Track / 01
The makers' floor.
BUILD
Developers, agents, infra, hackathons, and the founders shipping the next layer of the stack. Where AI gets built, broken, and rebuilt before sunrise.
PORTOAIWEEK
14 — 18 September 2026
A city-wide AI experience. Dozens of independent events, one Porto, one week.
5
Days
80+
Events
40+
Venues
10K+
Attendees (target)
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01What is Porto AI Week
An operating system for the city — running on artificial intelligence, culture and coffee.
For five days in September, Porto becomes a living laboratory. Workshops in 19th-century warehouses. Demos in coworking lofts. Late-night debates over vinho verde. Hackathons in design studios. A festival without a building — and a city that briefly feels like the future.
01
Decentralized
No single venue. No central stage. Porto AI Week is hosted by the city itself — every event independently programmed by founders, studios, universities and creators.
02
Plural
From hardcore developer hackathons to wellness rituals, founder dinners to gallery openings — AI shows up in every corner of culture, work and life.
03
Open
Anyone can host. Anyone can attend. The week is a protocol, not a product — a shared layer the community builds on together.
03Four tracks
Not a conference.
Four movements crossing a city.
Four tracks, deliberately. Each one a community in its own right — and a doorway into the others. The whole week is designed for overlap, collision, serendipity.
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The studio is the city.
CREATE
Designers, filmmakers, musicians, writers and the marketing minds redrawing taste in the age of infinite output. AI as instrument, not autopilot.
Track / 03
Operators, founders, future of work.
BUSINESS
The room where companies are imagined and rebuilt — founders, operators, agencies and the productivity tinkerers redesigning how work feels.
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The soul of the machine.
HUMAN
Wellness, education, philosophy, longevity, cities, culture. The long conversation about what we want to keep human as everything else gets automated.
The best moments live between the tracks — when a developer ends up at a wellness dinner, or a filmmaker walks into an agents hackathon. The week is designed for that.
04Host an event
You bring the event.
We bring the city.
Anyone can host during Porto AI Week — companies, founders, universities, studios, communities. Submit your event and our team will get back within 7 days with venue, comms and production support.
- Listed in the official program
- Featured on the city map
- Cross-promo to 10K+ attendees
- Optional production & venue support
07Who's building this
Lead Organizer
Gonçalo Hall
Gonçalo is the founder of NomadX — the leading media and events brand for the global builder and digital nomad economy — and the official lead organizer of Porto Digital Nomads, in partnership with Porto City Hall.
He has organized The Nomad World conference series across Europe and Latin America, consulted the governments of Portugal, Brazil and Rio de Janeiro on remote work policy, and spent five years building the rooms where the right people end up in the same city at the same time.
Porto AI Week is an extension of that practice — at city scale.
Porto City Hall PartnerANJE Partner
5+
Years organizing nomad & builder events
3
Government nomad programs consulted
2
Nomad World conference editions
Sept 10–13
The Nomad World Porto — anchor event at ANJE
Anchor Event
The Nomad World Porto
September 10–13, 2026 · ANJE, Porto
A 4-day builder conference for founders, creators and remote professionals — the flagship event that opens Porto AI Week.
08Partners
Built with the studios, brands and labs shaping what comes next.
Porto AI Week partners with a small circle of category-defining companies. We curate hard, protect the experience, and trade scale for signal.
Porto AI Week is built with a small circle of category-defining partners. We curate hard, protect the experience, and trade scale for signal.
3 Founding Partner slots · 4 Track Partner slots · Venue partners: open.
Tier 01
Founding Partner
3 spots
Title-level presence across the festival, hosted keynote and city activation.
Request the deck →Tier 02
Track Partner
4 spots
Own one of four tracks — BUILD, CREATE, BUSINESS or HUMAN. Program, brand, host.
Request the deck →06Why Porto
Europe's quietly creative AI city.
Porto sits at the intersection of three currents: a generational wave of Portuguese founders, a magnetic creative class relocating from Berlin, London and SF, and an Atlantic culture that takes life — and dinner — seriously.
Smaller than Lisbon, denser than London, warmer than anywhere north. It's where the next chapter of European AI is quietly being written — by people who still walk home along the river.
Sister cities /LisbonBarcelonaBerlinAmsterdam
3rd
Fastest-growing tech hub in EU
€1.2B
VC into Portuguese AI '21–'25
60+
Active AI studios in Porto
1.7M
Greater Porto residents
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