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Conference discounts for your convenience

Conferences are inspiring, great places to meet interesting places, and walhallas for plugging your start-up. If only they weren’t that darn expensive. Well, here are some discounts that might relieve the financial costs.

SHiFT - Lisbon - October 15 to 17

From organizer Bruno Pedro:

SHiFT is an International Tech Conference happening in sunny Lisbon, Portugal this October 15 to 17. This year’s edition is devoted to “Transient Technologies”, in the sense that technology is breaking up with its digital boundaries and it’s becoming a vital part of a lot of the things we do and interact with in our daily lives.

The conference itself is two days long but there will be an entire day devoted to free workshops on the day before.

As always, there’s an exciting speaker lineup but this year the conference is also open for session proposals.”

Discount code: There’s a 20 percent discount for Next Web readers like you. Register here and use promocode nextweb-b04e9349.

Web 2.0 Expo - Berlin - October 21 - 23

From the web site:

If you’re a designer, manager, developer, marketer, entrepreneur, business strategist, IT vendor, or hacker looking for new opportunities and ways to interpret the coming changes, join us at Web 2.0 Expo Europe.

Delegates at Web 2.0 Expo Europe 2008 will take part in:

• A multi-track conference offering dozens of sessions covering most important issues
• High-level keynote presentations painting a vision of technology’s future
• An Expo, integrated into the common spaces, featuring leading Web 2.0 companies
• In-depth, practical workshops to hone skills
• Vibrant networking events designed to celebrate the Web 2.0 community

Co-produced by O’Reilly Media and TechWeb, the second Web 2.0 Expo Europe, taking place 21-23 October, will welcome delegates to a new venue - the Berliner Congress Center, a beautifully-designed space in a central Berlin location.

Discount code: There’s a 35 percent discount for Next Web readers like you. Register here and use promocode webeu08gr2.

BLOG08 - Amsterdam - October 24

From co-organizer Edial Dekker:

Blogging is no longer the domain of the geeky kid. With easy-to-use blog software, everybody can start their own publishing platform. Millions of people do so. Together these bloggers are changing the world, one post at a time. They are the rockstars of the web.

A rockstar without a stage is like… well, a rockstar without a stage. With BLOG08, Dutchmen Edial Dekker and Ernst-Jan Pfauth are offering a stage for some of the most inspiring bloggers around the world. Like Pete Cashmore from Mashable. Or Hugh MacLeod from Gapingvoid. And you — since the program contains a lot of interactive sessions.

The most exciting part of the Interactivity program, is the BLOG08 book. Send in your best blog post plus the story behind it, and maybe it will be part of the 20 stories that will make the BLOG08 (printed by Blurb).

Join this raving crowd of bloggers on October the 24th for an awesome gig in Amsterdam, complete with live music. So stop washing yourself and stay away from fancy hairdressers for a while, because you’re invited to one rocking blog conference.

Discount code: There’s a 45 euros discount for Next Web readers like you. Register here and use promocode thenextweb.

SOMESSO - Zurich - October 31

From organizer Arjen Strijker:

SOMESSO, the Corporate Social Media Conference is a series of recurring events organized throughout large cities in Europe where industry leaders, sales and marketing experts, agency new media specialists, Internet marketers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and other financiers share their ideas about corporate social media and present their latest projects and discoveries.

This year, SOMESSO will be held October 31 at Papiersaal - Sihlcity in Zurich, Switzerland. Among the questions discussed at SOMESSO, participants will explore:

• How is Social Media changing the way we do business?
• What Social Media tools should be used and which ones are a waste of time?
• How to start building short-term Corporate Social Media Strategy?
• The return of niche networks - what’s next? (Individualization, community forming)
• It’s a new ballgame - what Code of Conduct to apply when interacting with customers?

Discount code: There’s a 25 percent discount for Next Web readers like you. Register here and use promocode XYSO08CEJNEXTW.

Le Web - Paris - December 8 - 9

From the website:

LeWeb’08 is the #1 Web conference in Europe with 1500 participants from 40 Countries on Dec 9-10th in Paris. We have just announced our theme this year, LOVE! 30 Startups will also present in the startup competition room and there will be plenty of networking space, likely with a few beds, like last year…

During the 2 days of conference, our speakers will be interviewed on stage by the following reporters, bloggers:

• Michael Arrington, Co-Founder & Editor, TechCrunch
• Dan Farber, Editor-in-Chief, CNET News
• Steve Gillmor, The Gillmor Gang
• Om Malik, Editor in Chief GigaOm
• Jennifer L. Schenker, Correspondent, BusinessWeek
• Robert Scoble, Video Blogger, Fast Company
• Kara Swisher, Co-Executive Editor, AllThingsD.com; Blogger, Boomtown; Co-Executive Producer, D: All Things Digital

Discount code: Loic and Geraldine Le Meur have been so nice to give a 20% discount on their normal fee. This will save you up to 300 euros. Get your discounted ticket here.

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