{"id":3059,"date":"2015-11-04T09:16:02","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T09:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.happiestminds.com\/blogs\/?p=3059"},"modified":"2024-04-10T07:47:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T07:47:44","slug":"web-summit-2015-the-3-day-technology-and-innovation-hotspot-at-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.happiestminds.com\/blogs\/web-summit-2015-the-3-day-technology-and-innovation-hotspot-at-dublin\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Summit 2015: The 3-day Technology and Innovation Hotspot at Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The web summit 2015, the three- day, 21 summit, 1000+ speakers technology mega conference in Dublin, Ireland started with great enthusiasm and dynamics from the attendees from all over the world. The annual networking event with world-class speakers and fascinating talks, workshops presents a great opportunity for all the attendees including me from <a title=\"Happiest Minds\" href=\"https:\/\/www.happiestminds.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Happiest Minds<\/strong><\/a>, to meet countless like-minded professionals and entrepreneurs at the bustling RDS venue, Dublin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The event was declared open by Paddy Cosgrave, the co-founder of Web Summit and 42000 attendees across 130+ countries are expected here over the next 3 days. This year also the Summit topic is centered on internet technology and the participants range from CEO\u2019s and Founders of Fortune 500 companies to the world\u2019s most exciting technology Startups. This year 2,141 startups spanning 17 verticals and multiple industry areas are being exhibited at the Web Summit, over these three days. Investors from across the globe are also eagerly looking for their next great investments across the multitude of startups, industries, sectors, stages and geographies. The Audi Pitch showcases 200 pitches with 2 being declared winners.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.happiestminds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Web-summitDay-1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3065\" src=\"https:\/\/www.happiestminds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Web-summitDay-1.jpg\" alt=\"Web summitDay 1\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two minutes master class from Michael Dell, the Founder and CEO of Dell was easily the highlight of the Day 1 tech talks. The attendees eagerly heard his words \u201cif you want to innovate you have to embrace risk and don\u2019t be afraid to fail. Start. I started Dell with $1000\u201d. He added, \u201cVirtual PC, gaming PC and high- performance workstations are changing the way we do business\u201d. Some of the other few tech talks that grabbed the audience attention included Stewart Butterfield from Slack, Mike Schroepfer of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Happiest-Minds-Technologies\/115759811859178\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, Amit Singh of Google and Mike Krieger of Instagram.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Companies that impressed:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>Facebook: <\/strong>Augmented and Virtual Reality<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jaunt:<\/strong> Immersive VR<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kakaxi:<\/strong> Farm monitoring device with the smartphone<\/li>\n<li><strong>Knoq:<\/strong> Using <a title=\"beacon technology\" href=\"https:\/\/www.happiestminds.com\/Insights\/Beacons-technology\/\">beacons<\/a> for content delivery<\/li>\n<li><strong>TapStak:<\/strong> Interactivity as a service<\/li>\n<li><strong>HappyOrNot:<\/strong> Feedback measurement<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many of the top industry players are participating in the Web Summit, which Forbes has described as \u201cthe best technology conferences on the planet\u201d and praised by CNN as \u201cthe hottest events in tech. It is a great opportunity for me to attend the Web Summit 2015, on behalf of Happiest Minds, a next generation <a title=\"Digital Transformation\" href=\"https:\/\/www.happiestminds.com\/digital-transformation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>digital transformation<\/strong><\/a> company delivering seamless customer experience, business efficiency and actionable insights through an integrated set of disruptive technologies: big data analytics, internet of things, mobility, cloud, security, <a title=\"unified communications\" href=\"https:\/\/www.happiestminds.com\/services\/infrastructure-management-Services\/unified-communications-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unified communications<\/a> etc. Let us wait and watch for more insightful tech talks and upcoming business opportunities from Day 2 and Day 3 of Web Summit 2015.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-2\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"Like\" data-post-id=\"3059\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"cookie\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-heart\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">0    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The web summit 2015, the three- day, 21 summit, 1000+ speakers technology mega conference in Dublin, Ireland started with great enthusiasm and dynamics from the attendees from all over the world. 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