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Published 19:34 17 Apr 2013 BST
Twitter user Jane Ruffino spotted this less-than-inspiring banner ad for this year's Dublin-based Web Summit, claimed to be the biggest web summit in Europe.
Marketing director Jane Ruffino tweeted a screen grab of the web summit's ad yesterday.
It read: "Women: There won't be many of these*
Whiskeys: There will be lots of these
*Explanation: This is a tech conference."
Jane tweeted about the ad yesterday, bringing it to the Web Summit organisers' attention but didn't receive a response.
She tweeted that she was "amused by their silence" and that it was "a sign that we're so used to anti-woman attitudes that we take it for granted as normal".
"It's NOT," she added.
The organisers finally issued an apology today. It reads:
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