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Paris, May 17th, 2011

Paris will host the first e-G8 Forum prior to the G8 Summit

Prominent Internet leaders, including Mark Zuckerberg, Eric Schmidt and Jeffrey Bezos,have confirmed that they will attend the Forum, which will take place in Paris on May 24 and25, 2011.

Launched by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, the e-G8 Forum will organize multipleconferences and discussions, so that for the first time, voices of companies, thinkers andmajor players who build the Internet will be heard at the highest levels of world politics. Thee-G8 Forum is a platform of expression, in which all the major actors of the Internet will beable to debate, thereby enriching the discussions of the Heads of State and Government whowill subsequently meet in Deauville to examine these issues. It aims to enlighten and tonourish the discussions of the Heads of State and Government of G8 nations with the visionof the web actors regarding the Internet's importance and impact on society and theeconomy.

The e-G8 Forum will focus on the Internet's impact on the economy and society, notably viaeconomic growth, job creation, value creation, and the transformation and modernization oftraditional professions and industries through technological shifts. Panelists will also addressthe social and political issues that underlie the development of digital technologies, includingprivacy rights, intellectual property, human rights and democratization through and ofinformation. The Forum will ask what conditions can best encourage innovation in the digitaleconomy, notably in terms of education, training and financing. The mobile web revolution,the future of e-commerce: the e-G8 Forum will, additionally, discuss best practices, newusages and economic models, and the paradigm-shifting technologies that will create theInternet of tomorrow.

The President of the French Republic, Nicolas Sarkozy, has requested that the e-G8 Forum

be an initiative organized and financed by private partners, placed under the chairmanship ofMaurice Lvy, Chairman and CEO of Publicis Groupe. Partner companies include Orange,Vivendi, eBay, Google, Capgemini, Huawei, Iliad Free Fondation, Microsoft, HP, Intel,Alcatel-Lucent, Eutelsat and Thomson-Reuters.

"The program of the e-G8 Forum has been conceived to enrich our thinking and debateabout major social issues,"said Maurice Lvy. "The Internet boom has led to an explosion ofindividual initiatives. In my role as chairman of the e-G8 Forum, I am determined that all ourdebates be transparent, open both to the press and to the public at large."

The e-G8 Forum will bring together leaders of the world's digital ecosystem, from multiplefields: heads of companies in sectors including technology (operators and manufacturers),

the media, advertising, music and entertainment; experts in technologies; investors andentrepreneurs; scientists and innovators; public institutions, NGOs; bloggers, thinkers and


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researchers. Companies from countries beyond the G8, including China and India, are alsoinvited to attend.

Among those who have confirmed that they will participate in the proceedings are MarkZuckerberg, Founder and CEO of Facebook; Eric Schmidt, the Executive Chairman ofGoogle; Jeffrey Bezos, CEO of Amazon; Rupert Murdoch, the Chairman and CEO of NewsCorporation; Ben Verwayeen, CEO of Alcatel-Lucent; Jean-Bernard Lvy, Chairman of theManagement Board of Vivendi; Sunil Bharti Mittal, the Founder and CEO of BhartiEnterprises; Geoff Ramsey, CEO of eMarketer; Stphane Richard, CEO of Orange/ FranceTelecom; Marc Simoncini, founder of Meetic; Nova Spivack, co-founder of Live Matrix; JimmyWales, the founder of Wikipedia; Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., Chairman of the New York TimesCompany and Publisher of the New York Times; Blaise Zerega, the CEO of Fora.tv.; PaulJacobs, CEO of Qualcomm Inc; Peter Chou, CEO of HTC; Michel de Rosen, CEO ofEutelsat Communications ; Xavier Niel, founder of Iliad; Danny Hillis, Co-Chairman ofApplied Minds; Hiroshi Inoue, President of Tokyo Broadcasting System; Sean Parker,Managing Partner of Founders Fund; Lawrence Lessig, Professor at Harvard Law School;Hartmut Ostrowski, Chairman and CEO of Bertelsmann AG; Yuri Milner, CEO and Founding

