October 15, 2026 • Olhão, Algarve, Portugal
AI in practiceFor Business Leaders
One day. Real examples. You'll know exactly what to do next.
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100+

Business Decision Makers

International

AI Experts on Stage

1 Full Day

Practical Sessions Only

What is LEDEX Forum?

Most business leaders have heard about AI. Few know what to actually do with it in their business.

LEDEX Forum is a one-day event where that changes. Every talk ends with a concrete step – something you can put to work right after the event. Not stories about what worked for someone else. Instructions for what you can do in yours.

A short list to act on when you’re back at work. No tech background required. No jargon. Just the parts of AI that are worth your time.

Every session ends with a next step

Each talk ends with something specific. A tool, a process, a clear decision – built for your business, not someone else’s.

No tech background needed

Built for leaders and decision-makers, not developers. If you can run a team, you can use what you learn here.

The room is half the value

Leaders from across Europe, all asking the same questions. The conversations over lunch are often as good as the talks.

What You’ll Learn at LEDEX Forum

Every session at LEDEX Forum is built around tools that don’t require a large IT team or a six-figure budget. The kind of AI that works for businesses of any size, not just the ones with a dedicated tech department.

Getting Found Online in the Age of AI

Search is changing. AI tools now answer questions directly instead of sending people to websites. By the end of the day you’ll know what that means for your business and which specific changes are worth making first.

Creating Brand Visuals Without a Designer

How to produce professional visuals for your brand using AI tools. No design skills or agency budget needed. You’ll know exactly which tools to use and how to get started.

AI That Handles Repetitive Work For You

Some AI tools run in the background without needing you in the room. You’ll understand how to set them up to handle repetitive work and what that frees up for you and your team.

One Business. Real Numbers. No Theory.

You’ll hear directly from businesses that have already done this. Real changes, real numbers, real outcomes. Not hypothetical scenarios about what AI could do.

Choosing the Right Tools

There are hundreds of AI tools. By the end of the day you’ll know which ones are worth paying for, what they actually do, and which ones to skip based on your budget and team size.

Where to Start With AI in Your Business

Stop trying everything at once. You’ll have a clear picture of the right starting points for your specific business, what to prioritise first, and what isn’t worth your time yet.

Who Should Attend? 

LEDEX Forum is built for small and medium-sized businesses that want to use AI to grow, not just understand it better.

C-Level Leaders & Founders

You built the business. Now you’re watching AI change how competitors operate and you need to know which changes are worth making.

  • Move beyond one-off fixes
  • Build a clear AI plan for your business
  • Stay ahead of competitors who are already moving

Department Heads & Managers

You are expected to deliver better results with the same or fewer resources. Manual processes and bottlenecks keep your team busy instead of effective.

  • Shift from constant firefighting
  • Add AI to your team’s daily work
  • Get more done with the same team

Decision Makers & Strategists

If you are responsible for growth and performance, standing on the sidelines is not an option.

  • Know exactly where AI fits in your plan
  • Choose the right tools
  • Grow without adding proportional headcount

 

 

Speakers

Stay tuned for more speaker announcements!

Fabrizio Scoglio 🇮🇹 🇵🇹 🇪🇸
CEO and Founder
Kialvo Group
🎤 Presenting: How I 10x'd My Company Productivity Without Hiring Anyone
Fabrizio Scoglio

Fabrizio Scoglio 🇮🇹 🇵🇹 🇪🇸

Kialvo Group

Presenting: How I 10x’d My Company Productivity Without Hiring Anyone

Most business owners fall into the same trap: too many roles, too little time, and the belief that hiring more people is the only way forward. In this session, the speaker shows a different path – building smarter systems that reduce manual work and create leverage in day-to-day operations.

You’ll get a step-by-step look at three AI workflows already running in a real business. You will see how a CEO dashboard can be automated to deliver real-time metrics in about 60 seconds, how outreach can scale from 100 to 5,000 contacts per month with one person using AI-led personalization, and how to build a content engine that publishes daily without burning out the team.

This talk is designed to be practical and easy to replicate, even if you do not have a technical background. You’ll walk away with a clear framework for choosing what to automate first, specific tools you can implement tomorrow, and a mindset shift from “I need to hire” to “what can run without me?”


About Fabrizio:

Fabrizio is the CEO & Founder of Kialvo Group, where he builds and grows companies by simplifying their operations through AI automation. His philosophy: don’t look for solutions outside – they’re already inside you.

With 12 years of experience, Fabrizio has founded and scaled multiple ventures: Menford, a multi-service marketing agency operating in 50+ markets; Passione Inter, Italy’s largest paid community for Inter Milan fans generating 10 million views per month; and OptiWorkflow, which helps SMBs identify automation opportunities hidden in their existing processes.

