PORTOAIWEEK
14 — 18 SEPTEMBER 2026 · PORTO · OPENING IN 6 DAYS
One week, one city, one calendar. Workshops, meetups and founder nights hosted all over Porto by the people actually building with AI — free to attend, open to everyone.
Five days of AI events across Porto — hosted by the people building it.
There is no main stage and no single venue. Porto AI Week is a shared calendar: independent hosts — studios, founders, communities and companies — each run their own gathering in their own space during the same week. You browse the program, pick what's useful, and register directly with the host.
If you're coming
Pick any gathering on the program and register on Luma. Most are free. Hands-on workshops, founder nights, coworking days and honest conversations — no keynote theatre, no badge queue.
See the programIf you want to host
Run your own workshop, dinner or meetup under the Porto AI Week umbrella. We help with a venue, promotion on the official program, and people in the room. You stay the organizer.
Host an eventIf you want to partner
Partners cover venues, food and free entry so the week stays open to everyone. You get your logo, your people and your space inside the rooms where the work actually happens.
Partner with us14 confirmed gatherings. More every week.
Every gathering is free unless the host says otherwise, and each one takes registrations on its own Luma page. Pick what's useful and show up.
Wednesday 9 September
1 gathering- 17:30🤖 AI BuildersMeetup
Grok Bot Porto Meetup
For developers and builders working with Cursor and Grok Bot
An in-person gathering for developers, builders and AI enthusiasts who use Cursor and Grok Bot every day. Practical workflows, lessons learned, and how people are actually using these tools in real engineering environments — harness engineering, cloud workflows, agents, and integrating them into real teams. Bring what you have been building.
The Social Hub Porto
Monday 14 September
4 gatherings- 10:00 – 12:30🤖 AI BuildersWorkshop
Building AI Agents with Seth Ward (Squidgy.ai)
For anyone — no code needed, bring a laptop
A 2.5-hour hands-on workshop with Seth Ward, founder of Squidgy. Build your first AI agents for your own use case — no code required.
Vertical Coworking Dom Henrique - 14:00🚀 AI FoundersTalk
Building It Your Way: Why Female Founders Need a Different Playbook
For founders doing most of the deciding alone — pre-launch or quietly stuck
Ana Milhazes and Ligia Gomes coach female founders at Nomads & Pirates. A short, honest talk on three patterns they keep running into: the perfectionism trap and what "it's not ready yet" actually costs, the loneliness of deciding alone, and what changes when you build alongside people who are three months ahead of you. No slides full of statistics — just what they see in the room, week after week.
Vertical Coworking Dom Henrique - 15:00 – 17:00🚀 AI FoundersConversation
Build Faster. Learn Sooner with Sónia Gomes
For founders and product people
AI makes it easier to ship, but not to know what's worth building. How founders can avoid piling up features and complexity before finding real value.
Vertical Coworking Dom Henrique - 18:00 – 20:00🤖 AI BuildersMeetup
CTO Night
For CTOs, tech leads and senior engineers
Technology leaders on where AI is taking products, teams and business. Short talks and a panel, with candid perspectives from people making big technical calls right now.
The Social Hub Porto
Tuesday 15 September
3 gatherings- 10:00 – 12:30📈 AI GrowthWorkshop
Growth with AI Agents with Seth Ward (Squidgy AI)
For marketers, operators and founders — no code needed
You built the agent — now put it to work. Practical ways teams use AI agents to automate growth and take repetitive work off the plate.
- 14:00 – 19:30📈 AI GrowthMeetup
Growth stories
For founders, growth leads and marketers scaling in Portugal
Scaling a company is rarely a calm sail. Growth stories brings founders, growth leads and ecosystem partners together for a straight-talking afternoon on what it actually takes to scale in Portugal — real numbers, failure stories and playbooks you can use, with no corporate pitches. A fireside chat on scale and vision with Rui Santos Couto, three stories of things that actually worked from Christine Rustum and Sofia Correia de Sousa, and a CMO panel on modern acquisition playbooks and marketing leadership in high-growth environments with Chelsea Rustum Liu, Pedro Mendes Fernandes and João Gomes. Then sunset, beers and networking at F2. Co-organised with Founders Founders.
Founders Founders · Bonfim - 16:30 – 18:00🤖 AI BuildersConversation
CPO Night
For CPOs, Heads and Directors of Product, and design and engineering leaders
Beyond the AI Demo: the product decisions that turn AI into durable value. The demo always works — that was never the hard part. Sónia Gomes hosts Tiago Craveiro (Director of Product, Platform and Engineering for e-commerce at Maersk; former co-founder and CPO of HUUB), João Magalhães (medical doctor, health-tech founder, co-founder and CPTO of knok) and Sílvia Barbosa (Product Director at Flutter Entertainment) for an honest conversation about what happens after the demo: picking an AI problem worth solving, the evidence you need before committing, building something people trust, and who stays accountable when it does not work. Three short provocations, a moderated panel, then audience questions through Slido.
