PHASE 01[PRE-EVENT]
01
Narrative before the flight
The week is won in the six weeks before it.
Deliverables (3)
- ▸Positioning
- ▸Proof
- ▸Pre-brief
Web Summit Lisbon · Nov 9-12, 2026 · MEO Arena▸ Event in--d·--h·--m·--s
70,000 people are in Lisbon that week. Twelve of them matter to you.
Web Summit is the largest tech conference in Europe and the hardest week of the year to be heard at. FORKOFF runs the activation around it: the curated room, the founder narrative, and the clip engine that keeps the week compounding after the arena empties.
Nov 9-12, 2026Dates
MEO Arena, LisbonVenue
Europe's largest tech conferenceScale
8 weeks recommendedFORKOFF lead time
The Lisbon problem
A booth at Web Summit puts you in front of thousands of people who are walking somewhere else. A curated dinner puts you in front of thirty who came to meet you. One of those produces a pipeline. It is not the booth.
Web Summit Lisbon circuit 2026
Founders, operators and investors the FORKOFF Lisbon radar tracks across the week.
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Organisations whose named 2026 speakers and delegations sit inside the cohorts FORKOFF briefs against. Speaker list per websummit.com, read 2026-09-06.
19Flagship event weeks in 2026
4 layersPre-event, on-site, post-event, distribution
3 tiersPer-event activation band (Lite, Standard, Full)
WeeklyAudit ledger cadence
Why LisbonFour reasons this week repays an
Four reasons this week repays an
activation rather than a ticket.
70,000+
Every cohort you sell to, in one city, for four days.
4 days
Fixed dates force decisions that email threads defer for months.
100-250
Small enough that the people you invited actually meet you.
30 days
Recorded properly, the week feeds a month of distribution.
Event intel
What the Lisbon week actually is.
Date and venue
November 9-12, 2026
Four days at the MEO Arena in Lisbon, with the Parque das Nacoes district carrying the side-event web. Dates confirmed on websummit.com.
Scale
Europe's largest tech conference
Web Summit is the highest-volume founder and investor gathering on the European calendar. That scale is the opportunity and the problem: attention is the scarce resource, not audience.
Who is in the room
Seed to Series C foundersEuropean and US venture investorsEnterprise buyers and corporate developmentTech press and creator mediaPolicy and regulatory delegations
FORKOFF operating record
42 events run since 2023Curated rooms sized 100 to 2505B+ views processed on the clip network$0.003 per qualified view, 99.71% legitimacy
Web Summit Lisbon activation · 4 layers × deliverablesEvery motion
Every motion
across four layers.
PHASE 02[EVENT WEEK]
02
The room, not the booth
A curated side event of 100 to 250 people built from an invite list we assemble against your ICP, in a venue in walking distance of the arena.
Deliverables (3)
- ▸Invite list
- ▸Venue
- ▸Hosting
PHASE 03[ON-SITE]
03
Capture on the ground
Every session, panel and fireside is recorded properly.
Deliverables (3)
- ▸Recording
- ▸Interviews
- ▸Photography
PHASE 04[POST-EVENT]
04
The month after Lisbon
The recorded week becomes vertical clip inventory distributed on the qualified-view model, so the four days keep earning through December rather than ending when the arena empties..
Deliverables (3)
- ▸Clipping
- ▸Distribution
- ▸Qualified views
Activation timelineEight weeks from brief to the arena.
Eight weeks from brief to the arena.
Operating cadence.
StrategyInviteRunDistribute
Event week
How the four days run.
| Day | Date | Motion | FORKOFF owns |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mon | Nov 9 | Opening night, arena keynote, first parties | Pre-brief, final invite chase, venue walkthrough |
| Tue | Nov 10 | Peak floor day, investor meetings cluster | Founder schedule managed, capture crew on the floor |
| Wed | Nov 11 | The FORKOFF room runs | Host, run-of-show, recording, follow-up capture |
| Thu | Nov 12 | Closing day, quieter and higher intent | Interviews, debrief, distribution brief written |
FitBuilt for founders who need Lisbon to produce pipeline,
Built for founders who need Lisbon to produce pipeline,
not a photo of a lanyard.
Who you are
- ›Seed to Series B founder attending Web Summit already
- ›Raising, hiring or launching inside the next two quarters
- ›Selling into tech, SaaS, deep tech or Web3 and AI
- ›Bringing a team of two or more to Lisbon
What FORKOFF delivers
- ›A curated room of 100 to 250 built against your ICP
- ›The narrative and the pre-brief that makes the room worth attending
- ›Full capture of the week to a cuttable standard
- ›A month of clip distribution priced per qualified view
Not the right fit
- ×You want a booth managed and nothing else
- ×You are measuring the week in badge scans
- ×You need attendance guaranteed by headcount rather than by fit
Engagement
Three ways to run Lisbon.
