50+ Side Events at Web Summit Lisbon 2025
AI platform for planning and delivering side-events around global tech & business conferences
Helping teams organize investor dinners, executive meetups and curated networking events abroad — fast, structured, and without operational chaos.
Dubai — Abu Dhabi — Barcelona — Lisbon → expanding globally
Dubai — Abu Dhabi — Barcelona — Lisbon → expanding globally
Mission
Enable founders, investors and global teams to build meaningful connections and business relationships through well-planned small gatherings — anywhere in the world.
Enable founders, investors and global teams to build meaningful connections and business relationships through well-planned small gatherings — anywhere in the world.
Problem
Running even a small side-event abroad today means:
Running even a small side-event abroad today means:
- 1–2 weeks of research & coordination
- 40–60 emails across venues & suppliers
- Local logistics you don’t control
- Spreadsheets for guest tracking
- Zero structured process
Solution
48-hour structured planning for side-events in new cities
Hubvent provides:
48-hour structured planning for side-events in new cities
Hubvent provides:
- AI-assisted venue & vendor matching
- Verified on-ground partners
- Guest management workflows
- Coordination & execution templates
- Local knowledge layer
- for private events around conferences.
Why now
- Cross-border founder travel is accelerating
- Relationship building increasingly happens in small formats
- Internal event roles are shrinking — automation needed
- MENA, Europe, Asia → booming conference corridors
- “Micro-events” emerging as strategic GTM & investor engagement tool
- Events are becoming infrastructure for business relationships & capital formation.
Early Validation
Already delivered community-driven side-events around:
Already delivered community-driven side-events around:
- Web Summit (Lisbon)
- GITEX / Expand North Star (Dubai)
- AI Summit (Barcelona)
- Global Blockchain Show (Abu Dhabi)
- Created and distributed an informal guide to Web Summit Lisbon side-events, now preparing to support the Web Summit Qatar ecosystem in a similar way.
Progress / Traction
- Workflows tested in 4 hubs
- First paid events completed
- Verified vendor & venue pipeline forming
- Design-partner program in progress
- Early product components in development
Our focus for Web Summit Qatar
We are joining Web Summit Qatar to:
We are joining Web Summit Qatar to:
- Meet regional innovation & venture partners
- Refine workflows with cross-regional founders & operators
- Explore conference-adjacent collaboration formats
- Engage early adopters & design partners in MENA