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Web Summit 2026 in Lisbon: Practical Guide to Dates, Badges, Transport and Food Near the Venue

Web Summit 2026 in Lisbon: Practical Guide to Dates, Badges, Transport and Food Near the Venue
Web Summit 2026 takes place in Lisbon from 9 to 12 November. More than 70,000 people are expected again: last year the conference set a record with 71,386 attendees from 157 countries.

Quick answers

When is Web Summit 2026?
9–12 November 2026: Opening Night on Monday 9 November, conference days 10–12 November.
Where is Web Summit 2026?
At MEO Arena and FIL, Rossio dos Olivais, 1990-231 Lisboa, in Parque das Nações. The nearest metro is Oriente (red line), about 300 m away; the North Entrance is near Moscavide metro.
Where do I pick up my Web Summit badge?
At Lisbon Airport, Terminal 1 (7–10 November) or at Pavilhão de Portugal next to the venue (7–12 November). Bring photo ID and your ticket in the Web Summit app. There is no pickup point in the city centre.
How do I get from Lisbon Airport to Web Summit?
Take the red metro line three stops to Oriente, about 10 minutes. Tap a bank card or phone at the gate: €1.92 per ride.
Is there a Web Summit transport pass?
Yes: €23 for 3 days or €31.50 for 5 days, valid on the metro, Carris buses and trams and CP urban trains. It is sold at the airport next to badge pickup.
Can I bring an umbrella to Web Summit?
Non-retractable umbrellas are not allowed at the venue, and Night Summit bans umbrellas of any size. Bring a compact folding one or leave it at the bag drop.
Where can I buy a SIM card near Web Summit?
In Centro Vasco da Gama, the mall above Oriente metro: MEO, Vodafone, NOS and WOO stores, open 08:00–midnight (shops from 10:00). Vodafone also has a shop at the airport.
Where can I get specialty coffee near Web Summit?
Sense of Coffee, Passeio Adamastor 10A, about 15 minutes on foot from Oriente, open every day 9:00–16:00. It is in Portugal's top 10 specialty cafés in the European Coffee Trip Awards 2025 and 2026.

Dates, address and entrances

Opening Night is on Monday, 9 November, and the main conference days are 10, 11 and 12 November. Everything happens in Parque das Nações, the riverside district built for Expo 98: the venue is MEO Arena and FIL, Rossio dos Olivais, 1990-231 Lisboa.
There are two entrances, South and North. The North Entrance is the one closer to Moscavide metro station, and after 17:00 it is the only way in. The main hub for public transport is Oriente station, about 300 metres from MEO Arena.

Walking routes from the metro. Entrances are marked approximately: on the day, follow the Web Summit signs. Tap ☕ to open our café in Google Maps.

Badge pickup

You need your badge before you can get in, and there is no pickup point in the city centre. Bring photo ID and have your ticket open in the Web Summit app. You get a lanyard and a wristband: losing one costs €100, losing both means buying a new ticket.
Lisbon Airport, Terminal 1:
  • Saturday 7 November: 09:30–22:00
  • Sunday 8 and Monday 9 November: 07:30–22:00
  • Tuesday 10 November: 07:30–15:00
Pavilhão de Portugal, Alameda dos Oceanos, next to the venue:
  • Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 November: 12:00–18:00
  • Monday 9 November: 12:00–22:00
  • Tuesday 10 and Wednesday 11 November: 07:30–17:00
  • Thursday 12 November: 07:30–16:45
The organisers say hours may change, so check the app before you go. Our tip: if you land on the weekend or on Monday, pick up the badge at the airport straight away. On the first conference morning the queues at the venue are long.

Getting there: metro, buses, the Web Summit pass

Oriente: metro, buses and trains in one station
Oriente: metro, buses and trains in one station

Metro

The fastest way is the red line. From the airport it is three stops to Oriente (Encarnação, Moscavide, Oriente), around ten minutes. From the city centre, take the green or blue line and change to the red line at Alameda or São Sebastião. The metro runs from 06:30 to 01:00, with trains every 6–7 minutes on weekdays.
The simplest way to pay is to tap your bank card or phone at the gate: €1.92 per ride, and it works at every station. Alternatively, buy a reusable Navegante card (€0.50) at a machine and load single tickets (€1.90), a 24-hour ticket (€7.25) or Zapping credit.

