RISE x PolyU University Fireside Chat - Journey of Paddy Cosgrave: Birth of the World’s Largest Tech Event
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04 Jul 2019 (Thursday), 4:30-7:00pm
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Venue:
V322, The Jockey Club Innovation Tower, PolyU |
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Organized By:
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
Paddy Cosgrave is an Irish entrepreneur. He is a co-founder of Web Summit, an annual technology conference, and CEO of the company that runs Web Summit and other events. In 2015 he was listed 18th in the Wired UK list of the most influential people in Europe in the field of technology.
In less than 5 years the Web Summit has grown from a small team of 3 people to a full time team of over 100. In 2015 Web Summit is hosting a number of international events including Collision and RISE, based in Las Vegas and Hong Kong respectively. f.ounders, an annual private gathering of 200 CEOs of the world's leading technology companies which happens alongside Web Summit, has been described by Bloomberg as "Davos for Geeks".
PROGRAMME
16:30 – 17:00 Registration
17:00 – 17:15 Introduction of RISE (Mr Casey Lau, Head of Asia, RISE)
17:15 – 18:15 Fireside Chat with Mr Paddy Cosgrave, CEO & Founder, Web Summit
18:15 – 19:00 Networking Session
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