Sponsors
  • Etelos
  • IBM
  • Microsoft
  • Adobe Systems, Inc.
  • Cynergy
  • Nokia
  • Openmaru Studio
  • WebEx
  • AOL
  • Citrix Systems
  • Coghead
  • Confident Technologies
  • Disney
  • Disney
  • EffectiveUI
  • F5 Networks
  • HCL Technologies
  • Intuit Quickbase
  • Oracle
  • S60
  • Salesforce.com
  • Spinscape
  • Sun Microsystems
  • Symphoniq Corporation
  • TeleAtlas
  • Yahoo! Inc.
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Atlassian Software Systems
  • awareness
  • BroadSoft
  • Curl
  • Denodo
  • Dixero
  • Force10 Networks
  • Humanix Inc.
  • Intel
  • JackBe
  • Jaduka
  • Jive Software
  • Juniper Networks
  • Kapow Technologies
  • Keynote Systems
  • Leverage Software
  • LiquidApps
  • LithiumTechnologies
  • LongJump
  • Morfik
  • Mzinga
  • NeuStar
  • Octopz
  • ONEsite
  • OpSource
  • Panther Express
  • Profy
  • Real Time Content
  • Rearden
  • Rearden Commerce
  • Remy
  • Reply
  • spigit
  • StreamVerse, Inc.
  • StrikeIron
  • XBOSoft
  • Znak
  • O'Reilly Alpha Tech Ventures
  • Panorama Capital
  • ACM Queue
  • Berlin Partner
  • BlogHer
  • Business Marketing Association
  • Dr. Dobbs
  • Fast Company
  • GigaOM
  • Juniper Research
  • Mashable
  • MSDN Magazine
  • NewTeeVee
  • Revenue Magazine
  • TechNet
  • Technorati
  • Topix
  • Webware
  • Wired
  • WOW

Sponsor & Exhibitor Opportunities

Vicki Sanders
415-947-6107
vsanders@techweb.com

Download the Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco Sponsor/Exhibitor Prospectus

Media Sponsor Opportunities

Liliana Arancibia
415-947-6179
larancibia@cmp.com

Speaker / Program Ideas

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Press/Media Inquiries

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or

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415-947-6762
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Chris Larsen

Chris Larsen
Founder/CEO, Prosper.com

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Chris Larsen is CEO and Co-Founder of Prosper, America’s largest people-to-people lending marketplace with over 670,000 members and $135 million in funded loans. Prosper is a continuation of Larsen’s commitment to leveraging the Internet to make consumer lending more efficient, transparent, and trustworthy. Prior to Prosper, Larsen co-founded and served as Chairman and CEO of E-LOAN. Under his leadership, E-LOAN became the first company to provide consumers with access to their credit scores, and played a critical role in the passage of the strongest consumer financial privacy protection law in the nation. Mr. Larsen holds an M.B.A. degree from Stanford University and a B.S. degree from San Francisco State University, where he was named the 2004 Alumnus of the Year.

Sessions

2:40pm Friday, 04/25/2008
Finance 2.0: New Business Models in Financial Services
Strategy and Business Models
 Location: 2022
Paul Kedrosky (Venture Capitalist), Michiel de Boer (Zecco), Aaron Patzer (Mint.com), David Friedberg (WeatherBill), Chris Larsen (Prosper.com)
Social networking, user generated content, and collective intelligence are disrupting a traditionally conservative and closed industry. Leading Finance 2.0 start-ups, providing innovative services based on new, yet solid business models, creating unprecedented value to consumers regarding their spending, savings, and investments. Read more.