Governments are failing to prepare for the impact of artificial intelligence, which is set to destroy millions of jobs, according to a poll of the world’s top technology investors. A survey of investors at Venture, the premier VC event that took place during Web Summit in Lisbon, … | Continue reading
We’ve just crowned Kubo Robot our PITCH 2016 Winners! Kubo is an educational coding robot for kids, teaching them to code through play. The Danish startup pitched in front of a panel of leading investors and battled it out with 200 other startups for the top prize - €100,000 in V … | Continue reading
53,056 people from 166 countries joined us in Lisbon for Web Summit. We are pleased to say that our Women in Tech initiative has meant that the female/male gender ratio at Web Summit 2016 is 42% to 58%. The post Why did Terrell Owens smash an iPhone? The Web Summit figures you pr … | Continue reading
Back in October, we teamed up with Canary to give Web Summit attendees the chance to win the slickest IoT security camera on the market. To win, all you had to do was tweet or snap us a picture of you starting your journey to Web Summit. Simple.The post Announcing our 10 Canary w … | Continue reading
Web Summit investors have been asking to meet with attending startups. We’ve already looked at the 50 Web Summit startups with the most investor requests. We’ve also looked at the most popular industry, fintech, with 14 startups making our top 50. AI is just behind with 12.The po … | Continue reading
We like to think that Web Summit brings together the people leading the companies of tomorrow. Our startup exhibition floor will, for three days, be home to some of the world’s most promising startups. In the lead up to the event, Web Summit investors have been asking to meet the … | Continue reading
We like to think that Web Summit brings together the people leading the companies of tomorrow. In the lead up to the event, Web Summit investors have been asking to meet with these promising startups.The post The industry that Web Summit investors are most interested in? It’s fin … | Continue reading
Web Summit 2016, the first in our new Lisbon home, will welcome over 50,000 attendees through the doors of the MEO Arena. 53,056 to be exact. Our attendees will be coming from 166 countries, and just about everywhere from Aruba to Zambia will be represented. Let’s take a look at … | Continue reading
Indeed, the world’s largest job site recently announced it has launchedIndeed Prime, an online career platform that provides employers with top talent based on coding skills, education and work experience. The product is specifically designed to address the growing need for techn … | Continue reading
Today we’re releasing the 50 startups investors are most requesting meetings with. Over the the last 11 months, more than $1 billion has been invested in startups that exhibited at Web Summit events in 2015, so it’s fascinating to see the startups our more than 1,300 investors ar … | Continue reading
AutoTech is one of the most talked about conferences taking place within Web Summit this year. The past few years have seen huge developments in the driving world and leading experts from all over the world will be coming together in Lisbon to discuss the future of the motor indu … | Continue reading
Use the app to connect with other attendees and speakers Web Summit is taking place next week and it is not just startups who will be joining us in Lisbon. Some of the world’s largest and most influential companies will be exhibiting. Braintree We are delighted to welcome back Br … | Continue reading
There are many meetups, parties and events happening during the week of Web Summit. The Lisbon community (and those beyond) have been busy organising. Remember that you may need to register or book your place for some of these events. See a list of just some of the events below.T … | Continue reading
EDP will invite Alphas to visit their exhibit stand and film a short pitch. The winners will gain access to EDP’s Investors Lounge for one on one sessions with EDP’s innovation team as well as executives from relevant EDP business units. This is a unique opportunity that goes han … | Continue reading
We’ve handpicked over 30 incredible hosts to organise community meet ups on each night of Web Summit. Wherever your interests lie, you can be sure to find a community to connect with. Our hosts range from data scientists to VPs of marketing, and they’ll be bringing together atten … | Continue reading
Web Summit is only two months away and we’re all very excited for what will be three days of legendary networking in Lisbon. Here’s all the info you need to register when you land in the city.The post How to register at Web Summit appeared first on Web Summit Blog. | Continue reading
