Web Summit is back in Lisbon from 9 to 12 November 2026, at the MEO Arena and the FIL exhibition centre in Parque das Nações. Four days, the whole industry in one city, and — for once — a conference where we do not need to get on a plane.
Privum will be there. We are going to cover the event as it happens, and we are bringing SRExpert with us.
Why This One Matters to Us
We are a Portuguese engineering company. We run production Kubernetes for clients across the UK, Ireland, Germany and the wider EU from an office in Porto, and most of the time that means the interesting conversations happen over a video call with someone two countries away.
Web Summit is the week where that inverts. The people we usually meet through a calendar invite are all within walking distance of each other, in our own country. That is worth showing up for properly rather than passing through.
There is also something worth saying plainly: Portugal has quietly become a serious place to build infrastructure companies. The engineering talent is here, the timezone works for both London and the US East Coast, and the cost base makes it possible to build a product without raising a fortune first. Web Summit is where that stops being a local observation and becomes visible to everyone else.
What We Are Bringing: SRExpert
SRExpert is our platform for teams operating Kubernetes at scale. It grew out of a problem we kept hitting on client engagements: the tooling around production Kubernetes is fragmented, and the fragmentation is what costs teams their nights.
Cluster health lives in one tool. Alerts arrive in another. Compliance posture against CIS, NSA hardening guidance, NIST and PCI-DSS is a quarterly spreadsheet exercise. Cost data sits in a cloud billing console nobody opens until finance asks. Each tool is fine. Holding all of them in your head at 3am while something is down is not.
SRExpert puts them on one control plane:
- Multi-cluster fleet view — every cluster, its nodes, its workloads and its health in one place, whether it runs on EKS, AKS, GKE or bare metal.
- Alert noise reduction — correlation and routing so the pager fires for things that are real, instead of training your team to ignore it.
- Continuous compliance — posture against CIS Benchmarks, NSA hardening guidance, NIST and PCI-DSS, tracked continuously rather than reconstructed before an audit.
- Cost visibility next to the workload — spend attributed to the thing that is spending it, so the conversation is about a specific deployment rather than a total.
- An AI layer that has the context — it can answer questions about your actual clusters, because it can see them.
If you operate more than a couple of production clusters, come and argue with us about it. The most useful feedback we get is always from people who tell us where it would not work for them.
We Are Also Covering the Event
Beyond our own product, we are going to write about what we see. Not a summary of the keynotes — those will be on YouTube within hours and nobody needs another recap.
What we want to capture is the engineering conversation happening away from the main stage: what platform teams are actually adopting versus what is being sold to them, where the AI infrastructure story is real and where it is a slide, and what European companies are doing differently from their US counterparts on data residency and sovereignty. That last one comes up in almost every client conversation we have and gets far less airtime than it deserves.
Expect posts here during and after the week, on the blog.
Come and Find Us
If you are going to be in Lisbon that week, we would like to talk to you — particularly if you are:
- A platform or SRE team running Kubernetes in production and tired of the tool sprawl.
- An agency or software house looking after infrastructure for clients and wondering whether that should stay in-house.
- A CTO at a scale-up in the awkward middle where the infrastructure has outgrown one person but does not yet justify a full platform team.
- Anyone with strong opinions about Kubernetes tooling. Genuinely. We would rather hear why we are wrong at a conference than find out from a churned account.
The easiest way to lock in a slot is to book a time with us before the week fills up. Calendars at Web Summit go from empty to impossible in about five days, and the conversations worth having are the ones that were arranged in advance.
We will publish our exact location and schedule closer to the date. In the meantime, if you want to see what we do between conferences, the case studies cover the engagements and the portfolio covers what we have built.
See you in Lisbon.
*Web Summit 2026 runs 9-12 November at the MEO Arena and FIL, Parque das Nações, Lisbon. Details and tickets are at websummit.com.*