Passion Project · Event Series · Lisbon

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.

Edition #1

Pixels & People #1 - AI x Visual · Runway

The first edition of Pixels & People was organised in collaboration with Runway ML, a cloud-based AI platform used by filmmakers, video editors, and content creators to generate and edit multimedia content - featuring text-to-video and image-to-video generation alongside tools for rotoscoping, object removal, and video style editing.

Pixels & People #1 at Aethos with Runway

The evening started in the gallery space of Aethos Club Lisbon, featuring Evelyn Bencicova's exhibition Artificial Tears, which explored the question: Can a machine think?

Participants then gathered in an intimate setting to listen to talks by three speakers: the founder of a Copenhagen-Lisbon creative studio producing campaigns, visuals, and video for brands and artists; a multidisciplinary visual artist working across digital art, fashion, and music, creating immersive experiences through exhibitions in Lisbon; and a Designer and Art Director working globally with brands, startups, and organisations across web3, fintech, sport, and culture. The talks were followed by a Q&A session that allowed attendees to share their experiences, raise concerns, and discuss their common vision of the future of creative work. The evening concluded with networking on the terrace.

ATTENDEES

65+

SPEAKERS

VENUE

Aethos Club Lisbon

Key takeaways:

Working with AI tools is, above all, a creative process. It is often messy - involving multiple tools, constant iterations, and dead ends - but patience is essential.

Mistakes and detours frequently lead to new creative directions. When you feel stuck, stepping away and giving yourself time and space can help uncover fresh approaches and ideas.

Edition #2

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.

Pixels & People #2 with Cursor at AIhub Unicorn Factory

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.

Edition #3

Pixels & People #3 - Café Cursor Lisbon

Coming soon...