Day two of the Dublin Web Summit has ended with another great line-up of speakers and startup presentations. The Electric Ireland Spark of Genius competition came to a close with SmartThings announced as the overall winner and recipient of a €100,000 cash prize. Here’s our image round-up of the second and final day of the Dublin Web Summit.
- “You should absolutely use version control” – Chris Poole, founder of 4chan and Canvas
- Renaud Visage, co-founder and CTO of event ticketing service Eventbrite.
- “Facebook is shifting towards your personal legacy, away from find my college friends” – Des Traynor, COO of Intercom.
- Co-founder of MySQL Monty Wildenius introduces MariaDB and explains that it’s named after his younger sister.
- Jan Rezab, CEO of SocialBakers.
- Joe Weinman, Senior Vice President of Telx.
- “Smartphones are personal, tablets are consuming devices” – Beat Schwegler, Director of Platform Strategy at Microsoft.
- View of the Central Hub and Startup Village at the Dublin Web Summit.
- A dancing robot invades the restaurant area, probably hungry.
- RTÉ Digital stand at the #websummit.
- The Irish Times’ media booth at the Dublin Web Summit.
- TNW’s Martin Bryant interviews Renaud Visage, co-founder and CTO of Eventbrite.
- Microsoft Kinect demonstration.
- Founder of the Dublin Web Summit Paddy Cosgrave.
- “Coursera can turn privilege of education into a right” – Daphne Koller of Coursera, which has now reached 1.6 million online students.
- Founder of the Dublin Web Summit Paddy Cosgrave talks to Tim Armstrong, CEO and Chairman of AOL.
- Max Chafkin of Fast Company interviews online activist Wael Ghonim – “This [Arab Spring] is not a Facebook revolution, it’s a people’s revolution”.
- Maya Baratz, ABC News in a political-tech discussion with Arab Spring online activist Wael Ghonim and Joe Green, founder of Nation Builder.
- The Next Big Thing discussion with Albert Ganyushin, NYSE, Nic Brisbourne, DFJ Esprit, Mattias Ljungman, Partner at Atomico, Megan Quinn, Investment Partner at KPCB, and Wesley Chan of Google Ventures.
- Alex Hawkinson with the 2012 Spark of Genius award
- Megan Quinn, Investment Partner at KPCB, speaking during the discussion.
- The 2012 Spark of Genius Award
- Co-founder and CEO of Ovelin, Chris Thür, pitches his e-learning iPad app that hopes to make the process of learning a musical instrument fun by introducing elements of ludology.
- SmartThings – winners of the 2012 Dublin Web Summit Spark of Genius award
- Dema Tio, co-founder and CEO of Vibease – a smart vibrator with accompanying app that allows it to be controlled remotely – answers (humorous) questions from female panelists.
- f.ounders logo
- Carl Waldekranz, CEO of startup Tictail – “the Tumblr of ecommerce” – answers panelist questions on stage.
- Dublin Web Summit founder, Paddy Cosgrave; Hootsuite’s Ryan Holmes; Moshi Monsters’ Michael Acton Smith; and Flipboard’s Mike McCue at the f.ounders launch
- Founder of SmartThings Alex Hawkinson makes his winning pitch in the Spark of Genius startup competition at the Dublin Web Summit.
- Paddy Cosgrave on stage with the finalists of the Electric Ireland Spark of Genius Award
- Dublin Web Summit Spark of Genius category awards
- Paddy Cosgrave on stage announcing the finalists of the Electric Ireland Spark of Genius Award