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The agenda, day by day

Every item we know of from registration to the last day of Web Summit Lisbon 2026: Opening Night, Centre Stage, PITCH, the press conferences, Night Summit, side events and our picks, each linked to where it was read.

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210 items from Thursday 5 November to Thursday 12 November, each read at its public source between 2026-11-01 to 2026-11-04 by programme@web-summit.vicky, the programme desk. Times are Lisbon time (UTC in November) and may change: check the summit's own schedule before you go.

Our picks are sessions the team chose to follow, re-checked at the summit's own pages. The full schedule has hundreds of sessions a day: see websummit.com/schedule.

Thursday 5 November (today)

1 item.

Friday 6 November

2 items.

Saturday 7 November

4 items.

TimeWhatWhereKind
08:30-18:00DevFest Lagos 2026 (Google Developer Group Lagos) (source)Lagos, AlgarveSide event
09:30-22:00Registration: collect your lanyard and wristband (bring your ticket QR from the Web Summit app and photo ID) (source)Humberto Delgado Airport, Terminal 1, LisbonRegistration
12:00-18:00Registration: collect your lanyard and wristband (bring your ticket QR from the Web Summit app and photo ID) (source)Pavilhão de Portugal, Alameda dos Oceanos, Parque das Nações, LisbonRegistration
13:30-17:15Startup Web Summit Kick Off: a 7-a-side startup football tournament (2nd edition) (source) (Date confirmed at the source today; the time is as the team read it on 2026-11-01.)Estádio da Tapadinha, LisbonSide event

Sunday 8 November

3 items.

TimeWhatWhereKind
All dayTech Run Lisboa (3rd edition): a 30-minute run on the eve of Web Summit (source)Beato Innovation District (Unicorn Factory Lisboa), LisbonSide event
07:30-22:00Registration: collect your lanyard and wristband (bring your ticket QR from the Web Summit app and photo ID) (source)Humberto Delgado Airport, Terminal 1, LisbonRegistration
12:00-18:00Registration: collect your lanyard and wristband (bring your ticket QR from the Web Summit app and photo ID) (source)Pavilhão de Portugal, Alameda dos Oceanos, Parque das Nações, LisbonRegistration

Monday 9 November

25 items.

TimeWhatWhereKind
All dayPortugal Tech Week Palace (until 13 November) (source)PTW Palace, Rua Gomes Freire 98, LisbonSide event
07:30-22:00Registration: collect your lanyard and wristband (bring your ticket QR from the Web Summit app and photo ID) (source)Humberto Delgado Airport, Terminal 1, LisbonRegistration
10:00-11:30Build Your Second Brain with Claude (source)PTW Palace, Rua Gomes Freire 98, LisbonSide event
12:00-22:00Registration: collect your lanyard and wristband (bring your ticket QR from the Web Summit app and photo ID) (source)Pavilhão de Portugal, Alameda dos Oceanos, Parque das Nações, LisbonRegistration
18:00-20:00Opening Night 🎉 (source) (Doors open at 16:30 (the session's own description); limited capacity; you must have registered first.)Centre Stage, MEO Arena and FILSummit
20:00-20:55Asia-Pacific meet & greet (source)Meetup 2 (Night Summit), MEO Arena and FILNight Summit
20:00-20:55East Asia meet & greet (source)Meetup 6 (Night Summit), MEO Arena and FILNight Summit
20:00-20:55Iberia meet & greet (source)Meetup 4 (Night Summit), MEO Arena and FILNight Summit
20:00-20:55Latin America meet & greet (source)Meetup 1 (Night Summit), MEO Arena and FILNight Summit
20:00-20:55North America meet & greet (source)Meetup 3 (Night Summit), MEO Arena and FILNight Summit
20:00-20:55UK meet & greet (source)Meetup 5 (Night Summit), MEO Arena and FILNight Summit
20:00-23:00Night Summit (source)Pavilion 5 (Night Summit), MEO Arena and FILNight Summit
20:00-23:00Speed Networking (source)Speed Networking (Night Summit), MEO Arena and FILNight Summit
21:00-21:55Balkans meet & greet (source)Meetup 4 (Night Summit), MEO Arena and FILNight Summit
21:00-21:55Baltics meet & greet (source)Meetup 1 (Night Summit), MEO Arena and FILNight Summit
21:00-21:55DACH meet & greet (source)Meetup 3 (Night Summit), MEO Arena and FILNight Summit
21:00-21:55Gulf meet & greet (source)Meetup 6 (Night Summit), MEO Arena and FILNight Summit
21:00-21:55MENA meet & greet (source)Meetup 2 (Night Summit), MEO Arena and FILNight Summit
21:00-21:55Southeast Asia meet & greet (source)Meetup 5 (Night Summit), MEO Arena and FILNight Summit
22:00-22:55Australia & New Zealand meet & greet (source)Meetup 6 (Night Summit), MEO Arena and FILNight Summit
22:00-22:55Benelux meet & greet (source)Meetup 3 (Night Summit), MEO Arena and FILNight Summit
22:00-22:55Central & Eastern Europe meet & greet (source)Meetup 4 (Night Summit), MEO Arena and FILNight Summit
22:00-22:55Europe meet & greet (source)Meetup 1 (Night Summit), MEO Arena and FILNight Summit
22:00-22:55Nordics meet & greet (source)Meetup 2 (Night Summit), MEO Arena and FILNight Summit
22:00-22:55South Asia meet & greet (source)Meetup 5 (Night Summit), MEO Arena and FILNight Summit

Tuesday 10 November

70 items.

