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11 November 2024; A general view of Centre Stage during the opening night of Web Summit 2024 at the MEO Arena in Lisbon, Portugal.

Web Summit 2026 kicks off with Opening Night on Monday, November 9. Full schedule and speaker details coming soon.

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AI agents could become the next major editor of news, searching, gathering and processing information on behalf of people. What does this mean for media organisations and the way news is created, distributed and monetised? This session explores how media companies can prepare for an agent-driven future.

When AI builds itself

Secured lending—spanning commercial real estate, asset-based loans, and structured finance—remains one of the most manual, document-heavy, and risk-sensitive corners of banking. This panel brings together industry leaders and AI pioneers to explore how end-to-end artificial intelligence is modernizing the entire loan lifecycle.

Deploying end-to-end AI to transform complex secured lending

For decades, Europe has depended on the US not only for its security, but also for much of its technological and financial infrastructure. As the transatlantic relationship continues to fracture, Europe faces a question much bigger than how to spend more on defence. Can it reduce its dependence on American technology, capital and financial infrastructure while building the industrial capacity to defend itself? And can it do so without sacrificing prosperity and the welfare state?

The future of Europe: Can it stand on its own feet?

Raising capital is no longer about having the great idea, the newest technology, or the most polished pitch. Investors want companies that can keep growing as the market and competition change. In this session, Igor shares how founders should think about building and making decisions if they want to build companies that keep growing in three years from now.

What makes a startup fundable in 2026?

As global commerce expands and payment ecosystems fragment across regional rails, alternative methods, and legacy architectures, managing transactions efficiently has become a primary bottleneck for enterprise growth. This panel gathers payments leaders and fintech innovators to explore how unified payment infrastructure and smart orchestration layers are reshaping transaction strategy.

The power of unified payment infrastructure and orchestration

Is AI's trillion-dollar future built on silicon or written in code? Right now, chipmakers and data centres are capturing record revenues. But as compute scales, will application software, dev tools, and agents claim the long-term margins? Join this session as we debate where sustainable moat, and venture returns will actually settle across the AI stack.

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Coming soon... Opening Night

When AI builds itself

Deploying end-to-end AI to transform complex secured...

The future of Europe: Can it stand on its own feet?

What makes a startup fundable in 2026?

The power of unified payment infrastructure and orch...

Is the future of venture in software or hardware?

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