Every tier is scoped to the week and priced before it starts. Clip distribution bills per qualified view at $0.003.
3 tiersLite · Standard · Full
5/quarterEngagements per cycle
By applicationSelective on ICP
Presence
Scoped per brief
- Narrative and pre-brief
- Founder schedule built against your ICP
- Full week capture
- Post-week distribution brief
Recommended
Room
Scoped per brief
- Everything in Presence
- Curated side event, 100 to 250
- Venue, invite list and hosting
- Recorded sessions cut for distribution
- Attendee follow-up sequence
Week
Scoped per brief
- Everything in Room
- Multi-day activation across the district
- Press and creator media coordination
- 30 days of qualified-view clip distribution
FAQ · 6 questions
Frequently asked questions
When is Web Summit Lisbon 2026?
Web Summit Lisbon 2026 runs November 9 to 12, 2026, at the MEO Arena in Lisbon, Portugal. Dates confirmed on the organiser's own site, websummit.com, read on 2026-09-06.
Where does Web Summit Lisbon take place?
At the MEO Arena in Lisbon, in the Parque das Nacoes district. The surrounding district carries most of the side-event programme, which is where a curated activation sits rather than inside the arena itself.
Is a booth at Web Summit worth it?
It depends what you are measuring. A booth produces volume: badge scans, brief conversations, a list. A curated room of 100 to 250 people you invited produces conversations that continue after the week. If you need pipeline rather than reach, the room converts better per euro, which is why FORKOFF builds the activation around the arena rather than inside it.
How far in advance should we plan a Web Summit activation?
Eight weeks is the recommended lead time. Venues within walking distance of the MEO Arena are booked early, and an invite list built against a specific ICP takes four weeks to work through properly. Shorter runs are possible and the venue options narrow.
What does FORKOFF actually run at Web Summit?
The narrative and pre-brief before the week, a curated side event during it, full capture of the sessions, and a month of vertical clip distribution afterwards priced per qualified view. FORKOFF is the activation partner, not the event organiser: Web Summit is run by Web Summit.
How is the clip distribution priced?
At $0.003 per qualified view. A view counts only once it clears watch-time, policy, geo and traffic-validity checks, measured at 99.71% legitimacy across a network that has processed more than 5 billion views. Raw platform view counts are not billed.
Related
Where this activation connects.
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Proof · Web Summit track record
What is a Web Summit Lisbon activation?
A Web Summit Lisbon activation is a managed programme FORKOFF runs around the conference rather than inside it, for the week of November 9 to 12, 2026 at the MEO Arena. It covers the founder narrative before the week, a curated side event of 100 to 250 people built against your ICP, full capture of the sessions, and a month of vertical clip distribution priced at $0.003 per qualified view.
The record behind a Lisbon activation.
FORKOFF has run activations across 42 events since 2023, per our own operating record, including Korea Blockchain Week, ETHDenver and Token2049. Web Summit Lisbon runs November 9 to 12 at the MEO Arena, with the arena carrying the main programme and the Parque das Nacoes district carrying the side-event web. This is the largest room on the European calendar, and scale is exactly what makes a booth a poor instrument: seventy thousand people are walking somewhere, and almost none of them are walking to you. Our curated rooms run between 100 and 250 attendees, sized for a founder dinner or a moderated session where a real conversation starts. Forty-two weeks of activations taught us to build the invite list before the venue, because the room is the people, not the address.
What a week this size rewards.
A conference of this scale does not reward the loudest presence. It rewards the team that arrives with a narrative the room can repeat and a reason for a specific person to show up on a specific evening. Across 42 events we have found that the deciding factor is pre-work: a list built against the actual ICP, worked personally over four weeks, beats any amount of on-site energy. The second factor is capture. Most teams leave Lisbon with a camera roll and no inventory. A week recorded to a cuttable standard becomes a month of vertical distribution, which is the difference between four days of attention and a quarter of it.
Where this activation connects.
Lisbon runs on the same operating spine as every week on the roster. The event management service page owns the venue, the invite list and the recording that feeds the distribution. The clipping service owns what happens to that footage afterwards, priced at $0.003 per qualified view across a network that has processed more than 5 billion. And the events hub lays out the full calendar, so a founder can pair the November Lisbon week with the right follow-on room rather than treating each conference as a separate decision.
Reviewed by the FORKOFF events team, the operators who run these activations on the ground.
Lisbon 2026
Book the week before the venues go.
Eight weeks is the working lead time for Lisbon. Tell us who you need in the room and we will tell you whether the week is worth running.
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