TimeWhatWhereKind
07:30-15:00Registration: collect your lanyard and wristband (bring your ticket QR from the Web Summit app and photo ID) (source)Humberto Delgado Airport, Terminal 1, LisbonRegistration
07:30-17:00Registration: collect your lanyard and wristband (bring your ticket QR from the Web Summit app and photo ID) (source)Pavilhão de Portugal, Alameda dos Oceanos, Parque das Nações, LisbonRegistration
09:24-09:54Breakout startups (source). With Otto Costa Miranda (CEO, Ephemeral), Paul Benigeri (CEO, Archive), Xavier Green (Co-founder & CTO, ScorePlay), Neha Mittal (Co-Founder & CEO, JustAI), Ang Li (CEO and Co-founder, Simular)Centre Stage, MEO Arena and FILSummit
10:00-10:20When AI builds itself (source). With Richard Socher (Co-founder & CEO, Recursive & You.com), Kate Knibbs (Senior Writer, Wired)Centre Stage, MEO Arena and FILSummit
10:00-11:00PITCH group round 1 (source)Stage 6 (PITCH), MEO Arena and FILPITCH
10:00-11:00PITCH group round 2 (source)Stage 9 (PITCH), MEO Arena and FILPITCH
10:00-11:00PITCH group round 3 (source)Stage 12 (PITCH), MEO Arena and FILPITCH
10:05-10:30Free or controlled internet? The great DSA debate (source). With Alexandra Geese (MEP, The European Parliament), Balázs Orban (MEP, European Parliament), Arba Kokalari (MEP Group of the European People's Party, European Parliament), Luc Chénier (CEO, Kyiv Post)Stage 11 (Policy Summit), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
10:20-10:45The open source advantage (source). With Dahai Li (Co-founder & CEO, ModelBest), Rohit Sharma (Partner, True Ventures), Reya El-Salahi (Presenter / Journalist, CGTN Europe)Centre Stage, MEO Arena and FILSummit
10:50-11:10Chat Control 2.0: The government in your DMs? (source). With Michael McNamara (MEP, The European Parliament), Thomas Fazi (Author, UnHerd), Mathias Stamm (Editor-in-Chief, Deutsche Welle)Stage 11 (Policy Summit), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
10:50-11:10Your AI agent just got a passport (source). With Benjamin Faes (CEO, RWS Group), Elena Poughia (Managing Editor, Dataconomy Media)Stage 7 (Corporate Innovation Summit), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
11:00-12:00PITCH group round 4 (source)Stage 6 (PITCH), MEO Arena and FILPITCH
11:00-12:00PITCH group round 5 (source)Stage 9 (PITCH), MEO Arena and FILPITCH
11:00-12:00PITCH group round 6 (source)Stage 12 (PITCH), MEO Arena and FILPITCH
11:05-11:25Has Europe’s tech moment arrived? (source). With Henna Virkkunen (Executive Vice-President for Technological Sovereignty, Security, and Democracy, European Commission), Laura Greenhalgh (Editorial Director for Global Technology, POLITICO)Centre Stage, MEO Arena and FILSummit
11:25-11:40Double agents: Are your employees' AI agents working for or against your business? (source). With Jordi Romero (Co-founder & CEO, Factorial)Stage 4 (Future of Work Summit), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
11:25-11:50AI: your new news editor? (source). With Paul Bascobert (President, Reuters News), Julie Pace (SVP and Executive Editor, Associated Press), Louis Dreyfus (CEO, Le Monde), Chung-Yan Chow (Editor-in-chief, South China Morning Post)Centre Stage, MEO Arena and FILSummit
11:30-12:15Dogfooding AI security: Lessons from our own SOC [Hosted by Elastic] (source)Masterclass 4 (Masterclasses), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
11:50-12:10The agentic internet: Who controls the web? (source). With Matthew Prince (Co-founder & CEO, Cloudflare), Nick Thompson (CEO, The Atlantic)Centre Stage, MEO Arena and FILSummit
12:00-12:45A guide to Portugal's startup scene [Hosted by Startup Portugal] (source)Masterclass 1 (Masterclasses), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
12:00-12:55Lisbon founders & CEOs meetup (source)Meetup 4 (Meetup), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
12:00-13:00PITCH group round 7 (source)Stage 6 (PITCH), MEO Arena and FILPITCH
12:00-13:00PITCH group round 8 (source)Stage 9 (PITCH), MEO Arena and FILPITCH
12:00-13:00PITCH group round 9 (source)Stage 12 (PITCH), MEO Arena and FILPITCH
12:10-12:30Next generation banking with global ambition (source). With Diana Layfield (Group CEO, Monzo), Charlie Wells (Reporter and Editor, Bloomberg)Centre Stage, MEO Arena and FILSummit
12:30-12:50Press conference: RWS launches the world’s first culturally intelligent content platform (source). With Benjamin Faes (CEO, RWS Group)Stage 2 (Press Conference), MEO Arena and FILPress conference
12:30-12:50Regulating big tech (source). With Des Hogan (Commissioner, Data Protection Commission), Abigail Slater (Former Assistant Attorney General, The US Government), Andrew Sollinger (CEO & Publisher, Foreign Policy Magazine)Centre Stage, MEO Arena and FILSummit
12:30-13:15The attack has started, now what? See Log360 & Zia AI in action [Hosted by ManageEngine] (source). With José Fonseca (Technical Expert, ManageEngine)Masterclass 4 (Masterclasses), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
12:30-13:15Trust issues: Letting AI agents into production safely [Hosted by Delinea] (source)Masterclass 3 (Masterclasses), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
12:45-12:55Building security for the human-machine era (source). With Xiaoguang Chen (Co-founder & CEO, Eversec Technology)Stage 11 (Policy Summit), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
12:50-13:10Taking the flying car from sci-fi to reality (source). With Deli Zhao (Founder and President, Xpeng Aridge), Jianhua Li (Correspondent & News Anchor, CGTN Europe)Centre Stage, MEO Arena and FILSummit
13:00-13:45Building a secure device foundation for AI [Hosted by Lenovo] (source). With Burke Stephenson (Head of Cybersecurity Sales - EMEA, Lenovo), Bernard Wolff (ThinkShield Cybersecurity Technical Solution Lead MEMEA, LEnovo)Masterclass 2 (Masterclasses), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
13:55-14:00Opening remarks (source). With Ciara Haley (Executive Producer, Web Summit)Centre Stage, MEO Arena and FILSummit
