Lisbon takes ownership of Web Summit on its sophomore outing
The Portuguese capital pulled out all the stops for this year’s mammoth tech gathering
The Web Summit felt like it belonged in Lisbon this year.
A year ago, it felt like an Irish event that happened to be taking place in the Portuguese capital. The locality, however, took cultural ownership of the summit last week with the tech gathering’s presence noticeable across the city.
Posters for Made of Lisboa, a start-up and investor initiative here, dotted the streets, and the presence of the Volvo Ocean race was ...
