Summit/27 Tickets

Vela, on the Sorra
Armazém 9, on the river

Workshops 13 May
Talks 14–15 May

Early bird open
€390 until 31 Jan

Build things that last.

Two days of talks and a day of workshops for designers, engineers and product people who would rather maintain something good than launch something loud. 1,200 seats, one big warehouse by the Sorra.

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38 speakers from 14 countries

Why Summit

Most conferences sell you the next big thing. We’d rather talk about the twelve-year-old codebase, the design system nobody owns, and the people who keep it all running.

Seats, and not one more
1,200
Speakers, all practitioners
38
Tracks: Build, Shape, Lead
3
Sponsored keynotes
0

Speakers

38 speakers.
Zero sales pitches.

Everyone on stage has shipped, maintained or rescued the thing they’re talking about. A first eight, with thirty more announced on 1 February.

Agenda

Three days,
three tracks.

  • Build: engineering
  • Shape: design & research
  • Lead: product & teams

Thursday 13 May Workshops

  1. Registration, coffee and pastéis de nata

    Foyer

  2. Auditing a design system you inherited

    Hana Kowalczyk

    Studio AShape

  3. Postgres for people who are scared of Postgres

    Dev Raman

    Studio BBuild

  4. Long lunch by the river

    Terrace

  5. Running a roadmap without dates

    Inés Cardoso

    Studio CLead

  6. Writing interfaces out loud

    Amara Oduya

    Studio AShape

  7. Welcome drinks on the roof

    Roof

Friday 14 May Day one

  1. Doors, badges, very strong coffee

    Foyer

  2. Opening: The ten-year feature

    Amara Oduya

    Main hallShape

  3. Boring is a feature: our 12-year-old monolith

    Tomás Reigada

    Main hallBuild

  4. Research that survives the reorg

    Sofie Lindqvist

    River roomLead

  5. Type that loads in 40 kilobytes

    Yuki Tanabe

    Main hallShape

  6. Lunch: grilled fish, salads, a nap if needed

    Terrace

  7. What we deleted in 2026, and why nobody noticed

    Kwame Asante-Boyd

    Main hallBuild

  8. Panel: Small teams, big systems

    Inés Cardoso, Dev Raman, Hana Kowalczyk

    River roomLead

  9. Lightning talks: eight people, five minutes each

    Main hall

  10. Summit dinner at the old fish market hall

    Fish hall

Saturday 15 May Day two

  1. Coffee, and a quiet room for laptops

    Foyer

  2. Accessible by default, not by ticket

    Hana Kowalczyk

    Main hallShape

  3. The on-call rota people volunteer for

    Dev Raman

    River roomBuild

  4. Pricing honestly

    Inés Cardoso

    Main hallLead

  5. Lunch, and the hallway track

    Terrace

  6. Design reviews that don’t hurt

    Marisol Ferraz

    River roomShape

  7. A 9 KB front end for a 9-million-user service

    Oskar Brandt

    Main hallBuild

  8. Shipping slower, on purpose

    Priya Natarajan

    Main hallLead

  9. Closing: What lasts

    Sofie Lindqvist

    Main hall

  10. Farewell sardines on the quay

    Quay

Venue

A warehouse on the Sorra.

Armazém 9 stored salt cod for a century. Now it holds one main hall, a river room, three workshop studios and a roof that catches the sunset over the bridge.

Address
Armazém 9, Cais da Sorra 47
Vela 4170
Getting here
Vela Central metro and train, six minutes on foot. Ferries from the south bank every 20 minutes.
Where to stay
15% off at three hotels within ten minutes’ walk with code SUMMIT27.
In May
Around 22°C, long evenings, light layer recommended for the roof.

Tickets

Pick a stub.

Every ticket includes all talks, lunch both days, the dinner after day one and recordings for a year. Prices include VAT.

Student, nonprofit or between jobs? We set aside 120 tickets at €95. Write to us, no proof needed.

I came for the monolith talk and left with a plan to delete forty percent of our code. Best two days of the year, and the sardines were not a joke.

Rita Okafor-LundEngineering manager, Harbourline Energy · Summit 26

No vendor booths, no lanyard scanners. Just people who do the work, talking about the work.

Joaquim Pires, product designer

The workshop paid for the trip before lunch.

Leah Morgenstern, researcher

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