The NASDAQ Stock Market Opening Bell will be rung onstage at the RDS during the Web Summit on 30 October, marking it the first time The NASDAQ Stock Market has been opened from Ireland.
Typically, bell ceremonies are hosted at the NASDAQ MarketSite in the heart of Times Square, New York City and Remote Opening and Closing Bell ceremonies, such as this are extremely rare. NASDAQ is the world’s leading public market for tech companies.
The Opening Bell will take place in front of a live audience of over 7,000 and will be carried live by dozens of TV stations to a potential audience of millions.
Over the past three years the Web Summit has grown from humble beginnings in a lecture theatre in Trinity College, to a festival of multiple stages and events attracting thousands of people from across the world. "We’re delighted to see NASDAQ recognising the Web Summit as the platform for tech companies in Europe. This is an extraordinary coup for us as the opening of the Market is watched by millions and rarely takes place outside of New York" said Web Summit founder Paddy Cosgrave.
The first 1,000 tickets for this year’s three-day event were snapped up in a matter of hours, which is expected to have 300 speakers and have an attendance of 7,000.
October’s speakers will include Niklas Zennstrom, founder of Skype and Atomico; Phil Libin, CEO of the firm behind one of today’s hottest apps – Evernote; WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg; Hailo co-founder Jay Bregman; Eugene Kaspersky of Kaspersky Labs; Rina Onur of Peak Games; soon-to-be-space traveller, WPP board member and tech investor Esther Dyson; as well as Digg founder turned Google Ventures partner Kevin Rose.
Scott Belsky, who sold Behance to Adobe in 2012 for a reputed $150m, well-known Fab, Uber and Blackjet investor Shervin Pishevar and blogger/Google Glass evangelist Robert Scoble will also feature with more speakers to be added.
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