Week 16 // 13 to 19 April

#70 Qué Pasa en Madrid - Your insider guide on Madrid's best Business & Tech events.

Apr 12, 2026

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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.