Feb 16-22 // Product Design & Technology, AI Meetup, Legal- and Prop-Tech, HoReCa Expo

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Week 8 // 16 to 22 February

Hola, Madrileños! Qué pasa this week in Madrid?


Monday, 16

  • 🏨 HIP - HoReCa Professional Expo/ 10.30am - 7.30pm (1/3): the Hospitality Innovation Planet (HIP) organizes this expo dedicated to the Hotel, Restaurant, and Catering (HoReCa) sector, with leaders from companies such as Hyatt, Marriott, Meliá, Hilton, Coca-Cola, Starbucks, KFC, Just Eat, and major restaurant and hotel groups.


Tuesday, 17

  • 📊 2º Informe Sobre el Estado de la Nueva Economía en España/ 11am - 1.30pm: presenting an updated assessment of how Spain’s impact economy ecosystem is evolving, highlighting key challenges, barriers, and opportunities, with the Spanish Ministry of Labour and Social Economy, the Director of Alliances and Impact Ecosystem at SpainNAB, and the Director of Communications at Political Watch.
  • 🎯 Optimiza la Conversión de tu Web a Partir de Datos y Comportamientos del Usuario/ 6.30 - 8.30pm: WordPress session demonstrating data-driven web optimization techniques to improve site conversion, using real user behavior analysis and market examples. Sponsors include Woo, Jetpack, and SiteGround.
  • 💎 El Nuevo Reto de las Marcas de Menos Ruido a Más Valor/ 7 - 8pm: event at IE University exploring strategies for moving brand communication from high-volume noise to meaningful engagement, emphasizing social media relevance, cultural context, and sustainable audience connections.
  • 🎤 Open Mic Storytelling #28 - "Love"/ 7 - 9pm: open-mic storytelling session where you can share personal 2–7 minute stories, this time on the theme of "Love", even without any previous experience.
  • 🤑 Cómo Tomar el Control de tu Dinero y Hacerlo Trabajar por Ti/ 7 - 9pm: practical finance session at Aticco coworking in collaboration with Multiplo Capital, where the CEO and co-founder shares strategies for planning, saving, investing, and optimizing personal finances with actionable.
  • 🧠 Taller BrainVestor: Antifragilidad Financiera/ 7 - 9pm: workshop on Financial Antifragility, with strategies to withstand economic volatility and strengthen personal finances, incorporating strategic, psychological, and realistic approaches.


Wednesday, 18

  • 🔬 V SciTech Day/ 10am - 6.30pm: event by Universidad Europea de Madrid with talks and workshops on emerging technologies like cybersecurity, aerospace, AI, quantum computing, and digital innovation.
  • 🤝 Networking: Intercambio de Necesidades y Oportunidades/ 12 - 2pm: structured networking session for entrepreneurs to share professional needs and offerings, creating potential collaborations and connections. It includes speed pitches, a contact database, and informal discussions with catering.
  • 💻 CodeMeet After Tech/ 6.15 - 8.30pm: exploring building and managing tech communities and strategies to grow them effectively. A panel includes a Platform Engineering Lead from Nationale Nederlanden Spain sharing insights on leveraging community initiatives for professional growth.
  • 🐑 Software Cafrers: Haciendo Código que Haría Vomitar a una Cabra/ 6.30 - 8.30pm: session demonstrating how to deliberately write confusing and error-prone code, including hidden bugs, fragile functions, and non-standard structures, as a playful exploration of software design gone wrong.
  • ✈️ Flight Levels - Flight Club #3/ 6.30 - 8.30pm: exploring the Flight Levels (a structured approach to improve organizational communication and align teams) with an interactive discussion moderated by an accredited guide.
  • 🍏 NSCoder Night Madrid | Inside Apple Foundation Models/ 7 - 8.45pm: hands-on introduction to Apple Foundation Models, covering their architecture, components, limits, and practical use through system APIs for iOS and macOS development.
  • 🤝 Vibe-coding & Friends: Social Gathering for Founders and Entrepreneurs/ 7 - 9.30pm: meet the community of no-code entrepreneurs, first-time founders, and creative innovators to exchange experiences, share tips, and discuss tools for moving from concept to MVP.
  • ⭕️ OpenCircle: Business Drinks - Connect, Inspire, Succeed/ 7 - 10pm: gathering for founders, freelancers, and professionals seeking meaningful connections over traditional networking.


