2027

Fourth edition · Lisbon

The conference for people who build software.

Two days of talks, workshops and long lunches by the river with designers, engineers and product people who ship for a living.

18 speakers confirmed

9–10 June 2027

Armazém 7, Lisbon

30 sessions

·

5 tracks

Why Summit

Fewer talks, better ones, and time to actually meet people.

Every talk is reviewed blind, rehearsed with a coach and capped at forty minutes. Breaks are long, lunch is outside, and the evening is on us. That is the whole formula, and it is why most people come back.

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Builders in the room

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Talks, never longer

87%

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Of 2026 attendees rebooked

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Average talk rating

A speaker presents a product interface on a large screen to a packed, darkened hall

Main Stage

1,200 seats

Attendees with laptops around long tables during a workshop

The Lab

Two-hour workshops, forty seats

Attendees standing and talking in a bright foyer between sessions

The hallway track

Thirty-minute breaks

A smiling audience listening to a talk

The Studio

Deep dives for 320

People talking and laughing under warm lights at an evening event
People talking and laughing under warm lights at an evening event

Riverside reception

Wednesday from 18:30

Speakers

People who have shipped the thing they are talking about.

Design leads, staff engineers, founders and researchers from teams you use every day.

And 12 more

from teams at Halcyon Ventures, Corvid, Kitebird, Stackwell and others.

Five tracks

Pick a lane, or wander between them.

Each track is curated by a host who has done the job. Every session is colour-coded across the site.

01

Machine learning in shipped products, from evaluation and cost to the interfaces people actually trust.

Zara Haddad

7 sessions

02

Product design as a working practice, from research and systems to the craft of the last few pixels.

Anika Sharma

6 sessions

03

Building and running software that lasts, with honest accounts of architecture, reliability and developer experience.

Daniel Reis

6 sessions

04

Deciding what to build and knowing whether it worked, from discovery and pricing to measurement and launch.

Grace Liu

7 sessions

05

Leading product and engineering teams well, from hiring and structure to feedback, growth and hard calls.

Amara Boateng

4 sessions

Schedule

Two days, three rooms.

Keynotes on the main stage, deep dives in the Studio and hands-on workshops in the Lab. Star the sessions you want and build your own agenda.

craft-is-a-decision

Craft is a decision, not a department

1

09:30

10:15

Main Stage

Keynote

All levels

Design

design

2

Corvid's design team grew twentyfold in five years and the work got better. Anika Sharma opens Summit with the decisions that kept quality alive, and the ones that nearly didn't.

0

craft, critique, quality, design leadership

Anika Sharma

Corvid

Anika Sharma

agent-failures-we-did-not-test-for

Two million users, one agent: the failures we did not test for

1

10:30

11:10

Main Stage

Talk

Advanced

Applied AI

ai

1

Corvid's research agent passed every evaluation, then met two million real people. Kenji Arai on the failures no test suite caught, and the rollout system built in response.

0

agents, evaluation, rollout, incidents

Kenji Arai

Corvid

Kenji Arai

three-migrations-we-regret

One database, four years, three migrations we regret

1

10:30

11:10

Studio

Talk

Intermediate

Engineering

engineering

3

Halden moved from one large database to several smaller ones without downtime. Lucas Moreau on the three steps he would do differently, and the one he would repeat exactly.

0

databases, migrations, reliability, architecture

Lucas Moreau

Halden

Lucas Moreau

prototype-with-real-data

Prototype with real data, not lorem ipsum

1

10:30

12:30

Lab

Workshop

Intermediate

Design

design

2

A hands-on workshop in building prototypes from real, messy data, so your designs meet long names, empty states and awkward numbers before your engineers do.

40

prototyping, real data, edge cases, accessibility

Hannah Berg

Kitebird

Hannah Berg

roadmaps-are-promises

Roadmaps are promises: how Orbital stopped breaking them

1

11:40

12:20

Main Stage

Talk

Intermediate

Product

product

4

Orbital used to publish a quarterly roadmap and deliver half of it. Grace Liu on replacing it with a short list of commitments the company keeps, and what that did for trust.

0

roadmaps, planning, commitments, stakeholders

Grace Liu

Orbital

Grace Liu

research-that-changes-the-roadmap

Research that changes the roadmap, not just the deck

1

11:40

12:20

Studio

Talk

Intermediate

Design

design

2

Plenty of research is presented and forgotten. Inês Carvalho on how Quill's research team made its findings hard to ignore, starting with a study of why learners quit in week three.

