3,000 Irish at Lisbon’s €200m Web Summit

The €200 million conference rolls on.

Yesterday saw the real beginning of Web Summit, the massive tech conference which stretches out over 21 separate stages and themes, drawing more than 50,000 people to the Portuguese capital of Lisbon for discussions, pitches and, hopefully, investment.

The value to the local economy of the event is estimated at €200m, a figure echoed in one of the announcements made in the conference’s early stages.