Die Web & Startup Conference Freigeist öffnet am 6. Mai ihre Tore in Köln und wir verlosen exklusiv fünf Tickets an alle Interessenten. Die FreiGeist wendet sich in erster Linie an Unternehmer und Startups aus den Bereichen Web2.0, Internet, IT, Games, Technologie und Software und ging aus den StartUp Days hervor.

Wer sich ein Ticket sichern möchte, der nimmt mit uns über Twitter Kontakt auf, indem ihr Retweetet: „RT @vik_t: Noch schnell ein Ticket für die Web & Startup Conference Freigeist am 6.5. in Köln sichern: http://bit.ly/9akmFS.“ Damit wandert ihr in den Lostopf. Die Gewinner werden am Freitag gezogen.

Besonders interessant für alle StartUps ist mit Sicherheit die Verleihung des FreiGeist-Awards, der mit insgesamt 1.500 Euro sowie diversen Sachpreisen dotiert ist. Bewerben können sich alle Interessierten noch bis zum 03. Mai, allerdings müsst ihr euch beeilen, da nur noch wenige Präsentationsplätze frei sind.

Tiburon-TV wird auch am 6. Mai vor Ort auf der Freigeist sein und freut sich auf interessante Präsentation, neue Ideen und vor allem spannende Gespräche.

Für alle, die es nicht nach Köln schaffen, aber einen tollen Titel und noch mehr Preise abräumen wollen: Die e-challenge sucht das innovativste Ecommerce Startup 2010! Macht mit und sichert euch Preise im Wert von 45.000 Euro.

Organized by SinnerSchrader, the next conference in the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, is one of the most important networking and trend conferences within the European web industry. It is the only conference that unites the Internet community with brands and leading companies. One of the people behind next is Martin Recke, next conference manager and Head of Corporate Communications at SinnerSchrader.



Amongst others, the speakers of next09 were Mathys van Abbe, Markus Berger-de León, Rafi Haladjian, Nicholas MacGowan von Holstein, Darius Miranda, Marco Ripanti, Axel Schmiegelow, Katarina Skoberne, Renato Valdes Olmos, Martin Szugat, Henriette Weber as well as Jeff Jarvis - blogger and author of What Would Google Do?



If you missed next09 or cannot wait to attend the next next conference, don't lose heart ;) there are only 270 days until next10! The event will take place at Kampnagel Hamburg on May 4 & 5 and will kick off with a Pre-Conference Day on May 4 and some visionary keynote speeches. The Main Conference Day with the full-fledged programme including four parallel tracks is scheduled for May 5. Over the next few months, the main topics and motto for next10 will be announced and a Call for Participation will be kicked off. If you register now you get 50% off! For more information or support just write an e-mail to next10@next10.de

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It’s cold, dark and there’s slush on the ground in November in Finland. Still, lots of cool new startups will be meeting on November 3rd and 4th 2009 in Helsinki at the Slush Conference: Slush! is an event organized by startups for startups, aimed to motivate people to start their own businesses and to support networking. Tiburon-TV’s Viktoria has interviewed one of the co-organizers of this cool event: Antti Vilpponen from ArcticStartup, the leading blog on Nordic and Baltic startups.



Slush! features a showcase area for around 40 startups as well as a startup developer track for information sharing among developers. “The Slush made me do it!” sessions are about all the major Finnish Internet era success stories – check out Viktoria’s interviews from Slush 2008 featuring Petteri Koponen from Jaiku, Sampo Karjalainen from Habbo Hotel, Ilkka Paananen from Digital Chocolate and many more Scandinavian tech entrepreneurs.

There’s a Slush Seven Startup Competition based on the Slush Fund that offers winners seed funding as well as support from the brightest Finnish minds. Click here to be kept informed about the latest updates from Slush. Tickets will be going on sales soon!

And please remember that this is not Southern France, so you better take some warm clothes…

The countdown is on for PICNIC09: There are still 67 days to go until the fourth edition of PICNIC will take place on September 23-25, 2009 at the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam. This year’s event will be focusing on new media, mobile technologies and the changes produced by the clash of the old and new world.

PICNIC is a festival with a cutting edge conference program featuring keynotes, interactive experiences and matchmaking sessions designed to evoke an emotional reaction through "quirky surprises". The PICNIC09 speaker line-up features amongst others Philip Zimbardo, Niklas Zennström, Gerd Leonhard, Tomi Ahonen and Jeff Jarvis.

PICNIC09 will be featuring two big competitions: The Green Challenge, a global competition for the most innovative products or services that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the Vodafone Mobile Clicks finale, awarding 150,000 Euros to the most innovative mobile applications. To get in touch with the PICNIC team write to info [at] crossmediaweek.org. Click here to buy tickets.

Among the many successful entrepreneurs and creative minds that have been interviewed by Tiburon-TV's Viktoria at PICNIC08 was Jure Cuhalev - founder of Zemanta, inventor of smart rabbit Nabaztag Rafi Haladjian as well as Philip Rosedale - creator of the virtual world Second Life. Click here for all of Viktoria’s interviews from PICNIC08.



Next Friday's "Events2go" will be covering Slush conference in Helsinki - an event for startups by startups. Stay tuned!

If you are a frequent visitor to our blog, you've probably already watched Viktoria’s interview with the founder and CEO of Lift Conference Laurent Haug. Laurent started Lift in 2006 and turned it into a sucess story: A diverse, communitarian and bottom-up conference that has been called "one of the highlights of the technophile calendar" and is attended by more than 700 people from around the world - entrepreneurs, artists, managers, researchers, investors, CEOs, designers and ethnologists.

