Qué Pasa en Madrid
Your weekly newsletter with Business & Tech events in Madrid.
Week 24 // 9th to 15th June
Hola, Madrileños! Qué pasa this week in Madrid?
Monday, 9th
- 👀 The Untold Story of Data Privacy in the AI Age/ 5 - 8pm: risks and solutions related to data privacy when using generative AI tools, especially in business settings. Introducing "Private AI" as a secure alternative for handling sensitive data internally, with insights from industry experts and real-world use cases.
- 👥 Talento Senior: Perspectiva del Head Hunter, la Empresa y el talento/ 7 - 8.30pm: roundtable with industry leaders about the value of experienced senior professionals in organizations, examining perspectives from executive recruiters, transitioning talent, and companies.
Tuesday, 10th
- 🔐 Tecnofor SAFe Day 2025/ 9.30am - 2pm: bringing together Agile professionals to discuss enterprise agility and transformation, the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), process mining, AI, and business transformation.
- 🚀 AI4RE Summit/ 9.30am - 6.30pm: pioneering event for real estate and AI leaders to explore practical applications of AI across the full property lifecycle, through expert talks, panels, and networking, highlighting innovations in design, investment, marketing, sustainability, and regulatory compliance
- 🤖 Build With AI/ 6.30 - 9.30pm: global event series by Google Developer Group to learn and create using Google's latest AI and ML technologies. It includes talks on generative AI tools, prompt engineering, and creative content generation, and offers hands-on insights, practical examples, and networking opportunities.
- </> Top Security Flaws Hiding in Your Code Right Now – and How to Fix Them/ 7 - 8.30pm: cybersecurity session covering critical security vulnerabilities such as SQL Injection, Deserialization Injection, and Logging Injection, explaining their risks and providing practical fixes, best practices, and tooling to help secure applications.
- ⚡ Lightning Talks/ 7 - 9pm: five speakers giving 5-minute presentations on diverse topics, followed by Q&A sessions, aiming to inspire discussion and connection through unexpected ideas across various fields.
- 💥 Building for Impact: Strategy, Startups & Product Team Dynamics/ 7 - 9pm: three product leaders discussing strategies for building high-impact, outcome-driven product teams, navigating startup product journeys, and aligning product work with critical business goals to maximize impact.
Wednesday, 11th
- 🔥 AWS Summit Madrid 2025/ 9am - 6.30pm: the biggest Amazon Web Services event in Spain for free, with over 70 expert-led sessions on cloud technologies, including generative AI, data analytics, security, and migration. If you are working in tech, I definitely recommend joining. I'll be there the whole day, hit me up to have a chat if you're coming!
- 🎨 Taller de Visual Thinking para RRHH/ 10am - 1pm: workshop for HR professionals on how to use Visual Thinking to connect better, align, and communicate ideas through simple and powerful visual language.
- 🍸 “Llegué, Lloré… y Aprendí: Historias reales de migración”/ 6.30 - 8.30pm: event organized by our friends at Coomadres offering a safe and inspiring space for women to connect and grow through storytelling about real migration experiences, combined with a social cocktail setting.
- 🧠 Cervelli in Movimento: Storia di Ricerca tra Spagna, Italia, Olanda e Scozia/ 7 - 9pm: the Italian Professional Network (IPN), our partner for the Italian communiy, this time invites a theoretical physics researcher sharing her experiences working and building an academic career across Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, and Scotland, exploring cultural differences in scientific research and challenges faced by women in STEM.
- 🤖 IA en Selección de Personal - Taller CPS/ 7 - 9pm: introduction of AI in personnel selection, with a simulation of a Complex Problem Solving (CPS) team session and a discussion using problem-solving tools. It includes expert insights from professionals with backgrounds in business, neuroscience, AI, and agile methodologies, followed by informal networking.
- ☕ Café con EthicHubbers/ 7 - 10pm: casual meetup to connect and discuss cryptocurrencies and their social impact. It offers a friendly environment to learn about blockchain technology, DeFi, and regenerative finance.
Thursday, 12th
- ⚙️ Despachos Inteligentes/ 9.30 - 11.30am: discussing how AI is transforming the legal sector by boosting speed, task automation, and quality. Learn practical tools for integrating AI in legal practices, hear real-world automation case studies, and get advice on adapting to new technologies.
