Of the Field

Websummit Vancouver 2026

In May 2026, thousands of international entrepreneurs, investors, media outlets, and leaders will gather in Vancouver at the newest event: Web Summit Vancouver.

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22Speakers
35Sponsors
5On the bill · sessions
53Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at Websummit, in alphabetical order.
Ahmed Iqbal
CMO · Cadillac F1 Team
Alexander Rinke
Co-founder & Co-CEO · Celonis
Alice Brooks
Board Member & Partner · Khosla Ventures
Ami Badani
CMO · ARM
Andrew Forde
Partner · KPMG
Arvind Jain
Founder & CEO · Glean
Chris Hedges
Editor-in-Chief · The Chris Hedges Report
Danny Rensch
Co-founder & Chief Chess Officer · Chess.com
Gabor Maté
Renowned Physician & Author
Gary Marcus
AI Expert, Scientist & Author
Hasan Piker
Streamer & Creator · Night
Jenny Wang
Founder · ALTA
Jesse Zhang
Co-founder & CEO · Decagon AI
Joelle Pineau
Chief AI Officer · Cohere
Ken Sim
Mayor · City of Vancouver
Libby Liu
CEO · Whistleblower Aid
Max Levchin
Founder & CEO · Affirm
Michelle Grady
President · Sony Imageworks
Naomi Klein
Activist and writer
Rob Bloom
CMO · Aston Martin Aramco F1 Team
Sam Register
President · Warner Bros. Animation
Sigrid Jin
Member of Technical Staff · Sionic AI
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
Amazon Web Services
AMD
American Express
Bell
Boast
Cisco
Cloudflare
Dell Technologies
DuploCloud
Fujitsu Intelligence
Google
Hiive
Huawei
IBM
JPMorgan
KPMG
LicenseSpring
Make
Meta
Microsoft
Multiplier
Oracle
OVHcloud
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Qatar Airways
QNAP Systems
Remitly
SAP
SimplyAsk.ai
Thinkific
TikTok
TurboTax Canada
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
VanHack
Zencoder
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Agenda

Selected from 5 sessions on the bill.
  • May 11•6.00PM - 8.00PM

    Opening Night - Doors open!

    Centre Stage
  • May 11•7.30PM - 9.59PM

    Night Summit

    Night Summit
  • May 12•9.30AM - 10.00AM

    Indigenous sovereignty in tech [Hosted by Vancouver, BC, Canada]

    Away from the stage
  • May 12•9.30AM - 9.35AM

    Opening remarks

    Corporate Innovation Summit
  • May 12•9.30AM - 9.50AM

    Breakout Startups

    Centre Stage
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 53 companies show up — and 1 bet on three roles at once?

53 companies. one are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page — cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
1All threespeak · spons · exh
34Sponsoringsponsor only
18Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

KPMG

Speakers by seniority

59% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite1045%
  • Founder / Owner314%
  • Manager / Lead15%
  • Research / Science15%
  • Other roles732%

Of 22 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01KPMGSp1V
  2. 02AMDSp
  3. 03American ExpressSp
  4. 04AWSSp
  5. 05BellSp
  6. 06BoastSp
  7. 07CiscoSp
  8. 08CloudflareSp
  9. 09Dell TechnologiesSp
  10. 10DuploCloudSp
  11. 11Fujitsu IntelligenceSp
  12. 12GoogleSp
  13. 13HiiveSp
  14. 14HuaweiSp
Sponsors by tier
unspecified35
100% of 35
At peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

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