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Free, in-person expert talks, live demos and networking, every month in Lisbon. Expert-led, community-run, zero hype.
//Lisbon, Portugal·monthly since 2025·non-profit
Lisbon's expert
AI community.
Free, in-person meetups where practitioners go deep on AI engineering, strategy, governance and design. Expert-led and community-run. No product pitches, no hype, no AI for tourists.
- 1,045
- members
- 4.7★
- 127 ratings
- 13
- meetups held
- ~60
- per event
Next up
30JUL
Embrace:AI Summer Afterwork
Thursday, 30 July 202618:30–21:30Lisbon
Join Embrace:AI a for a special and more informal summer meetup! This will be a casual summer gathering - no talks, no slides, just drinks, food, and the chance to connect with Lisbon’s AI community in a relaxed and inspiring setting. Location La Serra Lx Bistro & Bar Rua Joao da, R.
RSVP on MeetupFree · seats are limited
01What we do
Running Lisbon's expert AI community.
The meetups run today. The rest is what we're building as we formalise into a non-profit. 100% of anything we raise goes back into the community.
Soon
Open learning platform
Talks go up on our YouTube channel. Write-ups and member resources are next, open to everyone, not just attendees.
Soon
Academy
Expert-led workshops for advanced skill-building. Priced to cover costs and pay the experts, never for profit.
Soon
AI for Good hackathon
Our first social-impact hackathon lands in October 2026, alongside open source and AI-for-good projects.
02Who's in the room
The full expert spectrum, not just engineers.
AI doesn't ship from one discipline. Our room mixes the people who build it, the people who fund it, the people who regulate it and the people who make it usable.
01
Tech
AI engineers, data scientists, ML researchers, full-stack devs
02
Strategy
AI leads, CTOs, product managers, founders and investors
03
Governance
Legal experts, AI Act specialists, policy advisors, compliance
04
Design & UX
UX/UI designers and human–AI interaction specialists
03Past talks
13 meetups and counting.
Hosted by companies across Lisbon, from Cloudflare to Devoteam. This list keeps itself up to date: events move here automatically once they've happened.
25 Jun 2026Rethinking knowledge in the Age of AI@ Quidgest28 May 2026Building Better AI Agents: From Production Decisions to Agentic Search@ Nagarro23 Apr 2026AI Risk, Human Layer & Building AI Strategy that works@ A Dama Rosa24 Mar 2026AI & Cloudflare + Design for plural intelligence + Demo@ Cloudflare Lisbon22 Jan 2026From Compute to Impact: Designing Sustainable AI Systems@ Devoteam10 Dec 2025Embrace:AI x The Kreators - Build 100 projects with AI + Productivity & AI@ The Kreators Studio
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06 Nov 2025Reasoning LLMs & Multimodal Architecture@ Unit409 Sept 2025Embrace:AI & Hands-On AI Lisbon// AI Summer Afterwork Sunset@ Rooftop do Carmo22 Jul 2025Build your Next(js) web app with ChatGPT@ Rauva04 Jun 2025Agentic AI: Valiantsin Zavadski, Hugo Alves, Vlad de Ziegler@ Evolution06 May 2025Embrace:AI x Lisbon GenAI Community // 2025.03: Voice AI + DOJO AI + Vibe Coding@ AI Hub20 Mar 2025Evaluating LLMs + Red Teaming GenAI Applications@ Devoteam20 Feb 2025Develop a Deep Intuition of LLMs + The AI Act Demystified@ A Dama Rosa// want to speak? Pitch us a talk. 20 minutes, no product pitches.
04Venues & hosts
They hosted us.
Every meetup happens at a company's office, with our host covering the room and the food. It costs them a venue and an evening; it gets them a room full of AI practitioners.
05Who runs it
International team. Portugal-based.
Embrace:AI is run by volunteers in their own time. Nobody takes a salary from it.
AS
Alexandre du Sordet
Co-founder
AI strategy & project management
🇫🇷 Lisbon
ED
Emilie Daio
Co-founder
AI transformation & automation
🇵🇹 Lisbon
PP
Philipp Pahl
Co-founder
AI engineer, RAG & AI advisor
🇩🇪 Algarve
CG
Carina Guedes
Core team
Marketing & content
🇵🇹 Lisbon
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Come for the talks.
Stay for the room.
Over a thousand practitioners in Lisbon already have. Joining takes one click and costs nothing. We're a non-profit and we intend to stay one.