Tech events in barcelona

The tenth edition of Mecal 360, the Barcelona festival dedicated to virtual reality, immersive formats and digital narrative. A genuine crossover event for creative technologists, XR developers and anyone working where storytelling meets hardware. Held at Mecal Factory in Poblenou.

IESE's international gathering on search funds, two days in the Aula Magna on the North Campus. The programme covers performance data across the asset class, current deal terms, and the leadership transition from searcher to operating CEO. Attendance is by approval and the price is confirmed after acceptance, so the ticket cost is not published up front. Why go: search funds are how a growing number of European operators buy their way into running a company, and this is the one room where the people doing it compare returns and terms in the open. Best for would-be searchers, investors in the asset class, and anyone weighing an acquisition against founding something.

Held at Hub BStartup Barcelona in the Eixample during Impact/Week, this session moves past the pitch-stage climate tech conversation to the harder one: what it takes to scale a European climate solution through procurement cycles, permitting, industrial partners and the funding gap between a first plant and a tenth. Relevant to climate founders, investors and corporate innovation teams. Free, in English.

with Mar Garcia Sabaté (Threat Intelligence Lead, Allianz Technology) · Gerardo Prieto (CISO, )

A deliberately vendor-free security evening in Allianz Technology's Barcelona offices, with a full hour of networking before the talks rather than after. The first talk covers original threat-intelligence research into Traffic Distribution Systems, the campaigns built on that infrastructure, and the YARA rules to take home. The second walks an agentic AI pipeline from a raw scanner finding to a verified fix, including contextual severity scoring and when to escalate to a human. Registration is approved in advance and photo ID is checked at reception. Free. Why go: two pieces of practitioner work rather than a product tour, and the inverted running order means you actually talk to people before everyone's attention is spent. Best for security engineers, threat-intel analysts and anyone wiring AI into a vulnerability-management workflow.

Codemotion takes its CodeMeet format to Accenture's Barcelona office for a hands-on workshop on giving AI systems eyes: designing a multi-agent architecture that reads visual input and turns it into action. Codemotion is one of the better-run developer communities in southern Europe and the Rotonda venue makes this a proper evening rather than a quick talk.

with Sergio Gago (Technology leader and founder, —)

Sergio Gago started out founding companies in Spain and ended up leading technology at global scale; this evening at InnoIT's Eixample office is a conversation about how that path actually worked, what transferred and what did not. One named, verifiable speaker with a genuinely unusual career arc, in a room small enough to ask questions. Listed through Tech Barcelona.

Invest in Nature brings Catalan companies, investors and ecosystem leaders together to connect capital, expertise and opportunity around natural capital. The morning is framed around turning what is already known about regeneration into deployed money and live projects, and the transition to a regenerative economy in the Mediterranean. Held at IESE with the school's Institute for Sustainability Leadership. Conducted in Spanish.

with Genís Roca (Digital strategist, RocaSalvatella)

A one-day elearning and instructional-design conference at the PRBB, co-organised by Articulate and Actua, with a keynote from Genís Roca on how AI is reshaping teams. Talks in English with simultaneous translation. Paid.

Design-school students present prototypes built with NTT DATA in a rapid test-and-iterate format, with feedback from practitioners.

The thirteenth edition of Barcelona's software craftsmanship conference, at BAU College of Arts and Design in Poblenou. Two days of talks and hands-on sessions on testing, design, refactoring and the human side of building software well. Software Crafters Barcelona is one of the longest-running developer communities in the city, and the conference is run by that community rather than by a commercial organiser. Paid ticket; the price is not published on the listing. Why go: thirteen editions is the signal. This is where the Barcelona engineers who care about how code gets written keep turning up, and the hands-on half means you leave with practice rather than notes. Best for developers, tech leads and anyone responsible for a codebase other people have to live with.

The weekly Friday afterwork for Barcelona's tech crowd at CocoVail Beer Hall in the Eixample: engineers, data and AI people, IT professionals and recruiters, with no programme beyond turning up. A recurring series rather than a one-off, so treat it as a dependable place to land rather than a headline event. €3, booked online only.

