O'Reilly Conferences: Web 2.0 Summit

News Release: Web 2.0 Summit Hosts John Battelle and Tim O'Reilly Define the Next Phase of the Web: Web Squared

Jackie Hadley, Communications Associate — 2009-06-23T14:26:50-08:00

White Paper Previews Key Concepts for Web 2.0 Summit’s Sixth Anniversary

SAN FRANCISCO, June 23 - O’Reilly Media and TechWeb, co-producers of the Web 2.0 Summit, announce the release of a white paper and an accompanying webcast on Web Squared, which will define the next phase of the Web. The free webcast is scheduled for Thursday, June 25th at 10:00 am PDT, and the white paper will be available on the conference web site shortly thereafter. To sign up for the webcast visit http://www.web2summit.com/web2009/public/content/webcast.

The Web Squared white paper, by Tim O’Reilly and John Battelle, addresses the evolution of the Web from the emergence of Web 2.0 to its current and future state, illustrating how the principles articulated in 2004 have evolved the Web so dramatically that they fundamentally changed the game. The authors see a new direction for the Web, one that opens incredible new business opportunities, and enormous new possibilities for impacting the world’s most pressing problems.

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News Release: Following Sold-Out Event and Rave Reviews, Registration Opens for Web 2.0 Summit 2009

Jackie Hadley, Communications Associate — 2008-12-18T15:46:28-08:00

Invitation Requests Now Being Accepted

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 18 — Web 2.0 Summit, which took place Nov. 5-7, 2008, focused on how the Web can help solve the world’s most pressing problems, creating interest that sold the event out for the fifth consecutive year. The theme “Web Meets World” explored how the Web is changing the world — touching healthcare, finance, global warming — while simultaneously engaging those outside the industry to look to the Web for solutions. Scores of speakers challenged the current economic malaise with their revolutionary ideas for Web 2.0 innovation, business growth and problem solving. Due to the positive response, conference organizers have begun accepting invitation requests for Web 2.0 Summit 2009 taking place in San Francisco October 20-22.

The invitation-only Web 2.0 Summit featured a lineup of notable speakers including former U.S. Vice President and Nobel Laureate Al Gore, Elon Musk of Tesla Motors, Arianna Huffington of the Huffington Post, Shai Agassi with a Better Place and Lance Armstrong. Program chair John Battelle, chairman and publisher of Federated Media, and co-moderator Tim O’Reilly, founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, presented a program in which more than 70 extraordinary thinkers and leaders in healthcare, genetics, energy, the environment, finance, global business, and politics spoke. An intimate setting capped at 1,000 attendees gave everyone a chance to participate and engage with these thought leaders through incisive plenary sessions, cut-through-the-hype conversations, rapid-fire “high order bits,” “show me” presentations and in-depth workshops. All keynote videos and presentations from the conference can be found at http://www.web2summit.com.

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CNet: Al Gore electrifies Web 2.0 Summit

Jackie Hadley, Communications Associate — 2008-11-10T10:02:52-08:00

Closing the summit is former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, who famously went from losing the 2000 presidential election to winning an Academy Award for the global-warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth and a Nobel Peace Prize. He came to the Web 2.0 Summit to talk, at least in part, about Current Media, a Web video company he co-founded that partnered up with Web darlings Digg and Twitter to cover the election last week.

Information Week: Huffington, Newsom & Trippi: The Web & Politics

Jackie Hadley, Communications Associate — 2008-11-10T09:58:48-08:00

Riding the tailwind of an historical election, Web 2.0 Summit set out to establish the Web as part of that history thanks to a dynamic, provocative panel that included Arianna Huffington (Huffington Post), Gavin Newsom (yeah, that one: Mayor of San Francisco), and Joe Trippi (political consultant).

InformationWeek: Google Do-Gooder: Brilliant

Jackie Hadley, Communications Associate — 2008-11-06T13:53:56-08:00

Dr. Larry Brilliant, today’s first speaker at the annual Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, has marked a turn in the tone of this seminal conference. Brilliant, a long-time philanthropist who has spent his life helping fight disease around the world, is the executive director of Google.Org, the search giant’s attempt to make a difference in the world, and he opened the main stage conversations and “high order bits,” with John Battelle and Tim O’Reilly.

Information Week: What's Lance Armstrong Got To Do With It

Jackie Hadley, Communications Associate — 2008-11-06T07:50:01-08:00

As part of the continuing theme of do-good at Web 2.0 Summit 2008, Lance Armstrong, unretired cyclist-cum-philanthropist extraordinaire took the main stage as the dinner keynote. This was the only appearance he agreed to honor after announcing his cycling comeback and his visit was much anticipated. It didn’t disappoint.

