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LeWeb Paris 2012 is Over, but the Internet of Things Lives On
And so ends LeWeb Paris 2012, leaving the brains of thousands of entrepreneurs at the event, and millions watching online, buzzing with inspiration to snag a piece of the internet of things revolution.
We watched entrepreneurs take the stage and show us products that we dreamed about as kids. We saw experienced CEOs show us how to build a real internet of things business.
We saw big announcements, like the launch of the Nokia Lumia 620 and Kevin Systrom's comments on Instagram's decision to stop allowing Twitter to display in stream photos from Instagram.
If you missed any of it, don't you worry. Everything is on our YouTube channel in HD:
Check out all the photos taken by our official photographers and all the photos taken by the community.
We're so honored to have so many truly talented entrepreneurs from all over the world join us for LeWeb. Next up is LeWeb London in June. LeWeb is a unique event that draws different tech communities, but will always have the same high standards for speakers, attendees and the event as a whole. We hope to see you there!
If you have any feedback on our events, and want to stay connected with the LeWeb community, you can join in on our Facebook page, Twitter and Google+.
See you next time in London. Au revoir!
Day 3 Recap and Videos - LeWeb Paris 2012
And so end the final day of LeWeb Paris 2012. It was quite a ride, and the third day was filled with just as many inspirational talks as the first two.
Here are all the talks with links to their videos on YouTube:
Tech Spotlight: Philipp Bolliger, Founder & CEO, Koubachi - Watch it on YouTube
Tech Spotlight: Ludovic le Moan, CEO, SIGFOX - Watch it on YouTube
Ramon de Leon, Social Media Marketing, Dominos Pizza - Watch it on YouTube
Renaud Laplanche, CEO, Lending Club & David Kirkpatrick, Founder & CEO, Techonomy Media - Watch it on YouTube
Tom Conrad, CTO & EVP of Product, Pandora & Sarah Lane, Host & Producer, TWiT Network - Watch it on YouTube
Tech Spotlight: Raphael Pirker, Founder, Team BlackSheep - Watch it on YouTube
Munjal Shah, Entrepreneur in Residence, Charles River Ventures - Watch it on YouTube
“Superhuman-ism”
Henri Seydoux, Founder & CEO, Parrot & Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb - Watch it on YouTube
Tech Spotlight: Cameron Robertson & Paul Gerhardt, Co-Founders, Apigy Inc. - Watch it on YouTube
Brian Solis, Principal, Altimeter Group - Watch it on YouTube
Tom Katis, Founder & CEO, Voxer & Alexia Tsotsis, Editor, TechCrunch - Watch it on YouTube
Tech Spotlight: Sascha Klement, Founder, Managing Director, & CTO, Gestigon - Watch it on YouTube
Ben Kaufman, Founder & CEO, Quirky, Jamie Siminoff, Chief Inventor, Edison Junior & Alexia Tsotsis, Editor, TechCrunch - Watch it on YouTube
Tech Spotlight: Marcus Schappi, CEO, Ninja Blocks - Watch it on YouTube
Matt Mullenweg, Founder, Automattic & Om Malik, Founder & Senior Writer, GigaOM - Watch it on YouTube
Mike North, Ph.D., Co-Founder & CEO, Reallocate.org - Watch it on YouTube
“The Internet of Me.”
Start-Up Competition Finalist Demos & Awards Ceremony Featuring All-Star Judges: - Watch it on YouTube
Jean-David Blanc, Entrepreneur & Business Angel
Jacques Antoine-Granjon, Founder & CEO, vente-privee.com
Brent Hoberman, Co-Founder, PROfounders Capital, Chairman, made.com & Founder & Chairman, mydeco.com
Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet, Co-Founder & CEO, PriceMinister, Co-Founder of ISAI, The French Entrepreneur’s Fund
Marc Simoncini, Founder & CEO, Meetic & Jaina Capital
Natalia Vodianova, Model, Philanthropist & Supernova & Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb - Watch it on YouTube
Presentation of Awards - Watch it on YouTube
Closing remarks - Watch it on YouTube
Geraldine & Loic Le Meur, LeWeb Founders
Social Business Track
Title: Mobile Growth - Watch it on YouTube
Local start-up demo’s and an active discussion on how to use mobile as a growth engine.
