====== WebMission : The Belgians Are Back! ====== ===== What is a Webmission ===== A Webmission is a delegation of Belgian Web, Tech & Mobile entrepreneurs that travel abroad to promote their companies and to network, taking advantage of an international Internet/Tech event and the secondary happenings around it. Mission: Promote Belgian Web, Tech & Mobile entrepreneurship abroad, by increasing its visibility and international network. -- * belgians@webmission.be * [[http://webmission.be/|webmission.be]] * [[http://www.meetup.com/webmission|meetup.com/webmission]] * [[http://twitter.com/webmission|twitter.com/webmission]] * [[http://www.facebook.com/pages/Belgians-Webmission/340198012592|Webmission Facebook Fans Page]] ===== History ===== [[http://wiki.webmission.be/wmsf09|Webmission 1: Google I/O]] (San Francisco, USA) - May 2009 [[http://wiki.webmission.be/ebe09|Webmission 2: Evento Blog España 09]] (Sevilla, Spain) - November 2009 ===== Webmission San Francisco May 2010 ===== Taking advantage of this year's Google I/0 event (19-20/05), We are organizing a new Webmission for Belgian entrepreneurs, journalists bloggers and Internet, mobile and tech enthusiasts, interested in promoting themselves in the US markets. This is a great opportunity to present Belgian startups and their products & services to the Silicon Valley audience, to extend networks, and to open up to new ideas. [[http://favoritefilipinofoods.blogspot.com/2011/05/fruit-salad-sweet-filipino-dessert-to.html|Fruit salad recipe]] ===== Organizing Team ===== **Main organizers** - Antoine Perdaens, [[http://twitter.com/tlg| @tlg]] - Kindja J. Lwabandji, [[http://twitter.com/kindja | @kindja]] - Sam Piroton, [[http://twitter.com/sam_piroton| @sam_piroton]] **Precious help** * Jean Derely, [[http://twitter.com/jeanderely | @jeanderely]] * Ramón Suárez, [[http://twitter.com/ramonsuarez | @ramonsuarez]] * Yves Hiernaux, [[http://twitter.com/YvesHiernaux| @YvesHiernaux]] * Nicolas Frenay, [[http://twitter.com/NicolasFrenay | @NicolasFrenay]] (Dutch & Flemish Region) * Xavier Damman, [[http://twitter.com/xdamman| @xdamman]] (San Francisco) * Jeremy LeVan, [[http://twitter.com/jeremylv| @jeremylv]] (San Francisco) ====== News ====== * [[http://belgiansareback-rss.eventbrite.com/]] (30-04-2010) * Webmission T-shirt available (29-04-2010) * Thanks to [[http://www.alechance.be/|Alec Hance]] we are going to have beautiful T-shirts. He made our logos and business cards too. See them here - [[http://twitter.com/account/profile_image/webmission?hreflang=en|twitter]], [[http://www.facebook.com/pages/Belgians-Webmission/340198012592|facebook]] (09-04-2010) * [[http://www.printbox.be/|Printbox]] and [[http://www.lesannonces.be/|Les Annonces]] are sponsoring the Webmission T-shirts (09-04-2010) * Visits confirmed: [[http://seesmic.com/|Seesmic HQ]], [[http://www.cbsinteractive.com/|CBS interactive offices]], [[http://www.kyte.com/|Kyte offices]] (24-03-2010) * [[http://beebole.com/en/|beebole.com]] selected by Google to demo at the [[http://code.google.com/events/io/2010/sandbox.html|Developer Sandbox]] at the upcoming Google I/O event! (18-03-2010) * [[http://www.anothertweetonthewall.com/|anothertweetonthewall.com]] confirms their participation at the webmission in SF (02-03-2010) * Become fan of the [[http://www.facebook.com/pages/Belgians-Webmission/340198012592?ref=mf|Belgians Webmission Facebook fans page]] (25-02-2010) * [[http://www.youtube.com/lesannonces#p/a/u/0/uAgVoj_ilzY|SF Newtech, THE Belgians are back]] will be held on **May 18th**, 2010 - to be confirmed, stay tuned! (24-02-2010) * [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAgVoj_ilzY|Webmission 3 video announcement]] - thanks [[http://twitter.com/sam_piroton|@sam_piroton]] for