Out of the entries for the Web Summit – Daily News – Lisbon

Tickets for the Web Summit cost me 900 euros each. For young people between 16 and 23 years, the organization has sold thousands of tickets with promotional nine euros

The organization of Web Summit, said today that it already sold out the entries that are general for the event that takes place next week in Lisbon, surpassing the 50 thousand participants.

“Always said that we wanted to reach the 50 thousand participants to the [Web Summit] in Lisbon 2016 and we decided to close the sales of general tickets. It is amazing that we have reached that number just six years after 400 people have been on the first Web Summit in Dublin,” he said, quoted in a press release, the ceo of Web Summit, Paddy Cosgrave.

Specifically, the Web Summit is expected 53.056 people with entries in general who will have access to all four days of the event (07 to 10 nov), double the number of entries registered in the Dublin event last year.

in Addition to these entries, overall, are still expected 19 thousand young people who have day tickets for the main stage.

In total, the Web Summit expects to participate in approximately 72 thousand people between entrepreneurs ‘startups’, investors of the top and international journalists, from today began to arrive in Lisbon for the one that is considered the largest global conference technology.

tickets for the Web Summit cost me 900 euros each. For young people between 16 and 23 years, the organization has sold thousands of tickets with promotional nine euros.

Called “Davos for Geeks”, the Web Summit takes place between 07 and 10 November at Meo Arena and Lisbon International Fair (FIL), and brings with it several side events that will join the more institutional and the more informal moments of discussion, but also of relaxation, as the Night Summit and the Pub Crawls or the Surf Summit, which starts today in Ericeira.

The summit technology will remain in Portugal until 2020 and may be extended for two more years, prowling the expectation of financial return of the 175 million euros in the edition of 2016.