{"id":9507,"date":"2013-10-29T16:59:31","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T15:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sotrender.com\/?p=9507"},"modified":"2017-04-11T17:45:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T15:45:11","slug":"web-summit-speakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/web-summit-speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"#WebSummit &#8211; the most networking speakers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Go to the page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.websummit.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Web Summit<\/a> is a huge event which, according to this infographic, only in this year is supposed to gather around 10k professionals from the field of new media, technology and business. During two day conference almost 900 speakers will give their presentations on 7 different stages.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Go to the page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sotrender<\/a> team have decided to make your life easier and indicate who of the speakers is worth seeing on stage. We&#8217;ve rated 95 <a title=\"Go to the page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.websummit.net\/schedule\/main-stage.html\" target=\"_blank\">Main Stage<\/a> speakers according to their popularity on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>On the infographic below you can see the first 10 of them. We\u2019ve chosen the number of followers as the main variable to analyse. Also worth considering is the number of published tweets as it indicates how much a given person has to say.\u00a0<strong>Gary Vaynerchuk<\/strong> (<a title=\"See the profile\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/garyvee\" target=\"_blank\">@garyvee<\/a>), <strong>Robert Scoble<\/strong> (<a title=\"See the profile\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Scobleizer\" target=\"_blank\">@Scobleizer<\/a>) and <strong>Dave McClure<\/strong> (<a title=\"See the profile\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davemcclure\" target=\"_blank\">@davemcclure<\/a>) are the leaders in this category.<\/p>\n<p>We hope our infographic will be useful for you! Enjoy the conference!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/download-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9509\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/download-3.png\" alt=\"Sotrender_WebSummit_infographics__TheMostNetworkingSpeakers\" width=\"900\" height=\"2354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/download-3.png 900w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/download-3-475x1242.png 475w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/download-3-768x2009.png 768w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/download-3-600x1569.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The infographic presents only the top 10 of the 95 Main Stage speakers. Check the next 10 speakers listed by the number of their Twitter followers:\u00a0<strong>Aaron Levie<\/strong> (<a title=\"See the profile\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/levie\" target=\"_blank\">@levie<\/a>), <strong>Matt Mullenweg<\/strong> (<a title=\"See the profile\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/photomatt\" target=\"_blank\">@photomatt<\/a>), <strong>Shane Smith<\/strong> (<a title=\"See the profile\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shanesmith30\" target=\"_blank\">@shanesmith30<\/a>), <strong>Shervin Pishevar<\/strong> (<a title=\"See the profile\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shervin\" target=\"_blank\">@shervin<\/a>), <strong>Mark Scott<\/strong> (<a title=\"See the profile\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mscott\" target=\"_blank\">@mscott<\/a>), <strong>Scott Belsky<\/strong> (<a title=\"See the profile\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/scottbelsky\" target=\"_blank\">@scottbelsky)<\/a>, <strong>Drew Houston<\/strong> (<a title=\"See the profile\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/drewhouston\" target=\"_blank\">@drewhouston<\/a>), <strong>Jemima Kiss<\/strong> (<a title=\"See the profile\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jemimakiss\" target=\"_blank\">@jemimakiss<\/a>), <strong>Tony Conrad<\/strong> (<a title=\"See the profile\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tonysphere\" target=\"_blank\">@tonysphere<\/a>), <strong>Shel Israel<\/strong> (<a title=\"See the profile\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shelisrael\" target=\"_blank\">@shelisrael<\/a>), <strong>Saul Klein<\/strong> (<a title=\"See the profile\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cape\" target=\"_blank\">@cape<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>In order to make your life even easier, we&#8217;ve prepared a <strong>mini-schedule<\/strong> of the events featuring the most talkative Main Stage speakers:<\/p>\n<h1>Wednesday on the Main Stage:<\/h1>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">10:45 &#8211; The Age of Context &#8211; <strong>Robert Scoble (5th place in our ranking)<\/strong>, Shel Israel<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">12:30 &#8211;\u00a0 Keynote: <strong>Gary Vaynerchuk (3rd place)<\/strong>, Vaynermedia<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>During the break between the presentations <strong>at 13:28 on PITCH Stage our CEO, Jan Zajac<\/strong> (<a title=\"See the profile\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/janekzajac\" target=\"_blank\">@janekzajac<\/a>) will tell you a few words about Sotrender\u00a0(<a title=\"See the profile\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sotrender\" target=\"_blank\">@Sotrender<\/a>).<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">14:45 &#8211; Fireside Chat with Ben Rooney &amp; <strong>Jamie Heaslip (8th place in our ranking);<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">16:20 &#8211; Fireside Chat with\u00a0David Rowan &amp; <strong>Tony Hawk\u00a0(1st place);<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">16:45 &#8211; Fireside Chat with <strong>Alexia Tsotsis (9th place)<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Kevin Rose (2nd place);<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h1>Thursday on the Main Stage:<\/h1>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">10:00 -Insecure Personalities: When Internet Security and Real Humans Collide &#8211; Michael Jackson, Matthew Prince, <strong>Eugene Kaspersky (7th place)<\/strong>, James Ball;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">16:20 &#8211; Smart Money, Smarter People? What Makes Brilliant Investors &#8211; Kevin Colleran, Sarah Lacy (10th place), <strong>Dave McClure (6th place)<\/strong>, Shervin Pishevar, Shakil Khan;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">16:45 &#8211; Fireside Chat with <strong>David Carr (4th place)<\/strong> &amp; Shane Smith;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Full <strong>Main Stage Schedule<\/strong> is available on <a title=\"Go to the page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.websummit.net\/schedule\/main-stage.html\" target=\"_blank\">Web Summit<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0We hope that you will pop up on the presentation of our CEO on Wenesday, at 13:28 on<strong> PITCH Stage!<\/strong>\u00a0In case you miss it, you can always visit our team (on <strong>Thursday<\/strong>) at the<strong> stand no 504<\/strong>. If you&#8217;re interesting in what we&#8217;re doing, follor the tag\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?src=typd&amp;q=%23N504WWS\" target=\"_blank\">#N504WWS<\/a> &#8211; No 504 Win Web Summit \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Web Summit is a huge event which, according to this infographic, only in this year is supposed to gather around 10k professionals from the field of new media, technology and business. 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