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Save the date! Loic and Geraldine Le Meur, founders and organizers of the biggest Internet conference in Europe -Le Web Paris- have recently announced the dates and location of the 2010 edition: December 8th and 9th, 2010 at Les Docks in Paris, France.
The main numbers of the 2009 edition were:

2,500 participants
50 countries
300 journalists
15,000 tagged photos [...]

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My Event Wishlist for 2010

December 31, 2009

in Events

The new year is just a few hours away so it’s time to plan which events I’ll be attending during 2010. The event & conferences is blooming like never before, in a way thanks to the internet that allows us to find people with similar interests and meet physically.
I won’t make it to all the [...]

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Yesterday evening I participated to the first TEDx event in Italy: TEDxLakeComo. It was organized by Gerolamo Saibene, Francois de Brabant (CEO and President respectively of Between Spa, sponsor of the event ) and Teresa Saibene. The event was supported by Between, the Como division of Politecnico di Milano and Universicomo, with catering provided [...]

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On November 17th 2009 the 140 Characters Conference (@140conf) will arrive to London, after two successful editions in New York and Las Vegas. Organized by Jeff Pulver, this series of events was originally born to discuss the “real-time web” and “the effects of twitter on: Celebrity, The Media, Advertising and (maybe) Politics” but in a [...]

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In a bit more than one month the fifth edition of Le Web Paris will take place (Paris, 9 & 10 December 2009). Le Web is probably the biggest and most important European conference regarding all that’s related to the Web and this year the main theme is “Real-Time Web”.
Le Web was created in 2005 [...]

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I‘ve been too busy lately organizing PICNIC in Amsterdam but that does not mean that I have abandoned Conference Basics. Several new posts are on their way with tips and tools to improve your conference. Meanwhile, this is a photo of my extended Poken family, that has grown thanks to Ayman van Bregt and Jilles [...]

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I know this post might seem just blunt self promotion but since I started Conference Basics, transparency has been an important issue for me.
Since July 2009 I have become PICNIC Amsterdam 2009’s Marketing Manager. I’ve since long admired this event and I am very excited about this new role.

As Marketing Manager I’ll am responsible of:

Supervise, [...]

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Last Friday, June 3rd 2009, the city of Venice officially launched a free wi-fi service that covers most of the city.
The presentation and “beta-testing” of the service was made in a rather unusual way: the vice-mayor of Venice, Michele Vianello, together with blogger Gigi Cogo, organized a barcamp-like event for bloggers and journalists to test [...]

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