AffPapa confirms Lisbon networking event return

• AffPapa confirms iGaming Club Lisbon will return on 28 September 2026.
• Organisers expect 600 delegates split 40% affiliates, 40% operators and 20% B2B providers.
• The evening runs from 19:00 to midnight at Ferroviário, a rooftop venue above Santa Apolónia.

AffPapa has confirmed that iGaming Club Lisbon will return on 28 September 2026, bringing affiliates, operators and B2B providers together for an evening of networking in the Portuguese capital.

Organisers expect around 600 delegates, split 40% affiliates, 40% operators and 20% B2B providers, running from 19:00 to midnight at Ferroviário, a rooftop venue overlooking the Tagus River.

Numbers by design

The 2026 edition follows the format that has driven iGaming Club’s growth across Lisbon, Amsterdam, London and Barcelona. Organisers have held the same 40/40/20 attendee split used in previous years, aimed at keeping the room weighted toward deal-making rather than pure attendance numbers.

The venue, Ferroviário, sits above the historic Santa Apolónia train station and overlooks the Tagus River. The rooftop space has hosted concerts, film screenings and private dinners since reopening in 2018, giving the evening a more relaxed setting than a typical conference hall.

Beyond the dinner table

iGaming Club is one arm of a wider events operation run by AffPapa, the iGaming directory founded in 2020 that now lists more than 2,300 affiliates and 300-plus operators. Alongside the networking dinners, the company runs the AffPapa Conference series and the AffPapa iGaming Awards.

That conference arm has had an active year. AffPapa Conference Madrid drew more than 1,100 delegates in May, including its fifth annual iGaming Awards ceremony, while AffPapa Conference Cancun is set for 23-25 November, targeting 600 delegates across the Latin American affiliate market.

The Lisbon dinner slots into that same calendar as a lighter-touch, single-evening format.

Where deals start

The Lisbon dinner also lands just ahead of one of the busiest weeks on the iGaming calendar. SBC Summit Lisbon returns to the city days later, drawing operators, suppliers and affiliates from across Europe for its main conference programme.

Scheduling the evening immediately before the summit lets delegates who are already travelling to Lisbon fold networking into a single trip, rather than adding a separate visit to the city.

Levon Nikoghosyan, CEO of AffPapa and iGaming Club, said:

“We’ve hosted iGaming Club events in different cities over the years, and one thing has stayed the same: the best business usually starts with a simple conversation. We’re excited to see familiar faces and meet new ones in Lisbon, a fantastic place to bring the right people together in the right environment!”

Registration and sponsorship enquiries are open through the official event website. Previous Lisbon editions have drawn several hundred guests from affiliate, operator and supplier businesses across the region, with the 2025 edition hosting over 700 attendees.

As Lisbon’s autumn calendar fills with headline conferences and party wristbands, smaller-format dinners like this one are becoming a deliberate warm-up lap – a lower-pressure room where deals get a first conversation before the show floor takes over.