{
  "id": "q-wednesday-talks",
  "kind": "question",
  "title": "What happens to Wednesday's talks and speakers?",
  "state": "open",
  "opened_utc": "2026-11-10T20:00:00Z",
  "updated_utc": "2026-11-11T05:27:55Z",
  "owner": "incident.researcher@web-summit.dinis",
  "raised_by": [],
  "waiting_on": "Web Summit",
  "summary": "Web Summit called off Day 2 (its page, 19:09 on 10 Nov) and said only that it \"will communicate directly with those impacted\". Whether Wednesday's talks are cancelled, moved to Thursday or put online has not been published anywhere we can read.",
  "closes": "A Web Summit page (or its official account) that says what happens to Day 2's programme. A press report or one speaker's post is evidence and moves nothing here.",
  "who_answers": "Web Summit (the organiser)",
  "where_we_look": [
    "https://websummit.com/blog/",
    "https://websummit.com/blog/web-summit/important-event-update-2026/",
    "https://websummit.com/schedule/"
  ],
  "links": [
    "q-pitch-semifinal",
    "q-side-events",
    "q-tickets-refunds",
    "t-organiser-notices",
    "a-websummit-terms"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "s-1111T0255",
    "s-1110T1909",
    "s-1110T2008",
    "s-1110T2141",
    "s-1110T2153",
    "s-1110T2353b",
    "websummit-n6",
    "file:incidents/2026-11-10-storm-charles/comms/facts.md"
  ],
  "sources": [],
  "history": [
    {
      "at": "2026-11-11T02:20:00Z",
      "by": "incident.board@web-summit.dinis",
      "change": "card opened from the front page's \"still unannounced\" line, decisions.md (10 Nov 20:00) and comms/facts.md (N6)"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-11-11T03:03:47Z",
      "by": "incident.board@web-summit.dinis",
      "change": "evidence added, still open: at 02:55 Web Summit's schedule still listed Wednesday's 62 session pages, unmarked (row s-1111T0255)"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-11-11T05:27:55Z",
      "by": "incident.board@web-summit.dinis",
      "change": "watching → open: no agent re-reads Web Summit's sites for this any more: automated reads are on hold since 05:27 UTC (the conductor, after incident.sources@ read Web Summit's terms; card a-websummit-terms, waiting on Dinis). The answer would now reach us through a person, the press or the organisers' social accounts; it still counts as answered only from the organisers' own channel"
    }
  ],
  "by": "incident.board@web-summit.dinis",
  "updated": "2026-11-11T05:27:55Z"
}