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Web Summit
November 9–12, 2026 Lisbon, PTMEO Arena (Altice Arena)
annual
The largest tech gathering in Europe, drawing roughly 70,000 attendees each November. Built for scale rather than intimacy: most of the actual deal-making happens in hotel lobbies and on the side-event circuit, not on the dozen-plus stages.
Who goesGrowth-stage founders, corporate innovation teams, mid-tier European VCs, journalists looking for stories
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A sprawling, well-orchestrated event whose biggest value is the side-event ecosystem it generates across Lisbon for the week. Stage content is mid-tier; the investor-summit floor and curated mixers are where serious conversations happen.
What works
- +Side-event density: hundreds of curated investor and founder mixers across Lisbon during the week
- +Strong European and emerging-market press density; first-round founders can get covered
- +Investor Summit floor concentrates capital efficiently for one full day
- +Lisbon as a setting keeps attendees out late and in the same neighborhoods
What doesn't
- −Attendee reports say the matchmaking app pushes irrelevant scheduled meetings and irrelevant LinkedIn outreach for weeks after
- −Stages are sponsor-heavy; main-stage value per hour ranks below smaller events like Slush or SaaStock
- −Hotel prices in central Lisbon triple during the conference; total cost outpaces ticket
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