Rio de Janeiro will host the first Web Summit outside of Europe. Photo: Dmitry Islentev/ Shutterstock
The Brazilian Report is in Rio de Janeiro this week for the first-ever Web Summit to be held outside of Europe. The major tech event, founded in Dublin in 2009, is expecting more than 20,000 participants for its Brazilian debut — four times more than its organizers expected in 2019 when they first considered bringing the summit to Latin America.
Held in Lisbon since 2016, the event helped turn the Portuguese capital into a European tech hub. According to Artur Pereira, Web Summit’s country manager in Brazil, the plan is to do the same for Rio de Janeiro.
Web Summit 2023 will be held over four days, kicking off this afternoon in the Riocentro convention center.
The Brazilian Report will be there as a Web Summit media partner, and our editorial staff will be moderating a series of panels throughout the week.
On Tuesday, Fabiane Ziolla Menezes will sit down with Bruno Guicardi, co-founder of digital transformation firm CI&T, and Alex Winetzki, founder and CEO of Brazilian AI-focused platform Woopi, to discuss how AI can scale organizations around the world.
Also on the topic of artificial intelligence, The Brazilian Report’s editor-in-chief, Gustavo Ribeiro, will speak to Sarah Al-Hussaini, co-founder and COO at Ultimate, and Aline Oliveira, co-founder of Traive, to discuss whether AI is something for us to look forward to, or to fear.
On that same afternoon, Euan Marshall will be speaking to UFC strawweight contender Amanda Ribas, president of Endeavor Streaming Fred Santarpia, and the UFC’s senior Brazil vice president, Eduardo Galetti, discussing how the UFC has conquered 50 million fans in Brazil, and what’s coming next.
On Thursday, Gustavo Ribeiro will be discussing whether Latin America can challenge Silicon Valley, and the opportunities and challenges the region faces as growth continues. His guests will be Rodrigo Maroja, COO of the delivery app Daki, Ludmila Pontremolez, CTO of Zippi, and Brian Requarth, co-founder and CEO at Latitud.
Plus, our team will be reporting on all the latest news from the summit via this Live Blog — stay tuned for more!
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