14:00-14:20Making useful intelligence accessible to everyone (source). With Michele Catasta (President, Replit), Sara Fischer (Media Correspondent, Axios)Centre Stage, MEO Arena and FILSummit
14:00-14:20Press conference with Xpeng Aridge Founder and President, Deli Zhao, and Xpeng Aridge CFO, Michael Du (source). With Deli Zhao (Founder and President, Xpeng Aridge), Michael Du (CFO, XPENG Aridge Flying Cars)Stage 2 (Press Conference), MEO Arena and FILPress conference
14:00-14:45The knowledge your agents can't see: Building visual context (source). With Joe McElroy, Yannis RoussosDeveloper Lounge, MEO Arena and FILOur pick
14:00-14:55Let's talk AI ethics & responsible tech meetup (source)Meetup 4 (Meetup), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
14:00-15:00PITCH group round 10 (source)Stage 6 (PITCH), MEO Arena and FILPITCH
14:00-15:00PITCH group round 11 (source)Stage 9 (PITCH), MEO Arena and FILPITCH
14:00-15:00PITCH group round 12 (source)Stage 12 (PITCH), MEO Arena and FILPITCH
14:20-14:40AI and the human at 300km/h (source). With Mike Cannon-Brookes (Co-founder & CEO, Atlassian), James Vowles (Team Principal, Atlassian Williams F1 Team), Kirsten Korosec (Business tech editor, TechCrunch)Centre Stage, MEO Arena and FILSummit
14:25-14:50Who takes the fall for autonomous AI? (source). With Maike Kauffmann (Co-Lead, Purpose), Stavros Gadinis (George R. Johnson Professor of Law Faculty Director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Business, Berkeley Center for Law and Business), Sam Kidd (CEO and Co-Founder, LawVu), Tom Stackpole (Senior Technology & Innovation Editor, Harvard Business Review Group)Stage 4 (Future of Work Summit), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
14:40-15:00Surviving the AI shift: Media’s new reality (source). With KC Sullivan (President, CNBC), Jeff D'Onofrio (CEO & Publisher, The Washington Post), Astrid Maier (Chief Deputy Editor and Head of Strategy, Deutsche Presse-Agentur)Centre Stage, MEO Arena and FILSummit
15:00-15:20Building a Star Trek vision (source). With Albert Wenger (Managing Partner, Union Square Ventures), Gigi Danziger (Founder, Eutopia)Centre Stage, MEO Arena and FILSummit
15:00-15:20Press conference with Replit President Michele Catasta (source). With Michele Catasta (President, Replit)Stage 2 (Press Conference), MEO Arena and FILPress conference
15:00-16:00PITCH group round 13 (source)Stage 6 (PITCH), MEO Arena and FILPITCH
15:00-16:00PITCH group round 14 (source)Stage 9 (PITCH), MEO Arena and FILPITCH
15:00-16:00PITCH group round 15 (source)Stage 12 (PITCH), MEO Arena and FILPITCH
15:20-15:40Building the operating system for modern sport (source). With Thibaut Courtois (Real Madrid Footballer & Investor, NXTPLAY Capital), Gonzalo Vila (Co-Founder & CEO, NXTPLAY Capital), Adam Leventhal (TV Presenter & Independent Journalist, Sky Sports & Noosphere)Centre Stage, MEO Arena and FILSummit
15:30-15:50Otter.ai Announces Its Biggest Multilingual Leap Yet (Press Conference) (source). With Sam Liang (CEO and Co-Founder, Otter)Stage 2 (Press Conference), MEO Arena and FILPress conference
16:00-16:20Press conference with Press Conference with NXTPLAY Capital Co-Founder & Professional Football Player, Thibaut Courtois, and NXTPLAY Co-founder & Managing Partner, Gonzalo Vila (source). With Thibaut Courtois (Real Madrid Footballer & Investor, NXTPLAY Capital), Gonzalo Vila (Co-Founder & CEO, NXTPLAY Capital)Stage 2 (Press Conference), MEO Arena and FILPress conference
16:00-16:20What does a self-driving company look like? (source). With Michele Catasta (President, Replit)Stage 13 (AI Summit), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
16:00-16:20When AI leaves the screen (source). With Abhinav Gupta (Co founder, President, Skild AI)Centre Stage, MEO Arena and FILSummit
16:00-16:55Open source & contributors meetup (source)Meetup 4 (Meetup), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
16:20-16:40AI: doom or boom? (source). With Ali Partovi (Founding Partner, Neo)Centre Stage, MEO Arena and FILSummit
16:30-16:50Press conference with Gravitee CEO Rory Blundell: Collapsing confidence in agent AI security after six months of reality. (source). With Rory Blundell (CEO, Gravitee)Stage 2 (Press Conference), MEO Arena and FILPress conference
16:30-17:15How to break your AI phone agent before your customers [Hosted by Twilio] (source). With Brooke Hopkins (Founder & CEO, Coval), Anni Chen (Developer Evangelist, Twilio)Masterclass 4 (Masterclasses), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
16:45-17:45PITCH results announcement (source)Stage 9 (PITCH), MEO Arena and FILPITCH
17:00-19:00AUSTRIA BUSINESS NIGHT 2026 (source)Centro Vasco de GamaSide event
17:00-19:00Superconnectors Lisbon 2026 @ Web Summit (source)Lisbon (venue not given on the page)Side event
17:00-20:00UniVerse 2026 – Entrepreneurial Academy: Where Innovation is Born (source)Centro de Congressos ULisboaSide event
17:30-19:00Diaspora Leaders: A Global InnovationMeetup (source)Soul kitchen & barSide event
17:30-20:00Building a Tech Hub / Side Event & Happy Hour / Aubay Portugal + IBM (source)IBM PortugalSide event
17:30-20:30Coimbra Supernova: How Any Business Can Profit from the Space Economy (source)Parque das NaçõesSide event
17:30-22:30German-Brazilian Startup Night (source)Gale patioSide event
18:00-21:00Night Summit: speed networking, 100+ meetups, games (accredited attendees) (source)Pavilion 5, FILNight Summit
18:00-22:30Ukrainian Community Networking (source)IDB Rooftop by MīrārīSide event
19:00-22:00An Evening with Elastic in Lisbon (source)Palacete dos Condes de Monte RealSide event
19:30-22:00AI Content OS VIP Dinner: Costa Coffee lessons (source)Rua das Portas de Santo AntãoSide event
21:00-00:00Night Summit Downtown (bars open to the public; bring your lanyard to find each other) (source)Quiosque Lisboa, Praça São Paulo, LisbonNight Summit

