<![CDATA[Qué Pasa en Madrid]]>https://www.quepasaenmadrid.comhttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qdeB!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F98b0955b-612d-45be-9627-8ee91da52dd6_850x850.pngQué Pasa en Madridhttps://www.quepasaenmadrid.comSubstackTue, 01 Sep 2026 23:01:20 GMT<![CDATA[Week 31 // 27 July to 2 August]]>https://www.quepasaenmadrid.com/p/week-31-27-july-to-2-augusthttps://www.quepasaenmadrid.com/p/week-31-27-july-to-2-augustSun, 26 Jul 2026 16:01:23 GMTQué pasa this week in Madrid?

Madrileños! As always, during the summer period, the business events are very few. I’m going to take a break in August, so this will be the last edition until September. See you back on the 6.09!

Monday, 27

  • 😴

Tuesday, 28

Wednesday, 29

  • 😴

Thursday, 30

  • ☕ Climate Coffee/ 8.30-10.30: monthly coffee meet-up for anyone working in or interested in the impact and climate spaces.

  • 🍺 Step4ward Madrid: Girls, Tech and Beers/ 18.30-21.30: meetup for women in tech to connect in a relaxed atmosphere, build a community, and find allies to attend future industry events with.

Friday, 31

  • 🚀 Tech Talent & Founders Networking/ 17:30-20:30: networking event designed to connect startup founders, engineers, researchers, designers, and AI specialists to exchange experiences and discover new collaboration opportunities.

Saturday, 1

  • ☀️

Sunday, 2

  • 🏖️

Upcoming Events

Monday, 3 August

Tuesday, 4 August

Wednesday, 5 August

Thursday, 6 August

Friday, 7 August

Thursday, 27 August

👇 Call to action for you 👇

By Riccardo De Gasperin

Creator of Qué Pasa en Madrid

LinkedIn

Disclaimer: Qué Pasa en Madrid is not responsible for the events included in the present email. Informational purpose only. Issue #85 (26.07.26)

]]><![CDATA[Week 30 // 20 to 26 July]]>https://www.quepasaenmadrid.com/p/week-30-20-to-26-julyhttps://www.quepasaenmadrid.com/p/week-30-20-to-26-julySun, 19 Jul 2026 16:02:56 GMTQué pasa this week in Madrid?

Week highlights:

Monday, 20

  • ✍️ Co-writing Madrid #78/ 18.00-20.00: co-writing meetup for writers and creatives, with 90 minutes of focused writing together followed by a short sharing round for people working on any writing project.

Tuesday, 21

  • 🍳 Kitchen Stories: Descubre Cómo Nació Awki/ 19:00-21:00: talk where the founders of the restaurant Awki share their origin story, followed by an evening of conversation and inspiration for other entrepreneurs.

Wednesday, 22

  • 🔬 International Conference on Science, Technology, Engineering and Management/ 10.00-18.00 (1/2): academic conference for researchers, engineers, and students in science, technology, engineering, and management, offering a platform to present research, connect with global experts, and discuss innovation across STEM and management fields. It’s also quite expensive.

  • 👨🏻‍💻 Vibe Coding & Friends: Social Gathering for Founders and Entrepreneurs/ 19.00-21.30: meetup for founders, builders, and AI enthusiasts to share projects, MVPs, and experiments, exchange practical tips on AI tools and workflows, and get feedback on ideas in a collaborative, non-pitch setting.

  • 🤝 Tardeo de Networking/ 19:30-22:30: networking event for entrepreneurs and business owners designed to help break limiting beliefs and map out the next project through interactive dynamics and a deep talk on identity.

Thursday, 23

  • 🙌 Networking entre Empresas: Encuentro de Comunidad Emprendedora/ 12.00-14.00: networking meetup for companies and entrepreneurs to review the first half of 2026, share wins and challenges through speed networking pitches, spot patterns in a moderated group discussion, and then turn those insights into concrete collaborations and follow up commitments.

  • 🎭 Write & Act #2/ 19:00-21:00: creative meetup where pre-selected screenwriters and actors get together to test scripts through live presentations and acting sessions.

Friday, 24

  • 🎯 PR para Emprendedores: Aparecer en Medios sin Pagar/ 10.00-14.00: training workshop on Public Relations (PR) for entrepreneurs, teaching how to find newsworthy stories in a startup, craft clear pitches, build a targeted media and podcast contact list, and run a simple outreach plan to gain visibility without paying for ads.

  • 💰 Business Networking - Startups, Investors & Tech/ 18:30-22:00: networking event to connect startups, investors, and tech professionals in a relaxed atmosphere through interactive activities designed to spark conversations and business collaborations.

  • 🔀 Madrid Tech Mixer and Social (Tech / AI / Data / IT)/ 19:30-22:30: meetup for tech professionals working in AI, data, and IT to connect, share ideas, and discuss the latest industry trends.”

Saturday, 25

  • 👩 Networking Women PNM + Mini Taller/ 17.00-21.00: women’s networking meetup with a mini workshop on image, style, and presence, designed for professional-minded women who want to connect, learn one concrete idea from a personal stylist, and leave with new ways to show up more intentionally in work and life.

Sunday, 26

  • 😴

Upcoming Events

Wednesday, 29 July

Thursday, 30 July

Monday, 3 August

Tuesday, 4 August

Wednesday, 5 August

Friday, 7 August

👇 Call to action for you 👇

By Riccardo De Gasperin

Creator of Qué Pasa en Madrid

LinkedIn

Disclaimer: Qué Pasa en Madrid is not responsible for the events included in the present email. Informational purpose only. Issue #84 (19.07.26)

]]><![CDATA[Week 29 // 13 to 19 July]]>https://www.quepasaenmadrid.com/p/week-29-13-to-29-julyhttps://www.quepasaenmadrid.com/p/week-29-13-to-29-julySun, 12 Jul 2026 16:00:10 GMTQué pasa this week in Madrid?

Week highlights:

Monday, 13

  • 🍻 BeerPITCH - Lanza, Lidera e Innova con IA/ 17.00-20.00: meetup on how AI is reshaping business and entrepreneurship, with a small BeerPITCH-style session to discuss skills, AI-first ways to build businesses, and tools to use.

  • 🏢 Networking Inmobiliario | RET Real Estate/ 19.30-23.00: real estate networking meetup for investors, owners, and professionals from the wider property ecosystem, built around quick introductions and a light networking dynamic, and plenty of time to network.

Tuesday, 14

Wednesday, 15

  • ✴️ Duplica la Capacidad de tu Equipo con Claude/ 18.00-20.00: workshop with the CEO of Agents IAN on using Claude to “double” team capacity, discussing practical applications of AI and a live hands-on session on workflows to speed up documents and data-based decisions.

  • 🧠 Entente | El Club de la Lucha...Verbal: Neurobiología de la Persuasión/ 19:00-21:00: session on advanced negotiation techniques for professionals to deactivate egos and close agreements through immersive dynamics and practical tools.

  • 🥐 Cultural Media Exchange/ 20:00-22:00: meetup by the Madrid Tech Brunch community, this time to discuss art, media, culture, and other creative fields, to connect creativity with technology in a relaxed evening setting.

Thursday, 16

  • 🎯 El Embudo que Necesita una Persona Emprendedora: la Captación Digital con MetaAds/ 10.00-13.00: training workshop on digital customer acquisition using Meta Ads for entrepreneurs and startup marketers, showing how to design simple and effective funnels that rely on strategy and data-based decisions instead of segmentation.

  • 🤸 Sobremesa(summer)/ 19:30-22:30: from AI to health, this workshop in the park hosted by Sobremesa(tech) is focused on learning through movement, attention, and coordination, with a guided session combining partner work, imagination, contemporary dance, and capoeira.

Friday, 17

  • ☕️ Innovation Café/ 09:00-11:00: meetup for the English-speaking tech and business community, offering an informal space for unfiltered conversations, idea exchange, and building connections over coffee.

Saturday, 18

  • 😴

Sunday, 19

  • 🥵

Upcoming Events

Monday, 20 July

Wednesday, 22 July

Thursday, 23 July

Friday, 24 July

Saturday, 25 July

Wednesday, 29 July

Thursday, 30 July

Monday, 3 August

Tuesday, 4 August

👇 Call to action for you 👇

By Riccardo De Gasperin

Creator of Qué Pasa en Madrid

LinkedIn

Disclaimer: Qué Pasa en Madrid is not responsible for the events included in the present email. Informational purpose only. Issue #83 (12.07.26)

]]><![CDATA[Week 28 // 6 to 12 July]]>https://www.quepasaenmadrid.com/p/week-28-6-to-12-julyhttps://www.quepasaenmadrid.com/p/week-28-6-to-12-julySun, 05 Jul 2026 16:01:31 GMTQué pasa this week in Madrid?

Week highlights:

Monday, 6

  • 😴

Tuesday, 7

  • 🍹 Business Networking | PNM July/ 19.15-23.00: networking meetup for entrepreneurs, freelancers, and professionals to connect with peers and have meaningful conversations, with a structured but informal evening.

  • 🏠 Sunset Stories - “Home”/ 19:30-21:00: meetup to share first-person stories, questions, and discussions in an open-air circle.

  • 📴 Out-of-Office | Where Madrid’s Founders Collide/ 19.30-24.00: networking meetup for founders, creators, and tech investors, built around smart pre-matched introductions.

  • 🎤 Open Mic in Malasaña - Mic & Roll/ 20.00-23.00: open mic meetup where anyone can take up to three minutes on stage to sing, play, read, perform comedy or spoken word, or just try something new, in a relaxed bar atmosphere for both performers and listeners.

Wednesday, 8

  • 🤖 Industrial Intelligence Day: De la Producción a la IA/ 10.00-12.00: session at Amazon Web Services on how to turn factory data into real business value with AI, bringing together Rockwell Automation, AWS, and Structurit to discuss architectures that connect physical infrastructure with the cloud.

  • 🏁 Networking: el Grand Prix del Emprendimiento/ 12.00-14.00: networking meetup gamified as a “Grand Prix” for entrepreneurs, with team challenges and playful dynamics designed to help people present their projects and build new collaborations in a summer setting.

  • ✍️ Club Abierto de Escritura/ 17:30-19:00: club for writers to develop and share stories, worlds, or characters in a supportive environment, welcoming all levels of experience.

  • 🧠 Sabiduría Artificial/ 17.30-21.00: talk on AI ethics for people in business, tech, education, leadership, and institutions, focused on how to design AI with “artificial wisdom” that aligns efficiency with universal values like truth, justice, freedom, and care for life.

  • 💰 Value Challenge 2026 | Gran Final & Investor Networking/ 18:30-22:30: investment event where five analysts present and debate live theses on ASML in front of a jury of asset management professionals, followed by awards and investor networking with catering for people curious about how high-stakes investment decisions are made.

  • ✨ Vibecoding & Friends: Social Gathering for Founders and Entrepreneurs/ 19.00-21.30: meetup for founders, builders, creators, and AI enthusiasts to openly share what they’re building and discover new AI workflows, in a collaborative space that prioritizes learning and real projects over formal talks or pitches.

Thursday, 9

  • 🛍️ Del Producto a la Tienda Online: Herramientas de Ecommerce con IA/ 15:00-19:00: workshop on how to create an online store using digital tools and AI, covering topics like product definition, value proposition, and communicating with potential clients.

  • 🌓 Otra Mirada al Eclipse Total de 2026/ 18.00-19.30: conference on the 2026 total solar eclipse offering a different perspective on its path through Portugal, Iceland, Greenland, and France, hosted at Madrid’s Planetarium for an audience interested in astronomy and upcoming celestial events.

  • 🔥 CPS Mad: Las Power Skills para Entornos CPS/ 18:00-20:00: meetup on Complex Problem Solving (CPS), discussing the power skills needed to thrive in complex environments. An expert from La Evolucionista, a company specializing in business transformation and organizational development, will guide the session.

  • ⚫️ OpenCircle | Business Networking - Rooftop Drinks/ 19:00-22:00: periodic meetup to connect with like-minded founders, freelancers, and professionals for high-value conversations in a relaxed rooftop setting.

Friday, 10

  • 🤖 Madrid AI Builders: Friday Networking/ 17:00-19:00: meetup for professionals working in AI projects, startups, and creative tools, aimed at exchanging ideas and exchanging ideas within the AI scene.

  • 🎨 Sip & Paint – Drinks, Art & Meet/ 17:30-20:00: workshop with a relaxed space to paint and socialise with a drink, guided step-by-step by a teacher, and no experience is needed.

  • 🤝 Business Networking - Startups, Investors & Tech/ 18:30-22:00: networking event to connect with startups, investors, and tech professionals and explore new collaborations.

  • 🔀 Tech Mixer and Social/ 19:30-22:30: afterwork drinks and networking with tech and IT professionals, connecting with others in the industry to find job opportunities, expand your network, share ideas, and stay updated on the latest trends.

Saturday, 11

  • 📚 Marcapáginas - Eat, Meet & Read/ 10.00-12.00: reading meetup for book lovers who want to share a quiet morning over coffee and brunch, with time to chat about what everyone is reading, and a full hour of silent reading together in the park.

  • 🤔 Walk & Talk About Life’s Big Questions/ 11:00-13:30: walk encouraging curious individuals to bring a thoughtful topic for deep conversations, to explore life’s big questions and create new connections.

Sunday, 12

  • 🌟 Creative Marathon #12/ 10.45-14.00: creative session where people dedicate a three-hour “marathon” to work on their own projects, from writing and drawing to crafting and more, with brunch included and a shared moment at the end to show what everyone has been working on.

Upcoming Events

Monday, 13 July

Tuesday, 14 July

Wednesday, 15 July

Thursday, 16 July

Monday, 20 July

Wednesday, 22 July

Thursday, 23 July

Friday, 24 July

Saturday, 25 July

👇 Call to action for you 👇

By Riccardo De Gasperin

Creator of Qué Pasa en Madrid

LinkedIn

Disclaimer: Qué Pasa en Madrid is not responsible for the events included in the present email. Informational purpose only. Issue #82 (5.07.26)

]]><![CDATA[Week 27 // 29 June to 5 July]]>https://www.quepasaenmadrid.com/p/week-27-29-june-to-5-julyhttps://www.quepasaenmadrid.com/p/week-27-29-june-to-5-julySun, 28 Jun 2026 16:02:50 GMTHola, Madrileños! Some businesses explain themselves, while others are simply understood. The difference? It’s how they communicate their value.

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Qué pasa this week in Madrid?

Week highlights:

Monday, 29

  • 🤔 Decisiones que Crean Destinos/ 20.00-21.30: networking meetup for entrepreneurs, freelancers, and professionals looking to diversify their income or reinvent themselves, with a mini-conference on digital distribution and building new revenue streams.

Tuesday, 30

  • 🎯 From AI Feature to Market Position: Workshop para Fundadores/ 9.00-12.00: workshop at Madrid Innovation Lab for AI startup founders on how to move from building features to building a strong market position, covering topics like ideal customer profiling, differentiation, and value proposition.

  • 🚀 DemoDay - Sartups en Etapas de Incubación/ 16.00-20.00: demo day where 15 startups from the Madrid Chamber of Commerce incubation program pitch their progress to investors and ecosystem players, innovating in different industries like AI, education, sustainability, and mobility.

  • 📈 Stock Options y Retribución Flexible para Startups: Cómo Atraer y Comprometer Talento/ 18.30-20.00: workshop for startup founders on how to design and implement stock option plans and flexible compensation, while respecting legal requirements and understanding tax implications.

  • ⚡ Lightning Talks #50/ 19.10-21.00: five speakers giving five-minute presentations on diverse topics, followed by questions, drinks, and social time in a format designed to share unexpected ideas and hear other people’s stories.

Wednesday, 1

Thursday, 2

Friday, 3

  • .🌴 [Startup Oasis] Innovation Café/ 9.00-11.00: morning coffee replicating in Madrid the format already established in Andalucia, dedicated to the tech and business community to have conversations, share startup journeys, test ideas, and build connections over coffee and breakfast.

  • 💪 Coworking Jam/ 11.00-14.00: coworking time for builders, founders, and product people to share startup ideas, side projects, and technical challenges, get honest feedback from other people building things, and move projects forward together.

  • 🌱 Cleantech Meetup/ 17.00-20.00: networking meetup for people working in cleantech startups and large companies, designed to help sustainability and business profiles connect in an informal setting over snacks and drinks.

