HPE Discover Barcelona 2026

HPE's flagship European conference, two days at Fira de Barcelona Gran Via across three programmes: networking, hybrid and sovereign cloud, and agentic AI. Antonio Neri, HPE president and chief executive, keynotes Architecting Your Sovereign Agentic Enterprise on Wednesday at 14:30. Chief technology officer Fidelma Russo takes the CTO general session on Wednesday at 11:30, and networking president Rami Rahim opens Thursday at 10:00. The showcase runs more than 80 live demos, eight hands-on labs, fifteen Meet the Experts slots and over 200 HPE subject-matter experts. Paid, and HPE has not published pass prices on the event page yet. One session on the Wednesday is partner-only. Why go: one of the two or three weeks a year when European enterprise infrastructure decisions get argued out in Barcelona, and the hands-on labs are the part that justifies the trip. Best for infrastructure, platform and network leads weighing private or sovereign AI.