Collision Boasts Impressive Numbers From This Year's Event In New Orleans

Collision is “America’s fastest growing tech conference” from the team behind Web Summit. 

Collision took place in New Orleans this year and we have some interesting facts about the event right here. Read on.

• Registered attendees for Collision this week totaled 11,382 people from 106 countries.
• Tweets from @CollisionHQ have already earned more than half a million impressions.
• Attendees followed some of the 100 signs to see 332 speakers and moderators on one of the 14 different tracks. There were 86 screens placed around the venue.
• Attendees were fueled by 52,000 cups of coffee and 76,500 cups of water.
• 332 speakers and moderators took to the stages and led round tables.
• 630 startups exhibited in total: that’s 540 ALPHA, 40 BETA and 50 START.
• Trello, TenantCloud, and Life.io were the startups that investors most wanted to see.
• 407 investors from the world’s leading funds came to scope out the startup talent.
• 60 leading funds took part in Office Hours, where investors met with promising startups. Altogether, there were 700 investor/startup meetings during Collision.
• 400 mentor hour sessions happened where experienced entrepreneurs and investors offered candid advice to startups, that’s around 133 meetings per day. Mentors included Jeff Glueck of Foursquare and Katy Dormer of Desk.com
• On our CollisionConf app the most favorited startup was Trello. Not surprisingly, Chris Sacca was the most favorited attendee.
• The average length an attendee spends in one session was 8 minutes and 43 seconds.

To learn more, visit the official Collision website.