Fresh from attending Web Summit in Lisbon, Chris Maguire has come up with his 10 key takeaways from Europe’s biggest tech conference.

Last week’s four-day conference attracted  71,368 attendees; 157 countries; 1,857 investors; 2,725 startups; 869 speakers; and 1,519 publishers, CEOs, editors and reporters.

Maguire, who attended Web Summit with BusinessCloud reporter Patrick Killeen, wrote:  “It sounds like a paradox but at times the event was both overwhelming and underwhelming.

“If I’d got £1 for every time AI or AI agent was mentioned I could single-handedly settle Donald Trump’s $1bn lawsuit against the BBC – and still have change for a private jet.

“The irony for me is that although Web Summit is a tech conference, it’s fundamentally all about people.

“Why else would 70k+ people and speakers as diverse as Formula One boss Toto Wolff; five-time Grand Slam singles champion Maria Sharapova; Anton Osika, CEO of Europe’s fastest-growing AI startup Lovable; and TikTok sensation Khaby Lame, choose to attend?”