How to prepare your startup for a big event, strike up conversations, and capture stories. Brunno Matias's perspective from covering Web Summit Lisboa.
The opening of Web Summit Lisboa connected agents, public services, and robotics. For entrepreneurs, the discussion comes down to redesigning processes, earning trust, and delivering results that justify the investment.
I've been returning to the event since 2017. Before starting another edition, I put together a few recommendations to turn these days into good conversations, learning, and next steps.
In São Paulo, more than 500 attendees, case studies from QuintoAndar and iFood (Brazil's dominant food delivery platform), and strategic people from OpenAI's global team gave scale to a conversation about how to create, coordinate, and evaluate work with AI.
In André Lopes's keynote in São Paulo, the pit crew became a metaphor for the work that makes AI work after the demo.
At the DevDay Exchange warmup in São Paulo, Rodrigo Terron and Marcelo Okano discussed experimentation, specification, and software review with AI.
From AI World to Beyond The Club, how Oracle connects data, agents, and applications to the operations of Brazilian companies.
How to evaluate the first engineering hire: customer context, autonomy, technical review, and accountability after launch.
