10'000 people from 111 countries visited the Webit City

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Webit.Festival Europe 2018 in numbers:

- 10'000+ ATTENDEES (7200 Webit.Festival participants and 3000 Webit.X visitors) - 231 EXHIBITORS - 422 SPEAKERS - 110 HOURS of conference agenda & amazing content - 75% C-level (executive) ATTENDANCE - 111 VISITING COUNTRIES - 150 of THE BEST EUROPEAN STARTUPS AND SCALEUPS - 1000+ POLICY MAKERS The European Tech, Digital Economy and Policy event for 2018 was a huge success! The Innovate! Summit and the Plenary Session, chaired by the European Commissioner for Digital Agenda and Society Mariya Gabriel, hosted some of the worlds digital, tech and policy leaders gathered to re:Invent Europe's Future.        

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The Webit City has welcomed 10'000 global leaders and they all requested a residency :)

Here are just 5 quotes out of over 1000 interviews with the Webit City residents: "Unparalleled global business and policy networking at its highest level!" "The most amazing business event with a festival experience" "We basically do business here" "This is the only event where top EU policy makers and global business leaders exchange thoughts and share valuable discussions" “We got more investors visiting our expo booth compared to any other event we have been to”                            

 

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200+ exhibitors at over 20'000 sq.m Webit City expo & business networking area

From global tech, health, fintech, cybersecurity, mobility, blockchain, entertainment, AI, cloud leaders to smart jet fighters - they all were at Webit.Festival Europe 2018 represented by their global or EMEA HQs. Also hosted national pavilions.                                    

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12 independent summits and over 50 meetups

421 speakers have created over 110 hours  of conference agenda & amazing content within 12 independent summits.                                               Founders Games winner of 200'000 EUR cheque is BIOO from Portugal.                   Cities 4.0 Summit, Digital Entertainment and Media Summit, Money Summit and Blockchain Summit

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Webit Night Urban Summit

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                  The Global Webit Awards Ceremony and The Chairman' Dinner by Dr. Russev

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                  The World Famous Webit Party, powered by Playboy, Fashion TV and Dorcel

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                Webit.X - gathering and inspiring 3000 young future leaders

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Missed the 2018 edition? Don’t miss the 2019! Book your ticket now at super earlybird rate

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Greetings, The Webit.Festival tickets prices are to increase by 30% in less than a day! See who else has already booked and joined among the 6000 attendees from 110 countries.

Join Webit.Festival and connect with global tech and digital founders, CEOs, Presidents, innovators, inventors and regulators!

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1 Ticket for

- 10 independent summits on 5 stages - 110 visiting countries - 200 exhibitors and sponsors - 420 speakers - 6000 attendees (75% senior level attendance)

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Go Platinum to have access to the who is who of the tech and digital world!

For the first time we are opening the Chairman's Black Tie Dinner and the Webit.Awards Ceremony to non-platinum-pass holders. As this is our 10th anniversary we decided to provide opportunity to non-platinum pass holders to book a seat at this special dinner and to get a feeling of what is to be Platinum at Webit! This is the ultimate opportunity to network and connect with the crème de la crème of the tech, digital and policy worlds @ Webit.

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Book your seat at the Chairman's Black Tie Dinner and the Webit Awards Ceremony

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  See you @ Webit.Festival! The Webit.Team  

More global leaders join Webit.Festival Europe 2018!

With over 75% senior attendance among the 6000 people audience from 110 countries - the speakers can only be global leaders and shapers! Join Webit.Festival Europe to meet with them, including Mr. Liang Hua, the newly elected Chairman of Huawei - the world-leading telecommunications provider, just over $90 billion in global annual sales in 2017, Huawei is also the world’s third largest smartphone seller.

STILL NOT TOO LATE!

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Join the Festival and explore unparalleled business networking

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A warm welcome to Thibaut Gregoire, General Counsel, Europe, MasterCard, who joins along with his colleagues - both Vice-Presidents - Mikael Svensson and Louise Holden after the President of Mastercard Europe Javier Perez already joined Webit. Presenting you some of the newly announced speakers of the upcoming Europe's tech, digital economy and policy event for 2018 - Webit.Festival! The Blockchain world joins Webit to challenge the future of the decentralized economy! Webit.Festival is the place to involve policy makers, all major tech companies and the blockchain ecosystem to innovate through collaboration! With over 200 exhibitors and sponsors the 10th Webit.Festival is the largest ever European edition, double in size compared to last year. A warm welcome to Huawei, Red Bull, Google, Amatas, Cogni, Jelurida among the newly joined sponsors and exhibitors of Webit.Fetsival 2018.

