Lisbon became this year in the capital of entrepreneurship and technology with the Web Summit, the summit of technology that brought 53 thousand people and put Portugal on more than 14 thousand news.
Chosen for the stage of so-called “Davos for Geeks”, Lisbon replaced Dublin and won a serious competitors such as Berlin, London and Amsterdam, hosting the event between 7 and 10 November, and putting approximately 200 million euros between hotels, taxis, restaurants.
in The capital, spent more 53 thousand people, from 166 countries, including 15,000 organizations, 7.000 executive officers and 700 investors of the top and 2,000 international journalists. In only one of the events of the Web Summit came to be represented in a room of more than 100 billion dollars (close to 92 billion euros) of investment capital.
THE FROG 24 was the track to the summit of technology hand-in-hand, with all the stories gathered in our Special Web Summit. Along the summit we were also getting to know the startups in Portuguese that they were going to mark their presence at the event.
For the next year, is already promised to increase the number of participants and the perimeter of the pavilion 4 of FIL.
“let’s Not compete with the Pope, in terms of size and scale of events, but there is room to grow in the [call] Expo up to 80 thousand people,” he said in way of balance at the end of the event, the executive chairman and founder of the Web Summit, Paddy Cosgrave.
In the city the impact was direct. On the metro, especially on the first day of the summit, between the rows of hundreds of people trying to access the carriages, it was easy to identify the participants of the Web Summit, and the events of the Night Summit and the Pub Crawls filled with thousands of 'geeks’ to the areas of Bairro Alto, Cais do Sodré and the Park of the Nations.
Until the historic day of the u.s. elections that gave the victory to republican Donald Trump marked the event: “And when you ask them – ‘where wast thou when Donald Trump been elected?’ – they say: ‘we Were at the Web Summit’”, came the comment Cosgrave.
behind were 2,000 hours of meetings between investors and 'startups’ (business in the beginning of the activity), 968 “Mentoring Hours” (Hours of Mentoring) between mentors and 'startups’, and more than 3,000 interviews facilitated with the media.
According to a study from Cision (services and ‘software’ of communication and marketing), the Portuguese capital began right from January 1 to mark the presence in the media and achieved up to 15 November for nearly seven thousand international news only in the media ‘online’ in 100 countries, with the USA at the top, followed by Germany, Spain and France.
The percentage of women to participate in the edition of Lisbon was more than twice that of last year, reaching 42%, the largest ever between the conferences, technological top, the second said Paddy Cosgrave. To do so, contributed to the launching of the initiative “Women in Tech”, which brought 5,000 women with tickets at a special price.
In the balance sheet, Cosgrave did not spare praise to the network 'wifi’ (the responsibility of PT) in the enclosure and debitou numbers and numbers example: “there Were registered more than 67 thousand unique devices and the total of the traffic of 'downloads’ transfer [of information] generated was 20 terabytes, the equivalent of 30 years of frequent use of the Internet 'online’ for a person”.
On Facebook, the unique views on the event exceeded five millions, of which those relating to the Centre Stage (the main stage at the Meo Arena) reached more than 3.5 million views.
Put on the map of the lovers of technology, Lisbon saw during the four days of the purchases and withdrawals with foreign cards in the Multibanco network to increase 50%, which has been performed about 230 thousand operations, with an increase in the value of 30%, exceeding 17 million euros.
“Portugal is known for the fantastic 'startups’, Farfetch, Codacy, Uniplaces and Talkdesk. Now it is known by the time and by the coffee. 60 cents for coffee!”, said Cosgrave, stating that in the event have been consumed 97 thousand pastéis de nata.
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