Who is speaking
All 64 speakers on the event’s published list as of the 2026-09-13 snapshot, with the organisation each is listed under. Type to filter. Machine surface: people.json.
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| Name | Listed role | Organisation | Topics, as the event lists them | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andreia Gaudêncio | CNCA Project Internal Leader | BSC AI Factory | profile | |
| Paulo Andrez | Angel Investor & Author | Zero Risk Startup | From Zero to Funded: Angel Investment Playbook | profile · in |
| Luis Valente | CEO & Co-Founder | iLoF | Fundraising · Venture capital · LP / investor perspective · AI · Go-to-market | profile · in |
| Anmol Goel | CEO & Partner | Gacs Ltd & Gacsym Ventures | profile · in | |
| Karan Setiya | Fintech Venturing Manager | ABN AMRO Bank | LP / investor perspective · Founder journey · Go-to-market · Venture capital · European startups | profile · in |
| Rita Kastrati | CEO and Founder | Pioneering People | Fundraising · Sales · Hiring · Founder journey · Future of work | profile · in |
| Luis Gutman | Managing Partner | OW Ventures SCR | Venture capital · Product-market fit · Leadership · European startups · Scaling | profile · in |
| Héctor LV | Head of Corporate & Legal Counsel | Lexidy Law Boutique SLP | Fundraising · Go-to-market · Leadership · European startups | profile · in |
| Tina Valand | Generative AI Director | Accenture | AI · Go-to-market · Leadership · Future of work | profile · in |
| Vini Devnani | Fractional Head of People | JAB Holdings | Hiring · Leadership · Future of work · Mental health · Go-to-market | profile · in |
| Luiza Castro Rey | Partner & Co-Founder & Head of Corporate and Web3 | Fio Legal | Fundraising · AI · Leadership · Regulation · European startups | profile · in |
| Nashwa Shah | Founder, philanthropist and motivational speaker | Many | Sales · Leadership · Mental health · Future of work | profile · in |
| Rita Figueiredo | HEAD OF PORTUGAL | LEXIDY | Go-to-market · Leadership · Operations · European startups · Scaling | profile · in |
| Filipa Faria | People & Culture Transformation Leader | Fio Legal | Fractional Freelance HR | Hiring · Leadership · Mental health | profile · in |
| Ricardo | Speaker | Startup Summit | profile · in | |
| Raffaella Loncao | Founder & Managing Director | On This Planet | Hiring · Founder journey · Leadership · Future of work · Mental health | profile · in |
| Muhammad Farooq Rathod | CEO & Founder | UpStride Holdings | Go-to-market · Product-market fit · Founder journey · Operations · Leadership | profile · in |
| Zoya Mesaric | Executive Coach, Psychoanalyst & Trauma Specialist | Zoya Mesaric – Private International Practice | Mental health · Other · Leadership · Founder journey · Future of work | profile · in |
| Alexandra Isenegger | Founder & Managing Director | Linkilaw Solicitors, CBCA Group | Leadership · Founder journey · Scaling · Future of work · European startups | profile · in |
| Viachaslau Smirnou | CEO & Co-founder | Around PR Studio | AI · Other · Venture capital · Founder journey · European startups | profile · in |
| Román Knörr Durán | Marketing & Brand Strategist | Román Knörr | AI · Founder journey · Go-to-market · European startups | profile · in |
| Akshay Ruparelia | CEO & Co-Founder | Brdge | Leadership · Founder journey · Go-to-market · Scaling · Future of work | profile · in |
| Saachin Bhatt | CIO & Co-founder | Brdge | AI · Deep tech · Regulation · Product-market fit · Future of work | profile · in |
| Dina Kondratiuk | CEO & founder | Solegency | Fundraising · Leadership · Sales | profile · in |
| João Ramos | Innovation Orchestrator | Fast Track Ventures | Go-to-market · Leadership · Sales · Scaling · Future of work | profile · in |
| Thiago Vieira | Chief Legal Officer | Pactum Global | Scaling · Go-to-market · Regulation | profile |
| Diego Sampaio | CEO | Globalfy | Go-to-market · Operations | profile · in |
| Amit Grinvald | Communication Strategist & Public Speaking Coach | Independent | Fundraising · Leadership | profile · in |
| Janelle Harder | CEO & Founder | Humannovate Consulting | Leadership · Future of work · Founder journey · Other | profile · in |
| Kasia Szczesniak | Founder | Lisbon Business Leaders | AI · Leadership · Future of work | profile · in |
| Lisa Rebecca Press | Founder | Lisa Press Consulting | Fundraising · AI · Operations · Scaling · European startups | profile · in |
| David Graham | Managing Partner | Dyrectli Capital | Fundraising · LP / investor perspective · Go-to-market · Product-market fit · Founder journey | profile · in |
| Igor Nikolaiev | Co-founder and Chief Product & Technology Officer | Aiffin | AI · Go-to-market · Other · Product-market fit | profile · in |
| Precy Servito | Founder | KONNECT - AI + Human Strategy Execution Workspace | AI · Operations · Leadership · Hiring · Future of work | profile · in |
| Irina Shurmina | Founder | Ladies Who Talk | Leadership · Other · Founder journey | profile · in |
| Jorge Sebastiao | CEO and Co-founder | Ecox / Bombastic Burgh | AI · Deep tech · Fundraising · Founder journey · Future of work | profile · in |
