Web Summit

Web Summit is considered to be the most important tech event that happens annually in Lisbon Portugal. Web Summit was originally held in Dublin, Ireland, until 2016, when it shifted to Lisbon, Portugal. Every year the city is engulfed in the preparations of Web Summit and around the event days the city is filled with attendees from all around the world to experience the world’s largest tech event. In the words of Inc. Magazine, “Web Summit is the largest technology conference in the world”. Forbes says Web Summit is “the best tech conference on the planet”, Bloomberg calls it “Davos for geeks”, Politico “the Olympics of tech”, and the Guardian “Glastonbury for geeks”.

Top industries

For startups, the most represented industries are enterprise software solutions, fintech, and AI and machine learning. This year’s event will also welcome 1,221 investors.

2,150 startups

The event is centralized on the startups, and this year will see the events biggest startup contingent to date – with 2,150 ALPHA, BETA, and GROWTH level startups joining. They also have startup workshops, Mentor Hours, and Investor Meetings which connect our early-stage companies on all the days of the event with experienced investors, entrepreneurs, and founders.

XOSight at Web Summit 2019

This Year we were the part of Web Summit ALPHA Team, where our technology was given a chance to pitch to the attendees and grow as an organization. There were talks and events going around all around the venue. CEO’s talking with the investors, pitching their idea to get some recognition. Some well settled in their place and some having meetings with potential clients. Everything happening under one roof and people from different places around the world sharing different cultures, ethics working together. We had the 3rd day to our booth at A 615 where we were given a platform to talk to attendees and gain potential clients. Talking to different startups who were also there to collaborate and share their idea with the world. With that, there were talks happening around the venue in different locations simultaneously and the schedule of all the venues holding what talk by which expert was all available on the Web Summit application in the grasp of our hands on our phones. We can look at the live feed and all the events happening all around us and who conducted it.      

We could connect to the people around there by just scanning each other’s QR codes and all the necessary details will be available on the application. This was a huge advantage for the marketers to grow their network in a blink of an eye.

In the end, XOSight was able to connect to a large number of people and collaborate with different ventures around the world.