World Netbook Forum

Let’s meet on December 1st in Paris

On December 1st, the first international conference dedicated to the Netbook market will be held in Paris at the Maison de la Chimie.

The conference, organized by the Netbook World Summit Council, takes place within the scope of the Open World Forum.

A product

The Netbook market has seen astonishing growth since 2007 and should reach 50 milllion units in 2010 (ref. Gartner Group Report).

Technology, price, functionality and adaptability to multiple targets make the Netbook an innovative product.

A community

The aim of this conference is to review the state of the market, its technology, its key players and its core trends.

The key players will outline their offers, strategies and results:

  • the manufacturers of chips and mother boards,
  • the ODMs, essentially Taiwanese, who design and produce Netbooks,
  • the OEMs who distribute under their trade name,
  • software publishers who supply the operating systems and applications for Netbooks,
  • telecom operators who distribute these machines and furnish their connectivity functionality.

It will also be an exceptional place and time for all the industry players to meet and network as well as to attend presentations by such prestigious speakers as:

  • Eszter Morvay, Senior Research Analyst at IDC (European Personal Computing),
  • Walter Bender, Founder of Sugar Labs and former President of the OLPC project.

Technical seminaries will cover a large spread of fields including the strategic questions of leading edge technology.

Major press announcements are expected during the event.

Partners

  • Qualcomm
  • Phoenix technologies
  • Mandriva
  • Mozilla Europe
  • OLPC
  • MSI
  • Intel
  • Samsung
  • Dexxon
  • Comwax
  • Lenovo
  • Bull
  • IDC
  • Wallix
  • SFR
  • Asus

Schedule

Welcome speech
Moderator: Pierre Lecourt (Blogeee)
9:00
Technology keynote
Walter Bender (Sugar Labs, former OLPC President)
9:15
(1h30)
Networking break 10:45
(30min)
Panel session: chip manufacturer
» Intel
» Qualcomm: Jean Varaldi (Senior Director, Marketing and Business development)

Panel session: Education
» Dexxon
» OLPC France: Bastien Guerry, Project manager
11:15
(1h30)
Lunch
upon invitation only
Moderator: Jérôme Colombain (France Info)
12:45
(1h45)
Panel session: Hardware
» Samsung: Jae-Woo SEO, Notebook Channel Marketing Manager
» Lenovo: David McQuarrie, Executive Director COE EMEA & Janet Cropper, Executive Director Notebook Business
» MSI Computer: Jean-Marc Fougerolle, Sales Rep. Notebook
» Asus: Ellis Wang, Deputy Director

Panel session: Software
» Phoenix Technologies: Sunrendra Arora, VP Business Development
» Mandriva: Olivier Blin, Lead OEM Engineer & Gaurav Parakh, VP OEM
» Linpus: Stephen Lim, CEO
» gOS: David Liu, Founder and CEO
» Xandros: Larry Kettler

Panel session: Services
» Bull: Emmanuel Forgues, Product Manager Globull
» SFR: Jean-Baptiste de Longeaux, Data and Business terminals manager
» Mozilla: Tristan Nitot, Founder and current President of Mozilla Europe
» Google: Ash Jhaveri, Strategic Partnerships
» Comwax: Augustin de Wailly, Responsable marketing
14:30
(2h30)
Press Conference – Netbook's market
Eszter Morvay (IDC)
17:00
(1h)
Cocktail at Museum of Modern Art
hosted by the mayor Bertrand Delanoë
(upon invitation only)
20:00

Place

Maison de la Chimie
28 rue Saint-Dominique
75 007 Paris – France

Métro: Invalides (subway lines 8 & 13)
Access map

Tel: +33 1 40 62 27 00
Fax: +33 1 45 55 98 62
www.maisondelachimie.com

Contacts

Vanessa Wall
vanessa@netbookworldsummit.org
+33 1 40 41 97 29

Mélody Mansuy
melody@netbookworldsummit.org
+33 1 40 41 17 64


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