Moderated by: Amina Belghiti, Head of Platform Partnerships, Facebook EMEA
Cedric Hutchings, CEO, Withings
Jean-Baptiste Hironde, CEO, Edijing
Antoine Leveque, Co-Founder & CMO, Youmag
Eric Hazan, Partner, McKinsey & Company - Watch it on YouTube
A Report on Social Networks
Joel Bloch, Co-Founder, Tag'by - Watch it on YouTube
Social Marketing and Retail
Michel Levy-Provencal - Co-Founder & CEO JoshFire - Watch it on YouTube
Brands and the Internet of Things
Q&A with Niccolo Rigo, Digital Strategist, Work Club & Cédric Giorgi, LeWeb - Watch it on YouTube
Q&A with Sylvain Noailly, VP, Marketing & Business Development, Groupe Rossignol & Frederic Lardinois, Writer, TechCrunch - Watch it on YouTube
Panel- The Future of Social Media Management - Watch it on YouTube
Moderated by: Gregory Pouy, LaMercatique
Maya Grinberg, Chief Evangelist, Wildfire by Google
Amy Millard, Vice President, Marketing, Hearsay Social
Jeffrey Rohrs, VP, Marketing Research & Education, Exacttarget
Q&A with Brian Fitzgerald, Head of Mobilisation and Digital Networking, Greenpeace International & Martin Bryant, Managing Editor,
The Next Web - Watch it on YouTube
Q&A with Michael Amar, Founder, ifeelgoods & Nicolas Rauline, Journalist, Les Echos - Watch it on YouTube
The Power of Digital Promotions
Q&A with Lars Silberbauer Andersen, Head of Global Social Media, LEGO & Cédric Giorgi, LeWeb - Watch it on YouTube
Q&A with Georges Mohammed-Cherif, Founder & CEO, Buzzman & Cédric Giorgi, LeWeb - Watch it on YouTube
Data Platform Qunb Wins the Startup Competition at LeWeb Paris 2012
Today in the LeWeb Paris Startup Competition, the three finalists demod their companies to the world on the main stage and answered tough questions from the panel of judges.
For the first time in the history of LeWeb, all three startups were French companies.
After much deliberation, the judges have made their decision.
And the winners are...
First place is Qunb - the one-stop shop for figures. Search, store and play with any quantitative data: sports, finance, market research and more.
Second place is Be-Bound - an application for mobile devices that is designed to allow everyone to stay connected to the Internet on their smartphones at the best price, using 2G networks.
Third place is Recommend - quick access to the recommendations you need.
Check back on http://youtube.com/leweb where we'll upload the recording of the whole competition very soon.
Thanks to all of the startups who competed in the Startup Competition and to everyone who shared and supported their favorite startups online.
We'd also like to thank the startup competition judges:
Jean-David Blanc, Entrepreneur & Business Angel
Jacques Antoine-Granjon, Founder & CEO, vente-privee.com
Brent Hoberman, Co-Founder, PROfounders Capital, Chairman, made.com & Founder & Chairman,mydeco.com
Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet, Co-Founder & CEO, PriceMinister, Co-Founder of ISAI, The French Entrepreneur’s Fund
Marc Simoncini, Founder & CEO, Meetic & Jaina Capital
Kevin Systrom Discusses Why Instagram Disabled its Twitter Cards Integration
On day 2 at LeWeb Paris 2012, Kevin Systrom addressed the announcement that Instagram is no longer using the twitter card integration that allows twitter to display instagram photos in users' streams.
You can watch the announcement on YouTube here.
Systrom explained the move saying, "Just recently we launched web profiles and revamped all of our web properties..." "We wanted to make sure to direct users to where the content lives originally, to make sure that users on instagram get the full experience of instagram."
He also said that they still have a healthy relationship with Twitter.
"We will always always be integrated with twitter in the way that you can tweet out a photo from Instagram to twitter", said Systrom.
There's speculation that the move was retribution for twitter shutting off their follow graph, preventing Instagram from allowing users to find their friends on Instagram by logging into twitter but Systrom insisted that this isn't the case.
View more photos from Kevin's talk on flickr here.
Day 2 Recap and Videos - LeWeb Paris 2012
Day 2 of LeWeb has officially ended. It was another exciting day filled with inspirational speakers, amazing product demos and in depth industry insights.
Here are all the videos of the talks of the day with links to the videos on YouTube.
Some videos are still processing and will be added when they're done.