Wednesday 11 November

56 items.

TimeWhatWhereKind
07:30-17:00Registration: collect your lanyard and wristband (bring your ticket QR from the Web Summit app and photo ID) (source)Pavilhão de Portugal, Alameda dos Oceanos, Parque das Nações, LisbonRegistration
09:24-09:54Breakout startups (source). With Haz Hubble (CEO & Co-Founder, Pally), Hanh Nguyen (CEO & Co-Founder, alqem), Sahil Jain (CEO & Co-Founder, Samepage.ai), Larissa Schneider (Co-Founder & COO, Unframe), Adam Schwartz (Co-Founder & CEO, Parable)Centre Stage, MEO Arena and FILSummit
10:00-10:20The future of enterprise software has no middleman (source). With Anton Osika (Co-founder & CEO, Lovable), Harry McCracken (Technology Editor, Fast Company)Centre Stage, MEO Arena and FILSummit
10:00-10:45Monitoring in the age of GenAI: Beyond golden signals [Hosted by Datadog] (source). With Clara Jacintho (Software Engineer, Datadog)Masterclass 2 (Masterclasses), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
10:05-10:30Do we need a UN AI treaty? (source). With Mary Robinson (Founding Member, The Elders), Charles Pellegrin (Business Editor, France 24)Stage 11 (Policy Summit), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
10:10-10:30The AI agent economy (source). With Dr. Durga Malladi (EVP and GM, Technology Planning, Edge Solutions & Data Center, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., Qualcomm), Dayana Sarkisova (Senior Editor, TIME)Stage 13 (AI Summit), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
10:20-10:40Who wins in the age of agentic AI? (source). With Ling Ge (Chief Investment and Strategy Officer (EMEA), Tencent), Sam Stephenson (Co-founder, Granola), Amit Katwala (Features Editor, Wired)Centre Stage, MEO Arena and FILSummit
10:30-10:50The next digital frontier (source). With Vahan Agopyan (Secretary of Science, Technology and Innovation, Government of the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil), Tariq Al Tayer (Director of Foreign Direct Investments Department, UAE Ministry of Investment), Bernardo Correia (Secretary of State for Digitalisation, Government of Portugal), Eleanor Pringle (Senior Reporter Economics and Markets, Fortune)Stage 11 (Policy Summit), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
10:30-10:50Why your AI agents don’t understand your business – and how to fix it (source). With Philip Rathle (CTO, Neo4j)Stage 10 (Developer Summit), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
10:40-11:00Investing in zero billion dollar markets (source). With Mattias Ljungman (Founder & CEO, Moonfire), Steve Vassallo (General Partner, Foundation Capital), Terry Martin (International News Anchor/Moderator, Free agent)Centre Stage, MEO Arena and FILSummit
10:50-11:10Putting human rights into artificial intelligence (source). With Michael O'Flaherty (Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe), Paul Tighe (Secretary of the Dicastery for Culture and Education, The Vatican), Georja Calvin-Smith (Productrice principale / Présentatrice, France 24)Stage 11 (Policy Summit), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
11:00-11:20Press conference with Web Summit CEO and Founder Paddy Cosgrave (source). With Paddy Cosgrave (CEO & Founder, Web Summit)Stage 2 (Press Conference), MEO Arena and FILPress conference
11:00-11:25Reporting at the speed of news (source). With Marc Lacey (Managing Editor, The New York Times), Betsy Reed (Editor-in-Chief, The Guardian US), Nicholas Johnston (Publisher, Axios)Centre Stage, MEO Arena and FILSummit
11:05-11:30Building AI on your own terms: From technology discovery to real-world scale (source). With Ronnie Sheth (Founder & CEO, SENEN GROUP), Mike Nguyen (CEO, Inflect), João Nuno Ferreira (President, National Centre for Advanced Computing), Luc Chénier (CEO, Kyiv Post)Stage 7 (Corporate Innovation Summit), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
11:10-11:30Don’t feed shit to agents (source). With Rijk van Zanten (Co-Founder & CTO, Directus), Simon Ince (CTO, Lush), Mafalda Freire (Journalist, businessIT - PC Guia)Stage 10 (Developer Summit), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
11:10-11:30The Portuguese economic success story (source). With Joaquim Miranda Sarmento (Minister of State and of Finance, Government of Portugal), Giovanna Faggionato (Financial Services Reporter, POLITICO)Stage 11 (Policy Summit), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
11:10-11:30Why AI agents stall at the production line (source). With Mazin Gilbert (Executive Director, Agentic AI Foundation), Tom Stackpole (Senior Technology & Innovation Editor, Harvard Business Review Group)Stage 13 (AI Summit), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
