Web Summit quits Dublin

namloc1980

Bonavox wrote: »

Different conference. Web Summit is still Lisbon, this is MoneyConf.

Wtf is money Conf?

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.

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.

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.

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

Seth Brundle

helimachoptor wrote: »

Who is paying this money

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

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

Annasopra

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

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.

Murrisk

Joeytheparrot wrote: »

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

What's this now?

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

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?

Red_Wake

The charlatan has launched a new con.

ToddyDoody

He's welcome back here of course.

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

tinpib

Web Summit starts today in Lisbon.

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?

bodhrandude

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

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.

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?

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.

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?

mahamageehad

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

Odhinn

bodhrandude wrote: »

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

Lesbon, some island off greece.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

lawred2

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

Spoofer.

VinLieger

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

lawred2

his ego is incredible

Odhinn

Is this guy like yer man that run's "lovin dublin"?

Dyr

Odhinn wrote: »

Is this guy like yer man that run's "lovin dublin"?

Two chips from the same solid block of absolute ****

VinLieger

WWN on point as always

http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2017/11/15/ireland-stops-answering-phones-as-portugal-tries-to-give-web-summit-back/?utm_source=WWN_Facebook_Page&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_campaign=Social_Link&utm_content=Article

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.

Fr_Dougal

Apparently Paddy has booked Glasnevin Cemetery for the Web Summits Xmas party.

DEFTLEFTHAND

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

:D

Love the 'I'm Irish...' bit also

For a second I thought he was going to make some sort of thick Paddy joke.

AllForIt

What's the hell is a web summit?

MJohnston

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/

PlaneSpeeking

AllForIt wrote: »

What's the hell is a web summit?

Meeting of spiders to see which one pissed me off the most by living in my house ??

I dunno!

VinLieger

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/

God his arrogance is just insufferable, ill bet hes envisioning some kind of never before seen meeting and agreeing of the left and right at his event and then he will henceforth be known worldwide as "paddy the peace maker"



It sounds far fetched but if you know anything of the man-child its not far off how he thinks.

Hande hoche!

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/

Paddy is chasing that publicity.

Seth Brundle

Paddy Cosgrave withdraws Web Summit invitation to Marine Le Pen having earlier defended it

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.”

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/paddy-cosgrave-withdraws-web-summit-invitation-to-marine-le-pen-having-earlier-defended-it-1.3597005

VinLieger

Fvcking hilarious hes already withdrawn it