22@Network Barcelona organises a members' visit to the ALBA synchrotron, Spain's third-generation light source. A rare look inside a major research facility for people working in deep tech, materials and advanced manufacturing. Note the facility itself is outside the city, with transport arranged from Barcelona.

The Monday afternoon edition of KCN's structured networking format, in Sants. Generalist business networking rather than tech-specific.

A four-way discussion on what digital technology is actually doing to the climate - the energy it burns and the emissions it enables - and what people in Barcelona's tech sector can do about it. The panel sets aside the two usual positions, that AI dooms the climate or fixes it. The four speakers come from different angles: a mobile app product manager who also organises in her community, a climate communications specialist who retrained as a software developer, a multimedia art educator, and a chemist working in circular economy. Hosted by Barcelona Climate Week at the Thoughtworks office in Sant Marti. Free, registration required. Why go: a climate-and-tech room aimed at practitioners rather than policy people, and the mixed panel gets you past the engineering view. Best for engineers, product people and anyone in Barcelona tech looking for something concrete to do.

The seventy-fifth edition of the BCN Globals waterfront run and social, starting from La Carioca. Five kilometres, drinks afterwards, entrepreneur-heavy crowd. Free.

JFrog's European developer conference, three days in Barcelona on the software supply chain: binary management, DevSecOps, MLOps and AI-assisted delivery pipelines. Day one is hands-on labs, certification training and a leadership summit, followed by a welcome reception. Days two and three carry the main technical programme and the expo floor. At the InterContinental Barcelona, 345 euros. Why go: supply-chain security and artifact management are where a lot of delivery pain actually lives, and nothing else of this size in Europe is built entirely around that problem. It is a vendor conference, so weigh the JFrog framing accordingly. Best for platform and DevOps engineers, and release or security leads with a real artifact estate to run.

EINA, Barcelona's university centre for design and art, hosts a session on what design education and design practice can contribute when generative tools make production cheap and judgement scarce. Less about tooling than about how you decide what is good, which is a question the design disciplines have been formalising for a century. At EINA Bosc, free. The session is conducted in Catalan. Why go: most generative-AI events in the city are about what the tools can do; this one is about how to tell whether the output is any good, which is the harder and much less discussed half. Best for designers, design educators and product people who have to make taste calls on AI output. Check the Catalan before you book.

A free afternoon conference from Catalonia's AI research and innovation network, bringing together the research groups, companies and public bodies working on applied AI in the region. Free general admission, real venue, broad programme.

with Asi Burak (Keynote speaker, author of Power Play, Games for Change (former Chairman and President)) · Eva Dominguez (Speaker, Immersive Creatures)

Demos, a keynote and a challenge launch at the intersection of immersive technology and social impact, at Norrsken House on the Barceloneta waterfront. Doors at 18:00 with live demos of immersive projects and impact games. At 19:00 Asi Burak, former chairman and president of Games for Change and author of Power Play, gives the keynote on turning play into real-world change. At 19:30 Eva Dominguez of Immersive Creatures talks about the studio behind Ivanani, and the Genesis Creator Challenge launches. Open networking over the Mediterranean from 20:00. Co-hosted by Games for Change and the Immersive Creators Meetup, with support from the Generalitat de Catalunya. Free, registration required. Why go: Barcelona's XR and games-for-impact community rarely gets a speaker of Burak's standing, and the demo hour means you see work rather than slides. Best for game developers, XR creators and impact founders.

The Barcelona chapter of People Planet Pint, the informal monthly gathering for anyone working on sustainability inside a tech or business role. No talks, no pitches — just people who work on this finding each other over a drink.

A free session at Hub Social Barcelona run by training and consultancy firm GESEM on workplace integration and inclusion programmes. Adjacent to the tech audience rather than squarely in it — listed on the venue and organiser pages. Conducted in Spanish.

