Collision showcases virtual conference software with plans to licence the tech

For Paddy Cosgrave, the chief executive of Web Summit, this year’s Collision conference is like running a tech demo — glitchy, virtual but promising.

The format at Collision last year was a series of stages scattered throughout the cavernous Enercare Centre in Toronto, with hundreds of startups at booths in between all those stages, facilitating opportunities for founders, investors, journalists and other attendees to meet up and swap business cards.

Cosgrave said Wednesday the company essentially built out a full online conference software system in two months. The conference has also managed to book some big names, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who will sit down for a question and answer with the Financial Times U.S. editor at large Gillian Tett on Thursday, and reality TV star Paris Hilton.

Paddy Cosgrave “We’ll license the software. In particular our focus will just be some of the biggest conferences — private sector conferences, public gatherings, political gatherings around the world,” he said. “I don’t know the answer to the first question, and I actually don’t know the answer to the second question either,” Cosgrave said in response to the inquiry from a journalist at The Logic, before suggesting those questions be directed to Toronto Mayor John Tory instead.

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