Paris, France
On 11 and 12 December, following the initiative by Geraldine and Loic Le Meur, the 4th edition of LeWeb3 (www.leweb3.com)will be held in Paris - Les Docks de Paris (Porte de la Chapelle). This event represents Europe's largest gathering of bloggers with 1 500 participants and brings together the key players in the Internet as well as innovative entrepreneurs.
Once again this year, LeWeb3 is focusing the spotlight on entrepreneurship with the Start-Up Competition, organised in partnership with leading French TV channel TF1, which is aimed at promoting new initiatives. The 33 finalists will have chance to present their project in a dedicated area - the Start-Up Corner - in front of a jury of 25 opinion leaders, journalists, entrepreneurs and investors.
The five winners will take part in the plenary session held on the 2nd day before LeWeb3's 1 500 participants. Their profile boost will serve as a platform for finding sources of funding and help them to quickly gain awareness in the Internet sector. Furthermore, TF1 will give one of the five winners a special "TF1 Group director coaching" award.
To ensure that the start-up business spectrum is evenly represented, the competing companies have been divided into four categories - B2B/enterprise, video, mobile and consumer. Their geographic origins have also been taken into account for a more effective worldwide representation.
The criteria chosen by the jury include:
-- What problem is the company looking to resolve? Is the company breaking out into an existing, growing or emerging market?
-- Is the solution/service proposed by the company really differentiating?
-- Does the company have a clearly defined economic model?
-- Is there a real-life demonstration of the benefits of the solution?
-- Is the company going to present itself as a new entity or is it announcing a new product/service?
Members of the jury for this new edition: Scott Rafer - Lookery; Mark Oiknine - 3i; Julien Codorniou - Microsoft; Eric Archambeau - Wellington Partners; Andreas Schlenker - Partech International; Ouriel Ohayon - Lightspeed Gemini Internet Lab; Thomas Crampton - Journalist; Rodrigo Sepulveda - Vpod.TV; Simon Levene - Accel Partners; Martin Duval - Orange; Ola Ahlvarsson - Result; Steffi Czerny - Hubert Burda Media/DLD; Erik Stuart - eBay ; Mattias Ljungman - Atomico Investments; Alex Vieux - Red Herring; Saul Klein - Index Ventures/SeedCamp; Cecile Moulard - Badiliz; Guillaume Buffet - CRM Company Group; Olivier Abecassis - TF1; Om Malik - GigaOM; Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet - PDG PriceMinister; Yoav Andrew Leitersdorf - YL Ventures; Michael Arrington - TechCrunch; Christian Lindholm - Fjord; Frederic Court - Advent Ventures
Timetable for the Start-Up Competition - 11 December 2007
Presentation of the 3 sponsor Start-Up
10:30 - 10:40 Ekaabo
10:40 - 10:50 GooJet
10:50 - 11:00 Nomao
Startathalon
11:00 - 11:10 Zyb 14:30 - 14:40 LouderVoice
11:10 - 11:20 Wichro 14:40 - 14:50 WooMe
11:20 - 11:30 Erepublik 14:50 - 15:00 WaveStorm
11:30 - 11:40 Yooplus 15:00 - 15:10 Wixi
11:40 - 11:50 RTGI 15:10 - 15:20 Zoomorama
11:50 - 12:00 Yoowalk 15:20 - 15:30 Alenty
15:30 - 15:40 DIGICorp
15:40 - 15:50 Holistis
12:30 - 12:40 Siteheart (Walk2Web) 15:50 - 16:00 CodaSystem
12:40 - 12:50 Creative Ions
12:50 - 13:00 Studio Melipone
13:00 - 13:10 Floobs 16:30 - 16:40 Babelgom
13:10 - 13:20 Scopa.TV 16:40 - 16:50 Wuala (Caleido)
13:20 - 13:30 PLYMedia 16:50 - 17:00 eXo Platform
13:30 - 13:40 Screenvision 17:00 - 17:10 G.ho.st
13:40 - 13:50 SplitGames 17:10 - 17:20 BlueKiwi
13:50 - 14:00 CTXGames 17:20 - 17:30 SaleMiner
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About LeWeb3:
The first edition of LeWeb3 was masterminded by Loic Le Meur(http://loiclemeur.com/France). The idea is simple: turn Paris into the world's Internet and blog capital for two days.
In 2006, LeWeb3 was a sell-out. Shimon Peres opened an edition featuring 1 350 participants from 36 countries, who had come to exchange points of view during talks involving Niklas Zennstrom - founder of Kazaa and Skype, Reid Hoffman - founder of LinkedIn, Tariq Krim - founder of Netvibes, and Marc Simoncini - founder of Meetic...
LeWeb3 today is Europe's leading Internet-dedicated event.
Source: Business Wire (Business Wire India)