Reflections on Web Summit 2017: technology for a better future

Imagine a massive music festival - now swap the artists for speakers, the daytime entertainment for hustling start-ups and just keep the food trucks. With 60,000 visitors the Web Summit is best known as the Olympics for geeks, and, this year, the geeks turned out in force.
Last month, we took the plane to Lisbon, Portugal to visit the Web Summit: Europe’s biggest tech conference. It’s our fifth visit to the conference so we made sure to bring empty bags in a quest to fill them with a