  • 🤝 Business Networking - Startups, Investors & Tech/ 18.30-22.00: business networking event for startups, investors, and tech professionals, with welcome drinks, warm-up conversations, interactive networking, and space to explore collaborations and investment opportunities in a relaxed international setting.

  • 🍔 Big Ballers: Dinner with Entrepreneur/ 19.00-22.00: small-group dinner for entrepreneurs to meet strangers, share experiences, and build new connections over a casual meal, with the group size kept intentionally intimate and the focus on real human networking.

Saturday, 4

  • 🥵

Sunday, 5

  • 🥐 Madrid Tech Brunch: Summer Edition/ 12.00-14.00: tech brunch meetup for developers, founders, designers, and other tech curious people, with coffee, small group discussions, and rotating topics to help meet new people and talk about trends, AI, tools, and productivity.

Upcoming Events

Monday, 6 July

Tuesday, 7 July

Wednesday, 8 July

Thursday, 9 July

Friday, 10 July

Saturday, 11 July

Sunday, 12 July

Tuesday, 14 July

Wednesday, 15 July

Thursday, 16 July

Saturday, 25 July

👇 Call to action for you 👇

By Riccardo De Gasperin

Creator of Qué Pasa en Madrid

LinkedIn

Disclaimer: Qué Pasa en Madrid is not responsible for the events included in the present email. Informational purpose only. Issue #81 (28.06.26)

]]><![CDATA[Week 26 // 22 to 28 June]]>https://www.quepasaenmadrid.com/p/week-26-22-to-28-junehttps://www.quepasaenmadrid.com/p/week-26-22-to-28-juneSun, 21 Jun 2026 16:01:13 GMTWant to be part of the next editions? Submit your event here.

Hola, Madrileños! Qué pasa this week in Madrid?

Highlights:

Monday, 22

  • 👀

Tuesday, 23

  • 💰 Financiación y Fondos: Oportunidades Disponibles para Transformar tu Empresa/ 9.00-10.30: morning session at Cámara de Madrid covering the full landscape of public funding and European structural funds available to Madrid businesses beyond Next Generation EU.

  • ☸️ Building and Scaling Inference Workloads on Amazon EKS/ 9.30-16.00: hands-on workshop by AWS on building and scaling inference workloads on Amazon EKS, focused on production-ready GenAI deployments with NVIDIA GPUs, vLLM, Ray, Prometheus, and Grafana, and aimed at DevOps, MLOps, AI developers, solution architects, and product owners.

  • 🚀 Startup ProcureTech & Innovation Connect/ 10.00-14.00: networking event for procurement, technology, and startup professionals aimed at accelerating innovation and new B2B opportunities. The agenda includes cluster and foundation introductions plus presentations from winning startups in the GInPS2026 pitch competition.

  • ✅ Emprender con Apoyo: una Guía Inicial para Empezar/ 11.00-14.00: workshop offering a realistic first approach to entrepreneurship, with guidance on identifying personal talents, assessing an auto employment idea, understanding basic next steps, and learning about municipal support, subsidies, and mentoring resources.

  • 🎯 Agentic Commerce: IA para Hacer Crecer Vuestro Negocio Hoy/ 18.00-20.30: event for eCommerce, marketing, innovation, and technology professionals on how to grow with Shopify and AI, covering agentic commerce, the new buyer journey, automation, data control, and a real examples.

  • 🤔 Martes de Design Thinking - Nuevo Reto Real Sobre el que Trabajar/ 18.30-20.30: meetup on design thinking where you can work on a real social challenge, using ideation and prototyping to develop innovative team solutions and reconnect with the community.

  • 🎤 Open Mic Storytelling #37 - “Family”/ 19.00-21.00: periodic storytelling event where you can share or just listen to true first-person stories, this time about “family”, in a relaxed evening format.

  • 💥 Impacto Real de la Actual Evolución Geopolítica/ 19.00-21.00: panel discussion by IE University on current geopolitical tensions, with known experts on diplomacy, international relations, energy, wealth, and foreign policy exploring.

  • 🏃 Run Your Business | Run, Yoga & Meditation/ 19.00-21.30: another appointment with Startup Grind Madrid and partners in this event format that combines an easy run, yoga and post-session business networking.

Wednesday, 24

  • 🚨 Empresas y Autónomos en Crisis: Cómo Sobrevivir Frente al Riesgo de Perder tu Negocio y Patrimonio/ 9.30-11.00: panel discussion on how businesses and freelancers can survive financial crisis without losing the company or personal assets, with experts in insolvency, law, and commercial courts discussing liquidity, debt, creditor pressure, and practical tools to protect the business.

  • 📊 Cultura Data-Driven la Era de la IA/ 9.30-12.30: breakfast briefing on building a stronger data governance foundation and a more data-driven culture before scaling AI, with practical guidance on moving from scattered dashboards to a solid analytics ecosystem.

  • 🔥 FredCon’26 by Google Cloud/ 9.30-19.00: conference for the technical community focused on leadership and managing technical teams, with sessions on salary balance plans and people management, designed to help engineers and HR understand each other better and centered on learning and sharing rather than business leads.

  • 📩 Correos que Impactan: Lenguaje Claro y Comunicación Multilingüe/ 17.30-18.30: conference on clear language and multilingual communication to write more effective emails, reduce errors, and save time.

  • 🧾 Innobar: Compra Pública Innovadora y GovTech/ 18.00-20.30: networking event about public procurement innovation and GovTech for startups, SMEs, and innovative companies interested in collaborating with public organizations.

  • 🌐 Beyond X - Logistics/ 18.15-23.00: new event by The Cube at MIOTI Business School discussing how AI is reshaping logistics, bringing together founders and companies with elite athletes from TSR Group as special guests.

  • 🆆 Wordpress Madrid - Desarrollo con IA: Detrás del Prompt Mágico/ 18.30-20.30: workshop by Wordpress on AI-assisted development that explains what is really behind prompt-based tools, including context handling, attention windows, skills, customization, and work organization, designed for both technical and nontechnical profiles.

  • 🇳 Notion Madrid Community Meetup/ 18.30-21.00: meetup organized by the Notion Community for teams that need a scalable, intuitive, and flexible system to keep pace with growth, with community ambassadors sharing the latest features, AI updates, and what is coming next.

  • 🗣️ Public Speaking Club – TinTalks | Networking & Rooftop/ 19.30-21.30: combining communication dynamics and real networking on a rooftop, with practical tools to speak more confidently in a relaxed, social setting.

  • 🍺 People, Planet, Pint - Sustainability Meetup/ 19.00-21.00: meetup on sustainability, meant to network and share ideas over a drink, learn what is happening locally, and connect with others interested in taking action for a more sustainable future.

  • 🤝 Cómo Liderar un Estudio en Tiempos de IA/ 19.00-21.00: workshop on how to lead a design studio in the age of AI, with lessons on services, clients, sales, teams, and how to keep business, creativity, and personal life in balance as the sector changes.

  • ✨ Vibecoding & Friends/ 19.00-21.30: social gathering for founders, builders, creators, and AI enthusiasts to share projects, tools, and real-world experiments, with simple networking activities and conversation starters.

Thursday, 25

  • ☕️ Climate Coffee/ 8.30-10.30: monthly coffee meetup for people working in or curious about climate and impact for informal conversations on the topics.

  • 🚀 AI+eCommerce Buildathon con Lovable/ 10.00-13.30: buildathon where multidisciplinary teams of founders, builders, marketers, designers, students, and AI enthusiasts work with Lovable and other no-code tools to identify an eCommerce problem, build a functional AI-powered MVP, and pitch it to judges, with mentoring, networking, coffee, and prizes for the winning team.

  • 📈 Alianzas Estratégicas para un Crecimiento Sostenible/ 12.00-14.00: networking event for entrepreneurs in growth and acceleration stages to identify strategic alliances, share operational management practices, and connect with other projects in the Madrid Emprende network.

  • 🔥 AI + eCommerce Summit by Clairo/ 15.30-21.00: meetup following the AI Buildathon, discussing real applications of AI in digital commerce, with talks on AI-driven SEO, customer service automation, social media monetization, and agentic AI for sales and marketing.

  • 💪 Afterparty Build 2026/ 18.00-20.00: afterparty for Microsoft Build 2026 at NTT DATA Spain, discussing practical updates on data, analytics, and AI announced at the main event, plus community experiences and networking.

  • ֎ #Codemeet: Agentic Thinking for Humans/ 18.30-21.30: meetup on agentic thinking for humans at Celonis with a talk about how AI is changing professional value and which human skills will stay important, with topics like systems thinking, adaptability, critical thinking, communication, and continuous learning.

  • 🏦 Fintech Meetup - Afterwork/ 18.30-21.30: afterwork for FinTech founders, operators, investors, and tech professionals to meet informally over a drink, with no agenda or panel but a focus on honest conversations about building and scaling financial products in Spain and Europe.

  • 𝐕 The Valley - Discovery Day/ 19.00-21.00: open house at The Valley with two masterclasses on AI, technology, and business innovation, including talks by Coca Cola WPP’s EU Creative Tech Director and Mapfre’s CDO, plus a tour of The Place and a cocktail with teachers and experts.

Friday, 26

  • 😋 The Madrid Business Lunch/ 13.30-17.00: business lunch networking event with a 3-hour open bar, BBQ tapas from the grill, and a DJ set aimed at professionals looking to connect in a relaxed summer atmosphere.

  • 📚 BLC Spain: Open Day/ 16.00-18.00: open day at Business and Language College Spain (BLC), a bilingual business school in Madrid, where prospective students can tour the campus, explore undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, and get answers on admissions, visas, and fees directly from the team.

  • 💪 Madrid AI Builders/ 17.00-19.00: relaxed Friday meetup for founders, developers, creators, and marketers building or experimenting with AI, just to meet and exchange ideas.

  • 💎 El Nuevo Lujo Digital: Pedir Menos y Saber Más/ 18.30-20.30: expert roundtable for fintech, lending, insurance, and risk professionals to discuss how AI, Open Banking, and Open Finance are reshaping onboarding and verification processes.

  • 💭 ¿Es la IA una Inteligencia o una Nueva Forma de Vida?/ 18.30-21.00: philosophy event exploring whether AI can think, feel, or be considered a form of life, using group dynamics, speaker presentations, rebuttals, and an open fishbowl debate to actively join the conversation.

  • 🤝 Business Networking - Startups, Investors & Tech/ 18.30-22.00: international networking event connecting startups, angel investors, and tech professionals through welcome drinks, warm-up conversations, interactive games, and open networking.

Saturday, 27

  • ⬛ BlackBoxAI: El Nacimiento del Adversario Autónomo/ 10.30-15.00: cybersecurity meetup where offensive security specialist Kneda (co-organizer of HackMadrid and DefCon 2019 finalist) presents a live demo of an autonomous AI agent capable of reasoning and executing offensive security tasks from a command line.

  • 🎸 Festival Villanos del Flamenco - Concierto de Tomatito/ 19.30-23.00: cultural-oriented event with Tomatito, a guitarist and flamenco legend. Would you like to see more cultural events? Take a look at treintamástreinta, a community focused on promoting plans and experiences with cultural institutions and local groups, which recommended to us this event.

Sunday, 28

  • 💤

Upcoming Events

Tuesday, 30 June

Wednesday, 1 July

Thursday, 2 July

Friday, 3 July

Monday, 6 July

Tuesday, 7 July

Wednesday, 8 July

Saturday, 11 July

Tuesday, 14 July

👇 Call to action for you 👇

By Riccardo De Gasperin

Creator of Qué Pasa en Madrid

LinkedIn

Disclaimer: Qué Pasa en Madrid is not responsible for the events included in the present email. Informational purpose only. Issue #80 (21.06.26)

]]><![CDATA[Week 25 // 15 to 21 June]]>https://www.quepasaenmadrid.com/p/week-25-15-to-21-junehttps://www.quepasaenmadrid.com/p/week-25-15-to-21-juneSun, 14 Jun 2026 16:02:15 GMTWant to be part of the next editions? Submit your event here.

Hola, Madrileños! Qué pasa this week in Madrid?

Monday, 15

  • 💳 Convierte tu TPV en una Máquina de Datos/ 10.00-12.00: workshop dedicated to restaurant owners and operations directors to unify data from POS machines and build useful dashboards for data analytics, including a live demonstration.

  • 🤖 Robot Experience: Feria de Robótica & IA/ 17.00-20.00: meetup with Beerstorming and AI Network hosting companies and talent to see live robot demos and solutions, and connect with developers working in the field.

Tuesday, 16

Wednesday, 17

  • 💥 Presentación del Índice de Ecosistemas de Emprendimiento de Impacto/ 9.00-12.00: presentation of the Impact Entrepreneurship Ecosystems Index, a tool developed by Impact Hub Madrid and Donostia, analyzing all 50 Spanish provinces across ecological, social, and economic health dimensions to identify territorial strengths and imbalances.

  • 👥 Humanos y Agentes de IA: el Nuevo Organigrama/ 9.45-12.00: morning event by MIOTI Tech & Business School on how humans and AI agents collaborate in the new organizational chart, with the CEO presenting how agentic AI is redefining how teams work, followed by networking and idea exchange among HR and tech leaders.

  • 💻 Digitaliza tu Empresa/ 10.00-13.30: hands-on workshop for entrepreneurs, startups, SMEs, and freelancers covering AI, electronic invoicing, and cybersecurity to optimize processes and adapt businesses to digital challenges.

  • 🍔 5º Startup Day de Madrid Food Innovation Hub/ 10.00-14.00: foodtech showcase at Madrid Food Innovation Hub presenting startups from incubation and acceleration programs, with product tastings, live demos, sensory experiences, and networking with the Madrid foodtech and agri-food ecosystem.

  • 🚀 Product Manager to Founder Journey/ 19.00-21.00: meetup where two founders share their honest PM-to-founder journey beyond the scene, covering what pushed them to take the leap, which product skills transfer, biggest struggles, and practical advice for anyone considering the founder path.

  • ✈️ Viajar, Crear y Monetizar: Construir una Vida Alrededor de tu Contenido/ 19.30-23.00: afterwork with a 30-minute talk by a travel creator on building a personal brand and monetizing content around travel and authentic local experiences without losing authenticity.

Thursday, 18

  • 🏠 Transformar para Habitar/ 9.30-11.30: morning roundtable bringing together real estate developers, clients, and operators to discuss building rehabilitation and the shift toward new residential models like flex living and student housing.

  • 📶 Telecomunicaciones, IA y Ciberseguridad/ 17.30-19.45: congress with roundtables and a keynote on telecommunications, AI, and cybersecurity, with speakers including senior figures from INCIBE, CNMC, the Spanish Data Protection Agency, the VP of IBM Consulting Spain and the Director of Enterprise Solutions at Microsoft Spain.

  • 💻 MFR-Refugees Code Demo Day 2026/ 18.00-21.00: Demo Day celebrating final projects from refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants who trained in Front-End Web Development and Data Analytics this year, with student presentations, Q&A, and networking with tech companies.

  • 🤝 Madrid Business Leaders/ 18.00-21.00: networking event for startup founders, entrepreneurs, tech professionals, creatives, and investors, with light structure, thought-provoking prompts, and optional breakout groups.

  • ⚙️ AI-in-the-Middle MLOps/ 18.30-20.00: meetup at International Lab presenting an MLOps layer with MLflow, covering how LLMs and human experts work together to manage the ML lifecycle end-to-end, including experiment tracking, model registry, workflow orchestration, guardrails, and accelerated migration from Amazon SageMaker to Databricks.

  • 🔄 Menos Tareas, Más Progreso: Automatiza Procesos y Ventas con IA/ 18.30-20.00: workshop at Puerta Innovación on automating processes and sales with AI, with real examples, practical tools, and demos connecting WhatsApp, email, CRM, forms, and other platforms.

  • 🪙 Token Massacre: Aplastando el Contexto de los LLMs con Node.js y TypeScript/ 19.00-20.00: meetup where a full-stack developer will speak about compressing LLM context to reduce token costs and prevent conversations from running out, explaining how his npm package Squeezr built with Node.js and TypeScript acts as an intermediary between AI coding tools and LLM APIs.

