Collision is one of the world’s biggest tech conferences that were held in Toronto at the Enercare Centre this year in June.
Collision gathered together the next generation of leaders who are reshaping the world. It was e the largest international gathering in the city of Toronto in more than two years. Considered the single most important tech deal-making event in the world, were joined by more than 900 speakers, 1,727 startups, 1,200 journalists, 850 investors and 100 unicorn companies from 76 countries. Collision gathered approx. 36,378 attendees from 118 countries and 30 percent of startups this year this year were women-founded.
This year 41 percent of attendants were women; 36 percent of speakers this year were women.
Collision attracted hundreds of journalists from publications including Bloomberg, Financial Times, Forbes, CNN Business, CNBC and the Wall Street Journal.
Collison has injected CA$188 million into the Toronto economy over the course of the three in-person Collision events since 2019
36,378 attendees from 118 countries
Collision, now in its fifth year in Toronto, has reached a new record by bringing
together 36,378 attendees from 118 countries.
Women founders
A record-breaking one in three (466) of the 1,497 startups at Collision have women
founders on their teams. In addition, 41 percent of all attendees at the event are
women and 36 percent of speakers across the 20-plus tracks are women. Collision’s
long-running women in tech program sold out weeks in advance of the event.
Direct economic impact for Toronto
According to Destination Toronto, Collision 2023 is projected to bring CA$77 million to
the economy. In 2019 and 2022, respectively, the economic impact of Collision was
CA$43 million and CA$68 million, making a total economic impact of CA$188 million
over the three years of in-person conferences.
1,727 startups and partners from 76 countries and almost 30 industries exhibiting
This year, Collision had selected – from thousands of applicants – 1,497 startups from
76 countries, including Ghana, Uruguay, Italy, Japan and the Republic of Korea.
Attending startups represented almost 30 industries.
230 global partners will be exhibiting on the sold-out event floor in 2023, including
Google, AWS, RBC and AT&T. 75 trade delegations from across the world – including
Pakistan, Italy, Brazil and Portugal – attended Collision to explore business
For Collision 2023, the total floor space at the Enercare Centre was increased by 7.5 percent to 82,800 square metres – the equivalent of 47 ice hockey rinks. This follows
on from last year’s incredible 54 percent growth.
1,426 speakers and media from 42 countries
This year’s edition of Collision brought together major tech figures, business leaders and
social media sensations, such as godfather of AI Geoffrey Hinton, Conviction founder
Sarah Guo, AWS CEO Adam Selipsky and YouTube superstar Marques Brownlee. 36 percent of all speakers across Collision’s 20 tracks are women.
World-leading journalists including Vogue managing editor Mark Russell, Wired global editorial director Gideon Lichfield and HuffPost editor-in-chief Danielle Belton moderating discussions on stage throughout the conference.
Collision is considered the single most important tech deal-making event in the world gathering the next generation of leaders reshaping the world. Web Summit events have
gathered half a million people across Web Summit in Lisbon, Web Summit Rio in South America, Collision in North America and RISE in Asia since the company’s beginnings as an 150-person conference in Dublin in 2009.
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