The Social Hub Porto
Wednesday 16 September
2 gatherings
09:00 – 21:00🤖 AI BuildersMeetupAI Show & Tell #3 + Coworking Day
For builders — come for an hour or the whole day
The best way to learn to build AI-native products is by doing — and by talking to people actually shipping them. Pixelmatters, a founding partner, opens its doors for a full day of coworking plus the evening show & tell.
Pixelmatters · Aliados- 17:30 – 20:00🚀 AI FoundersMeetup
CEO Night
For CEOs and founders
CEOs actively adapting to the AI shift share what they're building, changing and rethinking. Panels, short talks and plenty of networking.
The Social Hub Porto
Thursday 17 September
4 gatherings
09:30 – 17:00🚀 AI FoundersMeetup20 seatsUpside Club • Founders Co-working Day
Invite-leaning — ambitious founders and CEOs
Upside Club is a private community of ambitious founders and CEOs in Portugal. A day of building together at the Pixelmatters office. Limited to 20 seats.
Pixelmatters · Aliados- 10:00 – 12:30📈 AI GrowthConversation
How AI Is Changing the Way Marketing Operates, Goes to Market and Engages Customers
For marketers, agency leaders and GTM teams — address shared on registration
AI is changing much more than how marketers make content. It is reshaping how marketing teams operate, how companies go to market, how agencies deliver value, and how technology is built around new customer needs. Three perspectives from across the marketing value chain: the Brand, on internal marketing operations — team structures, workflows, data, GTM and the relationship between marketing and sales; the Agency, on how client work, service delivery and commercial models are changing; and the Technology Partner, on what companies are actually asking for and how those needs shape what gets built. Short practical perspectives, then a moderated conversation across the three sides of the market. Moderated by Marcos Castro. Speakers to be announced.
- 17:30 – 20:00🤖 AI BuildersTalk
From Idea to Impact by API Portugal
For founders, product and engineering leads with an AI pilot that's stuck
Most AI pilots never make it past the pilot. Two talks on the gap between a demo and something a business actually runs on. Filipe Macedo (Founder, API) on the commercial architecture behind pilots that expand instead of ending. Marta Silveira (Solutions Engineering Manager, LTPlabs) on moving from prototype to production without accumulating the debt that kills phase two. Then questions and time to stay and talk.
LACS Porto · Boavista - 17:30 – 20:00📈 AI GrowthMeetup
CMO Night
For CMOs, growth leads and marketers
The people shaping what marketing and growth actually look like right now. Sharp opinions and real examples from the front edge of brand, demand and scale.
Founders Founders · Bonfim
The city wakes up in
6 days.
New events drop weekly until September. Get each one before it fills — plus founder dinner invites. One email when it matters. No spam.
The week is built by the people who show up.
Host a gathering
Any format, any size. We help with venue, promotion and people.
Host an eventSpeak or run a workshop
Share what you actually built. Talks, panels, hands-on sessions.
Apply to speakPartner with us
Fund the venues, food and free entry that keep the week open.
Become a partnerOffer a venue
A studio, loft, rooftop or kitchen for a few hours in September.
Offer your spaceA city small enough to actually meet everyone.
Porto's AI scene already meets — at Show & Tell nights, CTO dinners, coworking days and studio demos. What it never had was a single week where all of it happens at once, in walking distance, on one calendar.
That's the whole idea. Everything below is real and confirmed today, and the numbers move every week as hosts add their gatherings.
Built with the studios, brands and labs shaping what comes next.
Porto AI Week partners with a small circle of category-defining companies. We curate hard, protect the experience, and trade scale for signal.
3 Founding Partner slots · 5 Track Partner slots — one per track · Venue partners: open.
Founding Partner
Title-level presence across the festival, hosted keynote and city activation.
Talk to Gonçalo →Track Partner
Back a strand of the programme end to end — content, brand and hosting.
Talk to Gonçalo →Lead Organizer
Gonçalo Hall
Gonçalo is the founder of NomadX — the leading media and events brand for the global builder and digital nomad economy — and the official lead organizer of Porto Digital Nomads, in partnership with Porto City Hall.
He has organized The Nomad World conference series across Europe and Latin America, consulted the governments of Portugal, Brazil and Rio de Janeiro on remote work policy, and spent five years building the rooms where the right people end up in the same city at the same time.
Porto AI Week is an extension of that practice — at city scale.
Anchor Event
The Nomad World Porto
September 10–13, 2026 · Porto
A 4-day builder conference for founders, creators and remote professionals — the flagship event that opens Porto AI Week.