Events
Every event we know of in the week of Web Summit Lisbon 2026: the summit's official programme (186) and, apart from it, the events others run (24). By day, each with its source.
Two lists, kept apart: what Web Summit itself runs, and what others run around it. Times are Lisbon time (UTC in November) and may change; each event's page links to where it was read. For the summit at a glance, see the summit; for one table of everything, the agenda.
The official programme
Opening Night, Centre Stage and the stage sessions, PITCH, press conferences, Night Summit and registration: 186 events, all part of Web Summit Lisbon 2026. The full schedule has hundreds of sessions a day: see websummit.com/schedule.
Saturday 7 November
- 09:30 Registration: collect your lanyard and wristband (bring your ticket QR from the Web Summit app and photo ID) until 22:00 · Humberto Delgado Airport, Terminal 1 · Registration
- 12:00 Registration: collect your lanyard and wristband (bring your ticket QR from the Web Summit app and photo ID) until 18:00 · Pavilhão de Portugal · Registration
Sunday 8 November
- 07:30 Registration: collect your lanyard and wristband (bring your ticket QR from the Web Summit app and photo ID) until 22:00 · Humberto Delgado Airport, Terminal 1 · Registration
- 12:00 Registration: collect your lanyard and wristband (bring your ticket QR from the Web Summit app and photo ID) until 18:00 · Pavilhão de Portugal · Registration
Monday 9 November
- 07:30 Registration: collect your lanyard and wristband (bring your ticket QR from the Web Summit app and photo ID) until 22:00 · Humberto Delgado Airport, Terminal 1 · Registration
- 12:00 Registration: collect your lanyard and wristband (bring your ticket QR from the Web Summit app and photo ID) until 22:00 · Pavilhão de Portugal · Registration
- 18:00 Opening Night 🎉 until 20:00 · Centre Stage · The summit
- 20:00 Asia-Pacific meet & greet until 20:55 · Meetup 2 · Night Summit
- 20:00 East Asia meet & greet until 20:55 · Meetup 6 · Night Summit
- 20:00 Iberia meet & greet until 20:55 · Meetup 4 · Night Summit
- 20:00 Latin America meet & greet until 20:55 · Meetup 1 · Night Summit
- 20:00 North America meet & greet until 20:55 · Meetup 3 · Night Summit
- 20:00 UK meet & greet until 20:55 · Meetup 5 · Night Summit
- 20:00 Night Summit until 23:00 · Pavilion 5 · Night Summit
- 20:00 Speed Networking until 23:00 · Speed Networking · Night Summit
- 21:00 Balkans meet & greet until 21:55 · Meetup 4 · Night Summit
- 21:00 Baltics meet & greet until 21:55 · Meetup 1 · Night Summit
- 21:00 DACH meet & greet until 21:55 · Meetup 3 · Night Summit
- 21:00 Gulf meet & greet until 21:55 · Meetup 6 · Night Summit
- 21:00 MENA meet & greet until 21:55 · Meetup 2 · Night Summit
- 21:00 Southeast Asia meet & greet until 21:55 · Meetup 5 · Night Summit
- 22:00 Australia & New Zealand meet & greet until 22:55 · Meetup 6 · Night Summit
- 22:00 Benelux meet & greet until 22:55 · Meetup 3 · Night Summit
- 22:00 Central & Eastern Europe meet & greet until 22:55 · Meetup 4 · Night Summit
- 22:00 Europe meet & greet until 22:55 · Meetup 1 · Night Summit
- 22:00 Nordics meet & greet until 22:55 · Meetup 2 · Night Summit
- 22:00 South Asia meet & greet until 22:55 · Meetup 5 · Night Summit
Tuesday 10 November
- 07:30 Registration: collect your lanyard and wristband (bring your ticket QR from the Web Summit app and photo ID) until 15:00 · Humberto Delgado Airport, Terminal 1 · Registration
- 07:30 Registration: collect your lanyard and wristband (bring your ticket QR from the Web Summit app and photo ID) until 17:00 · Pavilhão de Portugal · Registration
- 09:24 Breakout startups until 09:54 · Centre Stage · Session
- 10:00 When AI builds itself until 10:20 · Centre Stage · Session
