Four New Speakers Announced: Collins, Karlsson, Lyon & Bollard join Craigslist & WordPress Founders |
Four leading Irish entrepreneurs will join the founders of Craigslist and WordPress at the Dublin Web Summit
for a panel discussion on the opportunities and challenges for businesses in the current climate on Feb 4th. Chris Horn and Wired's Editor-at-Large will also be speaking.
The new speakers are Dylan Collins, CEO of JOLT, Fred Karlsson, CEO of DoneDeal.ie, Colm Lyon, CEO of Realex, and Ciaran Bollard, CEO of MUZU. Each of the four panelists are behind rapidly expanding businesses and bring a depth and variety of insight to the Summit. For more details on these speakers scroll to the bottom of this email or click here.
For an up to date list of attendees & speakers, or to book now, just click here. For MEDIA enquiries please contact Piaras Kelly
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A special thanks to our Sponsors & Partners |
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We'd like to say a big thank you to our sponsors and partners. They've all helped make and shape the Summit and we look forward to their involvement and engagement on February 4th.
Our headline partner is DoneDeal.ie, a young company which fits perfectly, in many ways, with much of the focus of the Dublin Web Summit on entrepreneurship and technology.
If your company would like to get involved in the Dublin Web Summit
please don't hesitate to contact us on 01 4429283. There are a range of opportunities to join our current partners which include DoneDeal.ie, Enterprise Ireland, KPMG, Realex and Trinity College Dublin. |
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The Keynote Speakers: |
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.
For informaton on speakers Ben Hammersley and Chris Horn please click here. |
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New Speakers, New Panel, More Insights |
Colm Lyon
Colm Lyon is CEO of Realex Payments, a leading European payment service provider. |
Fred Karlsson
Fred Karlsson is CEO of DoneDeal.ie, Ireland’s biggest and fastest-growing online classified adverts website. |
Ciaran Bollard
Ciaran Bollard is CEO of Muzu, a Dublin based music video streaming platform. |
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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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A Special Thank You and Shout Out!
We'd also like to mention four of our partners in particular. Each of these companies are run by young entrepreneurs, who are making waves and with whom we are excited to be working with. They are: BalconyTV & Kellys Hotel, which are run by Stephen O'Regan;
Bodytonic, which is run by Trevor O'Shea; Connector.ie, which is run by Conor Lynch; and OnlineAdvertising.ie, which is run by Alan Coleman. |
Become a partner
If your company or start-up would like to get involved in the Dublin Web Summit please don't hesitate to contact us on 01 4429283. There are a range of opportunities to join our current partners which include DoneDeal.ie, Enterprise Ireland, KPMG, Realex and Trinity College Dublin. Whether you're big or small, just call! It's good to talk. |
See you there!
Paddy Cosgrave
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