11:15-11:35In bots we trust: Defending money against AI-powered fraud (source). With Rick Song (CEO, Persona), Ian Rogers (Chief Human Agency Officer & Board Member, Ledger), João Miguel Mesquita (Editor-in-chief, Digital Inside)Stage 8 (MoneyConf), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
11:25-11:45The race for compute, agentic AI, and ROI (source). With Philippe Botteri (Partner, Accel), Arjun Kharpal (Senior Technology Correspondent, CNBC)Centre Stage, MEO Arena and FILSummit
11:30-11:50Beyond the AI agent hype (source). With Georg Zoeller (Co founder, Centre for AI Leadership (C4AIL)), Ned Koh (Co-Founder & President, Aaru), Tariq Krim (Founder, Human intention), Jeff Wilser (Podcast Host & Book Author, AI-Curious)Stage 13 (AI Summit), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
11:30-11:50Press conference with Qualcomm SVP & General Manager, Durga Malladi (source). With Dr. Durga Malladi (EVP and GM, Technology Planning, Edge Solutions & Data Center, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., Qualcomm)Stage 2 (Press Conference), MEO Arena and FILPress conference
11:30-12:15AI sovereignty: Data control, governance and predictable AI costs [Hosted by Austriacard Holdings] (source). With Christos Rizos (Group Business Development Director, AI & Digital Solutions, AustriaCard)Masterclass 3 (Masterclasses), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
11:30-12:30Fake by Default: How to prove what's real (source)PTW Palace (Palacete Gomes Freire), LisbonSide event
11:45-12:10The next financial crisis: Are we ready for what's coming? (source). With James Galbraith (Lloyd M. Bentsen, jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations, LBJ School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin, and Member, Lisbon Academy of Sciences, Lyndon B. Johnson Schoo of Public Affairs, University of Austin Texas), Sinéad O'Sullivan (Strategy and Competitiveness, Harvard Business School/Harvard Business Review), Adam Kobeissi (Founder & Editor-in-Chief, The Kobeissi Letter), Amanda Aronczyk (Co-host, Planet Money, National Public Radio)Centre Stage, MEO Arena and FILSummit
11:50-12:10When AI verifies AI (source). With Mohammad Asad Khan (Co-founder & CEO, TestMu AI)Stage 10 (Developer Summit), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
11:55-12:25Open vs closed: The debate defining the AI era (source). With Chon Tang (Founding Partner, SkyDeck Ventures), Alvin W. Graylin (Prof. AI Policy at UW / Digital Fellow, Stanford HAI), Carmem Domingues (Former White House Senior AI Advisor, AI Techno-Realist, Future Government Institute), Neil Lawrence (Co-founder & Chief Scientist, Trent AI), Amit Katwala (Features Editor, Wired)Stage 11 (Policy Summit), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
12:10-12:30Give me a brake: Coding without crashing (source). With Edith Harbaugh (Co-founder & CEO, LaunchDarkly), Daniela Braga (Founder & CEO, Defined.ai), Kit Eaton (Technology writer, INC)Stage 10 (Developer Summit), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
12:10-12:30Maintaining the human in an AI world (source). With Jen Wong (COO, Reddit), Harry McCracken (Technology Editor, Fast Company)Centre Stage, MEO Arena and FILSummit
12:30-12:50Open or Closed AI models: which types of future do they represent? (Press Conference) (source). With Philip Rathle (CTO, Neo4j), Mazin Gilbert (Executive Director, Linux Foundation), Bailey Pumfleet (CEO & Co-founder, Cal.com)Stage 2 (Press Conference), MEO Arena and FILPress conference
12:30-12:50Teaching AI to see the world (source). With Andreas Blattmann (Co Founder, Black Forest Labs)Centre Stage, MEO Arena and FILSummit
13:55-14:00Opening remarks (source). With Ciara Haley (Executive Producer, Web Summit)Centre Stage, MEO Arena and FILSummit
14:00-14:25The techstyle stack (source). With Max Easton (CEO, Smartex.ai), Nanna Andersen (Managing Director, New Growth & Ventures, H&M Group), Tony Fadell (Principal, Build Collective), Jim Edwards (Executive Editor, Fortune)Centre Stage, MEO Arena and FILSummit
14:00-14:45Make AI agents work beyond the demo [Hosted by Make] (source). With Valery Mezencev (Senior Product Marketing Manager, Make)Masterclass 2 (Masterclasses), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
14:25-14:45The best offense is a machine-speed defence (source). With George Kurtz (Co-founder & CEO, CrowdStrike), Dayana Sarkisova (Senior Editor, TIME)Centre Stage, MEO Arena and FILSummit
14:30-15:15Building AI in Europe: Practical support for innovators [Hosted by European Commission - DG Connect] (source)Masterclass 3 (Masterclasses), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
