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Webit.Virtual is brought by the producers of Webit Festivals - the Webit.Foundation.
Our weekly events meet us with the world's leading experts, policy makers, movers and shapers
who define the future of the economy, society and the Planet.

Our mission:

Making sure the 2030 SDG Agenda is achieved by bringing together the people who can actually support it the most.

Our outreach:

Over 1,000,000+ virtual attendees visited the 50+ events in 2020. The second season builds on the success of the first one and develops further.

Webit Virtual 2021 Programme:

The topic of our discussion, the 4 building blocks for season 2021 are
to support the achieving of the UN's Agenda 2030 SDGs:

Society AI.Architects

Jobs & Future of Work Education Smart tech & Internet of Things Media

Economic AI.Sustainers

Fintech Cybertech Mobility Digital Entertainment Mobile (data, analytics, marketing)

Planet AI.Guardians

Industry 4.0 Cleantech / Energy Climate & Space Agtech SDGs Food, pollution Water, pollution

Health AI.Innovators

Biotech Pharmatech Healthtech Wellbeing Longevity

Introduction to
WEBIT Virtual programs

Webit Virtual | The Thought Leadership Virtual Platform is celebrating forward thinkers with values and big hearts, stewardship and professional and business connections.

Webit Virtual is a weekly 30 minutes virtual event. The virtual discussion is streamed live and hosted in our virtual 3D studio in front of thousands of virtual attendees from over 120 countries. Each event is focused on specific theme, including:

  • Health Innovation
  • Brand Innovation
  • CyberTech
  • Digital Entertainment & Media
  • Mobility
  • FinTech
  • Blockchain
  • Policy Innovation
  • Defence Innovation
  • Planet Earth
  • Mobile Innovation
  • Future of Food
  • Future of Work and Education

Each Webit Virtual program in this season is in the form of a personal interview with one of the world's most recognised thought leaders. It is in a deep dive discussion focused on their professional experience and their drive to make a difference.

Webit Virtual | The Thought Leadership Network is a logical continuation of Webit's 12 years of success, building one of the world's biggest impact communities and producing the world's biggest and premier tech and innovation festival - Webit.Festival.

Webit mission is Improving the state of Today and Creating the Desirable Future Tomorrow.
Our mission is shared by the entire Global Impact Commitee, governing Webit Impact program, which includes Webit Virtual.

Webit Global Impact Committee

Dr. Plamen Russev
Webit.Foundation
Executive Chairman and Founder
Webit.Foundation
Mrs. Mariya Gabriel
European Commission
Commissioner Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth
European Commission
Mr. Francisco Polo
Government of Spain
High Commissioner for Entrepreneurial Nation
Government of Spain
Prof. Mmantsetsa Marope
IBE-UNESCO
Director of International Bureau of Education
IBE-UNESCO
Mr. Raja Rajamannar
Mastercard
Chief Marketing & Communications Officer and President - Healthcare
Mastercard
Mr. Thomas Debass
US Department of State
Office of Global Partnerships
US Department of State
H.E. Cyril Ramaphosa
Republic of South Africa
President
Republic of South Africa
Mrs. Edna Conway
Microsoft
Vice President and General Manager of Global Security, Risk and Compliance
Microsoft
Mrs. Natalia Oropeza
Siemens
Chief CyberTech Security Officer
Siemens
Lt Col Jennifer 'JJ' Snow
Air Force
U.S. Special Operations Command Innovation Officer
Air Force
Prof. Shafi Ahmed
Medical Reailityes
Surgeon. Futurist. Innovator. Entrepreneur. Teacher. Transforming Healthcare Globally
Medical Reailityes
Mr. Tim Draper
Tesla, space X, Skype, Twitch TV
Global venture capitalist
Tesla, space X, Skype, Twitch TV

The Challenge

The Coronavirus Pandemic has changed the way we live, we work, we commute, we communicate, we share, we study. It has changed our lives profoundly, overnight!

Thought Leadership has been replaced by Breaking News.

With hundreds (thousands) of canceled and postponed business (incl mobile, tech and innovation) events around the Planet, it feels like the business world is not spinning anymore.

It is in turbulent times like today when leadership must turn into stewardship. It is today when we need the forward thinkers to have a global stage to debate and share. We need it now!

The Solution

Webit is launching Webit Virtual - The Thought Leadership Online Platform.

The Platform has 3 building blocks:

1. Highly curated interactive content, created by many of the worlds forward thinkers – business leaders, policy makers, investors, media and scientists

2. State-of-the-art business networking platform in collaboration with Wolfram Alpha and one of the world's top neuroscientists – Kelloggs' School of Management - Moran Cerf.

3. Distributed content production platform – using Zoom and any other reliable online conferencing solution empowered by centralized production and technical capabilities to stream to millions of viewers from our own servers as well as streaming through youtube and facebook simultaneously and any other third party content distributors and broadcaster.

Content Strategy

Each Webit Virtual Program consists of:

Thought Leadership Part

1 - keynote interactive presentation,
2 - discussion panel, moderated by renown international journalist, and
3 - fireside chat between the host of the program and a special guest

Innovation Part

a highly curated selection of scaleups (Webit produces the world's biggest scaleup challenge with over 4 500 company applications and $1 Million award pool) pitching live in front of a jury of 5-7 investors followed by Q&A and announcement of a winner.

TECH FOCUS AREAS include:

AI 5G Blockchain IoT VR/AR Next Gen Cloud Biotech Robotics

The Opportunity

Currently all business people in Europe and North America (+ Asia and some in South Africa) are working from a home office.

There is no better time to launch a program like Webit Virtual. The lack of thought leadership, the fact that no one is traveling and stuck at home makes the launch a natural decision.

The opportunity is to have Webit Virtual on the majority of the screens of Webit’ 1,000,000+ community members and many more.

Audience

The Webit community reaches out to over 1,000,000 digerati, among them world's forward thinkers – innovators, global business and academia leaders, investors, Presidents, Prime Ministers, EU Commissioners, regulators, members of parliaments - all of them debating on the most pressing challenges which the humankind faces today.

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