Congratulations to OpenBack, Parkpnp and Wia - the three finalists for our ESB Spark of Genius competition. These startups will attend Web Summit in Lisbon and compete in the final competition, where only one will be crowned the ultimate ESB Spark of Genius winner for 2016.The po … | Continue reading
How would you like to leave Web Summit with the slickest IoT security camera on the market? Thanks to our friends at Canary, you just might. The Canary is an all-in-one home security system with HD camera, siren, and air monitor. All you need to do is set the Canary on a shelf, c … | Continue reading
We like to think that Web Summit is a meeting place for the people leading the companies of both today and tomorrow. It’s why among the 50,000+ people joining us in Lisbon this November, you’ll find C-level executives of some of the world’s most influential brands like Facebook, … | Continue reading
PITCH is the startup competition at Web Summit that brings together the world’s leading early-stage startups for a live on-stage battle. After a week of deliberating over 1,000 applications, our judges have now chosen the shortlist of companies for PITCH at Web Summit 2016.The po … | Continue reading
Coming to Web Summit this November? Make sure you assign your tickets by October 31 to gain access into Web Summit.The post I can’t attend Web Summit anymore, can I resell my tickets? appeared first on Web Summit Blog. | Continue reading
Next year you could be looking back at your Web Summit experience and realising that you made the most important connection of your career at Night Summit.The post Night Summit is taking over the streets and bars of Lisbon appeared first on Web Summit Blog. | Continue reading
Aislinn Mahon, Partnerships Team Lead here at Web Summit, is taking over the blog today to give an insight into what it’s like working on the partnerships team. The post A year in the life of a Web Summit Trusted Advisor appeared first on Web Summit Blog. | Continue reading
Here you’ll find a list of 565 venture funds that you might not have realised were attending Web Summit, as most we are announcing today. We’ve now passed 1,000 attending investors, ranging from the world’s leading early stage funds like Y Combinator and 500 Startups to the world … | Continue reading
Alan Feld, founder of Vintage Investment Partners, and Edwin Poston, co-founder of TrueBridge Capital Partners, are just some of the LPs that will now be joining us at Web Summit, along with some of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, family offices and mor … | Continue reading
We're hiring for our new office. We're about to open our first office in Portugal. We're hiring for roles in engineering, design, project management, sales and event management. You'll find more on our job's board.The post We’re hiring in Portugal appeared first on Web Summit Blo … | Continue reading
It's set to be our most international conference yet. Take a look at the delegations coming from just seven of these countries. We can't wait to meet them.The post Meet seven country delegations coming to Web Summit appeared first on Web Summit Blog. | Continue reading
The Web Summit road trip rolled into Brussels this evening, and we got a chance to meet some of the people making up the city's tech sceneThe post Web Summit Road Trip – Here’s What Happened Last Night in Brussels appeared first on Web Summit Blog. | Continue reading
Six years ago, 400 attendees showed up for the first Web Summit. Our attendees say incredible things, but we’re only getting started. We’ve grown to a team of over 150 people at our HQ in Dublin, and we’re expecting 50,000 people to join us at Web Summit 2016. Our greatest achiev … | Continue reading
A short conversation with a wonderful British physicist on a boat in Hong Kong prompted this post. It outlines the mathematical foundations of Web Summit, as well as our broader methodology for optimising human gatherings explained in part through lanyard design and graph theory. … | Continue reading
Let’s take a look at four quirky startups who will be exhibiting at Web Summit in three months time. Meet… The post Hail a jet and three more quirky startups coming to Web Summit appeared first on Web Summit Blog. | Continue reading
At the beginning of November, Web Summit is coming to Lisbon, and we’re bringing along thousands of entrepreneurs, investors, media and startups with us. If you’ve never been to Portugal’s capital, don’t fret: here’s all you need to know to get around. From the airport to Downtow … | Continue reading
