The Web 2.0 In Australia took place yesterday. Hosted by Ross Dawson's FEN at KPMG's offices in Sydney.
There was a strong and mixed turnout of Australian Web 2.0 entrepeneurs, journalists, commentators, and representatives from a range of corporations - Commonwealth Bank, Fairfax, News Ltd, Sensis, Telstra, Westfield and Westpac to name but a few.
I really enjoyed the event and liked the discussion that took place; What's the state of Web 2.0? Where do we go from here? Let's have a look at some local examples. Global versus local? And of course, how do we make money from this thing?
Next steps are the critical part for me - I want to see Australian businesses presenting on their use of Web 2.0 technologies next year.
My colleague Adrian McDermott took the difficult post-lunch slot and kept the room wide awake with a presentation and demo of BEA's AquaLogic Pages product, delivering Web 2.0 to the enterprise in 59 slides and 1 demo in 10 minutes. Great work Adrian.
Look out for Ross posting video of the panel discussions and demonstrations from the event, including Adrian's presentation and demo. Another video highlight to look out for will be the plugging and unplugging of cables and dongles as the showcase presenters tried to get their Web 2.0 MacBooks working with KPMG's Web1.0 projector.
And, with thanks to 'Professional Geek' Nick Hodge from Microsoft, here are a couple of pictures.
The panellists discussing Web 2.0 In Australia. L to R: Richard MacManus - readwriteweb, Allan Aaron - Technology Venture Partners, Brad Howarth - LaGrange Communications, Chris Smith - Sensis, Ross Dawson - FEN
The Web 2.0 power table in the back corner of the room - MacBooks, blogging, coffee cups etc... L to R: Benjamin Naftgzer - Atlassian, Mick Liubinskas - Tangler, Ben Barren - Gnoos (standing), Richard Giles - Scouta, Richard MacManus - readwriteweb, Adrian McDermott - BEA
- Sean