Partner of Digital Sky Technologies; Luc Besson, Chairman and Founder of EuropaCorp;John Ridding, Chairman of the Financial Times; Rmy Pflimlin, CEO of France Tlvisions;Hisashi Hieda, Chairman of Fuji Television Network; Nicolas Seydoux, Chairman ofGaumont; Lynn Saint-Amour, President & CEO of ISOC; Nicolas de Tavernost, Chairman ofMtropole Tlvision, S.A.; Mitchell Baker, Chairwoman of Mozilla; Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet,Founder of PriceMinister.com; Juan Luis Cebrian, Chairman of Prisa; Mikael Hed, Chairmanof Rovio Mobile, Ltd.; Jim Hagemann Snabe, Co-CEO of SAP AG; Franck Esser, CEO ofSFR; Carolyn Reidy, President and CEO of Simon & Schuster, Inc. ; Daniel Ek, CEO ofSpotify; Peter Dengate Thrush, Chairman of ICANN; Franco Bernab, Chairman and CEO ofTelecom Italia; Thomas Glocer, CEO of Thomson Reuters; Yves Guillemot, CEO of Ubisoft;Jacques-Antoine Granjon, CEO of vente-privee.com; and Klaus Schwab, Founder andExecutive Chairman of the World Economic Forum.

The e-G8 Forum will take place in the Tuileries Garden, in the heart of Paris. PresidentSarkozy will open the proceedings with a speech scheduled for the morning of May 24.During the Forum's two days of discussion, plenary sessions will address the Internet'smanifold links to economic growth, including its impact on society, culture, commercialmarkets, modes of communication and education. Other plenary sessions will focus onissues regarding innovation; the future of the Internet; and intellectual property. Numerousworkshop sessions will concentrate on start-ups; the Internet's impact on the press; sharingvalue; e-governance; and mobility.

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e-G8 Forum

The Internet : Accelerating Economic Growth

MONDAY 23 May

17:00-21:00 Registration -Tuileries Garden

TUESDAY 24 May

8:00-10:00 Registration & CoffeeTuileries Garden

10:00-10:10 Welcome & introductionMaurice Lvy, Chairman & CEO, Publicis Groupe, Chairman of

e-G8 Forum

10:10-11:00 Opening keynote and DiscussionMonsieur Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France, President of the

G-8

11:30-12:45 Plenary I

The Internet & Economic growth - Information technologyand the digital ecosystem have been powerful accelerators ofeconomic growth and employment. How to ensure that this cancontinue?

12:45-14:30 Lunch

14:30-15:30 Plenary II

The Internet & Society -The Internet transforms everythingit touches how we communicate, market, work, learn and play.Some of the most profound changes involve how we organize

into communities, re-envision government and share information.

And that's only the beginning.

15:30-15:50 Special Address

15:50-16:50 Plenary III

Future Net: Whats Next? Limitless bandwidth. Massivedata. Total mobility. Technology continues to accelerate. Will theinfrastructure keep pace?


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16:50-17:20 Coffee Break Networking

17:20-18:20 Plenary IV

Intellectual Property in the Digital Age - Whats at stake forculture and business?What should be the new rules goingforward to encourage and stimulate content creation on theInternet?

18:20 18:50 Special conversations

WEDNESDAY 25 May

8:30 9:00 Special Conversation

09:00-10:00 Plenary V

Fostering Innovation - How to build the future

10:00-11:00 Plenary VI

Digital Transformation - How traditional businesses are

being re-invented


11:30-12:30 Workshops I

Building Blocks - The art of the start-up

King Content - Entertainment in the digital age

Digital freedom -New Tools for Freedom

12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:00 Workshops II

Be Here Now -Mobility changes everything

Disinter-Media Is Internet killing or relaunching the press?

Open Government - Open data: for the people, by theInternet


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15:00-16:00 Workshops III

The Disrupters -Extreme innovation

Sharing Value - How to divide the digital bounty amongcreators, distributors and governments?

The Data Dilemma Social media and the explosion of dataare driving the Internets growth and raising important questions

about privacy and data security


16:30-17:00 Special Conversation

17:00-18:00 Closing Plenary

The Internet speaks - Messages to Deauville

From 17:30/18:00 Closing Cocktail


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Paris, le 17 mai 2011

COMMUNIQUE DE PRESSE

Paris accueillera le premier e-G8 Forum la veille du Sommet du G8

De nombreuses personnalits du monde de lInternetparmi lesquelles Mark Zuckerberg, EricSchmidt et Jeffrey Bezos, ont confirm leur participation ce forum qui se tiendra Paris les24 et 25 mai 2011.

Initi par le Prsident de la Rpublique, Nicolas Sarkozy, le-G8 Forum est un ensemble deconfrences et dchanges qui permettra pour la premire fois la prise en compte, au plushaut niveau politique, de la parole des acteurs publics et privs qui font lInternet. Le-G8Forum est une plateforme dexpression dans laquelle tous les acteurs du monde de lInternetvont pouvoir dbattre afin denrichir de manire pertinente la discussion des chefs dEtat etde gouvernement du G8 qui se rassembleront Deauville pour discuter de ce sujet. Soncontenu visera clairer et nourrir la discussion des chefs dEtat et de gouvernement du G8dune vision des acteurs du web sur limportance et limpact dInternet dans la socit etlconomie.

