Tech events in barcelona

with Hilmi Aydın (Sector Lead, Apps and Gaming, Google) · Cemre Korkmaz (Head of Growth, AI Creativity, Codeway) · Duygu Haykır (Growth Director, Utility, Codeway) + 1 more

The first edition of a growth meetup Codeway is running out of its Barcelona headquarters, together with Google. Hilmi Aydın, Google's sector lead for apps and gaming, opens with a talk on where AI app trends are heading. A panel then follows with three of Codeway's growth leads — Cemre Korkmaz on AI creativity, Duygu Haykır on utility and Abdullah Yıldız on education — covering how the company scales user acquisition. Free and in English, starting at 18:00, with networking over drinks and snacks from 19:00. Applications close on 28 October and places are confirmed on 30 October, so this is approval-gated rather than open registration, and the exact address arrives with the confirmation. Why go: operator-level detail on mobile growth from a team that has done it at scale, with Google in the room. Best for growth, user-acquisition and performance-marketing people in apps and gaming.

with Angelina Gentili (HR Director, Semrush) · Johana Mora (Data Analyst, Conversia Consulting Group)

TechFems takes over the sixth floor at Semrush for a session on what AI is doing to hiring, from both sides of the table. Angelina Gentili, HR director at Semrush, talks about evaluating AI tools in recruitment and how to keep a hiring process fair and inclusive while using them. Johana Mora, data analyst at Conversia Consulting Group, gives the candidate's view after moving into data science herself. The question they are both working on is how to get the benefit of AI without making recruitment less human. Doors and welcome at 18:30, talk at 19:00, networking with refreshments from 20:00. In English, open to everyone, free, with registration through Eventbrite. Bring photo ID. Why go: most AI-and-hiring panels are vendors selling screening tools. This is an HR director and a recent career-changer, which is a far more honest pairing. Best for anyone hiring engineers, and anyone job-hunting.

with Renee Lin (Head of Design, SITA)

UX Hub Barcelona at SITA's Sant Martí office, on designing for the system around a product rather than the product itself. Renee Lin, head of design at SITA, uses a real aviation case to argue that customers' worst problems sit in the gaps between systems, people and organisations, and leaves the room with a framework for mapping them. She has thirteen years across Asia, North America and Europe, building products from zero to one at startups and scaling design teams inside enterprises. Doors 18:30, introduction 19:00, talk 19:15, live Q&A 20:15, networking until 21:30. Free, co-hosted by UX Hub BCN and SITA. RSVP on Meetup plus a short form. Why go: ecosystem design gets talked about a lot and demonstrated rarely, and this is a practitioner showing the work from inside an industry where the seams are unavoidable. Best for product designers and researchers on anything multi-party.

Le Wagon's Barcelona campus hosts an evening of two talks on data products and data security, run in partnership with Women Techmakers Barcelona. The pairing is the interesting part: one half on how data products actually get built, the other on how teams keep sensitive information safe once those products exist. Both talks come from people doing this work day to day rather than from a platform vendor. The format is deliberately relaxed, with time set aside for questions and conversation afterwards. Tickets are €10. The speakers had not been announced when this was written — check the Meetup page before you book if the line-up matters to you. Why go: data security usually gets discussed separately from product work, which is exactly why it arrives late and expensive. An evening that puts both in the same room is worth two hours. Best for data engineers, analysts and anyone shipping a data product.

The twelfth edition of WomanLiderTIC, the Catalan conference on women's leadership in ICT, run by Dones en Xarxa at the Movistar Centre on Placa de Catalunya. A full day of keynotes and panels on careers, digital skills and closing the gap in technology roles, 09:30 to 19:00. It sits deliberately inside Smart City Expo week, when the city is full of people in from elsewhere. Dones en Xarxa says speakers are invited from across Spain, but neither the programme, the speaker list nor a ticket price was published when this was written. In person at Placa de Catalunya 16, 08002. The listing text is in Catalan and Spanish. Why go: twelve editions means the network behind it is real, and this is the Barcelona room for women working in or moving into technical and ICT leadership. Go for the network rather than a named programme, and check the agenda before blocking out the whole day.

