[Originally posted on Forbes.]

JESS3 is honored this week to join many of the world’s most renowned thinkers, companies and entrepreneurs at this year’s LeWeb conference in Paris. Working closely with our Art Director Jim Hollander (SKWAK), I will be creative directing a series of visualizations that encapsulate data from Radian6 and insights from each of the panels.

Who else will be there? Industry titans like Karl Lagerfeld and Sean Parker will join up and start-up powerhouses like our friends Kevin Rose and Dennis Crowley. The jam-packed week centers around the theme of SOLOMO; Social-Local-Mobile.

Behind the Scenes of LeWeb 2011 (photos by Erno Hannink)

LeWeb organizer Loïc Le Meur at LeWeb 2010 (photo by Conference Basics)

Among the 3000 participants this year, two I am especially excited to check out are Marissa Mayer and Eric Schmidt of Google. Having worked for Google for the last two years and being inspired by their brand and technologies since they launched, I can’t wait to hear what they have to say.

Check out our blog each day for the fresh infographic of the day and follow LeWeb on UStream, Twitter, and Facebook live Dec 7, 8 and 9th.

Jesse Thomas is JESS3’s CEO and Founder, follow him @JESS3.

Tags: conference, Data Visualization, illustration, infographic, Le Web, Le Web '11, Live Infographic