- 10:00 PITCH group round 1 until 11:00 · Stage 6 · PITCH
- 10:00 PITCH group round 2 until 11:00 · Stage 9 · PITCH
- 10:00 PITCH group round 3 until 11:00 · Stage 12 · PITCH
- 10:05 Free or controlled internet? The great DSA debate until 10:30 · Stage 11 · Session
Our pick - 10:20 The open source advantage until 10:45 · Centre Stage · Session
- 10:50 Chat Control 2.0: The government in your DMs? until 11:10 · Stage 11 · Session
Our pick - 10:50 Your AI agent just got a passport until 11:10 · Stage 7 · Session
Our pick - 11:00 PITCH group round 4 until 12:00 · Stage 6 · PITCH
- 11:00 PITCH group round 5 until 12:00 · Stage 9 · PITCH
- 11:00 PITCH group round 6 until 12:00 · Stage 12 · PITCH
- 11:05 Has Europe’s tech moment arrived? until 11:25 · Centre Stage · Session
- 11:25 Double agents: Are your employees' AI agents working for or against your business? until 11:40 · Stage 4 · Session
Our pick - 11:25 AI: your new news editor? until 11:50 · Centre Stage · Session
- 11:30 Dogfooding AI security: Lessons from our own SOC [Hosted by Elastic] until 12:15 · Masterclass 4 · Session
Our pick - 11:50 The agentic internet: Who controls the web? until 12:10 · Centre Stage · Session
- 12:00 A guide to Portugal's startup scene [Hosted by Startup Portugal] until 12:45 · Masterclass 1 · Session
Our pick - 12:00 Lisbon founders & CEOs meetup until 12:55 · Meetup 4 · Session
Our pick - 12:00 PITCH group round 7 until 13:00 · Stage 6 · PITCH
- 12:00 PITCH group round 8 until 13:00 · Stage 9 · PITCH
- 12:00 PITCH group round 9 until 13:00 · Stage 12 · PITCH
- 12:10 Next generation banking with global ambition until 12:30 · Centre Stage · Session
- 12:30 Press conference: RWS launches the world’s first culturally intelligent content platform until 12:50 · Stage 2 · Press conference
- 12:30 Regulating big tech until 12:50 · Centre Stage · Session
- 12:30 The attack has started, now what? See Log360 & Zia AI in action [Hosted by ManageEngine] until 13:15 · Masterclass 4 · Session
Our pick - 12:30 Trust issues: Letting AI agents into production safely [Hosted by Delinea] until 13:15 · Masterclass 3 · Session
Our pick - 12:45 Building security for the human-machine era until 12:55 · Stage 11 · Session
Our pick - 12:50 Taking the flying car from sci-fi to reality until 13:10 · Centre Stage · Session
- 13:00 Building a secure device foundation for AI [Hosted by Lenovo] until 13:45 · Masterclass 2 · Session
Our pick - 13:55 Opening remarks until 14:00 · Centre Stage · Session
- 14:00 Making useful intelligence accessible to everyone until 14:20 · Centre Stage · Session
- 14:00 Press conference with Xpeng Aridge Founder and President, Deli Zhao, and Xpeng Aridge CFO, Michael Du until 14:20 · Stage 2 · Press conference
- 14:00 The knowledge your agents can't see: Building visual context until 14:45 · Developer Lounge · Session
Our pick - 14:00 Let's talk AI ethics & responsible tech meetup until 14:55 · Meetup 4 · Session
Our pick - 14:00 PITCH group round 10 until 15:00 · Stage 6 · PITCH
- 14:00 PITCH group round 11 until 15:00 · Stage 9 · PITCH
- 14:00 PITCH group round 12 until 15:00 · Stage 12 · PITCH
- 14:20 AI and the human at 300km/h until 14:40 · Centre Stage · Session
- 14:25 Who takes the fall for autonomous AI? until 14:50 · Stage 4 · Session
Our pick - 14:40 Surviving the AI shift: Media’s new reality until 15:00 · Centre Stage · Session
- 15:00 Building a Star Trek vision until 15:20 · Centre Stage · Session
- 15:00 Press conference with Replit President Michele Catasta until 15:20 · Stage 2 · Press conference
- 15:00 PITCH group round 13 until 16:00 · Stage 6 · PITCH
- 15:00 PITCH group round 14 until 16:00 · Stage 9 · PITCH
- 15:00 PITCH group round 15 until 16:00 · Stage 12 · PITCH
