Kara and Walt Visit Fancy Dublin Hotels
In our laborious quest to consider sites for an international version of our D: All Things Digital Conference, Walt Mossberg and I move from the historic environs of Dublin Castle (our visit there is chronicled here in text and video) to the fancy hotels in the city of Dublin.
So we sucked it up and headed to see the recently renovated and quite historic hotel, the Shelbourne, as well as the Four Seasons, where we are staying. (Our annual flagship D conference has been held for five years at the Four Seasons Aviara in Carlsbad, Calif., and will be again in late May of 2008.)
Both luxury hotels are obviously lovely, and present different experiences–one more urban and the other slightly out of the city center.
Walt and I are here in Ireland, because our D: All Things Digital conference might be going international.
After our success with our annual flagship D, which just took place for the fifth time in late May (D6 is scheduled be held in late May of 2008), we are deciding whether to expand by adding a new conference outside the U.S.
If we do it, we hope to hold the first one next fall and are strongly considering Dublin as the location of the event, which we are calling EuroD. We like Dublin for a lot of reasons, including its fast-growing tech sector.
So, here is our second video of our efforts to decide where to hold EuroD, if we end up doing it.
And, as at Dublin Castle, the venues are much fancier than we are:
