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Third annual Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco
Talk to web developers from around the world and you’ll quickly understand why a four years old website the company management approved, in the "boom era", just doesn’t cut it anymore. In fact, if such a site is still online and hasn’t been upgraded, it’s probably sending the wrong message about your company to those who click to it.
The people who build the web know the opportunity for growth exists online more than anywhere else, especially when it’s coordinated within a more global marketing approach using the traditional media.
Meet the Web 2.0 enthusiasts who believe the web, as it’s been presented to us for the last few years, is merely a beta period for even more exciting developments where ideas, capital and a new sense for value define, in part, what the perfect visitor experience should be.
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Wether you’re a web developer, a web technologies venture capitalist, a forward thinking manager or simply someone who knows something big is coming, you’re encouraged to consider attending the Web 2.0 Conference, from November 7 to 9, 2006, in beautiful San Francisco as it focuses on emerging business and technology developments that utilize the web as a platform and defines how this global network will drive business in the future.
The event is produced by CMP and O’Reilly. Perhaps you’ll want to join John Battelle as he’ll speak of Federated Media Publishing, a growing network of blogs, based in California. Other noteworthy speakers include the bubbly Jeff Bezos from Amazon, Chad Hurley co-founder of YouTube, Marissa Mayer from Google’s search products, Roger McNamee from Elevation Partners who made private equity funding somewhat e-friendlier, Kevin Rose founder and chief architect of digg, Toni Schneider who is CEO of Automattic and venture partner at True Ventures as well as Mark Zuckerberg serving as CEO at Facebook.
The sponsor list is also impressive, with Hakia, About, Fenwick & West LP, Windows Live, Yahoo!, Foldera, Laszlo, Mayfield Fund, Polaris Venture Partners and Red Herring already listed as media sponsor.
If you haven’t been on Mars for the last 20 years, you already know the web has become a robust platform with countless innovations driving its ongoing development while widespread disruptions, in traditional business models, are well underway. For those who believe that from a certain level of chaos and disruption, related to the whole Web 2.0 context, can emerge wonderful opportunities, this is a fine time to be building the future, online and off.
Some participants will probably attend the event in order to protect their market positions but surely many of them want to push the envelope on true innovation so if you want to have fun with forward thinkers, this event should deliver contentwise while doing wonders for your social and business networking efforts.
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