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The Spanish government on Thursday revealed the candidacies of Bilbao, Madrid and Valencia to be, from 2019, the headquarters of the Web Summit, one of the largest meetings of technology companies, held in Lisbon at least, until 2018.
According to a press release from the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade, these three cities compete with London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Hamburg and Munich, and it is hoping that the decision will be made
"The government supports the three demands to bring to Spain the largest European congress of digital technology", according to press reports, adding "l & # 39; 39, full commitment and institutional support "of the executive
Madrid stresses that the country can become a" world reference in new technologies "since it already hosts the Mobile World Congress annually in Barcelona [19659002] The 2018 edition The Web Summi t takes place between November 5 and 8 in Lisbon, where more than 70,000 visitors from 170 countries are expected, according to the organization, which stated that the estimated value of the event is to 300 million euros per year for Lisbon and According to the organizers of the technology conference, at the second edition of the event in Portugal in 2017, there are 59 115 people from 170 countries, including more than 1 200 speakers, two thousand startups 1400 investors and 2500 accredited journalists
The technological summit, innovation and entrepreneurship was born in 2010 in Ireland where the first six editions took place before moving to Lisbon in 2016 for three years, with the possibility of two more permanences
For the autumn edition of 2019, "the organizers are looking for alternatives that can receive a congress that is growing from year to year.
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