Web Summit 2015
2015-11-03..2015-11-05
Dublin, Ireland
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| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Factivism, feminism & the sexist data crisis | Jamie Drummond | 14m |
Global extreme poverty falls about 60% since 1990, yet huge measurement gaps persist: one third of births and roughly 80% of deaths go unregistered, and in… | ||
| Portugese Delegation | Mikael frisky | 08m |
Web Summit moves to Lisbon in 2016 after growing from about 400 attendees to 42,000 in five years and nearly 50,000 at the 2015 event; organizers and… | ||
| Machine Learning: The next great leap | Amit Kumar Singh | 10m |
Argues that machine intelligence is a new way to write software and cites concrete results: Gmail spam rates drop to near zero, Smart Reply ships in Inbox by… | ||
| Life with robots | Andra Keay | 13m |
Everyday machines meet the ISO definition of robot: sensors, actuators, programmatic motion — claim backed by examples like the Tesla described as a robot with… | ||
| Careers Night | Niamh McHugh, Conor Nolan, Rhona Togher, Colm Lyon | 14m |
Three startups present concrete products and early traction: a B2B phone charging kiosk service that’s been operating just over a year and expanded to the UK… | ||
| Careers Night | Anna Scally, Maoiliosa O'Culachain, Jean Hoey, Noelle Burke | 15m |
Panel gives concrete numbers and actions: KPMG hires 270 graduates this season and supports MBAs and overseas secondments; BT notes 700,000 without access to… | ||
| Careers Night | Philippe Botteri, Nicolas Brusson, Nick Webb | 14m |
Panel argues automation will shift work not erase it: Oxford projection of 47% of US jobs is plausible but history shows 41%→2% in agriculture over decades… | ||
| Creating the sixth sense | David Eagleman | 14m |
Claims that the brain is a generalized processor and will interpret any consistent signal feed. Built a wearable vest of vibratory motors driven by a tablet… | ||
| The CyberPsychology of CyberCrime | Mary Aiken | 14m |
Argues that cyber psychology is an established discipline and defines a cyber matrix of anonymity, online disinhibition and immersion that changes motive and… | ||
| Winning the fight, losing the war | Mikko Hypponen | 12m |
Case studies of real attacks: botnets using keyloggers to steal cards, a ransom Trojan (CryptoWall) encrypting files with RSA-2048 and demanding Bitcoin, and a… | ||
| Closing Bell Ceremony | Adam Costel | 06m |
Ceremony rings the NASDAQ closing bell with a live feed to Times Square, broadcasting the countdown and applause from Dublin to New York; organizers note first… | ||
| Closing Bell Ceremony | Adam Kostyal, Paddy Cosgrave, Claire Byrne | 12m |
Announces a new Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center: a nonprofit space in San Francisco launched end of September to link entrepreneurs, academia and listed-company… | ||
| Web Summit 2015 | Paddy Cosgrave, Casey Lau | 01m |
Claims that RISE Hong Kong stitches together Asian ecosystems and pulls substantial Western participation, using a festival-style conference model and… | ||
| PITCH Final : ALPHA | Misha Gopaul | 05m |
Fatmap is a mobile 3D mapping engine built with Unity that claims 15× higher resolution than competitors and shows slope steepness, peak height and avalanche… | ||
| PITCH Final : ALPHA | Yasir Khokhar | 06m |
A neck-worn sensor uses a 3D accelerometer and on-device deep learning on an ARM chip to classify cow behaviors, sending summaries to a cloud that surfaces… | ||
| PITCH Final : ALPHA | Stephen Dunne | 06m |
Neuroelectrics offers a wireless real-time monitoring headset plus transcranial current stimulation that forms a closed-loop multi-site stimulation system… | ||
| PITCH Final : BETA | Philipe Laurent | 06m |
Cloud service called EasyLive automates live video editing and graphics insertion so a simple phone or multi-camera truck feeds a server that outputs a… | ||
| PITCH Final : BETA | Ash Conway | 06m |
A pay-for-performance SaaS platform runs short, competitive test sprints where human testers report usability and functionality defects and capture video… | ||
| PITCH Final : BETA | Mikey Cannon | 06m |
Cloud platform that replaces paper schedules and clunky biometric clocks with cloud scheduling and software attendance plus mobile apps for shift swaps and… | ||
| AUDI PITCH - Winners Announced | 06m | |
From more than over 1,300 applications narrowed to 200 pitching and six finalists, winners are announced: Alpha goes to conect Terra and Beta to bimple. Each… | ||
| Democratizing life through cognitive systems | Rob High | 14m |
Claims that machines can parse 2.5 exabytes per day of human expression to help decision making, using systems that learn, reason and evolve. Examples: cancer… | ||
| Majority World Report | Saul Klein | 15m |
Claims that over three billion people are online and 32% in China and India vs 14% in US and Europe, that mobile already dominates in Nigeria India and South… | ||
