Lisbon, Portugal · Event Life sciences partnering conference in Lisbon built around structured 1:1 meetings between biotech startups, pharma companies, and investors. Registration costs about EUR 2800+. Covers drug discovery, clinical development, and licensing. Essential for biotech startups seeking licensing deals, co-development partnerships, and Series A+ funding from specialized life-science investors.
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Porto, Portugal · Event A community-run technical infosec conference at ISEP Porto — workshops on Friday, then main tracks, villages, an electronic badge, and a Capture-The-Flag on Saturday, with roughly 800 attendees. Valuable for security-minded founders and engineers, and for any startup wanting to plug into Portugal's cybersecurity talent pool.
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Porto, Portugal · Event Builders Circle Porto is a small, application-only, operator-led one-day session organised by Product Circle for product managers and product leaders. Held at MC Digital in Porto, it covers product strategy, AI-era decision-making, discovery and growth for startup and scaleup operators in an intimate format.
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Cascais, Portugal · Event 10th edition at Nova SBE Carcavelos, theme 'Reignite Democracy'. Free convening of Nobel laureates, heads of state, activists and young leaders across five pillars including AI & Tech, Health & Preparedness and Global Peace. Limited seats.
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Lisbon, Portugal · Event ETHGlobal's flagship Ethereum hackathon returns to Lisbon. 36 hours of building with hundreds of Web3 developers, sponsor bounties, workshops & mentorship from leading protocols, closing with judged demos and prizes for the best on-chain projects.
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Lisbon, Portugal · Event European debut of the meetings-first fintech event: 2,500+ senior attendees, 650+ hosted buyers from banks & PSPs, and 25,000+ pre-scheduled double opt-in meetings across payments, banking, lending and embedded finance. 70% C-suite.
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Funchal, Portugal · Event A week-long founder retreat in Madeira combining business education, partnership-building, and wellness, aimed at established founders running profitable businesses rather than first-timers. Its value is high-trust networking and strategic-partnership formation in a small-group island setting, plus a tie-in to Madeira's digital-nomad ecosystem.
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Lisbon, Portugal · Event Networking night hosted during Web Summit week by the French Embassy and the French Tech community in Lisbon. Brings together French founders, international investors, and ecosystem partners for informal drinks and introductions. Valuable for French startups attending Web Summit and seeking warm connections with the Franco-Portuguese tech network.
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Braga, Portugal · Event Greenfest is Portugal's largest sustainability festival, with the 2026 edition moving to Braga. Structured around eight pillars including circular economy and green entrepreneurship, it mixes talks, exhibitions and activities for sustainability professionals, green founders and the wider public.
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Coimbra, Portugal · Event Coimbra's flagship developer conference: technical sessions plus a hands-on workshop day across Java, JavaScript and TypeScript, cloud, AI and ML, security, and architecture. For technical founders and engineers who want practical depth and to connect with Portugal's developer community beyond the Lisbon–Porto axis.
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Porto, Portugal · Event Billed as the biggest Kubernetes and cloud-native event ever held in Portugal — two days of keynotes, technical talks, and a sponsor expo at SuperBock Arena, run together with DevOps Days Portugal. For infrastructure-heavy startups and platform or DevOps engineers wanting deep cloud-native content and hiring reach in northern Portugal.
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Lisbon, Portugal · Event A builder-focused AI conference at the Champalimaud Centre, capped at around 400 engineers and researchers actively shipping models in production. For technical AI founders and ML engineers who want substance over marketing, with direct access to top labs and founding teams.
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Lisbon, Portugal · Event A one-day enterprise-AI gathering at the Lisbon Congress Centre with 30+ keynotes and workshops across three stages. Aimed at senior tech executives, founders, and policymakers — strong for AI startups seeking enterprise buyers, real implementation case studies, and curated networking.