Le-G8 Forum se concentrera sur limpact de lInternet sur lconomie : croissance, crationdemploi, cration de valeur, transformation et modernisation des mtiers et industries

traditionnelles par la rupture technologique. Ses participants aborderont aussi les questionssocitales et politiques sous-jacentes au dveloppement des technologies numriques : vieprive, proprit intellectuelle, droits de lhomme et dmocratisation de et par linformation.Le Forum sinterrogera sur les conditions favorables linnovation dans lconomienumrique notamment en termes dducation, de formation et de financement. Rvolution duweb mobile, avenir du e-commerce : le-G8 Forum sinterrogera enfin sur les bonnespratiques, les nouveaux usages et modles conomiques, ainsi que les technologies derupture qui feront lInternet de demain.

Le Prsident de la Rpublique franaise, Nicolas Sarkozy, a souhait que le-G8 Forum soitune initiative organise et finance par des entreprises, et place sous la prsidence deMaurice Lvy, Prsident du directoire de Publicis Groupe. Parmi les principales entreprisespartenaires : Orange, Vivendi, eBay, Google, Capgemini, Huawei, Iliad Free Fondation,Microsoft, Intel, HP, Alcatel-Lucent, Eutelsat et Thomson-Reuters.

Le programme du e-G8 Forum a t conu pour enrichir le dbat et la rflexion surdimportants sujets de socit dit Maurice Lvy. Lessor de lInternet signifie aussilexplosion de linitiative individuelle. En tant que prsident de le-G8 Forum, je tiens ce queles dbats soient transparents et largement ouverts la presse et aux mdiaux sociaux dansleur ensemble

Le-G8 Forum runira les leaders mondiaux de lcosystme numrique, appartenant tousles domaines : dirigeants dentreprises des secteurs des technologies (oprateurs et

quipementiers), des mdias, de la publicit, de la musique, des institutions, des ONG et duspectacle; experts des technologies, investisseurs et entrepreneurs; scientifiques et


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innovateurs, bloggeurs, penseurs et chercheurs. Des entreprises de pays en dehors du G8,comme la Chine et de lInde, sont galement convies.

Parmi les personnalits qui ont confirm leur prsence : Mark Zuckerberg, Fondateur &PDG, Facebook ; Eric Schmidt, Prsident, Google; Jeffrey Bezos, PDG, Amazon ; RupertMurdoch, Prsident de News Corporation ; Ben Verwayeen, PDG dAlcatel-Lucent ; Jean-Bernard Lvy, PDG de Vivendi ; Sunil Bharti Mittal, Fondateur & PDG de Bharti Enterprises;Geoff Ramsey, PDG de eMarketer; Stphane Richard, PDG dOrange/France Telecom;Marc Simoncini, fondateur de Meetic; Nova Spivack, co-fondateur de Live Matrix ; JimmyWales, fondateur de Wikipedia; Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., Prsident et diteur, The New YorkTimes Company ; Blaise Zerega, PDG de Fora.tv., Paul Jacobs, PDG de Qualcomm Inc ;Peter Chou, PDG de HTC ; Michel de Rosen, CEO dEutelsat Communications ; Xavier Niel,Fondateur dIliad ; Danny Hillis, Co-Prsident dApplied Minds ; Hiroshi Inoue, Prsident, deTokyo Broadcasting System ; Sean Parker, Grant de Founders Fund ; Lawrence Lessig,Professeur lUniversit de Harvard ; Hartmut Ostrowski, Prsident de Bertelsmann AG;Yuri Milner, Prsident-fondateur de Digital Sky Technologies ; Luc Besson, Prsident-fondateur d'EuropaCorp ; John Ridding, Prsident du Financial Times ; Rmy Pflimlin, PDG

de France Tlvisions ; Hisashi Hieda, Prsident de Fuji Television Network ; NicolasSeydoux, Prsident de Gaumont ; Lynn Saint-Amour, PDG de lISOC ; Nicolas de Tavernost,Prsident de Mtropole Tlvision, S.A. ; Mitchell Baker, Prsidente de Mozilla Foundation ;Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet, Fondateur de PriceMinister.com ; Juan Luis Cebrian, Prsident dePrisa ; Mikael Hed, Prsident de Rovio Mobile, Ltd. ; Jim Hagemann Snabe, Co-prsident deSAP AG ; Franck Esser, PDG de SFR ; Carolyn Reidy, Prsidente de Simon & Schuster, Inc.; Klaus Schwab, Prsident-fondateur du World Economic Forum ; Daniel Ek, Prsident deSpotify, Ltd. ; Peter Dengate Thrush, Prsident de lICANN ; Franco Bernab, Prsident deTelecom Italia ; Thomas Glocer, PDG de Thomson Reuters ; Yves Guillemot, PDG dUbisoft; Jacques-Antoine Granjon, PDG de vente-privee.com ;