0

user research, retention, insights, research ops

Inês Carvalho

Quill

Inês Carvalho

how-big-should-a-team-be

How big should a product team be now?

1

12:30

13:15

Main Stage

Panel

All levels

Leadership

leadership

5

AI tools have changed what one person can build. A founder, an investor, an engineering director and a product leader on what that means for hiring, team shape and ambition.

0

team size, hiring, org design, ai tools

Grace Liu

Orbital

Amara Boateng

Fernway

Wei Chen

Halcyon Ventures

Noah Whitaker

Monogram

Wei Chen

lightning-small-bets

Lightning talks: small bets that paid off

1

12:30

13:10

Studio

Lightning

Intermediate

Product

product

4

Three quick talks on small product changes with outsized results: a changed default, a five-person test and a changelog people actually read.

0

experiments, quick wins, onboarding, changelog

Jonah Adeyemi

Stackwell

Tomás Ferreira

Arbor

Inês Carvalho

Quill

Tomás Ferreira

case-for-boring-architecture

Eight engineers, forty million requests: a case for boring architecture

1

14:30

15:10

Main Stage

Talk

Intermediate

Engineering

engineering

3

Stackwell serves forty million requests a day on a stack most teams would call dull. Daniel Reis on why that is a deliberate choice, and the three times it nearly wasn't.

0

architecture, monolith, reliability, small teams

Daniel Reis

Stackwell

Daniel Reis

retire-the-feature

Retire the feature: what we learned removing a third of our product

1

14:30

15:10

Studio

Talk

Intermediate

Product

product

4

In one year Tidewater's collaboration products removed more features than they added. Elena Petrova on how they chose, how customers reacted, and what it did to support and speed.

0

deprecation, product strategy, simplicity, customer communication

Elena Petrova

Tidewater

Elena Petrova

build-an-eval-suite

Build an evaluation suite for an LLM feature in two hours

1

14:30

16:30

Lab

Workshop

Advanced

Applied AI

ai

1

Bring a feature that uses a language model and leave with an evaluation suite for it: real test cases, graded outputs and a score you can track from one model change to the next.

36

evaluation, llm, testing, python

Kenji Arai

Corvid

Elif Demir

Tidewater Labs

Elif Demir

latency-is-a-design-material

Latency is a design material: interfaces for streaming models

1

15:20

16:00

Main Stage

Talk

Intermediate

Applied AI

ai

1

A model that takes eight seconds to answer is a design problem as much as an engineering one. Omar Saleh on AI interfaces that feel fast on slow phones and slower networks.

0

streaming, latency, performance, mobile

Omar Saleh

Lumio

Omar Saleh

org-chart-decisions

The org chart decisions you cannot take back

1

15:20

16:00

Studio

Talk

Intermediate

Leadership

leadership

5

Monogram's engineering team grew from twelve people to two hundred in four years. Noah Whitaker on the structural choices that were easy to change, and the few that were not.

0

org design, engineering management, career frameworks, on-call

Noah Whitaker

Monogram

Noah Whitaker

trust-is-the-product

Trust is the product: two years of shipping AI to people who did not ask for it

1

16:30

17:20

Main Stage

Keynote

All levels

Applied AI

ai

1

Halden's AI assistant drafts replies for support agents at twelve thousand companies. Zara Haddad closes day one with what two years, two model changes and a public apology taught her about trust.

0

ai products, trust, human in the loop, customer support

Zara Haddad

Halden

Zara Haddad

minutes-to-first-deploy

Developer experience is measured in minutes to first deploy

1

16:30

17:10

Studio

Talk

Intermediate

Engineering

engineering

3

Stackwell cut the median time from sign-up to a working deploy from twenty-six minutes to four. Jonah Adeyemi on the measurement, eleven rewrites and the fixes that were not in the docs.

0

developer experience, documentation, onboarding, cli

Jonah Adeyemi

Stackwell

Jonah Adeyemi

every-kilobyte-is-a-cost

Every kilobyte is a cost: designing for the next hundred million customers

2

09:30

10:15

Main Stage

Keynote

All levels

Product

product

4

Lumio serves three million small traders on low-cost phones and patchy networks. Maya Okafor opens day two with what designing under real constraints can teach every product team.

