Web Summit is coming to Japan 🇯🇵
In September 2022, we will host a brand new event, Web Summit Tokyo. It will be followed by Web Summit Lisbon, now "the largest technology event in the world", in November.
Register your interest to find out more.
Meet our past speakers
Founder & CEO
Netflix
President
Didi Chuxing
Chairman
Generation Investment Management
CEO
Square
Editor-at-large
Recode
EVP: A Europe Fit for the Digital Age
European Commission
Co-founder & Executive Vice Chairman
Alibaba
CMO
CMO
GE
Secretary-General
United Nations
Co-founder
Founding Managing Partner
Sequoia Capital
Co-founder
WeWork
CTO
Founder & CEO
Houzz
Actor, Filmmaker & Entrepreneur
HitRecord
CEO
Waymo
President
Samsung
Theoretical physicist
Cambridge University
CTO
Amazon
Why Tokyo?
“Japan is the perfect country to host Web Summit. For decades, it has been a global leader in innovation, building some of the most sophisticated and advanced technologies that everyone uses today.
“Having met many of Japan’s political and business leaders, it’s clear Japan is determined to strengthen its startup economy.
“Bringing thousands of entrepreneurs, CEOs and global leaders to Tokyo from around the world will hopefully support Japan’s vision.”
– Paddy Cosgrave, co-founder and CEO, Web Summit
Web Summit goes global
While Web Summit 2020 moved online and hosted 104,328 attendees on the company’s own conference platform, Web Summit will return to an in-person conference in Lisbon, Portugal from 2021.
Web Summit Tokyo is part of our plans to bring Web Summit to new regions across the world in 2022. Web Summit and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government have signed a five-year agreement to bring the conference to the Japanese capital.
Web Summit’s Asian event, RISE, will also move from Hong Kong to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 2022.
