Week 17 // 20 to 26 April

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

Apr 19, 2026

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Hola, Madrileños! Qué pasa this week in Madrid?

Week 17 // 20 to 26 April

Hola, Madrileños! Qué pasa this week in Madrid?

Monday, 20

📍 Localization in the AI Era: How Brands Scale Global Content Without Losing Their Voice/ 18.00-20.00: session exploring how AI-driven localization impacts brand communication, focusing on when to rely on automation and how companies can scale multilingual content without diluting their distinctive voice or cultural relevance.

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.