Thursday, 19

  • 🏠 WIRES Mesa Redonda - Un Año del MASC: Realidad, Práctica y Retos Pendientes/ 9am - 12pm: Women In Real Estate Spain (WIRES) hosts a roundtable on the first year of Medios Adecuados de Solución de Controversias (MASC), discussing current practices, challenges, and future developments in the real estate sector. Panelists include a Bird & Bird litigation associate, a Grupo Incofisa partner, the director of a construction mediation center, and a partner from Ambar Real Estate, with moderation by the director of Arpada Servicios.
  • 🧾 FranquiShop - Feria de Franquicias/ 9am - 5.30pm: franchise trade fair with a wide range of national and international franchise opportunities, including supermarkets, fitness, hospitality, and famous brands like Domino’s Pizza, Carrefour Express, Kumon, and Amazon Hub Delivery, with investments ranging from €1,000 to over €600,000.
  • 🔥 Proptech Thursday/ 10am - 12pm: monthly Property Tech sector event on technologies and trends that improve new property sales, with leading PropTech companies presenting solutions and sharing industry expertise.
  • 📊 dbt Workshop/ 10am - 5pm: full-day workshop on how to develop, test, and deploy data transformations using dbt Cloud and Snowflake, covering modular SQL models, advanced testing, macros, incremental models, and CI/CD automation, hosted by The Information Lab Spain.
  • 🤝 Networking | Herramientas Prácticas para Validar tu Proyecto/ 12 - 2pm: learn practical prototyping tools to validate projects, understand idea validation, and apply actionable methods to reduce risks before product launch.
  • 👆 Touch & Tech: Session I/ 5 - 8pm: LegalTech event offering hands-on workshops and a panel on cybersecurity and compliance.
  • 💻 Emprende con Seguridad: Kit Legal para Autónomos y Emprendedores/ 5.30 - 7pm: legal masterclass at Work Café Santander for freelancers and entrepreneurs led by a labor law specialist, covering document organization, correct invoicing, expense justification, tax management, cash protection, and using unemployment capital and reduced-rate schemes effectively.
  • 🛍️ Lo que Debes Saber Antes de Abrir un eCommerce/ 6 - 8pm: masterclass on eCommerce fundamentals led by the CEO and founder of Clairo, an eCommerce consulting company, covering business models, digital revenue flows, key metrics, and common mistakes for entrepreneurs and teams looking to start or professionalize an online store.
  • 🤖 Mindstone Madrid February AI Meetup/ 6 - 9pm: hands-on, interactive AI event, with three sessions: building with large language models (LLMs), boosting productivity with AI tools, and exploring AI’s societal impact. Followed by networking over pizza and drinks.
  • 👨‍💻 BrowserStack QA Meetup/ 6.30 - 8.30pm: meeting focused on AI-driven quality assurance and metric selection in testing, with a talk on automating routine Quality Assurance (QA) tasks and a session on effective metrics, followed by networking.
  • 🎯 WTM Meetup | Dos Visiones de Producto: Diseño y tecnología/ 6.30 - 9pm: meetup by Women Techmakers Madrid, a Google Developers Group, covering digital product design and engineering, exploring how cognitive science influences user preferences, and how to build robust, long-lasting product architectures.
  • 🌍 Geopoint – Geopolitics and Global Risk: Strategic Keys for Business/ 7 - 9pm: session exploring how global geopolitics and international security affect business strategy and decision-making, with experts including a Spanish Army Brigadier General specializing in national security and a historian on contemporary diplomacy, providing actionable insights for professionals.
  • 🚫 Lo Analógico en la Era de lo Digital/ 7.30 - 9.30pm: inviting participants to pause and engage in reflective conversation, exploring analog perspectives in a digital-focused world.
  • 🗣️ Improve Your Public Speaking Skills/ 7.30 - 9.30pm: a structured training in public speaking (in English), combining classical rhetoric frameworks with practical exercises. Learn and practice structure, delivery, audience engagement, and improvisation in small groups with personal feedback.


Friday, 20

  • 🤖 Agentes Autónomos, Memoria y Tool Use Avanzado/ 4 - 8pm: workshop at Madrid Innovation Lab on autonomous AI agents, covering their operation, memory and reasoning architectures, tool integration, and applicable business use cases.
  • 🌍 Geonode y Qfield en Campo; Visores con Geobim; y Datos en Copernicus/ 7 - 8.30pm: technical session for professionals on field planning for researchers, developers, and geospatial enthusiasts, emphasizing practical workflows, collaborative mapping, and open geospatial infrastructures.
  • 🔀 Madrid Tech Mixer and Social/ 7.30 - 10pm: a relaxed after-work environment for tech enthusiasts to network, share knowledge, and explore career opportunities in fields like AI, web development, and data science, hosted regularly.


Saturday, 21


Sunday, 22

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  • Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You. As a reader of almost only non-fiction books, I must admit that reading a fictional story has a good collateral effect: you remember it much better. That’s what this little book does: it delivers business concepts through a fictional tale (but based on real facts) with a very pleasant and smooth read. The central topic is how to make a business sellable, but all the points apply even if you’re not planning to sell. It’s more about having standardized, repeatable (thus scalable) structure an processes. I enjoyed it a lot, very recommended!


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Disclaimer: Qué Pasa en Madrid is not responsible for the events included in the present email. Informational purpose only. Issue #62 (15.02.26)

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