Lunch at the Circle

31st January 2007 Lunch at the Circle, Is “Software as a Service” (SaaS) disrupting the online business world?
You don’t need a big pc any longer? Death of the desktop? Final liberation from Microsoft’s license payments? Return of the dinosaurs (centralised computing)? Only pay for what you really need and use instead of paying hefty annual fees?.... There are many ways to look at Software as a Service, a reincarnation of the rumoured-defunct ASP model. Presented by Rob Steggles, Marketing Director for NTT Europe Online (previously Verio), http://www.ntteuropeonline.com/.
Rob works with many software companies to deliver software online 'as a service', including aggregators, innovators and software companies that are just plain scared of SaaS. (Rob was also recently instrumental in making NTT Europe the only really European partner to Microsoft for SaaS.) Rob explains how SaaS affects software companies and how it will change the industry. What IS this SaaS thing? Why does it matter? Should I do it? How is it different from ASP (well, there you have it!!)? What are the pitfalls and the advantages?

30th October 2006

Rodrigo starts his Abut in his blog with “I have over 10 years experience in the Internet space”. Well, in internet that is actually quite a long time…Rodrigo currently runs a new venture called vpod.tv that he co-founded and is CEO of. vpod.tv is a video publishing on demand service that just raised $5.1 million. Rodrigo has previously co-founded RISC Partners, a private small equity firm in Paris and was involved in the start up of Glowria.fr (online rental of DVD) as interim CEO.



Download the podcast of the lunch:
Part 1
Part 2

Previous event, April 2006

Erik Larsson, Vice President of Marketing at Netcentrex, talks about the concept of the "Long Tail" and gives us the short tale of how new technology will shift away from a focus on a small number of mainstream "hits" at the head of the demand curve (80/20) rule and towards a huge number of niches in the tail of the curve.

Download the podcast (37MB, 1h18).

"The Long Tail", first coined by Chris Anderson in Wired Magazine in October 2004:

Wikipedia entry

Original Wired article

Previous event, April 2005

Rebecca Scholl, director of marketing strategy at ACS Computing.

Download the podcast (71MB).

Previous event, September 2006

Alain Lefebvre, founder of 6nergies.net, similar, but different, to e.g. LinkedIn, Viaduc, etc.

Download the podcast (40MB, 1h24).

View the photo gallery

Alain Lefebvre's blog

Previous event, June 2005

Loic Le Meur of Six Apart and Jacques Froissant of Altaide, two blogging precursors, came and talked about, yes, blogging.



Download the podcast, part 1

Download the podcast, part 2

Download the podcast, part 3

-- Wednesday January 31, Rob Steggles:
-- Is “Software as a Service” (SaaS) disrupting the online business world?

You don’t need a big pc any longer? Death of the desktop? Final liberation from Microsoft’s license payments? Return of the dinosaurs (centralised computing)? Only pay for what you really need and use instead of paying hefty annual fees?.... There are many ways to look at Software as a Service, a reincarnation of the rumoured-defunct ASP model.

Presented by Rob Steggles, Marketing Director for NTT Europe Online (previously Verio), http://www.ntteuropeonline.com/. Rob works with many software companies to deliver software online 'as a service', including aggregators, innovators and software companies that are just plain scared of SaaS. (Rob was also recently instrumental in making NTT Europe the only really European partner to Microsoft for SaaS.) Rob explains how SaaS affects software companies and how it will change the industry. What IS this SaaS thing? Why does it matter? Should I do it? How is it different from ASP (well, there you have it!!)? What are the pitfalls and the advantages?

- Wednesday, January 31
- Lunch starts at 12.15-12.30 and ends at 14.00
- Inscription: By email only and I will confirm.
- Pre-registration required

A reminder about this week’s informal get-together: Evening drinks in the bar at Le Cercle Suédois (address above). There is no speaker, just an opportunity to meet some other L@C people, as well as some others (the Cercle Suédois has an open house this evening so there will be plenty of other people too). There will be a jazz band playing with a singer (she also doubles as director for the Cercle Suédois…). These evenings usually bring together 10-15 L@C participants.

- Starting at 19.00. Drinks and snacks as you wish in the bar

- The Cercle Suédois will charge a small entrance fee (5 or 8 euro I think)

- No pre-registration required.

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Here's what Le Cercle Suedois says about it:
After Work au Cercle, chaque mercredi 18h – 23h
voir notre programme à venir à la fin de ce message.



CE MERCREDI: 10/1 Soirée jazz
Notre ”houseband” joue du jazz de 20h30 jusqu’à 23h.

"Happy Hour” 18h00-20h - Vin, bière et petits plats dans le bar.
Nous proposerons également ”assiettes mixtes” avec une sélection de petits plats et sauces.

Droit d'entrée:
Non-membres : 6 euros
http://www.cercle-suedois.com/