Web Summit Venture 2022 | Web Summit | 31 October 2022 | Altice Arena, Rossio dos Olivais, 1990-231 Lisbon, Portugal

Venture is the meeting place for people on the inside track of the investment world. Venture brings the influential investors from top international funds together with leading angels, accelerators and LPs.

2021 (Past) Speakers

Reed Hastings
Founder & CEO, Netflix

Jean Liu
President, Didi Chuxing

Al Gore
Chairman, Generation Investment Management

Jack Dorsey
CEO, Square

Kara Swisher
Editor-at-large, Recode

Margrethe Vestager
EVP: A Europe Fit for the Digital Age, European Commission

Joseph Tsai
Co-founder & Executive Vice Chairman, Alibaba

Lorraine Twohill
CMO, Google

Linda Boff
CMO, GE

António Guterres
Secretary-General, United Nations

Mike Krieger
Co-founder, Instagram

Neil Shen
Founding Managing Partner, Sequoia Capital

Miguel McKelvey
Co-founder,WeWork

Mike Schroepfer
CTO, Facebook

Adi Tatarko
Founder & CEO, Houzz

Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Actor, Filmmaker & Entrepreneur, HitRecord

John Krafcik
CEO, Waymo

Young Sohn
President, Samsung

Stephen Hawking
Theoretical physicist, Cambridge University

Werner Vogels
CTO, Amazon

Alexis Ohanian
Co-founder, Initialized Capital

Min-Liang Tan
Co-founder & CEO, Razer

Lisa Jackson
Vice President of Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives, Apple

Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Inventor of World Wide Web and CTO, Inrupt

Emmett Shear
CEO, Twitch

Caen Contee
Co-founder, Lime

Ed Catmull
Co-founder & President, Pixar

Ev Williams
Founder & CEO, Medium

Brad Smith
‎President, Microsoft

Tan Hooi Ling
Co-Founder, Grab

Peter Thiel
Chairman, Founders Fund

Stephanie McMahon
Chief Brand Officer, WWE

Stewart Butterfield
Co-founder & CEO, Slack

Gillian Tans
Chairwoman, Booking.com

will.i.am
Founder, i.am+

Michelle Peluso
SVP & CMO, IBM

John Zimmer
Co-founder & President, Lyft

Ben Silbermann
Co-founder & Board Member, DigitalOcean

Steve Huffman
CEO, Reddit

Peggy Johnson
CEO, Magic Leap

Tony Blair
Executive Chairman of the Institute for Global Change; Former Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Tony Blair Global Institute

Dieter Zetsche
Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler AG, Head of Mercedes-Benz Cars, Mercedes-Benz Cars

Michael Dell
Founder & CEO, Dell Technologies

Drew Houston
Co-founder & CEO, Dropbox

Julia Hartz
Co-founder & CEO, Eventbrite

Alexander Wang
Founder, Designer & CEO, Alexander Wang

Max Mullen
Co-founder, Instacart

Kristen Garcia Dumont
CEO, Machine Zone

Arianna Huffington
Founder, Thrive Global

Mark Hurd
CEO, Oracle

Gary Vaynerchuk
Founder & CEO, VaynerMedia

Steve Case
CEO, Revolution

Ben van Beurden
CEO, Shell

Stephen Kaufer
Co-founder, President & CEO, TripAdvisor

Andrew McAfee
Principal Research Scientist, MIT

Dick Costolo
CEO, 01 Advisors

Dustin Moskovitz
Co-founder & CEO, Asana

Matt Mullenweg
Founder, WordPress

Ann Winblad
Co-founder & Managing Director, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners

Falon Fatemi
Founder & CEO, Node

Sean Rad
Founder, Tinder

Jenny Lee
Managing Partner, GGV Capital

Justin Trudeau
Prime Minister, Government of Canada

2022 Partners

• Atlassian
• AWS
• Booking.com
• Siemens
• SAP
• United Global Compact
• Accenture
• Volkswagen Group
• Samsung Next
• Google
• H&M Group
• Zurich
• Microsoft