AI Socratic Lisbon #1 — Claude Code vs Codex
This is the first AI Socratic event in Lisbon we hope of a long series to create a fun and dynamic AI community
A Symposium with the brightest minds in the AI scene in Lisbon — applied AI engineers, ML researchers, and founders pushing AI forward.
Topics: https://aisocratic.org/blog/ai-socratic-april-2026 🔥
We host Socratic conversations on frontier models, cutting-edge research, coding agents, AGI, robotics, philosophy, geopolitics, and more.
Participation is highly selective to keep the community quality high-signal and low-noise.
Agenda
7:00 PM Welcome and Aperitivo
7:30 PM Socratic Dialogues
8:30 PM Presentations and Demos
10:00 PM Networking at a bar nearby
Socratic Dialogues
We start with a quick round of intro around the room. We then discuss the latest in AI from structuring the conversation with this blog posts https://aisocratic.org/blog/ai-socratic-april-2026.
Everyone is encouraged to contribute. Paulo moderates the conversation.
Presentations And Demos 🚀
In this session, you’ll have the chance to share something you’ve learned that brings real value to the room—whether it’s a new model, a research paper, an AI coding project, or even an ethical debate.
Add your presentation or demo here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/14vlt6g8haocJLvSYvld2bJNX4PEcB0ZoL8dLb4DrhE8
Sponsors
Our amazing friends from SaturnCloud are sponsoring our Euro-China tour. Super grateful for their support. If you’re ever renting H100s or other GPU beasts, give them a shot: saturncloud.io
DM us to sponsor or host this event or one of our next events: paulo@forest.ai
About Us
We're an exclusive community of of top-tier engineers, researchers, and founders working frontier AI. We meet monthly to discuss new models, papers, frameworks, and more.
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