Lift has grown from a local conference into a series of three events happening in Swiss Geneva, in Marseille, France, and in South Korea. If you missed Lift09 and Lift France 09, hop on a plane and fly to Korea in September: Lift Asia 09 will be happening in Jeju Island on September 17 and 18 and will be all about "Serious Fun". Lift has lowered the entry prize to a quite palatable €200 to make the event more accessible! For those of you planning to participate in 2010, please note that Lift France will be taking place in February, Lift Geneva in May whereas Lift Asia will still be happening in September.

Tiburon-TV is in the middle of posting Viktoria’s interviews from Lift France 09 on our blog - so please come back soon, it’s definitely worth it! We’ll be publishing interviews with Gunter Pauli and Bertrand Copigneaux as well as lots of inspiring presentations and will prove to you that Lift is an opportunity to meet up with some of the most interesting people around - like „the father of the Internet“ Vint Cerf who gave the closing talk of Lift09...



Click here for an overview of all videos from Lift France 09. Interviews from Lift09 can be found here.

Olá and welcome to our portrait of Lisbon SHiFT conference! SHiFT (Social and Human Ideas For Technology) really shows how Portugal is becoming a great place for International Tech Conferences.

Who are the people behind SHiFT? Viktoria interviewed some of the organizers - amongst them Henriette Weber, André Ribeirinho and Pedro Custódio.

„SHiFT is about technology but not in a traditional way“ says Pedro, „we put together people that normally aren’t interested in technology and mix them with tech geeks. SHiFT is trying to be something entirely different than the very commercial, academic and closed Portuguese conferences. We take a little bit of every field and put it together with a focus on the role of technology in social issues. We are trying to achieve something that is very uncommon in Portugal: Rethink the past and plan for the future and last but not least provoke engagement! “

SHiFT09 is happening on October 16 and 17 in the beautiful city of Lisbon: Two days packed with great speakers, interesting discussions with new and known people from all over Europe and inspiration by the stories people share on and off stage. Check out SHiFT’s website to learn more about the speaker lineup and the highlights of this year’s edition. For any questions you can write to info@shift.pt

„Spread the word, spread ideas, spread joy, spread technology“ - following the motto of SHiFT...See you all in Lisbon!

After introducing SIME last week, we would like to recommend another great event to you: LeWeb, the #1 European Internet conference that takes place every year in Paris.

The 6th edition of LeWeb will be held on Dec 9th and 10th 2009 and is all about the "Real-Time Web". LeWeb not only wants to be a tech conference but an event touching on more wide-reaching topics. Its main stage program will be featuring internet leaders and visionary entrepreneurs as well as world renowed voices like author Paulo Coehlo or designer Philippe Starck. To submit discussion topic ideas or speakers please click here.

Adjacent to the plenary stage, there are special Networking Zones (there even was a mobile sauna for tired conference attendees at LeWeb 2008!) Please click here to register to the conference.

As in the past, LeWeb 2009 will be running a StartUp Competition: The best 20 applications will be selected to make a 6-min-demonstration of a new product. To submit your company please click here.

Out of the many amazing and talented people that attended LeWeb 2008, Viktoria interviewed sevenload’s co-founders Ibrahim Evsan and Thomas Bachem, David Hornik from August Capital as well as eBuddy’s CEO Jan-Joost Rueb.



Leading global social media platform sevenload.com concentrates on modern internet television and User Generated Content. The new media company even helps pave your way to stardom by giving you your own show in one of the sevenload channels...

LeWeb is also great for meeting investors and VCs like David Hornik from August Capital. According to David who’s also an author and lecturer at Stanford and Harvard UC, August Capital will be raising a new fund despite the economic downturn.

Online messaging aggregator eBuddy.com offers a free Web Based as well as a Mobile Messenger that enable you to chat without downloads.

That's it for now - learn more about the Shift conference in next Friday’s edition of „Events2go“!

As of today, Friday will be Tiburon-TV’s Event Day: In our new weekly series „events2go“ we’ll be presenting the most exciting events. To get the ball rolling, we’ll portray SIME - Northern Europe’s largest conference about the Internet and digital opportunities. SIME started in 1996 and brings together top executives, marketing professionals, aficionados and members of the press. Here's a selection of Viktoria's interviews from SIME08:

Eran Davidson - Managing Partner and CEO of Hasso Plattner Ventures – was one of the attendees of SIME08: „When we identify a great entrepreneur, we will back him up in almost anything he wants to do“ promises Eran. The only requirement: One should be able to pitch Eran within three minutes.

Another investor and serial entrepreneur who attended SIME08 is Axel Schmiegelow: The CEO of sevenload and denkwerk Group primarily invests in companies that are out of their seed stage. Axel is also an active Board member of travel commerce company itravel.

As a participant of SIME you can also meet Global Leadership Fellows of the World Economic Forum like Rodolfo Lara Torres. Rudolfo is now heading the weforum’s Technology Pioneers Programme that announces each year visionary companies as Tech Pioneers and innovators of the highest calibre.

Take advantage of this unique setting of networking and attend SIME in 2009: Helsinki - September 30; Copenhagen - October 8. Both in Helsinki and in Copenhagen, SIME will focus on winning strategies for turning the current crisis into opportunities. Stockholm - November 11 – 12; Barcelona - May 21; Beijing - By invitation only - for more information contact Felicio de Costa (felicio@sime.nu)

With regard to SIME Awards, you can write to co-founder Urban Pettersson (urban@wemind.se). For all questions related to the agenda and speakers, please contact SIME’s co-founder and Chairman Ola Ahlvarsson (ola@result.com).

Next Friday’s „events2go“ is all about LeWeb Paris. Stay tuned!