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Cork Pub Summit

We have finally reached the end of our European TechCrawl and are delighted to be wrapping things up here on home soil this week. We’re holding our final Pub Summit of the TechCrawl in Electric, Cork this Wednesday, the 11th July.

We are looking forward to having Pat Phelan of Cubic Telecom and James Whelton of Coder Dojo co-hosting the event with us. The Web Summit team look forward to sharing drinks with the brightest minds in tech in Cork and sharing stories of our adventures across Europe at this, the last of our networking events in this series. Thanks to the good people at Electric, our venue for the evening, we have a few free drinks and some free food for our attendees.

We hope you will bring friends and colleagues with you to the Pub Summit to ensure a dynamic and interesting gathering. You can RSVP and invite others here. The unprecedented success of our tour of Europe which visited 20 cities, 15 countries in 20 days and was made up of over 10,000 attendees, is only a snippet of things to come for the Dublin Web Summit in October. You can apply for a two for one voucher for DWS October 17th – 18th here.

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Dublin Web Summit European Tech Crawl

It has been crazy over the last while in Websummit land as the events just do not stop; from F.ounders NY to the Tech Crawl there is always something on!

Pictures are now available for the Tech Crawl and you can check out pics from London, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam and Belfast up on our Facebook page. 

So here are a few quick facts to whet your appetite; 10 Pub Summits in ten countries in 10 days (and we are only just getting started!) and over 4000 attendees. If you still have not RSVP'd for our Helsinki Pub Summit tonight you can do so here.

Otherwise you can invite yourself and some friends and colleagues to any of our upcoming Pub Summits by clicking below:

Thur 28/06/12 Vienna  

Thur 28/06/12 Prague - in association with Socialbakers

Fri 29/06/12 Munich 

Mon 02/07/12 Zurich - in association with The Hub Zurich and Doodle

Mon 02/07/12 Manchester  in association with Techcelerate

Tues 03/07/12 Milan

Tues 03/07/12 Edinburgh - in association with Skyscanner

Wed 04/07/12 Barcelona  

Thur 05/07/12 Madrid  

Wed 11/07/12 Cork  - in association with Electric

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The Belfast Pub Summit is on tomorrow night - Get Your Invite Here

The Belfast Pub Summit will be kicking off tomorrow night - 26 June from 6pm in The Black Box on Hill Street. We aim to bring together the best of the local tech community for a casual networking evening involving chats and a few pints. Representatives from the startup incubator Blick Studios, and investors such as Emerald Valley II, Loughshore Investments, and Sync NI will all be joining us.

So don't be shy and come along to shoot the breeze with the best of the North's designers, programmers, entrepreneurs and tech enthusiasts - see you there! Get your invite here.

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Your Invite to the DWS European Tech Crawl

Due to unprecedented demand and over 5,000 confirmed attendees the first week after the DWS European Tech Crawl was announced we have expanded most of our venues to cater for a bigger and better crowd. We are also opening invites to those who have applied and the general tech community who have yet to receive an invitation. Below are a list of codes where you can redeem your FREE Pub Summit tickets. Click the link of your chosen venue, invite three friends and enjoy a pint with the best and brightest in tech from your hometown.

Sunday 17/06/12 New York 

Mon 18/06/12 London

Tues 19/06/12 Paris 

Wed 20/06/12 Brussels - in association with Betagroup Coworking Brussels 

Thur 21/06/12 Amsterdam  

Thur 21/06/12 Dublin

Fri 22/06/12 Hamburg

Mon 25/06/12 Copenhagen

Tues 26/06/12  Stockholm 

Tues 26/06/12 Belfast

Wed 27/06/12 Helsinki - in association with Grey Area Labs

Thur 28/06/12 Vienna  

Thur 28/06/12 Prague

Fri 29/06/12 Munich - in association with Socialbakers

Mon 02/07/12 Zurich - in association with The Hub Zurich and Doodle

Mon 02/07/12 Manchester  in association with Techcelerate

Tues 03/07/12 Milan

Tues 03/07/12 Edinburgh - in association with Skyscanner

Wed 04/07/12 Barcelona  

Thur 05/07/12 Madrid

Tues 10/07/12 Talinn (Launching soon)

Wed 11/07/12 Cork  - in association with Electric

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Free Pizza & Guinness Anyone?