the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAgVoj_ilzY|montage]] (23-02-2010) More info in the [[http://webmission.be/ | Webmission's Blog]]. ====== Participants ====== To sign up to the webmission all you have to do is log-in* and add your name to this list. Once you book your flight, please put your info in **bold**. Participation in the event is free, but you will have to cover your own travel and accommodation expenses. Dear webmission-ers, we also invite you to subscribe to the plaza for more infos [[https://webmission.knowledgeplaza.net]]. The [[https://webmission.knowledgeplaza.net|webmission plaza]] has been chosen to be the only platform where we can share all info regarding the next webmission. - **Frédéric Monet** ([[http://twitter.com/fmonet | @fmonet]] | [[http://www.cityplug.be|CityPlug.com]]) - **Kindja J. Lwabandji** ([[http://twitter.com/kindja | @kindja]]) - **Arnaud Coomans** ([[http://twitter.com/acoomans | @acoomans]]) - **Eric Rodriguez** ([[http://twitter.com/wavyx| @wavyx]] | [[http://www.wavyx.net|wavyx.net]]) - **Ramón Suárez** ([[http://twitter.com/ramonsuarez | @ramonsuarez]]), ([[http://ramonsuarez.com | Blog Ramón Suárez]]) - **Jean-Christophe Cuvelier** ([[http://twitter.com/totophe| @totophe]] | [[http://www.totophe.com|totophe.com]]) - **Antoine Perdaens** ([[http://twitter.com/tlg| @tlg]]) - **Gregory Culpin** ([[http://twitter.com/gculpin| @gculpin]]) - **Pascal Alberty** ([[http://twitter.com/zorrobiwan| @zorrobiwan]] | [[http://twitter.com/belgoit| @belgoit]] | [[http://twitter.com/tesial| @tesial]] | [[http://www.tesial.be| Tesial SPRL]] | [[http://www.tweetwallpro|tweetwallpro.com]]) - **Sam Piroton** ([[http://twitter.com/sam_piroton| @sam_piroton]] | [[http://www.lesannonces.be|lesannonces.be]]) - **Vincent Vandoorne** ([[http://twitter.com/gplouf| @gplouf]] | [[http://www.akimedia.eu|akimedia.eu]] | [[http://www.tweetwallpro|tweetwallpro.com]]) - **Yves Hiernaux** ([[http://twitter.com/yveshiernaux| @yveshiernaux]] | [[http://beebole.com/ | BeeBole]]) - **Caroline Sedda** ([[http://twitter.com/csedda| @csedda]] | [[http://publitweet.com| PubliTweet]]) - Litrik De Roy ([[http://twitter.com/litrik| @litrik]] | [[http://www.norio.be/ | Norio]]) - **Laurent Eschenauer** ([[http://twitter.com/eschnou| @eschnou]] | [[http://onesocialweb.org | OneSocialWeb]]) - **Mic Cvilic** ([[http://twitter.com/tchvil| @tchvil]] | [[http://beebole.com/ | BeeBole]]) - **Pascal Polleunus** ([[http://twitter.com/ppolleunus|@ppolleunus]] | [[http://especific.be/|eSpecific]] | [[http://myrty.especific.eu/|myrty]]) - **David Hachez** ([[http://twitter.com/razwar | @razwar]] | [[http://twitter.com/theafter | @theafter]] | [[http://www.razwar.com| Raz*War]]) - **Hughes Waroquier** ([[http://twitter.com/hugheswaroquier| @hugheswaroquier]] | [[http://beebole.com/ | BeeBole]]) - **Grégoire Hoin** ([[http://twitter.com/gregone | @gregone]] | [[http://www.gregone.com | Gregone]]) - **Lionel Cordier** ([[http://twitter.com/blobinabottle | @blobinabottle]] | [[http://www.woorank.com | WooRank]] + [[http://1md.be | 1MD]]) - **Vincent Battaglia** ([[http://twitter.com/vinch01 | @vinch01]] | [[http://www.woorank.com | WooRank]] + [[http://1md.be | 1MD]]) - **Dann Martens** ([[http://twitter.com/dannmartens| @dannmartens]] | [[http://www.tomoton.com|TOMOTON]]) - **Nicolas Frenay** ([[http://twitter.com/NicolasFrenay| @NicolasFrenay]] | [[http://www.icyweyes.com|IcyWeyes]]) - **Thomas Bonte** ([[http://twitter.com/thomasbonte| @ThomasBonte]] | [[http://musescore.com|MuseScore.com]] | [[http://wikifonia.org|Wikifonia]]) - **Nicolas Froment** ([[http://twitter.com/lasconic| @lasconic]] | [[http://musescore.com|MuseScore.com]] | [[http://wikifonia.org|Wikifonia]]) - **Laurent Duchateau** (London) ([[http://twitter.com/lmduchateau| @lmduchateau]] | [[http://www.bluemetis.com|Bluemetis