| Tech saving lives | Scott Harrison | 14m |
Charity Water shows concrete results and a clear test: over nine years one million donors give almost $200 million, funding clean water for 17,000 villages and… | ||
| Crowdfunding good | Yancey Strickler, David Rowan | 20m |
Kickstarter reports having raised more than $2 billion from roughly 10 million backers and being profitable for five years while reincorporating as a public… | ||
| On demand in demand | William Shu, Kevin Gibbon, Neil Rimer, Oisin Hanrahan, Rohan Silva | 25m |
High-quality food delivery claims to bring meals to homes in 30 minutes while working with about 2,500 couriers; couriers convert from contractor to employee… | ||
| The email killer? | Stewart Butterfield, Laurie Segall | 21m |
Argues Slack reduces internal email by making team communication public, searchable and integrative, so new hires start with a full history and lateral… | ||
| Next stop: the future | Shervin Pishevar, Rob Lloyd, Bruce Upbin | 19m |
Company claims a passenger trip from Los Angeles to San Francisco in 30 minutes with a 750 mph target and plans a 3 km test loop at 700+ mph by end of next… | ||
| Why Company Culture is more than just a foosball table | Ryan Smith, Mike Butcher | 19m |
Built from a basement started in a basement targeting academics for seven years, the company pivots into enterprise and preserves culture as “scar tissue” from… | ||
| The fortune tellers | Ryan Sarver, Dave McClure, Jalak Jobanputra, Charlie Wells | 19m |
Investors argue on-demand wins when use is daily, the market is huge and technology reduces labor; on-demand suffers low margins and Lux-style parking is cited… | ||
| Social media and the superstar | Rio Ferdinand, Brian O'Driscoll, Ian Prior | 19m |
Retired elite athletes explain moving into TV punditry and building a direct audience instead of relying on tabloids: transition includes 13 million followers… | ||
| Life online | Rene Rechtman, Estee Lalonde, Noodlerella, Mike Butcher | 21m |
YouTube talent now sits inside big media after a Disney acquisition and agencies like Storm are signing creators who produce 200 shows in production style… | ||
| The future of healthcare | Ramji Srinivasan, Mary Spio, Lisa Maki, Andrew Jack | 20m |
A genetics company sells three commercial tests — family prep, informed pregnancy and an inherited cancer screen — has tested over 500,000 patients and says… | ||
| Adyen on the rise | Pieter van der Does, Eric Auchard | 23m |
Raised a €250M round and later took investment from Iconic (Jack Dorsey, Mark Zuckerberg connections) at a €1.2B valuation while remaining profitable with… | ||
| Evernote and beyond | Phil Libin, Bruce Upbin | 19m |
Evernote launches 2008 and grows by prioritizing a high-retention free product that converts over years rather than squeezes cash up front, creating premium as… | ||
| Partner, thrive or die | Peggy Johnson, Kirt McMaster, Mood Rowghani | 17m |
Microsoft partners with Cyanogen to embed Office, Bing, OneDrive into a custom Android distro, giving Microsoft instant distribution into an ecosystem that was… | ||
| Bringing VR to the masses | Palmer Luckey, Laurie Segall | 21m |
Demonstrates a working prototype called Oculus Toy Box used as a tech testbed for fine‑precision interactions (fireworks, pingpong, throwing, multiplayer… | ||
| Why are there not more European unicorns? | Nicolas Brusson, Philippe Botteri, Murad Ahmed | 19m |
Blablacar grows from a 2005 hobby site to a billion-dollar ride‑sharing platform by making bold, fast market moves: first employee 2009, first investor round… | ||
| Privacy - the new fame? | Nico Sell, Nathalie Nahai | 18m |
Company builds Wickr, an end-to-end encrypted messenger used in 190 countries and rated by PC Magazine, and runs a $200,000 bug bounty plus over $1M/year on… | ||
| Family business is in the genes | Naveen Jain, Ankur Jain, Steven Bertoni | 20m |
Infospace hits a $40 billion peak then becomes the backdrop for lessons about risk and kids who start companies at 11 by cold‑calling manufacturers to get… | ||
| Challenging misconceptions | Natalia Vodianova, Matt Garrahan | 21m |
Platform launches as a mobile MVP after 2.5 years of work, self-funded and run by a 12-person team, live in UK US and Ireland with 30 charity partners and… | ||
| Connecting the world | Mike Schroepfer | 17m |
Facebook lays out a 10-year plan: connect 2.5 billion unconnected people using Amos 6 satellite with uat and spacecom for sparse regions and a solar… | ||
| Instagram in focus | Mike Krieger | 18m |
Instagram handles about 80 million uploads per day and 400 million users while combining machine learning and human curation to improve discovery. Early… | ||
| A design for life | John Sculley, Robert Brunner, Stephen Shankland | 20m |
Design-driven low-cost smartphones built to look and feel premium while selling for about $199 (vs $800 flagships) and rolling out in 70 countries. Two design… | ||