We're kicking off our European Tech Crawl in style with the largest of our Pub Summits in London on the 18th of June. The tech community from all walks of life, programmers, startups, investors, media, will join us in The Alchemist for a Guinness, some casual networking and some Euro 2012 action. We will be joined by Mike Butcher of TechCrunch and a host of the top tech companies in the UK.

As always the Pub Summit will be an entirely free event with tickets strictly on a first come first served basis. If you have yet to receive an invitation feel free to apply for one below. The London Pub Summit is in association with our brilliant sponsors EC1 Capital and our media partners TechCrunch and The Next Web.

<a href="https://dublin2010.wufoo.com/forms/p7w5p9/" data-mce-href="https://dublin2010.wufoo.com/forms/p7w5p9/">Fill out my Wufoo form!</a>

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Unfriended: Silicon Valley's "anti christ" hosts our next Pub Summit

The "anti christ of Silicon Valley": that's how author and broadcaster Andrew Keen describes himself. In his latest book, Digital Vertigo, Keen asks if Mark Zuckerberg really knows what the word "friend" means. Why are we all becoming so addicted to Twitter? Should everyone really be broadcasting the most intimate details of their lives on Facebook, Foursquare and Instagram?

Keen presents today’s social media revolution as the most wrenching cultural transformation since The Industrial Revolution. The more electronically connected we become, he says, the lonelier and less powerful we seem to be.

Feeling especially lonely on Google+ this week, we felt we had to invite Andrew to a Pub Summit for some good-old-fashioned offline social networking with Dublin's buzzing tech scene. We'd love you to come along and join Andrew and our team. 

The event is in Dakota on South William St, Dublin 2, at 18:00 on Thursday, June 21st. The event is free, but you will need to apply for a ticket in order to attend.

Notwithstanding Andrew's suspicions about technology's effect on people's relationships, we're asking you to tap into your network of colleagues, peers and friends to create the most engaged group of Dublin's tech, startup and online community. In order to secure your ticket, you'll be asked to invite three like-minded people to the event by email. Alternatively, if you don't fancy that, all we ask is that you Tweet about the event. In return we'll whisk your ticket to you! 

If you have attended one of our Pub Summits before, take a look at some photos from our Dublin event in April, or our Pub Summit in Berlin last month.

We'd love to see you there.

Get your tickets here.

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Web Summit European Tech Crawl

                                             This summer the Web Summit is going on tour! Beginning on June 18th in London we will travel around Europe hosting a series of informal, complimentary, networking events for the startup and tech communities across 14 cities. The Web Summit European Tech Crawl will provide a unique opportunity for young startups, developers, entrepreneurs, investors and media to get together and share ideas and expertise. The goal is to ditch the office in favor of a pint in the sun with a diverse selection of peers.

You can apply for an invite below:

<a href="https://dublin2010.wufoo.com/forms/p7w5p9/" data-mce-href="https://dublin2010.wufoo.com/forms/p7w5p9/">Fill out my Wufoo form!</a>

More Information:

Every evening we'll be co-hosting drinks in a different city. That venue we hope will be a pub, we're Irish after all, and it's important to play to national stereotypes when abroad. In every city, we'll be inviting about 100 interesting tech folk to join us for a drink each night. We're also hoping to visit the offices of great startups, incubators, and co-working spaces, using your WiFi as we please. No seriously, have you seen how much roaming costs?

The Web Summit European Tech Crawl will be held in association with our media partners TechCrunch and The Next Web, and our respective city co-hosts - a group of incredible tech influentials.