Plenary I
Welcome Back, Geraldine & Loic Le Meur, LeWeb Founders - Watch on YouTube
Our heads are in the Cloud! - Watch on YouTube
Moderator: Robin Wauters, European Editor, The Next Web
Panelists:
Aditya Agarwal, Vice President of Engineering, Dropbox
Brad Garlinghouse, CEO, YouSendIt
Werner Vogels, CTO, Amazon
David Jones, Global CEO, Havas, Co‐Founder, One Young World & Author: Who Cares Wins- Why Good Business is Better Business
& Paul Papadimitriou, Founder, Digital Intelligence - Watch on YouTube
Marko Ahtisaari, Executive Vice President, Design, Nokia - Watch on YouTube
David Marcus, President, Paypal & Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb - Watch on YouTube
Steven Guggenheimer, Corporate Vice President, Developer & Platform Evangelism Group, Microsoft & David Kirkpatrick, Founder & CEO, Techonomy Media - Watch on YouTube
Dr. DJ Patil, Data Scientist in Residence, Greylock Partners - Watch on YouTube
Amber Case, Director of Esri R&D Center Portland, Cyborg Anthropologist & Former CEO, Geoloqi, Inc. - Watch on YouTube
Pascal Cagni, Former General Manager and Vice President
Apple Europe, Middle-East, India, and Africa & Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb - Watch on YouTube
Tech Spotlight: David Cann, Co-Founder & CEO, Double Robotics - Watch on YouTube
Media Heavyweights and Industrial Giants weigh in on iOt - Watch on YouTube
Moderator: Adrian Monck, Managing Director, Communications & Media, World Economic Forum
Vivek Badrinath, Senior Executive Vice President, France Telecom Orange &
CEO of Orange Business Services
Eric Scherer, Director of Future Media, in charge of Digital Strategy, France Télévision
James Park, Co-Founder & CEO, Fitbit & Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb - Watch on YouTube
Tech Spotlight: Cedric Hutchings, Co-Founder & General Manager, Withings - Watch on YouTube
Bill Tai, Angel Investor, Venture Captialist & Kiteboarding Athlete, Susi Mai, Pro Kiteboarder & Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb - Watch on YouTube
Scott Dunlap, Managing Director, Tenth Dimension Design Labs - Watch on YouTube
“Mother Nature’s Data Feed: One Ultrarunner’s Journey to Measure and Explore the Human Spirit”
Michael Lazerow, CMO, Salesforce Marketing Cloud & Robert Scoble, American blogger, technical evangelist and author, Rackspace - Watch on YouTube
Danae Ringelmann, Co-Founder, Indiegogo & Liz Gannes, Senior Editor, AllThingsD - Watch on YouTube
Kevin Systrom, Co-Founder & CEO, Instagram & MG Siegler, General Partner, CrunchFund - Watch on YouTube
Money makes the world go round - Watch on YouTube
Moderator: Mike Butcher, European Editor, TechCrunch
Eric Archambeau, General Partner, Wellington Partners
Jeff Clavier, Founder & Managing Partner, SoftTech VC
Albert Ganyushin, Head of International Listings, NYSE Euronext
Bernard Liautaud, General Partner, Balderton Capital
Megan Quinn, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
John Hering, Co-Founder & CEO, Lookout & Martin Bryant, Managing Editor, The Next Web - Watch on YouTube
Rafi Haladjian, Founder, Sen.se - Watch on YouTube
“The Meaning of Life”
Brian Shul, Former Air Force Fighter Pilot & Speaker, Author & Photographer - Watch on YouTube
Neelie Kroes, Vice President of the European Commission & Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb - Watch on YouTube
Closing remarks -Geraldine & Loic Le Meur, LeWeb Founders - Watch on YouTube
Social Business Track
Watch all the Talks from LeWeb Paris 2012 - Day 1
Day 1 of LeWeb Paris 2012 has ended and what an amazing day it was. The stages were filled with so many amazing talks, products and startups. Thousands watched it in person in Paris and tens of thousands watched live on YouTube.
If you didn’t get to watch it live, that’s okay, you can see all the talks from both stages on our YouTube channel. We'll add the videos here as they're uploaded so check back if you don't see it yet.
Here’s everything that happened on stage at LeWeb on Day 1.
