It’s Friday (finally). So, feel free to do your own little dance when nobody’s looking… and also celebrate the fact that next week on Lisbon Challenge is going to be epic.

Events you should attend:

TechCrunch Meetup and Pitch Off (Monday)

This is the first TechCrunch event in Lisbon. We’ll have a few drinks with a beautiful view over Lisbon at Silk Club, talk about business, hear some amazing pitches and network. Mike Butcher, Editor-At-Large at TechCrunch, will be here so, for those who want to get to know him, this is your lucky shot.

Too bad tickets sold out… but you can still apply to pitch. Just follow Mike’s instructions here.

Seedcamp comes to Lisbon (Tuesday)

We’re bringing Seedcamp back to Lisbon this year for ICT15, a major event organised by the European Commission on innovation and technology. This is a huge opportunity for those who want to know more about the investment fund and mentoring program and increase their chances of being accepted.

Drop by ICT15 at FIL this Tuesday morning. We’ll be on Auditorium III and IV.

Beta-i Hackathon (drone alert!)

The Beta-i Hackathon will take 2 full days and it will have 45 tech startups with intriguing challenges. Developers get to solve some intriguing issues involving the trendiest frameworks and programming languages such as Django, Angular, Python and Ruby on Rails. While designers have the freedom to implement the craziest ideas and have a real impact in the branding of the startups (in the past edition we had two full re-brandings at the Hackathon).

It will be on the weekend of October 24-25 and (drumroll…) hackers will get a chance to win UDI drones and Wacom tablets. Register right here.

So, if you’re a developer or designer, and want to bring a flying drone or a Wacom tablet with you home with your head held high, join us for the Beta-i Hackathon and give your very best.

Workshop of the week

Bring your users to the conversation with Nicholas Mandelbaum

How can you find out about your users’ goals and needs, and how can you align your product thinking and roadmap accordingly? Explore some simple tools to think differently about your product’s mission, and to leverage insights and feedback from your users for a better user experience.

This workshop brings to Lisbon Challenge Fall’15, Nicholas Mandelbaum, Design Director at Imaginary Cloud.

Mentors of the week

Product

João Vazão Vasques, is a tech entrepreneur and Lisbon Challenge alumnus. He’s a software engineer and he founded his own startup in 2014, Wazza, that ended up shutting down this year. His areas of expertise include: Product Development, Software Engineering, Technology and Telecommunications.

Pedro Pinto is CTO at InnoWave Technologies and founder of yubuy Fast S.A. a startup with a solution for t-commerce platforms. He is responsible for the company’s innovation area, fostering innovative and entrepreneurial spirit of each of the consultant’s team challenging them, every day, to create solutions that improve and simplify the lives of its customers.

Design

Nicholas Mandelbaum is the Design Director at Imaginary Cloud. He started his career in photography (meaning fashion and advertising). He built his own startup called Black Album that was an online publishing platform and it was sold in the early stage to a US company. He has been living in Lisbon for two years, and he has been designing products and managing the design team at Imaginary Cloud, a digital product service company, present in UK and Portugal.

Nicholas will be at Lisbon Challenge Tuesday morning.

Business and Marketing

Domingos Guimarães has a wide experience in the entertainment industry, producing music and film shows. He has lived in London for 8 years, in Madrid for 2 years, and in Rome for 1 year. Domingos founded 5 companies, and sold 2. He’s currently CEO at Live Content, a digital agency with offices in Portugal, Brazil and Mexico. And, more recently, he founded Academia de Código, a company that wants to make Portugal code. He’s also an accredited Business Angel.

Jonathan Hassid is an internet focused entrepreneur with extensive track record in founding, scaling and exiting profitable consumer facing businesses. He has a particular expertise in digital marketing and consumer FinTech, having spent nearly 10 years creating and growing the TotallyMoney.com group, one of the UK’s leading FS tech/marketing businesses whose credit decisioning services are integrated into many of the UK’s biggest financial businesses. As an investor and advisor he sits on the board of several businesses with interests in the sharing economy and social enterprise as well as FinTech.

Sandra Sick is a Marketing & Business Development Consultant and a life-long marketer of products, services and events. Born and raised in New York, Sandra was born into a family of entrepreneurs. Sandra has worked for and with a long list of tech companies in California and in 2011 she moved to Lisbon. She has recently moved back to the US and provides marketing services (and a lot of mentoring) to companies around the globe.

Luís Freitas, has always worked in Marketing and Business Strategy. He’s currently developing a new consulting company, specialized in marketing strategies for micro, small and medium companies. The Portuguese brand MOCHE is his best and biggest project. He was part of the task force created to launch MOCHE as a independent brand.

In the meantime, if you want to know more about Lisbon Challenge and our events feel free to reach out to us on Facebook and Twitter. See you around.