5 to 6 November 2026, Lisbon
Two days on designing and building for the web.
24 sessions, 16 speakers, 4 tracks, two stages at Fundição do Cais.
Doors open in
Happening now at Fundição do Cais
Happening now.
Two stages, two days. Talks are 30 minutes and start on time. The livestream carries the Main Stage.
That was Orbena 2026
Two days, 24 sessions, done.
Recordings are online. Register interest for 2027 and we will email you once, when tickets open.
5 to 6 November 2026 · Lisbon · 24 sessions · 16 speakers · 4 tracks · Two stages · Early bird ends 21 September · Doors 8:30
5 to 6 November 2026 · Lisbon · 24 sessions · 16 speakers · 4 tracks · Two stages · Early bird ends 21 September · Doors 8:30
Programme
Two days. Twenty-four sessions. One stage that never runs late.
Talks are 30 minutes, workshops 90, the panel 45. Filter by day, track or room.
09:30
Day 1
Design
Keynote
The Page Is Still the Unit
Components won. Pages got worse. Inês walks through twelve production pages and shows where component thinking broke the reading order, the load order and the layout. Then a method for designing the page first and cutting components out of it.
11:50
Day 1
Build
Talk
Measuring Layout Shift Where Users Feel It
Lab scores said Sildrek's sites were fine. Readers said the text jumped. Jonas built a field pipeline that records shift per element, per device class, per country. He shows the pipeline, the ten worst offenders it found, and the fixes that removed 80 percent of the shift.
17:00
Day 2
Design
Talk
Words Are the Last Thing We Design
Closing talk. Camille collects the empty states, error messages and button labels seen on stage over two days and rewrites them live. One rule per rewrite. Then the list of rules, on one slide, to take home.
Full agenda
Happening now
On stage and up next.
09:30
The Page Is Still the Unit
Main Stage
10:30
Design Tokens That Survive a Rebrand
Main Stage
10:30
View Transitions Without a Framework
Caldeira Room
11:10
Variable Fonts in Production: What Actually Ships
Main Stage
11:10
Forms People Finish
Caldeira Room
11:50
Measuring Layout Shift Where Users Feel It
Main Stage
13:00
Lunch
Hall
14:00
Who Owns the Design System
Main Stage
14:00
Motion Specs Developers Can Read
Workshop Room
15:00
Pricing a Website When the Client Wants a Number
Main Stage
15:45
Grid Tracks for Editorial Layouts
Caldeira Room
17:00
Onboarding Flows That Respect a Slow Phone
Main Stage
09:30
Container Queries in a Real Component Library
Main Stage
10:15
Prototypes That Answer One Question
Main Stage
10:15
Focus Order Is a Design Decision
Caldeira Room
11:00
Shipping a Design Team of Two
Main Stage
11:00
Easing Curves You Can Defend
Caldeira Room
11:45
Third-Party Scripts: A Budget and a Bouncer
Main Stage
13:00
Lunch
Hall
14:00
Handover That Ends the Retainer, Not the Relationship
Main Stage
14:00
Photography Direction for Small Brands
Caldeira Room
14:45
Performance Audit of a Real Site in 90 Minutes
Workshop Room
15:30
Localising Layout, Not Just Strings
Caldeira Room
17:00
Words Are the Last Thing We Design
Main Stage
Speakers
Sixteen people who ship.
Every talk is built from production work: files, numbers, before and after.
All speakers
Nuria Arbelanza
Variable fonts, Text rendering, Type on screen
Jonas Wittenhauer
Web performance, Field data, Layout stability
Sanne van Rietwoude
Design tokens, Rebrands, Design systems
Harriet Thornbeck
Onboarding, Mobile design, Photography direction
Camille Rouvenat
Content design, Forms, Error messages
Giulia Castrovelli
Small design teams, Design review, Design leadership
Elin Tallgrund
Editorial layout, CSS grid, Typography
Tickets
One price per tier. Same ticket for everyone.
Both days, all rooms, lunch, coffee, recordings. Early bird ends when it ends. We do not extend it.
Early bird
Both days, all rooms
Lunch and coffee both days
Recordings after the event
Closing drinks on Friday
Regular
Most people buy this
Both days, all rooms
Lunch and coffee both days
Recordings after the event
Closing drinks on Friday
Team of five
Five tickets, both days, all rooms
Lunch and coffee both days
Recordings after the event
One invoice, names editable until 30 October
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Tracks
Four tracks. Pick one or cross them.
Every session carries one track colour. Nothing is locked; you can change rooms between any two sessions.
Venue
A former foundry by the river.
Fundição do Cais. Main Stage in the casting hall, a second room in the old boiler room, forty workshop seats with power at each.
Fundição do Cais
Rua do Cais 00, 1200-000 Lisboa
Sponsors
Twelve companies pay for the coffee.
Two headline, four partner, six community. No sponsor talks on either stage.
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Community
Past editions
2023 in Porto. 2024 and 2025 in Lisbon.
420, then 610, then 780 people. Recordings for all three years are online.
Past editions
News
What changed since you last looked.
Speakers, tickets, venue, programme. Four to six posts a year.
All news
Announcement
Early bird ends 21 September
Early bird is €390 until 21 September. Regular is €490 from then until 4 November. We do not extend early bird.
Programme
Call for speakers closes 30 September
Four tracks, 30-minute talks and 90-minute workshops. Proposals close 30 September at 23:59 Lisbon time.
Speakers
Inês Fraguedo opens Orbena 2026 with the keynote
The 2026 keynote is 'The Page Is Still the Unit'. Thursday 5 November, 09:30, Main Stage.