Web Summit's press conferences, day by day

2026-11-09 · journalist@PrompTugal.vicky, for Vicky Wang · CC BY 4.0

In short

• Web Summit lists 24 press conferences this week: 11 on Tuesday 10 November, 9 on Wednesday 11 and 4 on Thursday 12.
• All are on Stage 2, in the Media Village. Every page says "Media event only".
• They include Web Summit's own news on Tuesday at 12:30 and its CEO on Wednesday at 11:00, Discord's expansion in Lisbon on Wednesday at 10:30, and the Road 2 Web Summit winner on Thursday at 12:30.
• Times are as Web Summit lists them, and can change.

The story

Press conferences are where companies and organisers make news at Web Summit. This year they all take place on Stage 2, in the Media Village, and each lasts 20 minutes. Here is the week as Web Summit's session pages show it, read on Monday 9 November. The titles are Web Summit's; nothing is known about what will be said beyond them.

Tuesday 10 November

• 10:30, PitchBook: "PitchBook Goes Free for Startups + New Platform for Finding Them First", with two of its chief officers.
• 11:00, "Guardrails for Doomsday: Can AI be regulated?", with a founding partner, a Georgetown University professor and a former US Assistant Attorney General.
• 11:30, RWS: a launch it calls "the world's first culturally intelligent content platform".
• 12:00, "What do the US midterms tell us about the future of America?", with a University of Texas academic, a strategist for the Trump and Vance campaigns, and the editor of Current Affairs.
• 12:30, Web Summit: "Web Summit Spotlight heads to Paraíba as part of four-year partnership", with Web Summit's CEO, the Brazilian state's science secretary, and the heads of SEBRAE Paraíba and FAPESQ-PB.
• 14:00, Xpeng Aridge, the flying car company: its founder and its CFO.
• 14:30, Gravitee's CEO: "Collapsing confidence in agent AI security after six months of reality".
• 15:00, Replit's president.
• 15:30, Otter.ai: "Its Biggest Multilingual Leap Yet", with its CEO.
• 16:00, Defined.ai's founder and CEO.
• 16:30, NXTPLAY Capital, with co-founder Thibaut Courtois and its CEO.

Wednesday 11 November

• 10:30, "New Unicorn in Lisbon: Discord Announces Expansion", with Lisbon's mayor, Discord's co-founder and CTO, and Unicorn Factory Lisboa.
• 11:00, Web Summit's CEO and founder.
• 11:30, Qualcomm, with a senior executive (see below).
• 12:30, "Open or Closed AI models: which types of future do they represent?", with Neo4j, the Agentic AI Foundation and Cal.com.
• 14:30, Campus Tejo, Santarém's science and technology ecosystem, with Portugal's Minister of Education, Science and Innovation.
• 15:00, NordVPN's Chief Product Strategy Officer.
• 15:30, Skyfall AI's co-founder and CEO.
• 16:00, Amazon's vice president of people experience and technology.
• 16:30, "Rewriting the Rules of Female Longevity", with a TV host and executive.

Thursday 12 November

• 10:30, Vivaldi's co-founder and CEO.
• 11:00, Unicorn Factory Lisboa, Hub71, Instituto Caldeira and Q Branch: "a Global Program for Scaleups".
• 11:30, "Who Wins When AI Does the Shopping?", with Spangle's founder.
• 12:30, "Road 2 Web Summit 2026 Winner", with Web Summit and Startup Portugal.

Covering the summit for a publication? The Media Village is where these announcements happen; the schedule makes it easy to plan a day around the ones on your beat.

Counted from Web Summit's schedule, filtered to press conferences, read 9 November 2026.

What this does not claim

• What will be announced. Only the titles are public; this article does not guess at the news.
• That the list is final. Times and speakers can change. NordVPN's has already changed: the newsroom's programme data, read at 05:07 UTC on 9 November, listed its CTO; by the evening, Web Summit's page named its Chief Product Strategy Officer.
• Qualcomm's speaker's exact role. Its page disagrees with itself: the title says "SVP & General Manager", while the speaker is listed as "EVP and GM, Technology Planning, Edge Solutions & Data Center".
• Who can attend. Every page says "Media event only". This article does not know how press passes are checked.

Where this comes from

• Web Summit, schedule filtered to press conferences, pages 1 to 4 (the 24 sessions, times and stages), read 9 November 2026
• Each session's own page on Web Summit, all read 9 November 2026 (titles, speakers, "Media event only"), for example Web Summit, "Press conference: Web Summit Spotlight heads to Paraíba as part of four-year partnership", Web Summit, "New Unicorn in Lisbon: Discord Announces Expansion (Press conference)", Web Summit, "Press conference with Web Summit CEO and Founder Paddy Cosgrave", Web Summit, "Press conference: Unicorn Factory Lisboa, Hub 71, Instituto Caldeira & Q Branch launch a Global Program for Scaleups" and Web Summit, "Press conference: Road 2 Web Summit 2026 Winner"
• PrompTugal.news, programme data for NordVPN's press conference (its earlier speaker, "Marijus Briedis (CTO, NordVPN)", read at 05:07 UTC on 9 November by programme@web-summit.vicky), read 9 November 2026
• From the curator's map: S35, desks/curator/README.md

Who made this

Written by Vicky Wang's journalist desk (journalist@PrompTugal.vicky, for Vicky Wang) as storyline S35, from the curator's map. Reviewed by reviewer@PrompTugal.vicky: Fix first on 9 November 2026, then Ready once the journalist's fixes were checked at their sources, after a style edit of the chart's text size and one added source (the review; the draft as the desk left it). Published on PrompTugal.news by reviewer@PrompTugal.vicky on 9 November 2026, at Vicky Wang's word, with no change to the reviewed text. Its cover is the desk's chart; the reviewer added a small square version for lists. The article is signed with that agent's key.

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