Tech events in barcelona

CARNET's annual symposium, this year on how data and AI are reshaping the automotive value chain and urban mobility, at the UPC civil engineering school on Carrer de Jordi Girona. Doors at 08:30, about five hours. The premise is that vehicles are becoming software-defined, data-generating machines while cities turn into dense networks of sensors and services, and that AI now sits across both: powering connected and automated vehicles, optimising traffic in real time, and giving public administrations new tools to plan and evaluate. Sessions and panels bring together speakers from research centres, automotive companies and public administrations, with case studies on connected and automated vehicles, real-time traffic optimisation and shared data platforms. Free, with paid parking on site. Why go: research, industry and city government in one room on mobility data is specific to Barcelona and hard to assemble yourself. Best for mobility engineers, urban data people and anyone selling into city administrations.

The closing session of the Lighthouse Accelerator, a port and maritime innovation programme run by BlueTechPort with support from Mind the Bridge. Four hours covering the programme's results, the Blue Economy 2026 Report on where ports and the blue economy are heading, and a discussion of sector priorities with ecosystem representatives. The participating startups present their solutions, and the back half is given over to networking between founders, port operators and corporates. It runs in Sala A1 of the World Trade Center's south building on the Moll de Barcelona, 10:00 to 14:00. Registration goes through the Port de Barcelona's own form, which asks for your role and company. No speakers have been named. Why go: the cleanest way into Barcelona's blue-economy and port-tech cluster, which barely surfaces on the usual startup calendars. Best for founders selling into ports and logistics, and for corporates and investors tracking that sector.

with Eleni Anoyrkati (Project coordinator, Coventry University) · Marijana Petrović (Professor, Innovation Centre, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Belgrade) · Mario Vukelić (Science & Technology Park, University of Rijeka)

The dissemination event for MobiNexus, an EU mobility project spanning five countries, bringing the consortium together with partners, stakeholders and potential adopters for an afternoon at UPC's Sala d'Actes José Antonio Torroja. The programme presents results across the project's three pillars — electrification, automation and digitalisation — and shows the MobiNexus Digital Platform, Entrepreneurship Academy and User-Centric Lab in use rather than on slides. Registration and a welcome reception from 14:30, then Dr Eleni Anoyrkati of Coventry University, the project coordinator, setting the scene, followed by Prof. Marijana Petrović of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Belgrade and Mario Vukelić of the University of Rijeka's Science and Technology Park on delivering across five countries. A CARNET Barcelona speaker is still to be confirmed. Three hours, free. Why go: EU project results normally reach you as a PDF, and this is the version where you can question the people who built it. Best for mobility researchers and anyone hunting cross-border project partners.

The ocean economy strand of Smart City Expo World Congress, 3 to 5 November at Fira Gran Via, bringing port authorities, maritime operators, ocean-tech startups, investors and policymakers together. Four programmes run under it. Smart Ports: Piers of the Future on port decarbonisation, digitalisation, automation and port-city integration. The Sustainable Ocean Summit for ocean industry leadership. BlueFIN, a curated blue-finance investment programme matching capital with scalable solutions. And the Ocean Innovation Showcase. The organisers frame the whole thing around accelerating solutions that strengthen ocean industries while protecting the ecosystems they depend on, and it sits deliberately inside the wider cities and climate conversation rather than off on its own. Why go: Barcelona is a working port city and this is the one week its maritime technology buyers and the people building for them are in the same building. Best for port and logistics technology teams, ocean-tech founders and blue-economy investors.

with Alexander Wermuth (Global Program Lead, Digital Health Solutions, Roche) · Ghaith Sankari (Health AI Director, Bayer) · Irenee Colin (Digital Health Director, Integrated Health Solutions, Medtronic) + 3 more

Two days of digital health strategy for pharma and MedTech, with sixteen named keynotes. Speakers include Roche's Global Program Lead for Digital Health Solutions Alexander Wermuth, Bayer's Health AI Director Ghaith Sankari and Medtronic's Digital Health Director Irenee Colin, plus leads from Philips, AstraZeneca and Abbott. Sessions are 40-minute presentations with Q&A plus two group stand-ups. Topics include remote patient monitoring evidence, digital biomarkers in neuroscience, image intelligence in diagnosis and accountability in AI-driven pharma operations. Registration from 08:30, opening remarks 08:55 both days. The final rate is €1,590, covering both days, the cocktail night and networking lunches. Run by UBIQ Events. Why go: the people running digital health inside Roche, Bayer, Medtronic and Abbott are in one room for two days, which is unusual outside a trade fair. Best for anyone building for, or selling into, pharma and MedTech.

