The tickets have sold out again this year, but fear not if you missed out as Tech City News, an official media partner, will be there covering the event from all angles.
There’s a lot happening on the day, here’s our top picks of what to watch out for at the 2013 London Web Summit
Mike Lynch on life after Autonomy
Autonomy is one of the most infamous exits in recent years, and the man behind it all will sit down with the Wall Street Journal’s Ben Rooney to talk about his latest plans.
Autonomy was sold to HP for $10.8bn back in 2011, a sale that’s now been plagued with controversy. Since then Mike’s been investing in promising new startups, through his fund, Invoke Capital.
Funding models explained
Danae Ringelmann of Indiegogo and Samir Desai of Funding Circle will talk funding with traditional VC, Roberto Bonanzinga of Balderton Capital. Later on in the day Sebastian Siemiatkowski (Klarna) and PayPal innovator, John Lunn will joined by Patrick Collision, founder of Stripe to discuss the future of payments.
The State of the London Scene
With some of London’s most influential people in tech, including Eileen Burbidge (Passion Capital), Arnaud Bertrand (Housetrip), Eze Vidra (Google Campus) & Pete Smith (Songkick), this panel session is one not to miss.
Meet the man behind Wordpress
Matt Mullenweg is co-founder of the open-source blogging platform, WordPress and the founder of Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com. Matt will take attendees through his experiences in driving one of the most biggest blogging platforms from its foundation, all the way to where it is today.
And finally…
Ben Huh, of internet sensation Cheezeburger (of Icanhascheezeburger fame), will share the secrets behind one of the internet’s biggest viral successes.