18 to 20 May 2027 · Lisbon
Three days. Each one higher.
From arrivals on the river to the closing keynote. Every time is Lisbon time; pass holders build their own agenda in the attendee app.
Basecamp
Arrivals, studio tours and the opening night on the river.
- Arrivals
Early badge pick-up
Collect your badge and leave your luggage with the cloakroom team before the studio tours.
- Session
Studio tours
Small groups visit Halvora's Lisbon studio to meet the teams behind rewards, payments and travel.
- Session
First time at ASCENT: a short briefing
How the three days fit together, where everything is, and how to build your agenda in the attendee app.
- Keynote
Welcome from Halvora's leadership
Lucía Ferraz opens ASCENT 27 with the year in numbers and the three ideas that shape the programme.
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Opening night on the Tagus
Boats leave the pier at half past seven for a long evening on the river, with dinner on board and music under the bridge.
The Climb
Main stage keynotes, forty breakouts across four tracks, and the partner expo.
- Keynote
Opening keynote: the next decade of rewards
What Halvora ships over the next twelve months, and why points and payments are becoming one thing.
- Session
Loyalty that travels: a bank and an airline compare notes
Two programmes with very different customers, and the habits that worked for both.
- Session
Points and cards in one payment
How a split payment settles, what the guest sees at checkout, and what finance sees the morning after.
- Session
Designing for the guest who never calls
Quaya Hotels rebuilt the stay around self-service, and found that points became the easiest way to pay.
- Session
Rewards for business customers
A freight company, a points scheme for its business customers, and half as many late payments.
- Expo
Partner expo and live demos
Meet the partners who build on Halvora, with live demos on every stand.
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Evening above the city
Drinks and a late supper on a terrace above the old town, with the whole city lit below.
The Summit
Hands-on labs, the closing keynote and The Summit Circle dinner.
- Workshop
Labs: build with Halvora's teams
Bring a laptop: connect a sandbox programme to points, cards and travel with the engineers who built them.
- Workshop
Design sprint: rebuild a rewards checkout
Teams of five take a real checkout apart and rebuild it in ninety minutes, then test it on each other.
- Session
Ask the product team
Questions from the floor and from the attendee app, answered by the people who decide the roadmap.
- Keynote
Closing keynote: the view from the summit
Lucía Ferraz closes ASCENT 27 with what was decided in Lisbon and what happens next.
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The Summit Circle dinner
Forty guests, Halvora's leadership team and one long table. Places are by application.
The full agenda opens in February 2027. Forty breakouts across four tracks join these sessions.
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