Web Summit 2026 Lisbon 9 to 12 November

Carrying the flag for Mauritius at Web Summit 2026.

Noor Sheriff has been selected as a flag bearer for Mauritius. He carries the flag onto Centre Stage at Opening Night, and Rodney Napaul and Simon Scrive join him in Lisbon for the summit. If you are going too, let's meet.

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Rodney Napaul, Partner and Head of AI Search and SEO at Lean Search, attending Web Summit 2026 in Lisbon Simon Scrive, Partner and Head of Ads at Lean Search, attending Web Summit 2026 in Lisbon Noor Sheriff, founder of Lean Search and flag bearer for Mauritius at Web Summit 2026
Noor SheriffFlag bearer for Mauritius Rodney NapaulHead of AI Search and SEO, Partner Simon ScriveHead of Ads, Partner
  • Lisbon
  • 9 to 12 November 2026
  • MEO Arena
  • Opening Night
  • Centre Stage
  • Flag bearer for Mauritius
  • 100 countries
  • 70,000+ people

The flag bearer programme

One entrepreneur. One flag. One unforgettable moment.

That is how Web Summit describes it.

For 2026, Web Summit chose 100 entrepreneurs from 100 countries to carry their national flags onto Centre Stage during the Opening Night ceremony at the MEO Arena.

Noor Sheriff, Chief Product Officer and founder of Lean Search, carries the flag for Mauritius. It is a proud moment for a search agency that started on the island in 2019, and for the local tech community it represents.

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flag for Mauritius

The four bands

The flag of Mauritius, adopted at independence on 12 March 1968. Select a band to see what it stands for.

The route

From Mauritius to Lisbon.

It is a long way from the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic coast. Worth every kilometre.

LIS Lisbon, Portugal
9,568 km
MRU Mauritius
9,568 km
airport to airport, as the crow flies
4 hours
is how far Lisbon runs behind Port Louis in November

The summit

Four days. One arena. 70,000+ people.

Web Summit calls itself the best tech conference on the planet. Founders, investors, media and the people building what comes next gather in Lisbon from 9 to 12 November 2026.

  • Dates9 to 12 November 2026
  • VenueMEO Arena, LisbonRossio dos Olivais, 1990-231 Lisboa
  • Crowd70,000+ people
  • Flag bearers100 countries, 100 founders

On the line-up

  • Richard Socher You.com
  • Matthew Prince Cloudflare
  • Mike Cannon-Brookes Atlassian
  • Fabian Hedin Lovable
  • Tao Zhang Manus AI
  • Jackie Jantos Hinge
  • Henna Virkkunen European Commission
  • Michele Catasta Replit
  • Zanny Minton Beddoes The Economist
  • Markus Villig Bolt
  • Philippe Botteri Accel
  • Maria Sharapova

Also on Web Summit's featured attendees page: Noor Sheriff and Rodney Napaul, Lean Search, Mauritius. See the page

From the schedule, Tuesday 10 November

  1. 11.40am AI sovereignty starts with infrastructureAI Summit, Stage 13. Samar Abbas, Temporal
  2. 2.20pm AI and the human at 300km/hCentre Stage. Mike Cannon-Brookes and James Vowles
  3. 3.05pm Making tech fashionableMarketing Summit, Stage 14. Charlie Smith, Nothing
Full schedule on websummit.com
Where the future goes to be born.
The Atlantic, on Web Summit
The world's best speakers.
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A grand conclave of the tech industry's high priests.
The New York Times, on Web Summit

Who you'll meet

Three of us are in Lisbon. Pick your subject, and your person.

Mauritius' first dedicated search engine marketing agency, trusted by over 100 brands across Mauritius, the UK, France and Australia. Choose a subject under any of the three names and it goes into your message below.

Noor Sheriff, Chief Product Officer and founder of Lean Search, a search marketing agency in Mauritius

Noor Sheriff

Chief Product OfficerFounder, Lean Search

Flag bearer for Mauritius

Noor founded Lean Search in 2019 as the first dedicated search engine marketing agency in Mauritius. He shapes the method behind every account: what gets measured, what gets built, and how search and AI answers fit together. At Opening Night he carries the national flag onto Centre Stage.

  • Founded Lean Search in 2019, incubated at Turbine
  • Google Partner agency, 100+ brands on four markets
  • Carries the flag at Opening Night, 9 November
Book a time with Noor

Talk to Noor about

Website design, development and maintenance by Lean Tech, our engineering branch, with search built into the foundations.

Select a subject to add it to your message.

Noor on LinkedIn (opens in a new tab)
Rodney Napaul, Head of AI Search and SEO at Lean Search, the Mauritius search marketing agency

Rodney Napaul

Head of AI Search and SEOPartner, Lean Search

In Lisbon, 9 to 12 November

Rodney leads SEO and AI search at Lean Search. His three non-negotiables on every retainer: specialist depth, strategy before execution, and content briefed to rank. He has been optimising for generative search since AI Overviews shipped, so if you want to know whether your brand is being cited, he is the person to ask.

  • Leads SEO and AI search on every account
  • Optimising for generative search since AI Overviews shipped
  • At the arena all four days
Book a time with Rodney

Talk to Rodney about

Keyword research, technical audits, content and link building, for local and international search.

Select a subject to add it to your message.

Rodney on LinkedIn (opens in a new tab)
Simon Scrive, Head of Ads at Lean Search, the Mauritius search marketing agency

Simon Scrive

Head of AdsPartner, Lean Search

In Lisbon, 9 to 12 November

Simon runs paid search at Lean Search: Search, Shopping, Display, YouTube and Hotel campaigns, with the tracking to prove what they return. Most ad accounts he audits are tipping Google. He hands the tip back, and points the rest of the budget at the customers it was meant for.

  • Leads Google Ads for every account, from audit to optimisation
  • Over a hundred ad accounts audited and handed back their wasted spend
  • At the arena all four days
Book a time with Simon

Talk to Simon about

Search, display and YouTube campaigns, managed end to end with advanced conversion tracking.

Select a subject to add it to your message.

Simon on LinkedIn (opens in a new tab)

One team, three companies

Search. Build. Close.

Lean Search finds the demand, Lean Tech builds what it lands on, and LeadsCloser turns the enquiry into a deal. Same team in Mauritius, three doors. Each one opens in a new tab.

Search marketing Google Ads, SEO and GEO from a Google Partner: campaigns, content and AI-answer visibility, in English and French, direct or in white label behind your agency. leansearch.com Lean Tech Web build Landing pages and sites that turn clicks into enquiries: Next.js, WordPress and Shopify, built at campaign speed so the ad, the page and the form ship as one job. leantech.mu LeadsCloser Agentic real estate CRM Every enquiry from ads, the website and the listings lands in one inbox, Max AI answers the buyer at any hour, and the agent gets a deal record, not a form email. Live at Mauritius Sotheby's International Realty. leadscloser.com

Contact

Meet us in Lisbon.

Going to Web Summit? Tell us which day suits and we will find a time and a place at the arena. Not travelling? We are just as happy to talk from Mauritius.

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