Below are the 14 cities we're thinking of so far, and a list of our co-hosts. If you'd like to help, co-host, sponsor, or have any ideas please drop me an email, paul@websummit.net.

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Dublin Pub Summit - 22/05/2012

Tonight's Pub Summit is a great networking opportunity for the startup community based in Dublin. We will welcome incubators, entrepreneurs, investors and startups to No Name Bar on Fade Street for an informal event to share ideas and expertise. This is a complimentary event and you can apply for tickets here. All successful entrants will receive 3 tickets and will be informed by 3pm today. The event will kick off at 6pm. For all enquiries email paul@websummit.net

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We're Hiring Again!

The Web Summit team continues to grow and we're now looking to fill several new positions in the coming weeks. 

We are seeking ambitious, talented and highly effective people to fill the following positions:

iOS/Mobile Developer 

Event Production Manager 

Sponsorship Manager

Rails Developer

iOS/Mobile Developer

We're looking for an iOS / Mobile developer to work on developing new and innovative applications to enhance all aspects of our events. Requirements:

Proven experience in application development on mobile platforms.

Good understanding of the trade offs between native apps, web apps and HTML5 apps

Secondary experience in UI design and web development would be preferred.

Show us what you've built: Email: jobs@websummit.net

Event Production Manager

We're looking for an experienced event production manager to help build amazing, global conferences and events. Requirements:

Minimum 3 years proven experience in an event management role.

Project management skills are essential.

International experience would be beneficial.

Strong negotiation skills for dealing with suppliers

Focus on effective cost control for budgets.

Submit your CV: Email: jobs@websummit.net

Sponsorship Manager

We're looking for a sponsorship manager to help with all sponsor and partnership aspects of several leading global events. Position should be able to generate new sponsor leads as well as effectively managing on-going sponsorship arrangements to exceed sponsor expectations and deliver ROI. Requirements:

Minimum 10 years proven experience

Some event experience would be beneficial

Self-starter, target driven and motivated by success 

Proven client skills essential

Submit your CV:

Email: jobs@websummit.net

Rails Developer

Dublin Web Summit are seeking a versatile, enthusiastic Ruby on Rails product developer to join our team.

The following skills and experience are required:

Proven track record building applications with Ruby on Rails - Solid portfolio to show

Minimum 4 years development experience

Good eye for design and a good combination of the following skills:HTML5, CSS3, Zurb Foundation framework, Jquery, Coffeescript, Haml, Devise, Activeadmin, Prawn, Heroku deployment

Email: jobs@websummit.net

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The Types of Emails not to Send Us Part II

After sharing the most hilarious email we've ever received from a startup yesterday, we received a response late last night from the guy: once again it's pure gold.

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sean F <sean*********@*********.com> Date: Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 9:01 PM Subject: interesting To: paul@websummit.net Paul, Think you're clever by publicly posting my emails to you?  In fact, you just created a rather awesome digital history which will further illustrate your incompetence when it comes to recognising a lucrative opportunity!  I wonder will you feel a bit like the drummer who quit the Beatles before they hit the bigtime?  Perhaps my in-your-face frankness is just too much for you?  Money is like rocket fuel my friend and my startup is a rocket-ship to the planet where Billionaires live the good-life and people like you shall never visit.  Those with real VC savvy will buy as much rocket fuel as I need because they understand what it takes to unseat paper companies like Facebook and Google.  Haha!  In six months you will feel like a FOOL!  No joke... A FOOL!  So, have a good laugh now and I'll pray for you later. respectfully, Sean F

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The Types of Emails not to Send Us

The collective Web Summit team get emails all the time from all sorts of folk - this one is pure gold:

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Seanie <seanie********@******.com> Date: Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 8:17 PM Subject: startup to bring to the attention of 300 investors To: paul@websummit.net