| Building an e-commerce giant | Michelle Peluso, Robert Gentz, Madhu Murgia | 20m |
One company reports 2.2 billion revenue and 16 million active customers after scaling from a few million to tens of millions in months, building a 20–field… | ||
| Satire in the digital age | Michael McAvoy, David Schneider, Olly Mann | 17m |
The Onion starts from 1,500 headlines to 25 produced pieces each week, a headline-first method refined since going online in 1996; satire adapts to platforms… | ||
| Michael Dell in conversation with David Rowan | Michael Dell, David Rowan | 24m |
Launches an approximately $67 billion bid for EMC with about $49.5 billion of debt and a plan to combine servers, storage and VMware into a privately… | ||
| The game changer | John Petter, Caroline Hyde | 21m |
BT says it’s a disruptor: it spends £500m R&D per year and claims third‑largest UK R&D spend over a decade, runs a scouting team and startup space, bought EE… | ||
| Commerce: The next epoch of the internet | John Collison, Caroline Hyde | 21m |
Company grows from 10 people at launch to about 320 now and aims to double in a year, operating in 22 countries and just launching in Brazil and Portugal while… | ||
| TV in a digital age | Jim Lanzone, Shahrzad Rafati, Jens Christensen, Spencer Reiss | 21m |
Announces Star Trek as Star Trek digital-only on CBS all access in 2017 and a US price of $6/month US, argues that TV becomes platform-agnostic: CBS reports… | ||
| Cord cutting: Jeremy Darroch in conversation with Matt Garrahan | Jeremy Darroch, Matt Garrahan | 18m |
Europe shows little cord cutting because Sky splits bundles, runs a hybrid satellite plus OTT platform and keeps prices lower than the US, allowing continued… | ||
| From sports star to tech star | Jamie Heaslip, Ian Prior | 20m |
Explains how investing in sports tech looks in practice: early use of GPS tracking (deployed since 2008) plus synced video drives a product, now spun into… | ||
| Space & time: The true potential of VR | Jacki Ford Morie, Mary Aiken | 19m |
A prototype OpenSim virtual world ecosystem replicates a family communications center with a post office, library, weather room, art gallery, AI agents and… | ||
| The financial imperative | Hardeep Walia, Kristo Kaarmann, Jane Zavalishina, Caroline Hyde | 26m |
Panel lays out concrete moves: money transfer startup moves €700m/month and targets the banks’ roughly $300bn annual cross‑border fee pool; a thematic broker… | ||
| Creativity: Ed Catmull of Pixar in Conversation with Caroline Daniel | Ed Catmull | 23m |
Toy Story turns 20 and the core claim is concrete: creativity succeeds by process not polish—films start by sucking and improve through repeated iterations… | ||
| Where technology, science and religion intersect | Dan Brown, Peter Kafka | 19m |
Claims that the engineers building tomorrow’s platforms will shape human spirituality more than clergy, argues science and religion remain in conflict, and… | ||
| Tomorrow's tech landscape | Christine Herron, Albert Wenger, Mood Rowghani, Charlie Wells | 17m |
Argues valuations are exuberant but unlike 1999 or 2008 — public markets fairly priced while abundant growth capital pushes higher valuations at later stages… | ||
| Chris Froome in conversation with Karen Tso | Chris Froome, Karen Tso | 21m |
Tour de France winner lays out concrete routines and tradeoffs: a year cycles between ten months of full-on training and a month off; race specifics were 21… | ||
| Careers Night | Ed Catmull, Claire Byrne | 21m |
Pixar explains that concrete practices drive creative success: decision rule to give it more time when a film isn’t working, a culture that tolerates internal… | ||
| Music for the masses | Brian Message, Steve Angello, Stuart Dredge | 19m |
Streaming drives discovery and becomes the practical platform artists use to build touring and merchandise revenue, with Spotify analytics offering deep… | ||
| Europe: the next cannabis battleground? | Brendan Kennedy, Peter Kafka | 19m |
Privateer Holdings raises $82M to build a branded cannabis business: a consumer app Leafly-style database, a federally licensed Canadian grower Tilray… | ||
| Changing the way the world moves – again | Bill Ford, Caroline Hyde | 19m |
Declares a shift from making cars to being a Mobility company and is running concrete experiments: SUVs map unmapped villages in India while transmitting… | ||
| The magazine reimagined | Liam Casey, Jefferson Hack, Matt Garrahan | 19m |
Conceived at a dinner at Web Summit and prototyped two months later, the project turns a magazine cover into a self‑contained embedded video screen that ships… | ||
| What I've learned from my career mistakes | Jeff Lawson | 18m |
Argues that AB testing and analytics alone fail without founder conviction, so builds a telephony API for developers to embed phone calls and SMS into… | ||
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