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Web Summit quits Dublin

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  • #1802
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,499 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    Bonavox wrote: »
    Different conference. Web Summit is still Lisbon, this is MoneyConf.

    Wtf is money Conf?


  • #1803
    Bonavox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,713 ✭✭✭Bonavox


    namloc1980 wrote: »
    Wtf is money Conf?

    Think it's another conference on fintech. There's a few conferences operating under the Web Summit umbrella these days.


  • #1804
    serfboard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,739 ✭✭✭serfboard


    namloc1980 wrote: »
    Paddy and his Circus are coming back. Wonder what happened in Lisbon?
    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.


  • #1805
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,229 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    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.

    Moneyconf isn't new as such, they've been running it a few years now. I don't think it's ever been in Lisbon either. It's been in Belfast and Madrid before.


  • #1806
    helimachoptor
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 21,749 Mod ✭✭✭✭helimachoptor


    Got an email this morning that their platinum tickets for the web summit are increasing from an exceptionally hefty ?4950 to ?24,995

    Who is paying this money


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  • #1807
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 43,142 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    helimachoptor wrote: »
    Who is paying this money

    https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/a_fool_and_his_money_are_soon_parted


  • #1808
    helimachoptor
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 21,749 Mod ✭✭✭✭helimachoptor


    kbannon wrote: »
    https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/a_fool_and_his_money_are_soon_parted

    it must be, i went to the first ones as a freebie but i wouldnt be paying for it and certainly not 25K


  • #1809
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,232 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    I see Paddy is planning to launch himself as an anti corruption messiah next week.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #1810
    jd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,786 ✭✭✭jd


    Joeytheparrot wrote: »
    I see Paddy is planning to launch himself as an anti corruption messiah next week.

    He probably dreams about being the leader of some Macronite movement for the next GE.


  • #1811
    Murrisk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 889 ✭✭✭Murrisk


    Joeytheparrot wrote: »
    I see Paddy is planning to launch himself as an anti corruption messiah next week.

    What's this now?


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  • #1812
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,232 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Murrisk wrote: »
    What's this now?

    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

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #1813
    Mongfinder General
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,992 ✭✭✭Mongfinder General


    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

    Why do no marks like this think that any of us take them seriously or are even listening to him?


  • #1814
    Red_Wake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,571 ✭✭✭Red_Wake


    The charlatan has launched a new con.


  • #1815
    ToddyDoody
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,417 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    He's welcome back here of course.

    Michael D. must be photographed kicking him up the a*se tho.


  • #1816
    tinpib
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭tinpib


    Web Summit starts today in Lisbon.


  • #1817
    mahamageehad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,673 ✭✭✭mahamageehad


    tinpib wrote: »
    Web Summit starts today in Lisbon.

    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?


  • #1818
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,899 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    So where is this web summit, is it at the top of Everest?

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #1819
    bloodless_coup
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,480 ✭✭✭bloodless_coup


    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?

    What kind of job****e goes to these things. I work in the web industry and I see zero value in it.


  • #1820
    Ulysses Gaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    doylefe wrote: »
    What kind of job****e goes to these things. I work in the web industry and I see zero value in it.

    Aren't they just jollies at the companies expense?


  • #1821
    mahamageehad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,673 ✭✭✭mahamageehad


    doylefe wrote: »
    What kind of job****e goes to these things. I work in the web industry and I see zero value in it.

    Eh, it's a paid week off work in a city where it's currently 21 degrees? I mean, I wouldn't pay to come here on my own dime like.


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  • #1822
    Snickers Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,301 ✭✭✭Snickers Man


    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. ;)

    Well OK then. Portugal's Web Summit is upon us. Is there anybody there who can alert us to the size of the paid presence, in terms of stand acreage and display advertising, that Irish Government agencies have invested in this event? You know: Enterprise Ireland, IDA, etc etc

    Basically, as a follow on from some of the controversies of two years ago, it would be interesting to see whether our government is supporting this event as a valuable "route to market" event that it considers worthwhile to support as part of its own strategic communications effort, or whether such events are only worthy of support if they are held in Ireland.

    Anybody there to do a bit of stand counting?


  • #1823
    mahamageehad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,673 ✭✭✭mahamageehad


    So far I've seen a load of enterprise stands - Poland, UK, Lithuania, Germany, France, Spain, Qatar, Portugal... Nothing from Ireland.


  • #1824
    Odhinn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,490 ✭✭✭Odhinn


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    So where is this web summit, is it at the top of Everest?

    Lesbon, some island off greece.


  • #1825
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 43,142 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    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.


  • #1826
    Red_Wake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,571 ✭✭✭Red_Wake


    Bit odd that he claims it's super busy, when the photo shows a tiny crowd.

    Having said that, Weckler is a nob, probably talking through his hole.


  • #1827
    VinLieger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,007 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    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.

    Weckler is a devoted worshiper to the cult of cosgrave, all of his articles over the years on the web summit contain spin directly from paddy's mouthpieces if you know what to look for.

    A prime example is he's always pushed the lie that it was the hotels charging an arm and a leg for the Dublin shows, while they did markup as they would for any large event, the majority was actually paddy himself booking the hotels at a bulk discount and then selling them on to attendees at a massive markup.


  • #1828
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,190 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Yeah, it was funny to hear Weckler singing the praises for Web Summit about the event layout, flow of people, WiFi, price and quality of the food, etc etc, as if it was Ireland's fault that these things were so poor in Dublin.

    Web Summit rent a space, and then all of the organisation details are up to them. If the event is too busy, if it's hard to move around, if the WiFi is poor, if the food is poor, then that's 100% down to a failure of the event organiser, not on the venue or the city where it's held.


  • #1829
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    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.

    I think he was pretty defensive of it when it had all the issues over here, he was defending it heroically on radio despite the evidence against it from what I can remember.

    edit: yes, his sycophancy didn't go unnoticed 2 years ago
    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=97605744&postcount=734
    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=97605555&postcount=731
    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=97603912&postcount=721
    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=97609330&postcount=829


  • #1830
    jmayo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,224 ✭✭✭✭jmayo


    mahamageehad wrote: »
    So far I've seen a load of enterprise stands - Poland, UK, Lithuania, Germany, France, Spain, Qatar, Portugal... Nothing from Ireland.

    Do Appleby have a stand :D

    I am not allowed discuss …



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  • #1831
    lawred2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,777 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    Adrian Weckler is a gimp - consumer gadgets and smart phones is the extent of his technical insight.

    Spoofer.


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