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Speakers

These are the speakers for The Next Web Conference 2007.

Scott Rafer
CEO of MyBlogLog (recently acquired by Yahoo), co-founder of Mashery.com and Moderator for The Next Web Conference 2007.

Rod Beckström
The author of The Starfish and the Spider. The number 4 best business book of 2006 (Amazon Editors’ Picks). From the book introduction: “What’s the hidden power behind the success of Wikipedia, craigslist, and Skype?”.

Deborah Schultz
Evangelist, connector, agitator, strategist in the world of social software, media and marketing and former Marketing Director for Six Apart.

Dick Hardt
Founder and CEO of Sxip Identity. An advocate of Identity 2.0, the user-centric approach to digital identity on the web. Former founder and CEO of open source tools company, ActiveState.

Michael Arrington
Founder of the TechCrunch network, most famous for the biggest and most influential web2.0 blog: TechCrunch. Michael is a serial entrepreneur, blogger and is considered as one of the most influential persons in the web2.0 sphere.

Marc Canter
Recognized airbag in the sphere of open standards, social networks and blogging and CEO of Broadbandmechanics. Founder of MacroMind and Broadband Mechanics.

Tariq Krim
One of the most promising technology entrepreneurs of Europe. He is the founder and CEO of Netvibes, a disruptive start-up company helping users to create a personalized page with the content they like and to manage their digital life.

Felix Petersen
Founder and CEO of Plazes.com. Plazes is a location oriented social service platform with its headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland.

Saul Klein
Saul is a Venture Partner at Index Ventures, VP of Skype and a Founding Partner of the OpenCoffee Club. Investor in a.o. Last.FM, Stardoll, Moo, and Spotrunner.

Tapan Bhat
Tapan is Yahoo!’s vice president of Front Doors, driving strategy, product management and programming for the primary starting points to Yahoo! These services include Yahoo!’s home page, the world’s most heavily trafficked Web site; and My Yahoo!, the most popular personalized page on the Web.

Jeff Clavier
Jeff is one of Silicon Valleys finest, most respected and leading investors. The focus of his venture firm SoftTech VC focus lies in pure technology companies, but certainly not restricted to the Bay Area.

Jason Calacanis
CEO and co-founder of Weblogs Inc. In June of 2006, Calacanis relaunched Netscape, the iconic browser owned by AOL and was named its general manager. Calacanis is currently “Entrepreneur in Action” at Sequoia Capital. Unfortunately Jason’s travel schedule was so tight he cannot make it to the conference.

Video Contributions

Eric A. Meyer
A noted CSS and HTML expert, Eric has been known to stand in front of groups and hold forth on subjects such as CSS, Web design, Web standards, Web browsers, and how they all go together. He’s comfortable with talking theory and giving “big picture” overviews, and also with exploring practical solutions that will be of immediate interest to his audience.

David Weinberger
The Wall Street Journal called him a “marketing guru.” He’s the co-author of the The Cluetrain Manifesto, the bestseller that cut through the hype and told business what the Web was really about. He has a Ph.D in philosophy and is currently a Fellow at the prestigious Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

Matt Mullenweg
Matt is the founding father of Wordpress, a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform that runs almost all blogs in the world. Matt is also one of the founders of Automaticc.

Bloopers and/or Failed Connections

Doing an interview via iChat AV isn’t as simple as it sounds. You can see what can go wrong in these failed interviews.

Seth Godin
Here is the interview we did with Seth Godin. Unfortunately the audio quality is not good enough to use during the conference but we DID post it to Google Video. If you listen really (REALLY!) hard you can hear about his ideas for the Next Web.

Om Malik
Here is the interview we did with Om Malik. Unfortunately the audio quality is not good enough to use during the conference but we DID post it to Google Video. If you listen really (REALLY!) hard you can hear about his ideas for the Next Web.

Bloopers?
If you haven’t seen it yet here is a link to the Next Web Video Documentary. If you wait until just after the end titles you will find a few bloopers.