Week 26 // 22 to 28 June

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

Jun 21, 2026

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Hola, Madrileños! Qué pasa this week in Madrid?

Highlights:

🏃 Run Your Business | Run, Yoga & Meditation/ Tuesday
🔥 FredCon’26 by Google Cloud/ Wednesday
🌐 Beyond X - Logistics/ Wednesday
🇳 Notion Madrid Community Meetup/ Wednesday
🤝 Cómo Liderar un Estudio en Tiempos de IA/ Wednesday
🚀 AI+eCommerce Buildathon con Lovable/ Thursday

Monday, 22

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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.
💪 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.