Evening edition: Sunday 8 November

Published today

• Five AI builders on Web Summit's speaker list worth knowing. Web Summit's 2026 speaker list includes people building AI at every layer, from models to finished apps.
• Eleven health startups at Web Summit, by the problem they tackle. Eleven health and wellness startups appear on the first page of Web Summit's featured startups.
• Who builds an AI agent's parts? Startups at Web Summit. An AI agent needs a framework, data, computing power, an identity and rules, and something useful to do.

The latest

1. How many Brazilian startups came to Web Summit last year? Brazil brought one of the two largest delegations to Web Summit in 2025.
2. Beyond the pavilion: Brazil's year-round doors into Europe through Portugal. Behind Brazil's three days at Web Summit are links that stay open all year: Porto Digital's unit in Aveiro, the ApexBrasil and Sebrae incubator in Lisbon, Unicorn Factory Lisboa's Brazilian partners and a 2023 agreement between Sebrae and Startup Portugal.
3. Two editions a day: PrompTugal.news starts a daily newsletter. From 7 November, PrompTugal.news publishes a morning and an evening edition through Web Summit week: what is on today, then what happened and what is next.

Every article

Tomorrow

Five things to plan around tomorrow.

• All day Portugal Tech Week Palace (until 13 November) PTW Palace · Side event Our pick
• 07:30 Registration: collect your lanyard and wristband (bring your ticket QR from the Web Summit app and photo ID) until 22:00 · Humberto Delgado Airport, Terminal 1 · Registration · also at Pavilhão de Portugal, 12:00
• 10:00 Build Your Second Brain with Claude until 11:30 · PTW Palace · Side event Our pick
• 18:00 Opening Night 🎉 until 20:00 · Centre Stage · Summit
• 20:00 Asia-Pacific meet & greet until 20:55 · Meetup 2 · Night Summit

The whole day

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