In five years, Web Summit has grown from 400 attendees to over 42,000 from more than 134 countries. It's now Europe's largest technology conference. 

What started as a trickle of curious minds from outside of technology in 2014 has turned into a flood. That flood includes thousands upon thousands of leaders of innovative cities and established companies, policy makers and policy shapers, cultural creators and thought leaders.

They are joining Web Summit because they want to be part of the conversation, and that conversation is about the future of our world and how technology is reshaping it.