Ireland’s largest tech event, Dublin Web Summit, has sold out with over 1,500 attendees and 100 speakers scheduled for October 27 and 28 at the Royal Dublin Society (RDS). Founders and top executives from Skype, Twitter, Google, Amazon, Facebook and many more global Internet companies will be sharing their perspectives on the future of the web.

Streams running in parallel will focus on the cloud, social media/marketing and the startup environment. International media partners covering the event include TechCrunch, Mashable, Wired, and Bloomberg among other outlets.

We are thrilled to be a part of the Dublin Web Summit for the third time this year! Previous events in March and June have been outstanding successes with unbelievably positive press from international media. The Dublin Web Summit this week promises to be the most exciting event so far with significant growth in attendance and industry leading speakers.

Attendee use of Presdo Match at previous Dublin Web Summit events has been in the 90% range with very high numbers of face-to-face meetings. The social media integration that Presdo Match enabled through LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and e-mail should deliver even higher levels of interaction among attendees this week in Dublin.

Eric Ly, Presdo’s Founder and CEO, will share his insights into how emerging technologies are driving the evolution of event management at the Trade Show Technology Summit 2011 (TSTS ’11). TSTS showcases innovative technologies that drive differentiation and profits for events and trade shows on July 21 in Richardson, TX.  The keynote presentation by Eric will be a look into how social networks are rapidly changing the event industry!

Event organizers across the globe are looking for ways to differentiate their events and drive revenue growth.  Event attendees are also looking for the best return on their investment of time and money, and organizers are increasingly turning to social media technologies to provide the disruptive experience to drive awareness of events while also increasing interaction between attendees, exhibitors and sponsors.

Presdo Match is leading the next generation of innovation for events with social network integration.  Event organizers are recognizing the benefits of using Presdo Match, including increased attendee and exhibitor value and increased ticket sales.  The ability to enable event attendees to drive awareness of events through their social networks including LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and email is creating a new way to promote events.

Eric brings an entrepreneur’s perspective to the event industry from his experience building companies with emerging technologies.  As a co-founder of LinkedIn, Eric was integral to LinkedIn’s early products and market launch strategy that led to over 100 million users worldwide and its position as the leading social network for professionals.  In addition to leading Presdo, Eric has become a highly sought after speaker for events including the MTO Summit this past March in Chicago.

With more than 2,000 attendees from more than 60 countries, LeWeb is bringing people from around the world to discuss the future of the Internet on December 8-9 in Paris.  We are delighted that Presdo Match for LeWeb is being provided to attendees for connecting before and during the conference.

The feedback we have already received from attendees has been great, and we have put many of your suggestions into the product.

Although we’ve been told that Presdo Match is a lot of fun, it isn’t just for fun and games.  Do you happen to be an entrepreneur looking to connect with customers or investors?  Are you a blogger interested in interviewing exciting companies?

If you use Presdo Match in the right way, you’ll also get serious business value from it and from attending LeWeb.

To help you get the most from Presdo Match for LeWeb, we put together a “top 10″ list of tips:

10. Sign in to presdomatch.com/leweb. Yes, try it out.  You can network via the traditional “networking by walking around” approach, but why not get even more out of LeWeb?  Before you arrive, find attendees with whom you can develop new business relationships.  Contact them using Presdo Match for LeWeb and begin the conversations.  We guarantee that you’ll find interesting people and develop meaningful business opportunities you wouldn’t have expected.

9. Make your profile targeted to the LeWeb audience. Especially if you already have a LinkedIn profile, it will only take a few seconds to review your profile so other LeWeb attendees can effectively find you.  If you can spare another minute, edit your profile so that it’s specific to the tech-savvy audience at LeWeb.

8. Have relevant interests. There’s a specific area on your Presdo Match profile for entering your interests during LeWeb, so make sure these interests are relevant to LeWeb attendees.  Write down interests that can match those of other attendees because the recommendations that are shown to others in the People Genius of Presdo Match are based on these interests.

