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 digital twin of the venue. From your hotel room you keep your meetings on live video, watch Centre Stage, walk all five pavilions, catch the PITCH semi-final, and end the day at the Wine Summit.
The venue
MEO Arena, five pavilions and the riverfront. Minus the weather.
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.
Meetings
Every meeting you booked for Wednesday still happens.
You spent weeks filling that calendar. Bring it with you. Each Web Summit meeting becomes a table in the venue with live video. You walk over and sit down, and the other person is already there.
- Same time, same person. A 20-minute investor meeting at 10:20 is still a 20-minute investor meeting at 10:20.
- Live video at every table. Camera, microphone, and screen share for the deck.
- The places you already know. The Investor Meeting Area, the Attendee Meeting Area and Meeting Points 1 to 4 are where the app said they would be.
- Mentor Hours
- Investor meeting
- Masterclass 5
- PITCH semi-final
- Night Summit
Get your door link first.
The pass list decides who walks in first when the venue opens.
On the floor
Everything Wednesday was supposed to be.
Nine places to be, all a short walk apart. Nobody queues for a badge scan.
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01MEO Arena
Centre Stage
The keynotes, live on the main stage. Take a seat in the arena, or keep the stream in the corner while you walk the pavilions.
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0217 tracks
Stages 2 to 14
AI Summit on Stage 13, MoneyConf on Stage 8, Venture Summit on Stage 5, and the rest where the programme put them. Changing stage takes seconds.
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0317:00
PITCH semi-final
Tuesday's group rounds are done. The semi-final was set for Centre Stage at 17:00, and the founders still have a pitch to give.
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04Pavilions 1 to 4
Exhibition floor
Partner stands and the ALPHA, BETA and GROWTH startups, on the same aisles. Each stand has a demo running and a person on video.
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0520 minutes
Investor Meeting Area
Investor and startup meetings in the 20-minute slots you already accepted. Nobody reschedules three weeks out over email.
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06Five rooms
Masterclasses and Mentor Hours
Masterclasses run 45 minutes in rooms small enough to ask your own question. Founders keep the Mentor Hours they were matched for.
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07Community
Meetups and Mingle Areas
First-timers, product people, founders from your country. The Meetup rooms and the Mingle Areas are open all day.
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0816:00
Food and Wine Summit
The wine tasting was booked for 16:00 at the Wine Summit, north of Pavilion 4. It is still on. You supply the glass, and the minibar counts.
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09Pavilion 5
Night Summit
From 17:55 in Pavilion 5: Speed Networking, Pink Street and the Social Club. The people you met during the day are still around.
Wednesday 11 November
The day, as it was scheduled.
A few of the sessions that were on the programme before the storm warning. Lisbon time.
- The future of enterprise software has no middlemanCentre Stage
- The AI agent economyStage 13
- Who wins in the age of agentic AI?Centre Stage
- Pitching with purposeMasterclass 5
- The next financial crisis: Are we ready for what's coming?Centre Stage
- Wine tastingWine Summit
- The last days of the rules-based order?Centre Stage
- PITCH semi-finalCentre Stage
- Night SummitPavilion 5
Session titles and times are from the Web Summit schedule for 11 November 2026. Which sessions run in the digital venue depends on the speakers.
Do not lose the day you planned.
Leave your email now. We send the door link the moment the venue opens.
How it works
Three steps, no rain jacket.
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Request a pass
Leave your work email and tell us whether you are here as an attendee, founder, investor, speaker or partner.
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Bring your calendar
Connect the meetings you booked for Wednesday. Each one gets a table and live video at the time you agreed.
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Walk in
It runs in the browser on the laptop you brought to Lisbon. Nothing to install.
Fully digital, AI-native
A concierge at the door who already knows your schedule.
A physical venue has a help desk and a paper map. This one asks who you came to Lisbon to meet, then tells you which pavilion they are standing in. It moves Wednesday's meetings to tables in the meeting areas and warns you two minutes before each one starts.
We started building when the cancellation was announced on Tuesday evening. The pass list decides who gets in first.
Questions
The honest answers.
Is the venue open right now?
Not yet. It is under construction. Request a pass and you get the door link by email when it opens.
What do I need?
A laptop and a browser. Nothing to install. For meetings you need a camera and a microphone, which your laptop already has.
What happens to the meetings I already booked?
You bring them with you when you get your pass. Each Wednesday meeting gets a table in the venue and live video, at the time you agreed with the other person.
Can I watch the keynotes?
Yes. Keynotes run on Centre Stage inside the venue as live video, and Stages 2 to 14 carry the tracks.
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 and the role you picked, and use them to send you access to Storm Summit. This site sets no cookies and runs no trackers. The data is held in the EU by Taiga AI Oy, Finland.
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.