Web Summit 2026 takes place Oct 25, 2026 – Oct 28, 2026 in Lisbon. Tech, startups, AI, media, politics, society. ConvCast tracks Web Summit 2026 with on-the-ground coverage.
Tech, startups, AI, media, politics, society
Web Summit returns to Lisbon's MEO Arena and FIL from November 9-12, 2026, and after 2025 drew a record 71,000-plus attendees from 157 countries — including 2,725 exhibiting startups and a history-high 1,857 investors — this edition matters as the industry's real-world referendum on whether AI momentum converts to durable business. Expect the same relentless AI-through-everything thread that dominated every stage last year: agents, sector-specific models, and the collision of AI with media, defense, and democracy. Web Summit is where founders launch, sovereign-tech and climate debates spill onto the main stage, and Europe's regulators, VCs, and platform chiefs argue politics and society in the same room. The unicorn announcements, first-European-office reveals, and PITCH startup-battle finals are traditional headline generators.
ConvCast trains its cameras on the Centre Stage keynotes and the founder announcements that break there, then works the show floor where 2,700-plus startups demo live — hunting the product reveal nobody scheduled. The trend to watch: whether AI agents graduate from demo to deployed revenue, and how the tech-versus-society fault lines play out on stage.
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