PyConES is the Spanish Python community's annual conference, and the 2026 edition runs over three days at the Universitat de Barcelona. Friday 6 November is a half day, 14:30 to 18:30 across five teaching rooms. Saturday is the long day, 07:30 to 18:30, with the Paraninfo and Aula Magna as main stages alongside sponsor-named rooms and a dedicated AI track. Sunday closes at 16:30. Talks are given in both Spanish and English, marked per session in the schedule. Tickets are €75 individual, €110 company and €30 for students with proof of enrolment; student validation can take a couple of days, so do not leave it to the last week. Why go: the largest Python gathering in Spain, in Barcelona this year, with a programme built by the community rather than a conference business. Best for Python developers, data and ML engineers, and anyone hiring them.

Barcelona | Claude & Coffee is a relaxed morning meet-up for women in tech — and anyone who wants to build alongside them — hosted by Fernanda Grace Lins, a Claude Ambassador in Barcelona who has worked across AI, cybersecurity, SaaS and proptech. It is hands-on, not a talk: bring a laptop and a project or task you want to make easier, explore what Claude can do, and ask questions over coffee. Registration is by approval (Request to Join), and the exact address in the Sant Pere / Santa Caterina i la Ribera area is shared once you're approved. Starts 10:00. Why go: a low-pressure room to actually try an AI tool on your own work with people who will help, rather than watch a demo. Best for women building in or moving into tech who learn by doing.

with Naomi Bagdonas (Lecturer, Stanford Graduate School of Business) · Felipe Gomez (Keynote pianist, Independent)

Gartner's main European conference for CIOs and IT executives, four days at the International Barcelona Convention Centre, 9 to 12 November. The programme is built around agentic AI, AI technology and infrastructure, cybersecurity and enterprise resilience, emerging technologies, and operating models. Gartner puts the scale at more than 6,500 CIOs and IT executives, over 130 of its own analysts and over 125 solution providers. Named sessions include distinguished VP analysts Kristin Moyer and Daryl Plummer, Shell country chair Marianne Olsnes with CIO Robbert van Rutten, Stanford lecturer Naomi Bagdonas, and guest keynotes from neuroscientist Helena Boschi and digital futurist Andreas Ekström. Paid, and Gartner has not published the registration fee or the daily start times on the event page. Why go: the analyst one-to-ones are the real product, and booking them early is what separates a useful four days from an expensive one. Best for CIOs, enterprise architects and IT leaders setting next year's budget.

A half-day congress on women in science, technology, engineering and maths, at CosmoCaixa in Barcelona, run by Global STEM Women. Eventbrite lists it as in person, 09:30 to 15:00, a five-and-a-half-hour programme at the Museo de la Ciencia CosmoCaixa, Carrer d'Isaac Newton 26. The organiser describes it as a meeting point for female talent in STEM. No speakers, agenda or ticket price are published on the registration page yet. Refunds are available up to seven days before. Why go: CosmoCaixa is a good room and the organiser is an established host, but the programme is still a blank page three weeks out, so treat this as one to watch rather than one to book on the strength of a lineup. Best for women working in STEM in Barcelona who are there for the networking.

with Manel Vericat (Data and AI training specialist, zenital) · Enrico Elio Douglas (Senior Data Engineer, isolutions)

Two sessions at isolutions' Barcelona office on building AI over business data in a way you can actually check. Manel Vericat, data and AI training specialist at zenital, opens at 18:30 with what his team learned building SelfBI, which puts a semantic layer between the model and tables you already trust, and a public-procurement observatory that pulls figures out of PDFs and checks each one against the document's own published statistics. He shows what did not work and what changed because of it. Enrico Elio Douglas, senior data engineer at isolutions, follows at 19:30 on Fabric IQ, tested on a real BI project: what a shared semantic foundation does for answer consistency, and how it layers business context onto existing Power BI models. Doors 18:00, drinks and food from 20:30. Free. Why go: most AI-on-your-data talks stop at the demo. This one is about how you verify the answer. Best for data engineers, analytics leads and anyone shipping a text-to-data layer.

Monthly lunch for women who invest in startups or want to start, run by SIA Angel Hub on the second Wednesday of the month. This edition is at El Tros de la Rambla, Rambla Catalunya 70, 13:00 to 15:00. Arrival and lunch ordering from 13:00, then round-table introductions, lunch and group discussion from 13:30. Attendees pay for their own lunch. Hosts are Astghik Z. and SIA Angel H. The page asks for a real interest in angel investing and turns away pure networkers and anyone promoting a business or services. Why go: one of very few investor-side rooms in Barcelona this month, and small enough for real conversation. Best for women angels, fund people and curious would-be investors.