7. Upload your photo. If your profile didn’t have a photo, you are missing out, since it will be used in various beneficial ways.  Want people to recognize you while passing by so they will strike up a conversation with you?  Better yet, if you need to meet someone one-on-one at LeWeb, make it easy for them to recognize you by your photo.  You can upload one directly into Presdo Match on your profile page.

6. Invite people you know to attend LeWeb. Geraldine and Loïc LeMeur have done everything to make LeWeb great.  Why not let good friends know that you’ll be there and they should attend?  LeWeb is offering a 300-euro discount to the friends you invite through Presdo Match who register.  Do this through the “Tell Others” section on the Presdo Match home page.

5. “Like” people, especially those who like you. It’s not only for fun and games, but when you like someone, you become aware to them through an email notification they receive.  This feature is also a convenient way to keep track of people you like to meet and those you want to follow up with after a great encounter at LeWeb.

4. Reconnect with people you know. Now you won’t have to show up at LeWeb not knowing anyone.  With the People Genius, you can easily find out who you know will be there.  Maybe one of your former colleagues is onto an interesting project, or you have a customer who has a new opportunity for you.  Reach out and reconnect!

3. Consider sending a message before you request a meeting sometimes. Maybe you’d like to meet someone you found on the attendees list; maybe you don’t.  Test the waters by sending them a message first.  If either one of you feels compelled to meet up after trading messages, either can initiate a meeting request with the other.  If your meeting topic is so compelling, then go ahead and request a meeting from the start!

2. You can schedule time to meet face-to-face! Social media is great, but face-to-face (F2F) meetings are better.  Much research shows that F2F meetings help people develop the trust essential to moving business relationships forward by huge leaps.  Why not take advantage and actually meet up with them at LeWeb after trading messages and tweets?  Presdo Match has full scheduling capabilities built-in so you can find time with important contacts without anyone being double-booked.

And finally… #1:

1. Bookmark Presdo Match on your smartphone. You arrive at LeWeb.  What about those meetings you set up ahead of time, and those messages you were exchanging with others?  Presdo Match will help you get to those one-on-one meetings and continue those conversations at LeWeb.  Just heard an interesting session and want to contact one of the speakers for follow-up?  It’s all possible if you bookmark Presdo Match’s mobile web app at m.presdo.com/leweb.

We wish you a fun and rewarding time at LeWeb.

One such experience came for me recently with our own Presdo Match.

We were delighted to provide the event networking product to TiECON Dallas this past October. TiE itself is the world’s largest network of entrepreneurs consisting of 13,000 members across the globe with 56 local chapters. I was honored to be the keynote speaker at the conference, and it was also one of the first events I attended which also used Presdo Match.

As I began preparing my speech, I assumed that I knew who my audience would be, being familiar with similar organizations in Silicon Valley.

It was fortunate that our product provided ways to browse event attendees and their profiles before the event, as I was able to use it to learn about my audience.

After glancing through many profiles, I began to realize that my initial assumption about the audience was in fact not on target. Instead of an audience of technology entrepreneurs, I found that many attendees had sales and marketing backgrounds. Many were indeed small businesses owners, but many others were from established companies. My keynote had to be designed to appeal to the audience I had.

It was this valuable insight which inspired me to focus the speech on anecdotes around marketing themes over entrepreneurial ones. I focused on recounting how we at LinkedIn acquired users in the early days, and how we took early learnings from user behaviors and incorporated them in virally growing the professional network that is LinkedIn today. Overall, I felt that I had given a better keynote because of this realization than without.

All it took was the simple ability to browse through all attendees and the ability to learn a little about each that made all the difference in how I approached the keynote.

It was an insight I never expected, but it completely improved what I did. Social media tools like ours, when brought to life at events, have the potential to offer attendees many interesting insights, making events that much more rewarding for the people who go to them.

Eric Ly
CEO, Presdo Inc.

Our founder and CEO, Eric Ly, will join an elite panel of industry experts in discussing issues and topics focusing on the latest advancements in technology for meeting and event professionals in Palo Alto on November 17th.

