Thursday 12 November: what is on

By stage

Centre Stage, MEO Arena and FIL

• 10:00 Introducing: The next billion workers until 10:20 · Centre Stage · Summit
• 10:20 Build for people: A ‘human x car x home’ approach until 10:40 · Centre Stage · Summit
• 10:40 Beyond the IPO: The new exit playbook until 11:00 · Centre Stage · Summit
• 11:00 The $100 million prompt until 11:20 · Centre Stage · Summit
• 11:20 Will tech save the energy sector or break it? until 11:45 · Centre Stage · Summit
• 12:05 Reclaiming human agency in the machine era until 12:25 · Centre Stage · Summit
• 12:30 PITCH final until 13:00 · Centre Stage · Summit
• 14:00 AI’s octopus era until 14:20 · Centre Stage · Summit
• 14:40 Western tech: All is not lost until 15:00 · Centre Stage · Summit
• 15:00 PITCH winner announcement until 15:10 · Centre Stage · Summit
• 15:20 Chinamaxxing: The new era of Made in China until 15:40 · Centre Stage · Summit
• 16:00 Who gets a say in football’s future? until 16:20 · Centre Stage · Summit

Developer Lounge, MEO Arena and FIL

• 11:00 When agents write the code, does a framework like Angular still matter? until 11:55 · Developer Lounge · Our pick Our pick
• 14:00 (A)Identity: Auth tips to secure AI agents and MCP servers until 14:45 · Developer Lounge · Our pick Our pick
• 15:00 Be part of history: help build the first pages of the agentic web until 15:55 · Developer Lounge · Our pick Our pick

Masterclass 1 (Masterclasses), MEO Arena and FIL

• 13:00 Democratising AI platform engineering with open-source [Hosted by Cisco Systems] until 13:45 · Masterclass 1 · Our pick Our pick

Masterclass 2 (Masterclasses), MEO Arena and FIL

• 12:00 Can you trust your AI agent's accessibility? [Hosted by Deque] until 12:45 · Masterclass 2 · Our pick Our pick

Masterclass 3 (Masterclasses), MEO Arena and FIL

• 14:30 Building AI products without building everything [Hosted by Open VSX] until 15:15 · Masterclass 3 · Our pick Our pick

Meetup 1 (Meetup), MEO Arena and FIL

• 12:00 People in cybersecurity meetup until 12:25 · Meetup 1 · Our pick Our pick

Meetup 6 (Meetup), MEO Arena and FIL

• 13:30 Founders building in Portugal meetup until 13:55 · Meetup 6 · Our pick Our pick

Pavilhão de Portugal, Alameda dos Oceanos, Parque das Nações, Lisbon

• 07:30 Registration: collect your lanyard and wristband (bring your ticket QR from the Web Summit app and photo ID) until 16:45 · Pavilhão de Portugal · Registration

Stage 10 (Developer Summit), MEO Arena and FIL

• 10:30 Taming the agent swarm until 10:50 · Stage 10 · Our pick Our pick
• 12:40 Who holds the kill switch? until 13:00 · Stage 10 · Our pick Our pick
• 15:45 Rebuilding open source with AI: Lessons Learned until 16:05 · Stage 10 · Our pick Our pick

Stage 11 (Policy Summit), MEO Arena and FIL

• 10:30 Frontline Europe: AI, sovereignty and truth until 10:55 · Stage 11 · Our pick Our pick

Stage 13 (AI Summit), MEO Arena and FIL

• 10:30 When AI agents go rogue until 10:50 · Stage 13 · Our pick Our pick
• 11:50 Beyond the model: Scaling AI agents for professional work until 12:10 · Stage 13 · Our pick Our pick
• 13:40 Securing the software foundation of civilisation with AI until 14:00 · Stage 13 · Our pick Our pick
• 15:40 Search built for AI agents until 16:00 · Stage 13 · Our pick Our pick

Stage 2 (Press Conference), MEO Arena and FIL

• 11:00 Press conference: Unicorn Factory Lisboa, Hub 71, Instituto Caldeira & Q Branch launch a Global Program for Scaleups until 11:20 · Stage 2 · Press conference
• 11:30 Who Wins When AI Does the Shopping? (Press conference) until 11:50 · Stage 2 · Press conference
• 12:30 Press conference: Road 2 Web Summit 2026 Winner until 12:50 · Stage 2 · Press conference

Stage 7 (SaaS Summit), MEO Arena and FIL

• 12:00 Who let the agent in? until 12:20 · Stage 7 · Our pick Our pick
• 14:45 Pricing SaaS when users are agents until 15:05 · Stage 7 · Our pick Our pick

Stage 8 (Cybersecurity Summit), MEO Arena and FIL

• 10:05 AI vs. AI: The battle for the cyber advantage until 10:25 · Stage 8 · Our pick Our pick
• 10:25 Outsmarting AI: Defence at machine speed until 10:45 · Stage 8 · Our pick Our pick
• 10:45 The biological bottleneck until 11:10 · Stage 8 · Our pick Our pick
• 11:10 The attackers are open source. The defences aren't. until 11:30 · Stage 8 · Our pick Our pick
• 11:30 Big Tech detox until 11:50 · Stage 8 · Our pick Our pick
• 11:50 An AI identity crisis until 12:10 · Stage 8 · Our pick Our pick
• 12:10 It takes two to trust: Operationalizing public-private security until 12:30 · Stage 8 · Our pick Our pick
• 12:30 Is there a foreign operative on your payroll? until 12:45 · Stage 8 · Our pick Our pick
• 14:10 Zombie data: How your data comes back to haunt you until 14:30 · Stage 8 · Our pick Our pick
• 14:30 Securing the AI frontline until 14:55 · Stage 8 · Our pick Our pick
• 14:55 The real threat isn’t a nation-state, it’s a teenager. until 15:25 · Stage 8 · Our pick Our pick
• 15:25 The perimeter is dead. So what happens to trust? until 15:50 · Stage 8 · Our pick Our pick
• 15:50 Beyond the front door: Identity, access, and user trust until 16:10 · Stage 8 · Our pick Our pick
• 16:10 Brazil's blueprint for cyber resilience until 16:20 · Stage 8 · Our pick Our pick

Stage 9 (Growth Summit), MEO Arena and FIL

• 10:50 Connecting the bots: Building secure infrastructure for inter-agent communication until 11:00 · Stage 9 · Our pick Our pick
• 15:26 AI sprawl is exploding. Get ahead of governance and security challenges before it’s boo late until 15:37 · Stage 9 · Our pick Our pick

Unicorn Factory Lisboa

• 17:30 EIT Jumpstarter Awards Ceremony until 21:00 · Unicorn Factory Lisboa · Side event Our pick