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‘Web Summit is a place where you should come to be challenged’: Katherine Maher opens Lisbon conference
Newly appointed chief executive opened firm’s flagship event with promise to ‘bring people together and advance essential conversations about tech’
Web Summit will not shy away from hosting difficult conversations, its new chief executive Katherine Maher said on Monday as the company’s flagship event got under way in Lisbon.
Maher comments came as she immediately addressed the elephant in the room by using her opening speech to touch on the recent controversy that arose from tweets posted by the company’s former chief executive Paddy Cosgrave on Israel that led to a backlash against the ...
