“Taking Internet To The Next Level” est une conférence que j’ai donnée le 13 décembre dans les locaux de l’Iteem (une des rares écoles d’entrepreneur/ingénieur en France).

L’objectif de cette conférence était de démontrer que l’internet est en croissance exponentielle, que cela crée une montage de nouvelles opportunités et que le “web entrepreneur” n’a jamais eu autant d’avenir grâce à la magie du cloud computing.

“Je pense que les ingénieurs français sont très compétents mais que leur manque d’optimisme les empêchent de détecter les opportunités qu’offrent le web.”

Vous trouverez ci-dessous ma présentation qui résume les leçons que j’ai retenues des multiples conférences américaines auxquelles j’ai pu assister ainsi que de la création de ma start-up à Vancouver.

Si vous avez des retours, remarques ou questions, n’hésitez pas à commenter ci-dessous.

Worth taking a break, it’s fascinating.

1. Mark Zuckerberg about the Social Layer

From “How the social graph can be better than algorithms?”, “Why every softwares will be rethought around people”, “How Facebook is going to able it” to “Why openness in the future will create more value?”.

2. Eric Schmidt about the true Mobile Power

“How Mobile phones can replaced credit card”, “How much powerful a phone can be?”, “How to make (Google) TV smart?”. etc
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• Innovate on top of others services and build a service which always differentiate you.
• Focus on building sustainable businesses in France first then go global.

Here’s his speech during The Next Web 2010. He explains a bit more why the new business model is based on the cloud. For now here’s a older speech:

Keynote Werner Vogels – The Next Web Conference 2010 from Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on Vimeo.

Thanks a lot Werner.

I was lazy to write an article so I made a quick video Enjoy! You can also watch my 3min interview with Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.

April 27/28/29 – TheNextWeb.com, Amsterdam – @thenextweb

May 3/6 – Web 2.0 Expo, San Francisco – @w2e

May 12th – Smash Summit, San Francisco - @smashsummit

May 20th – Zappos, Seminar “Culture for you and your organization”, Las Vegas – @zapposinsights

May 24/25/26 – Techcrunch Disrupt, New York City – @techcrunch

I’ll be finishing my trip in Vancouver and organize some free workshops to share and discuss about the topics seen during this trip. Contact me if you want to join to the conversation.

I attended to #leweb08 and #leweb09 Thanks to @geraldine and @loic. It really changed my objectives and helped me to start to think more as an innovator than a consumer of the system. We made a dedicated website and organized few workshops in my school about some topics we have seen at LeWeb. A big change for young entrepreneurs.

As @loic said in #leweb09 in his conclusion “We aim at perfection” so here’s 5 ideas that I thought it would worth to share. Let me know what do you think about it?

1. More about “What Is Going On in Asia?”
Discovering and then following “what the Valley/States is thinking” is amazing. Mike Arrington, Marissa Mayer, Tony Hsieh, Chris Brogran, etc are really great. But I’m wondering what the Asians thinkers are doing. We all know they are fast, smart, and pro-efficient. But apparently to quiet. It might important if not crucial to know what is going on there?

2. Is there a way to make it more interactive?
In 2009, Gary Vaynerchuk was begging Loic to organize a Q&A. Meanwhile there’s Techcrunch Disrupt Conference trying new ideas to get the public involved. So how can we do it? Red-light remotes won’t make the trick but maybe something easier? Green and red paper with a optic eye?

3. Touch more french students, we’re missing the reality of the world.
I personnaly discovered Ted.com with Chris Anderson at Leweb08, then I started watching every weeks few conferences and then most of my schoolmates followed. During a workshop, I realized that only 50% of my schoolmates know this website. A 20min interesting talk a day can be better than a 8-hour boring course. Plus I think students (more than entrepreneurs) need to hear those talks, we will create the future. School give answers instead asking questions and it cut off our hope in innovation and creativity.

Why not give a student discount only if they organize something in their school to talk about what they have seen and understood about entrepreneurship.

Plus it’s free marketing for the event. Plus it shows that Leweb is caring even more about the future of France. Plus it might have amazing consequences.

4. Have a Real Video Library
LeWeb is becoming BIG and starts to archive a bit of videos. I still watch videos of people and ideas I want to listen again. However it’s hard. LeWebParis Youtube’s Channel and the USTREAM TV doesn’t have titles, categories and descriptions. TED.com does and makes it amazingly easier and more accessible. Again this is about giving access to something that deserves to be heard. “Ideas Worth Spreading” right? Can’t we find a way to sort them better?

5. Let The New People Talk
Talks at LeWeb are amazing. That’s true. LeWeb09 had some new awesome people like Chris Pirillo and Queen Rania. I think it has been already said in 2009, but we start to recognize too much people. Maybe LeWeb needs to look for new people, as I said, maybe Asians? Students? Or just simply a whole set of new people?

Others ideas?

• A sustainable theme? Most of us use huge server farms, maybe it worth to share how to save energy? Promote the companies which are specialized?
• Workshops a bit less technical?
• What others ideas do you have?

Conclusion
I love this event, we meet great people, hear great talks and above all it’s in France. Loic left France because everything is happening in the US and he is giving a chance to our entrepreneurs to be face to new challenges. But we need to improve it, because “We Aim At Perfection” ? Right @loic?