Web Summit expects nearly 72,000 attendees to descend on its Lisbon event this week. That includes 268 government delegations representing 82 countries such as Brazil, Angola, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Japan, and Mexico, as well as the usual suspects like the United States, Canada, and Germany. (Full disclosure: This reporter spoke at the conference, which covered his travel costs.)
In the pantheon of global tech gatherings, few have grown as quickly or at the scale of Web Summit. The conference, which began in Dublin in 2009 before moving its annual flagship edition to the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, in 2016, has become a prime fixture of the conference circuit—so much so that conference organizers warned attendees in an email last week that Lisbon’s airport was running short of private jet landing slots.
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