JB
Technology columnist at L'Expansion, the leading business magazine in France

Celebrating small teams who are having a huge impact on the world, we're having a series of events all day long (the real fun starts at 4 p.m. with a kickoff of our San Francisco speaker series).

Invite needed, but we'll try to accomodate anyone who clicks that they are attending here.

GigaOM RoadMap 2011 Connecting the present to the future Connectivity continues to change everything. Everything. Your phone, your car, your house, your body, your watch, your health, your bills, your business, your marketing plans, your operations software, your market, your customers. Introducing GigaOM RoadMap, a brand new conference on the...

This CloudCamp is focussed on the Enterprise. We invite you to propose topics (click here) discussing topics specifically related to business applications and other issues Enterprises face when trying to use Cloud Computing. Free Pass to Cloud Expo:: All CloudCamp attendees will automatically receive a recomplimentary VIP Gold pass which is...

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Find out who's driving the location revolution forward.
Keynotes:
- Bernardo Hernandez, Head of Global Emerging Platforms, Google
- Adam Brotman, GM &VP Digital Ventures, Starbucks
- Paul Adams, Product Management, Facebook  
...

Join the developers, entrepreneurs, and innovators who are creating a more social web. Hosted by Facebook, this is its official developer's conference.

Are you achieving maximum value out of salesforce.com? The Cloud has not only changed the business model and implementation cycle for projects, it has changed the approach companies need to manage these applications post go-live. Yet 80% of customers do not have an effective strategy to manage change and innovate ongoing. See how leading companies...

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Putting Facebook to Work: Strategies for Marketing & Development

AF Expo is your inside look at Facebook innovations and technology issues jointly impacting marketers and social developers. Join the world’s most sought-after community of social media leaders for two days of...

Structure is GigaOM’s flagship conference on Cloud Computing and Internet Infrastructure, bringing together the most influential thinkers in the space for two days. Be sure to join us.

6Sight Summit Conferences are the preeminent worldwide gatherings of imaging executives, technologists, mass merchants, lab owners, media, analysts, hardware manufacturers, software developers, and investors focused on advancing all segments of the imaging ecosystem through sharing technological breakthroughs and networking with potential partners...

Velocity is the premier event for web performance and operations professionals and companies, from O'Reilly Media. Velocity is three days of practical training, case studies, strategies, and networking that have a critical impact on your company's user experience, online strategy, and bottom line.

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OnMobile 2011 is where the top venture capital-backed mobile companies disrupting the consumer and enterprise worlds join forces with the big players pioneering the new mobile device and operating system platforms. This two day executive event features high-level debates on...

SPEAKERS:
Trend Presenter: Curt Carlson, President and CEO, SRI International
Aneesh Chopra, Chief Technology Officer of the United States
Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Paul Saffo, Managing Director of Foresight, Discern Analytics
Peter Thiel, Technology entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist
Moderator: Tony...

Why MongoDB was created
Dwight Merriman, 10gen

Former DoubleClick Founder and CTO Dwight Merriman wrote the first lines of MongoDB code in 2007. He drew upon his experiences building large scale, high availability, robust systems to create a new kind of database.
MongoDB Profiling and Tuning
Kenny Gorman, Shutterfly

This talk goes over various...

MongoSF is a multi-track, one-day conference dedicated to the open source database MongoDB.

What new trends will emerge in the next several years? Find out at one of the Churchill Club’s most anticipated events of the year: the 13th Annual Top Ten Tech Trends debate. Visionaries at SRI International—the institute that has conducted $4B in research in the last decade and spun out 40 ventures—have taken their best shot at predicting...

With over 5B cell phones in use, 600M Facebook users, and 1B Google search queries per day, journalism is no longer a gatekeeper of mass communication and knowledge dissemination. At the 8th Conference on Innovation Journalism (IJ-8), we explore how innovation is affecting business of journalism. IJ-8 is set for May 23-25 at Stanford University....

For more information on the Startup Lessons Learned conference, please visit http://www.sllconf.com

Startup Lessons Learned 2011 is the sequel to last year's inaugural event, which brought together nearly 400 entrepreneurs and executives interested in building and supporting lean startups. The goal for this event is to give practitioners and...

Google I/O brings together thousands of developers for two days of deep technical content, focused on building the next generation of web, mobile, and enterprise applications with Google and open web technologies such as Android, Google Chrome, Google APIs, Google Web Toolkit, App Engine, and more.

More Info
French panache is not a legend, it's a fact.
French 2.0 is about those French entrepreneurs that passed the 2nd gear in developing their company and business abroad!
In any occasion, let's mingle and celebrate this Spirit!

This time it's Google I/O and it's gonna be big!
http://www.google.com/events/io/2011/

Still...

Marissa Mayer (Google) to Keynote Social-Loco.

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Other companies speaking include:
- Groupon
- JiWire
- Facebook
- 4sqr
- Bing
And get ready, here's comes the Social-Loco pitch competition.

We'll dive into social and mobile web convergence, and what that means for SMB, big brands and...

Join 600 entrepreneurs for a full day conference that covers: finding co-founders, how to launch and get press and traction, how to improve your pitch to investors and more.

Speakers include Guy Kawasaki, Naval Ravikant, Loic Le Leur, Robert Scoble, Adeo Ressi, Tim Young, Jeff Clavier, George Zachary, Rebecca Lynn.

I'm going back to Europe next week! I'm throwing a goodbye party at our house (Startup Digest and Slidepad HQ). Would love if you guys can make it :)

There will be your standard issue of supermodels, caviar and we'll fill the swimming pool with champagne. Feel free to bring avecs.

"Juulia: expect some Finnish ladies!"