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Interested in exhibiting / sponsoring? Contact us asap!

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See you on 26-27 June in Sofia! The Webit Team

Edna Conway currently serves as Cisco’s Chief Security Officer, Global Value Chain, creating clear strategies to deliver secure operating models for the digital economy. She has built new organizations delivering cyber security, compliance, risk management, sustainability and value chain transformation. She drives a comprehensive security architecture across Cisco’s third-party ecosystem.

Digitization is driving each of us across all industries to make dramatic changes to how we approach customers, products, services, and the always-on, real-time information rich marketplace. This digital economy is gender agnostic. And, it is highly dependent on a connected global ecosystem. The message is clear—no one person, enterprise, industry, government or region can stand alone any longer.

Here you can see a full list of the confirmed speakers at Webit.Festival Europe 2018, while here you can get all the information you need about the tickets for the event. Managing supply chain risk requires a comprehensive approach over the complete product or process life cycle, and Cisco is looking at the potential impact of new technologies such as blockchain and the “internet of things” as part of its solution.

“We define the value chain as the end-to-end life cycle for any solution. In order to build trust, you need to understand the risks you are taking, and those risks need to be measured in the language of business.” says Conway

Prior to Cisco, Conway was a partner in an international private legal practice and served as Assistant Attorney General for the State of New Hampshire.

My path to security was built on a foundation of protecting intellectual property; enhanced by a legal background and rich engineering and operational leadership roles afforded to me by Cisco. Each of these opportunities, including leaving a successful legal practice to join Cisco, required faith. Faith in my own ability to learn an entirely new discipline and trust that my colleagues would support me in that effort.

She is recognized domestically (US Presidential Commissions) and globally (NATO) as the developer of architectures delivering value chain security, sustainability and resiliency. Her insight is featured in a range of publications, analyst reports, and case studies, including Forbes, Fortune, Bloomberg, CIO Magazine and the Wall Street Journal. Conway is constantly using her expertise to leverage new tools in an ever-expanding digital arsenal. She has turned her attention to the security potential in blockchain. With the ability to track data through networks, blockchain becomes a highly effective digital ledger, or “passport for the data” according to her.

“A chain of custody of your data and your actions across the full spectrum of a life cycle adds a degree of integrity we’ve never had the ability to do easily before”

Recognition of her industry leadership includes membership in the Fortune Most Powerful Women community, and awards including: a Fed 100 Award, Stevie “Maverick of the Year Award,” a Connected World Magazine “Machine to Machine and IOT Trailblazer” Award, an SC Media Reboot Leadership Award, a New Hampshire Tech Professional of the Year 2018 Award, and CSO of the Year Award at RSA.

The Webit Awards' shall be presented at glamorous ceremony followed by the traditional Chairman's Black Tie dinner during the upcoming 10th anniversary edition of Webit.Festival Europe 2018 on 26-27 June in Sofia. This year one of The Webits - a special recognition award goes to the King of Bollywood - Mr. Shah Rukh Khan for voicing children's and women's rights Under the 2018 theme re:Inventing Europe's Future,  Webit.Foundation along with the EU Commissioner Digital Agenda and Society, Mariya Gabriel set a focus on empowering women in tech and politics setting special events and providing 1000 free tickets for women. There is also a special Ladies Lounge at Webit, powered by FiBank.

Book your Platinum Webit Experience and join the ceremony

Webit hosts Prime Ministers, global innovators, industry, civil society, policy and academia leaders from 110 countries. The Awards Ceremony and the Black Tie Dinner are the place to meet the leaders of the Europe's digital and tech ecosystem along with top policy makers and regulators.