Europe's deep tech ecosystem meeting inside Smart City Expo World Congress: three days, around 80 speakers, 100 startups and 180 arranged B2B meetings, organised by Biocat at Fira Gran Via. Three main tracks. Augmented Human on how deep tech is extending human capability across health, robotics and space. Deep Intelligence on the infrastructure, governance and capital behind Europe's intelligence era. Corporate Frontier, new this year as a half-day, on how large European corporations are turning deep tech into actual collaboration. Featured speakers include Dirk Didascalou of Siemens, Cristina Caffarra of the EuroStack Initiative Foundation, Elisenda Bou of Cala.AI and Carlos Garcia-Galan of NASA Programmes. Curated one-to-one matchmaking runs through the BDTS Connection Event, and ITF Spain by imec sits alongside it. Why go: pre-market deep tech deal flow and the lab-to-market conversation in one place, which Southern Europe otherwise lacks. Best for deep tech founders and spinoffs, investors, and corporate innovation teams.

The world's largest event on urban innovation, three days at Fira Gran Via and the anchor that pulls half of Barcelona's November tech calendar into its orbit. The 2026 congress programme runs with more than 600 international speakers across the themes the organisers put front and centre: responsible AI, data sovereignty, circular cities, energy efficiency, accessibility, sustainable mobility and open governance. Expect city leaders and high-level government representatives alongside 500-plus exhibitors showing market-ready urban systems, with partners from Microsoft, Google, Dell, Deloitte and Veolia through to UN-Habitat, the World Bank, C40 Cities and Eurocities. Terra50, run with Tomorrow.City, showcases fifty climate solutions already deployed and replicable elsewhere. Several parallel congresses sit inside the same venue and pass. Why go: the one week a year when the people who actually buy and deploy city technology are all in Barcelona at once. Best for anyone selling to or working with public administrations, and for urban data and mobility teams.

The urban mobility congress that runs inside Smart City Expo at Fira Gran Via, with its own programme of around 240 speakers. The agenda is the practical end of mobility rather than the concept-car end: public transport, walkability, accessibility, smart logistics, multimodality, electrification, shared mobility and safe streets, with autonomy treated as one strand rather than the headline. It shares the Smart City Expo exhibition floor and pass, so the 1,100-plus exhibiting companies and government bodies and the city delegations are the same audience, which is the point: the buyers here are transport authorities and municipalities. A startup programme and an AI research showcase run alongside the congress. Why go: mobility suppliers and the public bodies that procure from them in the same hall for three days, which is otherwise a year of meetings. Best for mobility operators, transport planners and anyone selling into transport authorities.

Three days of cybersecurity at Fira Gran Via, Hall 2, running alongside Smart City Expo week and pitched squarely at security leadership rather than at the research community. The tracks are AI and ML, zero trust, cloud and edge, IoT and 5G, quantum security, supply chain security, governance and policy, resilience and incident response, emerging threats, and privacy and ethics. Speakers announced include Marcos Gomez, CISO and Deputy Director of Corporate Security, Connie McIntosh, Head of Security, Tim Brown, partner and CISO in residence, Sounil Yu, Pekka Jokinen and Arvin Bansal. There are separate planned agendas for CISOs and security leaders, for IT and infrastructure, and for compliance and data protection, plus a C-level programme, ISC2 credits, the CISO Leadership Awards and a startup pavilion. Why go: the governance and board-facing half of security, which community conferences cover thinly. Best for CISOs, security architects and compliance leads; practitioners may get more out of BSides Barcelona on 30 October.

with Harald Messemer (ISO 27001 Lead Auditor, ) · Gerardo Prieto (CISO & founder, Barcelona CyberSec) · Xavier Álvarez (Director of Operations, )

Barcelona CyberSec runs its own session inside the Barcelona Cybersecurity Congress: three short talks back to back, then networking, at the Networking Hub in Hall 2 of Fira Gran Via. Harald Messemer, an ISO 27001 lead auditor, opens at 16:00 on moving an ISMS from audit-cramming to a live model with OSCAL evidence. Gerardo Prieto, CISO and founder of Barcelona CyberSec, follows at 16:30 on AI agents that take a vulnerability finding through to a verified fix and know when to ask a human. Xavier Álvarez, director of operations, closes at 17:00 on deepfakes and caller-ID spoofing. Networking from 17:30. Registering on Meetup does not get you in. You need a Barcelona Cybersecurity Congress pass; free community passes go to members of the group's LinkedIn and Telegram. Why go: it is the practitioner track inside a congress that otherwise runs on vendor keynotes. Best for security engineers, CISOs and anyone putting agents near a compliance process.

The fourth Barcelona edition of CNCF Sustainability Month, run by Cloud Native Barcelona with the Green Software Foundation Barcelona chapter and hosted by Schwarz Digits Spain on Carrer de Bergara. It is an annual event from the CNCF Environmental Sustainability Technical Community Group, aimed at environmental sustainability in cloud native and open source. The format is lightning talks: doors 18:30, an hour of ten-minute community talks from 18:45, then food and mingling until 20:30. The line-up is deliberately not fixed in advance: the call for speakers is open until 26 October, and the organisers say a finished project is not required — a new idea, a lesson learned or an open question is enough. Proposals go through bit.ly/cnsm-bcn. Why go: short talks with a low bar to speaking is how you find out what people are actually trying, and the sustainability angle on cloud native is still thin ground. Best for platform and SRE engineers, and anyone with a half-finished idea worth ten minutes.

