Web Summit founder Paddy Cosgrave has rescinded an invitation to far right politician Marine Le Pen to this year’s conference. In a series of tweets, Mr Cosgrave said that “based on advice we have received on the large reaction online overnight, her presence is disrespectful in particular to our host country.”
MJohnston wrote: » Every year that passes, it seems increasingly like getting rid of Web Summit was one of the best things that Enda Kenny accidentally achieved:http://www.thejournal.ie/lisbon-web-summit-marine-le-pen-4181551-Aug2018/
AllForIt wrote: » What's the hell is a web summit?
VinLieger wrote: » Looks like Paddy stepped in it again by not respecting portugals national heroes.http://www.thejournal.ie/web-summit-national-pantheon-dinner-3695517-Nov2017/ He claims that the reason he did it is due to how irish culture is different to portugese and how we celebrate our dead......Personally i'm really looking forward to the next business dinner event he is going to host beside the 1916 commemoration wall in glasnevin
Head of the Web Summit, Paddy Cosgrove, was quick to apologise for his error of judgement by pointing out Irish people always host dinner and drinks by the graveside of sacred sites. “It’s also an Irish tradition to tell chancers to sod off,” observed one member of the public, who once paid €8 for some chips at the Web Summit when it was held in Dublin.
Odhinn wrote: » Is this guy like yer man that run's "lovin dublin"?
mahamageehad wrote: » So far I've seen a load of enterprise stands - Poland, UK, Lithuania, Germany, France, Spain, Qatar, Portugal... Nothing from Ireland.
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.
bodhrandude wrote: » So where is this web summit, is it at the top of Everest?
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.
doylefe wrote: » What kind of job****e goes to these things. I work in the web industry and I see zero value in it.
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?
tinpib wrote: » Web Summit starts today in Lisbon.