0

constraints, mobile, inclusive design, performance budgets

Maya Okafor

Lumio

Maya Okafor

we-deleted-our-spa

We deleted our single-page app and nobody noticed

2

10:30

11:10

Main Stage

Talk

Advanced

Engineering

engineering

3

Lumio replaced its dashboard's single-page app with server-rendered pages and small interactive islands. Omar Saleh on the migration, the numbers and the parts that were harder than expected.

0

performance, server rendering, javascript, migration

Omar Saleh

Lumio

Omar Saleh

accessibility-debt-compounds

Accessibility debt compounds faster than technical debt

2

10:30

11:10

Studio

Talk

Intermediate

Design

design

2

Kitebird became the first Nordic ticketing app to pass a full accessibility audit. Hannah Berg on why fixing it late cost four times as much, and how to stop the debt building up again.

0

accessibility, audits, inclusive design, wcag

Hannah Berg

Kitebird

Hannah Berg

observability-from-zero

Trace a real request end to end: observability from zero

2

10:30

12:30

Lab

Workshop

Intermediate

Engineering

engineering

3

A hands-on workshop in adding tracing, structured logs and useful metrics to a small but realistic app, then using them to find three bugs planted in it.

40

observability, tracing, opentelemetry, debugging

Lucas Moreau

Halden

Lucas Moreau

design-systems-are-a-product

Design systems are a product, staff them like one

2

11:40

12:20

Main Stage

Talk

Intermediate

Design

design

2

Northbeam's design system serves fourteen product teams with a team of nine. Priya Nair on running it with a roadmap, a support rota and adoption figures leadership actually reads.

0

design systems, adoption, components, staffing

Priya Nair

Northbeam

Priya Nair

your-evals-are-lying

Your evals are lying to you: measuring models on real work

2

11:40

12:20

Studio

Talk

Advanced

Applied AI

ai

1

Public benchmarks say models are nearly perfect at analysis. A benchmark built from real company data says otherwise. Elif Demir on what it takes to measure models honestly.

0

evaluation, benchmarks, data analysis, measurement

Elif Demir

Tidewater Labs

Elif Demir

who-is-accountable

Who is accountable when the agent gets it wrong?

2

12:30

13:15

Main Stage

Panel

All levels

Applied AI

ai

1

AI agents now take actions, not just make suggestions. A product manager, an AI product lead, an ML engineer and a CTO on who owns the outcome when one of them makes a mistake.

0

agents, accountability, incidents, ai policy

Daniel Reis

Stackwell

Zara Haddad

Halden

Kenji Arai

Corvid

Elena Petrova

Tidewater

Elena Petrova

lightning-details

Lightning talks: the details that do the work

2

12:30

13:10

Studio

Lightning

Intermediate

Design

design

2

Four short talks on small interface details that carried more weight than anyone expected, from a loading state to a single line of microcopy.

0

microcopy, loading states, components, interface design

Hannah Berg

Kitebird

Priya Nair

Northbeam

Tomás Ferreira

Arbor

Omar Saleh

Lumio

Hannah Berg

what-investors-read

What investors actually read in your product metrics

2

14:30

15:10

Main Stage

Talk

Intermediate

Leadership

leadership

5

Wei Chen has read hundreds of board decks. He explains which product numbers change an investor's mind, which get ignored, and why retention curves come before revenue.

0

fundraising, metrics, retention, boards

Wei Chen

Halcyon Ventures

Wei Chen

api-reference-is-onboarding

Your API reference is your onboarding: rewriting ours from scratch

2

14:30

15:10

Studio

Talk

Intermediate

Engineering

engineering

3

Most developers meet your product through its API reference, not its homepage. Jonah Adeyemi on how Stackwell rebuilt its reference around tasks, examples and errors.

0

api design, documentation, developer experience, openapi

Jonah Adeyemi

Stackwell

Jonah Adeyemi

discovery-sprint-in-an-afternoon

Run a discovery sprint in an afternoon

2

14:30

16:30

Lab

Workshop

Intermediate

Product

product

4

A hands-on workshop that compresses product discovery into two hours: frame the problem, talk to real people, test a rough prototype and decide what to build next.

