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.

An audience seated in rows, watching a talk in a large auditorium

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.

Guests raising glasses for a toast at a long dinner table

Builders in the room: 1,400
Talks, never longer: 40min
Of 2026 attendees rebooked: 87%
Average talk rating: 4.8/5

How we run it

Blind review
Every proposal is read without a name or company attached. Half our 2026 speakers had never spoken at a conference.
Forty minutes, never more
Long enough to say something real, short enough that nobody checks their phone.
Breaks are the point
Thirty-minute coffees and a long lunch outside, because most of the value is between talks.
Published feedback
After every edition we share the scores, the complaints and the changes, in public.