Paddy Cosgrave (Web Summit)

Sep 24, 2015, 5:00 – 8:00 PM

Paddy Cosgrave is the founder of Europe's TOP conference, Web Summit. In 5 years it grew to a team of over 100 and expanded into conferences Collision in Las Vegas and RISE in Hong Kong. Paddy founded F.ounders, which has been described by Bloomberg as "Davos for Geeks". Paddy was named WIRED Magazine's Top 100 most important people in tech.

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About this event

Paddy is the founder and CEO of Web Summit, a global technology conference that takes place in Dublin each November. In 2014, 22,500 attendees from over 100 countries flew to Dublin for Web Summit. They hosted speakers including founders and CEOs of Twitter, YouTube, Netflix, Skype, Tesla, PayPal, Angry Birds, PayPal, Oculus VR and many others.

Paddy graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 2006 with a BA, MA in Political Science and Economics. He worked in a number of start-ups before setting up Web Summit and f.ounders in 2010 with Daire Hickey and David Kelly.

In less than 5 years the Web Summit has grown from a small team of 3 people to a full time team of over 100. In 2015 Web Summit is hosting a number of international events including Collision and RISE, based in Las Vegas and Hong Kong respectively.

F.ounders is an annual private gathering of 200 CEOs of the world's leading technology companies which happens alongside Web Summit, has been described by Bloomberg as "Davos for Geeks".


Paddy is listed on WIRED Magazine's list of 100 most important people in tech.

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Speaker

  • Paddy Cosgrave

    Web Summit

When

When

Thursday, September 24, 2015
5:00 PM – 8:00 PM UTC

Agenda

Networking and Food
Fireside Chat
Networking

Organizers

  • Prem Sangeet Petar Savic

    Supreme Factory

    London Director

  • James Lethem

    Nascence

    Co-Director

  • Sam Adekunle

    Grone Collective

    Head of Special Projects & Initiatives

  • Gabriel Pizzolante

    UK GAP Consulting

    Ambassador

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