Web Summit resumes activity with last day of enhanced programming

A web Summit organization is fully focused on holding the last day of the event, the most intense ever, told Lusa official source today, advancing that the executive president will give a press conference on Thursday.

Lusa questioned the Web Summit if the cancellation of the event today, due to the bad weather, will have some implication in the values agreed with the Lisbon City Council, but did not get response to the theme, having official source mentioned that the executive president (CEO), Paddy Cosgrave will hold a press conference on Thursday (12 November), last day of the technological summit, at 11:00.

Paddy Cosgrave will “talk about the success of Web Summit this year, despite storm disturbances,” said official source.

The organization contacted “all participants this morning” and the Web Summit “is officially back tomorrow [Thursday]”.

At this moment, “we are fully focused on the realization of the last day of the Web Summit. It will be the most intense Thursday we have ever had, with a record number of speakers and meetings — many of them rescheduled from Wednesday”, added official source.

“ We are in direct contact with all participants who were affected”, asserted the same source.

On Tuesday, in a mail sent at 7:39 p.m., the organization reported that the Web Summit would “naturally respect the government’s guidelines and, accordingly, the second day (Wednesday, November 11)”, it would not take place, after several requests for information from Lusa during the afternoon.

Continental Portugal is now on alert until 11:59 p.m. due to the depression Charles, which caused about 200 occurrences of Madeira last night, mainly floods, falls from trees and collapses.

The government decided to close non-essential schools and public services in all districts, and more than three hundred flights were cancelled in Lisbon, Faro, Madeira and Porto.

According to the Portuguese Institute of the Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA), which issued several red warnings due to rain and wind, depression changed its characteristics and on its way to the continent, this morning, there is a reduction in the intensity of wind and gusts. There's still a lot of rain ahead.

During the night the Greater Lisbon and the Setúbal Peninsula were the most affected areas, especially with floods, but the Faro district is the only one that keeps red warnings for both rain and wind.

The Web Summit, which takes place at the Parque das Nações (Meo Arena and FIL), in Lisbon, started on Monday and is considered one of the largest technological summits in the world.

The first edition in the Portuguese capital took place in 2016 and the event is guaranteed until 2028.