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November 4, 2022

What you missed at Web Summit

Heavyweight champs, all-star speakers and dangerously falling audiovisual equipment


Tim Smith

5 min read

Oleksander Usyk on the main stage

As the world’s biggest conference for tech startups draws into its final day, we take stock of what went down, what was said and the near misses with health and safety that defined this year’s Web Summit.

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Tim Smith

Tim Smith was news editor at Sifted. He covered deeptech and AI, and produced Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast . Follow him on X and LinkedIn

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