Week 40 // 28 September to 4 October

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

Riccardo

Sep 27, 2026

Hola, Madrileños! Qué pasa this week in Madrid?

Week highlights:

🔥 n8n Meetup Madrid, Monday
🚀 Move Your Business Forward: Work Your Body & Mind, Tuesday
🏛️ Clio Elevate, Tuesday
🔥 Construyendo sin Filtros #15, Tuesday
✴️ Claude Community | 48-hour Hackathon, Friday & Saturday

Monday, 28

✅ Cómo Validar una Idea antes de Invertir/ 18:00-20:00: workshop organized by Pakku, a platform and community for Spanish-speaking entrepreneurs, with practical approaches to analyze an idea and test it with potential users before investing resources, commented by Micaela Villalobos (founder and coordinator of Startup Grind Madrid).
🤖 RIA, IA Act: Cómo Afectará la Nueva Ley Europea a tu Empresa/ 18:30-20:00: workshop on the EU AI Act explaining how the regulation affects companies that use or develop AI systems, including responsibilities, risks, compliance requirements and relationship with GDPR.
🔥 n8n Meetup Madrid/ 18:30-21:30: meetup for the n8n community to share real automations, technical decisions, and learnings, with presentations on a real use case and a technical demo.

Tuesday, 29

💶 Retos para el Capital Privado ante la SFDR 2.0 y la Sostenibilidad/ 09:30-12:00: seminar on how private equity firms can anticipate Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation 2.0 (SFDR) and turn its requirements into an advantage, commented by speakers from SpainCap, Aiblu, Azentúa, and Across Legal.
🤝 Crecer sin Romperse: Acuerdos, Financiación y Relaciones Clave para Emprendedores/ 10:00-14:00: workshop on identifying business and financial risks, offering tools to build solid agreements, manage expectations, and prevent conflicts with partners, collaborators, and investors to avoid common growth pitfalls.
🚀 Move Your Business Forward: Work Your Body / Work Your Mind/ 10:30-12:30: Guiripreneurs is back with a new event for entrepreneurs and founders, starting the new season with a beginner-friendly workout, led by a fitness trainer with a background in psychology and nutrition, that combines exercise with a business-thinking session to help look at companies from a new angle.
🏛️ Clio Elevate/ 15:00-22:00: legaltech conference with four panel discussions on how AI is transforming the way law firms work, involving vLex, Clio, Global Legaltech Hub and the Madrid Bar Association.
🔒 Datos Personales, Privacidad e IA/ 18:00-20:00: session on AI, personal data and privacy covering the Digital Omnibus (UE policy proposal), governance and responsibility for AI agents, compliance challenges and practical applications for organisations.
✨ The Future Skills Roadshow/ 18:00-20:30: masterclass with Pack and Shakers and panel discussion for HR managers and CHROs on skill mapping, covering how to build an effective skills infrastructure and understand why most approaches fail.
🏷️ Cómo la Generación Z y Alpha se Relacionan con las Marcas/ 18:30-20:00: talk on a study about how Gen Z and Alpha relate to brands and providing actionable strategies for adapting to this new consumer reality, with speakers from McDonald's, EAE Business School, and Soda Studios.
🔥 Construyendo sin Filtros #15: Nadie Construye Solo/ 18:30-21:00: another excellent meetup by Startup Grind Madrid where two founders from NutriSync Collective and Startup Embassy will share lessons from building startups and founder communities in Madrid and Silicon Valley.
🪙 Innova Table Talk | Tokenización: Nuevas Vías de Financiación para Startups/ 19:00-20:30: talk on how tokenization is transforming financing for startups, with perspectives from venture capital and a real-world case study on tokenizing guarantees for microcredits.
🎤 Open Mic Storytelling #40 - "Houses & Housemates"/ 19:00-21:00: open mic storytelling event where you can share personal stories about houses and housemates, with each story lasting between two and six minutes.