The other Webit awards Industry categories include:

- Best Use of Digital Innovations in Health - Best Security and Anti-fraud Solution - Best Smart Cities Mobility Solution - Women in Tech Award - Outstanding Contribution to the Digital Industry - Sustainable City Award - Best Use of Digital for Accessibility & Inclusion - Best Implementation of AI - Best Innovation for Education - Most Innovative Smart Cities Platform - Best Smart Mobility Award This year over 2800 startups applied and among them a global jury of investors, enterprise leaders, media and founders selected Europe's top 200 Startups/Scaleups. During a special event and a ceremony at Webit's Plenary Stage on 27 June the top 5 companies shall make a final pitch and the winner shall be selected and awarded a 200 000 EUR investment cheque. Looking forward to meeting you at Webit.Festival Europe! Warm regards, the Webit team

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Special thanks to our sponsors: General Partner: MasterCard Strategic Media Partners NetInfo and Nova TV Platinum Partners: SAP, Microsoft, UBB, KBC Group Gold Partners: VISA, VMWare, Novartis, Bayer, European Commission, Samsung, Wolf Theiss, Google, Ryalto, Amgen, Astellas, Generali, Ambrosus, Italian Trade Agency, UK Innovate, Bulgarian SME Executive Agency, FiBank, Philli Morris, Garanti Koza, Here. Silver Partners Fox, Turner, Fashion TV, Kaon, Hellas Sat, Mall Advertising, Telelink  

Only today (29 May) you can join Europe's tech and digital policy event for 2018 and have access to 10+ independent summits and 50+ meetups with 1 ticket at half price! Webit is welcoming this new era of data privacy by providing all our subscribers a special "DATA present” - 50% off from all tickets for Webit.Festival Europe 2018 only today - 29 May.

Register here and get your ticket

to join Prime Ministers, EU Commissioners and EU top policy makers, global innovators and enterprise executives, Ministers,  Mayors, investors, media and Europe's top 200 startups and scaleups - all at Webit.Festival Europe with a special discount of 50% on all tickets with code: GDPR 6000 global experts (67% senior attendance) join Webit from 110 countries.

Check who is speaking

Over 200 exhibitors and sponsors join Webit this year. A warm welcome to the group of new partners who join Webit including Microsoft, SAP, Samsung, Fox, Novartis, VISA, UBB, part of KBC Group, Superhosting . BG, VMware, FOX, Turner, Novartis, Bayer, Amgen, Generali to name a few. Special thanks to our General partner MasterCard and our strategic media partners Nova TV and NetInfo.

Happy to help.

Should you want to join as exhibitor and sponsor -  please contact us.  

There is so much buzz around the new EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

At Webit we are firmly committed to privacy and data protection and we are happy to confirm that we, too, have taken all necessary steps to ensure [full] compliance with the GDPR. All necessary controls and features are in place so you can continue to use our service with confidence.

Feel free to check out our updated Privacy Statement to understand more about the types of information we may collect, how we use it, and why we request it.

Webit is all about community and empowering your success through connecting you with potential partners, investors and clients from all around the world.

SPECIAL 50% DISCOUNT

We also want to take this opportunity to let you know that Webit is welcoming this new era of data privacy by providing all our subscribers a special "DATA present” 50% off from all tickets for Webit.Fetsival Europe 2018 starting this Friday, 25 May till 29 May.

We release a total of 250 tickets for this special "DATA Present".

Register here

and join Webit.Festival Europe with a special discount of 50% on all tickets with code: GDPR

 

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With only one month till the 10th edition of Webit.Festival Europe 2018 (25-27 June '18) we are excited to share that we have added a new special lounge for your successful business networking at the Festival! As you know, we had to move to a new venue because Webit.Festival 2018 doubled in size.

With all the space we need now - we decided that it is time go wild!

All the 6000 attendees from global enterprises, through SMEs to scaleups/startups, academia leaders and policy makers come to Webit for 4 main reasons:- to see the future (check the speakers and Europe's top 200 startups) - to establish their place in the future (policy makers and business leaders discuss digital policy initiatives) - to connect with the right people (see who attends) - and to make successful business with them and expand their networks So we take business networking at Webit very seriously!

Thus today we present to you the new Webit Fountain Networking Lounge!

