{"id":3165,"date":"2009-12-14T22:30:16","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T21:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oezratty.net\/wordpress\/2009\/leweb-2009-the-scorecard\/"},"modified":"2010-10-01T16:44:03","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T14:44:03","slug":"leweb-2009-the-scorecard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oezratty.net\/wordpress\/2009\/leweb-2009-the-scorecard\/","title":{"rendered":"Leweb 2009 &ndash; The Scorecard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a couple days now since Leweb 2009 ended. And I\u2019m quite far from the \u201cReal time web\u201d with that report of the event, which as usual, will be split in a several posts.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s edition was definitively a hit. The most important success factors of such an event are: do we enjoy these so-called \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.livemint.com\/2009\/10\/07225729\/TED-moments-occur-when-speaker.html\">TED moments<\/a>\u201d, when speakers build an emotional connection with the audience, then, do we meet the right people there and at last, are the logistics doing well.<\/p>\n<p>In the Leweb historical scorecard that I assembled below, it looks like the mix of this year\u2019s edition has been the best so far. I just missed the first \u201cLes blogs\u201d in this series of events but it was rather small with only a few hundred attendees. And I don\u2019t necessary recollect well the best \u201cTED moments\u201d from the 2007 and before editions. The number of attendees is an estimate. If it\u2019s wrong, I will correct it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oezratty.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/LewebScorecardOlivierEzratty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"Leweb Scorecard Olivier Ezratty\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Leweb Scorecard Olivier Ezratty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oezratty.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/LewebScorecardOlivierEzratty_thumb.jpg\" width=\"463\" height=\"197\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>We can all thank <strong>Loic and G\u00e9raldine Lemeur<\/strong> to have created over the last six years the best franchise for a web dedicated event based in Europe. It\u2019s both a place whe<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oezratty.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/LoicandGraldineLemeur3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 15px 0px 15px 15px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"Loic and G\u00e9raldine Lemeur (3)\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Loic and G\u00e9raldine Lemeur (3)\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oezratty.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/LoicandGraldineLemeur3_thumb.jpg\" width=\"174\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a>re american leaders of the industry meet and talk, and one where European entrepreneurs can learn from them, network and also showcase their own companies. This is the contradiction from Loic Lemeur: established in the Silicon Valley for pragmatic reasons, but still willing to help those startups who stay in Europe and want their tickets to broader worldwide markets.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the above criterias, there were other nice things with Leweb this year:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Students<\/strong> could register for 150\u20ac and they did show up! Loic asked how many students where present in the main sessions and roughly 5%-10% of the hands raised. <\/li>\n<li>The live and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/leweb\">offlline video<\/a> stream from UStream went perfectly and was watched by 10s of thousands of viewers. And the startup competition presentations were even available, making it an even better marketing investment for the participating companies. Marco Montemagno from Italy did attend Leweb remotely and offers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marcomontemagno.com\/2009\/12\/why-watching-leweb-2009-online-is-so-boring-18-tips-to-improve-the-conference.html\">some interesting suggestions<\/a> to further improve the conference, particularly for those who watch it online. <\/li>\n<li>The top management from the leading <strong>US web leaders<\/strong> where all there: Twitter, Facebook, Google, MySpace, Paypal, Microsoft. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Areas for improvement still exist, such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>sponsors visibility <\/strong>on stage was probably inflated, as we\u2019ll see in my detailed report. It was even not clear for some companies whether they \u201cbought\u201d their ticket on stage or were there just on their merit. The large poster in the picture below shows the sheer number of sponsors! You still need them to fund the event. Sponsors should really work better their main session appearances.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oezratty.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/IMG_9387.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px\" title=\"IMG_9387\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_9387\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oezratty.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/IMG_9387_thumb.jpg\" width=\"429\" height=\"287\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It even looked like when you\u2019re a very <strong>close friend of Loic Lemeur<\/strong>, whatever business you\u2019re in, you\u2019ll get your slot on stage in the agenda. Ouriel Oyahon and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oezratty.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/IMG_9346.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 15px 0px 15px 15px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"IMG_9346\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_9346\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oezratty.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/IMG_9346_thumb.jpg\" width=\"164\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a>Tariq Krim were such examples. Some speakers are also showing up repeatedly at Leweb like Robert Scoble, Mike Arrington, Martin Varzavsky, Marc Simoncini. Maybe is it time for some shift here.<\/li>\n<li>While there were some preeminent women in keynotes (Marisa Mayer, Queen Rania, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, Violet Blue), there were <strong>no single women<\/strong> in the discussion panels. Why is that? It doesn\u2019t mean we\u2019d like the opposite such as an entire women panel. But some mix would be welcomed.<\/li>\n<li>The lack of <strong>interactions <\/strong>between speakers and the room. And it\u2019s not just because there were no Q&amp;As, but also in the unidirectional speaking style with not much feedback asked from the room besides the Twitter feed being shown on screens, a bit like the show live chat from the 2005 edition at Porte de Champerret. <\/li>\n<li><strong>Food<\/strong>. Again. Last year, there was not enough food. This year, it was enough, but quality was quite low. It\u2019s always better than any US lunch box but when you remember the Foie Gras and other niceties of Leweb in 2006 and 2007, you can\u2019t escape the feeling of \u201c<em>how good was it back then<\/em>\u201d!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oezratty.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/IMG_9443.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px\" title=\"IMG_9443\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_9443\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oezratty.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/IMG_9443_thumb.jpg\" width=\"416\" height=\"279\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s theme of Leweb was the \u201cReal Time Web\u201d. Last year, it was \u201cLove\u201d. Overall, the various talks sticked rather well with the theme. At least more than previous years. <\/p>\n<p>While you may not like this time compression where \u201creal time becomes prime time\u201d, and Internet users get used to have everything right here right now, it\u2019s clearly a broad phenomenon that deserves some analysis and thinking. Blogging time has shifted over the last three years to Twitter and Facebook time. As a result, less content is produced and more connections are established between people. We also know that while UGC is a powerful driver of the web content\u2019s creation, it\u2019s still concentrated on a minority of active users.<\/p>\n<p>The real time web is just beginning when you look at all the innovations coming in the mobile space with tools like the hyped <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foursquare.com\/\">FourSquare<\/a>. There are however some paradoxes: with TV, content consumption is less real-time with PVRs (personal video recorders), catch-up and VOD (video on demand). Only significant events (sports, concerts, news, some reality TV) are still watched live. We probably need some balance here!<\/p>\n<p>In my next posts, I\u2019ll cover the \u201cguru\u201d speeches, the \u201csponsor\u201d speeches, the startups and at last, some weird things seen there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a couple days now since Leweb 2009 ended. And I\u2019m quite far from the \u201cReal time web\u201d with that report of the event, which as usual, will be split in a several posts. This year\u2019s edition was definitively a hit. 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