  • ⚫ ️OpenCircle | Business Networking Rooftop Drinks/ 19.00-22.00: recurring business networking meetup by OpenCircle for founders, freelancers, and professionals to have real connections and high-value conversations in a stylish and relaxed setting.

Friday, 19

  • 🤝 Liderazgo Consciente y Rendimiento Directivo/ 17.30-19.30: monthly circle for CEOs, entrepreneurs, and executives looking to go beyond success, combining open conversations, mini-presentations, and high-level networking.

Saturday, 20

  • 🤖 AgentsDay NTT Data - Desarrolla y Utiliza Agentes/ 9.30-1.30: meetup with NTT DATA for developers, architects, and tech leads who want to move from using AI to code faster to actually building software with agents, using frameworks like Microsoft Agent Framework, Azure AI Foundry, GitHub Copilot and .NET.

  • 💼 Feria de Empleo Ciberseguridad + Bug Summit/ 9.45-21.00: full-day event at La Nave combining a cybersecurity job fair with a live hacking competition and a bug bounty summit with talks by community practitioners on vulnerability hunting and the current state of offensive security in 2026.

Sunday, 21

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Upcoming Events

Tuesday, 23 June

Wednesday, 24 June

Thursday, 25 June

Friday, 26 June

Saturday, 27 June

Tuesday, 30 June

Wednesday, 1 July

Thursday, 2 July

Monday, 6 July

Tuesday, 7 July

Wednesday, 8 July

Saturday, 11 July

👇 Call to action for you 👇

By Riccardo De Gasperin

Creator of Qué Pasa en Madrid

LinkedIn

Disclaimer: Qué Pasa en Madrid is not responsible for the events included in the present email. Informational purpose only. Issue #79 (14.06.26)

]]><![CDATA[Week 24 // 8 to 14 June]]>https://www.quepasaenmadrid.com/p/week-24-8-to-14-junehttps://www.quepasaenmadrid.com/p/week-24-8-to-14-juneSun, 07 Jun 2026 16:01:20 GMTWant to be part of the next editions? Submit your event here.

Hola, Madrileños! Qué pasa this week in Madrid?

Monday, 8

  • ✍️ Co-writing Madrid #72/ 18.00-20.00: focused 90 minutes of writing to work on your project, followed by a short session where you can optionally share what you wrote.

  • 📱 UXPA España/ 18.30-20.30: event for UX professionals with advice for emerging designers followed by an open panel discussion with experienced design professionals sharing their experiences.

Tuesday, 9

  • 🔄 De Leads a Clientes: Automatiza y Escala tu Proceso Comercial con IA/ 12.00-14.00: seminar by SIDN and HubSpot on automating and scaling sales processes with AI, showing live demos of AI applied to sales and marketing, and real cases examples, followed by networking.

  • 🔝 Menos IA y Más Decisiones: Guía de Supervivencia de Datos para Startup/ 18.30-20.00: workshop for startup founders on building a lightweight Snowflake data stack to make data-driven decisions without a data department.

  • 🚀 GTM Strategy for Early-Stage Startups/ 18.30-20.00: meetup on GTM strategy for early-stage startups, especially for founders with ideas or early products who need help identifying their target audience.

  • 💻 DevMad! Talks/ 18.30-21.00: developers meetup about designing Mixed Reality experiences with a live demo of the MR game Garden Haven and lessons learnt while developing it.

  • 👩 Step4ward Madrid: Girls, Tech and Beers/ 18.30-21.30: event for women in tech to meet, build community, and form a group of “allies” to attend tech events together so no one has to go alone, with purposeful networking and board games for icebreaking.

  • 🎤 Open Mic Storytelling #36 - “Never Again!”/ 19.00-21.00: open mic storytelling where you can share 2-6 minute first-person stories, or just enjoy listening to others, this time on the theme of “Never Again”.

  • 🎯 KPIs vs Humane Leadership/ 19.30-22.30: networking dinner discussing human leadership and exploring how to build high-performance cultures without losing humanity with conscious leadership.

Wednesday, 10

  • ☕ AI in Action | Desayunos Ejecutivos/ 9.00-12.00: executive breakfast with Microsoft exploring real AI business cases with experts and other leaders, moving AI from strategy to implementation.

  • 🇳 Piensa Fuera de la Caja con Notion/ 17.00-18.30: practical workshop at Santander Work Café showing how Notion brings together everything needed to think, organize, and execute daily work in one place.

  • 🔮 Aprender el Futuro | MADTalk/ 17.00-18.30: talk on how AI is transforming education, how it’s already impacting classrooms, changing how students learn and teachers teach, and helping schools make decisions.

  • 🛵 Building Claude Code while Waiting for Your Glovo/ 18.00-20.30: DevOps meetup with a talk on developing a minimalist Claude Code version from scratch using Node.js and TypeScript, just using core agent primitives.

  • 🎯 Martech Shift/ 18.30-20.00: marketing event at Madrid Innovation Lab on the new paradigm for marketing professionals in the AI agent era, showing how generative AI, autonomous agents, and sophisticated stacks are redefining how brands connect and personalize customer touchpoints.

  • 💥 Design the Future: Strategic Foresight para Innovar con Impacto/ 18.30-20.00: workshop for entrepreneurs on strategic foresight to innovate with impact, teaching how to anticipate market shifts and design direction using strategic foresight tools for new opportunities.

  • ⚡ Vibecoding & Friends/ 19.00-21.30: social gathering for no-code entrepreneurs, founders, professionals and creative builders to share drinks, tips, and tools going from zero to MVP-ready, in a relaxed environment.

  • 🗣 Club de Oratoria - Fresquitalks | Networking & Azotea/ 19.30-21.30: public speaking club rooftop event with drinks, ice-breaking dynamics, practical communication resources, and networking to practice speaking skills in a relaxed outdoor setting.

Thursday, 11

  • 💰 Certificación ENISA e Incentivos Fiscales: Cómo Preparar tu startup para la Inversión/ 18.00-19.30: workshop for investment preparation, covering corporate tax, investor deductions, stock options, and structuring your business for investment.

  • 🔥 CryptoDays by La Familia - Web3 Meetup/ 18.00-20.00: crypto meetup closing the first CryptoDays x La Familia season, where local teams and developers discuss lessons on building on Solana today, sharing practical knowledge from Web3 entry to fundraising and growth.

  • 🚀 De Idea a Decisión en 3 minutos. Cómo Construir el Pitch de tu Startup/ 18.30-20.00: workshop on building a startup pitch that generates decisions in 3 minutes, sharing a pitch framework with 6 dimensions and 3 problem layers (functional, emotional, symbolic).

  • ❓ Open Space: ¿Qué Narices está Pasando en el Mercado Laboral Tech?/ 18.30-20.30: discussion in an open space format on what’s happening in the tech labor market, debating whether AI is changing what’s actually required vs what’s said to be required.

  • 📵 Offline Reading Party/ 19.00-21.30: reading session to disconnect and slow down with no phones or notifications and connecting with other book lovers.

  • 📩 Lenny’s Newsletter Meetup/ 19.00-22.00: casual meetup by Lenny’s Newsletter for people building products or working in tech to have in-depth conversations, sponsored by Clerk, an authentication platform).

  • ⚫️ OpenCircle | Business Networking/ 19.00-22.00: weekly rooftop networking for founders, freelancers, and professionals who want real connections over awkward pitches, replacing quantity with high-value conversations to find co-founders, consultants, or customers, bilingual English/Spanish, stylish and relaxed vibe, free entry, secret venue revealed via WhatsApp RSVP.

  • ⚡ The Energy Dinner/ 20.00-23.00: dinner for a restricted, small group of entrepreneurs looking for deep conversations, accessed by selection.

Friday, 12

  • 😎 Build with AI | Summer Edition/ 15.30-20.30: workshop by Google Developers Group on autonomous agents and multi-agent systems, moving beyond basic prompting to build AI teams that execute and reason ethically.

  • 💪 Madrid AI Builders/ 17.00-19.00: relaxed networking meetup for people in Madrid building with AI, aimed at connecting tech people, exchanging ideas, and building genuine connections in the Madrid AI scene.

  • 📈 Emprender Lejos de Casa: Comunidad, Proceso y Crecimiento/ 17.30-20.00: meetup for entrepreneurial women building life, projects or networks in the city, with a panel of founders, conversation on entrepreneurship, Q&A, and afterwork networking.

Saturday, 13

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Sunday, 14

  • ✨ Creative Marathon #11/ 10.45-14.00: creative meetup for a focused 3-hour working slot on any creative project, including brunch and ending with a sharing session.

Upcoming Events

Monday, 15 June

Tuesday, 16 June

Wednesday, 17 June

Thursday, 18 June

Saturday, 20 June

Tuesday, 23 June

Wednesday, 24 June

Thursday, 25 June

Friday, 26 June

Saturday, 27 June

Tuesday, 30 June

Wednesday, 1 July

Thursday, 2 July

👇 Call to action for you 👇

By Riccardo De Gasperin

Creator of Qué Pasa en Madrid

LinkedIn

Disclaimer: Qué Pasa en Madrid is not responsible for the events included in the present email. Informational purpose only. Issue #78 (7.06.26)

]]><![CDATA[Week 23 // 1 to 7 June]]>https://www.quepasaenmadrid.com/p/week-23-1-to-7-junehttps://www.quepasaenmadrid.com/p/week-23-1-to-7-juneSun, 31 May 2026 16:03:02 GMTWant to be part of the next editions? Submit your event here.

Hola, Madrileños! Qué pasa this week in Madrid?

Monday, 1

Tuesday, 2

  • 📈 Innoday DeepTech - De la Ciencia al Mercado: Cómo Construir y Escalar Startups DeepTech/ 10.00-14.30: Innoday focused on deeptech, connecting researchers, universities, startups, investors, and corporates to discuss transforming scientific research into scalable startups.

  • 🛡️ Jornada Técnica sobre Ciberseguridad para el Ecosistema Emprendedor/ 11.00-14.00: technical session for entrepreneurs on applying ISO 27001 principles for cybersecurity, covering technical and organizational requirements, data governance compared to Spain’s ENS, competitive advantages of certification, and practical tools for startups and SMEs.

  • 🚀 4YFN & Friends: Madrid Meetup/ 17.30-20.00: meetup connecting Madrid’s startup ecosystem to the global 4YFN platform, with a General Partner from Notion Capital, the Managing Director of Wayra Spain, the co-CEO and co-founder of TaxDown, a Partner from Kibo Ventures, and representatives from Santander Spain telling startup stories on scaling corporate partnerships.

  • 💻 Cursor Madrid Hackathon #3/ 18.00-22.30: hackathon by Cursor where builders form teams of around four people (or get matched if coming solo) to design and build a functional project in a few hours using Cursor.

  • ⚡ High-Performance Data Meets Modern AI/ 18.20-20.20: meetup focused on kdb+ and q programming language, with a senior data scientist from BBVA presenting a neural network implemented natively in q/KDB Insights for estimating execution probability in financial markets, and other talks.

  • 📊 GrafanaCON Recap Madrid/ 18.30-21.00: recap event hosted by Grafana & Friends Madrid summarizing key announcements from GrafanaCON 2026‘s keynote, plus a talk by Grafana Labs’ Product Designer and Staff Solutions Engineer on how k6 v2.0 lowers barriers for proactive testing with AI-assisted code generation.

  • 🤖 Building an MCP Server in Go: Connecting AI Models to the Real World/ 19.00-21.00: technical talk on building a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server in Go using the official SDK to connect AI models to databases, APIs, files, and services.

  • 🏃 Run Your Business -South Summit Edition/ 19.00-21.30: founders’ run organized with Startup Grind Madrid, consisting of an easy conversational-paced run followed by talks from founders and relaxed after drinks.

Wednesday, 3

  • 🔥 South Summit/ 9.00-24.00 (1/3): one of the biggest Tech conferences in Spain, with 20,000+ attendees from 134 countries, including 7,500+ startups and 2,100+ investors managing over $580B in funds, focused on AI convergence and innovation across industries, with keynotes and sessions.

  • 🎯 IA Aplicada al Mundo Real: ML en Salud y Desarrollo con Agentes y Spec-kit/ 18.00-21.30: talks on two real-world AI case studies: a data scientist presenting ML for predicting multidrug-resistant bacteria in ICU patients, and a data engineer explaining spec-driven development and spec-kit for building agent-based systems from a streaming fraud detection pipeline.

  • </> #CodeMeet Madrid: Software Engineering 2.0: The Rules Have Changed/ 18.15-21.15: meetup by Codemotion on how AI is fundamentally reshaping software engineering workflows and collaboration between engineering, product, and business teams, with talks on the new engineering skillset and live demos.

  • 🔥 Madrid Cybersecurity Social #02/ 18.30-21.30: second appointment with the community of cybersecurity professionals (inspired by the successful Berlin community), this time including a lightning talk on the threats introduced by the Agentic AI stack, layer by layer.

  • 🤖 AI Builders&Backers: South Summit Kickoff at ElevenLabs House/ 19.00-21.30: kickoff event for South Summit, bringing together AI founders, builders, and the VC ecosystem for cold beer, snacks, and networking with ElevenLabs and partners.

Thursday, 4

  • 🔥 AWS Summit Madrid/ 10.00-18.30: annual conference at IFEMA by Amazon Web Services with over 90 sessions covering agentic AI, serverless computing, cloud migration, and digital transformation, and partners’ exhibitions.

  • 📐 Architecture Summit/ 18.00-21.00: conference by IE School of Architecture and Design featuring talks and panels with experts in the field of architecture and construction.

  • 🍹 Hope Dose x IE x Climate Cocktails/ 19.00-22.00: climate tech happy hour co-hosted by Hope Dose, IE University, and South Summit, bringing together climate tech startups and investors for drinks in an informal format.

  • ❌ AI Nights: Errores, Aprendizajes y Risas con el Hype/ 19.30-22.30: afterwork where two speakers share real AI failures and lessons learned in honest 20-minute talks covering broken automations, failed projects, and misleading hype, followed by open networking in a relaxed atmosphere.

  • 🤖 Playground #2 | Let Claude Handle it/ 19.30-22.30: meetup by Guiris de Mierda with a Claude AI masterclass by a Y Combinator founder and former startup CEO who raised $4M and now creates AI content for 300k+ followers, plus a live communication and presence training session and structured networking.

Friday, 5

  • ✨ Madrid Tech Mixer and Social/ 19.30-22.30: weekly afterwork meetup open to tech, AI, data, and IT professionals for casual drinks and connections in a relaxed setting.

Saturday, 6

  • 🟢 Otro Puto Mercadillo 72º/ 16.00-21.00: local flea market with over 40 stands offering upcycling fashion, secondhand clothing, jewelry, prints, and fanzines, plus bar and raffles.

Sunday, 7

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Upcoming Events

Monday, 8 June

Tuesday, 9 June

Wednesday, 10 June

Thursday, 11 June

Friday, 12 June

Monday, 15 June

Monday, 16 June

Tuesday, 16 June

Wednesday, 17 June

Thursday, 18 June

Saturday, 20 June

Tuesday, 23 June

Wednesday, 24 June

Thursday, 25 June

Friday, 26 June

👇 Call to action for you 👇

By Riccardo De Gasperin

Creator of Qué Pasa en Madrid

LinkedIn

Disclaimer: Qué Pasa en Madrid is not responsible for the events included in the present email. Informational purpose only. Issue #77 (31.05.26)

]]><![CDATA[Week 22 // 25 to 31 May]]>https://www.quepasaenmadrid.com/p/week-22-25-to-31-mayhttps://www.quepasaenmadrid.com/p/week-22-25-to-31-maySun, 24 May 2026 16:02:47 GMTWant to be part of the next editions? Submit your event here.

Hola, Madrileños! Qué pasa this week in Madrid?

Monday, 25

Tuesday, 26

Wednesday, 27

  • 🏘️ AI4RE Summit 26/ 9.30-18.30: conference focused exclusively on AI applications in Real Estate, bringing together industry leaders to explore how AI can optimize processes, cut costs, and open new business opportunities.

  • 📊 Workshop Tableau Next/ 10.30-12.30: workshop on the new Tableau Next analytics platform, with a practical case to build an interactive dashboard and turn data into actionable business insights in two hours.

  • 💰 Claves para Optimizar tu Patrimonio en un Mundo Cambiante/ 17.00-18.00: talk led by the Director Comercial Retail of Santander Asset Management on how to optimize personal wealth in a volatile environment by shifting from product‑centric to solution‑oriented investing.

