Jeff Clavier's Buzzlog

I am attending the French Technology Showcase, an event which promotes French innovation and the concept that there are a lot of opportunities for US investors. 40 French startups will be pitching to the audience over the next couple of days. Many of them are here to initiate discussions about their next round of financing.
The event is a mix of short panels, and 20' company presentations.
As I walked through the door, I have been asked to join the VC Investing panel that took place one hour later. Sort of a record to date.

NYU/Fullbright fellow sharing his thoughts on "Korea: Birth of a Broadband Nation".

Mary Hodder (Napsterization), Greg Elin (Fotonotes), Salim Ismail (Pubsub)

Ross Mayfield (SocialText), Steve Gillmor (ZDNet), Scott Rafer (Feedster)

Fellow VC, friend and blogger extraordinaire.
Gracing the audience with an hilarious restropective of personal publishing and social networking tools.

I was called last night at 9PM last night to replace Caterina Fake from Flickr at a media conference, and talk about the issue of media and disintermediation. I took this picture as I was on the panel to demonstrate the immediacy of photocommunication, and why pictures are so powerful to share a moment with one's network.
You may recognize Steve Gillmor, Ross Mayfied, Scott Rafer.

SAP Labs, Palo Alto on 12/9
I participated to this panel with Howard Lee - a GP at Chrystal Ventures, Ranjan Das - the VP in charge of xApps Business Development at SAP and Yorgen Edholm - the CEO of Accelion (and founder of Brio).
Because of our diverse experiences, and backgrounds, I think that we actually shared useful insights with the audience. I know this feels like self appreciation, but that was the feedback we got.