Each year we offer discounted Web Summit Vancouver tickets to the most active developers and open source contributors in our network. It’s our small way of saying thank you to the open source community.
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Marten Micjos, CEO, HackerOne, on fullstk stage at Collision conf

Developers at Web Summit Vancouver

Our developer ticket initiative is all about giving back to the open source community. If your application is successful, you’ll get to enjoy the hundreds of talks and developer-focused masterclasses, roundtables and networking sessions taking place during Web Summit Vancouver, all at a discounted price.

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Our AI systems will review all applicants’ contributions, favouring frequent contributors to high-impact projects.

Applications will be reviewed

If you’re one of the chosen applicants, we&#8217;ll issue you with a unique ticket code that you can use to redeem your discounted Web Summit Vancouver ticket.

Successful applicants receive a unique code

Now all that’s left to do is purchase your discounted ticket and join us in Vancouver for an action-packed week. We’ll see you in May!

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Meet some of our past developer speakers

Godfather of AI

Geoffrey Hinton

Co-founder & CTO

Greg Brockman

SVP of Software Engineering

Craig Federighi

Dr Werner Vogels

Thomas Dohmke

Steve Huffman

President

Meredith Whittaker

Co-founder & Chief Science Officer

Thomas Wolf

Max Tegmark

Engineer & Stack Overflow Legend

Jon Skeet

Thuan Pham

Jason Citron

Founder

Jeff Moss

Founder & CEO

Stephen Wolfram

Creator of Tor

Paul Syverson

Katharina Borchert, Chief Innovation Officer, Mozilla

“A healthy open source community doesn’t happen by chance.”

“Security is not a check box. It’s a process and culture.”

Dominic Williams, Founder, Dfinity