  • 🔥 Adyen and BBVA: How AI is Transforming Financial Services/ 18.00-21.00: talks from a BBVA data scientist and GenAI lead on scaling text generation for technical writing, and from an Adyen machine learning engineer on building a foundational model for payments, followed by networking over drinks.

  • 📊 Análisis Forense de Datos Utilizando Spark, Zingg y Graphframes/ 18.15-20.15: session focused on data forensics with Apache Spark, with a talk by a data engineer on using Spark, Zingg, and GraphFrames to detect and map suspicious duplicate profiles and improve data‑quality workflows.

  • 🆆 WordPress Más Allá del Theme: Headless, IA y Creative Development/ 18.30-20.30: meetup by WordPress where a creative developer and CEO of Onetouch España presents a modern workflow using WordPress as a headless CMS together with Claude, Figma, and Astro to align design, development, and content for web projects.

  • 🚀 Construyendo Sin Filtros #13 - Emprender, Crecer y Reinventarse con Propósito/ 18.30-21.00: event by Startup Grind Madrid with a candid conversation between two founders on how to build, scale, and reinvent ventures with purpose, sharing real lessons on growth, leadership, and staying aligned with core values in the entrepreneurial journey.

  • 🗣️ Public Speaking Club – The Perfect Setting for Every Occasion/ 19.00-21.00: workshop led by a public speaking instructor on adapting speech structure to different contexts through guided exercises to promote clearer communication for professionals.

  • 🍷 Women, Work & Wine | by PNM/ 19.15-22.30: networking evening by Professionals & Entrepreneurs Network (PNM) for women professionals, founders, freelancers, and students, creating an informal, female‑focused space to talk about work and projects.

Thursday, 28

  • ☕️ Climate Coffee/ 8.30-10.30: monthly coffee meetup for people working in or curious about climate and impact for informal conversations on the topics.

  • ֎ Crea Contenido para Redes Sociales Fácilmente con IA/ 10.30-14.30: training for entrepreneurs to use AI tools for faster social‑media content creation, analyzing online presence and aligning messaging with a clear communication and positioning strategy.

  • 🚀 Kick Off - Aceleración de Startups/ 17.00-19.00: kick‑off event at Cámara de Comercio for the 3rd edition of the national Impulsa Startup – DESPEGA accelerator program, where ten startups begin a sales‑focused acceleration journey with consultants covering tech & product, growth & strategy, finance and fundraising, legal & operations, and marketing & growth.

  • 🧠 Comunica con Cerebro/ 17.00-20.00: workshop on how the brain shapes communication, understanding why messages are often misinterpreted and how to adjust language and non‑verbal cues to convey ideas more clearly and effectively.

  • 💬 PATIO Social Club/ 17.30-19.30: monthly networking event at PATIO Campus where startups, corporates, and ecosystem players connect in a relaxed, no‑pitch environment over drinks and casual conversation to build relationships.

  • 🤖 IE Tech Summit/ 18.15-21.00: event by IE University with guests like the Head of Airbus Space Systems Spain speaking about space innovation, followed by a talk on supercomputing and AI “gigafactories” in Europe and a panel on the future of space, plus a closing discussion on art and technology with a vice president from Artnet.

  • 👀 Official Canvas 26 Watch Party/ 18.30-21.00: watch‑party following the global Canvas 26 keynote and then reflect on complexity and decision‑making at work, including a hands‑on session using Miro AI Flows for collaboration and visual thinking.

  • ⚡ ¿Cómo Adoptar IA en tu Empresa de Forma Eficiente?/ 18.30-21.00: talk on how companies can adopt AI beyond experimentation by redesigning processes, data, and culture, including a live demo and practical examples from projects with organizations like Harvard University and Unisys.

  • 🌐 Estrategia de Posicionamiento Digital para Emprendedores: Cómo Expandir tu Negocio a Nuevos Mercados/ 19.00-20.30: workshop led by a business strategist focused on helping entrepreneurs build a clear digital positioning with personal branding, and use AI to expand into new markets and turn visibility into business opportunities.

Friday, 29

  • 🤖 Madrid AI Builders/ 17.00-19.00: meetup for founders, developers, marketers and creators active in AI projects to exchange ideas and build connections within the local AI scene.

  • 🔥 CryptoDays by La Familia - Madrid Web3 Meetup/ 18.00-20.30: another appointment with La Familia and CryptoDays for an evening of Web3 and crypto ecosystem updates, local project presentations, and community networking.

  • 🇪🇸 Primer Encuentro para Migrantes Hispanas en Madrid/ 19.00-23.30: meetup for Hispanic migrant women in Madrid by Altea Comunidad, with a panel on empowerment and leadership including a former Country Manager, a VP of Technology at Globant and co-leader of Latinas in Tech Spain, and an executive with 20+ years across 30 countries.

Saturday, 30

  • 🚀 IA Start Day/ 10.00-18.00: full-day workshop by Racks University where you can learn to build a functional AI agent using Gemini, with no prior experience, going from idea to a working MVP.

  • 📚 1-Hour Reading Rave/ 12.45-14.00: meetup by The Offline Club to get together at Retiro park and read for one hour with phones completely off, with time afterward to network and connect.

Sunday, 31

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Upcoming Events

Monday, 1 June

Tuesday, 2 June

Tuesday, 3 June

Thursday, 4 June

Saturday, 6 June

Tuesday, 9 June

Wednesday, 10 June

Thursday, 11 June

Friday, 12 June

Monday, 15 June

Tuesday, 16 June

Wednesday, 17 June

Thursday, 18 June

👇 Call to action for you 👇

By Riccardo De Gasperin

Creator of Qué Pasa en Madrid

LinkedIn

Disclaimer: Qué Pasa en Madrid is not responsible for the events included in the present email. Informational purpose only. Issue #76 (24.05.26)

]]><![CDATA[Week 21 // 18 to 24 May]]>https://www.quepasaenmadrid.com/p/week-21-18-to-24-mayhttps://www.quepasaenmadrid.com/p/week-21-18-to-24-maySun, 17 May 2026 16:00:59 GMTWant to be part of the next editions? Submit your event here.

Hola, Madrileños! Qué pasa this week in Madrid?

Monday, 18

  • 🎯 De SEO a GEO/ 18.00-20.30: digging into GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) and how AI assistants like ChatGPT or Perplexity decide which brands to mention, with insights from the CEO of Omnia, an ex-Klarna leader whose startup focuses on AI search visibility.

Tuesday, 19

  • ⚙️ SAP Sapphire Madrid/ 9.00-17.00 (1/3): event by SAP, the world’s largest vendor of enterprise software, with leaders, partners, and customers for updates and demos of agent-based workflows, AI-first vision, keynotes, and much more.

  • 📊 Data Talent Innovation Summit IV/ 9.30-13.00: summit by MIOTI Tech & Business School discussing how agentic AI systems are being designed, orchestrated, and taken to production, with a panel of guests including the co‑founder & CEO of MIOTI, the CEO of MINEO, the Global Sales Director of Red Hat, the Head of AI of Verisure, and the R&D Director of FacePhi.

  • 🤝 DinaNetworking/ 10.00-15.00: helping community leaders connect with other communities to form strategic partnerships, gain visibility, and grow their influence and business through guided exercises and interactive sessions.

  • 🏁 El Número 81/ 18.00-20.30: imagine a market with 80 almost identical products, and you are the 81 in the list. This workshop will help B2C startups improve their positioning by examining why the current messaging sounds like every other competitor, then running live peer-to-peer drills to rewrite the pitch so it clearly differentiates their product without hiding behind generic category labels.

Wednesday, 20

  • 💰 Expande tus Canales de Venta: Impulsa tu Crecimiento con Amazon/ 10.00-14.00: workshop for e-commerce to decide whether Amazon should become a real sales channel, breaking down Seller Central, FBA vs. FBM, Amazon SEO, Ads, and the cost-risk tradeoffs behind marketplace growth.

  • 🏠 SIMA 2026 - Living Conference Expo/ 10.00-14.00 (1/4): international “living” and real estate fair at IFEMA with exhibitors around new residential projects, affordable housing, tech innovation, and similar.

  • ⚡ Ecosistema Tech: Acelerando el Negocio con IA/ 10.00-15.30: full‑morning gathering for finance and HR leaders around tools like Pleo, Embat, PayFit, Alan, Uber for Business, Personio, and Dost to show how AI is moving from automation into core strategic decisions, with keynotes and panels led by senior leaders from Microsoft and category‑leading SaaS firms.

  • 🔥 BuildJam - AI Founders by Startup Grind Madrid/ 17.30-21.00: Startup Grind event hosted at Glovo‘s offices dedicated to taking anyone with an idea (or without) through a structured sprint to build a real working prototype in under three hours using AI tools like Lovable, with mentors, frameworks, team formation, and a feedback round.

  • ❌ Fuckup Nights Madrid | May 2026 (VOL. XXI)/ 18.30-21.30: another edition of Fuckup Nights with a new set of stories about professional failures, where speakers share how their business crashes, broken deals, or failed products turned into unexpected lessons and growth.

  • 💰 Más Ventas, Menos Horas/ 18.00-20.00: practical session on how to drive more sales and reduce working hours by embedding AI agents into the commercial cycle, covering how to generate leads consistently, automate responses and follow‑ups, design more efficient sales flows, and pick real‑world tools.

  • 🎯 What “Agile” got Right About People — and What it Missed/ 19.00-20.30: session with a senior product manager focused on discussing where the Agile methodology works and where the human side is still routinely overlooked in practice, sharing real‑world experience and a practical lens on how to improve team dynamics.

  • 👨🏻‍💻 Arquitecturas de IA en Rust: Live Coding/ 19.00-21.00: appointment with NSCoder Nigh Madrid for a hands‑on session to build an AI agent from scratch in Rust using open‑source tools, focusing on clarifying the difference between a chatbot and a true agent and demystifying core AI concepts to design and implement your own AI‑driven systems.

  • 📦 World Product Day/ 19.00-21.00: on the occasion of the World Product Day, the community of ProductTank Madrid organizes an evening with speed‑networking, icebreakers, and informal hang‑out time over formal talks, especially for product managers, designers, engineers, and founders to meet and exchange ideas.

  • 💫 The Creative Pause | Color Hunt & Creative Walk/ 19.30-21.30: creative photography walk in Malasaña with a guided “color hunt” exploring palettes, lettering, textures, and hidden visual details, before ending with some relaxed networking.

Thursday, 21

  • 📈 El Negocio: Motor de Creación de Riqueza, Crecimiento y Diversificación/ 9.30-12.00: exploring how family-owned businesses can preserve entrepreneurial drive across generations by refreshing business models and diversifying into new ventures. Executives from KPMG’s corporate finance and family business teams will share practical approaches to designing global growth and risk strategies.

  • 🔒 Protegiendo tu Patrimonio, Acompañando tu Tranquilidad/ 16.30-18.30: practical cybersecurity session with representatives of security from Banco Santander, about protecting personal assets and preventing fraud, outlining how the bank, the National Police, and the public prosecutor’s office work together to fight these crimes.

  • 🧠 Guía para Mentes Ambiciosas: El Círculo del Autosabotaje/ 17.30-18.30: session at Santander Work Café to unpack the self-sabotage loop that holds back talented professionals, like social comparison, impostor syndrome, and analysis paralysis.

  • 💥 IA Disruptiva: Retos y Ventaja Competitiva en la Empresa/ 18.00-21.00: discussing where disruptive AI is genuinely changing business performance versus staying stuck in slideware, with five short and concrete talks on real cases.

  • 🚀 De Cero a Claude Avanzado: Cómo Sacarle el Máximo Partido en tu Proyecto/ 18.00-21.00: paid workshop to go from a basic use of Claude to advanced setups focused on real work, covering things like projects, skills, and best‑practice prompting to turn the model into a practical engine for your own workflows and products.

  • 💻 WTM | Workshop de Diseño/ 18.30-22.00: Women Techmakers Madrid (WTM) hands-on Penpot workshop for designers, walking through setting up a project from scratch, analyzing an existing template, and exploring core design features plus an early preview of Penpot’s new MCP server.

  • 💪 Crea tu Primera Aplicación con IA Generativa 5 minutos/ 18.45-22.00: workshop on how to build and deploy their first generative AI app in minutes using Genkit, Google’s open-source framework for wiring LLMs into Node.js projects without locking into a single cloud, led by a member of the Genkit team.

  • 🔥 Dirigiendo una Orquesta de IAs desde Terminal/ 19.00-20.00: Node.js meetup for developers diving into Karajan Code, a vanilla JS multi‑agent CLI that orchestrates tools like Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Gemini CLI across a 16‑role pipeline, unpacking its architecture, SKILL system, and 23 MCP tools after more than 80 releases and 3,000 tests.

  • 📊 Data Streaming Meetup/ 19.00-22.00: meetup by MasOrange and Apache Kafka Madrid community focused on securing Kafka-based systems, with one talk from a Confluent staff developer advocate on end‑to‑end security for data in motion and another from a MasOrange senior engineer on hard‑won lessons securing multi-tenant Kafka clusters with a custom authorization model.

Friday, 22

  • 🔀 Madrid Tech Mixer and Social/ 19.30-22.30: a relaxed after-work environment for tech enthusiasts to network, share knowledge, and explore career opportunities in fields like AI, web development, and data science, hosted regularly.

Saturday, 23

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Sunday, 24

  • 🥐 Madrid Tech Brunch/ 12.00-14.00: another Sunday appointment with Madrid Tech Brunch, designed for developers, programmers, hackers, product people, remote workers, and tech-curious to join structured small-group discussions around selected topics like industry trends, career growth, tools, AI, and productivity, all in a relaxed environment.

Upcoming Events

Monday, 25 May

Tuesday, 26 May

Wednesday, 27 May

Thursday, 28 May

Friday, 29 May

Saturday, 30 May

Monday, 1 June

Tuesday, 2 June

Thursday, 4 June

Saturday, 6 June

Wednesday, 10 June

Friday, 12 June

👇 Call to action for you 👇

By Riccardo De Gasperin

Creator of Qué Pasa en Madrid

LinkedIn

Disclaimer: Qué Pasa en Madrid is not responsible for the events included in the present email. Informational purpose only. Issue #75 (17.05.26)

]]><![CDATA[Week 20 // 11 to 17 May]]>https://www.quepasaenmadrid.com/p/week-20-11-to-17-mayhttps://www.quepasaenmadrid.com/p/week-20-11-to-17-maySun, 10 May 2026 16:02:32 GMTWant to be part of the next editions? Submit your event here.

Hola, Madrileños! Qué pasa this week in Madrid?

Monday, 11

  • ✨ UXPA España Networking/ 18.00-20.00: bringing together researchers, designers, and people interested in user experience to help shape the local UX scene.

  • 🍹 Business Networking PNM | 4° Anniversary - Rooftop/ 19.00-23.00: monthly gathering for entrepreneurs, freelancers, autónomos, creators, and professionals focused on making introductions, exchanging ideas, and finding collaborators or clients.

Tuesday, 12

  • 🗣 Mentalidad y Lenguaje: Crea un Pitch con Impacto/ 10.30-14.30: workshop for founders to build a more memorable pitch by improving the link between message, verbal delivery, and nonverbal communication, led by a communication specialist.

  • 🚀 Demo Day Startup Inspire/ 16.00-19.00: Demo Day from INCIBE Emprende by Sherpa Tribe, closing the Startup Inspire incubation program where 20 early-stage projects with a strong technology and cybersecurity focus will present their solutions after two months of training, mentoring, and specialist support.

  • 🧾 Designing Policies for Better Business Environments/ 17.00-18.30: event at IE examining how regulation and public services shape healthier business environments, with speakers that include the Director of the Policy Indicators Group and a Senior Economist leading Women, Business and the Law.

  • 🤖 CAIOS: Corporate Artificial Intelligence Operative Systems/ 18.00-20.00: meetup by BeersStorming looking at how to explain AI in business terms like efficiency, ROI, scalability, risk, control, and execution, rather than staying at the level of tools and prompts, led by Rubén García, the creator of CAIOS.

  • 😎 Madrid ECCEDU Meetup/ 18.30-22.00: meetup by the European Centre for Career Education (ECCEDU), bringing together more than 70 founders, managers, and decision-makers for a carefully curated evening built around personalized agendas and small-group roundtables matched by background, experience, and current challenges.