The Certain Software Sunrise Summit series hosts a group of experts from partner companies that are devising new technologies for meeting and event planning and management.  Other panellists include experts from Stanford University, Dow Jones, ClimatePath and more.

Register at: http://www.certain.com/sunrisesummit

When there are ideas worth spreading, we hope they spread by people who connect through Presdo Match!

Presdo is proud to provide Presdo Match to the second annual TEDxToronto conference, happening on Wednesday, September 30.

Hosting hundreds of attendees who will be at the sold-out main event and several satellite events, TEDxToronto is the official TEDx conference for Toronto, Canada. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, it brings together the city’s foremost thought leaders, change makers and everyday people from each discipline and challenges them to deliver powerful, unforgettable and unique TEDxTalks.

Presdo Match will enable TEDxToronto attendees to find other people of interest and enable them meet them one-on-one during the day and at the event’s afterparty, creating the opportunity for more meaningful conversations for everyone.

This year’s featured speakers include Neil Hetherington, CEO of Habitat for Humanity Toronto, George Kourounis, Furious Earth, Drew Dudley, Founder of Nuance Leadership and Amanda Sussman, Senior Advisor of Plan International, Canada.

If you will be at TEDxToronto this week, find out more about how you can meet interesting people face-to-face with Presdo Match.

We are so excited to tell you about a new feature of Presdo called Presdo Link.  It makes scheduling meetings easier and faster than ever before.

Wouldn’t it be great if you could somehow meld your email and calendar together when it comes to scheduling? We thought so too, and Presdo Link is based on our own scheduling challenges and our insights on how to radically improve it.

How does Presdo Link work? First, get your own Presdo Link. Your link will be of the form “http://presdo.com/johnsmith”, where “johnsmith” is whatever you choose. Think of it as a “vanity license plate” for your scheduling activities.

Once you have your link, share it with friends and business contacts who want to schedule with you. When they click the link, they see a calendar displaying your availability in gray (busy) and white (free) areas.

They can use Presdo Link to pick a time (or multiple times). If their single selection is free on your schedule, the time is automatically confirmed on both sides so you don’t have to respond (if they propose multiple times, you can choose the most convenient). Either way, both parties get notified with the details.

You might be wondering how Presdo knows about your schedule. That’s where our Google Calendar sync comes in. Sync Presdo with your Google Calendar and meetings scheduled with Presdo Link automatically pop onto your calendar.

So get your link now before someone else grabs the one you wanted, and make your scheduling easier and fastest than ever before!

How about this? Would you like to be able to use Presdo without signing up for it first? We’ve heard from many of you who say that with so many web services today, you have to sign up before you can use them. It takes time, we know, in this fast ‘tweeting world.

To save you the time so you can get to the good stuff in Presdo, we’ve added the ability to sign in with Google. (In technical jargon, we added support for OpenID.) Now, you won’t need to sign up first to use Presdo.

On Presdo’s sign in box or sign up page, just opt to sign in with Google instead. Presdo will redirect you to a Google page where you give Presdo permission to use your sign in. Seconds later, you’ll be brought back to Presdo as a full-fledged user ready to go.

Best of all, it works with both regular Google and Google Apps accounts. That was easy.

Presdo CEO Eric Ly will be participating on the following panels to discuss the future of GTD:

• A GTD Workforce – Is There a New Industry Standard – Thursday, 1:30 to 3pm
• The Virtual Workplace – Does it Work? – Thursday, 3:30 to 5pm
• Productivity Tech: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – Friday, 12:45 to 2:15pm

Since tools are our specialty, we look forward to the great insights about how technology can be made to help us all achieve the ideals of GTD.

We invite you to join these sessions and add to the lively debates.  See you there!

If you’re passionate about building great products with a great team of people, you’ve come to the right place. Check out our job posting on LinkedIn.

We are looking for talent in other areas too.  If you are an entrepreneurial product manager or product designer, drop us a note.