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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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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 moats, and venture returns will actually settle across the AI stack.

Is the future of venture in software or hardware?

For modern startups, building for a single market first is a legacy constraint. Operating with an international mindset from inception isn't just about expanding reach - it fundamentally shapes your product architecture, talent strategy, and go-to-market engine. In this panel, we'll be discussing how early-stage founders can successfully navigate global expansion right out of the gate,

Thinking global from day one

Foundation models were just the starting line. Drawing on Crunchbase's proprietary data across thousands of startups, Jager McConnell reveals where the next generation of venture value is actually being built. In this session, we'll discover why tomorrow's sustainable winners are abandoning shallow wrappers to build deep moats around unique data, specialised workflows, and defensible vertical expertise.

Where venture value goes next

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?

Join us for the IBM Sports Tech Startup Prize Competition where some of the best startups in the sports tech space will pitch their companies on stage in a bid to be crowned the winner.

IBM Sports Tech Startup Prize Competition

Investor masterclass hosted by Anand Chandrasekaran, Managing Partner at Celesta Capital.

Putting the silicon back in Silicon Valley: Where VCs are investing in hardware

Despite real-time rails and instant settlement capabilities, everyday finance remains bound by legacy schedules. This discussion examines the shift to instant payments, earned wage access, and how real-time money movement impacts risk, regulation, and consumer flexibility.

The instant economy: Why are we still waiting for our own money?

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Is the future of venture in software or hardware?

Thinking global from day one

Where venture value goes next

The next financial crisis: Are we ready for what's c...

IBM Sports Tech Startup Prize Competition

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