A free evening workshop Le Wagon runs with codebar, aimed at people somewhere between beginner and working developer who are using AI tools and are not sure they are using them well. Two things are on offer side by side: programming fundamentals, and practical ways to work with AI tools responsibly. It suits you if you are learning to code and want guidance from experienced developers, if you are stuck on a personal project, or if you are thinking about moving into tech and want to know what that path looks like now. codebar is a non-profit of students and coaches that runs free coding meetups for women, LGBTQ+ people and others underrepresented in tech, in a deliberately collaborative setting. At Le Wagon's Carrer de la Diputacio space, 18:30 to 20:30. Why go: free one-to-one coaching from working developers is scarce, and the codebar format is built for people who find the usual meetup intimidating. Best for career switchers and self-taught beginners.

A hands-on session on Devin, the AI software engineering agent: what it is, how to hand it a task, how to review what it gives back, and how to fit it into an existing workflow. Itnig hosts at its cafe in Poblenou. The agenda is set - registration 18:00, introduction 18:30, an hour of building with Devin from 19:00, project presentations at 20:00, then networking. No speakers are named. Free, capacity limited, attendance has to be confirmed. One caveat from the page itself: the header says the session is in Spanish while the practical information says English with English Q&A. Worth asking the organisers before you commit. Why go: most agent talks are slides. This one puts the thing in front of you for an hour with other engineers in the room. Best for backend and platform engineers weighing up coding agents.

The Barcelona edition of DevOpsDays, two days on 13 and 14 November at BAU, Centre Universitari d'Arts i Disseny, in Poblenou. DevOpsDays is a volunteer-run community conference series rather than a vendor event. The 2026 call for papers was still open when this was written, so no speakers or schedule are published; the organisers point to a separate schedule site. Platinum sponsors are Datadog, Grafana Labs and Progress, with Red Hat as supporter. Tickets go through tickets.devopsdays.org and no prices are listed. Daily start times are unpublished, which is why this listing carries no time. Why go: DevOpsDays rooms are where platform and SRE people say what actually broke, and Barcelona's edition has pulled a serious sponsor list for a community conference. Best for platform, SRE and infrastructure engineers.

CETT Fundació's annual entrepreneurship morning at the Hotel Universitario Alimara, built around the pitches for the 22nd Premios Proyectos Emprendedores. Opens 09:30 with CETT president Maria Abellanet i Meya and Anna Álvarez Jurado of the Diputació de Barcelona. Oriol Anguera-Torrell of CETT-UB presents standout final-year projects at 09:45, a conversation on learning from mistakes moderated by Helena Pérez Pérez follows at 10:15, finalist pitches run from 10:45 with a public vote at 11:25, and awards from 12:00. Hosted by Enric López, closing 12:30. The page is in Spanish and states no price. Why go: the projects are tourism, hospitality and gastronomy ventures, a real Barcelona sector that rarely gets a pitch stage of its own. Best for people building or investing in travel and hospitality tech.

A 90-minute conversation at Casa de l'Arquitectura de Barcelona on where technology actually helps run a city. Cristina Garrido, chief executive of Anteverti, and Nicolás Capo, director general of urbidermis, discuss new collaboration models between public bodies and companies, better urban management, and what it takes for technology to produce social and environmental results once it is embedded in city processes. Organised by Urbidermis with Belloch Forestal. 17:30 to 19:00 at Carrer del Rosselló 87. The page is in Spanish and gives neither the session language nor a price. Why go: Anteverti builds the content programme for Smart City Expo, so Garrido sees more of this sector than almost anyone in the city, and a two-person conversation gets further than a five-person panel. Best for people working on urbantech, mobility or public-sector innovation.

with Jordi Serra (IT Architect, CaixaBank Tech) · José Miguel Azcona Padín (Technical Architect, Salesforce) · José García (MuleSoft Technical Consultant, Salesforce) + 2 more

