This year, for the first time, the next web conference also organizes The Next Web Awards.
For more information, and to add your favorite services check http://awards.thenextweb.org
Good news! We just got word that Jason Calacanis (http://www.calacanis.com/) is going to be available for The Next Web Conference! Jason is a successful Serial Internet Entrepreneur and an extraordinary human being. Read more about him at Wikipedia or in this Wired Article.
The Award ceremony will take place after The Next Web Conference on June 1st during the grand party. The Red Carpet, limos, The Next Web Award Tech Schwag Bag, industry icons, you name it…. even Ashton Kusher might show up..
The Next Web Awards is a spin-off of The Next Web Conference.
The concept for the Awards consists of two rounds: The nomination round and the voting round. During the nomination round the public can suggest their favorite service or person in one of the categories. By April 15th, the jury will have selected the nominees out of all suggestions given by the public, and as of that moment the world can vote for its favorites.
Reinier Evers (Trendwatching) Jury member The Next Web Awards
Rienier Evers just accompanied the Jury for The Next Web Awards.
Reinier is the founder and CEO of Trendwatching.com. (http://trendwatching.com/) Their monthly Trend Briefing is sent to 130,000+ business professionals in more than 120 countries and is a huge inspiration for thousands of people interested in innovation, the web and worldwide trends.
This weekend we contacted Sauries Duval of the Museum of Modern Betas, also known as MoMB. The MoMB (http://momb.socio-kybernetics.net/) is the site known for its dedication to list webbased applications on a beta trip. Almost every day new betas pop up all around the world. Saurier have seen them all!
So we’re happy to be able to tell you that he is now officially a Jury board member of The Next Web Awards.
Welcome Saurier
The day after the conference the first International Open Coffee Meetup will be held in Amsterdam as well. check it out http://upcoming.org/event/172120/
We've put up some teaser video's of Jay Adelson (CEO digg) , Marten Mickos (CEO MySQL) and Tim O’Reilly (Founder O’Reilly Media) on our website. We'll show the full footage of these guys and some more interesting people at the conference. http://2007.thenextweb.org/