The sun has set on the second edition of #WebSummitRio .

We will be returning to Brazil in 2025 to do it all again 🇧🇷

A little Irish company just brought together 34,000 nerds from 100+ countries over 3 incredible days in Rio. The energy, the positivity, the innovation & the ambition were off the charts.

Rio was an incredible host city ⛰️🇧🇷❤️. Next stop Kerry, Ireland ✈️ 🇮🇪

Our stages are built using sustainable and reusable materials. At #WebSummitRio this week, Centre Stage was built using 207 repurposed agricultural water storage tanks that are redistributed and reused post-event. ♻️

Gabriela Comazzetto, TikTok Brasil
Fabio Coelho,

Deals get done at Web Summit Rio.

We loved having you

KondZilla of Canal KondZilla
Mari Maria of Mari Maria Makeup
Christian Rôças of Flint
Olga Maslikhova of The J Curve

❤️ Bianca Rosa
#WebSummitRio 🤩

#WebSummitRio 2024:

👩‍💻 The highest proportion of women founders at any Web Summit event, at 45 percent
🙋‍♀️ The largest gathering of women founders in South America
😍 47.5 percent of attendees and 39 percent of speakers are women
🌎 34,397 attendees are joining us from 102…

#WebSummitRio is here.

We love you, Rio. The largest gathering of women founders in South America. Joined by

Bianca Rosa
Yat Siu
Mike Brock

We’re so proud to introduce our new all-women Impact steering committee, dedicated to advancing the UN SDGs across all aspects of Web Summit.

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The biggest names in tech are joining us next week at our South American event, #WebSummitRio , including:
IBM’s Justina Nixon-Saintil
Salesforce’s Fabio Costa
Revolut’s Glauber Mota
BYD Brasil’s Tyler Li
And more here:
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Two months ago at #WebSummitQatar , we gathered founders and CEOs of tech companies, fast-growing startups, policymakers, and heads of state to ask a question: Where to next? Our partners helped us ask that question. We loved having TikTok, Snap, Microsoft, Cisco and more join us.

Today I’m returning as CEO of Web Summit.

When I stepped back last year, it was the first time I had taken time off in 15 years. It gave me time to think about Web Summit, its history, why I started it on my own from my bedroom and what I wanted it to be.

I took the time to…

'The way the economy is running right now is just completely nonsensical. We're taking resources from nature, turning them into things and landfilling them only to extract more.' - Sage Lenier, climate activist, speaking at #WebSummit in Lisbon last November.

'When it comes to addressing climate change, I'm going to challenge all of you to see AI as a new path, as a new opportunity.' - Melanie Nakagawa, Chief Sustainability Officer at Microsoft, speaking at #WebSummit in Lisbon last November

33 percent of exhibiting startups at #WebSummitQatar in February were women-founded.

Meet just a few of them:

Compocity
Tyms
Drapp
Talents Arena
Globalfy
Omnibiz Africa
KidzRise
Co-nurse
ReSuit
Merova Health

Two weeks until our South American event, Web Summit Rio. We can’t wait. 🇧🇷

“Recycling plastic wastes our precious time. It’s absolutely not a solution.”

At #WebSummit , No More Plastic Foundation founder and president Rosalie Mann discussed how plastic pollution is a human health issue.

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We’ve just announced the first 25 speakers joining us at #WebSummit , including:
- Brad Smith, vice chair and president of Microsoft
- Vidya Peters, CEO of DataSnipper
- Karen Gillan, Seen co-founder, actor and filmmaker
- Jessica Sibley, CEO of TIME
- Blake Sabatinelli, CEO of…