The Dublin Tech Summit (DTS) is an international technology conference held in

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. The first summit took place on 15 and 16 February 2017, at the

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in the city's

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area. Irish telecom firm Eir (Eircom Limited) was a founding partner of the Dublin Tech Summit and a lead sponsor. The event is one of many vying to fill the void left by the controversial departure of the

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after 2016. It bills itself as one of Europe's "fastest growing international tech conferences". The Dublin Tech Summit aims to run annually and attract over 10,000 attendees. It is reputedly focused on attracting speakers, startups, exhibitors, sponsors, and investors, covering a number of themes, including:

emerging technologies Emerging technologies are technology, technologies whose development, practical applications, or both are still largely unrealized. These technologies are generally innovation, new but also include old technologies finding new applications. Emer ...

machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of Computational statistics, statistical algorithms that can learn from data and generalise to unseen data, and thus perform Task ( ...

space exploration Space exploration is the process of utilizing astronomy and space technology to investigate outer space. While the exploration of space is currently carried out mainly by astronomers with telescopes, its physical exploration is conducted bo ...

, "Tech for Good", "Diversity in Tech",

big data Big data primarily refers to data sets that are too large or complex to be dealt with by traditional data processing, data-processing application software, software. Data with many entries (rows) offer greater statistical power, while data with ...

and

analytics Analytics is the systematic computational analysis of data or statistics. It is used for the discovery, interpretation, and communication of meaningful patterns in data, which also falls under and directly relates to the umbrella term, data sc ...

. In its inaugural event, two-thirds of the 10,000 attendees came from outside Ireland, and 48% were female, with DTS reportedly attempting to encourage attendance from under-represented groups in the tech industry. DTS19, the 2019 event, took place in Dublin's

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from 10 April to 11 April 2019. In 2020, during the

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, the organisers held a virtual summit event.

References

External links

Dublin Tech Summit website
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