Lisbon Tech Week: Web Summit 2026 side events
Matteo Cassese’s humble guide to the side event of the 2026 Web Summit in Lisbon.
I spent 3 hours sifting through Portugal Tech Week lists hundreds of side events. This is my humble, personal and slightly contrarian pick.
Not the biggest names. The ones where something meaningful gets said, hopefully.
Pick your day or pick me to speak at your next event.
Fri Nov 6 · Sun Nov 8 · Mon Nov 9 · Tue Nov 10 · Wed Nov 11 · Thu Nov 12 · Fri Nov 13
Friday, November 6
- 15:30-20:00 HeyGen Lisbon Meetup – Starring You
Impact Hub Lisbon, Penha de França · by HeyGen Community
Sunday, November 8
- 18:00-22:00 AI Tinkerers Lisbon Demo Night
Hood · by Dmitry Grankin
Monday, November 9
- 10:30-17:00 Tesla Venture Studio Soonicorn Showcase 2026
PTW Palace · by Tesla Venture Studio, Portugal Tech Week - 18:00-23:00 International Pitch Night
Unicorn Factory Lisboa, Beato · by Unicorn Factory Lisboa - 19:00-21:00 AI in the Palace
PTW Palace · by CryptoMondays Lisbon, REWORLD AI
Tuesday, November 10
- 10:00-11:00 The Human Side of Leadership in the Age of AI
PTW Palace · by Filipa Lemos Cristina - 18:30-21:30 Lisbon SEO Meetup – Web Summit Edition 2026
SIXT, Arts Business Centre, Parque das Nações · by Lisbon SEO Meetup - 20:00-23:30 Unofficial Web Summit LGBTQ+ Party
The Late Birds Lisbon · by Raymond Hannes, Michael Fiorentino, Jaren Schippert6
Wednesday, November 11
- 09:00-10:00 Primal Moves & Coffee Hang – Special Web Summit Edition
Primal Moves Lisbon · by Primal Moves Lisbon - 10:00-11:00 Human Performance Under Uncertainty: How the Brain Responds [Full, waitlist open]
PTW Palace · by Anna Steinzeig - 10:00-11:00 The Human Side of Artificial Intelligence: Emotional Intelligence and the Future of Work
PTW Palace · by Vincent Azé - 11:30-12:30 Fake by Default – How to prove what’s real
PTW Palace · by Thiago Vieira, 351 Startups - 18:00-21:00 Clay in Lisbon: GTM Battlecards
Lisbon · by Olivier Tytgat, Rafael Guerreiro - 18:30-22:00 European Tech Champions – Italy & Portugal
Unicorn Factory Lisboa, Beato · by Unicorn Factory Lisboa - 19:00-22:00 Agentic Engineering Lisbon
Lisbon · by Sebastien Couture, The Nest Lisbon - 20:00-22:00 Fitness & Sports: Investor Meetup
Lisbon · by Filippo Chisari, Portugal Tech Week
Thursday, November 12
Founders (don’t) cry
Thursday, November 12, 19:00-20:00, PTW Palace, Rua Gomes Freire 98, Room 2 at the Garden
Asked about introspection, Marc Andreessen answers: “If you go back 400 years, it would never have occurred to anybody to be introspective.”
Yet almost 2,000 years ago Marcus Aurelius wrote the Meditations while busy fighting a war. Steve Jobs, Larry Page and Jeff Bezos all had the same coaches. And Jensen Huang says he uses the phrase “pain and suffering” inside NVIDIA with great glee.
Nobody wants to invite pain in their lives. So how do we leverage chaos for growth, avoiding burnout and business failure?
Join me for an introduction to Founder Journey, the inside-out path to self-discovery.
We will talk about:
- Transforming moments of difficulty into opportunity
- Turning chaos and conflict into growth
- How the internal game matters more than external success
- How the story you tell yourself influences the energy you project
- I will introduce the zero confidence strategy
Friday, November 13
- 14:30-15:30 Supergrowth: How to Build an AI-Powered Distribution Machine
PTW Palace · by Manuel Padrao - 16:30-18:30 The Marketing Meetup x Portugal Tech Week: The Martech Hangover [Full, waitlist open]
PTW Palace · by The Marketing Meetup - 19:00-22:00 Meetball After Hours @ PTW Palace
PTW Palace · by 351 Startups, Portugal Tech Week
Fri Nov 6 · Sun Nov 8 · Mon Nov 9 · Tue Nov 10 · Wed Nov 11 · Thu Nov 12 · Fri Nov 13