. cc:Betty CEO
*Nilofer Merchant, panelist. Rubicon Consulting CEO
The smart startups:
*CrowdVine, social networks for conferences
*dbTwang, Dogster for guitars
*Doodle, online scheduling magic
*Maestro Market, a Web 2.0 speakers’ bureau
*Magoosh, customized test-prep
The session is on Weds, April 1 from 10:50 – 11:40a. If you still need a free pass for Web2Open, you can register using the code websf09opn. There’s more general event info on the Open website.
Reposted from O’Reilly Radar. Author: Brady Forrest
Ignite is coming back to San Francisco. On April First, the second night of the Web 2.0 Expo, conference co-chair Brady Forrest will be hosting an Ignite at the Mezzanine (just four short blocks away from Moscone). As with all Ignites each speaker will only get 20 slides that each auto-advance every 15 seconds for a total of five minutes. Folks with a Web 2.0 Expo Badge will get priority entrance, but we’ll open the doors to everyone before the talks start. Ignite is free.
The schedule for the evening will be:
7:30 – Doors Open; Entry is for anyone with Conference or Expo Plus Pass holders
8:15 – Entry for Anyone
8:30 – First Set of Speakers
9:15 – Break
9:45 – Second Set of Speakers
I hope to see you there. You can RSVP on Facebook or Upcoming.
If you can’t make it to this Ignite perhaps one of these other ones will fit your schedule:
If you don’t live in a place with an Ignite start your own! Check out our community site for more information.
Over on the O’Reilly Radar, Kurt Cagle has published an interview with Will Wright,of Spore and Sim City fame, who will be giving a keynote presentation at Web 2.0 Expo on Thursday, April 2 at 10:00 a.m.
In the interview, Will looks back at how his fascination with models and robots started him on the gaming path and forward to Sims 3 which is scheduled for release in June. Of his development process, Will notes:
…we’re basically exploring an emergent system. And because it’s emergent, by its very nature, you can’t sit there and engineer it top-down. What we have to do is we have to sit there and kind of play with a wide variety of algorithms and structures. Turn them on. Observe the behavior. Then when it doesn’t quite do what we want, we go back to the drawing board. We refine it a little bit more. But it feels much more like the process of exploration that is in engineering.
I’m looking forward to hearing more of Will’s thoughts about the relationship between game development, city planning, and behavior at the show next week. And now off to the full list of sessions for the show to see what else I’m going to add to my personal schedule!
Internet television live? Crazy, right? Join us at Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco, Thursday, April 2, 3:30pm for a live filming. Followed by a meetup on our expo floor lounge with the show hosts. See here for registration details.
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This may be a year of tightening belts and minding budgets but there are still plenty of special events and programs in which you can participate at Web 2.0 Expo – for free!
With your Expo Pass you have access to all programs and activities taking place in our main keynote hall including:
In the Expo Hall you’ll see Web 2.0 products and services that will help bring the power of less to your business.
Free Education:
Special Programs:
And lastly, we’ve put together a great list of official and community events that take place all week long. We’ve got a little something for everyone, and be sure to keep checking back for updates and more listings.
Register today for your FREE Expo Pass or upgrade to an Expo Plus Pass and receive 2 Conference session passes and VIP seating at Ignite.
Mar 12th, 2009 |
Janetti ChonReposted from Enterprise2blog.com, written by Web 2.0 Expo Advisory Board member (and chief edgling) Stowe Boyd, The /Messengers.
Over the past few weeks, Oliver Marks and I have been working on the first stages of a new research project, called Open Enterprise 2009. We will be working for the first half of 2009 to research the state of Web 2.0 tools, architecture and techniques in the enterprise, their adoption, application and impact.
We are now working closely on the study with the team at Enterprise 2.0, and we will be posting our interviews, research insights, and findings on the Enterprise 2.0 Blog over the next months. To see the archive of the work we have done to date, check the Open Enterprise 2009 archive to see interviews with a list of luminaries, including Euan Semple, Ross Mayfield, Jeff Walker, and JP Rangaswami.
If you want to track the study, the RSS feed is here.
The study will be based on an open research model, involving this community in the discussion of the study’s major questions, the companies to be profiled, technologies to be investigated, visionaries to be contacted. We will be combing through those contributions, and studying them for ideas and themes.
Along with an on-going stream of research notes, interviews, and preliminary findings, Oliver and I are planning to distill what we have learned in the form of a comprehensive report which will will make available in late summer 2009.
An interim report will be presented at Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco during the session: The Open Enterprise: How Web Tools and Culture are Remaking Business. The final executive summary of the report will be distributed — as well as a final presentation (and perhaps an executive seminar) at the Enterprise 2.0 conference 22-25 June 2009 in Boston.
A 4 minute discussion of Open Enterprise 2009 -
This year we’re all trying to do more with less, and there’s a lot of potential in that concept. And in an effort to celebrate the power of less Web 2.0 Expo presents an insightful, meaningful and real-world conference program to help you meet the demands in your business today.
Contraints can foster creativity. So in an exercise of intellectual haikus, here are our conference tracks presented in 140 characters or less.
Strategy & Business Models
Market experts share thoughts and advice on your business and industry dilemmas — and untapped opportunities.
Marketing & Community
How to achieve more traffic from less marketing. Embrace less control, niche communities, freeing your brand. Thriving in the downturn.
Design & User Experience
Less clutter, less confusion, less features…enable more use, more interaction, more connection. Learn to create, do more, use constraints.
Fundamentals
The Web as a platform continues to evolve. Discussion: the state of the art and relevant questions around the building blocks of Web 2.0.
Development
Today’s dev weapons: Lightweight frameworks, support for standards, interactivity. Improve your understanding of the technical ecosystem.
Web Operations
The market is unforgiving. You need to scale w/o wasting $$. Tools, considerations & discussion with practitioners & platform providers.
Mobile
Your customers are increasingly coming from the third screen. Weighing mobile questions for your biz? Speakers share plans and strategies.
Security
A dive into technical, design, legal & business aspects of security, from the assumption that true security is not a question of code alone.
Web 2.0 at Work
Using Web 2.0 to drive company communication, collaboration, productivity and cost savings. Real companies, real products, real services.
Notes:
1. This was a mental exercise in Twitter haiku / poetry. I really hope you enjoy these 
2. I wrote this before the Government 2.0 track was up…
Wine 2.0 Expo San Francisco presented by Crushpad is on! Once again they’ll be hosting over 1,000 wine and tech lovers in one fantastic evening. Last year San Francisco had a jam packed event with over 100 wineries and 40 Wine 2.0 companies in attendance. Hope to see you there!
For more information on Wine 2.0 Expo San Francisco please go to: www.winetwo.eventbrite.com
When: Thursday, April 2nd (7 – 10pm)
Where: Crushpad (2573 3rd Street)
Cost: (Pre-event) $45 per ticket or 2 tickets for $70/ (Day-of) $60 per ticket.
Web 2.0 attendees can receive 10% off of tickets by using promo code: webtwoexpo
Note: Web 2.0 Expo is a Cornerstone Sponsor of Wine 2.0 Expo San Francisco
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