- 15:20 Building the operating system for modern sport until 15:40 · Centre Stage · Session
- 15:30 Otter.ai Announces Its Biggest Multilingual Leap Yet (Press Conference) until 15:50 · Stage 2 · Press conference
- 16:00 Press conference with Press Conference with NXTPLAY Capital Co-Founder & Professional Football Player, Thibaut Courtois, and NXTPLAY Co-founder & Managing Partner, Gonzalo Vila until 16:20 · Stage 2 · Press conference
- 16:00 What does a self-driving company look like? until 16:20 · Stage 13 · Session
Our pick - 16:00 When AI leaves the screen until 16:20 · Centre Stage · Session
- 16:00 Open source & contributors meetup until 16:55 · Meetup 4 · Session
Our pick - 16:20 AI: doom or boom? until 16:40 · Centre Stage · Session
- 16:30 Press conference with Gravitee CEO Rory Blundell: Collapsing confidence in agent AI security after six months of reality. until 16:50 · Stage 2 · Press conference
- 16:30 How to break your AI phone agent before your customers [Hosted by Twilio] until 17:15 · Masterclass 4 · Session
Our pick - 16:45 PITCH results announcement until 17:45 · Stage 9 · PITCH
- 18:00 Night Summit: speed networking, 100+ meetups, games (accredited attendees) until 21:00 · Pavilion 5 · Night Summit
- 21:00 Night Summit Downtown (bars open to the public; bring your lanyard to find each other) until 00:00 · Quiosque Lisboa, Praça São Paulo · Night Summit
Wednesday 11 November
- 07:30 Registration: collect your lanyard and wristband (bring your ticket QR from the Web Summit app and photo ID) until 17:00 · Pavilhão de Portugal · Registration
- 09:24 Breakout startups until 09:54 · Centre Stage · Session
- 10:00 The future of enterprise software has no middleman until 10:20 · Centre Stage · Session
- 10:00 Monitoring in the age of GenAI: Beyond golden signals [Hosted by Datadog] until 10:45 · Masterclass 2 · Session
Our pick - 10:05 Do we need a UN AI treaty? until 10:30 · Stage 11 · Session
Our pick - 10:10 The AI agent economy until 10:30 · Stage 13 · Session
Our pick - 10:20 Who wins in the age of agentic AI? until 10:40 · Centre Stage · Session
- 10:30 The next digital frontier until 10:50 · Stage 11 · Session
Our pick - 10:30 Why your AI agents don’t understand your business – and how to fix it until 10:50 · Stage 10 · Session
Our pick - 10:40 Investing in zero billion dollar markets until 11:00 · Centre Stage · Session
- 10:50 Putting human rights into artificial intelligence until 11:10 · Stage 11 · Session
Our pick - 11:00 Press conference with Web Summit CEO and Founder Paddy Cosgrave until 11:20 · Stage 2 · Press conference
- 11:00 Reporting at the speed of news until 11:25 · Centre Stage · Session
- 11:05 Building AI on your own terms: From technology discovery to real-world scale until 11:30 · Stage 7 · Session
Our pick - 11:10 Don’t feed shit to agents until 11:30 · Stage 10 · Session
Our pick - 11:10 The Portuguese economic success story until 11:30 · Stage 11 · Session
Our pick - 11:10 Why AI agents stall at the production line until 11:30 · Stage 13 · Session
Our pick - 11:15 In bots we trust: Defending money against AI-powered fraud until 11:35 · Stage 8 · Session
Our pick - 11:25 The race for compute, agentic AI, and ROI until 11:45 · Centre Stage · Session
- 11:30 Beyond the AI agent hype until 11:50 · Stage 13 · Session
Our pick - 11:30 Press conference with Qualcomm SVP & General Manager, Durga Malladi until 11:50 · Stage 2 · Press conference
- 11:30 AI sovereignty: Data control, governance and predictable AI costs [Hosted by Austriacard Holdings] until 12:15 · Masterclass 3 · Session
Our pick - 11:45 The next financial crisis: Are we ready for what's coming? until 12:10 · Centre Stage · Session
- 11:50 When AI verifies AI until 12:10 · Stage 10 · Session
