Web Summit 2014 Top Ten

Latest / 04 November

We were unable to attend, but thanks to the amazing world of the interweb, we kept in touch with the shenanigans down the road in the RDS and around Dublin. Here is our selection of tweets and posts from this years Web Summit.

A lot of people seem to share Rosita Boland’s thought – what is it all about?

Well, they had a Surf Summit this year

And to promote their commercial ventures, WordPress built the web summit a bridge to the Food Summit

Meanwhile, over at the Night Summit, folk were keeping themselves well watered, and whiskeyed.

Less than 6 hours in, and someone already has given me Jameson!!! Thanks, @investsheet

A photo posted by Ben Parr (@benparr) on

Take Me To Church, Eva found time for a tour of the City before speaking at the Web Summit.

Visited the beautiful St. Patrick’s church/cathedral in Dublin!

Une photo publiée par Eva Longoria (@evalongoria) le

We’ve always enjoyed Des Traynor’s talks, and he had a packed house this year

Skater Tony Hawk showed us he still has it in Bushy Park. Rad.

Rio Ferdinand took to the stage on day 2 to talk about the theme of how social media has changed the perception of sportspeople

Inventor, designer, entrepreneur, and angel investor Tony Fadell took to the Main Stage.

Day 3 saw Tim O’Reilly take to the stage for a talk on AI & ‘The Global Brain”

#websummit centre stage. Tim O’Reilly and Liam Casey talk wearables

A photo posted by Michele Neylon (@mneylon) on

@mneylon CEO of Blacknight gave us this news on our Taoiseach

To finished off, these folk discussed the future of music, it was a busy hall after a hectic 3 days for all!!

I think all 22,000 people are in this room for the #Bono panel! #websummit #WebSummit2014

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You can catch all the talks over here on Youtube, including this interesting one with Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress and Tony Conrad founder of about.me and Sphere.