A networking lunch at El Tros de la Rambla for women investing in startups — angels, syndicate members and fund people — to connect and widen their circle. Small-format and recurring; attendees cover their own lunch.

The finale of Esade's eWorks accelerator, at the Antiga Fàbrica Estrella Damm: the top startups from this year's cohort pitch to investors, with a startup fair alongside. There are separate ticket types for general attendees, ecosystem partners and investors, all free. Why go: a demo day is the cheapest way to see a whole cohort at once, and Esade's pipeline feeds a good share of Barcelona's early-stage deal flow. The separate investor track means the people in the room came to meet each other rather than to watch. Best for early-stage investors, and for founders who want to see the bar this year's cohort is clearing before they raise.

Barcelona's agentic-coding meetup takes a Castanyada-themed look at working in the terminal with AI coding agents: what people are actually shipping with them, where the workflow breaks, and live demos from local engineers. Hosted at Innoit's Eixample office.

IED Barcelona runs a strategic design clinic — a working session rather than a lecture — on the methods designers bring to problems that are ambiguous rather than merely difficult. Free, held at the IED campus, and aimed at designers, product people and innovation leads who want to stress-test how they frame problems. Part of the Barcelona Design Week period.

A free monthly gathering for space professionals and enthusiasts in Barcelona — engineers, researchers and people working in the European space supply chain, plus anyone who just finds the field interesting. Relaxed format, no presentations.

AppGala brings app founders, product leaders, user-acquisition and growth specialists, developers and games professionals together for a day of case studies and practical mobile growth material at the COAC on Plaça Nova. Barcelona's mobile sector is one of the deepest in Europe and this is the conference that treats app growth as a craft rather than a channel-buying exercise.

Rojo Integrations hosts an afternoon at Pier 07 on using SAP Integration Suite as the backbone for agentic AI processes across DevOps and enterprise workflows. Enterprise integration is not glamorous, but it is where most agentic AI projects actually succeed or stall, and the session runs long enough to get past the slideware.

The Barcelona chapter of LeadDev, the engineering-leadership community, meets at ManyChat's office for talks aimed at team leads, engineering managers and staff engineers — the management problems that do not appear in architecture diagrams.

A hands-on evening at Xplore Studio in Poblenou for people who want to build with AI rather than talk about it — practical tooling, working sessions and show-and-tell. Xplore runs a consistent programme of maker-oriented evenings and the format rewards turning up with something half-finished.

with Les Echem (Speaker, Building Nando: the agent that ran a crew, Claude Community) · Jeremie Benhamou (Speaker, From idea to brand: the operations behind it, Claude Community)

Two builder talks on putting Claude to work, then drinks, hosted at Factorial's Poblenou office by the Claude Community ambassadors in Barcelona. Doors 18:00, welcome 18:15, talks and Q&A from 18:30, networking with drinks and snacks from 19:15, close at 20:30. Les Echem covers Building Nando, the agent that ran the Claude Community House crew in September: it answered WhatsApp messages and spoke to visitors through a lobby iPad voice agent, and the talk covers how it was built and what broke. Jeremie Benhamou follows on running a brand's operations through Claude day to day. Hosts are Matt Roberts, Jeremie Benhamou, Ben Tarenne and Fernanda Grace Lins. Registration needs host approval and places are limited; there is a waitlist. Why go: both talks come from people who shipped the thing rather than demoed it. Best for engineers, founders, operators and designers already building with agents.

Elisava hosts Domestic Data Streamers for a workshop on turning code into a tool of critique, irony and public intervention with the help of AI. A design-school take on vibe coding — closer to critical practice than to productivity tooling, and one of the more original AI sessions in the window. Part of the Barcelona Design Week period.

The weekly Friday afterwork for Barcelona's tech crowd at CocoVail Beer Hall in the Eixample: engineers, data and AI people, IT professionals and recruiters, with no programme beyond turning up. A recurring series rather than a one-off, so treat it as a dependable place to land rather than a headline event. €3, booked online only.