  • 🎤 Open Mic Storytelling #34 - “Jerbs”/ 19.00-21.00: storytelling night where people can share true first-person stories in a simple open mic format, with room for both prepared speakers and people who just want to listen.

  • 🔥 DesahógaTECH: El rincón del desahogo tech/ 19.00-21.00: meetup by Google Developers Group turning common tech frustrations into an open group conversation on topics like toxic teams, endless meetings, hiring processes, and other real problems in the industry, designed as an interactive space to laugh about the messier parts of tech work.

  • 🏃 Run Your Business Madrid/ 19.00-21.30: join an easy group run followed by networking to spend time and connect with other founders and entrepreneurs. Organized by Volta Run Club, Driza, and Startup Grind Madrid.

Wednesday, 13

  • 🤖 Physical AI and the “Chip to Cloud” Revolution/ 9.30-13.30: session at AWS discussing how Physical AI is moving beyond screens into industrial operations, combining strategy, architecture, and real use cases built around sensors, actuators, edge systems, and cloud infrastructure, with speakers from GALEO, Beckhoff Automation, Multiverse Computing, Autis Ingenieros, and AWS partner teams.

  • ☕ Coffee Break con el CEO de Cyclo Energy/ 12.00-14.00: coffee break where the CEO of Cyclo Energy will share the story of how his deeptech startup operates in the circular economy for fuels such as SAF, methane, and hydrogen.

  • ⚛️ Mitos y Realidades de la Computación Cuántica/ 18.00-20.00: unpacking common myths in quantum computing and separating popular explanations from the underlying physics, with a session led by a physicist and engineer working through these questions with tools like Qiskit.

  • 🔥 Sameer Al-Sakran, CEO of Metabase, Live at Mad Builders/ 18.00-20.00: session with Metabase’s CEO Sameer Al-Sakran, about building durable product-led software companies, from starting as a side project and delaying monetization to selling into enterprises without losing product identity, especially relevant for founders and builders interested in open source, AI, and SaaS strategy.

  • 💻 The Future of Software Engineering/ 18.30-20.30: bringing together engineering leaders from Flywire, Orbio AI, Fever, and Desplega labs to discuss how software engineering is changing as companies become more AI-native.

  • 🗣 Public Speaking Club – If your story lacks purpose, you’ve already lost/ 19.00-21.00: public speaking session for professionals focused on storytelling that works in fast-moving environments, led by a university debate, communication, and public speaking professor, and aimed at people who want to improve how they present, persuade, and communicate at work.

  • ✨ Vibecoding & Friends: Social Gathering for Founders and Entrepreneurs/ 19.00-21.30: recurring meetup for founders, no-code entrepreneurs, and people building early products to meet and share ideas, tools, and practical tips on getting from zero to MVP in a relaxed social setting.

Thursday, 14

  • 🤝 From AI Feature to Market Position: Workshop para Fundadores/ 9.00-12.00: practical workshop for AI startup founders on building features to define a stronger market narrative, sharper ICP, and a value proposition that is easier to defend and communicate.

  • 🏡 Proptech Thursday/ 10.00-12.00: real estate and Property Tech innovation session from TheFringe/LABS, discussing new models in real estate agencies through conversations with two major servicers about how technology is shaping the future of their businesses.

  • 🚀 Cerrar para Avanzar: Lecciones de una CEO Tras el Final de su Startup/ 12.00-14.00: coffee break with the founder of The Good Goal discussing experiences with the less visible side of startup life, including validation, scaling, raising a first investment round, cofounder challenges, and the decision to shut a company down.

  • ⚛️ Hasta la Física y Más Allá. Próxima Parada: El Futuro/ 15.00-18.30: a series of short talks on cutting-edge physics and future career paths, combining research topics like the Higgs field, machine learning through statistical physics, and black holes.

  • 💰 Cómo Construir un Sistema de Ventas Escalable en tu Startup/ 18.30-20.00: session with the CEO of Sandler Madrid, a company providing sales and management training, about turning ad‑hoc selling in startups into a structured, scalable sales system, using Sandler methodology to move from “closing at any cost” to a predictable pipeline and higher conversion without discount-driven tactics.

  • 🗣️ Show & Tell: How does AI Influence Your Profession?/ 18.30-21.00: Session by Madrid Tech Brunch with two AI talks, one on building multi-agent workflows in Cursor from a Teramind lead web developer, and another on project management in the age of AI from an international program manager at the University of South Florida, followed by mini-workshops with tools like Cursor and Claude.

  • 📵 Offline Reading Party/ 19.00-21.30: phone-free afterwork space to enjoy your favourite business book and connect with other people in a relaxed vibe.

Friday, 15

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Saturday, 16

  • 🚶 Walk & Talk About Life’s Big Questions/ 10.00-12.30: weekly group walk built for deeper conversations, with each attendee bringing a question or topic to explore while walking together through Retiro.

  • 🥐 Geek Picnic/ 17.00-19.00: a Madrid Tech Brunch picnic to connect with other people in tech, creatives, entrepreneurs, and locals for an easy afternoon in Retiro. Show up, bring snacks or games if you want, and spend time with people who like tech but prefer a more casual social format.

Sunday, 17

  • 💡 Creative Marathon #10/ 10.45-14.00: three focused hours to work on any kind of creative project, from writing and drawing to craft or other personal ideas, with time to share what you made at the end, combining independent making with a small community setting and brunch.

Upcoming Events

Monday, 18 May

Tuesday, 19 May

Wednesday, 20 May

Thursday, 21 May

Monday, 25 May

Tuesday, 26 May

Wednesday, 27 May

Thursday, 28 May

Friday, 29 May

Monday, 1 June

Tuesday, 2 June

👇 Call to action for you 👇

By Riccardo De Gasperin

Creator of Qué Pasa en Madrid

LinkedIn

Disclaimer: Qué Pasa en Madrid is not responsible for the events included in the present email. Informational purpose only. Issue #74 (10.05.26)

]]><![CDATA[Week 19 // 4 to 10 May]]>https://www.quepasaenmadrid.com/p/week-19-4-to-10-mayhttps://www.quepasaenmadrid.com/p/week-19-4-to-10-maySun, 03 May 2026 16:02:35 GMTWant to be part of the next editions? Submit your event here.

Hola, Madrileños! Qué pasa this week in Madrid?

Monday, 4

  • 🔗 Pharos Meetup by Stakely 16.00-20.00: meetup focused on how Real World Assets are being integrated into blockchain and how Pharos Network is building decentralized infrastructure around that shift, hosted with the co-founder of Stakely.

Tuesday, 5

  • ☕ Microsoft AI in Action | Desayunos Ejecutivos/ 9.00-12.00: executive breakfast by Microsoft for business leaders, about how companies are already applying AI to real business cases, with discussions focused on moving from strategy to implementation and measurable results.

  • 🏠 WIRES Mesa Redonda - La Era del Smart Asset/ 9.00-12.00: roundtable organized by Women in Real Estate Spain (WIRES) discussing how facility management is turning property operations into added asset value, with a focus on the idea of the “smart asset” in real estate, and speakers from Generali, GMP, CBRE, and Vivia.

  • 📦 Inventario y Control de Stock: Optimiza la Logística de tu Empresa/ 10.30-14.30: workshop for founders to improve inventory and stock control with strategies to reduce duplication, extra costs and demand-planning mistakes, led by a logistics consultant.

  • 🎯 Foro Experiencia de Marca: Customer Experience y Crecimiento Rentable/ 19.00-20.00: forum focused on how companies can use customer experience to win clients without cutting prices, and reduce the silent loss of customers through stronger value propositions and better brand interactions, with leaders from Gilmar, Uniteco, Moeve, and Merz Aesthetics.

  • 🪙 Bitcoin & Lightning #80: Back to Basics/ 19.00-22.00: crypto-enthusiasts meetup revisiting the basics of Bitcoin and Lightning, covering how transactions work, why self-custody matters, and how Lightning enables instant, low-cost payments for everyday use.

  • ⚡️ Lightning Talks #47 @ Maria Pandora/ 19.10-21.00: 5 to 6 short talks on completely different topics, each followed by audience questions, creating a fun and dynamic format built around unexpected ideas and discussion.

Wednesday, 6

Thursday, 7

  • 🔎 Patio Generative Engine Optimization Summit/ 14.00-20.00: deep dive into Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), the shift from competing for visibility in search to being recommended by AI systems, with sponsors from L’Oréal Groupe.

  • ☕ Café y Ciberseguridad: Protégete del Fraude en la Era de IA/ 17.00-19.00: session with Banco Santander cybersecurity specialists on how fraud and scams are evolving with AI, showing practical ways to spot cyber attacks.

  • 🔥 BuildJam - AI Founders by Startup Grind Madrid/ 17.30-21.00: Startup Grind Madrid is back with another event, this time as a practical build jam dedicated to turning an idea into a working prototype in a single afternoon using AI tools, with guidance from local founders and builders.

  • ☁️ Cloud Native Madrid @SUSE/ 18.30-20.30: meetup at SUSE with two technical talks on confidential computing with CNCF Confidential Containers and Kata, and on bringing virtual machines into cloud-native environments with KubeVirt and Harvester, aimed at developers and infrastructure professionals interested in Kubernetes, orchestration, security, and practical cloud-native architectures.

  • 🎛️ “Más Allá de los Píxeles” y “De Sensores a Secisiones”/ 18.30-20.30: meetup by Sirviendo Código on two practical AI topics: how models like CLIP align text and images through contrastive training, and how real-world AI systems go from sensor input to perception, interpretation, and decision-making.

  • 📱 Masterclass: Cómo Usar las Redes Sociales para Hacer Crecer tu Negocio/ 19.00-20.00: masterclass by Madrid Innova on turning social media profiles into real customer acquisition channels by defining a target audience, choosing the right platforms, and creating content that leads to sales rather than just engagement.

  • 💬 Deep Chats: Timing - What Are You Waiting For?/ 19.00-22.00: meetup centered on the theme of “timing”, using guided conversation and reflection to explore questions about acting, waiting, missed opportunities, and where people feel ahead or behind in life.

  • 📵 The Creative Pause | Create, Unplug & Connect #6/ 19.30-21.30: spark your creativity during an offline evening of hands-on making, shared prompts, and relaxed conversation, with a guided screen-free session built around mini collaborative activities.

Friday, 8

  • ⚙️ Integrar con Éxito la IA en la Cultura Empresarial/ 10.30-13.30: session on how companies can move from experimenting with AI to embedding it in everyday work through relevant use cases, workflow integration, team capability changes, and clear ethical criteria.

  • 🤖 Implementing AI in Business - Practical Take-Aways/ 16.00-18.00: practical AI session showing how professionals can apply AI in day-to-day business work without needing a technical background, covering topics like marketing analytics and reporting, and with sessions such as GPTs for sales.

  • ❓ Benefit Pub Quiz / 20.00-22.30: pub quiz organized by Madrid For Refugees, mixing team trivia challenges with fundraising for local support programs.

Saturday, 9

  • 🎯 Marketing Digital | 4º Sherpa Day/ 9.15-20.30: full-day marketing and AI event built around practical talks and implementation-focused sessions, with speakers from LinkedIn, Webpositer, FunnelSchool, TUMADRE Marketing, and Sherpa Campus.

  • 🚶 Walk & Talk About Life’s Big Questions/ 10.00-12.30: weekly walk for people who want deeper conversations around personal questions, ideas, and obsessions instead of small talk. Bring one thoughtful topic and spend the walk moving between conversations designed around reflection and genuine connection.

  • 🟢 Otro Puto Mercadillo 71º/ 16.00-21.00: another edition of this local market bringing together more than 40 independent stands with fanzines, upcycled fashion, second-hand clothing, jewelry, and prints, aimed at people interested in discovering independent creative projects.

Sunday, 10

  • 😴

Upcoming Events

Monday, 11 May

Tuesday, 12 May

Wednesday, 13 May

Thursday, 14 May

Saturday, 16 May

Tuesday, 19 May

Wednesday, 20 May

Thursday, 21 May

Monday, 25 May

Tuesday, 26 May

Wednesday, 27 May

Thursday, 28 May

Friday, 29 May

👇 Call to action for you 👇

By Riccardo De Gasperin

Creator of Qué Pasa en Madrid

LinkedIn

Disclaimer: Qué Pasa en Madrid is not responsible for the events included in the present email. Informational purpose only. Issue #73 (3.05.26)

]]><![CDATA[Week 18 // 27 April to 3 May]]>https://www.quepasaenmadrid.com/p/week-18-27-april-to-3-mayhttps://www.quepasaenmadrid.com/p/week-18-27-april-to-3-maySun, 26 Apr 2026 16:02:36 GMTWant to be part of the next editions? Submit your event here.

Hola, Madrileños! Qué pasa this week in Madrid?

Monday, 27

  • 🚀 MAKESH: Juventud, Educación y Emprendimiento/ 16.00-18.00: roundtable on youth and entrepreneurship with founders and operators from The Optimal Flow, Premios Entalpía, Prototípalo, Ebre Impact, and the Amazon Ads ecosystem to share what building a project actually looks like.

Tuesday, 28

  • 🔐 VII Cybersecurity & Data Innovation Summit/ 9.00-15.00: one-day summit for cybersecurity with many guest speakers covering topics like cybercrime-as-a-service, AI in production, identity security, regulation, human risk, and data governance.

  • 📈 Escenario Geopolítico y Estrategia de Inversión/ 9.30-11.00: business-focused talk on investing under global uncertainty, with a practical angle to make sharper strategic calls.

  • 🚀 Beta Dash: Buildathon No-Code (Talento Femenino)/ 17.30-20.00: practical no-code buildathon dedicated to women, to turn ideas into working digital prototypes using AI and no-code tools, with support from Nomu Labs coaches and input from a GTM advisor and a Lovable ambassador.

  • 💡 Martes de Design Thinking/ 18.30-20.30: hands-on design thinking workshop, with team activities to work on a real challenge using ideation and prototyping to build practical solutions.

  • 🎈 F*ck the Small Talk #3/ 18.30-21.00: guided social experience to have better conversations than the usual introductions, with small-group activities, games, and facilitated activities to help you connect more naturally in a relaxed setting and improve your networking skills.

  • 📊 Elasticsearch: Workflows, ES|QL y Búsqueda Híbrida/ 18.30-21.00: technical Elasticsearch meetup focused on native automation and modern search pipelines, with talks on AI-powered workflows inside the Elastic stack and on hybrid search using ES|QL, vector search, reranking, and multistage retrieval.

  • 🎤 Open Mic Storytelling #33 - “Life Changing Moments”/ 19.00-21.00: storytelling session where you can share short personal stories, this time centered on the theme of “Life Changing Moments”.

  • 🔥 Lenny’s Newsletter Meetup (with Clerk)/ 19.00-22.00: casual meetup for people in product, growth, startups, and tech, bringing people together from the excellent Lenny’s Newsletter community. Designed for relaxed but substantive conversation, with drinks sponsored by Clerk and local hosts bringing together Madrid builders in an informal setting.

Wednesday, 29

  • 📈 eToro: De Gestionar tu Cartera a que Otros la Copien/ 9.30-11.30: masterclass at Aticco for experienced financial investors promoting eToro’s Pro Investors program, with two of the platform’s most copied Spanish investors sharing how copy trading works, what the access requirements look like, and why transparency matters if you want others to follow your strategy.

  • 🤑 Taller Financiación Pública/ 16.30-19.00: practical workshop for startups, founders, and innovative SMEs to discover public funding options across regional, national, and European programs like CDTI, ENISA, and Horizon Europe, with one-to-one guidance.

  • 💥 Gestión de Proyectos: Fundamentos y el Impacto de la IA/ 17.30-18.30: session at Work Café Santander on project management in the age of AI, covering the fundamentals of the role while showing how AI is changing planning, scheduling, and decision-making through real examples and live demos.

  • 🤖 Líderes en Adopción de IA para el Desarrollo de Software en Grandes Corporaciones/ 17.00-19.30: discussion on how large companies are actually adopting AI in software development, with leaders from Santander, Prosegur Cash, and Diverger to talk about autonomous coding agents, governance, compliance, legacy systems, and what it takes to scale AI adoption beyond pilot projects.

