Extra speaker and extra showcase!

We are pleased to announce that we have an extra speaker and 2 extra showcases for The Next Web Conference. They are Paul Molenaar from Ilse Media as a speaker and WidSets from Finland and eSnips from Israel as showcases. The conference is getting better every day!

Check their profiles at the speaker page:
http://thenextweb.org/?r=speakers

A place to sleep

The conference starts on friday and ends near midnight somewhere in the center of Amsterdam after the Party2.0. And after that you can always party on with the new friends you made during the day.

But there will come a time when you will have to start looking for a place to sleep. Our advice would be to book a hotel now and not worry about that in the middle of the night while you are lost somewhere in Amsterdam.

We have two hotels to recommend: The Barbizon Palace and the Lloyd Hotel. Check all the information and room rates here:

http://thenextweb.org/?r=hotel

Hyves, AllPeers, Netvibes, Plazes, Fleck, Twones, Tractis, Sky-Click, Spotback, Hitflip and Mabber

One of the things we are proud of are the hot Web2.0 companies joining us on july 7th. To name just a few: Hyves, AllPeers, Netvibes, Plazes, Fleck, Twones, Tractis, Sky-Click, Spotback, Hitflip and Mabber.

We don't want to explain everything about them right here but we do have links to each company in our 'Attendees' page and you will be able to meet everyone during the conference.

The guys from Mabber (check em out!) are going to give away t-shirts and since we don't have a dress code you might as well come naked and wear their shirt all day.

You should also check out Plazes and get an account. The good thing about Plazes is that they track you as you travel so the website will show that you are visiting Amsterdam and The Next Web Conference.

And then there is Hyves, THE place to go to meet and socialize with your friends. Or sign-up and see if you can find some new friends in their database of 2 million users.

All the other companies are cool too so check their websites so you are able to ask smart questions after their presentations!

If you are interested in meeting someone in particular from one of those companies don't hesitate to contact us so we can set up some meetings. The Next Web Conference should be a great networking tool too so mingle!

Your one minute vision thing

We would like to invite you to make a video with your vision on 'The Next Web' in one minute, or less. We plan to use these short video's during the day in the business area on big monitors and we will use them on the website and while people are waiting in between speakers. We hope you have a minute to share your opinion with our audience!

The format of the video is simple: just talk for a minute about where you think the web is heading, what your vision is on technology in this space and what you love about the internet. Any other subject you want to talk about is fine too as long as you think it is interesting for the visitors of The Next Web Conference.

We will edit the video ourselves and add your name, title and a link to your website so you won't have to introduce yourself in the video. Just start talking! If possible use a white background!

We will be able to handle any digital video file but please use http://www.dropsend.com/ to send the file to us.

Participating countries

When we set out to organize The Next Web Conference we wanted to have a European conference. We wanted to look beyond our own borders and aim big. Aiming big is cool, unless you don't deliver. Thankfully we can now say that we indeed have a world wide audience. We have people participating from The Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Germany, Hungary, Canada, Ireland, Spain, Sweden, Israel and the Ukraine.

This is a nice mix of international attendees and we are confident that we will add a lot more countries to this list the following weeks.

[update] Switzerland is joinging us too! For a full and complete list, updated daily, check this page: http://thenextweb.org/?r=logocloud_all