The Web Summit Transport Pass

CP, Metro and Carris sell a special pass for the conference week:
  • 3 days (72 hours): €23
  • 5 days (120 hours): €31.50
The card is included, and the clock starts at your first ride. The pass covers the whole metro, Carris buses and trams, and CP urban trains on the Sintra, Cascais, Azambuja and Sado lines. It does not cover tourist routes or airport transport services. It is sold in person at the airport, next to the badge pickup area: 7 November 09:30–22:00, 8–9 November 07:30–21:30, 10 November 07:30–14:30.
Do the maths before you buy. If you only commute between your hotel and the venue, tapping a card is cheaper: six rides over three days cost about €11.50. The pass pays off if you also take trams around the centre or a train to Cascais or Sintra.

Buses and the shuttle

During the conference Carris runs a shuttle between Praça do Comércio and Oriente: from Praça do Comércio from 08:00 to 20:00, from Oriente from 08:45 to 20:45. Regular buses to Oriente from the airport are the 705 and 744; from the centre, the 708, 728, 744, 759, 782 and 794. A ticket bought from the driver costs €2.30, so a card or pass is cheaper.

Trains, taxis and ride-hailing

Taxis, Uber and Bolt in Portugal are among the cheapest in Europe. The catch is traffic: at the start and end of each day the roads around Parque das Nações jam up, and the metro is usually faster. The venue has dedicated drop-off and pickup points for cars. Oriente is also a major train station: from Sete Rios or Entrecampos you can take a CP urban train straight there. As of 3 November, no transport strikes have been announced for the conference days.

SIM cards and internet

If your SIM is from an EU country, you don't need anything: roaming in the EU works at your home rates. Everyone else will want a local SIM or an eSIM. Typical prices as of November 2026:
  • Vodafone Ready prepaid: €10 for 4 weeks with 55 GB and 1,000 minutes, or €15 for 95 GB. Tourist packs at the airport shop usually cost more, around €20 for 20 GB for 30 days.
  • MEO prepaid: 50 GB for €2.50 a week (about €10 a month), or 100 GB for €15 a month.
  • NOS prepaid: about €10 a month with several dozen GB; the tourist SIM is around €15.
  • WOO (NOS's budget brand): 100 GB for about €5–6 a month, no contract.
  • Digi, the cheapest: 50 GB for €4 a month, 150 GB for €5, 200 GB for €7. The SIM costs €10, but that amount goes onto your balance.
  • Travel eSIM, bought online before the trip: Airalo is about €10 for 10 GB for 30 days; Holafly unlimited is about €27 for 7 days.
Where to buy: Vodafone has a shop at the airport. Next to the venue, the Centro Vasco da Gama mall has MEO, Vodafone, NOS and WOO stores. It sits right on top of Oriente metro station and is open from 08:00 to midnight, with shops from 10:00. Digi is only sold by its own resellers, not at the airport or in that mall. Prices change, and in-store offers may differ. The venue has free Wi-Fi, but with 70,000 people on it your own data is more reliable.

Weather and what to bring

November in Lisbon is mild, with average highs of 18°C and lows of 12°C. But November is when the rainy season starts, and showers can be frequent. The forecast for the summit days is below, and it updates by itself.
What helps:
  • A light waterproof jacket. Non-retractable umbrellas are banned at the venue, and Night Summit bans umbrellas of any size. Bring a compact folding one, or leave it at the bag drop.
  • Comfortable shoes. FIL pavilions are huge, and people walk 10–15 km a day. Lisbon's stone pavements get slippery in the rain.
  • A small bag. Bags bigger than a backpack or laptop bag aren't allowed in. There are bag drops at both the South and North entrances.
  • A power bank and a card. All food outlets at the venue are cashless. You may bring your own food and a reusable cup.

Is Web Summit worth it?

It depends on what you come for. In 2025 the conference had 71,386 attendees from 157 countries, a record 1,857 investors, and around 2,500 exhibiting startups. A general ticket for 2026 costs €1,595 including VAT, and a "2 for 1" offer is running on the official site. The free developer tickets are already sold out.
For founders and sales teams the value is in meetings, not talks. People who get the most out of it book meetings in the Web Summit app a week ahead and spend the evenings at side events. If you only want the content, many talks appear online afterwards. If you want people, Lisbon in conference week is hard to beat.

