LeWeb London Conference: 19 and 20 June 2012 – Westminster Central Hall

May 31st, 2012 - 05:20 am ET by Business Wire

LeWeb London Conference: 19 and 20 June 2012 – Westminster Central Hall Program announcement: http://london.leweb.co/.

The eighth LeWeb Conference held in Paris last December once again brought together over 3,500 business owners, entrepreneurs, investors, bloggers and tech enthusiasts from 76 countries to take part in Europe’s biggest event dedicated to the web industry.

Following the success of the annual Paris event, organisers Geraldine and Loic Le Meur decided to start a summer session in London. The theme : “Faster than Real Time”.

Many well-known players from Silicon Valley will be on stage to share the fruits of their experience, including : Chad Hurley, Venture Advisor / Niklas Zennstrom, CEO & Founding Partner, Atomico Ventures / Kevin Systrom, Co-Founder & CEO, Instagram / Jamie Oliver, Television Personality / Eric Van Der Kleij, CEO, Tech City Investment Organisation / Brent Hoberman, Co-Founder, PROfounders Capital & Co-Founder & Chairman, mydeco, made.com / Bradley Horowitz, Vice President, Product Management, Google / Phil Libin, CEO, Evernote / Christian Hernandez Gallardo, Director, Platform Partnerships, Facebook / Tom Katis, Founder & CEO, Voxer / Jeff Clavier, Founder & Managing Partner, SoftTech VC / Tim O’Brien, GM, Platform Strategy Group, Microsoft Corp. / Robert Scoble, American blogger, technical evangelist, and author, Rackspace / Paul Davison, Founder & CEO, Highlight

Program :

Plenary 1 - Tuesday, June 19

FASTER THAN REAL TIME – PART I

7h30-8h45	Doors open, registration, networking time with partners
	Welcome Buffet Breakfast
09h00	Lindsey Stirling, Hip Hop Violinist
09h05	Opening remarks - Geraldine & Loïc Le Meur, LeWeb Founders
	LeWeb London Kick-Off with Special Guests
	Brent Hoberman, Co-Founder, PROfounders Capital & Co-Founder & Chairman, mydeco, made.com
	Eric Van Der Kleij, CEO, Tech City Investment Organisation
09h20	Eric Hazan, Partner & Philipp Nattermann, Partner, McKinsey & Company
09h40	Jamie Oliver, Television Personality & Kevin Systrom, Co-Founder & CEO, Instagram with Loïc Le Meur, LeWeb Founders
10h15	Bradley Horowitz, Vice President, Product Management, Google & Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb
10h45	Ben Ling, COO, Badoo & Robert Scoble, American blogger, technical evangelist, and author, Rackspace
11h05	Aaron Levie, Co-Founder & CEO, Box & Mike Butcher, European Editor, TechCrunch
11h25	Team Uber vs. Team Hailo
	Travis Kalanick, Co-Founder & CEO, Uber
	Shervin Pishevar, Managing Director, Menlo Ventures
	Adam Valkin, Partner, Accel Partners
	Jay Bregman, Co-Founder & CEO, Hailo
11h50	Phil Libin, CEO, Evernote & Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb
12h10	Jean-Louis Constanza, Founder & CEO and Giles Corbett, Head of Libon, Orange
12h15	Christian Hernandez Gallardo, Director, Platform Partnerships, Facebook & Jamillah Knowles, UK Editor, The Next Web

12h35-14h30	Lunch
14h30	Lindsey Stirling, Hip Hop Violinist
14h35	Welcome back & Check in with Hugh MacLeod, Gaping Void
14h40	Gil Hirsch, Co-Founder & CEO, Face.com
14h45	Martha Lane Fox, UK Digital Champion & Michael Bracken, Executive Director of Digital, Government Digital Service, Cabinet Office with Roxanne Varza, Startup/Tech J	ournalist
15h05	Joe Fernandez, Co-Founder & CEO, Klout, & Alexia Tsotsis, Writer, TechCrunch
15h25	Eric Migicovsky, Founder & Lead Designer, Pebble Technology & Loïc Le Meur, LeWeb Founder
16h05	Tom Katis, Founder & CEO, Voxer & Loïc Le Meur, LeWeb Founder
16h25	Jeremiah Owyang, Partner, Altimeter Group –
	"Three themes to thrive in real time"
16h45	Jason Goldberg, Founder & CEO & Bradford Shane Shellhammer, Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer, Fab
17h10	Martin Varsavsky, Founder & CEO, Fon
17h30	Sebastian Siemiatkowski, Co-Founder & CEO, Klarna & Tim Bradshaw, Financial Times
17h45	Efe Cakarel, Founder, MUBI
17h50	Disruption in Finance Roundtable
	Errol Damelin, Founder & CEO, Wonga,com
	Samir Desai, CEO and Co-Founder, Funding Circle
	Renaud Laplanche, CEO, Lending Club
18h20	Lindsey Stirling, Hip Hop Violinist

