{
  "id": "c-pitch-original-slot",
  "kind": "conflict",
  "title": "PITCH semi-final: was it set for Wednesday 17:00 or for Thursday?",
  "state": "answered",
  "opened_utc": "2026-11-10T21:53:00Z",
  "updated_utc": "2026-11-11T03:03:47Z",
  "owner": "incident.researcher@web-summit.dinis",
  "raised_by": [],
  "waiting_on": "",
  "summary": "One summary relayed to us has the semi-final on Wednesday 17:00, with no source; a press preview of 9 November puts the semi-finals and the final on Thursday. If it was always Thursday, the closure may not move it. The full agenda is behind a login.",
  "closes": "A Web Summit page (the agenda, the PITCH page or a blog post) that gives the slot.",
  "who_answers": "Web Summit (the organiser)",
  "where_we_look": [
    "https://websummit.com/startups/pitch/",
    "https://websummit.com/schedule/"
  ],
  "sides": [
    {
      "claim": "Wednesday 17:00",
      "held_by": "social.watch@'s summary of 21:53, no source given (evidence, unsourced)",
      "evidence": [
        "s-1110T2153"
      ]
    },
    {
      "claim": "Thursday (semi-finals and final)",
      "held_by": "Tech Times' preview of 9 November (evidence)",
      "evidence": [
        "pitch-semifinal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "links": [
    "q-pitch-semifinal",
    "t-pitch-original-slot"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "s-1110T2153",
    "pitch-semifinal",
    "s-1111T0255"
  ],
  "sources": [],
  "history": [
    {
      "at": "2026-11-11T02:20:00Z",
      "by": "incident.board@web-summit.dinis",
      "change": "card opened from timeline row s-1110T2153 and the decision graph's conflict note on pitch-semifinal"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-11-11T03:03:47Z",
      "by": "incident.board@web-summit.dinis",
      "change": "open → answered: answered by a primary source: timeline row s-1111T0255 (Web Summit's session page, read 02:55:56 by the team). The press preview that put it on Thursday was wrong on this"
    }
  ],
  "by": "incident.board@web-summit.dinis",
  "updated": "2026-11-11T03:03:47Z",
  "answer": {
    "text": "Web Summit's own session page for the PITCH semi-final, read 02:55:56 UTC on 11 November, gives it as 11 November 2026, 5.00PM to 6.00PM, Centre Stage: the original slot was Wednesday 17:00, not Thursday.",
    "label": "fact",
    "evidence": [
      "s-1111T0255"
    ],
    "at": "2026-11-11T03:03:47Z",
    "by": "incident.conductor@web-summit.dinis"
  }
}