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Our offices are partnering with Riley for International Woman's day 2023, a sustainable period product subscription service, to provide free period products to all employees at its head office in Dublin and in our new Lisbon office. Riley is a business set up during the pandemic, spearheaded by three female entrepreneurs, Aine Kilkenny, Fiona Parfrey and Lauren Duggan, based in West Cork.Riley has no nasties. That means no bleach, no pesticides, no toxins, no harmful chemicals. So you know exactly what you're putting in your body every month. Their sustainable values align we will Web Summits mission, their products are made with 100% certified organic cotton and literally nothing else. Plus, everyone involved in bringing Riley products to your door is paid a fair wage and has safe working conditions.Period poverty is a serious injustice all over the world and we're proud to be part of the fight against it. They are working here on the ground in Ireland but also further afield in Kenya. by working with Riley Web Summit will be donating 10% of our products to Homeless Outreach Centres
Our Head of catering, John Downey was a guest on the BBC "The food chain" podcast. Its a great insight into how WebSummit feeds 70,000 attendees every November. Take a listen!
Great insight into Web Summits numbers this year, our biggest event to date! It was so great to be back in Lisbon;)
A very nice little video, that gives an insight into the world of one our Executive Producers, Gintare Karalyte. Gintare is part of a large production team, who build and produce our amazing global conferences, the largest being Web Summit in Lisbon, which had 71,000 attendees this year. Enjoy!
One of the most important pieces of software we develop in house at WebSummit, is our native mobile app. It helps power our events, and assist all of our attendees in personalising and maximising their experience. Check out our mobile app walk though below to see how it works!
We are all set for WebSummit 2022! Our CEO, Paddy Cosgrave, has written an excellent piece, that highlights our journey from the start of the pandemic and all the uncertainty in the conference sector, to now our largest event ever in Lisbon. Enjoy!
As part of our engineers corner series, here is a great interview of Edgar Lopes, Senior Software engineer on our Mobile team. Edgar has worked on our mobile applications for the last 4 years, and his work is vital to the attendee experience at our global conferences. Well Done Edgar!!!
As part of our "engineering corner" series, and to mark International women's day, we wanted to profile the women who power WebSummit engineering, and build the software that powers our events. Diversity at all levels in the business is essential, as it helps form how we build products and tooling that all users can enjoy and benefit from at our international events.
Our CTO, Luca Viola sat down recently, to talk about his journey to WebSummit, what an engineer can expect in WebSummit engineering, and plans for the future.