Our pick - 11:55 Open vs closed: The debate defining the AI era until 12:25 · Stage 11 · Session
Our pick - 12:10 Give me a brake: Coding without crashing until 12:30 · Stage 10 · Session
Our pick - 12:10 Maintaining the human in an AI world until 12:30 · Centre Stage · Session
- 12:30 Open or Closed AI models: which types of future do they represent? (Press Conference) until 12:50 · Stage 2 · Press conference
- 12:30 Teaching AI to see the world until 12:50 · Centre Stage · Session
- 13:55 Opening remarks until 14:00 · Centre Stage · Session
- 14:00 The techstyle stack until 14:25 · Centre Stage · Session
- 14:00 Make AI agents work beyond the demo [Hosted by Make] until 14:45 · Masterclass 2 · Session
Our pick - 14:25 The best offense is a machine-speed defence until 14:45 · Centre Stage · Session
- 14:30 Building AI in Europe: Practical support for innovators [Hosted by European Commission - DG Connect] until 15:15 · Masterclass 3 · Session
Our pick - 14:45 The new battle for brand influence until 15:10 · Centre Stage · Session
- 15:00 Coaching an AI agent like human talent until 15:20 · Stage 13 · Session
Our pick - 15:00 Press conference with NordVPN CTO Marijus Briedis until 15:20 · Stage 2 · Press conference
- 15:10 The enterprise reality check: Who’s controlling data and AI? until 15:30 · Centre Stage · Session
- 15:20 The autonomous enterprise: Networks, cloud and AI agents until 15:40 · Stage 7 · Session
Our pick - 15:20 Viable systems, judgement, and AI safety until 15:40 · Stage 13 · Session
Our pick - 15:30 Press conference with Skyfall AI Co-founder & CEO Sam Pasupalak until 15:50 · Stage 2 · Press conference
- 15:30 When software meets matter until 15:50 · Centre Stage · Session
- 15:50 Rewriting the rules of female longevity until 16:05 · Centre Stage · Session
- 16:00 Press conference with Amazon Vice President People Experience & Technology, J. Ofori Agboka until 16:20 · Stage 2 · Press conference
- 16:05 The last days of the rules-based order? until 16:35 · Centre Stage · Session
- 16:08 Agents don't need prompts, they need context until 16:19 · Stage 9 · Session
Our pick - 16:30 Press Conference: Rewriting the Rules of Female Longevity until 16:50 · Stage 2 · Press conference
- 16:35 Building the infrastructure for AI everywhere until 16:55 · Centre Stage · Session
- 17:00 PITCH semi-final until 18:00 · Centre Stage · Session
- 18:00 Night Summit: speed networking, 100+ meetups, games (accredited attendees) until 21:00 · Pavilion 5 · Night Summit
- 21:00 Night Summit Downtown (bars open to the public; bring your lanyard to find each other) until 00:00 · Quiosque Lisboa, Príncipe Real · Night Summit
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Thursday 12 November
- 07:30 Registration: collect your lanyard and wristband (bring your ticket QR from the Web Summit app and photo ID) until 16:45 · Pavilhão de Portugal · Registration
- 10:00 Introducing: The next billion workers until 10:20 · Centre Stage · Session
- 10:05 AI vs. AI: The battle for the cyber advantage until 10:25 · Stage 8 · Session
Our pick - 10:15 When AI agents go rogue until 10:35 · Stage 13 · Session
Our pick - 10:20 Build for people: A ‘human x car x home’ approach until 10:40 · Centre Stage · Session
- 10:25 Outsmarting AI: Defence at machine speed until 10:45 · Stage 8 · Session
Our pick - 10:30 Taming the agent swarm until 10:50 · Stage 10 · Session
Our pick - 10:30 Frontline Europe: AI, sovereignty and truth until 10:55 · Stage 11 · Session
Our pick - 10:40 Beyond the IPO: The new exit playbook until 11:00 · Centre Stage · Session
- 10:45 The biological bottleneck until 11:10 · Stage 8 · Session
Our pick - 10:50 Connecting the bots: Building secure infrastructure for inter-agent communication until 11:00 · Stage 9 · Session