Today we wanted to announce our first 200 partners and exhibitors below.Web Summit is no longer just a platform for the world’s leading technology companies, it’s become Europe’s largest marketplace for companies of all sizes, and today’s announcement reflects that.The post Annou … | Continue reading
In six short years, Web Summit has grown from a tiny and local 400-person gathering to the “most important event in technology”, “Davos for geeks”, “Glastonbury for geeks” and all those other nice things the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and the Guardian have noted.The post … | Continue reading
The ways in which brands can, and indeed are expected to, reach consumers are changing at a breakneck pace. We talked to the CMOs of GE, Facebook, Forbes, CapitalOne and Lucid – all of whom are set to attend Web Summit in November – to get their takes on where marketing will be i … | Continue reading
Some amazing startups and investors shared some great news with us this past week, and now we’re sharing it with you. Congratulations first to some of our startup alumni – it’s been a huge week: Congrats to Silent Circle on their $50 million in fresh funding. The team have been t … | Continue reading
In the past six years, we’ve met a lot of incredible people. We’ve introduced co-founders, helped startups to meet investors and prompted new partnerships at events that happen just once a year. This year, we want to make some of those introductions a little earlier, so we’ve tea … | Continue reading
Sometimes, special things happen at Web Summit. Things like Uber raising their first major round after a pint on one of our Pub Crawls. At Web Summit last year, a meeting between two of our speakers, one of whom happened to be Tinder CEO Sean Rad, led to Tinder acquiring young st … | Continue reading
More than 32,000 people are travelling to Web Summit from right across the globe. They’ll be coming to together in Lisbon in November for what’s sure to be four days of legendary networking.Meet ten, and see what you can learn from them. The post Nine Web Summit attendees… And wh … | Continue reading
We caught up with two of the 2015 winners to see what winning PITCH means for them and what they’ve been up to since a successful Web Summit.The post “The PR, traffic and exposure you’ll get will be off the charts”: We talk to the PITCH 2015 winners appeared first on Web Summit B … | Continue reading
Our Web Summit Ambassadors are organising events in cities around the world over the next few weeks. Below are the key steps for Ambassadors to host a smooth and effective meetup. If you are not an Ambassador but would like to attend an event in your city, check the bottom of the … | Continue reading
Four years’ time. What’s the world going to look like in 2020? We’re asking people in our network just that, for our interview series 20/20. In this instalment, we talk to eToro Founder, Yoni Assia, ahead ahead of his co-founder's appearance at our fintech event, MoneyConf.The po … | Continue reading
It’s great to hear nice things about the events we put on. Here in our Dublin HQ we tend to not focus on the positives of our conferences. We don’t think that mindset is conducive to improving the experiences we bring to those who attend our events.After an event, one of the firs … | Continue reading
Logging into LinkedIn is like walking into a crowded room and having 100 or so ‘professionals’, the majority of whom you don’t need to know, hand you their card and then walk away. That’s according to Eamon Leonard, a patriarch-of-sorts to the continuously emerging Irish tech com … | Continue reading
Rand Fishkin founded the company that would become Moz with his mother in 2004. After beating off debt collectors and driving Moz to profitability, Rand made a mistake. While Moz is now the world’s most popular provider of inbound marketing software, things could have worked out … | Continue reading
GE CMO Linda Boff's day starts early. It's 5.20am on a Monday morning and she's already awake, and ready to tackle the day head on. She's always been an early riser. “I'm a total morning person. To me it's one of the best times of the day to gather your thoughts – sort of think t … | Continue reading
Join us at tech’s most influential event. Sign up for two half-price Web Summit tickets. – We’ve fallen in love with our new home. We can’t wait to hit Lisbon this November 7-10 for Web Summit and introduce our network of world-leading founders, CEOs and exciting startups to an i … | Continue reading
The people of Portuguese capital Lisbon, haven’t had it easy. The global financial crisis that began at the tail end of the last decade and continued into the early years of the current one hit Portugal harder than most. Have they recovered? In this instalment we talk to Caixa Ca … | Continue reading