Ltd]]) - **Michael Uyttersprot** (partly) ([[http://twitter.com/emich| @emich]] | [[http://labs.emich.be|Emich Labs]]) - Joachim Ganseman (San Francisco) ([[http://twitter.com/jganseman |@jganseman]]) - Evy Ballegeer (San Francisco) ([[http://twitter.com/evyballegeer |@evyballegeer]]) *The log-in button is in the lower right corner of the page. If you do not have an account you have to create one to edit this page. ====== Confirmed Startups ====== * [[http://beebole.com/|BeeBole]] (Wallonia) * [[http://www.cityplug.be/|CityPlug]] (Brussels) * [[http://knowledgeplaza.net/|Knowledge Plaza]] (Wallonia) * [[http://publitweet.com/|Publitweet]] & [[http://www.listimonkey.com/|ListiMonkey]] (Wallonia) * [[http://razwar.com/|Raz*War / Growth Bridge]] (Wallonia) * [[http://www.TweetWallpro.com | TweetWallPro]] (Wallonia) * [[http://www.woorank.com | WooRank]] (Brussels) * [[http://musescore.com | MuseScore.com]] (Gent) * [[http://myrty.especific.eu/ | myrty]] (Brussels) * [[http://www.bluemetis.com/ | Bluemetis]] (London) ====== Program ====== * **Saturday 15/05** * 15/05 - Arrival meeting * **Sunday 16/05** * 16/05 - Arrival meeting * **Monday 17/05** * 17/05 - AM [[http://www.kyte.com/|Kyte]] The online, mobile and social video platform * 17/05 - PM Twitter Visit, Group 1 * 17/05 - PM [[http://www.microsoft.com/|Microsoft]] Visit of MS campus SF * 17/05 - PM [[http://www.google.com/|Google]] Visit of the Googleplex * 17/05 - EVENING [[http://www.meetup.com/webmission/|Belgians Meetup]] * **Tuesday 18/05** * 18/05 - AM [[http://twitter.com/|Twitter]] Meeting with devs at Twitter HQ * 18/05 - PM [[http://facebook.com/|Facebook]] welcoming us at their office * 18/05 - EVENING [[http://belgiansareback-rss.eventbrite.com/|SF Newtech]] * **Wednesday 19/05** * 19/05 - AM &PM [[Google I/O]] Day 1 * 19/05 - PM Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar at Stanford * 19/05 - Evening at a Google I/O party * **Thursday 20/05** * 20/05 - AM & PM [[Google I/O]] Day 2 (finish at 6pm) * 20/05 - AM & PM Plug & Play * **Friday 21/05** * 21/05 - AM [[http://www.cbsinteractive.com/advertise/ad_specs.php?tag=dbu%253bleftcol2/|CBS Interactive]] Meeting with devs at CBS Interactive HQ * 21/05 - PM Meeting Cloudave (cancelled) * 21/05 - PM [[http://seesmic.com/|Seesmic]] welcoming us at their office * **Saturday 22/05** * - * **Tuesday 25/05** * Orange Labs NOTES: As of march 5th, Google I/O is SOLD OUT! Companies visits in the above schedule are confirmed - Although, we may still flip dates to better accomodate our hosts. Beside the above listed events, some of the webmissioners are joining * 26/05 - [[http://www.gluecon.com/2010/|Glue Conference]] Day 1 in Denver * 27/05 - [[http://www.gluecon.com/2010/|Glue Conference]] Day 2 in Denver ====== Organization ====== This is not an organized tour, so every participant is the master of his/her own agenda. You can decide to share or keep for yourself as much as you want. If you organize a meeting with a company and that you are ok to have others join you, you can just post a note in this page. We are currently organizing a kind of Beta Group event **"The Belgians are back"** in collaboration with [[http://sfnewtech.com/|SF New Tech]]. You can contact us at * belgians@webmission.be or info@webmission.be * [[http://twitter.com/webmission|twitter.com/webmission]] A lot of people are helping in this effort. If you want to cooperate in the organization you are more than welcome: **What part of the organization would you like to own?**. We are also looking for partners, your help is more than welcome! ====== Logistics ====== * [[wmsf10-hotels|Hotels]] * [[wmsf10-flights|Flights]] : Once you have booked your flight, please share relevant information here. Better travel together!