While the dust on Web Summit 2014 has barely settled they’re already working on the 2015 edition. Tomorrow will see 1000 tickets for Web Summit 2015 going on sale. They’re apparently cheaper than the “2 for 1” price that was on offer several months in advance of this year’s event. You can sign up here […]
Web Summit founder Paddy Cosgrave has said that the event may leave Ireland if WiFi issues at the RDS cannot be resolved. He was speaking on stage yesterday as Web Summit drew to a close. He also revealed that he thinks the event which catered to 22,000 people is still not big enough, describing it as “Glastonbury for Geeks”. Later, RDS and […]
Web Summit has published details of Twitter traffic over the three days of the event: 120,000 tweets published (from over 40,000 unique Twitter accounts) Tweets per minute peaked between 11am and 2pm on Tuesday (coinciding with Eva Longoria’s Main Stage and Food Stage appearances). Longoria was the most-mentioned speaker at the Summit to date – […]
Connectivity between devices and people in their homes, work and cars has emerged as the big theme to dominate the discussions, deals, and bars around Web Summit 2014. Paul Daugherty, CTO of Accenture, pointed out that there will be 50 billion digital devices by 2020 and believed that ‘the internet of things will dwarf the […]
Ding is a service which allows anyone in the world to buy phone credit and apply it instantly to the phone of a person in the developing world. It’s a simple but wonderful idea one, conceived and executed by founder and CEO Mark Roden, and it won him the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award just last month. [youtube]http://youtu.be/4Av6mu9OnTE[/youtube] […]
It’s third and final day of Web Summit at the RDS. There’s a drone demo starting shortly on centre stage. Liam Casey and Tim O’Reilly will talk about The Future of Wearables at 10:35am. (Check out our conversation with Liam here). Peter Thiel is on stage at 4:35pm , and Bono at 5. If you can’t be here, you […]
Pitch, which is the largest start-up competition in Europe, is being held in Dublin as part of Web Summit. The competition is sponsored by Coca-Cola. With over 200 entries from over 36 countries the last two days have seen a lot of activity and heated competition between the start-ups who made the original list. So […]
It’s just a video of a man pressing a button, OK? Lots of other people clap and cheer. Oh – and Pat Kenny is in it too! [youtube]http://youtu.be/6R6gpt2W15U[/youtube] The video gives a feel for what’s going on here, but Web Summit is packed with so much more. We’re making lots of video here at […]
There’s so much happening at Web Summit, but they’ve managed to scrunch Day One on the Centre Stage into a 30 second video! Web Summit Day 1 in 30 seconds from Sportsfile on Vimeo. I’m here with the Blacknight team, and shooting video for technology.ie. Got a story to tell? Book a slot to come […]
Yesterday at the Web Summit, the winners of the ESB Spark of Genius Award were revealed. A shortlist of 30 finalists was announced on September 3rd. All finalists then pitched for a panel of judges, with entrants being scored on the uniqueness of their idea, their level of development thus far, and their potential for future […]
