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Wednesday, Sep 16

4 live sessions. Join on Zoom, watch the YouTube stream or catch the recording afterwards.

Sessions

Business Insights

Pitching & Public Speaking

1:00 PM Lisbon

Speaker

Sandra Da Silva LinkedIn

NLP Trainer and Corporate Well-Being Coach, TEDx Speaker. With more than 25 years of corporate experience, Sandra bridges business strategy with human transformation.

What to expect

This practical and engaging session is designed to help participants develop the confidence, structure and communication skills needed to present their ideas clearly, persuasively and with impact. Participants will learn how to manage nerves, structure a compelling pitch and communicate in a way that captures attention.

Business Insights

Founder Mindset / Startup Building

2:00 PM Lisbon

Speaker

Maria Stylianou LinkedIn

Tech Leadership Consultant specializing in hyper-growth orgs, with 10+ years scaling engineering teams at Monzo and Marshmallow. Founder of Google Developer Groups Cyprus.

What to expect

How can you turn a vision into something you can build, test and learn from? In this practical masterclass, you'll learn the framework: defining your idea's core value, deciding what can wait, identifying the smallest version worth building and creating a clear sequence of first steps.

AI Essentials

How to Create a Software Product Using AI

4:00 PM Lisbon

Speaker

Vlad Kornyshev LinkedIn

Product Leader and AI Educator helping PMs, founders and teams integrate LLMs into research, architecture and rapid prototyping to ship software faster.

What to expect

AI doesn't replace product thinking — it amplifies it. This practical 60-minute session breaks down the modern product design framework, showing how to turn raw ideas into validated prototypes using AI as a research accelerator and development partner.

AI Essentials

Using AI in Building an App

5:30 PM Lisbon

Speaker

Anastasiia Golovina LinkedIn

Software engineer at Brave&Safe, a travel-safety app.

What to expect

Anastasiia will explain how she uses Claude Code in her day-to-day work as a software engineer. She'll also share the two process changes that made the biggest difference, and what she learned after spending weeks fixing layout bugs while looking in entirely the wrong place.

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