Pixels & People: Lisbon Edition
Pixels & People is a passion project, organised together with a team of curious and talented people.
A curated event series bringing together practitioners from different fields to share how AI is reshaping the way they work, build, design, and create.
Each edition is deliberately intimate: live demos, real workflows, honest conversations. No panels about where AI is going. Just people showing how they actually use the tools.
The format is practice-first and systematically documented, so what gets shared in the room doesn't stay in the room.
Pixels for the digital tools. People for the humans making sense of them.
Pixels & People #1 — AI x Visual · Runway
This edition was organised in collaboration with Runway, a company building AI to simulate the world — foundational world models and video generation tools used by 50M+ users globally.
We hosted our first edition together with Runway at Aethos, focused on visual artists and designers. Over 65 people attended.
Here's what the evening looked like:
- →A gallery walk on arrival, featuring Evelyn Bencicova's exhibition Artificial Tears (with Artemis Gallery Lisbon), which explores the question 'Can a machine think?'
- →Three talks in a cinema room, presented by Juliette Cottu, Alexander Stender, and Sara Bojović.
- →A Q&A session in the main room.
- →Networking on the terrace to close the evening.
Key takeaways from the talks:
Working with AI tools in creative work means accepting a messy process — multiple tools, constant iteration, dead ends. Patience is part of the workflow.
Mistakes and detours are often where the actual creative work happens.
Breaks matter. Stepping away regularly protects your judgement and perspective.
Pixels & People #2 — AI x Dev Tools · Cursor
This edition was organised in collaboration with Cursor, an AI coding agent that plans, writes, and reviews code — trusted by over half of the Fortune 500.
We hosted our second edition together with AIhub Unicorn Factory, Portugal's leading AI space, focused on developers and builders. Over 85 people attended.
Here's what the evening looked like:
- →A panel with 3 speakers to open the evening and set the context, with Frances from the Cursor engineering team joining virtually from San Francisco.
- →Six back-to-back live demos of what people are actually building with Cursor.
- →A format designed to keep the room active and the conversation grounded in real work.
By the numbers:
85+ attendees on the night.
254+ builders now on the Cursor Portugal Luma page.
6 live demos from the local community.
Pixels & People #3 — Café Cursor Lisbon
Coming soon...