Wednesday, 30

🤝 Organización del Trabajo y Relación con el Cliente/ 09:00-12:00: workshop focused on improving daily work management and customer relations in trade and service businesses, covering simple tools for organizing tasks, optimizing time, and offering more professional customer service to build trust and loyalty.
☕ Coffee Break en Madrid con Víctor Gómez, CEO de 4GeeksAcademy/ 12:00-14:00: meetup with the CEO of 4GeeksAcademy, an international programming academy, to discuss entrepreneurship, education, technology, and leadership, exploring the challenges of building an international company and the evolution of the job market with AI.
🔎 The Next SEO is GEO - Rank in AI Search and Mentions/ 18:00-20:00: talk on the future of search, exploring how brands, creators, and marketers can stand out in AI-powered search and generative results with strategies for improving visibility and brand mentions.
✨ Vibe Coding & Friends: Social Gathering for Founders and Entrepreneurs/ 19:00-21:30: meetup for founders, builders, and AI enthusiasts to share projects, tools, and experiences in building with AI and get feedback on new ideas.

Thursday, 1

📈 FormaDOOR | Cómo Validar si tu Startup Resuelve un Problema Real/ 18:30-20:00: workshop on how to validate a startup idea to ensure it solves a real market problem, covering how to identify key business model hypotheses, conduct customer interviews, and design validation experiments like a minimum viable product (mvp).
🎭 ABCs of Acting & Improv/ 19:00-21:00: acting classes meant to help improve your public speaking skills and to connect with expats without the small talk.
₿ Stellar Madrid Builders Evening x CryptoDays/ 19:00-22:00: build session by CryptoDays discussing projects preparation on Stellar or applying to HackMeridian 2026. Receive feedback on ideas and MVPs, get technical guidance, learn about travel grants, and connect with builders preparing to attend the hackathon in Lisbon.
🍺 #AdminBirras - Octubre/ 19:00-22:00: meetup for technology professionals including sysadmins, developers, and dbas to connect and exchange knowledge informally over beers.
📵 The Creative Pause #8 | Bring Your Craft/ 19:30-21:30: disconnect from the day-to-day business pressure, stimulating your creativity in this session where you can spend time on personal projects such as reading, drawing, writing, knitting, or crafts, including short guided exercises.

Friday, 2

🚗 Self-Driving Cafe/ 09:00-11:30: meetup hosted by the PostHog team for founders and builders to ask questions about the product and learn about recent features and autonomous driving more in general.
🏢 Bizz Summit 2026/ 09:00-18:30 (1/2): conference on Microsoft Business Solutions, covering Dynamics 365 and Power Platform with sessions for technical and business profiles, workshops, a hackathon, and a youth track.
🌭 The Madrid Business Lunch/ 13:30-18:00: business lunch for professionals to enjoy tapas, drinks, and informal conversations with contacts from Madrid’s international business community.
📦 Hack The Box Meetup: Nuestra Primera Máquina!/ 16:00-19:00: practical meetup on the fundamentals of cybersecurity, covering the tools needed to compromise machines and solve challenges, with a practical session on hacking a first system.
👩 SheAI Madrid ft. Pitchless Show-and-Tell | Women Curious About AI/ 17:00-19:30: show-and-tell where five women from the Madrid AI community will share recent experiments covering tools, frameworks, automations, and personal projects, focusing on the learning process rather than finished products.
✴️ Claude Community | 48-hour Hackathon/ 18:00-24:00 (1/2): hackathon by the Claude Community on building agent-to-agent infrastructure systems, where teams build a buyer/seller AI agent for a 1v1 negotiation tournament and compete based on the value it captures.

Saturday, 3

🏢 Bizz Summit 2026/ 09:00-18:30 (2/2): conference on Microsoft Business Solutions, covering Dynamics 365 and Power Platform with sessions for technical and business profiles, workshops, a hackathon, and a youth track.