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Lisbon, Portugal · Event A curated investor-founder matchmaking event in Lisbon connecting 200+ VCs and angels with 100+ pre-screened startups. Structured around 1:1 meetings and themed roundtables on fintech, healthtech, and climate tech. Backed by Beta-i and Portugal's startup visa ecosystem. Tickets from EUR 300 for startups.
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Lisbon, Portugal · Event Year-end informal meetup organized by Startup Lisboa for the Portuguese founder community. One evening of mulled wine, 3-4 short founder fireside chats, and open networking at Startup Lisboa's Lisbon office. 200+ attendees. Free with RSVP.
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Lisbon, Portugal · Event Catolica-Lisbon's annual sustainability convening at Beato Innovation District & Santander Center. ~700 attendees across keynotes, academic sessions & workshops on sustainable finance, policy and business under the theme 'Building Sustainability Together'.
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Lisbon, Portugal · Event One-day hiring event in Lisbon connecting 2,000+ developers and product professionals with 50+ companies recruiting in Portugal, including major European scale-ups and locally established tech employers. Free for candidates. Useful for startups looking to hire in the Portuguese market and for understanding local salary benchmarks and talent supply.
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Lisbon, Portugal · Event A Web3 and creative-economy summit bundling eight sub-events — including the Non Fungible Conference, Stablecoin Day, an agents-vs-agents hackathon, and Longevity Day — at Lisbon's Unicorn Factory. Useful for web3, AI, and creative-tech founders wanting exposure to major brand sponsors and the crypto-creative crossover.
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Porto, Portugal · Event Porto's annual tech conference showcasing the city's growing engineering community, with talks on software architecture, AI/ML, DevOps, and product management from local and international speakers. 2,000+ attendees. Tickets EUR 30-100.
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Lisbon, Portugal · Event Portugal's largest decentralised innovation festival — 250+ mostly-free events across 15+ cities, themed on AI, Web3, sustainability, and the future of work, anchored around Web Summit week. The single best week for a founder to tap the whole Portuguese ecosystem at once, with pitch sessions, tech days, and investor meetups nationwide.
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Lisbon, Portugal · Event Pragma Lisbon is a curated single-track Web3 summit organised by ETHGlobal, featuring high-signal talks from industry leaders for founders and builders. Held the day before the ETHGlobal Lisbon hackathon as part of the Onchain Lisbon week, it focuses on protocol design, scaling and the future of onchain applications.
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Lisbon, Portugal · Event A two-day product conference — a workshops day plus a talks day — at the Museum of the Orient on Lisbon's riverfront, for product managers, designers, founders, and leaders. Practical, craft-focused content on building better products, teams, and strategy, strong for early-stage founders refining product discovery and delivery.
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Lisbon, Portugal · Event SBC Summit is Europe's largest gaming, igaming and sports-betting industry conference, hosted across the Feira Internacional de Lisboa and MEO Arena in Lisbon's Parque das Nações. It convenes thousands of operators, technology suppliers, payments providers and investors for exhibitions, conference tracks, a startup and investment angle, and large-scale networking.
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Lisbon, Portugal · Event A two-day founder–investor conference at the Beato Innovation District with 150+ speakers and around 2,000 attendees from 40+ countries. Built around fundraising, AI, product, growth, and scaling, with speed networking, 1:1s, and investor office hours — high value for founders raising or hunting deal flow.
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Lisbon, Portugal · Event An invitation-style investor summit gathering roughly 300 vetted VCs, angels, family offices, and capital allocators during Web Summit week, a short walk from the main venue. For founders raising larger or later rounds, it concentrates curated deal flow and co-investment conversations away from the Web Summit crowd.
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Lisbon, Portugal · Event Major global tech conference in Lisbon attracting 70,000+ attendees, featuring one of the largest French national pavilions and a dedicated French Tech lounge. Covers AI, climate tech, fintech, and deep tech across multiple stages. Essential for European startups seeking global investor access, media coverage, and corporate partnership opportunities.
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