Author Brown and Pixar president close the show

What started out as a nerdy technology conference took on more of a rock concert status yesterday as Disney and Pixar’s president Ed Catmull and multimillion-selling author Dan Brown took to the Web Summit stage.

Brown, who has sold over 200m books since the 2003 runaway success of The Da Vinci Code, said Ireland would be a fascinating place to set a book in.

“If you’d asked me a week ago if I’d base a book in Ireland I’d say ‘jeeze I’m not sure’ — and today ‘quite possibly’, so that’s as much as I’m going to give you,” the somewhat reclusive author told the gathered media.