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.
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- “You should absolutely use version control” – Chris Poole, founder of 4chan and Canvas
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- Renaud Visage, co-founder and CTO of event ticketing service Eventbrite.
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- “Facebook is shifting towards your personal legacy, away from find my college friends” – Des Traynor, COO of Intercom.
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- Co-founder of MySQL Monty Wildenius introduces MariaDB and explains that it’s named after his younger sister.
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- Jan Rezab, CEO of SocialBakers.
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- Joe Weinman, Senior Vice President of Telx.
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- “Smartphones are personal, tablets are consuming devices” – Beat Schwegler, Director of Platform Strategy at Microsoft.
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- View of the Central Hub and Startup Village at the Dublin Web Summit.
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- A dancing robot invades the restaurant area, probably hungry.
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- RTÉ Digital stand at the #websummit.
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- The Irish Times’ media booth at the Dublin Web Summit.
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- TNW’s Martin Bryant interviews Renaud Visage, co-founder and CTO of Eventbrite.
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- Microsoft Kinect demonstration.
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- Founder of the Dublin Web Summit Paddy Cosgrave.
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- “Coursera can turn privilege of education into a right” – Daphne Koller of Coursera, which has now reached 1.6 million online students.
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- Founder of the Dublin Web Summit Paddy Cosgrave talks to Tim Armstrong, CEO and Chairman of AOL.
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![Max Chafkin of Fast Company interviews online activist Wael Ghonim - "This [Arab Spring] is not a Facebook revolution, it's a people's revolution".](https://sociable.co/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/dws-oct18-17-210x140.jpg)
- Max Chafkin of Fast Company interviews online activist Wael Ghonim – “This [Arab Spring] is not a Facebook revolution, it’s a people’s revolution”.
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- Maya Baratz, ABC News in a political-tech discussion with Arab Spring online activist Wael Ghonim and Joe Green, founder of Nation Builder.
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- 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.
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- Alex Hawkinson with the 2012 Spark of Genius award
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- Megan Quinn, Investment Partner at KPCB, speaking during the discussion.
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- The 2012 Spark of Genius Award
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- 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.
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- SmartThings – winners of the 2012 Dublin Web Summit Spark of Genius award
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- 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.
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- f.ounders logo
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- Carl Waldekranz, CEO of startup Tictail – “the Tumblr of ecommerce” – answers panelist questions on stage.
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- 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
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- Founder of SmartThings Alex Hawkinson makes his winning pitch in the Spark of Genius startup competition at the Dublin Web Summit.
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- Paddy Cosgrave on stage with the finalists of the Electric Ireland Spark of Genius Award
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- Dublin Web Summit Spark of Genius category awards
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- Paddy Cosgrave on stage announcing the finalists of the Electric Ireland Spark of Genius Award
