EMERGE 2020: WRAP UP IN NUMBERS

EMERGE 2020 was an experiment for us and all our 4308 attendees and these are key insights we want to share with you.

In 2020 EMERGE for the first time in history was held online. We gathered together 4 308 like-minded people from more than 100 countries: startups, tech talent, investors, media and corporates.

5 stages, more than 100 speakers from 7 time zones (from Australia to California) were sharing their experience and ideas on how technologies will shape our future and how to build and scale tech products on a global market.

Among EMERGE 2020 participants 39% were startups and 44% were tech talent with a majority of product managers, designers and tech engineers. As usual, we are proud to say that 40% of participants were women in tech.

We've covered 7 time zones (from Australia to California), connecting hundreds of people from all over the world!

Top 10 countries:
1. Belarus
2. Russia
3. Kazakhstan
4. Ukraine
5. Netherlands
6. Poland
7. USA
8. UK
9. Turkey
10. Armenia

Another record was broken in 2020 - more than 4000 participants, 40% are women-in-tech, attended EMERGE this year. We gathered product managers, designers, engineers and marketers to share our thoughts and opinions to each other.

Top 5 industries among participants:

1. Advertising, Content & Marketing
2. Enterprise Software Solutions
3. Education
4. AI & Machine Learning
5. Fintech, eCommerce & Retail

Keynote speakers:

GIDEON LICHFIELD, Editor-in-chief, MIT Technology Review
TIM DRAPER, Founder, Draper Associates
DEEPAK CHOPRA, Founder, Chopra Global
STACEY BENDET, CEO & Creative Director, Alice + Olivia
EDDIE STERN, Founder, The Breathing App

And who was most popular among attendees? Here is the list:

LIUBOU MINNIYEVA, Senior Product Manager Customer Experience, Tesla
ANDREY KHUSID, CEO & Founder, Miro
ARKADIY DOBKIN, CEO & President, EPAM Systems
DEEPAK CHOPRA, Founder, Chopra Global
HANS VAN DE BRUGGEN, Product Design Lead, Dave, Inc., ex-Netflix

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Together we witnessed 70 hours of streams, 90 sessions happening live, 60 live sessions on stages, 14 roundtable discussion and 8 workshops.
Hope you enjoyed our activities and side events as well: Morning Meditation, Women-in-Tech Breakfast, networking and, definitely, afterparty!

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This year Startup Alley was full of promising projects from 34 countries, principally from New East: Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Urkaine, Armenia. Startups from 29 industries were participating. Top 5 industries were AI & Machine Learning, Big Data, Enterprise Software Solutions, Advertising, Content & Marketing, Education.

If there is a constant in this world, then this is definitely our EMERGE CHALLENGE!
For the third time, we awarded the prize fund to the best startup in the opinion of
40 judges from investment and startup ecosystem.

1960 minutes of pitches at EMERGE CHALLENGE
102 mentors and 183 hours of mentorship sessions to startups

Our partners are our greatest friends: we are making this conference together, and nothing could happen without their support.
Of course, sending our special thanks to production, media, community and legal partners for all the support at every stage of EMERGE creation.

EMERGE Team hopes that you enjoyed reading this blogpost. Stay updated with us for further updates on our blog - EMERGE 2021 is coming soon!