Mariana Alves
People Ops · Ringleader
Owns the run-of-show, the seating charts, and the emergency snack drawer. If anything is broken, missing, or on fire — find Mariana.
Lisbon · 9–11 December. Three days at Casa Miradouro in Alfama — half roadmap, half pastéis de nata. Flights book by 1 November; everything else is on this page.
We’re on. Bom dia from Alfama! ☀
Mornings are for the work we can only do in one room. Afternoons drift outside — anything marked with a little sun is decidedly not work.
People Ops · Ringleader
Owns the run-of-show, the seating charts, and the emergency snack drawer. If anything is broken, missing, or on fire — find Mariana.
CEO
Opens Wednesday, closes Friday. Has promised exactly one spreadsheet joke and an honest retro with no slides.
Head of Product
Runs the roadmap deep-dive on the four bets. Bring your spiciest question — she has asked for them by name.
Engineering · Resident Lisboeta
Grew up two hills over. Curates the nata crawl with alarming rigor and knows which miradouro is worth the climb.
An 18th-century merchant’s house on a quiet miradouro in Alfama, restored into an event home: azulejo-tiled halls, a terrace with the whole Tejo laid out below, and a lemon-tree courtyard where most of the eating happens. Everything is a five-minute walk from our hotel — uphill, obviously. This is Lisbon.
Rua do Miradouro 23, Alfama · look for the blue gate
September is Lisbon showing off: ~24 °C days, 17 °C after dark, rain unlikely. The sun is honest — sunscreen is not optional.
Summer casual, all three days. Pack one “slightly nice” outfit in case your Thursday dinner-lottery group draws somewhere fancy.
Real walking shoes — seven hills, all cobbled — a layer for evenings, a type-F EU adapter, and a swimsuit in case the bonfire wins below.
Fly into LIS by Tuesday evening. It’s a 20-minute taxi to the hotel — expense it. We’ve block-booked Hotel do Castelo, five minutes from the blue gate.
Flights via TravelPerk by 1 November. All meals during the summit are on us; incidentals up to €40/day — receipts in Expensify within a week, please.
#summit-lisbon is the single source of truth — schedule changes, lost keys, dinner-lottery results. Mute everything else for three days.
Sessions and group meals are team-only, but Thursday’s free-roam dinner and the Friday afternoon are yours — plus-ones very welcome then. Lisbon is a good excuse for a long weekend together.
Yes. The catering form went out in the calendar invite — fill it in by 5 September and every meal, nata crawl included, will have a proper option for you. Vegan, halal, gluten-free, and “no cilantro, ever” are all already on the list.
Please do. The hotel honours our room rate through Sunday night — extend directly with them and cover the extra nights yourself. About a third of the company did this last year and regretted nothing.
Only if you’re demoing on Friday: one slide, five minutes, no speaker notes long enough to rustle. Everyone else just needs opinions for the roadmap session and an appetite.
Bring one, use it sparingly. Mornings are heads-up; there’s a quiet room (the Library) if something at work genuinely catches fire. We’ll survive three days.
This page is live — every vote lands in a shared room and all 60 of us see the same tally, updated every five seconds. One vote each — honour system, like the snack drawer. Choose with your heart.
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