From a sitting room in “Ranners”
To the technically unfriendly RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.
Summit founder Paddy Cosgrave writes:
Today we are excited to announce the next chapter in the Web Summit story. In 2016 Web Summit will move to Lisbon.
Lisbon is a great city with a thriving startup community. What’s more, it has great transport and hotel infrastructure and a state-of-the-art venue with capacity for more than 80,000 attendees.
Tell my wifi I love her.
FIGHT!
Update:
A response from Dublin Chamber of Commerce this afternoon:
The decision by Web Summit to leave Dublin should serve as a wake-up call to the Government about the importance of increasing investment in infrastructure. It’s also a reminder of how Dublin is competing with other international cities for business
Oh, it’s on!
The Next Chapter (Web Summit Blog)
Previously: Who Took The Web From The Web Summit?
Web Summit Loss a Wake-Up Call for Spend-Shy Government (Dublin Chamber of Commerce)
Will be resigning his HEA seat yet?
Moany twit moans. Stop the presses!
Like, he is a moany twit or whatever, but I’m not sure the presses are being stopped just because he’s a moany twit. He’s also moving an enormous tech industry conference out of a city that sells itself on its tech industry.
And 90,000 or so bed nights for hotels, meals for restaurants and cafes, return visits and tours for the west, south and north of Ireland, business for Irish tech companies, job opps for Irish techies…
Grand so.
‘cuz the wifi was iffy, innit?
The wiffy was awffy
The wiffy was awffy but the coffee was hi-speed?
only the Frape-uchinos
Does anybody call it Ranners? Please say this isn’t D4 contagion.
Nobody calls it that. And it’s D6.
Hence “contagion”, I suppose.
Yes I know where it is. Beside D4.
It’s the ‘Lagh
‘Anel for me
Nobody calls it any of those things.
Except possibly people insanely jealous of this dudes success
Lisbon has more liberal drug laws, might suit some American developers
Just the American ones?
Well we are not allowed ;-)
I can just see a gang of Cal-Techies being pursued by a flange Tractor Jockey Gards?
Lisbon – beautiful city, high unemployment, going after tech startups in a big way. Lots of hotel space. Affordable.
it also has wifi no doubt .. its an absolute joke that they had it in the RDS for so long and couldnt provide decent wifi. but refused to move it to another dublin location.
people will focus on the wifi not being able to handle this event, rather than the frankly awful transport for the area, and indeed most of the southside.
Lisbon is the least accessible city I have ever seen. Anyone planning to attend with any kind of physical disability is in trouble.
Presumably they’d hold it in the Expo area, you know, an area build for Expositions, rather than, say the Barrio Alto.
On the foot of the Dart Underground canning no doubt ;)
At least the Portuguese spent their Euro dollars on a brand spanking new transport system for their capital city…..plus, the Tram Summit should be interesting.
At the same time, when I read that whole justification PR splurge, I can’t help just thinking “cheaper than Dublin”
“On the foot of the Dart Underground canning no doubt”
Nope. Just cheaper in Lisbon which means more profit. The whole thing will bloat and pop in a few years but he’ll have made his money by then.
Its already seriously bloated. Most of the donkey work is done by unpaid “interns”, all hoping to land a dream job by hustling at it (a useful skill in its own right).
Has a date been set for this yet? I see tickets are on sale at mental prices, and prices going up periodically, but no date. Seems odd.
This year’s one in November, the move will be for next year.
Well, what will they call the ‘Pub Crawl’ now…. ‘Petiscos Tiptoe’ ?
aw
they shoulda gone to Barcelona, they’ve a great conference gaff plus its better craic than Lisbon
About equal in the pickpocket stakes.
Just proof that the whole ‘digital’ thing is a moveable feast and has no loyalty to anywhere.
Web is just the modern equivalent of the invention of printing and telephony and people are getting over it very quickly.
Most jobs in ‘Digital’ will cease to exist in a few years and they will be absorbed back into the wider economy and become part of people’s repertoire of skills with the help of pre-coded back-end malarky.
Once again, you clearly haven’t a clue what you are on about.
I occupy a higher intellectual space than you. You wouldn’t be able to comprehend it, like trying to imagine a colour you’ve never seen.
Are you related to Mr. Corr, male member of the Corrs, Mr. T ?
You’re thirteen, I’m betting.
You are peeing against the wind.
Lisbon is the business in fairness
I love it there
Dublin, thinking its London when it isn’t even Belfast.
Now that I will steal and claim as my own.
+ 2015
+1
I’ll be pirating that beauty meself
Ta LT
People paying to attend this thing are morons.
Proving what everyone’s been saying since day one. Paddy is a selfish prick! After all the support his own country gave him to realise his dream and this is how he repays it. Ireland’s No.1 biggest arsehole.
Ah feck off.
We were here before
Garth BrooksThe Web Summit and we’ll be here after.In 2011 /12
State Agencies give €250k+ to F.ounders, Dublin Web Summit. Source:
http://www.mulley.net/2012/05/04/state-agencies-give-e250k-to-f-ounders-dublin-web-summit/
Would be interesting to see total figures for recent years.
You’re quoting Mulley? What’s he done that’s added value to Ireland?
Any comment from the Lord Mayor? What is she for, anyway?
Anyone ask how much money the Portuguese are giving Paddy?
I seriously doubt he moved city just because of the wifi (which since it was an ongoing problem you’d think he’d make sure it worked rather than blame some other group). Let alone transport and hotel infrastructure?
600% hotel price hikes are also to blame, apparently.
If the wi-fi fails in Lisbon he’ll have to duck out the back way.
Wait so it’s ok for his tickets to have a dynamic pricing policy but not anyone else.
Obviously not getting enough government free money, I mean ASSISTANCE, so they are moving to a cheaper location. Websummit is a load of rubbish but at least it might wake Noonan et al up the fact that you may be delighted that property prices are going up in the capital as it helps out landlords, NAMA and the banks but you are destroying any semblance of international competitiveness that Ireland might have regained in the bust. Maybe this will be a canary in the coal mine.
It’s simple, the Portuguese offered more money to host what is just a glorified conference. Of course, it might prove to be a big mistake in the long run for Paddy’s pals. If you leave a space in the market, other people who are better resourced can and will move in. Mind you, there is nothing to stop other cities in Europe (with more money and better facilities) to thumb their noses at the summit organisers and running competing events.
Put simple, conference organising is not rocket science.
I’m wi’ you there Lulu
He’s leaving a giant great vacuum for someone ta’fill
Cue Jane Ruffino in Business Post: Websummit, diversity, women in tech, court case, gender, my startup failed and I don’t even live in Ireland or actually work in tech, just around it (er, no). PFO.
That’s about the height of it. As soon as anyone mentioned a replacement conference to stand in place of The Web Summit, Twitter exploded with fragile minds reminding anyone that if they do they must consider diversity, gender and won’t someone PLEASE think of the children.
And the Bi crowd
Very important
Don’t forget the TV sector. There’s a detector van trundling around Silicon Docks sensing them out for interviews on RTE and in the Irish Times? #theyworkinaccounts #cantprogramme
The GitHub brigade. Mostly Git.