O'Reilly Conferences: Web 2.0 Summit

The Influencers of Silicon Valley

Jackie Hadley, Communications Associate — 2009-12-14T15:08:36-08:00

When I thought about compiling a list of The Influencers, Tim O’Reilly was the first person who came to mind. If anything, his inclusion might raise some eyebrows only because he’s such a technology icon, it might seem unimaginable that anyone in Silicon Valley hasn’t heard of him. Well, not everyone knows him - but they should.

Based in Sebastopol, his O’Reilly Media is one of the largest and most respected publishers of technology books. And for me, his conferences are can’t-miss events that establish an agenda for what the valley’s innovators are - or should be - thinking about.

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News Release: Kiva, The Girl Effect and charity: water to Benefit from Philanthropic Efforts at Web 2.0 Summit

Jackie Hadley, Communications Associate — 2009-10-06T15:43:45-08:00

Charities That Embody Web Squared Theme to Receive Donations of $1000 from Tickets Sold

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 6 - Kiva, The Girl Effect and charity: water, have been selected today as Web 2.0 Summit’s philanthropic partners. O’Reilly Media and TechWeb, co-producers of the event, are pleased to announce their alliance with these three deserving organizations that embody the theme of Web Squared. In a spirit of charitable support within the Web 2.0 Summit community, Web 2.0 Summit registrants are encouraged to support one of the Web Squared charities by registering with a charity code that donates $1000 to that organization. For more information, visit: http://www.web2summit.com/.

Web Squared, this year’s event theme, is inspired by a new direction for the Web, one that opens new business opportunities and new possibilities. Charity suggestions were solicited and received from over 70 members of the Summit community, using social media platforms like the Web 2.0 Summit Facebook page and Twitter. The three charity organizations selected from the submissions demonstrate the event’s Web Squared theme by putting inspiration into action and creating change on a broad scale. These worthwhile organizations include:

* Kiva: the world’s first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs around the globe for the sake of alleviating poverty.
* The Girl Effect: rooted in the work of the Nike Foundation, which has been joined by the NoVo Foundation in a shared mission to create opportunities for girls, and for the world. Adolescent girls are uniquely capable of raising the standard of living in the developing world.
* charity: water: a nonprofit organization bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations, using 100% of public donations to fund water projects.

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News Release: Web 2.0 Summit 2009 Pays It Forward: Audiences Asked to Submit Proposals for Web 2.0 Summit Charity Partnerships

Jackie Hadley, Communications Associate — 2009-08-31T15:59:07-08:00

San Francisco, CA, August 31, 2009 - O’Reilly Media and TechWeb, co-producers of the Web 2.0 Summit, are asking for help in choosing three charities that embody the spirit of Web Squared to partner with for this year’s Web 2.0 Summit, happening October 20-22, 2009, at the Westin Market Street in San Francisco. Proposals are being accepted at the Web 2.0 Summit Facebook page at bit.ly/W2Charities. Deadline for submissions is September 7. Web Squared, this year’s event theme and the title of the 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. The authors see a new direction for the Web, one that opens new business opportunities and new possibilities for impacting the world’s most pressing problems. Web 2.0 Summit is therefore looking for charity organizations that are innovative and affecting change on a broad scale as partners for this year’s big event.

“The inspiration behind Web Squared made it clear that we must embrace not only disruptive change, but also a ‘pay it forward’ attitude if we’re going to create change on a global scale,” said John Battelle, Web 2.0 Summit program chair. “We’re looking forward to partnering with organizations that are embracing change and putting inspiration into action.”

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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.