14:45-15:10The new battle for brand influence (source). With Jill Kramer (Chief Marketing & Communications Officer, Mastercard), Don McGuire (EVP and CMO, Qualcomm), Isobel Sita-Lumsden (Global Head of Business Marketing, TikTok), Amy O'Brien (Tech Editor, Vogue Business)Centre Stage, MEO Arena and FILSummit
15:00-15:20Coaching an AI agent like human talent (source). With Nikola Mrkšić (Co-founder & CEO, PolyAI), Ania Lichtarowicz (Managing Director and Editor, Somewhere on Earth: The Tech Global Podcast)Stage 13 (AI Summit), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
15:00-15:20Press conference with NordVPN CTO Marijus Briedis (source). With Marijus Briedis (CTO, NordVPN), Domininkas Virbickas (Product Director, Nord Security)Stage 2 (Press Conference), MEO Arena and FILPress conference
15:10-15:30The enterprise reality check: Who’s controlling data and AI? (source). With Jonathan Adashek (Senior Vice President and Chief Global Affairs Officer, IBM)Centre Stage, MEO Arena and FILSummit
15:20-15:40The autonomous enterprise: Networks, cloud and AI agents (source). With Mauricio Sion (Founder & Executive Chairman, SGF Global), José Pedro Nascimento (Chief Technology Officer, MEO), Marta Dhanis (Journalist & TV Host, MD Media Fusion)Stage 7 (Corporate Innovation Summit), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
15:20-15:40Viable systems, judgement, and AI safety (source). With Neil Lawrence (Co-founder & Chief Scientist, Trent AI)Stage 13 (AI Summit), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
15:30-15:50Press conference with Skyfall AI Co-founder & CEO Sam Pasupalak (source). With Sam Pasupalak (Co-founder & CEO, Skyfall AI)Stage 2 (Press Conference), MEO Arena and FILPress conference
15:30-15:50When software meets matter (source). With Peter Ludwig (Co-founder & CTO, Applied Intuition), Kamil Sindi (CTO, Runway), Ivan Mehta (Reporter, TechCrunch)Centre Stage, MEO Arena and FILSummit
15:50-16:05Rewriting the rules of female longevity (source). With Daniela Braga (Founder & CEO, Defined.ai), Cristina Ferreira (TV Host, Executive, TVI)Centre Stage, MEO Arena and FILSummit
16:00-16:20Press conference with Amazon Vice President People Experience & Technology, J. Ofori Agboka (source). With J. Ofori Agboka (Vice President People, Experience & Technology, Amazon)Stage 2 (Press Conference), MEO Arena and FILPress conference
16:05-16:35The last days of the rules-based order? (source). With Victor Gao (Chair Professor, Soochow University; Vice President, CCG; and Chairman, China Energy Security, Center for China and Globalization (CCG)), Mary Robinson (Founding Member, The Elders), Henry Farrell (SNF Agora Institute Professor of International Affairs, John Hopkins University), Andrew Sollinger (CEO & Publisher, Foreign Policy Magazine)Centre Stage, MEO Arena and FILSummit
16:08-16:19Agents don't need prompts, they need context (source). With Milkana Brace (Co-Founder & CPO, SageOx)Stage 9 (Growth Summit), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
16:30-16:50Press Conference: Rewriting the Rules of Female Longevity (source). With Cristina Ferreira (TV Host, Executive, TVI)Stage 2 (Press Conference), MEO Arena and FILPress conference
16:35-16:55Building the infrastructure for AI everywhere (source). With Rene Haas (CEO, Arm Ltd.), Gian M. Volpicelli (Technology Reporter, Bloomberg)Centre Stage, MEO Arena and FILSummit
17:00-18:00PITCH semi-final (source). With Renu Navale (VP & GM, Health and Cities Division, Edge Computing Group, Intel), Carolin Wais (Partner, Plug and Play Tech Center), Ling Ge (Chief Investment and Strategy Officer (EMEA), Tencent), Larry Li (Founder & Managing Partner, Amino Capital), Erika Whitmore (Partner, KPMG), Filipa Barreto (Partner, KPMG), Stephan Morais (Investor, Indico Capital Partners), Zach Coelius (Founder, Coelius Capital), Teresa Fiuza (Chief Investment Officer, Banco Português de Fomento)Centre Stage, MEO Arena and FILSummit
17:30-18:30From Automation to Autonomy: How AI is changing the way we run technology (Cisco showcase) (source)PTW Palace, Rua Gomes Freire 98, LisbonSide event
17:30-21:00Work in Finland side event (source)OlissippoSide event
18:00-21:00Night Summit: speed networking, 100+ meetups, games (accredited attendees) (source)Pavilion 5, FILNight Summit
18:30-21:30Romanian Tech Night at Web Summit Lisbon 2026 (source)Centre of LisbonSide event
19:00-22:00AI Build Sprint: Ship a Business App for Your Ops (source)Spaces OrienteSide event
21:00-00:00Night Summit Downtown (bars open to the public; bring your lanyard to find each other) (source)Quiosque Lisboa, Príncipe Real, LisbonNight Summit