Le-G8 Forum se droulera au cur de Paris dans le jardin des Tuileries. Le Prsident

Sarkozy ouvrira le forum par une intervention prvue le 24 mai au matin. Durant les deux journes, des sessions plnires aborderont lInternet et la croissance conomique soustoutes ses formes, quil sagisse de limpact de lInternet sur la socit, les loisirs, lesmarchs, les modes de communication ou encore lducation. Dautres sances plnirestraiteront des questions dinnovation et de lavenir dInternet, la proprit intellectuelle. Denombreuses table-rondes aborderont les start-up, limpact de lInternet sur la presse, lepartage des valeurs, la e-gouvernance ou la mobilit.

Information presse:[email protected] Informations gnrales:[email protected] Tlphone: + 33 (0)1 44 82 47 49

Site web:www.eg8forum.comTwitter hashtag: #eg8
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e-G8 Forum

Internet : Acclrer la croissance conomique

LUNDI 23 MAI

17h00-21h00 Accueil et enregistrementJardin des Tuileries

MARDI 24 MAI

10h00-10h10 Inscriptions & caf

10h00-10h10 Bienvenue & PrsentationMaurice Lvy, Prsident du directoire, Publicis Groupe, Prsidentdu Forum e-G8

10h10-10h45 Discours douverture et discussionMonsieur Nicolas Sarkozy, Prsident de la Rpublique franaise,

Prsident en exercice du G8

11h30-12h45 Session plnire I

Internet et la croissance conomique Les technologiesde l'information et l'co-systme numrique sont de puissantsacclrateurs de la croissance conomique et de l'emploi.Comment s'assurer que cela continue?

12h45-14h30 Djeuner

14h30-15h30 Session Plnire II Internet & la socit Internet transforme tout ce qu'iltouche - notre faon de communiquer, de vendre, de travailler,d'apprendre et de jouer. Certains des changements les plusprofonds retentissent sur notre faon d'organiser lescommunauts, d'envisager la gouvernance et le partage del'information. Et ce n'est que le dbut.

15h30-15h50 Session spciale

15h50-16h50 Session Plnire III


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Le Net de demain: qu'est ce qui nous attend ? Bandepassante illimite. Echange massif de donnes. Mobilit totale.La technologie poursuit son acclration. L'infrastructure suivra-t-elle ?

16h50-17h20 Pause-caf/Rencontres informelles

17h20-18h20 Session Plnire IV La proprit intellectuelle lre du numrique Qu'est-ce qui est en jeu pour la culture et son march? Quelles rglesfaudrait-il prvoir pour encourager et stimuler la cration decontenu sur Internet?

18h20 18h50 Conversation sur un thme

20h00-22h30 Soires e-G8

MERCREDI 25 MAI

07h45-8h30 Accueil & caf

8h309h00 Conversation sur un thme

09h00-10:00 Session Plnire V

Encourager linnovation Comment construire lavenir

10h00-11h00 Session Plnire VI

La transformation numrique Comment des entreprisesclassiques sont en train de se rinventer

11h30-12h30 Ateliers - Groupe I

Building Blocks - Lart de la start-up

Le roi des contenus - Le divertissement lre dunumrique

Libert lectronique -Les nouveaux outils pour la libert

14h00-15h00 Ateliers - Groupe II

tre l tout de suite -La mobilit change tout

Dsinter-mdiation -LInternetest-il le fossoyeur ou le

sauveur de la presse ?


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La politique de transparence - Open data: pour lescitoyens, par Internet

15h00-16h00 Ateliers - Groupe III

Les pionniers - L'innovation extrme

Partager la valeur - Comment diviser la manne numriqueentre crateurs, distributeurs et gouvernements?

Le dilemme des donnes - Les mdias sociaux etl'explosion des donnes mnent la croissance d'Internet etsoulvent d'importantes questions au sujet du respect de la vieprive et de la protection des donnes.

16h00-16h30 Pause-caf - Rencontres informelles

16h30-17h00 Conversation sur un thme

17h00-18h00 Session plnire de clture

Internet au micro - Messages pour Deauville

17h30/18h00 Cocktail de clture

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