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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.

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Every billion-dollar industry starts as a $0B market. What massive industries don't exist yet, but will by 2030? Join this session with top investors as we unpack how to spot, fund, and build the category-defining giants of tomorrow, before the crowd arrives.

Investing in zero billion dollar markets

Today, reporting needs to keep pace with the movement of misinformation and falsehoods on social media. How do mainstream media outlets balance the demand for instant news without jeopardising editorial integrity? Join this panel of editorial leaders as they pull back the curtain on the high-stakes balancing act of maintaining absolute accuracy under absolute pressure.

Reporting at the speed of news

Join Philippe Botteri as he unveils key findings from Accel's annual Globalscape report. Moving beyond software into a massive infrastructure buildout, this session explores where VC billions are flowing, from agentic systems and compute battles to open vs. closed source models, and reveals where real ROI is materialising across the global ecosystem.

The race for compute, agentic AI, and ROI

With record public and private debt, geopolitical fragmentation and AI-driven market shifts, are the conditions for another financial crisis already in place? This talk examines the biggest risks facing the global financial system, from sovereign debt and central bank policy to asset bubbles, private credit, and geopolitical shocks. Our panel will debate whether today's economy is fundamentally more resilient than in 2008, or whether we're simply waiting for the next trigger.

The next financial crisis: Are we ready for what's coming?

As AI and algorithms increasingly shape how people navigate the world, genuine human connection has never been more sought after or more valuable. Reddit COO Jen Wong explores why the next era of the internet will depend not on more information, but on trusted context, personal opinion and firsthand experience, considering how authentic human dialogue can strengthen AI, search & discovery while keeping people at the centre of an increasingly automated internet.

Maintaining the human in an AI world

AI has learned to describe the world in words. The next frontier is teaching AI to understand the world as it really is: made of objects, movement, space, sound, and cause and effect. Visual intelligence gives machines a richer understanding of that reality. In this keynote, Andi Blattmann explores how Black Forest Labs is building the foundation of this next layer of intelligence, and how this foundation enables the next generation of physical AI.

Teaching AI to see the world

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