Cianan Brennan: Slick Web Summit briefly succumbs to Sod's Law 

After initial wobbles including a wayward camera, the technology conference got underway seamlessly today 

Web Summit founder and CEO Paddy Cosgrave bringing Portugal's economy minister Antonio Costa Silva and prime minister Antonio Costa on a tour around the Web Summit venue in Lisbon as the conference got underway today.  Picture: Horacio Villalobos/Corbis//Getty

Before heading for Web Summit for the first time, one prior attendee told me to “expect chaos”.

It wasn’t meant in a derogatory fashion: The event is now recognised as being run brilliantly, and massive networking sessions like this are meant to bring a certain amount of madcap energy.