The October weekend edition of Barcelona Code School's AI agent automation workshop, taught in English at the Poblenou campus. Paid professional training; listed on the entity pages.

A one-day vendor exhibition and technical seminar on test and measurement instrumentation for electronics and industrial engineering teams.

Vaadin's annual conference on the future of full-stack Java lands in Barcelona at the Hotel Catalonia Plaça Espanya. A full day of framework, architecture and AI-assisted development sessions for Java teams — a genuine international developer conference rather than a local meetup, and the only one of its kind in the window.

Mozilla's flagship festival moves to Barcelona for three days at Fabra i Coats, under the theme Wilding: what happens when rigid digital systems loosen enough for communities and technologies to evolve together. Sessions cover community-owned networks, open protocols, trustworthy AI and tools built on consent rather than capture, run as participatory workshops rather than keynote theatre. Paid ticket, bought through the Mozilla Foundation checkout. Why go: MozFest is the main European gathering of the people building the non-commercial internet, and this is the year it lands in Barcelona. The workshop format means you contribute rather than watch. Best for anyone working on open protocols, digital rights, public-interest technology or trustworthy AI.

A commercial B2B summit on digital transformation, artificial intelligence and customer experience held near Barcelona-Sants. Ticket prices are in the enterprise-conference range and the programme is sponsor-led, so it is listed on the venue and organiser pages rather than the city feed. Relevant mainly to enterprise buyers with a training budget.

TechMeetups runs its autumn Barcelona tech job fair at Hotel ILUNION, putting hiring companies and candidates in one room for an evening. Free for candidates. Developer, design, product, data and go-to-market roles are all typically represented, and the format favours short direct conversations with hiring managers over an online application queue. Why go: if you are looking, an evening here is worth more than a week of applications, because you reach the person who decides. If you are hiring, it is the cheapest top-of-funnel in the city this autumn. Best for candidates actively on the market, and for in-house recruiters and hiring managers with roles open now.

womanTech Barcelona's monthly free meetup at La Fuga for women working in technology — a mix of informal conversation and career-focused connection. A consistent community fixture; the September edition is already listed and this is the October return.

A casual networking evening for angel investors across sectors to compare deal flow and trends over beers. Venue to be announced at the time of listing; investor-only framing.

A one-day traveltech summit at the Antiga Fàbrica Estrella Damm covering distribution, AI in booking and service, and the platform economics of the travel sector. Tickets 185 euros. Barcelona holds one of Europe's denser clusters of travel-technology companies, and this is the sector's main autumn gathering in the city. Why go: the attendee list is as much the draw as the stage, so the day pays for itself if you work on the product or commercial side of travel technology. Skip it if you are only adjacent to the sector, because the programme assumes you know how distribution works. Best for product, revenue and partnerships people in travel.

Cambridge Spark Spain and the Grand Hyatt host a roundtable for HR, people, talent, L&D and digital transformation leaders at companies with a Barcelona presence. The format deliberately prioritises conversation over presentation: a short framing, small-group discussion against set questions, a shared read-out, and a closing panel on moving from insight to action. Worth attending if you own the reskilling problem rather than just reading about it.

Bcombinator hosts a practical session on taking a Spanish or European company into the United States — entity structure, first hires, pricing, and the go-to-market differences that catch European founders out. €5 ticket, held at Bcombinator on Carrer de Badajoz in Poblenou. Concrete and well-scoped for founders actually planning a move rather than considering one in the abstract.

The Barcelona edition of Security BSides — a community-run, community-priced security conference with live hacking, practical tracks and none of the vendor theatre of the commercial circuit. BSides events are where working security people actually go, and Barcelona's edition has grown steadily. Worth booking early.

Ninety minutes, one marketing topic, ideas you can use the same day — Growth BCN's deliberately compressed alternative to the half-day event with endless presentations. Aimed at marketing leaders at technology companies.

