New Speakers Announced: Wired Magazine's Editor-at-Large & Former Iona CEO |
Ben Hammersley is Wired Magazine's Editor-at-Large and he will be joining Craig Newmark
, Founder of Craigslist, and Matt Mullenweg, Founder of Wordpress, on February 4th at the Dublin Web Summit. Wired is one of the world's foremost technology magazines. Hammersley, who coined the term podcasting and built the Guardian's blogs, has authored six technical books and, in his spare time, is an ultra-marathon runner. For details on other speakers just click here.
Chris Horn is co-founder and former CEO of Iona Technologies, which had the fifth largest IPO in Nasdaq history. Chris is a current member of the Irish Government's Innovation Taskforce
, and board member of Trinity College Dublin. He is chair of a range of technology companies including Cloudsmith and Gridstore. For information on other Summit speakers click here. |
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Post Event Networking Session Announced |
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Join Craig Newmark, Matt Mullenweg, Ben Hammersley, Chris Horn and over 200 others drawn from across Ireland and the UK at a free post event reception. Meet fellow attendees, enjoy a drink, or exchange business cards. To find out who will be attending or to attend just click here. The post event reception will run from 9:00pm to 11:30pm in Trinity College Dublin. |
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Over 200 attendees from Ireland & UK |
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The full list of attendees to date is available here, and includes a diverse range of entrepreneurs, professionals, journalists, researchers and more. At a CEO level attendees include: Patrick Holohan, CEO of Newbay; Joe Drumgoole, CEO of Cloudpsplit; Caelen King, CEO of RevaHealth; Dylan Collins, CEO of JOLT, and John McElligot, MD of eBay Ireland
. Companies such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo and Salesforce are also represented, as are Irish start ups such as Locle, Connector.ie, OnlineAdvertising.ie
and SmartLeads.ie. For a list of over 200 attendees just click here and scroll to the bottom of the page. |
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About Craig Newmark and Matt Mullenweg |
Craig Newmark
is the founder of Craigslist.com, the world's largest classified listings website. Craigslist.com receives more traffic than either eBay or Amazon, and is the most popular site in the US for jobs, dating and apartments. Despite employing less than 30 people, estimated turnover in 2009 exceeds $100 million. Each month the website attracts 47 million unique users. For more on Craig just click here.
Matt Mullenweg is the founder of Wordpress. Wordpress is used as a content management system by 202 million websites worldwide, including millions of blogs. Wordpress powers the Dublin Web Summit Website
, and is used by CNN, the New York Times and Yahoo. In October 2009, Wordpress.com attracted 151 million unique visitors. Matt is often referred to as "the bloggers blogger". For more on Matt just click here.
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LATEST WEB SUMMIT UPDATES |
Larger Venue
We've moved to a bigger venue and have allocated 50 additional tickets. |
New Speakers
Ben Hammersley & Chris Horn have been added to the list of speakers, which includes Craig Newmark & Matt Mullenweg. |
Networking Event
Share a drink, exchange your business card with over 200 attendees. See the list. |
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What will be discussed at the Dublin Web Summit?
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Newmark & Mullenweg
, who are regular keynotes at the world's largest technology conferences, will be talking about the lessons & direct experiences in scaling their companies, which have had huge impacts on global commerce and communication.
Chris Horn will reflect on his experience building succesful global companies from Ireland. He will also touch on the broader issue of innovation and Ireland, as well as prospects & opportunities for Irish entrepreneurs over the coming decade. |
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Nominate a Secondary School
We'd like our overseas speakers to talk to secondary school students who would really benefit from hearing some inspiring stories. If you have a school in Dublin in mind, why not drop us an email at tickets@dublinwebsummit.com? |
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