I was speaking this week at SHiFT08 in Lisbon. This conference has been put together by a group of volunteers led by Pedro Custodio, with passion, joy, and a lot of creativity.
For smaller, and relatively isolated markets like Portugal, these are excellent, and very important opportunities to make sure that their startup culture is nurtured, and that the entrepreneurs behind them are put in touch with the ease, and the intensity needed with some of the protagonists of the changes sweeping through the larger web world.