Plenary 1:
Opening remarks
Geraldine & Loic Le Meur, LeWeb Founders
Tony Fadell, Founder & CEO, Nest Labs, Inc. & Xavier Niel, Founder of the Iliad Group, Free’s parent company; Vice President & Director of Strategy, Iliad Group
Ariel Garten, CEO, Interaxon
Benjamin Cichy, Chief Software Engineer, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Tech Spotlight: Jeff Hagins, Founder & CTO, SmartThings
Alexander Ljung, Founder & CEO, SoundCloud - Watch on YouTube
Scott Harrison, Founder & CEO, charity:water
Misha Lyalin, Chairman & CEO, ZeptoLab & Frederic Lardinois, Writer, TechCrunch
Phil Libin, CEO, Evernote & Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb
Ben Gomes, Vice President & Google Fellow, Google & Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb
Katie Stanton, Vice President of International Market Development, Twitter & Jamillah Knowles, UK Editor, The Next Web - Watch on YouTube
Peter Deng, Director of Product Management, Facebook & David Kirkpatrick, Founder & CEO, Techonomy Media - Watch on YouTube
Dalton Caldwell, Co-Founder & CEO, App.net - Watch on YouTube
“Business Model Implications of The Internet of Things”
Tech Spotlight: Adam Wilson, Founder & Chief Software Architect, Orbotix - Watch on YouTube
Yossi Vardi, Pioneer, Investor, Entrepreneur - Watch on YouTube
Tech Spotlight: Carly Gloge, Co-Founder & CEO, Ubooly - Watch on YouTube
Fred Potter, Founder & CEO, Netamo - Watch on YouTube
Tech Spotlight: Phil Bosoa, CEO, LIFX & Marco Montemagno, Digital Entrepreneur/Broadcaster/The Tech Alchemist - Watch on YouTube
Tech Spotlight: Gil Blander, Founder, President & CSO, InsideTracker - Watch on YouTube
Examining the European Tech Ecosystem
Moderated by: Jamillah Knowles, UK Editor, The Next Web
Katia Gaika, Deputy Director, The IT Cluster of Skolkovo Foundation
Fleur Pellerin, Minister Delegate with responsibility for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, Innovation & The Digital Economy,
The French Government
Joanna Shields, Chief Executive, Tech City Investment Organisation
Closing remarks -Geraldine & Loic Le Meur, LeWeb Founders
Plenary 2 - The Startup Competition:
Registration Information for LeWeb Paris '12 Attendees
Welcome to Paris! Here's everything you need to know to get started at LeWeb Paris '12.
1 - REGISTRATION: NEW! GET YOUR BADGE IN PARIS ON DEC 3rd
Dec 3rd : pre-registration off site
Get your badge on Monday Dec 3rd and go straight to the conferences on Dec 4th!
Hotel Paris Opera - 16, boulevard Haussmann - 75009 PARIS
Metro: Chaussee d'Antin La Fayette (line 7 & line 9)
On Dec 4th : registration on site
Doors open at 8:00 am please make sure to be there early if you don't have yet your badge.
Registration Dec 4rd opens 8:00 am
LeWeb Venue
Eurosites Les Docks
50 Avenue du President Wilson - 93200 La Plaine Saint Denis
Line 12
Dec 4th: Metro Porte de la Chapelle
Dec 5 & 6 th : Metro Jules Joffrin
Shuttle service from/to the metro by LeWeb
RATP BUS Line 239 Public / Public parking available / Airport: Charles De Gaulle Int'l (40 min)
2 - PROGRAM GUIDE
As a preview we would like to invite you to check online the lastest updated program.
We have this year 3 content options in parallell again this year. LeWeb is a campus of 3 buildings:
- Pullman Dock - Plenary 1 and Partners workshops ( LaPoste, with a special e-commerce track on Dec 4th, Salesforce and Esri on Dec 5th)
- Haussman Dock - Google will host a 3 day workshop
- Eiffel Docks - Plenary 2 hosting the Startup Competition on Dec 4th and the Social Business Trackon Dec 5&6.
3 - STAY CONNECTED, GET THE UP TO DATE PROGRAM
Thanks to our partner Mobile Roadie, you can stay informed with LeWeb Paris apps on your iPhone, iPad, Android or any web-enabled device.
During the event, get instant access to the agenda, speakers, photos, videos and much more : follow this link
4 - TELL YOUR FRIENDS, THEY CAN WATCH IT LIVE
We have 2 free HD livestreams this year available on youtube.com/leweb thanks to our partner YouTube live. You can follow and comment on almost everything happening on the Plenary stage and Eiffel Dock ( Start-up Competition & Social enterprise Track )
29 of the Top Submissions in the Adopt an Entrepreneur Contest
The Adopt an Entrepreneur competition has officially ended, and has left us with some truly amazing
videos, apps and other creative entries made by entrepreneurs from all over the world.
Rackspace and Silicon Valley Bank generously sponsored 20 of these entrepreneurs with free tickets to LeWeb Paris '12.
Thanks so much to everyone who entered the competition. Honestly, we would have loved to give everyone a ticket, and the decisions were very difficult. But we had to choose only 18 (2 tickets were given away in G+ speaker hangouts).
For your viewing pleasure, here are the top entries:
The 18 Winners
1. Jerome Jarre shares his obsession with LeWeb in this weirdly entertaining video.
2. There are a lot of rumors floating around LeWeb. Now you can vote on which ones you think are true at http://lewebrumors.com/ thanks to Vianney Lecroart.
