Bonavox wrote: » Different conference. Web Summit is still Lisbon, this is MoneyConf.
namloc1980 wrote: » Wtf is money Conf?
namloc1980 wrote: » Paddy and his Circus are coming back. Wonder what happened in Lisbon?
serfboard wrote: » Nothing happened in Lisbon, and nothing happens in Lisbon which is why Paddy is coming back to Dublin with his tail between his legs. But he couldn't come back with the Web Summit - that would be a humiliating climbdown. Instead, he makes up a new conference, hoping that he'll get as much free media and unpaid volunteers as he got for the first one. Do I not welcome conferences and the spend they bring coming to Ireland? Course I do. Isn't this just typical Irish begrudgery against a "successful entrepreneur" then? Emm ... no. I don't have anything against successful entrepreneurs of any nationality, but Paddy revealed himself to be a knob with his petulant childish rattle-throwing. The fúckin eejit even thought that releasing his "demands" to the media would make him look good! Gobsh1te.
helimachoptor wrote: » Who is paying this money
kbannon wrote: » https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/a_fool_and_his_money_are_soon_parted
Joeytheparrot wrote: » I see Paddy is planning to launch himself as an anti corruption messiah next week.
Murrisk wrote: » What's this now?
Joeytheparrot wrote: » He is having a press launch on Thursday about how corrupt Ireland is and how he is Irelands Julian Assange in the Shelbourne (I dont think he sees any irony in harping on about a golden circle and hosting a meeting where many of Irelands elite would frequent)https://www.collegetimes.com/news/irish-corruption-142619
tinpib wrote: » Web Summit starts today in Lisbon.
mahamageehad wrote: » Twas only opening night tonight, very limited tickets available. Better than last year though where they left people queued outside for hours because it was overbooked. The real show starts tomorrow. Any boardsies headed over?
doylefe wrote: » What kind of job****e goes to these things. I work in the web industry and I see zero value in it.
Snickers Man wrote: » (Originally posted two years ago in October 2015 as part of a hotly disputed discussion on the level of Irish government funding for the Web Summit while it was in Dublin) Weckler's line, and the one strongly implied by Hickey's denouncement of "wildly inaccurate, pathetic journalism and government spin" is that the government is being disingenuous by saying that the amount of money spent by Enterprise Ireland and IDA on the Web summit was "funding" and that what the state bodies were actually doing was buying stand space to promote their businesses like any normal client of the event. Well OK. By that logic, then surely IDA and EI will invest a similar amount of money in the Portugese Web Summit as they have annually in the Dublin event. If it's a hard-nosed, business-led self interested investment in promoting their message and expertise the audience is all that matters, not the venue. Right? Which is closer to the truth? We'll know when the FOI requests for how much IDA and EI spent on the Lisbon event are made and replied to. Let's keep an open mind.
bodhrandude wrote: » So where is this web summit, is it at the top of Everest?
kbannon wrote: » Adrian Weckler reckons it's doing well over there...https://www.independent.ie/business/technology/web-summit/adrian-weckler-why-the-web-summit-is-never-returning-to-dublin-36300731.html I think it was him also on Matt Cooper yesterday singing praises for the WS.
mahamageehad wrote: » So far I've seen a load of enterprise stands - Poland, UK, Lithuania, Germany, France, Spain, Qatar, Portugal... Nothing from Ireland.