His approach: stop hiring for repetitive tasks and start building systems that run without you.

Catherine Conaghan 🇮🇪 🇵🇹
Program Management Leader
TidyOps / Independent Consultant
🎤 Presenting: Choosing the Right Automation & AI Tools: Practical Decisions for European Businesses
Catherine Conaghan

Catherine Conaghan 🇮🇪 🇵🇹

TidyOps / Independent Consultant

Presenting: Choosing the Right Automation & AI Tools: Practical Decisions for European Businesses

Many businesses struggle with AI and automation, not because the technology is missing, but because they choose the wrong tools at the wrong time. In this session, you will get a clear framework for deciding when to automate, when to introduce AI, and which tools fit different types of work.

The speaker focuses on decision-making, not technical demos. You will learn how to assess process maturity, recognize where human judgment still matters, and avoid common mistakes like automating broken processes or using AI as a shortcut without understanding what it actually does.

You will see how to distinguish between automation-first and AI-first approaches, and where tools like Make, n8n, and AI-agent platforms fit into real operational scenarios. The session also covers what European teams should consider around data privacy, hosting, and long-term maintenance, so your choices remain sustainable as your business grows.

This session gives you mental models, practical examples, and actionable guidelines you can apply immediately to evaluate automation and AI opportunities in your own organization. You will leave with clarity on how to make smarter tool decisions that support real business outcomes.


About Catherine:

Jens Palsma 🇳🇱 🇵🇹
Founder & Recruitment Automation Consultant
Clevergro
🎤 Presenting: The Sales System That Never Sleeps
Jens Palsma

Jens Palsma 🇳🇱 🇵🇹

Clevergro

Presenting: The Sales System That Never Sleeps

Most businesses still rely on humans to remember the next sales step, which means leads slip through the cracks and opportunities are lost. In this session, Jens Palsma shows how to build a simple, reliable sales system that works in the background all day, every day, so your pipeline keeps moving even when your team is busy.

The talk is built around three core ideas you can remember and apply: SEE, SPEED, and WAKE. You will learn how to SEE the invisible by spotting buying signals before prospects ever reach out to you, why SPEED matters and how responding in 5 minutes instead of 5 days changes your close rates, and how to WAKE the goldmine that already exists in your forgotten database.

Throughout the session, you will see how to replace memory-based follow-up with simple, automated touchpoints that never forget to call, email, or nurture the right contact at the right time. Jens will share practical examples you can adapt to your own tools and tech stack, so you can start turning anonymous attention into real conversations without adding more manual work to your team.

You will leave with a clear mental model for a “sales system that never sleeps,” language you can use with your team to align around SEE · SPEED · WAKE, and concrete next steps to improve your existing sales process. This session is designed for founders and sales leaders who want a calm, dependable system instead of a frantic, person-dependent pipeline.


About Jens:

Jens is the founder of Clevergro, where he helps recruitment agencies transform from manual, hustle-driven operations into modern, AI-powered firms. With a background in tech recruitment and deep expertise in automation tools like Clay, n8n, and LinkedIn outreach systems, he builds sales and sourcing systems that work around the clock, so recruiters can focus on what actually matters: real conversations with real people. Based in Portugal and originally from the Netherlands, Jens is on a mission to amplify recruiters, not replace them.

Founder
SuperCognit
🎤 Presenting: The Agentic Company: How to Grow With Agents Instead of Headcount
Ignácio Correia

Ignácio Correia 🇵🇹

SuperCognit

Presenting: The Agentic Company: How to Grow With Agents Instead of Headcount

Most leaders hear about AI in abstract terms, but rarely see how it actually runs inside a real company. In this session, Ignácio opens up his own operating system and shows how a portfolio business runs marketing, sales, client communication, research, finance, and operations through a coordinated team of AI agents.

You will get a guided walkthrough of his agent “team” using annotated screenshots, including how the marketing, sales, executive assistant, research, finance, and ops agents are set up, what tools they connect to, and which types of work they handle day to day. Ignácio also explains the new leadership skill of managing agents: defining clear roles, giving the right context, setting guardrails, and building simple approval flows so agents can work reliably in the background.

The session closes with a straightforward 4-step process to launch your first agent within 30 days, from writing the job description as a prompt to testing it and connecting it to a real workflow. You will leave with a clear mental model of what an agentic company looks like in practice, honest limits of what agents should and should not do, and concrete steps to start building your own agent layer today.


