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.more
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.
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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
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@sovietpop There were great female speakers this year but still outnumbered