(MENAFN- The Peninsula) QNA
Doha, Qatar: Founder and CEO of Web Summit Paddy Cosgrave (pictured), which is set to be held in Qatar in March 2024, said that the summit will address several significant topics, such as artificial intelligence, tax evasion, as well as other technological issues, in addition to crypto currency, cyber security, and international tax justice for multinational corporations, which were the main focus of the previous summits.
In remarks to Qatar News Agency (QNA), Cosgrave anticipated that Web Summit Qatar, the first of its kind in the Middle East, would attract a large number of participants in the various fields and topics it would address, unlike other previous summits, especially after the end of COVID-19 pandemic, as International conferences used to be held through videoconferencing.“I think a lot of people will be quite excited about coming to Web Summit in the Middle East because this is one of the most important markets in the world. You can't ignore it if you think about growth over the coming decades. There are lots of growing businesses in the region and participants want to find customers elsewhere in the world and the Middle East is going to be a really important market,” he added.
CEO of Web Summit pointed out that the first Web Summit had 150 attendees to increase from one summit to the other.
“We know that events take time to grow like the Qatar Economic Forum, which somebody told me had 400 people, maybe 600 people in the first year. So I would say low expectations, hopefully, there will be maybe 5000 people from the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and from all over the world,” he added.
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