Storm Summit Lisbon · 11 November 2026 PT Request a pass

Lisbon · Wednesday 11 November · Red wind warning

Wednesday is cancelled. Your meetings are not.

Storm Charles closed day two of Web Summit. Storm Summit opens it again as a multiplayer world. From your hotel room you make an avatar, walk all five pavilions, find the people you came to meet and start talking. There is coffee in every pavilion, and the day ends at the Wine Summit.

I am here as

Make an avatar, get a coffee and walk the floor. The people you planned to find are walking it too.

Doors open Wednesday 11 November, 08:30 Lisbon time

Stay indoors and follow the Portuguese authorities. Emergency number: 112.

Request a pass

Doors open Wednesday at 08:30 Lisbon time. Leave your email and we send your door link.

Run by Taiga AI Oy, Finland. We use your email only to send your door link. You can remove it yourself at any time.

The venue

MEO Arena, five pavilions and the riverfront. Minus the weather.

Map of the Storm Summit digital venueAn isometric map following the Web Summit site in Lisbon. In the west, the MEO Arena with Centre Stage and the Speaker Lounge. Next to it the Food Summit and the masterclass rooms. Running east, Pavilions 1 to 5 with stages 03 to 14, exhibition stands and meeting points. The Wine Summit sits north of Pavilion 4 and the river runs along the south. People walk between them.PAVILION 1STAGES 03–04PAVILION 2STAGES 05–07PAVILION 3STAGES 08–10PAVILION 4STAGES 11–13PAVILION 5STAGE 14 · NIGHT SUMMITMASTERCLASSESRIO TEJO03040506070809101112131401 CENTRE STAGE · MEO ARENASPEAKER LOUNGEFOOD SUMMITWINE SUMMITNORTH ENTRANCENETWORKING GARDEN

Storm Summit venue mapConcept render, not to scale

120 km/h
peak gusts forecast by IPMA
~70,000
attendees expected this week
900
speakers on the programme
2,000+
startups exhibiting

Figures as reported on 10 November 2026 by Euronews, The Irish Times and TNW.

People

The people you came to meet are walking the same floor.

Nearly everyone you see in the venue is a real person at a laptop, most of them in a hotel room near yours. Walk up and tap them. Their badge opens, and from the badge you can start talking.

  • Lanyard badges. Name, role, where they are standing and a QR code, like the one you wore on Tuesday.
  • Conversations. Start one from any badge. It opens as a text chat between the two of you, with video calls on the way.
  • The places you already know. The Investor Meeting Area, Mentor Hours, the Meetup rooms and Meeting Points 1 to 4 are where the app said they would be.
Founder

Your name here

Pavilion 2 · BETA 1

Conversation Example

Still on for 10:20?

Yes. Investor Meeting Area. I am the one in the yellow poncho.

Walking over.

Illustration

Get your door link.

Passes go out in the order people sign up.

On the floor

Nine places to be on Wednesday.

All a short walk apart, or one tap on the venue map.

  1. 01MEO Arena

    Centre Stage

    Take a seat and the stage fills your screen. The talks on it were written overnight and approved by nobody.

  2. 0217 tracks

    Stages 3 to 14

    Every track has its stage, and every stage has a talk running to match. Everyone in the audience sees the same slide.

  3. 03Pavilions 1 to 5

    Stands and swag

    The exhibition floor under its real stand names, with the ALPHA, BETA and GROWTH startups in their zones. Tap a stand to see who is there, then take the swag. Your avatar wears it out.

  4. 04Every pavilion

    Coffee, food and consequences

    Coffee carts in every pavilion and twelve food stalls between them. Caffeine makes you walk faster. Skip lunch and you slow down.

  5. 05Silver badges

    Investor Meeting Area

    It is where the app said it would be. So are the platinum investors, who have a habit of leaving just as a founder arrives.

  6. 06Five rooms

    Masterclasses and Mentor Hours

    The five masterclass rooms and the Mentor Hours tables are on the map. Sit down and see who joins you.

  7. 07Community

    Meetups and Mingle Areas

    Meetup rooms 1 to 6 and the Mingle Areas. Send a friend the link and pick one to meet at.

  8. 08Six regions

    Wine Summit

    A walled garden north of Pavilion 4. Six stalls, one per wine region, and a pass to fill. Pace yourself: security does walk people out.

  9. 09Pavilion 5

    Night Summit

    Pavilion 5 after hours, with Pink Street, the Disco Bar and the Social Club.

Wednesday 11 November

What was on for Wednesday.

A few of the sessions that were on the programme before the storm warning. Lisbon time.

  1. The future of enterprise software has no middlemanCentre Stage
  2. The AI agent economyStage 13
  3. Who wins in the age of agentic AI?Centre Stage
  4. Pitching with purposeMasterclass 5
  5. The next financial crisis: Are we ready for what's coming?Centre Stage
  6. Wine tastingWine Summit
  7. The last days of the rules-based order?Centre Stage
  8. PITCH semi-finalCentre Stage
  9. Night SummitPavilion 5

This is the original Web Summit schedule for 11 November 2026. In the venue, the Programme takes you to each of these stages. What plays on the screens there is our own line-up, not these sessions.

Keep the day you planned.

Leave your email and the door link arrives before doors open at 08:30 Lisbon time.

How it works

From email to avatar in three steps.

  1. 1

    Request a pass

    Leave your work email and tell us whether you are here as an attendee, founder, investor, speaker, partner or exhibitor.

  2. 2

    Make your avatar

    Pick a name, a role and a look. Rain jacket or poncho, umbrella optional.

  3. 3

    Walk in

    It runs in the browser on your laptop or phone. Nothing to install.

Fully digital, AI-native

Built overnight by AI agents, for a day nobody planned.

On Tuesday evening there was a cancellation notice and no venue. By Wednesday morning there is one, built through the night by a team of AI agents with a few humans pointing.

Some of it you will have to find yourself. There are organisers who only answer in Portuguese. There is someone called Charlie, and we are not saying where.

Questions

Is it open yet, and eight other questions.

Is the venue open right now?

Not yet. Doors open on Wednesday 11 November at 08:30 Lisbon time. Request a pass and you get the door link by email.

Who runs Storm Summit?

Taiga AI Oy, a software company from Finland, builds and operates it for Web Summit attendees. Official Web Summit information stays on websummit.com and in the Web Summit app.

What do I need?

A laptop or a phone with a browser. Keep your camera and microphone to hand for video calls.

What happens to the meetings I already booked?

Nothing moves over automatically. Send the other person the link, then meet where you had planned: the Investor Meeting Area and the Meeting Points are on the venue map. Tap their badge to start talking.

Can I watch the keynotes?

Not the real ones. Every stage runs a talk, but we wrote them overnight and they are not serious. The real programme stays with Web Summit.

Is there video?

Video calls are being built into conversations. Until they are switched on, a conversation is a text chat.

What about Thursday?

Web Summit has said it aims to hold day three in person as planned. Check websummit.com and the Web Summit app for the official programme and updates.

What do you do with my email?

We store your email address, the role you picked and the time you signed up, and use them to send you access to Storm Summit. We use cookieless analytics to count visits and pass requests. The data page explains this and lets you remove your email.

Should I go outside to find better wifi?

No. Stay indoors and follow the instructions of the Portuguese authorities. Doing this from your room is the whole idea.

Day three is planned for Thursday.
Wednesday does not have to be a write-off.

One email when the doors open. Nothing else.