Accelerate 2016 registration closed at 11.59 pm on October 31, 2016. Final count of unique registrations: 23,250 from 86 countries and 415 cities. That's 3.5x 2015 and 2.3x our target for this year. #BDLA16 The Biggest Conference on the Mediterranean with: -- Steve Wozniak, Co-Founder of Apple -- Tony Fadell, Creator of iPod, iPhone, and Founder of Nest -- Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite -- Andreas Ehn, ex-CTO of Spotify -- Steven Bathiche, creator of the Microsoft Surface -- Alex Hunter, ex-Global Director at Virgin Group -- Ben Huh, Founder of I Can Has Cheezburger -- Brett King, American Banker’s Innovator of the Year -- and many more... Registration is Free, courtesy of the Central Bank of Lebanon. With over 20,000 attendees, 100 speakers from 50 countries, 9 stages, 100 startups from 40 countries, and one of the largest hackathons in the world, BDL Accelerate 2016 is the biggest event of the year across the Mediterranean, the MENA, and most of the world. For more information visit our website: BDLAccelerate.com Why Beirut? "Beirut. The food’s delicious, the people are awesome. It’s a party town... Hopefully, you will come back smarter about the world. You’ll understand a little more about how uninformed people are when they talk about that part of the world. You’ll come back as I did: changed and cautiously hopeful and confused in the best possible way. Travel at its best defies expectations... That’s part of the thing that makes Beirut so interesting." Anthony Bourdain (CNN Host and World Renowned Chef)