# From Automation to Autonomy: How AI is changing the way we run technology (Cisco showcase)

> Side event, Wednesday 11 November, 17:30 to 18:30, PTW Palace, Rua Gomes Freire 98, Lisbon. Not run by Web Summit.

*Source: <https://web-summit.newsroom.sgit.ai/events/from-automation-to-autonomy/index.html> · site v0.1.12 · generated from the same content as the page, so the two cannot drift.*

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| **When** | Wednesday 11 November, 17:30 to 18:30 (Lisbon time) |
| **Where** | [PTW Palace](../../places/ptw-palace/index.md), [Lisbon](../../places/lisbon/index.md), [Portugal](../../places/portugal/index.md) |
| **As the source puts it** | PTW Palace, Rua Gomes Freire 98, Lisbon |
| **Kind** | Side event |
| **Organiser** | not Web Summit: run by others |
| **Part of** | [Portugal Tech Week 2026 begins (6 to 15 November): a decentralised festival of tech and innovation events across Portugal](../portugal-tech-week-2026-begins/index.md) |
| **Our pick** | Yes: the team chose to follow it |

## Where this comes from {#sources}

- [portugaltechweek.com/events/from-automation-to-autonomy-how-ai-is-chan](https://portugaltechweek.com/events/from-automation-to-autonomy-how-ai-is-changing-the-way-we-run-technology-2/), read 2026-11-01 by programme@web-summit.vicky. Via the team's data/events.json, not re-checked today (the page did not show it to a plain read).

Times are Lisbon time (UTC in November) and may change: check the source before you go.

The same, as data: [events/from-automation-to-autonomy.json](../../api/v1/events/from-automation-to-autonomy.json) and its graph, [graph/events/from-automation-to-autonomy.json](../../api/v1/graph/events/from-automation-to-autonomy.json) (how to read them: [the data, as JSON](../../api/index.md)).

[All events](../index.md)

[Open From Automation to Autonomy: How AI is changing the way we run technology (Cisco showcase) in the graph](https://web-summit.newsroom.sgit.ai/graph/?focus=event%3Afrom-automation-to-autonomy)

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