About Ignácio:

Ignácio Correia is the Founder of SuperCognit, an AI company focused on building agentic systems for businesses. At Mechanism Ventures, he designs the AI agent infrastructure that runs the firm’s internal operations — from automated hiring pipelines and research workflows to marketing, finance, and client communications — allowing the team to build multiple companies simultaneously without proportional headcount growth. With 15+ years in product design and systems thinking, and a background as a TEDx speaker, Ignácio brings a rare combination of strategic clarity and hands-on execution to the challenge of building the agentic company.

Apply to Speak

Got results worth sharing?

We’re looking for speakers who have used AI in a real business and can give the audience one clear thing to act on. Every talk at LEDEX Forum ends with a next step, not a conclusion. If you’ve done the work, we’d like to hear from you.

LEDEX Forum Ambassadors

Business leaders from across the Algarve who are backing LEDEX Forum and bringing their networks.

Joaquim Nascimento

Co-Founder Kapisci & Phorecast AI, President Algarve Evolution, Founder Algarve AI Community

“LEDEX brings global AI thinking to the Algarve, connecting cutting-edge technology with local economic and social impact.”

Jorge Cabaço

Executive Director at Dengun Agency, Founding Member of Algarve Evolution and Studios.pt

“LEDEX is more than an event. It’s a catalyst for intelligent growth.
By bringing together global AI leaders and forward-thinking entrepreneurs, it accelerates how businesses redesign their customer journeys, adopt AI strategically, and turn innovation into measurable impact.”

Partners

Stay tuned for more announcements!

Get Involved with LEDEX

LEDEX Forum brings 100+ business leaders and decision-makers into one room for a full day. If you want your brand or community in front of that audience, here’s how.

Become a Sponsor

Direct access to the right people

100+ CEOs, founders, and department heads in one room for a full day – all there specifically to learn how to use AI in their businesses. Sponsorship puts your brand directly in front of them, before, during, and after the event.

Become a Partner

Bring your audience. We’ll bring ours.

If LEDEX Forum is relevant to your audience – your members, followers, or clients – a partnership gives them access to the event while putting your name in front of ours. Get in touch to talk about what that looks like.

For any other questions, email forum@ledex.events

Reserve Your Seat Today!

Connect with a network of business leaders, pick up AI approaches you can use straight away, and grow your business.

Expand Your Business Network

At LEDEX Forum, networking is built into the day, not squeezed in at the end. From the moment you arrive, you are in an environment designed for meeting entrepreneurs and leaders who are working through the same questions.

Early Registration

Early Registration

Start your day without the rush. Arrive early, grab a coffee, and meet other attendees before the program begins.

Exclusive WhatsApp Group

Exclusive WhatsApp Group

Join our private WhatsApp group for attendees. Use it to arrange meetings, share ideas, and stay in touch with people you meet – before the event, on the day, and after.

Coffee and Lunch Breaks

Coffee and Lunch Breaks

Good food and no fixed agenda. The coffee and lunch breaks are where many of the best conversations at LEDEX Forum happen.

Event Venue: Real Marina Hotel & Spa

Real Marina Hotel & Spa is a modern 5-star hotel in Olhão, directly facing the Ria Formosa Natural Park, one of the 7 Natural Wonders of Portugal. 15 km from Faro International Airport, with the marina and local market a short walk away.

In October, the Algarve averages 22°C. A good reason to extend the trip.

What Does LEDEX Mean?

The name LEDEX stands for four things we believe every business leader needs right now.

L

Leadership

The vision to navigate what’s next.

E

Entrepreneurship

The drive to build, adapt, and grow.

DE

Digital Experience

Knowing which tools and channels to use – and how to connect them.

X

The Multiplier Effect

When the three combine, the results compound. That’s the multiplier.

All four in one room

That’s what the name stands for – and what the Forum is built around.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this event suitable for enterprise AI teams?

LEDEX Forum focuses on practical AI strategies for SMBs, not on enterprise AI architecture, large-scale data centers, complex ML operations, or solutions that need dedicated AI departments.

Is food included in the ticket?

Yes, your ticket includes lunch and two coffee breaks during the event.

Does the ticket include accommodation?

No, the ticket does not include accommodation. Each attendee is responsible for booking their own stay.

What are the arrival and departure times?

We recommend arriving early to complete your registration smoothly. The event takes place during one full day. The complete schedule with exact times, sessions, and speakers will be announced soon.

Are tickets refundable?

Tickets are non refundable, but they can be transferred to another person until a specified deadline.

Can I transfer my ticket to someone else?

Yes, you can transfer your ticket. Please contact our team to update the participant details.

Do I need to bring a printed ticket?

It is not mandatory to print your ticket. You can show your digital ticket on your phone at check in.

Are there discounted hotel rates?

We are negotiating special rates with partner hotels. More information will be available soon.

Reserve Your Seat Today!

Connect with a powerful network of leaders, gain practical AI strategies, and grow your business.

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