It will be the first North American flagship event in Vancouver and will be replacing the existing Collision summit in Toronto.

Web Summit Chief Executive Office and founder Paddy Cosgrave resigned on Saturday after comments he made on the Israel-Hamas conflict.

On the opening night of Web Summit, one of the world’s largest tech conferences, the final speaker, though high profile, was not someone associated with the tech industry. Quite the opposite. In a surprise appearance at the annual event hosted in Lisbon, Portugal, Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska told a rapt audience about how Russian...