36

discovery, user interviews, prototyping, research

Elena Petrova

Tidewater

Inês Carvalho

Quill

Inês Carvalho

own-the-metric

Own the metric, not the ticket: notes from a product engineer

2

15:20

16:00

Main Stage

Talk

Intermediate

Product

product

4

At Arbor, engineers own outcomes rather than tasks. Tomás Ferreira on what that changes day to day, from talking to restaurant owners to deciding not to build what the ticket asks for.

0

product engineering, ownership, outcomes, small teams

Tomás Ferreira

Arbor

Tomás Ferreira

small-models-next-to-the-data

Small models next to the data: running inference in every customer's region

2

15:20

16:00

Studio

Talk

Advanced

Applied AI

ai

1

Halden's European customers asked for their data to stay in-region. Lucas Moreau on swapping one large hosted model for small ones in six regions, and what it did to cost and quality.

0

inference, small models, data residency, infrastructure

Lucas Moreau

Halden

Lucas Moreau

the-company-is-the-product

The company is the product too

2

16:30

17:25

Main Stage

Keynote

All levels

Leadership

leadership

5

Amara Boateng closes Summit 2027 with what building Fernway taught her: the way a company works is something you design, ship and maintain, just like its software.

0

leadership, culture, company building, founders

Amara Boateng

Fernway

Amara Boateng

pricing-is-a-product-decision

Pricing is a product decision, so stop leaving it to finance

2

16:30

17:10

Studio

Talk

Intermediate

Product

product

4

Orbital's prices used to be set in a spreadsheet once a year. Grace Liu on bringing pricing into the product team, and how a new model changed what customers used and what got built.

0

pricing, packaging, monetisation, product strategy

Grace Liu

Orbital

Grace Liu

Doors, badges and breakfast

1

08:30

09:30

Doors

Foyer

Coffee

1

11:10

11:40

Coffee

Foyer and terrace

Lunch on the river terrace

1

13:15

14:30

Meal

River terrace

Coffee

1

16:00

16:30

Coffee

Foyer and terrace

Riverside reception

1

18:30

22:00

Social

River terrace

Coffee and pastéis de nata

2

08:30

09:30

Doors

Foyer

Coffee

2

11:10

11:40

Coffee

Foyer and terrace

Lunch on the river terrace

2

13:15

14:30

Meal

River terrace

Coffee

2

16:00

16:30

Coffee

Foyer and terrace

Closing drinks

2

17:30

18:00

Social

Foyer

Lisbon's rooftops and the river Tagus at dusk

Armazém 7 · Alcântara riverside

Lisbon, by the river.

A restored 1940s harbour warehouse under the 25 de Abril bridge, ten minutes from the centre by train, with a terrace on the Tagus.

Tickets

One price for everything, lunch included.

Every pass covers both days, every talk, the recordings and the riverside reception.

Summit 2027 · Lisbon

No. 001

Early bird

Ends 31 January

€490

€690

Both days, every talk, at the lowest price we will offer.

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Both conference days

Lunch, coffee and the reception

Recordings of every talk

Two workshop waitlists

Summit 2027 · Lisbon

No. 002

Conference

Most popular

€690

The full two days, with a guaranteed workshop seat.

Both conference days

One guaranteed workshop seat

Lunch, coffee and the reception

Recordings of every talk

Speaker Q&A rooms

Summit 2027 · Lisbon

No. 003

Team of five

€2,900

Five passes for the price of four and a bit, with one invoice.

Five conference passes

Five workshop seats

Reserved seating on the main stage

One invoice, names changeable until June

Prices exclude 23% Portuguese VAT.

From the 2026 edition

“The only conference where I came home with notes I actually used. The hallway conversations were as good as the talks.”

Lea Hoffmann

Design Director, Brightloop

“Forty-minute talks, no sales pitches, and a terrace on the river at lunch. Our whole team is coming back.”

Sam Okoro

VP Engineering, Parallel

“I booked a workshop seat on a whim and rebuilt our evaluation pipeline the week after. Worth the ticket on its own.”

Marta Nowak

ML Lead, Quill

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Who is Summit for?

People who build software products: designers, engineers, product managers, researchers, founders and the people who lead them. Talks assume you do the work, not that you are new to it.

Will talks be recorded?

How do workshops work?

Can I transfer or refund my ticket?

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9–10 June 2027 · Armazém 7, Lisbon

See you by the river.

Early bird passes are €490 until 31 January. After that, €690.

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