Web Summit

‘Feel alive again’: Attendees delighted to return to Lisbon’s tech fest

Smiling behind her mask, Roberta Astuto, a British Italian account executive, is one of the 40,000 people descending upon Lisbon on Tuesday for Europe's largest tech fest. She is over…

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Europe’s biggest tech conference to be held in-person in November

Europe’s biggest tech conference - the Web Summit - will return as an in-person event in Lisbon this November, organisers confirmed to Reuters this week, after the event was held…

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Web Summit to license conference software, U.N. first customer

The organisers of Europe's biggest technology conference, Web Summit, said they would start licensing out their conference software, with the United Nations as their first customer. Launched in Dublin in…

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Pandemic forces Europe’s largest tech event to go fully online

Web Summit, Europe's biggest technology conference, will be held entirely online in December due to the coronavirus outbreak, which has forced the cancellation or postponement of many major events this…

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‘Not even Farage can explain the benefits of Brexit to me,’ says Barnier

“No-one has ever managed to explain the added value of Brexit to me, not even Nigel Farage.” They were the words of EU chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier as he…

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The 2019 Web Summit in Lisbon

CEO and co-founder of Web Summit Paddy Cosgrave speaks during the third day of the Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, 06 November 2019. More the 70,000 participants from 163 countries…

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