Beta-i and Lisbon’s City Hall are bringing the whole startup community together in one event, to discuss the future challenges of our growing startup scene and lay down the next steps for spreading this movement across the country.

We’re organising this collaborative event called “Lisbon Entrepreneurship Ecosystem 2.0 - Kicks off the Portuguese Startup Manifesto”, on the 5th of February, at Lisbon’s City Hall, during Startup Europe Week.

The main players from our startup community will be there to define a strategy for Lisbon with the City Hall and to also kick off the Portuguese Startup Manifesto, that Beta-i is putting together, with the collaboration of Lisbon’s City Hall and the support from the European Commission.

Lisbon is today one of the most important startup capitals in Europe. For the past few years, Lisbon has seen many promising startups grow, exceeding all expectations, such as Uniplaces, Talkdesk, Unbabel or Codacy. We’ve doubled the number of incubators, accelerators and coworking spaces, and got the Web Summit to move here.

Lisbon is, nowadays, getting all the attention across the globe, because of its exciting startup community and entrepreneurial mindset.

But how did this happen and why? What’s the vision for Lisbon Startup City 2.0 in 2016? What are the next steps for this ecosystem to grow and be more entrepreneurial and innovative? How do we replicate this movement across the whole country?

That’s what we want to discuss on the 5th of February at Lisbon’s City Hall. We’ll talk about what has been done so far in Lisbon and how we can replicate it throughout the country, and kick off the Portuguese Startup Manifesto.

This event will have many collaborative sessions, so that, together, we can define the strategy to value Lisbon as a startup city and understand how we can attract more investment, and build the Portuguese Startup Manifesto so that we can take it to the European Commission in Brussels.

Check out the Facebook event for all the updates.