Plenary 1 - Wednesday, June 20

FASTER THAN REAL TIME – PART II

7h30-8h45	Doors open, registration, networking time with partners
	Welcome Buffet Breakfast
09h05	Welcome back remarks
	Geraldine & Loïc Le Meur, LeWeb Founders
09h15	Money Panel
	Moderated by: Jonathan Goodwin, Lepe Partners
	Roberto Bonanzinga, Partner, Balderton Capital
	Jeff Clavier, Founder & Managing Partner, SoftTech VC
	Michael Marquez, Partner, CodeAdvisors
	Danny Rimer, Partner, Index Ventures
09h45	Paul Davison, Founder & CEO, Highlight & Milo Yannopoulos, Founder &
	Editor-in-Chief, The Kernel
10h00	Riccardo Zacconi, Co-Founder & CEO, King.com
10h15	Nick D’Aloisio, Founder, Summly
10h30	Gabe Rivera, Founder, Techmeme & Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb
10h35	All-Star Entrepreneurs Discuss the Future
	Chad Hurley, Venture Advisor
	Kevin Rose, Angel Investor
	Niklas Zennstrom, CEO & Founding Partner, Atomico Ventures
11h05	Shakil Khan, Head of Special Projects, Path & Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb
11h25	Tim O’Brien, GM, Platform Strategy Group, Microsoft Corp.
11h40	Henrik Berggren, Readmill
11h45	Caroline Ghosn, Co-Founder & CEO, The Levo League & MG Siegler, General Partner, CrunchFund
12h00	Sam Shank, Co-Founder & CEO, HotelTonight
12h10	Baratunde Thurston, Comedian

12h30-14h30	Lunch
14h30	Welcome back
14h35	Check in with Hugh MacLeod, Cartoonist, gapingvoid
14h40	Michael Schneider, CEO, Mobile Roadie
15h00	Hiroshi Mikitani, Chairman & CEO, Rakuten & Tim Bradshaw, Digital Media Correspondent, Financial Times
15h20	Andreas Constantinou, Ph.D., Founder & Managing Director, VisionMobile
15h35	Alexander Ljung, Founder & CEO, SoundCloud
15h55	Josh Elman, Principal, Greylock Partners
16h00	Dr. DJ Patil, Data Scientist in Residence, Greylock Partners
16h15	Nick Halstead, Founder & CTO, Datasift
16h30	A Debate: Andrew Keen, Internet Entrepreneur & Broadcaster vs. Robert Scoble, American blogger, technical evangelist, and author, R	ackspace
16h55	Juan Diego Calle, Founder & CEO, .CO Internet S.A.S & Loïc Le Meur, LeWeb Founder
17h00	Start-Up Competition Finals & Awards
18h00	Closing remarks

Plenary 2 – Tuesday, June 19

STARTUP COMPETITION – Schedule coming soon

Plenary 2 - Wednesday, June 20

SOCIAL BUSINESS TRACK

09h45	Welcome Remarks
	Cédric Giorgi, LeWeb + Jeremiah Owyang, Partner, Altimeter Group
	The social businesstrack’s place at LeWeb, what to expect today, and some figures behind the importance of social for companies	.
09h55	Social Media Numbers
	Jan Rezab, Co-Founder & CEO, Socialbakers
10h10	Creating Business Value Through Social Media: Organization and Measurement, Maria Poveromo, Director, Social Media, Adobe Sys	tems, Inc.
10h25	Q&A with Mikkel Svane, Founder & CEO, Zendesk
10h40	Q&A with Madlen Nicolaus, Senior Marketing & Community Manager, Salesforce Radian6
10h55	How non profits use social media ?
	Roberto Kusabbi, Manager, Communities & Social Media, Multimedia, British Heart Foundation
	Euan Semple, Director, Voice
	Cédric Giorgi, LeWeb
11h35	The power of tools
	Moderator: Jeremiah Owyang, Partner, Altimeter Group
	Luca Benini, Managing Director, Europe, BuddyMedia
	Rebecca Quinn, Director of EU Strategy & Operations, Wildfire Interactive
12h00	Q&A - A Luxury Brand on Social Media
	Carla Henny - Yves Saint Laurent Beauty & Fragrances (L'Oréal Luxe)
12h15	Q&A - How American Express use social media for service, engagement and even to drive commerce
	Bradley R. Minor, Vice President of Social Media Communications, American Express & Jeremiah Owyang, Partner, Altimeter Group

12h30-14h30	Lunch

14h30	Sandy Carter, Vice President, Social Business Sales and Evangelism, IBM Corporation
14h45	Q&A with Soraya Darabi, Co-Founder, Foodspotting & Cédric Giorgi, LeWeb
15h00	Q&A with Fraser Kelton, COO, Getglue
15h30-15h35	Closing Remarks

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For more information, please visit http://london.leweb.co/

About LeWeb:
LeWeb Paris is Europe's number one event for the web industry.
In 2011, nearly 3500 participants from 76 countries and 400 journalists attended LeWeb. Many prestigious speakers have taken part in previous editions, including Karl Lagerfeld, Carlos Ghosn, Shimon Peres, Philippe Starck, Paulo Coelho and Rania de Jordanie.
In June 2012 will be held at Westminster Central Hall in London, the first summer edition of the LeWeb conference.
LeWeb’12 Paris will be held at Les Docks de Paris – Porte d’Aubervilliers - 50 Av. du Président Wilson, Saint Denis La Plaine.

Contacts :

Press contact: agence megalo&company
Sandra Codognotto / Sibylle de Villeneuve
Tel.: 01 73 04 60 56 / 52
scodognotto@megalo-company.com / sdevilleneuve@megalo-company.com

Source(s) : LeWeb London