More than 20,000 attendees welcomed to Web Summit
Web Summit's chief executive and founder Paddy Cosgrave delivers a speech on the main stage of the Web Summit opening ceremony at Parque das Nacoes in Lisbon on Monday. Photograph: Patricia De Melo Morieara/AFP
No, the Irish businessman kept it light and bright, expressing his happiness at being back in “sunny Lisbon” for the 2024 edition of the annual technology jamboree. But that – rather tame remark – was about as bolshie as it got for Cosgrave, who spoke for just around seven minutes before introducing the first dignitaries of the night.
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