The largest tech festival for emerging markets takes its full experience online.
(10 May, Dubai)
Step Conference, the leading technology festival for emerging markets, has launched Step Anywhere to take place on August 24, 25, and 26. In its first edition, Step Anywhere 2020 is expecting to attract over 3000 international attendees, 200 showcasing startups, and influential tech leaders and speakers discussing the latest topics and trends across key industries.
Since the escalated outbreak of Covid-19, event organizers have been impacted with hundreds of events getting cancelled globally or postponed until further notice, while all stakeholders who would have participated including speakers, sponsors, exhibitors, attendees have also been affected.
With the trend of hosting virtual webinars currently and adapting to digital trends, Step will be bringing the well-known Step Conference experience online with this new event as a full-fledged conference with multiple online stages hosting talks and panels; workshops; networking; exhibition and showcasing by startups, corporates, brands; startup programming including mentorship sessions, investor meetings, a pitch competition; and entertainment.
Ray Dargham, CEO of Step said: “We’re very bullish on online and virtual events and our first large-scale online event will be here to stay. We are living in a transformational time in our industry. Step Anywhere will become one of our flagship annual events.”
Step Anywhere will feature talks and panels covering the latest tech trends in healthcare, education, finance, last-mile delivery, streaming, digital media, which are all among the most important industries with disruption and growth potential given the current global situation.
Registration is open for Step Anywhere 2020 on anywhere.stepconference.com.