Thursday 12 November

49 items.

TimeWhatWhereKind
07:30-16:45Registration: collect your lanyard and wristband (bring your ticket QR from the Web Summit app and photo ID) (source)Pavilhão de Portugal, Alameda dos Oceanos, Parque das Nações, LisbonRegistration
10:00-10:20Introducing: The next billion workers (source). With William Shi (President, AgiBot Europe)Centre Stage, MEO Arena and FILSummit
10:05-10:25AI vs. AI: The battle for the cyber advantage (source). With Zeki Turedi (Field CTO for Europe, Middle East, and Africa, CrowdStrike)Stage 8 (Cybersecurity Summit), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
10:15-10:35When AI agents go rogue (source). With Satya Nitta (Co-founder, Executive Chairman & Chief Scientist, Emergence)Stage 13 (AI Summit), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
10:20-10:40Build for people: A ‘human x car x home’ approach (source). With Fei Xu (CMO, Xiaomi Group)Centre Stage, MEO Arena and FILSummit
10:25-10:45Outsmarting AI: Defence at machine speed (source). With Sumit Dhawan (CEO, Proofpoint, Inc.), Alexandre Neves (Journalist, Grupo Renascença Multimédia)Stage 8 (Cybersecurity Summit), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
10:30-10:50Taming the agent swarm (source). With Kirill Skrygan (CEO, JetBrains)Stage 10 (Developer Summit), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
10:30-10:55Frontline Europe: AI, sovereignty and truth (source). With Jan Lipavský (Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, Government of Czech Republic), Miroslav Wlachovský (Former Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of Slovakia, government of Slovakia), Maty Bohacek (AI Researcher, Stanford University), Tomáš Klvaňa (Executive Director, Aspen Institute Central Europe)Stage 11 (Policy Summit), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
10:40-11:00Beyond the IPO: The new exit playbook (source). With Larry Aschebrook (Founder and Managing Partner, G Squared), Sarah Kunst (Founder & Managing Director, Cleo Capital), Lucinda Shen (Deals Reporter, Axios)Centre Stage, MEO Arena and FILSummit
10:45-11:10The biological bottleneck (source). With Calum Chace (Co-founder, Conscium), Nicholas Muy (CISO, Scrut Automation), John Koetsier (Forbes columnist & Tech First Podcast Host, Forbes, Freelance)Stage 8 (Cybersecurity Summit), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
10:50-11:00Connecting the bots: Building secure infrastructure for inter-agent communication (source). With Ethan Byrd (Founder, Primitive)Stage 9 (Growth Summit), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
11:00-11:20The $100 million prompt (source). With Mahi de Silva (Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer, Higgsfield), Stephanie Liu (CEO, Levitate Foundry)Centre Stage, MEO Arena and FILSummit
11:00-11:55When agents write the code, does a framework like Angular still matter? (source). With Grzegorz Lipke (CTO, House Of Angular)Developer Lounge, MEO Arena and FILOur pick
11:10-11:30The attackers are open source. The defences aren't. (source). With Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak (Chief Operating Officer, Robust Open Online Safety Tools), Rebecca Ruiz (Senior Reporter, Mashable)Stage 8 (Cybersecurity Summit), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
11:20-11:45Will tech save the energy sector or break it? (source). With Jake Jurewicz (Co-Founder & CEO, Blue Energy), Greg Piefer (Founder & CEO, SHINE Technologies), Laureen Meroueh (Founder & CEO, Hertha Metals), Pascale Davies (Senior Tech Reporter, Euronews)Centre Stage, MEO Arena and FILSummit
11:30-11:50Big Tech detox (source). With Raphael Auphan (Chief Operating Officer, Proton), Jon von Tetzchner (Co-founder & CEO, Vivaldi), Lisa Eadicicco (Tech Editor, CNN)Stage 8 (Cybersecurity Summit), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
11:30-11:50Who Wins When AI Does the Shopping? (source). With Maju Kuruvilla (CEO and Founder, Spangle)Stage 2 (Press Conference), MEO Arena and FILPress conference
11:50-12:10An AI identity crisis (source). With Andrew Sever (Co-founder and CEO, Sumsub), Jacob Sever (Co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer, Sumsub), Marina Khaustova (COO & Executive Director, Crystal Intelligence), Robert Booth (Technology Editor, The Guardian UK)Stage 8 (Cybersecurity Summit), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
11:55-12:15Beyond the model: Scaling AI agents for professional work (source). With Jacob Lauritzen (CTO, Legora), Niall Firth (News Editor, MIT Technology Review)Stage 13 (AI Summit), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
12:00-12:20Who let the agent in? (source). With Diogo Guerra (CTO, Feedzai), Shrikesh Laxmidas (Deputy Editor-in-Chief, ECO)Stage 7 (SaaS Summit), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
12:00-12:25People in cybersecurity meetup (source)Meetup 1 (Meetup), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
12:00-12:45Can you trust your AI agent's accessibility? [Hosted by Deque] (source). With Dylan Barrell (CTO, Deque Systems)Masterclass 2 (Masterclasses), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
12:05-12:25Reclaiming human agency in the machine era (source). With Bill Gross (Founder & Executive Chairman, Idealab), Blake Montgomery (Tech Editor, The Guardian US)Centre Stage, MEO Arena and FILSummit
12:10-12:30It takes two to trust: Operationalizing public-private security (source). With Anthony Grieco (SVP, Chief Security & Trust Officer, Cisco Systems, Inc.), Ollie Whitehouse (Chief Technology Officer, National Cyber Security Centre), Rebecca Ruiz (Senior Reporter, Mashable)Stage 8 (Cybersecurity Summit), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
