Distil makes the cut, again!

Web Summit, Lisbon 2021

29/10/2021 by Gerry McNicol

We couldn’t be more excited to announce that Distil has been chosen as a BETA Startup at the prestigious Web Summit, building on our ALPHA selection in 2019.

Held annually in Lisbon, Web Summit is considered to be the largest tech event in the world. Forbes describes it as “the best technology conference on the planet” and we will be taking our place alongside 70,000 attendees and some of the world’s best-known and most ground-breaking companies.

This year we’re incredibly honoured to have been selected for the Web Summit BETA Startup Programme. Very few make the cut for this exclusive scheme and — following on from our selection as an ALPHA participant two years ago — it’s a huge vote of confidence in our continued progress.

Gerry, Elina, Matt, Morwenna will be at Web Summit next week and would love to meet you if you’re in Lisbon. Just drop us a line or swing by our stand B103, Pavilion 1, BETA 1 on Tuesday 2 November.

And don’t forget to keep an eye on our LinkedIn and Twitter for all the updates from the conference.

At Distil our mission is to help businesses like yours transform customer data from a time-consuming challenge into a powerful asset. So if you want to get your data guiding your strategy, empowering your marketing and boosting your bottom line…it’s time to start Distiling it.

See you in Lisbon!

Gerry McNicol
By Gerry McNicol
Gerry McNicol, CEO and expert Data Scientist founded Distil with a simple conviction: that powerful data intelligence shouldn't require a team of engineers to unlock it. What began as a platform to help businesses harness their data has evolved into the Revenue Management Engine for restaurant groups worldwide — connecting reservations, POS, marketing, and operations into a single source of truth that every team can act on. Gerry and the Distil team remain driven by that original question: making data feel easier, clearer, and more useful for the people who rely on it every day.

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