PORTOAIWEEK
14 — 18 SEPTEMBER 2026 · PORTO · OPENING IN 18 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 us8 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.
Monday 14 September
3 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.
Associação Nacional de Jovens Empresários · Foz do Douro - 14:30 – 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.
Associação Nacional de Jovens Empresários · Foz do Douro - 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.
Tuesday 15 September
1 gathering- 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.
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.
Thursday 17 September
2 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- 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
18 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 · ANJE, Porto
A 4-day builder conference for founders, creators and remote professionals — the flagship event that opens Porto AI Week.