Thank you to all of you who attended Library House’s Essential Web 2007 event at the BFI IMAX on Wednesday 27th June. We’ve received some great feedback on the event so far, including:

"Libary House events provide you with an opportunity to connect with a variety of interesting people that CAN make a difference to your business. It's a very valuable event in many ways."
David Van Even, Cebase

"Essential Web 07 was, without doubt, the best business conference I've been to in years. It captured the enthusiasm and possibility of Web 2.0 - stemming from a great crop of ambitious young entrepreneurs - while having the benefit of commercial realism and insight derived from panelists who were a roll call of European venture capital and major internet businesses."
Martin Rigby, ETCapital

We filmed the entire event, and you can view the highlights here.

Throughout the day there were pitches from more than 40 web companies and panel discussions covering the hot topics in European web innovation, including:

• Control of personal identity
• Building, monetizing and retaining large user bases
• Trust-based environments: the next wave of online communities
• Mobile web
• Enterprise 2.0

Congratulations to Max Jennings and the WeLoveLocal team who scooped the prize for the best soapbox pitch, as voted by the audience. WeLoveLocal has won a year’s subscription to VentureConnect including two free tickets to each of Library House’s 16 upcoming events during the next year and free access to the VenturePedia database, which provides the most comprehensive coverage of European venture-backed companies.

We have collected photos and feedback on the event:

View the flickr album

Essential Web 2007 Blog Coverage

Read what a selection of blogger delegates had to say about Essential Web 2007: the company pitches, the panelists and the important themes discussed during the event:

• http://www.theequitykicker.com/2007/06/28/a-little-bit-of-oreilly-magic/
• http://www.theequitykicker.com/2007/06/28/mobile-internet-is-ten-years-behind-the-wired-web/
• http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/organgrinder/2007/06/googles_acquisition_thinking_a.html
• http://fourstarters.com/
• http://chamtech.blogspot.com/2007/06/essential-web-2007.html
• http://www.welovelocal.com/blog/2007/06/28/welovelocalcom-conquers-essential-web-2007/
• http://meshminds.blogspot.com/2007/06/essential-web-07.html
• http://nakedlaw.typepad.com/naked_law/2007/06/is-copyright-st.html
• http://matthagger.blogspot.com/2007/06/todays-web-expo-and-imax-london.html

If you enjoyed Essential Web 2007, stay tuned for news on our Essential Mediatech event on 20th November.

Press – please contact Isabel Fox of Ballard Associates on 020 7062 1111 for further information