Long wave goodbye as Summit relocates

After water and wifi issues at the last two events it’s a wave goodbye that’s set to dominate this year’s Web Summit after its founder signalled his intent to move the event to Lisbon from 2016.

Web Summit founder Paddy Cosgrave delivered the bombshell that November’s event will be the last hosted in Dublin for at least three years, after months of speculation that the event could look for pastures new.

The move comes in the wake of wifi issues that dogged last year’s event and severe water shortages in the capital in 2013 which caused considerable embarrassment.