2022 Web Summit In Lisbon

LISBON, PORTUGAL - NOVEMBER 04: Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa gestures while delivering onstage closing remarks in Centre Stage, Altice Arena, on the last day of 2022 Web Summit on November 04, 2022 in Lisbon, Portugal. The annual conference brings together founders and CEOs of technology companies, as well as policymakers, to discuss the future of the Web. The event has reached this year full capacity at 71,033 attendees from 160 countries, plus 2,296 startups and 342 partners from 94 countries are present to interact with 1,050 speakers and more than 2,000 members of the media. Web Summit’s exhibition space was sold out six weeks ahead of the event, with floor space increasing to its maximum capacity of 8,478 square meters for partners and startups – a 57-percent growth over 2019. For startups, the most represented industries are SaaS, fintech, AI, ecommerce and advertising. Top partners include Figma, Stripe, AWS, Google and Binance. (Photo by Horacio Villalobos#Corbis/Getty Images)