Vancouver Welcomes the Tech World to Web Summit in May

Tech workers and professionals are preparing for the newest Web Summit hosted by the Dublin-based global technology events company in Vancouver from May 27-30. Web Summit Vancouver (replacing the Collision Conference in Toronto) is its newest event and the first time the premier tech conference will officially take place in North America.

Known as "where the tech world meets," Web Summit brings together a global community of founders, entrepreneurs, business leaders, CEOs, and investors to connect and exchange ideas about the technology and trends shaping the world.

Vancouver Tech Hub

Vancouver is a thriving hub for the tech industry, where brilliant minds and fresh perspectives come together in diverse communities. Web Summit aims to bolster this growth further by gathering many of the city's 11,000 tech companies together.

Technology has also become the fastest-growing sector in British Columbia. Tech is growing at twice the rate of the overall economy and Vancouver ranks first in high-tech job growth in North America.

We are also home to notable industry unicorns, like Dapper Labs, Blockstream, Trulioo, LayerZero, and Visier, in addition to hosting major tech companies, including Salesforce, Apple, and Amazon.

First Speakers

Web Summit brings together an array of distinguished speakers in various fields, all sharing their expertise on the past, present, and future of tech. With so many global tech giants and some of the biggest names in one place, there is no better learning and networking opportunity in North America.

Meet Web Summit Vancouver's first 25 announced speakers:

• Bluesky CEO Jay Graber

• NYU Professor, scientist, bestselling author, entrepreneur, and AI contrarian Gary Marcus

• Clio Founder & CEO Jack Newton

• Waabi Founder & CEO Raquel Urtasun

• Kindred Ventures Co-founder & Managing Partner Steve Jang

• Writer Co-founder & CEO May Habib

• Grammarly Co-founder Max Lytvyn

• The Cofounder’s Hub Founder Tanis Jorge

• Roblox Chief Scientist Morgan McGuire

• Everywhere Ventures Co-founder & General Partner Jenny Fielding

• 1Password Co-CEO Jeff Shiner

• Freshbooks Co-CEO & Chief Customer Officer Mara Reiff

• Mammoth Biosciences Co-founder & CEO Trevor Martin

• Deep Space Initiative Founder & CEO and Astronaut Sara Sabry

• Linktree Co-founder & CEO Alex Zaccaria

• GeoComply Co-founder & CEO Anna Sainsbury

• Race Capital General Partner Edith Yeung

• Remote Co-founder & President Marcelo Lebre

• DeepL Co-founder & CEO Jaroslaw Kutylowski

• Black Girls Code CEO Cristina Beatrice Mancini

• Telus Communications Chief Data & Trust Officer Pamela Snively

• Uncork Capital Managing Partner Andy McLoughlin

• Wired Global Editorial Director Katie Drummond

• Crunchbase CEO Jager McConnell

• EZPR.com CEO Ed Zitron

Web Summit events – including in the flagship conference in Lisbon, Web Summit Rio in South America, Qatar in the Middle East, and Rise in Asia – have gathered nearly one million people since beginning as a 150-person conference in Dublin in 2009.

Web Summit Vancouver promises to be the largest conference ever hosted in the city and the fastest growing technology conference in North America. To book tickets, visit Web Summit's website.