  • ☁️ WordPress en la Nube: Descubriendo Docker/ 18.30-20.30: technical WordPress session focused on modern cloud deployment, introducing Docker through a hands-on setup with PHP, WordPress, and Nginx, laying the groundwork for a follow-up session on Kubernetes and production-style scaling.

  • 🔥 Startup Grind Madrid - Construyendo sin Filtros #12/ 18.30-21.30: another appointment with Startup Grind bringing the format of conversation “without filters”, where the Founder & CEOs of Omnia and Ciudadela will share their journey from corporate life to building a company.

  • 🙌 Vibecoding & Friends: Social Gathering for Founders and Entrepreneurs/ 19.00-21.30: casual meetup for founders, no-code builders, and people creating early-stage products, talking through how to move from idea to MVP in a social format.

  • 🤝 El Nuevo Rol del Emprendedor con la IA/ 19.00-22.00: dinner discussion for founders building with AI, using a small-table format to explore how entrepreneurship changes when AI can take on parts of execution, automation, and scale.

  • 🗣️ Improve Your Public Speaking Skills in Madrid/ 19.30-21.30: hands-on public speaking meetup at the local Irish Pub, combining practice with rhetorical frameworks to work on speech structure, storytelling, delivery, improvisation, and audience connection in a small-group setting with feedback.

Thursday, 30

  • ☕ Climate Coffee/ 8.30-10.30: monthly coffee meetup for people working in or curious about climate and impact for informal conversations on the topics.

  • 🕑 Recupera tu Tiempo para ti y tu Pyme/ 10.00-14.00: practical AI workshop for SME owners, showing how to cut repetitive work, speed up decisions, and apply AI to operations, marketing, sales, and customer service with examples to start immediately.

  • 🛡️ Wazuh MeetUp/ 17.00-20.00: cybersecurity meetup focused on compliance, hosted by José Luis Navarro, Director of Cybersecurity at CLOUD2SEC and Wazuh ambassador, explaining how the platform can support ENS and EU-NIS2 requirements through monitoring, technical controls, and better infrastructure visibility.

  • 🎬 Red Bull Movie Nights/ 19.00-20.30: last appointment of this free film series for people who enjoy adventure and action sports, projecting Red Bull documentaries centered on athletes and extreme performance.

  • 🚀 The CEO´s Diary with Immigram & Startups Institute/ 19.00-21.00: session with the CEO and co-founder of Immigram, a platform designed to support talented IT specialists and entrepreneurs in navigating global mobility, talking about building companies, from international expansion and fundraising to hiring, tough decisions, and founder life.

Friday, 1

  • 🍹 Afterwork Emprendedor - Bernabéu Market/ 19.00-21.00: casual meetup for founders and aspiring entrepreneurs, to have informal conversations, idea-sharing, and meet other people working on projects or thinking about starting one.

Saturday, 2

  • 🥳 Festival de Cultura y tecnología II/ 17.00-22.30: two-day culture and technology festival, with talks, performances, and stage pieces to examine how AI is reshaping public life through the lens of artists, researchers, and thinkers.

Sunday, 3

  • 🥐 Madrid Tech Brunch/ 14.00-16.00: relaxed tech meetup for developers, designers, hackers, product people, remote workers, and other tech-curious with structured activities for small-group discussions on topics like industry trends, tools, AI, productivity, and career growth, in a relaxed setting.

Upcoming Events

Monday, 4 May

Tuesday, 5 May

Wednesday, 6 May

Thursday, 7 May

Friday, 8 May

Saturday, 9 May

Monday, 11 May

Tuesday, 12 May

Wednesday, 13 May

Thursday, 14 May

Tuesday, 19 May

Wednesday, 20 May

Thursday, 21 May

Tuesday, 26 May

Thursday, 28 May

👇 Call to action for you 👇

By Riccardo De Gasperin

Creator of Qué Pasa en Madrid

LinkedIn

Disclaimer: Qué Pasa en Madrid is not responsible for the events included in the present email. Informational purpose only. Issue #72 (26.04.26)

]]><![CDATA[Week 17 // 20 to 26 April]]>https://www.quepasaenmadrid.com/p/week-17-20-to-26-aprilhttps://www.quepasaenmadrid.com/p/week-17-20-to-26-aprilSun, 19 Apr 2026 16:02:28 GMTWant to be part of the next editions? Submit your event here.

Hola, Madrileños! Qué pasa this week in Madrid?

Week 17 // 20 to 26 April

Hola, Madrileños! Qué pasa this week in Madrid?

Monday, 20

Tuesday, 21

  • 💰 Venture Capital World Summit/ 12.00-17.00: investment conference for startups, part of the Venture Capital World Summit series, and positioned as a place to connect businesses with capital with investor networks.

  • 🌱 Innovators Making Waves: Nature-Inclusive Concepts for Floating Offshore Wind/ 15.00-17.00: climate-focused event on floating offshore wind, discussing how nature-inclusive design can be built into offshore infrastructure, with input from NGOs, academia, wind developers, and innovators presenting new concepts.

  • ⏱️ Speed Networking/ 18.00-20.00: speed networking session for professionals to expand their network and find opportunities.

  • 🔥 MAD Marketing Summit/ 19.00-22.00: marketing event with five expert talks and small-group workshops on AI video, podcast branding, content, persuasion, and personal brand monetization, with speakers including a former Head of Europe Buyers Business at Alibaba.com and experts in social media.

  • 🪙 CoinJoins y Privacidad en Bitcoin (#78)/ 19.00-22.00: Bitcoin meetup about its privacy, and exploring CoinJoin and other privacy tools designed to make transactions harder to trace in an increasingly monitored environment.

  • 🏠 RET | Networking Inmobiliario + Aperitivo | Abril/ 19.00-23.00: meetup for Madrid’s real estate ecosystem, bringing together investors, owners, and professionals in areas like construction, finance, legal, PropTech, design, and related, for productive discussions over aperitivo.

  • ⚡️ Lightning Talks #46 @ Maria Pandora/ 19.10-21.00: community event built around short 5-minute talks on diverse topics chosen by the speakers, followed by questions and a social hangout.

Wednesday, 22

  • 🤖 Agentic Commerce: Las Palancas de IA para Hacer Crecer Vuestro Negocio Hoy/ 9.00-12.00: practical session on how AI-driven shopping is impacting product discovery and sales, with speakers from Shopify covering conversational channels, catalog readiness, automation, and real-world commerce use cases.

  • 💻 DeepTech Talk/ 11.00-14.00: investor-focused meetup with speakers from Growth Capital, Mundi Ventures, Adara Ventures, CDTI Innovación, and ICEX to share data and market insights on deep tech investment in Spain.

  • 🍺 Beer with... Sophie Besancenot/ 17.00-18.30: leadership session for entrepreneurs with an executive coach specializing in leadership development to help founders strengthen decision-making and the leadership side of building a project.

  • ❤️‍🩹 Femtech Madrid Forum: Innovación, Salud y Capital/ 18.00-20.00: event focused on discussing the business and coordination challenges in women’s health with speakers from Organon, Microsoft, MSD, Clave Capital, Altum Sequencing, Barça Innovation Hub, and Give Zero, and presenting the Femtech Spain Market Map.

  • 🔥 Ship 10x: The AI-Native Dev Stack/ 18.00-20.30: session centered on live demos of the AI-native setups people are actually using to ship faster, covering terminal-based coding, mobile-first remote development, self-hosted assistants, agentic DevOps, and company workflows built around AI agents.

  • ⚙️ n8n - Automatización Eficaz para Empresas/ 18.30-20.30: hands-on session on business automation with speakers from the n8n ecosystem and VA360 Academy sharing practical ways companies are using automation in production and live demos of n8n implementations.

  • 🗣️ Club de Oratoria - Storytelling en Escena/ 19.00- 21.00: practical public speaking session using theatrical improvisation to improve storytelling, active listening, quick thinking, and the ability to build clear messages in real time, led by a communication expert.

Thursday, 23

  • 💻 Proptech Thursday/ 10.00-12.00: recurring proptech forum for the real estate sector, this time about the future of real estate servicers and how technology is reshaping their role, with interviews designed to connect corporate players and the wider proptech ecosystem.

  • ☕ MFR x Socialty Coffee: Churros, Chocolate & Community/ 10.30-12.30: breakfast by Madrid For Refugees (MFR) to reunite the nonprofit’s team, supporters, and newcomers for an informal conversation about refugee support in Madrid, alongside Socialty Coffee.

  • 🎤 The Pitch Battle: Quixote vs. Sancho | Communication Workshop para Emprendedores/ 13.00-17.00: practical communication workshop for entrepreneurs using a playful Quixote-versus-Sancho format to help improve your storytelling and persuasive communication in startup and investor contexts.

  • 💪 Por Qué Ser Founder Me Hizo Mejor Dev/ 19.00-20.00: session with the CTO and co-founder of Orbitant and Sherpa Platform sharing how founding companies changed the way he approaches Node.js, technical decisions, and technical development overall.

  • 📊 DVS Madrid (Abr 2026) - Memoria, Diseño y Accesibilidad/ 19.00-21.00: meetup by Data Visualization Society with speakers from Herstóricas, Civio, and El Mundo to discuss historical memory mapping, accessible dataviz, and three decades of infographic work in journalism.

  • 🎬 Red Bull Movie Nights/ 19.00-23.00: free film series for people who enjoy adventure and action sports, projecting Red Bull documentaries centered on athletes and extreme performance.

Friday, 24

  • 🤖 Enseñando a Pensar a Robots (2/2): Simulación y Competición/ 13.30-15.00: practical AI session on reinforcement learning by Google Developers Group, following the path from training agents in simulation to deploying them on a self-balancing robot to see how trial-and-error learning works in real hardware.

  • ✅ NatureBrain x Feishu Innovation Summit 2026/ 16.00- 20.00: international innovation event about AI, sustainability, environmental for companies to explore nature-based solutions, regenerative finance, and collaboration opportunities between Europe and China through the Feishu China Access platform.

  • 🦞 OpenClaw Madrid — IA Aplicada al Trabajo Diario: Agentes y Automatización/ 18.00-21.00: practical AI meetup by Crypto Days with live demos showing how people are using agents and automation tools in everyday work, from simple personal-assistant use cases to more advanced workflows for developers and builders.

  • 🎭 Sip & Act: The Threequel/ 20.00-22.00: social acting workshop with a community focus mixing low-pressure acting games and short film scene work in English or Spanish, led by an Emmy Award–winning filmmaker.

Saturday, 25

  • 🦄 Start Tech/ 9.30-22.30 (1/2): weekend ideathon built for engineering students and technical profiles, with the challenge of solving a real company problem through multidisciplinary teams that develop a functional MVP and pitch it to a jury of founders, investors, and tech professionals.

  • 🔒 SecLabs - Formación de Hacking Ético Android e iOS + Hackeando Startups/ 10.00-20.00: hands-on mobile security training, combining Android and iOS ethical hacking during a workshop with real apps testing.

Sunday, 26

  • >_ MADHACK — FinTech AI Hackathon/ 13.00-21.00: one-day fintech hackathon focused on AI agents, to build working demos such as robo-advisors, saving tools, or financial advisor agents using Alpaca FinTech SDK and Orca agent SDK.

Upcoming Events

Monday, 27 April

Tuesday, 28 April

Wednesday, 29 April

Thursday, 30 April

Monday, 4 May

Tuesday, 5 May

Wednesday, 6 May

Thursday, 7 May

Saturday, 9 May

Monday, 11 May

Tuesday, 12 May

Wednesday, 13 May

Thursday, 14 May

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]]><![CDATA[Week 16 // 13 to 19 April]]>https://www.quepasaenmadrid.com/p/week-16-13-to-19-aprilhttps://www.quepasaenmadrid.com/p/week-16-13-to-19-aprilSun, 12 Apr 2026 16:01:14 GMTWant to be part of the next editions? Submit your event here.

Hola, Madrileños! Qué pasa this week in Madrid?

Monday, 13

  • 🤝 Business Networking | PNM - Rooftop Edition/ 19.00-23.00: monthly meetup for professionals in Madrid, with structured professional networking rather than a casual afterwork, this time on a special rooftop edition.

Tuesday, 14

  • 💥 Masterclass - Pensamiento Disruptivo Aplicado a Recursos Humanos/ 9.30-12.00: practical HR session on disruptive thinking, designed to improve leadership and decision-making rather than just refining existing processes, led by an ESCP Business School professor.

  • ☕ Coffee Break | Finanzas y Poder con el CEO de Embat/ 12.00-14.00: the cofounder and CEO of Embat, a Spanish B2B FinTech, will share his story full of practical examples of how to use finance as a strategic tool to improve decision-making in regulated environments and open broader EU markets.

  • ⚛️ Fujitsu en Computación Cuántica: Roadmap y Casos de Éxito/ 18.00-20.00: business-focused quantum computing meetup telling how Fujitsu is approaching quantum technology through its roadmap, development priorities, and real-world use cases, along with a Quantum Computing Manager from Fsas Technologies.

  • 🔥 BETA DASH – Buildathon Sprint/ 18.00-21.00: fast-paced no-code buildathon for founders, builders, and students, about turning ideas into working app prototypes in under three hours using Lovable, with support from Nomu Labs and a prize of a one-on-one meeting with an angel investor.

  • 💻 DevMad! Talks/ 18.30-21.00: developer meetup hosted regularly, this time focused on accessibility in technology through a talk by a Zooplus software engineer showing alternative ways to interact with digital tools, including voice control, foot pedals, and eye tracking.

  • 👀 Show & Tell, How does AI Influence Your Profession?/ 18.30-21.00: session by the Madrid Tech Brunch showing how AI is affecting different kinds of work, from junior software development to geopolitics and design systems, with guests from The Tech Nation, and Blawnt.

  • 💪 Liderarte para Emprender/ 19.00-20.30: workshop for founders on self-awareness as a business skill, to understand how your own relational style can lead to better decisions and more effective communication with teams and clients.

  • 🏃🏻‍♂️‍➡️ Run Your Business Madrid/ 19.00-20.30: combine business networking with sport by joining this group run of 5–6 km (easy pace) followed by coffee and hangout. A good occasion to connect with other founders, operators, builders, investors, and professionals in a different setting.

  • 🎤 Open Mic Storytelling #32 - “Faraway”/ 19.00-21.00: regularly hosted open-mic storytelling night, inviting people to share personal stories, this time on the theme of “Faraway.” As usual, you can participate as a listener or decide on the spot to be a speaker too.

Wednesday, 15

  • 🤝 Estrategias Prácticas para Reducir Costes al Contratar Personal/ 9.30-11.00: practical session for freelancers, microbusinesses, and small company managers on how to lower hiring costs through better planning, subsidies, strategies, and other simple decision criteria that help avoid common administrative mistakes.

  • 📊 Microsoft - Fabric Analyst in a Day/ 9.00-17.00: full-day intermediate workshop on Microsoft Fabric, aimed at Power BI analysts who are new to it and want a practical end-to-end view of unified analytics, from data ingestion and transformation to reporting and automatic refresh.

  • 🌐 The New Geography of International Arbitration/ 16.00-19.00: discussion for arbitration practitioners and academics on how technology and geopolitics are reshaping international arbitration and the future structure of cross-border dispute resolution.

  • 📊 El Lado Invisible de Tus Datos: Lo Que No Sabes Que Saben/ 17.00-19.00: roundtable on data, AI, and cybersecurity, to discuss how organizations capture, process, monetize, and protect data. Speakers from ERNI and Grafana Labs will share their experiences.

  • 💬 El Nuevo Paradigma de la Comunicación y los Medios/ 18.00-19.30: panel on how communication and media work are changing, with leaders from UCM, Burson, WPP Media, Globant GUT, and Retina to discuss new roles and ways of working across business transformation.

  • 🦄 Unicorn Pitches Madrid | AI-Driven Business Transformation/ 18.00-22.00: startup pitch event focused on AI business use cases, with 10 selected startups, investors, VCs, and industry experts.

  • ♨️ Codemotion Warm-up: The future of Dev/ 18.30-20.30: Codemotion (one of the biggest tech communities) meetup for Madrid’s developer community, with an ethical hacker, a frontend lead at Kepler-Cheuvreux, an AI and data PhD, and a principal engineer at Ona to discuss what is changing in software development.

