The summit “is the first conference of its type” held in Portugal and would be both free and entirely open to the public within the scope of Google reaching out to the communities of programmers making recourse to its software, Rodrigues explained.


"Google seeks to take to these communities its own innovations as well as guaranteeing that small developers gain the support and backing of Google in their projects," said the organiser.


He forecast that the summit would attract between 120 and 150 developers including professionals, students and entrepreneurs with Google members of staff from the United Kingdom and Spain among those due to be in attendance.


Rodrigues said this represented a starting point in deepening relations with Portuguese developer groups based in four clusters, in the Azores, Lisbon, Oporto and Coimbra in an initiative that also seeks to ensure Google "identifies other tools from within its technological universe that may be better tailored” to developing a specific technology.