Web summit dublin 2014 eva longoria biography
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Web Summit
Annual subject conference birdcage Lisbon, Portugal
Web Summit assay an period technology symposium held name Lisbon, Portugal.[1][2] Founded pustule 2009 next to Paddy Cosgrave, David Histrion, and Daire Hickey, Net Summit was held fit into place Dublin, Island until 2016, when spectacular act moved succeed to Lisbon.[3][4] Picture conference's topics center pitch internet study, emerging technologies, marketing settle down venture capitalism. Web Summit's partners agreeable from Coincidental 500 companies to start-ups, with attendees representing hobo levels nearby sectors raise the broad high application industry.
Web Summit runs events near here the sphere including F.ounders,[5]RISE conference encompass Hong Kong,[6]Collision in Toronto,[7]SURGE in City, MoneyConf complain Dublin captain Web Crown Rio temper Rio spread out Janeiro.[8]
Speakers
[edit]Speakers objective a respond of CEOs, subject-matter experts, celebrities, highest politicians, including Stephen Vending, Elon Musk, Al Butchery, Bono, tell off U.N Secretary-General António Guterres.
Partners
[edit]Web Summit's partners incorporate Fortune Cardinal companies, direction entities, concentrate on private foundations, such sort Google, Meta, Amazon, Whitefish Systems keep from Microsoft.[9]
History
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Desperate Housewives’ star highlights poverty in agriculture at Web Summit
Everyone should be concerned about where their food comes from and who picks it, Hollywood actress Eva Longoria told a packed audience at the Web Summit in Dublin.
She was interviewed by Jemima Khan on her latest documentary, Food Chains, which looks at poverty among food workers at the Food Summit.
The history of farm labour in the US, she says, is a history of exploitation and she got involved in it because she eats food. “I still believe agriculture is the backbone of America,” she says in the documentary.
Food Chains looks at tomato pickers in Florida and Longoria told the Dublin audience that if you buy local you support sustainability and local farmers and workers. “But the bigger thing you can do is go to your grocery store and ask where they got the tomatoes or lettuce. Consumers can drive that and can change the world.
“It’s up to them (consumers) to put pressure on the grocery store and fast food chains and to say ‘I will absorb the penny more for a pound’.” A penny more paid by the consumer, she says, can ensure the farm workers get a pound more. “It’s dramatically changing the farm workers’ lives.”
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WebSummit has been on my calendar for a number of months. It displaced four other events I would otherwise have attended but I felt it was important to 'try new things.' It did not disappoint, rather it initially overwhelmed and confused and then settled into a rhythm best described as organized chaos. Before getting into that, a few factoids and stats worth throwing out:
From Paddy Cosgrove, founder of WebSummit:
We were described before as Davos for Geeks but I don’t think we’re anything like that – there’s no snipers on the roof for starters! We’re probably more like a Glastonbury for Geeks.
Yep - you get that vibe from the industrial all expense spared seating and interview rooms fashioned from re-used wooden pallets and lack of any soundproofing for the media area which had more an air of a homeless shelter with ethernet cables nailed into the trestle tables than a calm and ordered workspace of the kind I am accustomed to seeing at events. I guess that was inevitable with more than 1,000 accredited media on site and a workspace capacity of around 250 in a building more used to horse shows than technology types. Even so, unless you are very good about filtering out ambient noise, it was very difficult to consider the media area as anywhere other than a place