Tag: Lisbon
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Web Summit Returned to Lisbon with an impressive lineup
Named the world’s largest and most influential tech conference, the Web Summit came back to Lisbon as an entire physical event. The organization says 42,751 people from 128 countries attended. This year’s event featured over 700 top-notch speakers such as Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, Arm CEO Simon Segars, VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram, and former Facebook […]
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Lisbon’s Web Summit will happen online this year
Unless a miracle arrives, the largest tech conference of the year will be coming “from home,” as Portugal is still fighting the pandemic. Last year, the Portuguese government agreed to pay Web Summit €11 million a year to expand Lisbon’s conference facilities, anticipating that the number of participants would eventually increase from 70,000 to 100,000. The government […]
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Lisbon will keep the Web Summit for another 10 years
The city of Lisbon will host the popular Web Summit for the next 10 years, the organization has announced, in a € 110 million deal, with a buyout clause of € 3 billion. Ponte 25 de Abril — Lisbon Paddy Cosgrave, CEO of Web Summit, and Antonio Costa, Prime Minister of Portugal revealed today that Lisbon will remain […]