Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan to speak at Web Summit
Qatar

Web Summit, the world’s largest technology conference, has
today announced that Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan will speak at Web Summit
Qatar.

The Queen of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan will make an
address at Web Summit Qatar’s Centre Stage to discuss the impact of social
media on our lives. Queen Rania will also talk about the importance of a wide
exposure to different viewpoints in broadening horizons and achieving more
balanced perspectives. Her Majesty is globally renowned for her work in education,
advocating for the rights and aspirations of refugees and migrants worldwide,
and promoting intercultural dialogue, while using social media platforms to advance
her work.

Web Summit announced this week that its inaugural Middle
East event had officially sold out, and expects to welcome more than 12,000
attendees from over 120 countries to Doha next week.

Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan will join
speakers such as His Excellency the Prime Minister of Qatar, Sheikh Mohammed
bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, Emmy-winning South African comedian,
Trevor Noah, Bollywood actress and singer, Nora Fatehi, astronaut and Deep Space
Initiative founder, Sara Sabry, WPP CEO, Mark Read and Whoop CEO, Will Ahmed.

The largest and most globally diverse cohort of startups to
ever gather in the region – more than 1,000 startups from 80 countries,
including a strong Jordanian presence – will connect a new generation of
investors and partners hailing from countries such as Qatar, the US, Egypt,
Brazil, Italy, Nigeria, the UK, India, and beyond. Within the startup

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cohort, almost 200 will be coming from Africa, and more than
100 are part of the event’s Impact programme, which focuses on tech for good.
Almost one third of attending startups are founded by women.

The Doha event joins the company’s global roster alongside
flagship event Web Summit, which draws 71,000 attendees to Lisbon each
November; North America’s fastest growing tech event, Collision, in Toronto;
and Web Summit Rio, which will take place in 2024 for the second time.

Web Summit Qatar will take place at the Doha Exhibition and
Convention Center (DECC) from February 26-29, 2024.

About Web Summit

Web Summit runs the world’s largest technology events,
connecting people and ideas that change the world. Web Summit events – Web
Summit in Lisbon, Web Summit Rio in South America, Collision in North America,
RISE in Asia, and Web Summit Qatar in the Middle East – have gathered half a
million people since Web Summit’s beginnings as a 150-person conference in
Dublin in 2009.

Web Summit’s mission has been to create software that
enables meaningful connections between the CEOs, founders, investors, members
of the media, politicians and cultural icons who are reshaping the world.

Forbes says Web Summit is “the best tech conference on the
planet”; Bloomberg calls it “Davos for geeks”; Politico “the Olympics of tech”;
the Guardian “Glastonbury for geeks”. In the words of the Financial Times, Web
Summit is “the world’s largest tech conference”, and the Telegraph calls it the
“planet’s best tech conference”.