Yesterday we have commissioned a company to build a brand new Dancing Webit Fountain and a water mirror around which you shall have one more unique lounge for your successful networking. The magic is that after Webit this fountain shall be no more! A fountain built for only 3 days and only for your eyes! >GET YOUR WEBIT TICKET TODAY (prices go up this week)< The New Fountain Lounge adds to the number of other special lounges you may join and have your 1:1 or group business meetings while at Webit, including: - the AI Lounge - the Cybertech Lounge - the Cities 4.0 Lounge - the Blockchain Lounge - Innovate! Lounge - the Ladies Lounge - the Platinum Lounge Looking forward to welcome you @ Europe's tech, innovation and digital policy event for 2018!

Girls' Power! + 1000 free tickets for women

A few months ago when the European Commissioner for Digital Agenda and Society, Mrs. Mariya Gabriel accepted to Chair the Plenary Session of Webit.Festival Europe, she shared that it is a mission for her to empower women in business and politics. My wife and executive director of Webit Global Series - Aniela Russeva is an inspiration for how the combination of education, will, passion, direction and tender power can make miracles. I am also fortunate to work and partner with so many female leaders from all around the world! So when Commissioner Gabriel spoke so passionate about empowering women it was imminent her mission to become Webit.Foundation mission too! Today I am glad to announce 1000 free* tickets for Webit.Festival Europe for women: - 250 free tickets for women-coders - 250 free tickets for women-in-tech (general business, innovation) - 250 tickets for women in academia and research - 250 tickets for women in politics. * 10 EUR handling and transaction fee applies per ticket

> APPLY OR NOMINATE A FEMALE FRIEND FOR A FREE TICKET <

The applications shall be accepted on first come - first served bases and based on the info provided. All approved applicants shall be empowered by some of the most inspirational and impactful women in tech, business, politics, academia and civil society. On a personal level as investor - I am looking to support more and more female founders and to help them to proof success is not a matter of gender, but equal opportunities, education and hard work.

Webit.Festival Europe is also building a special Women's Lounge, which is powered by FiBank.

I am proud to share that Bulgaria is a great example and a global role model of gender equality in business and especially tech. According to the official statistics by Eurostat, Bulgaria is the leader in Europe with with 31.02% women in ICT.  The average for EU is almost 2 times less - 16.7%! I am so grateful all these global leaders - amazing ladies accepted our invite to join Webit! See you on 25-27 June in Sofia @ Webit.Festival Europe where the girl's power shall help to re:Invent Europe's Future! Warm regards, Plamen Russev Executive Chairman, Webit.Foundation

Most of the hotels in Sofia are already booked for the upcoming Webit.Festival Europe 2018!

As of today (40 days before Webit) Sofia is booked at almost 87% for the days of both - the Festival and the Digital Assembly, the two major events, part of the EU Digital and Innovation Week in Sofia. If you plan to join Europe's tech, digital and media festival and the unparalleled EU digital policy gathering for 2018, you'd better hurry up! There are only 6 available hotels for which you may use the special Webit discounted prices in Sofia - the Digital Capital during the festival - 25 - 27 June, 2018. One ticket for all events! Prices Go Up This Week

Exhibitions opportunities

As Webit doubled in size and we have moved to a much bigger venue, there are new available exhibiting slots. Join the 200+ exhibitors of Webit.Festival Europe 2018. Webit.Festival was among the first events in the world to introduce the multi content tracks (parallel independent summits) as part of the conference agenda 10 years ago.

4000 already booked their tickets to Webit

So far over 4000 influencers have registered for Webit.Festival Europe. They come from all over Europe and rest of the world (a total of 103 visiting countries so far). See who from your network is already booked for Webit.

Some statistics:

Over 68% of all attendees are senior-level decision makers. Over 70% are from Europe (38% from CE Europe, 32% W Europe). Next largest attendees groups come respectively from North America, followed by Asia and Africa

It is not about the size (although Webit is BIG), It is about the experience and your KPIs!

In order for our sponsors, exhibitors and attendees to better focus on their business goals and to experience unparalleled top level networking we have expanded the floorplan and built special networking and 1:1 meeting zones around each of the parallel summits.

10 separate events under one roof

Webit hosts 6000+ attendees but each parallel summit and expo welcomes between 300 and 800 of the leaders in the particular domain. Thus you join an intimate, highest level possible business networking while enjoying the benefits of a global large scale event.