  • 🤖 Junie, más allá de Claude Code/ 19.00-20.30: live demo for developers on JetBrains’ Junie as an alternative to Claude Code, with a focus on how agentic IDE features can handle tasks like dependencies, tests, commits, and refactoring inside familiar JetBrains workflows.

  • 🚀 Sistemas de Organización para Startups/ 18.30-21.00: practical workshop for founders and managers to build a simple organizational systems that reduce chaos and improve execution with a centralized information system as a startup grows, led by the founder of The Optimal Flow and the top Notion consulting partner.

  • ⚙️ Recursive LM - Cuando el Contexto se Convierte en un Problema de Sistemas/ 19.00-21.00: technical AI talk by Google Developers Group on Recursive Language Models. Learn a systems-based approach to handling large and complex contexts, and use models to inspect, filter, and process information recursively instead of relying only on long token windows. Guests include a Technical Lead from CaixaBank Tech.

  • ✨ Vibe-coding & Friends: Social Gathering for Founders and Entrepreneurs/ 19.00-21.30: casual meetup for vibe-coding builders to network with other people working on ideas and MVPs and exchange tips, tools, and early-stage experiences with others creating products and value.

  • 🔥 Madrid Cybersecurity Social #01/ 19.30-23.30: ​inspired by the successful Berlin Cybersecurity Social, the community now lands in Madrid with a first meetup, which will include a short talk on the top risks in LLM and agentic solutions and an informal gathering for professionals to network and exchange ideas.

  • ❓ Pub Trivia Quiz/ 20.30-22.00: weekly pub quiz in Malasaña for a simple team-based trivia night with four categories, cash-in style stakes, and a casual format where the winners take the pot.

Thursday, 16

  • 💡 Innovación Confiable: Calidad, Ciberseguridad e IA en la era Digital/ 10.00-12.00: practical session on applying AI, testing, and cybersecurity in real business environments, and discussing how organizations can adopt new technologies with stronger control instead of treating innovation and compliance as separate goals.

  • 🎯 Gen Marketing 2026/ 15.30-20.00: marketing-focused event on AI (of course), growth, brand strategy, and related topics that bring together leaders from companies like Internet República, t2ó, the Royal Spanish Football Federation, McDonald’s, and 21gramos to share real-world stories.

  • ☕ Café y Ciberseguridad: Protegete del Fraude en la Era de la IA/ 17.00- 19.00: session with cybersecurity specialists from Santander dedicated to recognizing common AI-driven fraud tactics such as phishing messages and fake bank calls, and applying immediate response steps to reduce financial risk.

  • ⚡ Level Up Your Product(ivity) & Brand with AI/ 18.00-20.30: practical AI session especially for women in tech, focused on programmatic tools in real workflows, with hands-on guidance on building campaigns or products and improving day-to-day productivity.

  • 📊 Del Dato a la Decisión: Cuando los Datos Entran al Terreno de Juego/ 18.30-20.00: session on sports analytics built around football and predictive models, with live examples to show how data and ML can turn match information into probabilities and a clearer understanding of the game. (It reminds me of the movie Moneyball, anyone else?)

  • 🤖 Meetup IA | MCP/ 18.30-21.00: meetup on AI, and more specifically on the Model Context Protocol (MCP), exploring how conversational interfaces are changing access to data, with also a Tableau demo on asking dashboards questions in natural language and getting business insights.

  • 📵 Offline Hangout/ 19.00-21.30: if doing too much work online stresses you, join this after-work event designed to get a break from our phones and have some offline time to do quiet activities or network with new people.

Friday, 17

  • 🍺 Benefit Pub Quiz/ 19.30-22.30: test your general culture knowledge at this charity pub quiz with team trivia and a social format, to connect with other people and have fun while raising funds for the Madrid For Refugees community.

Saturday, 18

  • 🎯 De la Idea al eCommerce: Transforma tu Creatividad en Negocio/ 11.00-12.00: beginner-friendly workshop on turning creative interests into eCommerce ideas, showing how to spot niches and validate demand with AI to build sellable products.

  • 🚀 Tech Communities Summit Madrid/ 13.30-16.30: another appointment with the Madrid Tech Brunch community, this time bringing together organizers, active members, founders, and indie builders to present their communities to explore new collaborations across the local ecosystem.

Sunday, 19

  • 📚

Upcoming Events

Monday, 20 April

Tuesday, 21 April

Wednesday, 22 April

Thursday, 23 April

Friday, 24 April

Saturday, 25 April

Sunday, 26 April

Tuesday, 28 April

Wednesday, 29 April

Thursday, 30 April

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]]><![CDATA[Week 15 // 6 to 12 April]]>https://www.quepasaenmadrid.com/p/week-15-6-to-12-aprilhttps://www.quepasaenmadrid.com/p/week-15-6-to-12-aprilSun, 05 Apr 2026 16:03:05 GMTWant to be part of the next editions? Submit your event here.

Hola, Madrileños! Qué pasa this week in Madrid?

Monday, 6

  • 😴

Tuesday, 7

  • 🔒 Empresa Protegida Frente a Ciberataques: Claves de ISO 27001 y ENS/ 10 - 11am: session on how to identify risks, meet public-sector security requirements, and understand the legal responsibilities of executives after cyberattacks.

  • 🤖 Beyond The Prompt | COO of Poolside/ 6.30 - 8.45pm: meetup for founders, builders, and AI practitioners interested in how AI startups are being built in Spain, centered on a fireside chat with Poolside’s COO about the company’s mission of creating new foundation models, AI product development, and the current state of the sector.

  • ⚡ Lightning Talks #45 @ Maria Pandora/ 7.10 - 9.10pm: another appointment with this event format, where you can hear or share short talks on a wide range of unexpected topics, ask questions, and exchange ideas across disciplines.

Wednesday, 8

  • 🥐 Desayuno: Informe Estado del Business Agility en España/ 9.30am - 12.30pm: breakfast session for business and transformation leaders to learn how Spanish organizations are adopting business agility, with presentation of the 2026 national report and perspectives from companies such as BBVA, Santander, and Coppel.

  • 💰 Tips Para Ahorrar en la Declaración de la Renta/ 5 - 7pm: session at Work Café Santander to improve your tax return this season by understanding deductions, available benefits, and common filing mistakes that can reduce refunds or increase costs.

  • 🏛️ Cuestiones Legales y Fiscales para Startups e Inversores/ 6 - 8pm: understand the legal requirements for creating and operating startups in Spain, key tax considerations for founders and investors, and practical methods to structure investments while reducing regulatory risks.

  • 💬 Public Speaking Club – Connect Before You Speak/ 7 - 9pm: hands-on session to improve communication skills by building stronger presence, listening, and a real connection with an audience.

  • 🦞 OpenClaw: Beyond the Hype/ 7 - 10pm: meetup by Mad Builders for founders and AI builders with a practical discussion on how agent-based tools are changing product development, coding workflows, and team collaboration beyond the current hype, and with discussion around OpenClaw’s capabilities.

Thursday, 9

  • 🔥 Del Concepto al MVP: Crea y Valida Productos con Herramientas NoCode/ 10.30am - 2.30pm: workshop on designing, building, and testing MVP prototypes using NoCode tools, defining essential features and user flows, and collecting user feedback to validate business ideas before scaling.

  • ☕ Coffee Break con Link3rs: Cómo la IA está Transformando los Eventos/ 11 - 1pm: the founder of Link3rs, an AI-powered real-time translation and subtitling system for events, will share the story of the company and insights on building, validating, and growing a tech startup.

  • 🔒 Café y Ciberseguridad: Protégete del Fraude en la Era de la IA/ 5 - 7pm: session at Work Café Santander focused on strategies to protect your money and personal data from scams that now use AI to make fake messages, calls, and links look more convincing.

  • 💪 Google Technologies Workshop & Networking Evening/ 6 - 9pm: practical session for developers, designers, and tech enthusiasts to get hands-on experience with building and testing AI agents with Google’s Agent Development Kit, guided by Google Cloud engineers.

  • ⚡ MadUX Lightning Talks | Systems & Soul: From Chaotic Data to Inclusive Design/ 6.30 - 9pm: session for developers and product teams interested in the overlap between design and engineering, focused on turning messy data into clear interfaces and building design systems that support accessibility from the start.

  • 🚀 Beyond X: Social Commerce | The Cube with TikTok Shop/ 6.30 - 11pm: boutique event by TheCUBE in partnership with TikTok Shop focused on how content is changing the way people discover and buy products. Join a roundtable with industry leaders and high-level conversations over cocktails about the latest social commerce trends, with experts from TikTok Shop, L’Oréal, and Outlandish.

  • 🍻 #AdminBirras Madrid/ 7 - 10pm: informal meetup for sysadmins, developers, DBAs, security professionals, and others working in infrastructure or technical operations to connect with colleagues in the systems community.

  • 🎬 Red Bull Movie Nights/ 7 - 11pm (1/4): free film series for people who enjoy adventure and action sports, projecting Red Bull documentaries centered on athletes, extreme environments, and human performance.

Friday, 10

  • 💥 Emprender con Impacto: Cómo Crear un Proyecto que Responda a Necesidades Reales/ 9am - 1pm: practical workshop for aspiring entrepreneurs and self-employed professionals to turn real market and social needs into viable business ideas with clear value and immediate next steps.

  • 1️⃣ Enseñando a Pensar a Robots (1/3): El Hardware/ 1.30 - 3pm: first of three sessions by Google Developer Group and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid to learn how to program microcontroller boards, connect devices wirelessly, and use proximity sensors to build interactive hardware systems as the foundation for future robotics and reinforcement learning projects.

  • 🤝 Liderazgo Consciente y Rendimiento Directivo - Monthly Circle/ 5.30 - 7.30pm: discussing neuroscience-based leadership practices, biohacking methods, and personal energy management strategies to improve decision-making, creativity, and sustained performance in demanding executive roles.

Saturday, 11

  • 🤓 1-Hour Reading Rave/ 12.45 - 2pm: session encouraging you to build a focused reading habit by dedicating uninterrupted time to reading without phone use, helping to improve concentration and reduce screen dependence while connecting with other book lovers afterward.

  • 🟢 Otro Puto Mercadillo 70º/ 4 - 9pm: local market with independent creators offering second-hand clothing, upcycled fashion, handmade accessories, and similar items.

Sunday, 12

  • 🥐 Madrid Tech Brunch/ 12 - 2pm: join this tech community to discuss selected tech topics such as industry trends, AI tools, productivity, and career development in small rotating groups, while having a relaxed brunch.

Upcoming Events

Monday, 13 April

Tuesday, 14 April

Wednesday, 15 April

Thursday, 16 April

Friday, 17 April

Friday, 18 April

Tuesday, 21 April

Wednesday, 22 April

Thursday, 23 April

Friday, 24 April

Saturday, 25 April

Sunday, 26 April

Tuesday, 28 April

Wednesday, 29 April

Thursday, 30 April

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]]><![CDATA[Week 14 // 30 March to 5 April]]>https://www.quepasaenmadrid.com/p/week-14-30-march-to-5-aprilhttps://www.quepasaenmadrid.com/p/week-14-30-march-to-5-aprilSun, 29 Mar 2026 16:02:57 GMTWant to be part of the next editions? Submit your event here.

Hola, Madrileños! Qué pasa this week in Madrid? Short week due to easter break, but get ready for more events coming up.

Monday, 30

  • 😴

Tuesday, 31

  • 🎤 Open Mic Storytelling #31 - “Mischief”/ 7 - 9pm: storytelling session where you can share short personal stories - this time centered on theme of “mischief” (travesura). The format prioritizes personal perspective and authenticity over performance, welcoming first-time speakers.

  • 🏃 Run Your Business Madrid/ 7 - 8.30pm: curated 5 km run and dinner for founders, startup operators, builders, investors, and people creating companies or projects, designed for informal peer conversations while staying active.

  • 🥤 Sip & Connect: The Cost of Silence/ 8 - 11pm: meetup dedicated to ambitious women focused on handling difficult conversations, with practical takeaways on conflict avoidance, clear communication, and how delivery affects outcomes.

Wednesday, 1

Thursday, 2

  • 📵 The Creative Pause | Create, Unplug & Connect/ 7.30 - 9.30pm: guided, screen-free creative session focused on collaborative activities, conversation, and offline time, inviting sharing, conversation, and playful co-creation of small handmade objects.

Friday, 3

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Saturday, 4

  • 🌅 Sunsets & Rooftops/ 4 - 9pm: recharge at this rooftop networking event by the Guiris de Mierda community, where you can connect with other professionals while enjoying a drink on a relaxed evening.

Sunday, 5

  • 🐣

Upcoming Events

Tuesday, 7 April

Wednesday, 8 April

Thursday, 9 April

Friday, 10 April

Saturday, 11 April

Monday, 13 April

Tuesday, 14 April

Wednesday, 15 April

Thursday, 16 April

Friday, 17 April

Tuesday, 21 April

Wednesday, 22 April

Thursday, 23 April

Friday, 24 April

Saturday, 25 April

Tuesday, 28 April

Good Books I’m Reading 📚

  • Source Code (Código Fuente). This is the biography of Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, who doesn’t need any further introduction. Well, I recommend it if you particularly like biographies; however, just be aware that the first half of the book tells mainly about his infancy, adventures, family and friends’ stories, etc., and only towards the end it briefly explains Microsoft’s beginnings, so you won’t find a story of the company’s growth. What is interesting is to understand the unique context of tech transformation in which Bill Gates grew up, how he dedicated endless hours to programming challenges, and how he started selling code when paid software wasn’t even a thing. By the way, if you also like smaller pocket editions, I found one at my favourite English library in Madrid: Pasajes.

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]]><![CDATA[Week 13 // 23 to 29 March]]>https://www.quepasaenmadrid.com/p/week-13-23-to-29-marchhttps://www.quepasaenmadrid.com/p/week-13-23-to-29-marchSun, 22 Mar 2026 17:00:00 GMTWant to be part of the next editions? Submit your event here.

Hola, Madrileños! Qué pasa this week in Madrid?

Monday, 23

  • 🤝 Liderazgo en Acción: Experiencias y Perspectivas de WITH/ 4 - 8.30pm: session sharing practical perspectives on how leadership is changing across AI, self-leadership, sustainability, autonomous work, re-skilling, and wellbeing, with senior leaders from frog (Capgemini), Mentiness, Talengo, Shakers, and Grup Montaner.

Tuesday, 24

  • 📲 Convivencia Digital e IA/ 9am - 2pm: session on how AI, algorithms, and social platforms are changing work, communication, public opinion, and everyday digital habits, with practical discussion on responsible technology use and digital wellbeing.

  • 📉 El Coste Real de Implantar IA: de Recortar Minutos a Crear Valor/ 9.30 - 11.30am: learn the real operational costs of adopting AI in the legal sector, including process redesign, data governance, team adoption, result validation, and continuous training needed to generate measurable business value.

  • 💰 Taller | Financiación inteligente 360º/ 10am - 12pm: practical workshop for founders, researchers, and companies on how to fund innovation projects through public grants, private capital, technology transfer support, and other startup financing routes.

  • 🤝 Coworking Tuesdays with Guiris de Mierda/ 10am - 1.30pm: join the Golden Guiri community and co-work in a shared environment for focused time and new connections.

  • 📈 Emprender desde tu Profesión: Detectar Oportunidades y Activar Ideas/ 10am - 2pm: hands-on workshop, led by a Madrid Emprende trainer, for people exploring entrepreneurship through their existing profession, focused on spotting real opportunities, shaping ideas into viable projects, and communicating them clearly enough to take a first step.

  • 🤖 Comida de Networking: Conexiones Reales en la Era de la IA/ 1.30 - 4pm: learn how AI affects daily work and relationships through guided interaction exercises, a talk on practical AI impacts, and group discussion designed to help apply AI concepts to real professional situations.

  • 💻 Empieza a Usar Git en tu Proyecto WordPress/ 6.30 - 9pm: practical session for WordPress developers, companies, and freelancers on using Git to replace messy file versioning with proper source control, starting from the basics.

  • ☕ Café con Ethichubbers/ 7 - 9pm: community meetup for people interested in impact tech, Web3, blockchain, regenerative finance, sustainability, and specialty coffee, with updates from the EthicHub ecosystem and open discussion around purpose-driven technology.

  • ⚡ Lightning Talks #44 @ Maria Pandora/ 7.10 - 9.10pm: listen to 5–6 short presentations on diverse topics, each followed by questions, allowing you to explore new ideas across fields such as technology, psychology, and philosophy.