Dear Paul, First of all, I would like to thank you for providing the opportunity to startups like mine to present our product to 300 investors. Secondly, and I hope this doesn't sound arrogant... You are going to benefit greatly from being associated in any way with my startup.  You see, there is a lot of talk these days about Instagram exiting for a billion, but our product is so brilliantly innovative and will certainly become as ubiquitous (maybe more so) than Facebook within 6 months, that I will probably exit for 10 billion before Christmas.  This is not an exaggeration.  I'm tired of people with their silly apps running around like the next Zuckerberg when true innovators like myself stand to not only make a boatload of money, but probably pull Ireland out of recession within 6 months.   What is my product is probably your next question.  Well, I'm happy to take this partnership to the next level if you are ready. I would need an NDA signed and executed by every person who works for your company and accommodations at a five-star hotel in Dublin as I would have to travel from Cork.  Honestly, it would be the biggest mistake of your life not to act on this quickly.  Then again, maybe you don't care about making billions. I look forward to hearing back from you! Regards, Seanie F*****k

Part Two

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Seanie  <> Date: Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 3:14 PM Subject: my email To: paul@websummit.net

Paul, I emailed you yesterday. Tick tock. Clock is ticking.

Part Three:

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Seanie  <> Date: Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 5:35 PM Subject: very sad To: paul@websummit.net

It is with great sadness that I right to you Mr. Paul of websummit fame.  I gave you two chances over the period of a week to respond to what is surely the most lucrative offer your organisation has ever had the opportunity to be part of.  You have failed miserably and I will take enormous pleasure in your humiliation when my startup sells for billions in 6 months.   Regretfully, Seanie

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Mark that date: October 17th and 18th, 2012. The Web Summit is back, and this year we'll be jumping from 100 international speakers, to over 200 speakers. We'll also be adding more stages, more networking and a few surprises along the way.

You can now grab a 2 for 1 voucher before tickets go on sale here.

Online Ticketing for Dublin Web Summit powered by Eventbrite

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Mike Butcher, TechCrunch's European Editor, and Esther Dyson, a leading American angel investor, will be flying into Dublin tomorrow to join us at our launch night for October's Dublin Web Summit.

We're also thrilled to announce that leading Irish entrepreneurs Iain McDonald and Eamon Leonard, and Noel Ruane of Polaris Ventures, will also be joining us.

We've 2,000 confirmed attendees and 40 exhibiting companies at our Tech Village in Cafe En Seine. It's a sell out, but if you'd like to exhibit then you we've 5 spots left. Please call Paul on 01 4434042 or book online before 5pm this evening, Monday 16th.

The hashtag for our launch is #websummit - you can join the conversation on Twitter now.

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And That's A Wrap

I think everyone who attended and watched online will agree, LWS 2012 was a huge success. But we never could have pulled it off without the help of a lot of people. First and foremost, we'd like to thank everyone for coming - both speakers and attendees, as you guys are what makes this event at the end of the day. A massive thanks also goes to all of our sponsors, and to the volunteers who turned up and made our lives a whole lot easier on the day.

With that in mind, the Dublin Web Summit 2012 is set for October, and tickets are being released this April. We've got big plans and it's set to be our largest event yet, so we hope if you enjoyed LWS you'll come visit us in Dublin. With every event we learn more, and we're constantly working on improving the experience of our attendees, so if you have any suggestions for our next event or speakers you'd like to see, please do let us know and we'll see what we can do.

Thanks again to everyone, and we look forward to seeing you all in Dublin in October!

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We have constant conversation with the EU regulators, that's a conversation we should have

Nikesh Arora 

Chief Business Officer at Google

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Sam, age 6, from London, learns to code with Bill Liao of CoderDojo. As experienced entrepreneurs speak upstairs, the next generation is being nurtured downstairs, amazing to see.

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Anytime you create disruption is by changing the solution to the problem the user has.

Nikesh Arora

Chief Business Officer at Google