Lisbon won the bid to organize editions 2016, 2017 and 2018 Web Summit, one of the most important technology conferences and entrepreneurship in Europe. The announcement was made on Wednesday by the Government at a ceremony in Lisbon with the deputy prime minister, Paulo Portas, and the founder of the event, the Irish Paddy Cosgrave.
Cosgrave (t-shirt and blue jeans in contrast to the ties of representatives of Portuguese institutions) praised “the community of startups” in Lisbon. “Investors in Europe have begun to capitalize on low incomes and talent” of the city, he said.
The public support for the event, explained meanwhile Paulo Portas, is EUR 1.3 million. “It’s a great opportunity to improve a lot more Portuguese technology ecosystem,” said the minister. That money will be used to improve Internet connectivity systems at the International Fair of Lisbon and Meo Arena (where the conference will take place) to support international press coverage and to help more small businesses to participate, just exemplified then the Secretary of State for Economics, Leonardo Mathias.
The Portuguese capital played in the organization with cities such as Paris and Amsterdam. Among the factors examined to determine the location of an issue are the accommodation capacity, the quality of the event infrastructure and connecting the city to the entrepreneurship ecosystem. In recent years, there have been several initiatives in Lisbon for business creation in the area of digital technologies, including acceleration programs, conferences and startup incubators.
The Web Summit is held in the Irish capital since 2010 and has become a large event on the world circuit technology conferences. This year, which takes place 3-5 November 4500 are expected startup , 12 of which are Portuguese, and 30,000 participants. will be attended the president of Pixar Animation Studios, Ed Catmull; the director of technology of Facebook, Mike Schroepfer; and a founder of Instagram, Mike Kriege. The Bloomberg called the event “Davos for Geeks”, an allusion to the World Economic Forum.
PUBLIC, Cosgrave explained that Dublin has no structures to organize a large conference and that started so looking for a city to host the Web Summit for three years, at least. In addition to praise the characteristics of the Portuguese capital, in charge of the event said even to have been surprised by the enthusiasm shown social networks at the possibility Lisbon host the next editions.
Thousands of conference attendees will have a significant weight in the tourism sector of the city. Last year, the conference brought together 22,000 people in the Irish capital. By comparison, in July, the hotel sector of the Lisbon metropolitan area recorded an average of 42,000 daily overnight stays, according to the latest data from the National Statistics Institute.
In addition to lectures and debates, the event includes a startup contest. In 2014, the Codacy, a company created in Portugal was one of the winners. It develops and markets a service that automatically analyzes computer code for flaws.
The Web Summit also has an application indicating every participant which people this will have more interest in learning. “Typically, that’s why if you go to a conference,” noted Paddy Cosgrave, who explained that the software analyzes the information offered by each user (which may include the presence on social networks) to relate to people in a similar way to that make Twitter and Facebook, for example.
The Cosgrave company also organizes conferences in other countries, including India and USA, though with smaller dimensions.
The ad that Lisbon was to compete with other cities the conference of the organization had been made by the Government in late August
updated News:. added that Lisbon will also host editions 2017 and 2018 the event.
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