3. Enjoy these funny animated gifs, showing you what happens when you go to LeWeb, created by Gabriel Fallous.
4. Gangnam Style + LeWeb = Winning. Way to go Remy Thellier.
5. Claudia shares her story of escaping the city on a Ducati motorcycle and starting her company.
6. Gauthier Nadaud added some hilarious captions to the popular youtube babies video, as they contemplate ways to get into LeWeb.
7. You can test your knowledge of LeWeb Paris '12 in this fun quiz built by Victor Barthelemy.
8. Donnacha Mac Gloinn convinced us that Zebras deserve a chance to go to LeWeb too in this epic movie style video.
9. Hugo Douchet Pancrazi put together a slick website to share why he deserves to be at LeWeb.
10. Caroline raps about her startup, PitchPatch.
11. A gameshow all about LeWeb! Watch the video created by Matthieu Rouif.
12. Who's the sexiest speaker at LeWeb? Mathieu Giquel created this site to find out.
13. Laure Legros wouldn't stop running until she won a ticket to LeWeb.
14. Jordan Succar created LeWeb Battle to find out who the best speakers, bloggers and sponsors are at LeWeb.
15. Ben Couronne imagines what it would look like if LeWeb was a movie.
16. Want to network with other LeWeb attendees? Try out LeWeb Roulette created by Miguel Labranche.
17. Barthélémy Chalvet shares some illegal ways to get into LeWeb.
18. What major tech events have happened since LeWeb 2011? James Nocentinicreated this interactive timeline to help you find out. Oh he also created this awesome high speed video.
Honorable Mentions
19. Jonathan Banner is making Mango Smoothies to trade for a ticket to LeWeb.
20. Jeremy Charoy created another awesome Gangnam Style video.
21. Scribz shares their storyboards created using their platform.
22. Peter created a sweet infographic sharing some data about LeWeb
23. Julien Dussart solves a LeWeb rubix cube!
24. Download this slick LeWeb wallpaper for your phone, courtesy of Leo Drapeau.
25. Manish Modi shows off their platform Picovico to tell stories with pictures.
26. Alex Toulemonde remixed the movie "The Social Network" with LeWeb.
27. Alan Ryan wrote a simple blog post.
28. When is LeWeb? Just check the countdown created by Olivier Alcouffe
29. Juan Gomez created a metaphor between The Web and The Sea.
RackSpace and Silicon Valley Bank is Adopting 20 Entrepreneurs to Attend LeWeb Paris '12 for Free
**Update: Silicon Valley Bank is back for another year, and will be sponsoring another 10 tickets! So that's 20 Entrepreneurs that will be sent to LeWeb! **
The time has come.
It's time to get creative and earn your way into LeWeb Paris '12
Our amazing sponsors Rackspace and Silicon Valley Bank are paying for 20 tickets to LeWeb (worth € 2,300.00 each), to the 20 people who convince us that they deserve to go to LeWeb Paris more than anyone else.
Entering the competition, is simple:
1. Create a YouTube video, or any other content, that shows us why you deserve to go to LeWeb.
2. Thank Rackspace and Silicon Valley Bank in your submission. Remember, they're the ones paying for your ticket so give them a shoutout in your videos.
3. SHARE! The more people you get to share your video/content, the better the chance that we'll see it. Make sure to tag @RackspaceUK @SVB_Financial and @leweb in your tweets and on G+ and fb, mention the pages. We'll be choosing winners who mention LeWeb and the sponsors on our each of our Facebook page, our Google+ and on twitter.
Winners at previous LeWeb conferences have climbed mountains, did Loic Le Meur impressions and made short films. The most creative submissions will win.
Start promoting your entry today, because we start choosing winners NEXT WEEK!
Apply to Speak on Stage for 5 Minutes in Ignite LeWeb
Have you always wanted to share your passion on stage at LeWeb? Now is your opportunity!
On Dec 5th we will offer 10 LeWeb attendees the opportunity to speak for 5 minutes and share their passion on the Plenary stage.
The talks can be about anything...except a pitch for your business.
You have 5 minutes in 20 rapid-fire slides, you'll share your vision, your energy, your hobby, your philosophy--whatever will spark conversation and action amongst LeWeb's attendees from around the globe.
Applications are due midnight PDT on November 16th so hurry!
We look forward to discovering your stories.
APPLY NOW
To see an example of a LeWeb Ignite talk, here's a video from Anina Net at LeWeb 2011