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ShareBeautiful old buildings aside, Lisbon has more to offer than just historic architecture and the more modern tile facades. For example, the Web Summit.
By attending a conference, you can stay abreast of the latest technology trends, strategies, tips and tools. Technology conferences are also excellent opportunities to expand your business network and meet potential customers. All this can take place between sessions, at official networking events, or even in pubs or restaurants.
Whether you need help or inspiration from industry experts, want to exchange ideas and thoughts with your peers, or want to discover new tactics that you can implement as soon as you get back to the office, there are plenty of tech conferences to choose from. However, few are as powerful as Web Summit.
Web Summit 2018 took place in November this year, in the beautiful Portuguese capital of Lisbon. Next year, the conference will take place from 4-7 September, so if you're interested in technology and innovation, make sure to spend your holiday here!
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The world's biggest tech conference
In just eight years, Web Summit has grown from 400 to 70,000 participants. from more than 150 countries. Never before has a conference grown so large in such a short time.
The Web Summit began as a simple idea in 2010. The idea was to connect the tech community with all industries, new and old. This has proven to be a recipe for success. The Web Summit has grown to become the largest tech conference in the world.
The conference has also become Europe's largest and most important marketplace for the technology industry. The Web Summit is also an unrivalled global meeting place for the world's most innovative technology companies and those interested in how these innovations can change their lives and businesses.
Speakers and lectures
The web summit is basically several different conferences under one roof. During the three-day (or rather three and a half day) conference in 2018, 24 conferences with a total of 1,200 speakers took place. PandaConf and the Growth Summit are two of the events included in the Web Summit 2018.
The list of speakers includes a powerful crowd from the tech elite. These are just some of the influential people who spoke at Web Summit 2018:
- Lisa Jackson, Vice President of Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives at Apple
- Ev Williams, founder and CEO of Medium.
- Brad Smith, President of Microsoft Corporation
- António Guterres, UN Secretary-General
- Emmett Shear, CEO of Twitch
Prices
The price to attend the Web Summit 2018 ranged from €400 to €24,995, depending on the type of ticket purchased. Pre-registration for next year's edition of the conference is already open. At the time of writing, you can take advantage of an offer where you can buy two tickets for the price of one (EUR 850).
Other tech fairs not to be missed
Whilst the Web Summit is of course the premier tech show of them all, there are also a number of additional conferences to look out for. There is a conference for just about every part of the vast and diverse IT industry. Whether you're interested in technology in general, or primarily interested in mobile technology, cloud technology or something else entirely, there's a tech fair for you.
These are some of the most popular and exciting tech fairs around the world:
- Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas on 8-11 January 2019
- Mobile World Congress 2019 in Barcelona on 25 February 2019
- Ciso Live! 2019 in San Diego on 9-13 June 2019
- Gitex 2019 in Abu Dhabi, 6-10 October 2019
To summarise, if you are at all interested in technology and innovation, the Web Summit is for you. As the conference always takes place in Lisbon, you can combine it with other exciting activities in the city and its neighbourhood.
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Ama de casa says:
Hope you have a great time in Brussels! 🙂
08 December 2018 - 8:51
BP says:
It was a bit too technical for me, a bit too expensive too;-) Hope you enjoy the moules frites (among other things) in Brussels.
08 December 2018 - 18:49