| Anisha Yadav | Founder | First Ten Advisory | Product-market fit · Go- · Sales | profile · in |
| Lauren Mucklow | Co-Founder | What She Said Limited | Other · Founder journey · Leadership · Scaling · AI | profile · in |
| Max Rodman | Co-founder | MVMT Studio | Fundraising · Leadership · Founder journey · Mental health · Operations | profile · in |
| Sibilla Strupule | CEO & Founder | SibillaStrupule.com | Fundraising · Venture capital · LP / investor perspective · European startups · Go-to-market | profile · in |
| Mark Paul Haaksman | Co-Founder/ Fundraiser | Sotavento Angels Fund | Fundraising · LP / investor perspective · Founder journey · Other · Scaling | profile · in |
| Micael Lopes | CEO & Founder | TIME & SPACE | AI · Founder journey · European startups · Mental health · Other | profile · in |
| Satya Morarji | Founder | Freedom VAs | Hiring · Founder journey · Operations · Leadership · Future of work | profile · in |
| Tania Tome | American Business Awards® Judge, Global KeynoteSpeaker, Advisor, Innovation Catalyst & Author | BRANDULOGY | Leadership · Founder journey · AI · Future of work · Scaling | profile · in |
| Angelee SIDAR | Founder | FIIYS Ltd | Fundraising · Leadership · Founder journey · Scaling | profile · in |
| Ben Lakoff | Managing Partner | Bankless Ventures | Fundraising · Venture capital · LP / investor perspective · Product-market fit · Founder journey | profile · in |
| Rita Martins Freire | Marketing, CX & Growth Transformation Leader | Trivevo | Hiring · Operations · Leadership · Pricing · Go- | profile · in |
| Sebastian Horstmann | CTO & Co-Founder | Cosysense | AI · Product-market fit · Climate tech · Deep tech · European startups | profile · in |
| Sofia Bobrik | Founder & CEO | PR Agency TechWaves | profile · in | |
| Pedro Simões | Entrepreneur | JCI | Other | profile · in |
| Sylvie Ritt | Co-Founder | Time to Rise | Leadership · Founder journey · Mental health · Other · Hiring | profile |
| Daniel Grech | AI Enablement Consultant | Self-Employed | AI · Founder journey · Future of work · European startups · Deep tech | profile · in |
| Elias Flachowsky | Co-Founder | Time to Rise | Founder journey · Leadership · Mental health · Other · Sales | profile · in |
| Kristina Kutan | COO | VNTR Capital | Leadership · Operations · Founder journey · Venture capital | profile · in |
| Hudi Shehu | Founding Chairman | Business Network Albania | Founder journey · Leadership · Scaling · European startups · Operations | profile · in |
| Alexandre Daletchine | CEO & Foudner | Creativity Matter | Other · Mental health · Leadership · Future of work · Founder journey | profile · in |
| Slavi Slavev | Founder, AI Lead | Independent | AI · Founder journey · Leadership · Mental health · Future of work | profile · in |
| Wouter Heijnen | co-Founder and Startup Scout | Sotavento Invest | Fundraising · Go- · Product-market fit · Founder journey | profile · in |
| Diogo Mendonça | Investor - Tech Exec | Angels Way | Product-market fit · Sales · Operations · Leadership · Venture capital | profile · in |
| Lidija Krickovic | CEO & Founder | Growth Geek Unipessoal LDA | Scaling · Operations · Leadership · Exits / M&A · Hiring | profile · in |
| Ed Chandler | Founder & Principal Advisor | PriFly Advisors | Leadership · Scaling · Founder journey · Operations · Hiring | profile · in |
| Cíntia Costa | President | 351 Portuguese Startup Association | European startups · Leadership · Founder journey | profile · in |
| Olivia Page | CEO & Co-founder | Mykor | Fundraising · Venture capital · Founder journey · Climate tech · Scaling | profile · in |
| Olesia Rykova | CEO & Co-founder | SOULBRANDING | Go- · AI · Product-market fit · Founder journey · Leadership | profile · in |
What this list does not tell you
- 3 of 64 have no LinkedIn link on their card. That is a property of the published list, not a judgement about anybody.
- No card carries a country. The event states speakers and attendees from 40+ countries; this publication cannot verify or dispute that from the source, and records it as unverifiable rather than doubted.
- No card maps to a session. The agenda names sessions and the speakers page names people, and the two are not joined on the source. Until they are, this publication cannot tell you who is on which stage.
- The list moves. It gained 5 names and lost 1 between the two snapshots. What changed →
For an agent
64 speakers, machine-readable at /portugal/data/people.json, extracted from a frozen and hashed copy of the event's speakers page rather than from the live site. Each node carries the speaker's own page on the event site as its source. Biographies are deliberately not included — they are the speakers' and organisers' writing. Two things are read from each speaker's own frozen page without reproducing it: the event's Topics list (topics.json, verbatim) and the words that match the published lexicon (lexicon.json; the matched words only). No node carries a country, and no node maps to a session, because the source joins neither. This list changes: check changes.json before treating it as current.