Keeping Communities Alive: A Roundtable for Community Organizers

Data Science Portugal (DSPT) is celebrating its 10th anniversary! 🎉

DSPT is officially hitting double digits (watch out, teenage years are right around the corner!) and we are celebrating hard! 🎂

On October 10th (10/10) in Porto, we are starting our morning with a special roundtable of AI + tech communities.

Starting a community is the easy part. Keeping it alive is harder. We're bringing together community organizers for an open roundtable about what happens behind the scenes: finding sponsors, keeping volunteers motivated, avoiding burnout, understanding what members actually want, and growing beyond your home city. This isn't a series of talks. It's a conversation. Come ready to share what has worked for you, what hasn't, and what you're still trying to figure out. Whether you've organized dozens of events or are thinking about starting your first community, there's a seat at the table for you.

🗣️ Joining the roundtable
António Bezerra, DSPT
Filipe Macedo, API
Joana Pereira, Geek Girls Portugal Ambassador

Moderated by João Rocha, DSPT
📍 Location: Porto Innovation Hub

🗓️ Agenda
10:00–10:15: Get together & welcome by DSPT
10:15–11:15: Keeping Communities Alive: A Roundtable for Community Organizers
11:15–11:25: Q&A
11:30–12:00: Networking and bites
12:00: Closing

🎂 Full 10th Anniversary Program: Don't Forget to RSVP!
October 10th is a full day of celebrations for DSPT! Each part of the day has its own separate Meetup page, so please RSVP individually for every event you want to attend:

10:00–12:00: Keeping Communities Alive: A Roundtable for Community Organizers
Porto Innovation Hub. This event!

14:00–18:30: Building Agentic AI: Essential Design Patterns | Workshop + Challenge
Blip
https://www.meetup.com/datascienceportugal/events/316752210/

18:30–22:00: 10 Years of DSPT: Roundtable + Celebration
JAM Porto
https://www.meetup.com/datascienceportugal/events/316795141/

👉 Joining us for the afternoon or evening too? Make sure to RSVP on each event's Meetup page so we can plan capacity, food and logistics.