English: DUBLIN WEB SUMMIT 2012: 18.10.2012: Pictured was Hollywood Film Director Barry Sonnenfeld on the main stage at the Dublin Web Summit. The Dublin Web Summit is the largest tech conference in Europe. This year 4,000 attendees will gather at Dublin’s RDS on the 17th & 18th October with 250 startups exhibiting to investors, startup experts and industry gurus. 100 shortlisted startups will take part in the Electric Ireland Spark of Genius Competition. This year we will introduce multiple stages with over 200 international entrepreneurs, industry leaders, inventors including Niklas Zennström the founder of Skype, Mike McCue, the founder of Flipboard, Victoria Ransom, founder of Wildfire, Michael Acton Smith, founder of Mind Candy / Moshi Monsters Barry Sonnenfeld, Director, Men In Black and more from companies including Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, Flipboard, Google Ventures. Irelands’ industry heavyweights joining the speakers list this year include Noel Curran Director-General of RTÉ, Paul Rellis, Managing Director of Microsoft Ireland, Software Entrepreneur Ray Nolan and Louise Phelan from PayPal. The Summit is a unique networking opportunity for speakers, attendees and startups as events will continue late into the evenings in our designated pubs and restaurants across Dublin city. Picture Conor McCabe Photography