InnoIT Consulting and the Barcelona MuleSoft community run an evening of four talks on moving AI agents from pilot to production, held in Spanish at InnoIT's offices on Carrer de la Diputació. Jordi Serra of CaixaBank Tech opens on combining deterministic systems with non-deterministic AI to automate complex processes, with a real case. José Miguel Azcona Padín and José García of Salesforce cover Agent Fabric, for integrating, governing and orchestrating agents. Anyul Rivas of GFT Technologies talks about moving from vibe coding to harness engineering, drawing on a bank mainframe modernisation. Norma Díaz of InnoIT closes on product. Food, drinks and networking follow. Registration is subject to host approval, and the doors close when it starts at 18:30. Why go: working architects from a bank, Salesforce and GFT sharing what actually runs in regulated production. Best for engineers, architects and product leads building agents inside larger companies.

with Bernat Agulló (Organiser, Power BI & Fabric Barcelona)

The Power BI and Fabric Barcelona community's main autumn meeting, hosted by Plain Concepts at their Comte d'Urgell offices. The format is short, very practical talks, with the organisers' stated aim that you leave with one useful idea, followed by a long stretch of networking so the conversations continue past the slides. Bernat Agullo hosts. The pitch is explicitly for people who work with Power BI and Microsoft Fabric day to day, and the group makes a point that nobody in the room is too new or too expert to ask a question. Runs 17:00 to 20:30, free, with 18 people signed up so far. Talks are in Spanish. Why go: Barcelona's Microsoft data community gets into one room only a few times a year and this is the big autumn date, so it is the fastest way to find people solving the semantic-model problems you are. Best for BI developers and data platform engineers on the Microsoft stack.

with Josep Casas (Co-founder, Tacho (EuroPistachios))

A founder talk from Conector's events series. Josep Casas, co-founder of Naturitas and Food for Joe and now of Tacho (EuroPistachios), talks about growing an e-commerce business and protecting margins. Doors open at 18:00 at Passatge de Mercader 7. Talk at 18:30, Q&A at 19:20, networking and drinks from 19:45. Free, but registration needs host approval, and the page showed 31 places left. Why go: a practical operator story from a founder who has built several e-commerce brands, in a small room with drinks afterwards. Best for early-stage founders in e-commerce and direct-to-consumer.

The Saturday morning run for Barcelona founders and operators: an easy seafront route from Fika Coffee Market at the Port, followed by coffee. A genuinely different way to meet the city's startup people, and consistently well attended.

A full day building with Codex at Itnig Cafe, run as a community hackathon. A short introduction and Codex updates first, then building solo or in teams, closing with live demos and prizes. OpenAI engineers and experienced Codex users will be on hand to help, though no mentors are named. You can submit an idea or an existing Codex project on the registration form, and selected projects get showcased during the day. 10:00 to 17:00 on the Saturday, in Spanish, free. Already full, so registration is a waiting list, handled through Luma. Itnig Cafe, Carrer de Pujades 100, Sant Marti. Why go: a free Saturday with OpenAI engineers in the room is not something Barcelona gets often, and the demo slot is a real shot at feedback. Best for developers already shipping with Codex rather than people deciding whether to try it.

with Fernando Dellepiane (Co-founder & CEO, Vermut)

Fernando Dellepiane, co-founder and CEO of Vermut, in conversation at MOB Bailèn. He and two former Glovo colleagues started building for people over 55 in 2020; Vermut is now a platform where older adults sign up for activities, from vermouth and zumba classes to day trips. The published agenda is specific: why the gap between retirement and dependency is Europe's most under-served consumer market; what designing for a user nothing like you teaches a team that came out of Glovo's user experience work; moving from per-transaction payments to subscription and building a B2B2C tool for the partners who run the activities; and raising a 1.5 million euro round led by BITKRAFT with Gaingels and Calm/Storm while opening a US entity. Open questions at the end. 20.21 euros, 18:00 to 20:30. Third of four in the Legnds autumn series. Why go: a founder talking numbers and mechanics rather than highlights, about a market almost nobody in Barcelona is building for. Best for consumer founders and anyone raising internationally.

The late-November edition of womanTech Barcelona's free monthly meetup at La Fuga — an evening for women working in technology to connect, swap experience and build the relationships that move a career along. Consistently one of the warmer rooms in the city's meetup calendar.