22@Network Barcelona's afterwork, in a special edition timed for Smart City Expo week and held with Hotel Arts Barcelona on Carrer de la Marina. 22@Network is the association of the companies, startups, universities, technology centres and institutions in the 22@ innovation district, and this edition opens the usual members' evening out to the international delegations and innovation-district representatives in town for the congress. The organisers describe it plainly as an informal evening for meeting people and finding opportunities rather than a programme: no talks, no panels. Doors 18:30, two hours. Ticketed through Eventbrite with no refunds; the Eventbrite total stored against this listing is 18.15 euros, though the public page does not display a price until checkout. Why go: the 22@ district's own network is hard to get into from outside, and congress week is when it opens the door. Best if you want introductions inside Barcelona's innovation district specifically.

Demo Day for the Startup Booster 12 cohort, the growth-stage acceleration programme from Aticco Lab, with Leyton Impulse as programme partner. The participating startups pitch to an audience of investors, founders and ecosystem professionals. Agenda: pitch competition 16:00 to 18:00, networking 18:00 to 18:30, doors at 15:50. At Barcelona Finance Hub by Aticco, Passeig de Gràcia 19. Free with registration. Why go: you see a whole accelerator cohort pitch in two hours, in a room that mixes investors and founders. Best for early-stage investors and for founders who want to benchmark their own pitch.

with Sharon C. Hsieh (Senior Talent Acquisition Manager / TA Lead, ) · Sofya Nesudimova (HR Business Partner & Talent Strategist (co-facilitator), )

The November edition of womanTech Barcelona's first-Wednesday session, and this one is about finding a job in tech rather than networking. Sharon C. Hsieh, a senior talent acquisition manager and TA lead who has run group-wide talent strategy across startups and scale-ups, takes an interactive session and then a panel: how applicant tracking systems actually filter, how to position a CV and a LinkedIn profile so they get past them, and what recruiters are doing with the current market. Sofya Nesudimova, an HR business partner and talent strategist, co-facilitates. Open Q&A at the end. Free, 18:00 to 20:00, at the Docplanner / Doctoralia office in Sant Martí. Places are capped and building access needs an approved list in advance, so register early. Why go: job-hunting advice from the person on the other side of the screening, in a room small enough to ask the awkward questions. Best for women in tech between roles or weighing a move.

with Sophie Koonin (Staff Engineer, Operations, Monzo) · Wei Ann Heng (Senior Backend Engineer, Subscriptions, Monzo)

Monzo's Barcelona engineers host an evening for women in tech and allies at Aticco Diagrame in the 22@ district, with two short talks from inside the bank. Sophie Koonin, staff engineer on Operations, covers technical migrations at scale: how Monzo goes about upgrading libraries across a very large system, and what that has taught them about running the next migration better. Wei Ann Heng, senior backend engineer on Subscriptions, explains how the team designed Monzo's payday and bill-payment experience to make managing money less work for customers. Roughly 15 minutes each with 10 minutes of questions, then drinks, pizza and networking. Free. Bring ID to get into the building. Why go: migration war stories from a bank running them in production are rarer and more useful than another architecture talk. Best for backend engineers, platform teams and anyone in fintech.

with iXiam (Automation consultancy, iXiam) · Jortilles (Data and BI consultancy, Jortilles)

Community meetup for people building automations with n8n, the open-source workflow tool, at the Canòdrom digital innovation centre on Carrer de la Concepció Arenal. Two practitioner talks. iXiam and CiviCRM explain how they built the official n8n node for CiviCRM and what automation looks like for foundations, associations and NGOs. Jortilles, a data and business-intelligence consultancy, shows how n8n sits inside its own stack and walks through real client workflows. It runs 18:00 to 20:00 and sign-up goes through the Canòdrom community platform. No price is listed. Why go: n8n in production at a nonprofit-tech shop and a BI consultancy, not a vendor demo. Best for automation builders, data people and ops leads who want working patterns to copy.

with Daniel Martin Callizo (Co-founder and Managing Partner, Noba Ventures) · Blai Carandell Saladich (Partner and CEO, Noba)

Talk by the founders of Noba Ventures, a Barcelona venture builder, on how they spot emerging customer needs before they become obvious. Hosted by Speculative Futures Barcelona at Harbour.Space. Daniel Martin Callizo (co-founder and managing partner) and Blai Carandell Saladich (partner and CEO) speak. Noba says it has worked on more than 300 projects for companies including Nestlé, PepsiCo, Danone, HP and Boehringer Ingelheim. Doors open 18:30, talks start 19:00, and it ends at 21:30. In English. Ticket price isn't shown on the page. Why go: a look at how a corporate venture builder picks its bets. Best for founders and corporate innovation people thinking about spinning out new products.

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 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 weekly Thursday rooftop afterwork run by the Barcelona Techies community at the ICON Hotel. Open drinks and networking, no programme.

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.