Our pick - 11:00 The $100 million prompt until 11:20 · Centre Stage · Session
- 11:00 When agents write the code, does a framework like Angular still matter? until 11:55 · Developer Lounge · Session
Our pick - 11:10 The attackers are open source. The defences aren't. until 11:30 · Stage 8 · Session
Our pick - 11:20 Will tech save the energy sector or break it? until 11:45 · Centre Stage · Session
- 11:30 Big Tech detox until 11:50 · Stage 8 · Session
Our pick - 11:30 Who Wins When AI Does the Shopping? until 11:50 · Stage 2 · Press conference
- 11:50 An AI identity crisis until 12:10 · Stage 8 · Session
Our pick - 11:55 Beyond the model: Scaling AI agents for professional work until 12:15 · Stage 13 · Session
Our pick - 12:00 Who let the agent in? until 12:20 · Stage 7 · Session
Our pick - 12:00 People in cybersecurity meetup until 12:25 · Meetup 1 · Session
Our pick - 12:00 Can you trust your AI agent's accessibility? [Hosted by Deque] until 12:45 · Masterclass 2 · Session
Our pick - 12:05 Reclaiming human agency in the machine era until 12:25 · Centre Stage · Session
- 12:10 It takes two to trust: Operationalizing public-private security until 12:30 · Stage 8 · Session
Our pick - 12:30 Is there a foreign operative on your payroll? until 12:45 · Stage 8 · Session
Our pick - 12:30 Press conference: Road 2 Web Summit 2026 Winner until 12:50 · Stage 2 · Press conference
- 12:30 PITCH final until 13:00 · Centre Stage · Session
- 12:40 Who holds the kill switch? until 13:00 · Stage 10 · Session
Our pick - 13:00 Democratising AI platform engineering with open-source [Hosted by Cisco Systems] until 13:45 · Masterclass 1 · Session
Our pick - 13:30 Founders building in Portugal meetup until 13:55 · Meetup 6 · Session
Our pick - 13:40 Securing the software foundation of civilisation with AI until 14:00 · Stage 13 · Session
Our pick - 14:00 AI’s octopus era until 14:20 · Centre Stage · Session
- 14:00 (A)Identity: Auth tips to secure AI agents and MCP servers until 14:45 · Developer Lounge · Session
Our pick - 14:10 Zombie data: How your data comes back to haunt you until 14:30 · Stage 8 · Session
Our pick - 14:30 Securing the AI frontline until 14:55 · Stage 8 · Session
Our pick - 14:30 Building AI products without building everything [Hosted by Open VSX] until 15:15 · Masterclass 3 · Session
Our pick - 14:40 Western tech: All is not lost until 15:00 · Centre Stage · Session
- 14:45 Pricing SaaS when users are agents until 15:05 · Stage 7 · Session
Our pick - 14:55 The real threat isn’t a nation-state, it’s a teenager. until 15:25 · Stage 8 · Session
Our pick - 15:00 PITCH winner announcement until 15:10 · Centre Stage · Session
- 15:00 Be part of history: help build the first pages of the agentic web until 15:55 · Developer Lounge · Session
Our pick - 15:20 Chinamaxxing: The new era of Made in China until 15:40 · Centre Stage · Session
- 15:25 The perimeter is dead. So what happens to trust? until 15:50 · Stage 8 · Session
Our pick - 15:26 AI sprawl is exploding. Get ahead of governance and security challenges before it’s boo late until 15:37 · Stage 9 · Session
Our pick - 15:40 Search built for AI agents until 16:00 · Stage 13 · Session
Our pick - 15:45 Rebuilding open source with AI: Lessons Learned until 16:05 · Stage 10 · Session
Our pick - 15:50 Beyond the front door: Identity, access, and user trust until 16:10 · Stage 8 · Session
Our pick - 16:10 Brazil's blueprint for cyber resilience until 16:20 · Stage 8 · Session
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Other events
Side events (some listed on the summit's schedule but run by others), Portugal Tech Week, and conferences elsewhere in Portugal: 24 events. Not run by Web Summit.
