5 days. One city.
The confirmed program so far — new events added weekly. Want yours on the list? Host an event.
Monday 14 September
4 gatherings- 10:00 – 12:30🤖 AI BuildersWorkshopSold out
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.
Seth WardJoin the waitlist→Vertical Coworking Dom HenriqueBolhão - 14:00 – 15:00🚀 AI FoundersConversation
Building It Your Way: What Female Founders Actually Need
For female founders — and anyone building their own way
Ana Milhazes and Lígia Gomes (Nomads & Pirates) on the patterns they keep seeing coaching female founders — the perfectionism trap, pricing, playbooks that don't fit — and what actually shifts them.
Save a free seat→Vertical Coworking Dom HenriqueBolhão - 15:00 – 16:00🚀 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.
Sónia GomesSave a free seat→Vertical Coworking Dom HenriqueBolhão - 17:30 – 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.
Save a free seat→The Social Hub PortoBaixa
Tuesday 15 September
5 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.
Seth Ward - 14:00 – 19:30📈 AI GrowthMeetup
Growth Stories
For founders and growth leads
Founders, growth leads and ecosystem partners on what it actually takes to scale in Portugal. No generic fluff — real channels, real numbers, real stories.
Save a free seat→Founders FoundersBonfim - 17:30 – 19:00🤖 AI BuildersMeetup
Get to Know the Porto Databricks User Group
For data and AI engineers — in English
The first meetup of the Porto Databricks User Group: Rui Carvalho on going from data engineer to AI data engineer (document processing and RAG), and Claudia Sulsters on how Amsterdam's public transport operator built its data foundation for AI. Networking and refreshments after.
Save a free seat→PixelmattersAliados - 17:30 – 19:00🚀 AI FoundersMeetup
CPO Night
For CPOs and product leaders
Beyond the AI demo: three senior product leaders on what happens after the applause — turning AI prototypes into products people adopt, trust and keep using.
Save a free seat→The Social Hub PortoBaixa - 18:30 – 20:30🏛 AI SocietyConversation
Algoritmo Humano #5 — IA & Negócios
Em português — for anyone curious about AI and business
The fifth edition of NeoGeneralista's monthly conversation series on how AI is transforming society — this edition on AI & business, with guest Francisco Almada Lobo. Held in Portuguese; registration on the NeoGeneralista site.
Save a free seat→Associação Nacional de Jovens EmpresáriosFoz do Douro
Wednesday 16 September
5 gatherings- 09:00 – 21:00🤖 AI BuildersMeetupSold out
AI 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.
Join the waitlist→PixelmattersAliados - 14:30 – 17:00🏛 AI SocietyConversation
Human x AI — Doomed or Thriving?
For everyone — an open debate, in a room, not a feed
Online this argument has two settings: we're all doomed, or we've never had it so good. Neither camp is listening. An evening about the question under every other session this week: what actually happens to us — to work, to meaning?
Save a free seat→The Social Hub PortoBaixa - 15:00 – 17:00🤖 AI BuildersMeetup
Open Source AI Models — How Can Portuguese Companies Use Them?
For Portuguese companies — and the builders inside them
Three Portuguese AI builders on using open-source models in production: organising company knowledge, running powerful models locally, and cutting costs while keeping your data yours. Three practical 30-minute talks.
Save a free seat→Associação Nacional de Jovens EmpresáriosFoz do Douro - 17:30 – 20:00🚀 AI FoundersMeetupSold out
CEO Night
For CEOs and founders
CEO Night brings together the founders and chief executives building Porto's next generation of companies — and rewiring them for the AI era. Headlining this edition: André Jordão, Founder & CEO of Barkyn, the Porto-born brand that turned personalized pet care into a subscription business now scaling across Europe. André will share how a real consumer company puts AI to work — in growth, operations and building a brand people love — and the hard calls that come with scaling one out of Porto. Expect a candid fireside, short takes from other operators in the room, and the kind of networking that only happens when the people actually running the companies are all in one place. For CEOs, founders, and the operators closest to them.
Join the waitlist→The Social Hub PortoBaixa - 18:30 – 20:30🏛 AI SocietyConversation
Sobremesa: Nothing Stays in the Lab
For everyone — an open debate on AI
AI left the lab and moved into your pocket — it drafts your emails and answers the 3am question you wouldn't ask a friend. The people building it debate what actually keeps them up at night.
Thursday 17 September
5 gatherings- 09:30 – 17:00🚀 AI FoundersMeetupSold out
Upside 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.
Join the waitlist→PixelmattersAliados - 10:00 – 12:30📈 AI GrowthConversation
How AI Is Changing the Way Marketing Operates
For marketers, agencies and GTM teams
Three perspectives across the marketing value chain: how AI is reshaping team structures, go-to-market, agency delivery and the tech being built around new customer needs.
Save a free seat→Sítio Gaia - CoworkVila Nova de Gaia - 14:00 – 16:30🎨 AI CreatorsWorkshop
Stop It with the Slop — Make Your AI Sound Like You
For writers, marketers and anyone publishing with AI
Chelsea Rustrum on programming Claude to write in your actual voice — your rhythm, your opinions, the way you get to a point. Not prompt tricks: a setup you build once.
- 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.
Save a free seat→Founders FoundersBonfim - 17:30 – 20:00🚀 AI FoundersMeetup
From Idea to Impact by API Portugal
For operators and teams taking AI past the pilot
Most AI pilots stall between proof-of-concept and production. An evening on the gap — scoping, buy-in, and planning for when it works — with API Portugal.
Save a free seat→LACS PortoBoavista