CEO of Web Summit Paddy Cosgrave steps away from the company

Web Summit founder Paddy Cosgrave

The controversial CEO of Web Summit Paddy Cosgrave has resigned from his role with the largest tech conference in Europe after a number of headliners dropped out of the event.

Meta and Amazon joined other tech heavyweights in pulling out of the event after Mr Cosgrave made comments about the Israel-Hamas war on X.