Thursday 5 November
- All day TMCT'26, Tourism Management and Computing Technologies International Conference: in-person days 5 to 7 November (online days were 2 and 3 November) Hotel Pestana Alvor Praia · Side event
Friday 6 November
- All day Portugal Tech Week 2026 begins (6 to 15 November): a decentralised festival of tech and innovation events across Portugal Portugal · Festival
- 15:00 Private Wealth and Investment Gathering (invitation only), listed by Algarve Evolution until 18:00 · Almancil · Side event
Saturday 7 November
- 08:30 DevFest Lagos 2026 (Google Developer Group Lagos) until 18:00 · Lagos · Side event
- 13:30 Startup Web Summit Kick Off: a 7-a-side startup football tournament (2nd edition) until 17:15 · Estádio da Tapadinha · Side event
Sunday 8 November
- All day Tech Run Lisboa (3rd edition): a 30-minute run on the eve of Web Summit Beato Innovation District · Side event
Monday 9 November
- All day Portugal Tech Week Palace (until 13 November) PTW Palace · Side event
Our pick - 10:00 Build Your Second Brain with Claude until 11:30 · PTW Palace · Side event
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Tuesday 10 November
- 17:00 AUSTRIA BUSINESS NIGHT 2026 until 19:00 · Centro Vasco de Gama · Side event
Our pick - 17:00 Superconnectors Lisbon 2026 @ Web Summit until 19:00 · Lisbon · Side event
Our pick - 17:00 UniVerse 2026 – Entrepreneurial Academy: Where Innovation is Born until 20:00 · Centro de Congressos ULisboa · Side event
Our pick - 17:30 Diaspora Leaders: A Global InnovationMeetup until 19:00 · Soul kitchen & bar · Side event
Our pick - 17:30 Building a Tech Hub / Side Event & Happy Hour / Aubay Portugal + IBM until 20:00 · IBM Portugal · Side event
Our pick - 17:30 Coimbra Supernova: How Any Business Can Profit from the Space Economy until 20:30 · Parque das Nações · Side event
Our pick - 17:30 German-Brazilian Startup Night until 22:30 · Gale patio · Side event
Our pick - 18:00 Ukrainian Community Networking until 22:30 · IDB Rooftop by Mīrārī · Side event
Our pick - 19:00 An Evening with Elastic in Lisbon until 22:00 · Palacete dos Condes de Monte Real · Side event
Our pick - 19:30 AI Content OS VIP Dinner: Costa Coffee lessons until 22:00 · Rua das Portas de Santo Antão · Side event
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Wednesday 11 November
- 11:30 Fake by Default: How to prove what's real until 12:30 · PTW Palace · Side event
Our pick - 17:30 From Automation to Autonomy: How AI is changing the way we run technology (Cisco showcase) until 18:30 · PTW Palace · Side event
Our pick - 17:30 Work in Finland side event until 21:00 · Olissippo · Side event
Our pick - 18:30 Romanian Tech Night at Web Summit Lisbon 2026 until 21:30 · Lisbon · Side event
Our pick - 19:00 AI Build Sprint: Ship a Business App for Your Ops until 22:00 · Spaces Oriente · Side event
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Thursday 12 November
- 17:30 EIT Jumpstarter Awards Ceremony until 21:00 · Unicorn Factory Lisboa · Side event
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