Wednesday, 25

  • 🔒 WTM | Dos Visiones de Tecnología: Ciberseguridad y Accesibilidad/ 6.30 - 9pm: dual-session meetup by Women Techmakers Madrid (WTM) and Google Developers Group for web and security professionals on building genuinely accessible interfaces and understanding how AI is making phishing, fraud, and automated attacks more sophisticated.

  • 🚀 Construyendo Sin Filtros #11 - De Ejecutiva a Founder/ 6.30 - 9.30pm: Startup Grind is back with another event ‘without filters’, where you’ll hear stories on how professionals transitioned from corporate roles at Pleo and El Ganso to founding companies as entrepreneurs.

  • 🗣️ Public Speaking Club – The Key Elements of a Speech/ 7 - 9pm: learn how to structure a message so it is clear, persuasive, and easier for an audience to follow and remember. The session is led by a university professor and focuses on the six core elements of an effective speech and their use in real-world situations.

  • 💬 Deep Chats: Who Are You Becoming?/ 7 - 10pm: guided conversation night for people who want more thoughtful discussions around identity, personal growth, and the question of who they are becoming, using storytelling, prompts, and group dialogue instead of standard small talk.

  • 🌟 Madrid Tech Stories/ 8 - 10pm: share and hear personal career stories from the Madrid tech community, ranging from first coding experiences to major career pivots, with structured storytelling rounds and Q&A to highlight lessons and insights from diverse tech journeys.

Thursday, 26

  • ☕ Climate Coffee - Madrid/ 8.30 - 10.30am: monthly coffee meet up for anyone working in or interested in the impact and climate spaces.

  • 🎤 Comunica y Convence: Como Presentar un Pitch Ganador/ 4 - 8pm: practical workshop on how to present ideas clearly to investors, clients, partners, or internal stakeholders, with a focus on what makes a pitch credible, easy to follow, and persuasive.

  • 💭 Burbujas & IA/ 5 - 7pm: session for business owners and company partners who want to understand how to apply AI to improve efficiency, decision-making, and new business opportunities without technical jargon, hosted by a TEDx speaker.

  • 🏷️ Brand Training: A Contracorriente/ 5 - 8pm: talk for entrepreneurs and professionals by Crescendo Impulsa about backing your own ideas and moving forward without second-guessing, built around unfiltered lessons from a successful business founder.

  • 📊 Database Upgrade with Terraform on AWS/ 6 - 8pm: hands-on cloud engineering session for DevOps, platform, and security professionals on managing AWS database upgrades with Terraform in a controlled and repeatable way, including version planning, backups, snapshots, rollback, maintenance windows, and coordination with dependent applications.

  • 👥 Recursos Humanos en la Era Post-IA/ 6.30 - 8.30pm: discussion for HR professionals on what will actually change in people teams after the AI wave, with a focus on how roles, priorities, and decision-making are evolving.

  • 📱 The Art of Product Alignment/ 6.30 - 9.30pm: roundtable for product, UX, design, and development professionals on aligning stakeholders, turning research and metrics into product decisions, and making cross-functional teams work better in complex organizations, with practical perspectives from a Product Designer at Revolut, a former Senior Creative and Product Designer at Alibaba Group and other guests.

  • 📦 AI+eCommerce by Clairo + Cañas y Tapas/ 6.30 - 10.30pm: discussion on how AI is actually being used to build, run, and scale online businesses, with a focus on automation, SEO, growth, content production, and operational use cases that already work.

  • 🔥 The CEO´s Diary with Cremma/ 7 - 9pm: interview-style session with the founder of Cremma, a Cordon Bleu-trained pastry chef, telling her lessons on building and scaling a consumer brand, making difficult decisions, and handling common founder challenges such as hiring, investors, and work-life balance.

  • 💻 LlmComposer: Construyendo Apps con LLMs en Elixir/ 7 - 9pm: technical session for Elixir developers on building LLM-powered applications with a single library that unifies multiple providers while handling real production concerns such as streaming, tool calling, structured outputs, routing, fallback, and cost control.

Friday, 27

  • ☕ Digital Workers & Creators: Friday Coffee & Connections/ 2 - 4pm: informal meetup by Madrid Marketing Club for freelancers, digital marketers, remote workers, and people interested in the digital space to exchange what they are working on and share ideas with colleagues from the local marketing and creator community.

  • ✨ Tech Mixer and Social/ 7.30 - 10pm: a relaxed after-work environment for tech enthusiasts to network, share knowledge, and explore career opportunities in fields like AI, web development, and data science, hosted regularly.

Saturday, 28

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Sunday, 29

  • 🥐 Madrid Tech Brunch/ 12 - 2pm: recurring informal meetup for Tech professionals and enthusiasts to discuss topics in small groups, like industry trends, career growth, tools, AI, and productivity. The format includes a short introduction round and rotating discussions to join focused conversations with different people.

Upcoming Events

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Friday, 10 April

Saturday, 11 April

Monday, 13 April

Tuesday, 14 April

Wednesday, 15 April

Friday, 17 April

Thursday, 23 April

Friday, 24 April

Good Books I’m Reading 📚

  • Source Code (Código Fuente). This is the biography of Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, who doesn’t need any further introduction. Well, I recommend it if you particularly like biographies; however, just be aware that the first half of the book tells mainly about his infancy, adventures, family and friends’ stories, etc., and only towards the end it briefly explains Microsoft’s beginnings, so you won’t find a story of the company’s growth. What is interesting is to understand the unique context of tech transformation in which Bill Gates grew up, how he dedicated endless hours to programming challenges, and how he started selling code when paid software wasn’t even a thing. By the way, if you also like smaller pocket editions, I found one at my favourite English library in Madrid: Pasajes.

  • What’s Stopping You, where Timothy Armoo, the founder of the marketing agency Fanbytes, talks about his biggest lessons in business accumulated over his career as an entrepreneur. An easy and pleasant book to read; I also recently made a LinkedIn post with my biggest takeaways, with inspiring points that I haven’t found in other personal development books yet.

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Hola, Madrileños! Qué pasa this week in Madrid?

Monday, 16

  • 🏡 Beta Dash - PropTech Buildathon/ 6 - 9pm: build a real-estate app prototype in under three hours using no-code and AI tools, with guidance from coaches at Nomu Labs and access to automation and app-building platforms such as Make.

  • 😋 GastroTalks: Los Retos de Llegar al Mercado/ 6.30 - 8pm: a general director from Grupo Varma explains how food and beverage startups can enter distribution channels, avoid common go-to-market mistakes, and use distributors to validate and scale their products.

  • 📊 Taking your Visual Further with Visual Calculations/ 7 - 9pm: tech session on advanced data visualization in Microsoft Power BI, explaining how Visual Calculations and DAX functions can simplify report logic and improve dynamic dashboards.

Tuesday, 17

  • 📈 Taller para Emprendedores en Fase Inicial/ 10am - 2pm: startup workshop for early-stage founders on how to validate market problems, design a functional MVP, and develop a go-to-market strategy to acquire their first paying customers.

  • 🤝 Evento de Dinanetworking/ 10am - 3pm: helping community leaders connect with other communities to form strategic partnerships, gain visibility, and grow their influence and business through guided exercises and interactive sessions.

  • 🤖 AI Tech Conference: FinTech Special Edition/ 5 - 7pm: conference exploring practical applications of AI in fintech, including GenAI for forecasting, data validation, and advisor support, with a case study from a Swiss Bank.

  • ⚡️ Speed Networking Presencial Madrid/ 6 - 8pm: speed networking session for business owners, entrepreneurs, and independent professionals to expand networks.

  • 🚀 Launch Lab: Pasa de la Idea al Prototipo con IA/ 6.30 - 8.30pm: hands-on workshop for es early-stage entrepreneurs and non-technical participants on how to transform an idea into a prototype using AI tools, including defining a value proposition, mapping the user journey, and creating a basic digital prototype or landing page.

  • ❌ Fuckup Nights Madrid (VOL. XX)/ 6.30 - 9.30pm: 20th appointment Fuckup Nights Madrid, local community representing the global community of this fun storytelling event where entrepreneurs share lessons from professional failures, exploring setbacks in business and personal growth, in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere.

  • 🏃 Run Your Business/ 7 - 8.30pm: join founders, startup operators, and investors for a 5–6 km run followed by discussions for new connections among people actively building companies and projects locally.

  • 🎭 ABCs of Acting & Improv/ 7 - 9pm (1/many): looking to improve your communication and expression skills? Join this launch session of the acting and improvisation course, teaching beginners the fundamentals of performance, character creation, and improvisation to improve confidence, public speaking, and communication. Exclusive offer for Qué Pasa en Madrid readers: book a trial class for two people (you and a friend) and use the code ACTAGAIN to get a 15€ discount.

  • ₿Tu Agente de IA para Bitcoin/ 7 - 9pm: session on how to use OpenClaw, an autonomous AI agent, for Bitcoin, capable of web research, social monitoring, on-chain analysis, data visualization, and secure storage, all controlled via Telegram.

  • 🦈 Tiburón, Es la hora del Pitch!/ 8 - 10pm: pitch session inspired by the popular TV show Shark Tank. Present your business ideas and receive candid feedback from experienced peers in an informal setting, with opportunities to debate, refine plans, and connect with potential partners, investors, or mentors.

Wednesday, 18

  • ✅ Aspectos Legales Básicos para Empezar a Emprender/ 9am - 1pm: workshop providing entrepreneurs and early-stage business owners with practical guidance on legal structures, fiscal and labor obligations, and essential contracts to operate their ventures safely and prevent common legal mistakes.

  • 👉 Touch & Tech: Session II/ 4 - 7pm: event exploring practical applications of legal technology, with workshops led by Lefebvre and Dilitrust (both software governance companies) and a thematic panel featuring industry advisors.

  • 💰 Cómo Financiar tu I+D+I sin Perder Control/ 5.30 - 6.30pm: explaining how EdTech and tech startups can finance R&D projects and optimize tax savings, with strategies on R&D tax deductions, researcher incentives, public grants like ENISA, and private financing through tax leases.

  • 🙌 Emprender Joven/ 5 - 7pm: roundtable at Work Café Santander guiding young people to transition from ideas to action in freelance and entrepreneurial work, with founders from Cosas de Freelance and The Optimal Flow sharing practical lessons on clients, projects, and managing uncertainty.

  • 💰 Alternativas de Financiación para Startups/ 5.30 - 8pm: presenting financing options for startups and scaleups, covering banking, venture capital, business angels, corporate ventures, and public funding, with lots of special guests and speakers.

  • 📊 Meetabase - Data, Dashboards and Vibes/ 6 - 9pm: meetup focused on self-service analytics, dashboards, and talks on data, analytics, or AI, connecting Metabase users.

  • 🐳 >_MADHACK × Orca - AI Agent Infrastructure Hackathon/ 6 - 10pm: short hackathon challenging developers to build AI agents that communicate with each other and integrate with travel-related APIs.

  • 🤑 Vender Más y Mejor “en Digital”: Atraer, Convertir y Fidelizar Clientes/ 6.30 - 8pm: session on how to structure a digital sales strategy in three phases: attracting first customers with paid and organic campaigns, increasing repeat sales through re-marketing and automation, and turning clients into brand ambassadors.

  • 🤖 Estrategia de IA en Acción/ 6.30 - 8.30pm: demonstrating a practical approach to developing AI strategies aligned with an organization’s maturity, business priorities, and operational capacity, based on the speaker’s experience working with big companies like BBVA, Telefónica, and Coca-Cola.

  • 🏭 Fine-tuning de LLMs con TRL + OpenEnv y Agentes en producción/ 7 - 8.30pm: tech session presenting the architecture of a cloud-deployed AI agent, while a Hugging Face ML engineer will demonstrate fine-tuning LLMs and VLMs using TRL and OpenEnv for training environments.

  • 💻 Vibe-coding & Friends: Social Gathering for Founders and Entrepreneurs/ 7 - 9.30pm: inviting no-code entrepreneurs, first-time founders, and creative builders to connect and share experiences, tools, and strategies for moving from idea to MVP.

Thursday, 19

  • 🦾 Acelera tu Desarrollo con IA Generativa: Sesión Práctica de Kiro/ 9.30am - 1.30pm: session at Amazon Web Services demonstrating how their generative AI assistant, Kiro, can accelerate software development with coding, testing, and workflow automation.

  • 🔒 Protección de la Propiedad Intelectual, Estrategia y Subvenciones/ 12.30 - 2pm: session explaining how startups can use intellectual property strategically with strategies like patent lifecycle management, international registration, and available grants to reduce protection costs.

  • 🔥 CryptoDays by La Familia - Madrid Web3 Meetup/ 6 - 8.30pm: CryptoDays is back with another meetup to update the Solana community on ecosystem developments and local projects, and present opportunities for builders and founders.

  • 🤖 Mindstone Madrid March AI Meetup/ 6 - 9pm: meetup on the practical AI applications through technical insights on building with LLMs, productivity improvements using AI, and discussions on AI’s societal impact.

  • 🍻 DataBeerRoom: Lo Que no te Cuentan Sobre la Monetización de Datos/ 6 - 9pm: session on the practical strategies for data monetization across retail, banking, telco, and clean room environments, with speakers form Tealium, BBVA, Palladium Hotel Group, and Unlimitail sharing real-world examples to turn data into business value.

  • ☁️ Cloud Native Madrid @SirviendoCodigo/ 6.30 - 8.30pm: two technical talks on cloud-native technologies, focusing on open source, DevOps, and Kubernetes, hosted by Cloud Native Madrid.

  • 💻 The Internet Doesn’t Exist for AI Agents. Yet./ 7 - 9pm: event focused on building infrastructure for AI agents, discussing what agents need to operate, coordinate, and scale effectively, and exploring current developments in the ecosystem.

  • 🤑 147-Second Public Speaking Contest ($$$ Prize)/ 7.30 - 9.30pm: public speaking contest where contestants deliver exactly 147-second speeches on any topic, scored by both jury and audience, with a final money prize. You can choose to join as a speaker or judge.

Friday, 20

  • 💡 Taller de Transformación Regenerativa de las Empresas/ 9.30am - 2pm: professionals in organizational development discuss methods to help companies adapt to uncertainty through regenerative leadership, strategic foresight, and action-learning approaches promoted by ODN Europe (a membership association for organizational development and design).

  • 🍺 Think & Drink | Lo Nuevo y lo Viejo: el Último Samurái de la Ciberinteligencia/ 5 - 7pm: a cybersecurity intelligence specialist explains how the rise of AI is changing cyber-intelligence practices and why analysts still need traditional investigation methods and structured analysis, examining a recent real-world case.

Saturday, 21

  • 🤔 CPS Liv2 2026/ 9am - 7pm: meetup with the Complex Problem Solving (CPS) community, discussing methods for approaching complex problems through participant-led sessions and a collaborative workshop led by experts in complexity.

Sunday, 22

  • 📵 Offline Hangout | Bastardo Hostel/ 10.30am - 1.30pm: sometimes we all need to disconnect: turn off your phone and spend time reading, drawing, journaling, or having in-person conversations during a guided digital-detox meetup organized by The Offline Club.

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Monday, 23 March

Tuesday, 24 March

Wednesday, 25 March

Thursday, 26 March

Tuesday, 31 March

Tuesday, 7 April

Thursday, 9 April

Monday, 13 April

Wednesday, 15 April

Good Books I’m Reading 📚

  • What’s Stopping You, where Timothy Armoo, the founder of the marketing agency Fanbytes, talks about his biggest lessons in business accumulated over his career as an entrepreneur. An easy and pleasant book to read; I also recently made a LinkedIn post with my biggest takeaways, with inspiring points that I haven’t found in other personal development books yet.

  • The Culture Map. Having read hundreds of books on business and personal growth, this one felt like it filled a crucial ‘missing link’ for me. It provides a science-based context on how cultural differences affect collaboration within international teams, a reality that most of us encounter today, especially working in tech with distributed teams. Overall, it gives you the tools and understanding to properly contextualize communication and interaction with colleagues. Enjoy below sneak peek at one of the fundamental diagrams that also summarizes some of the main concepts:

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The Culture Map by Erin Meyer, © 2015, PublicAffairs, p. 72. Educational purposes only.

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