Sponsorship Opportunities

become a part of the hottest web conference in Europe!

Are you interested in being associated with The Next Web Conference and achieving eternal fame for you and your company by sponsoring part of the conference? We have listed a few sponsorship opportunities here and all packages can be customized to the needs and wants of the sponsors.

The Sponsors

These are the sponsors of The Next Web Conference 2007. Are you interested in sponsoring too?

Mega Sponsors

Widsets.com
WidSets is a popular Internet-based mobile phone service with several hundred thousand registered users and 1200+ widgets. WidSets allows people to not only enjoy and share their favourite internet content on their mobile phones, but also to create and publish their own widgets.

It is a Web 2.0 community built around people’s content interests and needs. The WidSets service works on a wide variety of mobile phone brands and models. WidSets represents a first step in Nokia’s vision of mobilizing the Internet, and was launched in October 2006.

Fleck.com
Fleck is a web annotation service. Fleck allows you to add information to any page you visit on the web without needing an account or downloading software.
You can Comark (Comment & Bookmark) the annotated pages for yourself or share them with others. Fleck will release a new version during the conference.

ZOOOF.COM
New generation genealogy website that lets family members work together to build their interactive family trees and create profiles. Online in 35 languages. In beta until the first of June!

Venturepreneur Sponsor

Big Bang Ventures
Big Bang Ventures invests in early-stage companies in the information and communication technology sector in the larger Benelux region. Formed in 2000, the fund has over € 40 million under management.
Big Bang Ventures leverages its extensive operational experience to actively support startups realize their growth ambitions. Past investments include DataCenterTechnologies (sold to Symantec); Dedigate (acquired by Terremark) and Clear2Pay, a leading payments technology company.
The fund’s initial investments range from EUR 0.3 to 1.5 million in companies that focus on Internet technology, networking infrastructure and solutions, enterprise software and IT-enabled services.

Event Sponsor

Level3 Communications
Level 3 Communications is an international communications company headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado. The company operates one of the largest communications and Internet backbones in the world. Level 3 offers a comprehensive portfolio of network offerings that spans Internet Protocol (IP) services, broadband transport, colocation services, and patented Softswitch-based managed modem and voice services. Level 3 also uses these network services as a foundation for delivering enterprise telecommunications solutions.

Media Partners

Bright
Bright is the first and fastest growing Dutch lifestylemagazine on tech, style and design and focuses primarily on 25+ innovators and trendsetters. For both man and women with a digital lifestyle and a ‘taste for technology’.

TechCrunch
TechCrunch, founded on June 11, 2005, is a weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new web 2.0 products and companies. It is considered as the most influential Web2.0 blog in the world. TechCrunch has over 175k RSS readers and serves over 4 million pageviews per month.
TechCrunch is edited by Michael Arrington

TechCrunch is featured on the Technorati 100, Feedster 500, CNet Top 100 Blogs and is a member of the Web 2.0 WorkGroup.

The Next Net
Erick Schonfeld is the New York-based editor-at-large for Business 2.0 magazine. The Next Net, his blog, explores the latest ideas in business, technology, and creative capitalism. He also puts together The Next Net 25 list, which is a yearly list of the top 25 Web 2.0 startups, published in Business2.0 Magazine.

Read/WriteWeb
Read/WriteWeb is a popular weblog that provides Web Technology news, reviews and analysis. It is one of the most widely read and respected Web 2.0 blogs. Read/WriteWeb is ranked among Technorati’s Top 50 blogs in the world and has 50 - 60.000 RSS Readers. Richard MacManus is editor of Read/WriteWeb, he also co-founded the web2.0 workgroup.

ITP Report
The ITP Report informs and educates in its examination of the social and economic impact of ICT within the international business environment, providing a dialogue between the world¹s most innovative vendors and the marketplace. The all-new ITP Global website delivers even more interviews, in-depth features and white papers, making ITP a one-stop shop for the latest thought leadership influencing business today.