Who to see

The official list has more than 900 speakers. The biggest AI labs are not on it this year: no OpenAI, Anthropic, Google or Nvidia. Instead there is a strong Chinese AI delegation and plenty of founders of fast-growing AI startups. Our picks:

AI

  • Anton Osika, CEO of Lovable: apps and websites from a text prompt, one of Europe's fastest-growing startups
  • Michele Catasta, President of Replit: a coding environment with an AI agent
  • Tao Zhang, co-founder of Manus AI: an AI agent that completes tasks on its own
  • Richard Socher, CEO of You.com: AI search
  • May Habib, CEO of WRITER: AI for enterprise writing
  • Kamil Sindi, CTO of Runway, and Andreas Blattmann, co-founder of Black Forest Labs: video and image generation
  • speakers from Moonshot AI (Kimi), MiniMax and Tencent

Tech and business

  • Rene Haas, CEO of Arm: almost every smartphone in the world runs on Arm's architecture
  • Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflare
  • Mike Cannon-Brookes, CEO of Atlassian
  • George Kurtz, CEO of CrowdStrike
  • Jen Wong, COO of Reddit
  • Kirill Skrygan, CEO of JetBrains

Robots

  • Li Chen, co-founder of Unitree, and the AgiBot team: their humanoid robots are listed in the programme as speakers in their own right

Politics

  • Henna Virkkunen, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for tech
  • Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland, The Elders
  • Carlos Moedas, Mayor of Lisbon

Sport and culture

  • Thibaut Courtois, Real Madrid goalkeeper and investor
  • Michael Johnson, Olympic champion
  • David Jones, creator of Lemmings and the first GTA
  • Tilly Norwood, the "AI actress", with her creator Eline van der Velden
  • Liam Cunningham, actor (Game of Thrones)
The full list and schedule are on the Web Summit website and in the app.

Side events, Portugal Tech Week and Night Summit

Half of Web Summit happens outside the venue. The main places to look:
Night Summit has changed this year. The official evening programme now runs at the venue itself, in Pavilion 5 at FIL, for badge holders only: Monday 20:00–23:00, Tuesday and Wednesday 18:00–21:00. On top of that, Night Summit Downtown is open to everyone from 21:00 to midnight: Tuesday 10 November at Quiosque Lisboa in Praça São Paulo (Cais do Sodré) and Wednesday 11 November at Quiosque Lisboa in Príncipe Real.
A few 2026 side events worth a look (registration on Luma, places go fast):

Around the venue: shops, pharmacy, money

Almost everything you might need is in Centro Vasco da Gama, the mall above Oriente metro station:
If you need a quiet place to work, there are coworking spaces on Avenida D. João II, such as Avila Spaces at no. 52. For a break between sessions, the riverside promenade starts right behind the venue. The Telecabine cable car runs along the river from 11:00 to 18:00 (€7.50 one way, €9.50 return), and the Oceanário is open 10:00–20:00.

Where to eat and drink coffee near the venue

Food at the venue means queues and conference prices, and Parque das Nações is full of good places within a ten-minute walk.
Sense of Coffee, Parque das Nações
Sense of Coffee, Parque das Nações📍 Passeio Adamastor 10Aabout 15 minutes' walk from Oriente along the river, next to the Oceanário🕘 Every day 9:00–16:00Specialty coffee and all-day brunch: syrniki, eggs Benedict, shakshuka
Sense of Coffee & Wine, Baixa
Sense of Coffee & Wine, Baixa📍 Rua dos Fanqueiros 2673 minutes from Rossio metro, if you're staying in the centre🕘 Every day 9:00–16:00Breakfast before you head to the venue, or a meeting on a day off
For the second year in a row Sense of Coffee is among the top 10 specialty cafés in Portugal in the European Coffee Trip Awards. Last year our cafés hosted several Web Summit breakfasts and meetups, and this year three side events are already booked across our two cafés.
For where else to have lunch, work and take a break near the venue, see our local guide to Parque das Nações, plus our guides to brunch in Parque das Nações and the best coffee shops in Lisbon. See you at the summit, and come by for a coffee between sessions.
Information checked on 3 November 2026 on the official Web Summit, CP, Metro de Lisboa and Centro Vasco da Gama websites. Times and prices can change, so check the Web Summit app before you go.

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