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FOR THE FIRST time ever, the NASDAQ will be opened in Ireland by Taoiseach Enda Kenny.
The NASDAQ bell will be rung at 1.30pm marking the launch of this years Web Summit 2013.
A record total of 10,000 attendees from Ireland and around the globe will attend the two-day conference which will see some of the world’s leading company founders, investors, start-ups and industry-leading firms come together at more than 60 events organised across the city.
Entrepreneurs
The speakers at the event include some of the world’s best business minds such as entrepreneurs Elon Musk, founder of PayPal, Tesla Motors and Space X who will be joined by founder of Sherpa Ventures Shervin Pishevar and moderator Mark Little for a discussion.
Keynote addresses will be given by some of the world’s leading technology experts and innovators including Aaron Levie, Co-founder and CEO Box, Jay Bregman, founder and CEO of Hailo and Phil Libin, founder and CEO of Evernote. There will be more than 350 speakers delivering talks from six main stages in the RDS and in workshops during the Summit.
Start-ups
Over the next two days of the Web Summit, 950 start-ups from Ireland and Europe will have the opportunity to meet with over 300 investment groups. Start-ups will be eager to impress the groups who between them manage billions of dollars in venture capitalist funds.
“Over the next two days, investors from Google Ventures, KPCB, Accel, Atomico, Andreessen Horowitz and Greylock will meet with Irish and international start-ups. We’ve given start-ups the best possible platform, these funds manage billions of dollars and they’re all looking to invest,” said Founder and CEO of the Web Summit Paddy Cosgrave.
He said the Web Summit is a great opportunity for entrepreneurs to “share experiences, collaborate on new ideas and have the opportunity to meet people who have blazed a trail in their respective fields as well as pitch their business ideas to some of the leading investors in the world”.
This year, the Web Summit has expanded its reach and this year is providing a platform for Ireland’s food producers to showcase their produce to an international audience with the Food Summit.
For those who cannot make it to Dublin, the Web Summit will be broadcast live across the world on Livestream here.
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Prime Culchie Telly
Culchies and Skangers, week in, week out!
@⚡ Seánie ⚡:
Beats Fair City
@Mark O’sullivan: sure if you are not a Dublin skanger you are a culchie, so who else could be on it?
@Tweety McTweeter: Ah come on…… Even the angelus beats fair city……..
The lottery is a tax on the poor….Many more poor people buy tickets than rich ones….Also when it was set up we were promised by government then 50% of the lottery money would go.to good causes….Now that it is sold to British company Camelot how much goes to good causes…I think it is only 12% as far as I know….
@John003: Is it not a Canadian fund?
@Peter: Yes correct Ontario teachers pension fund who also own Camelot which owns British lottery….Smart investors Ontario teachers….
@John003: Smart indeed!
That wheel is rigged.I don’t care what anyone says.I’ve seen it several times where the wheel was practically stopped and the ball suddenly bounces out of a slot with a higher amount into a slot with a lower amount.Either that or RTÉ have a ghost in the studio.
@Padraig: 9 times out of 10 the ball will fall between two higher numbers Amazing how it happens week after week
Remember years ago they used to add another top slot each week to the wheel? They should do that again.
Minimum on wheel should be 50K, twenty is very mean in fairness, or else keep the 20K but if it lands on that you get a second go… it’s not like everyone gets to spin it…
@Ron Noco: Didn’t you get a second spin if it landed on €10k back in the day?
Wouldn’t mind but the show is recorded on a Friday
@hugh sure: Is it not a Saturday morning now?
@hugh sure: Saturday at 2pm.
Haven’t watched this in years dont even buy lottery tickets since the lottery was sold.
Driving the indoctrinated tradition of gambling and the hope of unattainable better possibilities.
Willy Wonka and the Golden ticket is the only worse (but I still love it) programming for a culture of gambling addiction
I imagine rich people dont play the lotto because 1. They dont need the few bob and 2. They probably have a casino habit like pastime. I buy a winning streak ticket almost every week, I also play the lotto on a family sydicate for €20 a month. I dont leave meself broke to play it. I do it cause I enjoy playing the lotto. Don’t see any of it as a fix its a game of playing with the odds. What’s the big deal if people play lotto or winning streak? I love hearing of lotto winners, scratch card winners, raffle winners… I was lucky enough to have a win from it before. The lotto also give back to charities and the likes its not going into Paddy Power or Ladbrokes accounts. Live and let live and all that…
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