{"id":9220,"date":"2013-02-05T10:59:03","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T09:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=9220"},"modified":"2013-02-05T10:59:03","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T09:59:03","slug":"loic-geraldine-announce-the-leweb-london-theme-the-digital-hippies-the-sharing-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2013\/02\/loic-geraldine-announce-the-leweb-london-theme-the-digital-hippies-the-sharing-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Loic &#038; Geraldine announce the LeWeb London theme: The Digital Hippies &#038; The Sharing Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via a new video posted to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/leweb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LeWeb YouTube account<\/a>\u00a0yesterday, Loic &amp; Geraldine Le Meur have announced the theme for LeWeb London: <strong>The Digital Hippies &amp; The Sharing Economy<\/strong>. The event, set to take place on June 5th &amp; 6th in central London, will be their second event in London, after last year&#8217;s &#8220;Faster than Real Time&#8221; event. The video gives mention to the big players in the sharing economy: Airbnb, Lyft, Cookening, Wikipedia, &amp; more. In their usual &#8220;cute but awkward&#8221; style announcement video, Loic &amp; Geraldine give tribute back to the &#8220;digital hippies,&#8221; the likes of Steve Jobs &amp; Richard Branson, who were not just about &#8220;flower power&#8221; and &#8220;do nothing,&#8221; as Geraldine says, but saw the value in sharing things.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"LeWeb London 2013 theme: Digital Hippies &amp; the Sharing Economy\" width=\"801\" height=\"451\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_Woacacctuk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>An excerpt from the description of the video hints at the larger picture behind the theme:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Today&#8217;s Digital &#8220;Hippies&#8221; share many of the core ideological views as the 1960&#8217;s movement including rejecting money, fame and power while focusing on creating products that they believe can change the world for the better. Digital &#8220;Hippies&#8221; are creating a sharing economy &#8212; one that includes creations like Wikipedia, Airbnb and Lyft &#8212; without a focus on exchanging cash.<\/p>\n<p>This Bohemian approach values transparency, openness, authenticity and community. In their world, everything is sharable and should be.<\/p>\n<p>-What effect does this sharing economy have on the mainstream?<\/p>\n<p>-Does crowdfunding threaten traditional funding sources indefinitely?<\/p>\n<p>-Will getting a ride with a stranger for free turn public transportation systems on end?<\/p>\n<p>-Should the hospitality industry be nervous about the Airbnb model taking over?<\/p>\n<p>-Are these people really just sipping each other&#8217;s Kool-Aid and a passing phase?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We see any big words popping up here: Sharing Economy, Crowdfunding, Transportation, etc. and I think they&#8217;ve touched, yet again, on what everyone is talking about. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/tomiogeron\/2013\/01\/23\/airbnb-and-the-unstoppable-rise-of-the-share-economy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forbes&#8217; most recent cover page<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/tomiogeron\/2013\/01\/23\/airbnb-and-the-unstoppable-rise-of-the-share-economy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">headlining article today is about Airbnb<\/a>, and the billion dollar businesses behind sharing.<\/p>\n<p>Just like <a title=\"LeWeb Paris theme is a great chance to showcase French startups\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/2012\/09\/13\/leweb-paris-theme-is-a-great-chance-to-showcase-french-startups\/\">last December&#8217;s event<\/a>, I think this event is a great opportunity to showcase some French startups (with London bakers) &#8211; <a title=\"Voiturelib becomes Drivy: International Plans for 2013?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/2013\/01\/04\/voiturelib-is-drivy\/\">Drivy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/tag\/blablacar\/\">Blablacar<\/a>, <a title=\"Zilok Auto snags \u20ac1.5M from Jaina &amp; the new Ecomobilit\u00e9 Ventures\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/2012\/10\/11\/zilok-auto\/\">Zilok Auto<\/a>, and many others have already built up a strong sharing economy in France. I often argue that it&#8217;s very much in France&#8217;s culture to share&#8230; as long as there&#8217;s a little money to be made \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>While the <a href=\"http:\/\/london.leweb.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LeWeb London<\/a> site has yet to be updated with the new video and information bout the event&#8217;s theme &#8211; which usually comes when they send out the official notice about the event &#8211; tickets have been on sale for a while, and <a href=\"http:\/\/london.leweb.co\/register\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I highly recommend getting them before February 28th<\/a>, as these tickets jump up in price pretty quickly. The event will take place in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.c-h-w.com\/contact\/location\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Central Hall Westminster<\/a>, the same as last year&#8217;s edition, I believe.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first event after <a title=\"Everything must go! Loic sells LeWeb to Reed MIDEM\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/2012\/12\/13\/everything-must-go-loic-sells-leweb-to-reed-midem\/\">Loic &amp; Geraldine sold their controlling stake in the LeWeb series to Reed MIDEM<\/a>\u00a0last December, so it will be interesting to see how this event plays out. They&#8217;ve already said they will be involved in the 2013 events, but we&#8217;ll have to wait &amp; see if Loic makes as much of an effort to bring out his Silicon Valley crew as he did before, or if he&#8217;s just enjoying the ride now.<\/p>\n<p><em>h\/t to <a href=\"http:\/\/frenchweb.fr\/prochain-leweb-london-les-digital-hippies\/98273\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FrenchWeb<\/a> for spotting the video.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via a new video posted to the LeWeb YouTube account\u00a0yesterday, Loic &amp; Geraldine Le Meur have announced the theme for LeWeb London: The Digital Hippies &amp; The Sharing Economy. The event, set to take place on June 5th &amp; 6th in central London, will be their second event in London, after last year&#8217;s &#8220;Faster than<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":64784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10564],"tags":[1711,844,4432,3403,2602,3133,4434],"class_list":["post-9220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech-2","tag-airbnb","tag-blablacar","tag-cookening","tag-drivy","tag-leweb","tag-london","tag-sharing-economy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}