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YouTube entrepreneur Michelle Phan, whose beauty amd make-up videos have been viewed more than 1 billion times.

More than 1,300 delegates from over 190 countries are in the capital for the event, which is the principal global forum for young leaders between the ages of 18 and 30.

Phan, Dunne, Mol will speak today, while Richard and Wales will address conference attendees on Saturday.

With a growing global community of over 6.5 million, Phans YouTube videos have been viewed more than 1 billion times.

Last year, she teamed up with cosmetics giant LOral to launch her make-up line called Em by Michelle Phan.

Speaking to The Irish Times, she said she first created a blog to how to recreate various make-up looks through photos, later progressing on to videos.

What began as a how-to for my readers proved to be the beginning of a career in beauty, when in 2007 I posted the video on YouTube and garnered 40,000 views within one week . . . , she said.

I never thought what I was doing would be such a success.

She had some advice for other young people who want to go down the business route.

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