Over the next few days, tech giants and enthusiastic start-ups alike will be occupying the RDS in Dublin as part of the fourth Dublin Web Summit. Some of the guests this year include Elon Musk (co-founder of PayPal and Tesla Motors as well as co-founder of SpaceX), Tony Hawk, Jamie Heaslip and AOL CEO Tim Armstrong, as well as representatives from the likes of Google, Hailo, Dropbox, Cisco, WordPress and many more. The event will also be attended by some of the world's most influential technology journalists.

Things will kick off at 8.45 am on Wednesday the 30th of October, when Web Summit and f.ounders founder Paddy Cosgrave will present his opening speech on the main stage. There are seven stages altogether, with dedicated stages for developers, cloud computing and digital marketing. You can check out the full schedule of speakers and events by clicking here.

Futureproof presenter Jonathan McCrea will be live blogging the Summit for newstalk.ie from 7.30 am on Wednesday. You can follow his blog below: