Web Summit Lisbon 2021

The Web Summit is back in the Portuguese capital, and will take place at the Altice Arena from 1 to 4 November. It is the largest international conference dedicated to the technological theme that aims to discuss, inform, learn and teach about the technology industry, society in general, and in particular, the specialists in the areas it covers.

Web Summit brings together people and businesses to redefine the global technology industry. Despite turning directly to the technological area, this same, and is intrinsic, these days, all areas and daily activities worldwide. For this reason, this conference has become so embracing, bringing together experts from all areas who already rely on technology or those who can still develop technologically.

The Conference program integrates a panel of speakers from such different areas as Medicine, Transport, Industry, Finance, Design, the area of Music, Fashion, Sustainability, Technology, Human Rights, among others. The goal is to discuss the future of these areas, with regard to technology, being the perfect opportunity for investors, researchers, engineers and entrepreneurs to bring alongside new challenges and opportunities of the present and the future in the evolution of society.

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KEY SPEAKERS

For topics directly related to technology and its evolution, the Web Summit will feature names such as Craig Federighi, Apple Vice President, Brad Smith, Microsoft President, Raghu Raghuram, VMware CEO, Benedict Evans, Independent Analyst, among others.

Topics such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics, software development, the businesses innovation that results from the technological innovation, and data engineer and the future of the labour market will be discussed.

The theme of Social Networks and the challenges that have been noticed emerging, will certainly be a topic for debate, if not the consequences for society, to overcome the advantages of the real time world connectivity.

To dialogue on the uncertainty of the real advantages of this theme will be present voices of Facebook, TikTok, Whistleblower Aid – Frances Haugen, who fights for the eradication of hatred, violence and misinformation that occurs through social networks, – as well as entrepreneurs who represent the success of the technological era. Examples of these names are Dr. Werner Vogels, Amazon CTO, Jen Wong, Reddit COO, Horacio Gutierrez from Spotify.

Content Creators, representatives of the areas of marketing and advertising, agencies and investors, will also have much to express at this conference, whose objective focuses not only on demonstrating what is better technology offers, but also the discussion of the problems and challenges that entails, such as the perception of reality, human rights, the expression of humanity, consumerism, selfishness, psychological consequences, as well as the way the world is changing.

All areas of activity are forced to shape their processes due to the way society evolves, how it consumes, and how it is more demanding. Representatives of Football, Music, Restoration, Entertainment and so many others will contribute to the success of this conference, but above all, to the success of human evolution.

The Web Summit 2021 conference provides the opportunity to learn and gathering with founders and investors.