Web Summit Qatar 2024. The first Web Summit in the Gulf.
Doha Exhibition and Convention Center, 26 to 29 February 2024. Web Summit opened in the Middle East, and our team was in Doha for it.
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A new city for Web Summit.
Web Summit announced its Doha conference in November 2023 and held it three months later, at the DECC.
Its chief executive said on opening night that founders and investors from the region had been coming to its other events for years, so it was time to come to them.
Inside the Doha Exhibition and Convention Center, Web Summit Qatar 2024. Photo Ramsey Cardy/Web Summit Qatar via Sportsfile, CC BY 2.0, on Flickr, cropped.
From 118 countries.
The organisers counted 15,453 attendees from 118 countries in the first edition.
Founders, investors and the companies that buy from them, with Qatar’s government behind the event.
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Who else covered it.
Written up in the local press by The Peninsula, Gulf Times, Qatar Tribune and الشرق, discussed on the podcast The Smashi Business Show, covered by the creator Geeked Out Nomad, and by one other.
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Local press
- The PeninsulaFebruary 2024Inaugural Web Summit Qatar to draw over 12,000 attendees (opens in a new tab)
At the pre-event press conference the organising committee said the summit had sold out, with over 12,000 registered against a projection of 7,500.
- Gulf TimesFebruary 2024PM to address opening session of Web Summit on February 26 (opens in a new tab)
Qatar's Prime Minister was to open the summit on 26 February at the DECC, with Trevor Noah, WPP's Mark Read and Whoop's Will Ahmed among the speakers.
- Qatar TribuneFebruary 2024Web Summit Qatar welcomes over 15,000 participants from 118 countries to Doha (opens in a new tab)
Web Summit put the first Middle East edition at 15,453 attendees from 118 countries, with 1,043 startups chosen from nearly ten thousand applicants.
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- الشرقFebruary 2024ختام فعاليات نسخة استثنائية من قمة الويب في قطر (opens in a new tab)
Closing report: 15,453 attendees from 118 countries, 1,043 startups, 401 investors and 380 speakers, 30 percent of them women, with about 900 media representatives.
- الشرقFebruary 2024ندى العولقي مدير البرامج بـ «قطر للبحوث والتطوير» لـ الشرق: فُرص لدعم وتمويل رواد الأعمال بقمة الويب (opens in a new tab)
QRDI Council's programmes director tells the paper about the grants offered to startups from its stand at the summit, and the Council's launch of Alchemist Doha with Alchemist Accelerator.
- The PeninsulaMarch 2024Next Web Summit Qatar editions crucial, says expert (opens in a new tab)
HBKU's Dr. Nadir Yildirim tells the paper the next four editions in Doha are critical for Qatar's tech ecosystem, after HBKU showed eight technologies and startups as a partner of the summit.
- Qatar TribuneApril 2024Web Summit provided significant benefits to local economy: GCO (opens in a new tab)
A Government Communications Office report credited the edition with over 19,000 flight segments, over 38,000 hotel nights and 200-plus companies registered with the QFC.
Podcasts
- The Smashi Business ShowFebruary 2024Web Summit Special: Fadi Ghandour to the West: "We want to be respected" (opens in a new tab)
At the summit in Doha, Aramex founder Fadi Ghandour tells the show how the $1 billion fund Qatar announced there will draw investment to regional startups.
- The Geeky NomadsApril 2024Recap of Web Summit Qatar 2024 (Part 1) (opens in a new tab)
Yasser Masood and Gazanfarulla Khan recap the inaugural edition, which they covered by splitting up across the conference tracks, with an on-site podcast booth to record in.
Creator
- Geeked Out NomadMarch 2024TikTok Opening Creative Studio in Qatar (opens in a new tab)
On the MoU signed at the summit between TikTok and the Government Communications Office for the region's first TikTok creative studio in Qatar.
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