The weekly Friday afterwork for Barcelona's tech and IT workers, held inside CocoVail Beer Hall from 17:30 onwards. The organisers draw software engineers, data scientists, security people, product managers, students and career-changers, and run parallel chat communities where attendees share background before turning up. Tickets are online only — none on the door.

The twelfth edition of CARNET's urban mobility symposium at UPC, covering connected vehicles, mobility data platforms and what cities are actually deploying. CARNET is the automotive-mobility research hub backed by UPC, SEAT and Volkswagen Group Research.

MobiNexus brings together academics, industry and policymakers from five partner countries to work on the mobility transition — vehicle technology, urban systems and the research-to-market gap. Held at the UPC Camins campus and free to attend.

The blue-economy congress co-located with Smart City Expo brings ocean technology, port innovation, marine renewables and maritime data to Fira Gran Via, with an Innovation Hub for startups and research groups working on the sector. Three days of conference programming aimed at operators, public bodies and investors in ocean industries.

Biocat's deep-tech summit runs inside the Smart City Expo week at Fira Gran Via, pairing science-based founders with the investors and corporates that fund and buy from them. Expect programming on health tech and biotech, advanced materials, quantum and semiconductors, plus structured investor meetings for spin-outs coming out of Catalan research centres.

The world's leading urban-innovation congress takes over two halls at Fira Gran Via with 1,100+ exhibitors and a conference programme across main and open stages. Four congresses are co-located on the same floor — Tomorrow.Mobility, Tomorrow.Blue Economy, Barcelona Cybersecurity Congress and HOWS Barcelona — alongside startup pitches, investor talks and the World Smart City Awards. Visitor passes from €200; full congress and investor passes cost more.

Fira de Barcelona and EIT Urban Mobility run the urban-mobility congress on the Smart City Expo floor: electrification, micromobility, autonomous and connected vehicles, logistics and the data platforms cities use to manage all of it. Three days of conference sessions plus an exhibition shared with the wider Smart City programme.

BLOC4BCN's Jornades Beta asks how to redesign a business around social impact and make AI an ally in doing it. A full morning programme at Barcelona's social-innovation hub, in a week otherwise dominated by Smart City Expo — and the only impact-tech programming the city has scheduled for early November.

Fira de Barcelona and the Agència de Ciberseguretat de Catalunya run three days of security programming in Hall 2, co-located with Smart City Expo World Congress. The agenda covers zero trust, cloud and edge, IoT and 5G, quantum security, supply-chain risk, incident response, governance and the ethics of security AI. Speakers include Marcos Gómez, Pekka Jokinen, Tim Brown, Sounil Yu, Arvin Basal and Chris Hosking.

The November edition of SIA's recurring morning coffee for founders, investors and mentors. Venue not yet confirmed at the time of listing.

The Smart City Expo edition of 22@Network Barcelona's afterwork, which puts the 22@ innovation district's companies in the same room as the international delegations in town for the congress week — including representatives of innovation districts and city governments from around the world. Informal networking format at the Hotel Arts. This is the strongest genuinely in-city event of congress week, most of which happens outside the Barcelona municipal boundary. Conducted in Spanish.

Cloud Native Barcelona and the Green Software chapter jointly host the city's Sustainability Month event at Lidl's international tech hub: measuring and cutting the energy cost of Kubernetes workloads, with talks from practitioners running it in production.

Five minutes, two people, one spark: womanTech Barcelona runs structured one-to-one rotations with fifteen-plus women in tech so attendees leave with named contacts rather than a vague sense of having mingled. Free, gentle format, and genuinely effective for finding a co-founder, mentor or collaborator.

The November edition of a monthly, deliberately casual gathering of product strategists, designers, growth specialists and AI practitioners. There are no talks: people talk over a drink about what they are working on, what is and is not shipping, and how AI is landing in their teams.

The November edition of BUZOKU's bi-monthly meetup in Sant Gervasi for people building in Web3, AI and digital systems. No panels, no presentations, no agenda — deliberately conversational.