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Practical AI, shared in person.

Real demos, useful conversations, no sales pitches.

A monthly meetup for people building, deploying or learning AI.

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Fri 13 Nov · 08:00 to 20:00 · Hotel Júpiter, Saldanha

Unblock AI Conference 2026

Leave ready to put AI to work.

100 seatsTalks3 hands-on workshopsNetworking

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Unblock AI Unblock AI

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How we run it

Useful stories, without the hype

Live demos only

Speakers show real terminals, code repositories and running workflows.

Real production cases

Concrete lessons on latency, cost, evaluations and architecture trade-offs.

No pitch decks

No vendor sales pitches or recruitment monologues. Peers learning from peers.

Free and open

Always free to attend, open to every background and level of experience.

The organisers

Built by people who build

"We started Unblock AI to give Lisbon a place to talk, show and tell about AI."

Diogo Figueiredo
Diogo FigueiredoEngineer and founderLinkedIn of Diogo Figueiredo
Catarina Canelas
Catarina CanelasAI community and opsLinkedIn of Catarina Canelas
Pedro Ganço
Pedro GançoProduct and tech leadLinkedIn of Pedro Ganço

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