Amidst the incessant rain, the amazing Tech event- Web Summit 2015 was wrapped up on 5th
of November at Dublin. The 22000 tech enthusiasts including me are
returning back to our home countries with mindful memories of insightful
tech talks and the networks that we built during the last three days.
Web Summit is shedding its Irish roots and will be moving to Lisbon next
year. Yet another significant announcement by the organizers was that
10000 female Entrepreneurs will be given free tickets in 2016 across
conferences in US, HK, India, Lisbon. The Indian chapter of the
conference is called Surge and is scheduled to be held at Bangalore on
February 23- 24, 2016.
Coming
back to the third day tech talks. The 3D Printing technology, Virtual
reality and smart umbrellas took the center stage, on Day 3. Multiple
vendors have showcased the 3D printing technology in the booths. An
interesting start up “Oombrella” showcased their product of the same
name, the first smart & connected umbrella, which falls on a kick
starter and collects weather data and sends real-time alerts for the
users. The umbrella is connected to a smartphone app. The app gives rain
alerts for the day, and if you accidentally forget your umbrella
behind, the smartphone will begin buzzing with a message from the
umbrella with its GPS location. The “Myo Armbands” from Thalmic labs
also caught audience attention. Myo works on an intelligent combination
of motion sensing and muscular activity and enables muscle activity in
the arm to control a range of devices.
The
best startup of 2015 was awarded to Connectera, an Amsterdam-based
startup’s product which can analyze real-time movement data of cattle to
help improve farm productivity. Bizimply, a cloud-based
software-as-a-service business that provides workforce management
software to businesses with hourly paid employees, also got the startup
award at the Web Summit 2015.
Ed
Catmull, president of Pixar and Disney Animation Studios and the New
York Times best-selling author Dan Brown were the two personalities who
got greater audience attention on the closing day. Catmull closed the
Web Summit to an absolutely jam-packed RDS main hall.
In
a nut shell, with more than 22000 tech enthusiasts from 134 countries,
21 different mini-summits, 1,000 speakers, 2,141 start-ups and 1,000
investors, the greatest tech festival on the planet marks its end here
in Dublin. I am bringing back many invaluable contacts and networks
worth building future business opportunities to Happiest Minds, the next
generation Digital Transformation
Company which I represent. A big bye to all my new friends and the
bustling RDS venue, Dublin. A big “Thank You” to the Web Summit
organizers for giving me this wonderful opportunity, to be a part of Web
Summit 2015.
