The “web summit” is the largest technical gathering that takes place every year and receives thousands of partners, investors, managers and technology experts from around the world. countries around the world.
The “Web Summit” aims to develop technologies and software that helps improve effective communication between heads of management, founders, investors, media, politicians and “the leaders of cultural thinking that contribute to shape the future of the world “.
The web summit was largely congratulated by international media, as described in time as the “biggest technological conference in the world”, while Bloomberg called it “Davos Technology Pioneers”, in reference to its world impact similar to Davos Economic Forum. As for the Telegraph newspaper, he considered it “the best technical conference in the world”.
The story of the summit
The “Summit Web” was founded in Dublin, the capital of Ireland in 2009, by the Irish businessman Badi Cossever Lisbon in Portugal permanently.
The summit attracted from its foundation until 2024 more than a million world entrepreneurs held each year, including “the web summit in Qatar”.
World events
The Summit web organizes annual events worldwide by focusing on technological problems and contributing to the supply of effective solutions as well as these events are a place to meet specialists in this field from all countries of the countries world, the most important of which are:
The main Summit of Lisbon, which is the most important event and takes place every year, and in Asia, the most important technical event in the region takes place in Hong Kong, and brings together entrepreneurs and innovators from different countries .
“The Web Rio Summit” in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro in May 2023, which is the first non -European version of the summit targeting South America, and attracted more than 30,000 participants, while the municipality estimates that the Conference took place almost 1.2 billion Brazilian riyals, around $ 240 million, on the city economy.
The state of Qatar organized the first version of the web summit in the Middle East and Africa, from February 26 to February 2024 in order to involve the region in the most urgent technical problems in the world, and in accordance with the third National of the country development strategy, which aims to launch numerous initiatives to improve the technological work of the system in the country.
Forbes called the first Qatari version of the summit, “the best technical conference on this planet”. Summit copies will be held in Doha and Rio de Janeiro until 2028.
Summit problems
Summit problems revolve around the package of Internet protocols, emerging technologies and capital risks, and aims to improve investments in capacity consolidation in the field of information and communication technologies.
The most eminent speakers
The summit will participate each year, executive leaders, experts, celebrities, politicians and personalities from various sectors and levels of technical industries in the world, and among the most important personalities who participated:
He is an engineer, inventor and billionaire with 3 nationalities, South African, Canadian and American, ranked the richest man in the world in 2021, and his wealth was estimated at 250 billion dollars, according to Forbes magazine in 2024 .
I had a mask, foundations and actions in the creation of a number of eminent companies in the digital and technical field, in particular “Tesla” Cars and “Spacex”, which was launched in February 2018, the missile the most powerful in the world.
An American businessman born in Chicago, famous for being the president of “Way Combinitor” from 2014 to 2019, in addition to assuming the CEO of “Oben Ai” from 2019 to 2023.
In 2015, Altamman participated in Musk and a group of other capital owners in the creation of the company “Oben Ai”, which launched a non -profit and organized research center concerned by the development of artificial intelligence, Who invented the cat “GBT cat” cat.
One of the most eminent American businessmen, participated in the creation and management of the company “Netflix” and members of the Boards of Directors of many educational and technological institutions, including the “CAPE” Foundation And the Bahara Institute, and in 1997, he cooperated with one of the American business leaders in the creation of a platform specializing in the provision of online media services, I launched a rental system of emails.
The company “Netflix” quickly widened by providing a service to rent digital video tablets on the Internet in 1998, before adopting the monthly subscription model in 1999, allowing users to rent an unlimited number of tablets.
He held positions in the boards of directors of numerous leading institutions, including the “Spanish Foundation for Silicon Valley” and “Dream Box” in addition to Facebook and Microsoft, and contributed to the establishment and Management of a number of successful startups, also as its supervision of hundreds of entrepreneurs in their early stages.
- Melanie Perkins
One of the most efficient Australian entrepreneurs, which is the participating institution and the CEO of “Canva”, in 2007, launched with others a commercial project in the name of “Fujeun Box”, a platform that allows students of Design and print their annual annual books easily, and quickly achieved with its partners the possibility of expanding this idea of including a wider audience, by developing an online tool that facilitates the process of design.
In 2012, she cooperated with “Cameron Adams” to launch the “Canva” platform, which has become one of the most used tools in the field of digital design in the world, and one of the institutions More prosperous in the field of graphic tasks online design.
The most important partners
Among the most eminent partners cooperating with the summit in its activities are the large emerging companies, in particular:
- Apple, an American multinational, specialized company In the design, development and sale of electronic devices, IT programs and personal computers.
- Microsoft, an American multinational company, specializes in the development, manufacturing, sale, support and licenses of computer software, video games and operating systems, as well as in the production of components of computers, servers and phones.
- Amazon, an American electronic commerce company, began to sell books and then expanded its products, to a revolution in the world of shopping and electronic stores, it offers thousands of products in several industries such as clothing, electronics , books, cosmetics, etc. ., And he has no headquarters on the ground, but he has shops.
- Google is one of the largest electronic service companies linked to the Internet, in particular the search for information, the electronic message and the advertising, and the name of Google was associated with the most famous search engine; This was one of the most powerful brands in the world.
- Tesla, a company specializing in the manufacture of electric cars and the development of sustainable transport technologies, is based in California and focuses on innovation in the field of electric mobility and renewable energy solutions.
- Mercedes, a leading German company in the manufacture of luxury vehicles, produces a wide range of cars, transport vehicles, trucks, bus and ambulances. Its head office is located in Stuttgart, Baden -Wortterberg.
- Samsung, a global company specializing in the production of electronic devices and digital media, was founded in 1969 in South Korea and is one of the main companies in the world in the field of digital technologies and the manufacture of devices and electronic components, especially phones.
- Meta, one of the largest companies in the world, and the fifth company in America after Alphabet, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Apple, and in 2022, the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, announced a change of his name in ” Mita “.
- Adobe, a graphic production company and a modification of the photo, was founded by Charles Ghechki, John and Renok in 1982 in San Jose, in America.
- Visa Ltd., a multinational global institution based in San Francisco, California, is its headquarters. The operator is the largest network of electronic payments in the world and contributes to facilitating and managing payments, making it an essential pillar in the digital financial transactions sector.
- Huawei, the largest Chinese company to produce communication equipment worldwide and provide infrastructure for information, communications and smart devices, and its products are distributed in more than 170 countries around the world.
- Louis Vuitton, a French fashion and products manufacturing company, was founded in 1854.
The most eminent investors
The summit was followed by numerous classified companies as “bold capital companies”, with the aim of investing, including “NEA”, which invested in Uber, and Sikoya Capital, which financed large companies, in particular Zoom , Instagram, Whatsapp, Bal, Google, Apple and “Air BNB”.
Other companies include Andêson Horwatz, which is one of the most influential investment companies in Silicon Valley, and it was known for its investment in “Club House”, “X” (formerly Twitter), Facebook, ” Air Bnb “and” Bench Mark “which played a major role in the financing of Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter,” AP “and” Dropbox “.