Web Summit launches new technology conference in India

Bengalaru chosen as venue for new startup, investor and speaker event – The team behind Web Summit, Europe’s largest and most influential tech gathering, is coming to India in 2016. SURGE will take place in Bengalaru on February 18-19, 2016, with the aim of making it the must-attend technology conference in India. SURGE is the Web Summit team’s second event in Asia after RISE in Hong Kong in late July 2015. In 4 short years, Web Summit has become Europe’s largest tech conference attracting more than 20,000 attendees from around the world. SURGE will give leaders and the future leaders of technology a place to gather and demonstrate how their companies are changing the way we live.

SURGE will be a new type of tech conference – a meeting place for people who are both building the companies of tomorrow and managing the companies of today. Thousands of attendees are expected to take part. There will be peripheral events and extra networking opportunities scheduled during the days surrounding the main event. Speakers from top technology companies and exciting startups across India, Asia, Europe and the US are expected to attend.

Other activities include Investor Office Hours (pre-scheduled meetings for dozens of startups and investors), Night Summit events (after-hours parties and networking dinners), and the PITCH competition where leading startups present in front of a distinguished panel of judges.

Paddy Cosgrave, CEO and Co-founder of Web Summit, said:

“Hundreds of startups from India have been flying to Dublin for the Web Summit and they all told us we could no longer afford to ignore India. Flipkart’s founder and CEO, Sachin Bansal, flew all the way to Ireland for Web Summit 4 years ago and when he suggested over Twitter recently that we start a conference in Bengaluru, I knew it was time.

“Now we’re going to bring the magic of Web Summit to India. Bengalaru is a major economic and cultural centre. It well deserves its reputation as the capital of India’s technology and software industries and it has a buzzing startup scene.

“We chose Bengalaru as the perfect place to bring together the best startups and tech companies in India, alongside leading entrepreneurs, investors, media and more from around the world. We can’t wait for next year,” he added.

About Web Summit

Web Summit is a global technology conference hosted annually in Dublin. It was founded in 2010 by Paddy Cosgrave and co-founders Daire Hickey and David Kelly. In 2014, more than 22,000 attendees from over 100 countries flew to Dublin for Web Summit. Speakers have included the founders and CEOs of Twitter, YouTube, Netflix, Skype, Tesla, PayPal, Oculus VR and many others.

In addition to Web Summit, In addition to Web Summit, the team runs a series of f.ounders events, which has been described by Bloomberg as “Davos for Geeks” and are regular gatherings of 150 CEOs of the world’s leading technology companies. In 2015 Web Summit is hosting a number of international events including Collision and RISE, based in the US and Hong Kong respectively. Over 50,000 people will attend Web Summit events across the globe this year.

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