About Summit
A conference run like a product
Summit started in 2024 as a one-day meetup in a Lisbon warehouse. We still treat every edition the way our speakers treat their products: ship it, measure it, fix what people tell us.
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Why we started
The first Summit had 240 people, one room and a borrowed projector. We ran it because the conferences we went to had become trade shows, and the best conversations happened in the queue for coffee.
Four editions later the rules have not changed. Talks are reviewed blind and capped at forty minutes. Breaks are long. Sponsors never buy a slot on stage. And after every edition we publish what went wrong and what we changed.
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Builders in the room
Talks, never longer
Of 2026 attendees rebooked
Average talk rating
How we run it
Four editions
2024
One day, one room, 240 people in a warehouse in Marvila.
2025
Two days at Armazém 7. Workshops and the Studio stage arrive.
2026
1,200 people, 41 countries, captions on every talk.
2027
Fourth edition, five tracks, forty scholarships with travel.
The people behind it
Four organisers, about sixty volunteers on the days, and a lot of Portuguese coffee.