Web 2.0 Summit Challenges Internet Leaders to Engage With World's Problems

Jackie Hadley, Communications Associate — 2008-11-03T12:37:45-08:00

Sold-out Event Explores the Intersection of World and Web

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 3 — TechWeb and O’Reilly Media, Inc.,
co-producers of the annual Web 2.0 Summit (http://www.web2summit.com),
announced that this exclusive event has sold out for the fifth consecutive
year. The event’s program will look at how the technologies, values and
cultures of the Web can address the world’s most pressing limits. Web 2.0
Summit, which takes place November 5-7 at the Palace Hotel in San
Francisco, will bring the great minds of our time together this week as
leaders of the Internet economy turn their attention to the solutions the
Web can provide to the world at large.

With complex systems seemingly reaching their limits, it has become
apparent that the Web provides an avenue for new ways to address these
limits. The Web’s greatest inventions are, at their core, social movements.
Reflecting that growth, the program has expanded to include leaders in the
fields of healthcare, genetics, finance, global business and politics.

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News Release: Web 2.0 Summit 'Web Meets World' Auction to Benefit Three Innovative Charities

Jackie Hadley, Communications Associate — 2008-10-30T10:13:06-08:00

Priceless Items Donated in Support of Change

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 29 - TechWeb and O’Reilly Media,
Inc., co-producers of the annual Web 2.0 Summit, announce the benefiting
organizations and lots of the “Web Meets World” auction, which will take
place on the evening of Wednesday, November 5 at the Palace Hotel in San
Francisco. The proceeds from the event will benefit three charity
organizations — the Lance Armstrong Foundation, WITNESS and Green For All.
For more information visit: http://www.web2summit.com.

Sponsored by Microsoft, the “Web Meets World” auction is inspired by
the theme of looking beyond immediate needs and into a space that
transforms limits into opportunities. The selected auction beneficiaries do
just that. The Lance Armstrong Foundation, LIVESTRONG.org, unites people in
the fight against cancer, providing useful information and tools people
with cancer need to live life on their own terms. WITNESS uses video and
online technologies to open the eyes of the world to human rights
violations, empowering people to transform personal stories of abuse into
powerful tools for justice and policy change. The third organization, Green
For All, promotes green-collar jobs and opportunities for disadvantaged
communities working to build an inclusive, green economy strong enough to
resolve the ecological crisis and lift people out of poverty.

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Web 2 Conversations: Paul Otellini - and a New Contest!!!!

Jackie Hadley, Communications Associate — 2008-10-27T13:49:51-08:00

From John Battelle’s Blog, Chair of Web 2.0 Summit:

As you all know by now, I’m asking for your help in preparing to interview folks on stage for Web 2 next week. Your responses have been inspiring, and I am compiling them all into documents I use during the interview process.

Just a Few Seats Remain--Request an Invitation

Suzanne Axtell — 2008-10-23T15:46:50-08:00

Web 2.0 Summit kicks off on November 5 and the full schedule, including workshops, is now available. Registration for the Web 2.0 Summit is by invitation only and space it limited to maintain an intimate setting for conversation and collaboration. However, we’re eager to accommodate you if we can, so request an invitation. We’ll let you know quickly if there is space available.

Web 2.0 Newsradar: Al Gore Joins Web 2.0 Summit Lineup

Maureen Jennings, Conferences Publicist — 2008-08-08T01:14:57-08:00

Web 2.0 Newsradar spreads the word about Al Gore at Web 2.0 Summit by reposting Tim O’Reilly’s announcement.

BuzzTracker News: Al Gore Joins the Lineup at Web 2 Summit

Maureen Jennings, Conferences Publicist — 2008-08-08T01:01:34-08:00

BuzzTracker says the announcement about Al Gore at Web 2.0 Summit is its most blogged piece on Mr. Gore.

Yahoo! Buzz: Al Gore Joins the Lineup At Web 2 Summit

Maureen Jennings, Conferences Publicist — 2008-08-08T00:56:08-08:00

Yahoo! Buzz runs the announcement that Al Gore will speak at Web 2.0 Summit.

Pimp My News: Web 2.0 Summit line-up announced

Maureen Jennings, Conferences Publicist — 2008-08-08T00:39:48-08:00

Listen to this mechanical reading of the Boing Boing post about Gore coming to Web 2.0 Summit.

Boing Boing: Web 2.0 Summit line-up announced

Maureen Jennings, Conferences Publicist — 2008-08-08T00:29:09-08:00

David Pescovitz writes about the terrific speakers scheduled for Web 2.0 Summit:

Our fearless band manager John Battelle is the co-host, along with Tim O’Reilly, of the Web 2.0 Summit, a huge confab where Internet heavyweights talk big vision. Combined, John and Tim know everyone on the Internet (and their brothers) and so they always line up great talkers. They’ve just announced the speaker list for this year’s Web 2.0, to be held November 5-7 in San Francisco. It’s no “insider baseball” Internet conference. Indeed, the big thematic question of Web 2.0 2008 is: “How can we apply the lessons of the Web to the world at large?” Folks like Al Gore, Lance Armstrong, Saul Griffith, Elon Musk, and Michael Pollan will attempt to provide some answers.

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