Exciting conference! Loic le Meur at his best. The Usual Suspects turned up, a definite Highlight was Martin Varsavsky. But they even had Simon Peres come and the inevitable - at least if it’s campaign time in France and it’s Loics home turf - Sarkozy, who delivered a remarkably expectable speech in French to 50% international audience.

We boostrocketed as http://www.sevenload.com because we grabbed the microphone a couple of times, and I was positively surprised to see that sevenload and denkwerk and qype

http://www.qype.de

already had quite a reputation, even outside Germany. I enjoyed what happened off the panels, in the lounges, and in restaurant back rooms most - can’t say too much about it now, but Digital Life is bound to be exciting the next couple of months.

Another interesting encounter was a SEC-enforced very tacit Lars Hinrichs on the OpenBC/XING IPO, there’s one man who knows the pitfalls of Stock Market Law and will not put himself in a spot. We did end up however, musing about Greed and Selfishness as human traits that like to rear their ugly heads as soon as the opportunity arises…

I’m very excited about this new project - we are launching a new type of conference under the brand “Upload” - It’s in beta, so the URL now is:

http://www.upload2007.com/

But soon it will shine under its real name, Upload 2007.

It is an ambitious project, but we want it to be the blending of an online and an offline event. The offline conference is set to be more in-depth, more comprehensive, and more international than any I’ve seen. I certainly hope it will succeed, and it only will as the joint effort of all thinkers out there - so you are heartily invited to comment, post, blog, think, and come.

I look forward to it, and today was just the budding of the sapling from a steamy greenhouse earth.