12:30-12:45Is there a foreign operative on your payroll? (source). With Ryan LaSalle (CEO, Nisos)Stage 8 (Cybersecurity Summit), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
12:30-12:50Press conference: Road 2 Web Summit 2026 Winner (source). With Miguel d'Aguiar (Executive Director, Startup Portugal)Stage 2 (Press Conference), MEO Arena and FILPress conference
12:30-13:00PITCH final (source). With Sarah Kunst (Founder & Managing Director, Cleo Capital), Rainer Märkle (General Partner, HV Capital), George Hayes (KPMG Private Leader, Global Senior Lead Tax Partner, KPMG), Igor Ryabenkiy (Founder & Managing Partner, AltaIR Capital), Rocio Wu (Partner, F-Prime Capital Partners)Centre Stage, MEO Arena and FILSummit
12:40-13:00Who holds the kill switch? (source). With Edith Harbaugh (Co-founder & CEO, LaunchDarkly), Rob Pegoraro (Contributor, PCMag)Stage 10 (Developer Summit), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
13:00-13:45Democratising AI platform engineering with open-source [Hosted by Cisco Systems] (source). With Alfonso (Poncho) Sandoval Rosas (Senior Developer Advocate 🥑, CIsco Systems)Masterclass 1 (Masterclasses), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
13:30-13:55Founders building in Portugal meetup (source)Meetup 6 (Meetup), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
13:40-14:00Securing the software foundation of civilisation with AI (source). With Stanislav Fort (Founder, CTO, & Chief Scientist, Aisle)Stage 13 (AI Summit), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
14:00-14:20AI’s octopus era (source). With Jeremy Fraenkel (Co-founder & CEO, Fundamental), Max Schireson (Partner, Battery Ventures), Jim Edwards (Executive Editor, Fortune)Centre Stage, MEO Arena and FILSummit
14:00-14:45(A)Identity: Auth tips to secure AI agents and MCP servers (source). With Samudra Gupta (Solutions Engineer, Descope)Developer Lounge, MEO Arena and FILOur pick
14:10-14:30Zombie data: How your data comes back to haunt you (source). With Marijus Briedis (CTO, NordVPN)Stage 8 (Cybersecurity Summit), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
14:30-14:55Securing the AI frontline (source). With Paul Jenkinson (Co-founder & CEO, Whitespace), Giovanni Alberto Falcione (Co-founder & CTO, Exein), Sinéad O'Sullivan (Strategy and Competitiveness, Harvard Business School/Harvard Business Review), Mehul Srivastava (Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent, Financial Times)Stage 8 (Cybersecurity Summit), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
14:30-15:15Building AI products without building everything [Hosted by Open VSX] (source). With Thomas Froment (Program Lead, Development Tools, Eclipse Foundation), Jamie Ayala (Senior Product Marketing Manager, Open VSX)Masterclass 3 (Masterclasses), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
14:40-15:00Western tech: All is not lost (source). With Jacob Lauritzen (CTO, Legora), Timothy Young (CEO, Jasper)Centre Stage, MEO Arena and FILSummit
14:45-15:05Pricing SaaS when users are agents (source). With Edith Harbaugh (Co-founder & CEO, LaunchDarkly), Joshua Wöhle (CEO, Mindstone), Jeremy Goldman (Host, FUTUREPROOF Podcast)Stage 7 (SaaS Summit), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
14:55-15:25The real threat isn’t a nation-state, it’s a teenager. (source). With John Madelin (Chief Product Officer, The Hacking Games), Conor Freeman (Former Black Hat Hacker & Offensive Security Lead, The Hacking Games)Stage 8 (Cybersecurity Summit), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
15:00-15:10PITCH winner announcement (source)Centre Stage, MEO Arena and FILSummit
15:00-15:55Be part of history: help build the first pages of the agentic web (source). With Babak Hodjat (Chief AI Officer, Cognizant)Developer Lounge, MEO Arena and FILOur pick
15:20-15:40Chinamaxxing: The new era of Made in China (source). With Nick Yu (Chief Product Officer, OMOWAY), Irene Long (CSO, Rokid), Jianhua Li (Correspondent & News Anchor, CGTN Europe)Centre Stage, MEO Arena and FILSummit
15:25-15:50The perimeter is dead. So what happens to trust? (source). With Gerasim Hovhannisyan (Co-founder & CEO, EasyDMARC, Inc.), Niall Mackey (Managing Director, Topsec Cloud Solutions), Sonia Azzouzi Boudie (Chief of Tech & Strategy Officer, iBanFirst), James Ball (Political Editor, The New World)Stage 8 (Cybersecurity Summit), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
15:26-15:37AI sprawl is exploding. Get ahead of governance and security challenges before it’s boo late (source). With Kevin Kiley (CEO, Airia AI)Stage 9 (Growth Summit), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
15:40-16:00Search built for AI agents (source). With Will Bryk (Co-founder & CEO, Exa)Stage 13 (AI Summit), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
15:45-16:05Rebuilding open source with AI: Lessons Learned (source). With Søren Bramer Schmidt (CEO, Prisma)Stage 10 (Developer Summit), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
15:50-16:10Beyond the front door: Identity, access, and user trust (source). With Rick Song (CEO, Persona), Art Gilliland (CEO, Delinea), Cristina Nascimento (Journalist, Rádio Renascença)Stage 8 (Cybersecurity Summit), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
16:10-16:20Brazil's blueprint for cyber resilience (source). With Wilton Itaiguara Gonçalves Mota (President and CEO, Serpro)Stage 8 (Cybersecurity Summit), MEO Arena and FILOur pick
17:30-21:00EIT Jumpstarter Awards Ceremony (source)Unicorn Factory LisboaSide event

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