- 📈 Liderando la Transformación y el Crecimiento Empresarial/ 9am - 2pm: congress is designed for CFOs and financial leaders to gain strategic insights, learn from industry experts, explore real business transformation cases, and network with peers to drive corporate growth.
- 👨🏻💻 Oxygenate Spain 2025/ 10.30am - 2.30pm: presenting how platformless modernization is becoming a reality in Spain, showcasing cloud-native agility and AI-powered solutions to modernize critical systems without vendor lock-in. Especially for IT leaders, architects, and innovation professionals seeking clear digital transformation strategies.
- ® Mucho x More: A Brand Design Executive Workshop/ 12.45am - 2.30pm: workshop designed for creative professionals aiming to improve strategic thinking in brand design, with two sessions in one day, expert-led hands-on activities, and networking opportunities.
- 🤖 Cómo Implantar IA en tu Pyme/ 5 - 6pm: event at the Work Café Santander teaching small and medium business (Pymes) owners practical strategies to implement AI for optimizing processes, reducing bureaucracy, and growing their companies, and showing how AI is now an accessible and transformative tool beyond large corporations.
- 💎 NFTs desde Cero para Creativos, Artistas y Emprendedores/ 6 - 7.30pm: our friend and Web3 expert Tomás from Cryptodays will hold a clear introduction to NFTs, explaining their basics, uses, and how they can help creatives and entrepreneurs finance ideas, increase visibility, and build digital communities, without requiring prior technical knowledge.
- 💻 Una Visión Integral de la Refactorización/ 6 - 8.30pm: exploring refactoring beyond simple code tweaks, focusing on its broader impact on team dynamics, software architecture, and long-term sustainability. Engage in practical exercises to apply strategic refactoring techniques inspired by industry experts.
- 🤝 Madrid Afterwork Meetup: ¡Business connect!/ 6.30 - 10pm: afterwork meetup for professionals and entrepreneurs. A relaxed environment to network, share ideas, and hear pitches from founders. The event includes presentations, music, food, and opportunities to expand business connections.
- ₿ MadBitcoin Meet up/ 7 - 9pm: community launch event features an introductory talk on Bitcoin’s fundamentals and its financial impact, a live recording of the first MadBitcoin podcast with a key industry expert, and networking opportunities for Bitcoin enthusiasts looking to build a strong community.
- 🌐 Global Macroeconomic and Geopolitical Open Discussion/ 9pm - 12am: monthly in-person open discussion focused on global macroeconomic and geopolitical topics, encouraging critical thinking and debate.
Friday, 13th
- 🎯 Aumenta la Conversión de tus Ventas y Mejora la Atención al Cliente/ 9.30am - 12.00pm: teaching how to optimize customer interactions to boost sales conversion and improve customer service. Learn practical strategies, key tools, and success stories for business growth through better marketing, sales, and customer support.
- 🍺 Hyperliquid & Beers/ 4 - 6pm: casual meetup to discuss Hyperliquid, a leading decentralized exchange (DEX). Expect informal talks about decentralized trading, real use cases, strategies, and networking with DeFi enthusiasts while enjoying beers in a relaxed atmosphere.
- 🔀 Madrid Tech Mixer and Social (Tech / AI / Data)/ 5.30 - 8.30pm: weekly tech mixer and social gathering for professionals in tech, AI, and data, offering afterwork drinks and networking opportunities to connect, share ideas, explore jobs, and stay updated on industry trends in a relaxed environment.
- 🗣 Club de la oratoria/ 7 - 8.30pm: a collaborative learning experience focused on public speaking, featuring group dynamics, member participation, and feedback to enhance communication skills and emotional connection with the audience.
Saturday, 14th
- 📸 Photo Walk Madrid - La Latina/ 6 - 8pm: walking meetup for photography enthusiasts organized by the Take a Photo Walk, a community-based startup from Barcelona to connect photo lovers and content creators around the world.
Sunday, 15th
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Upcoming Events
- 🏛️ Cervecívica - Gastropolítica: ¿Cómo se cocinan las leyes?, June 16th
- 🔗 Kraken Meetup Madrid, June 16th
- 🤯 En la Mente de una CISO, June 17th
- 💬 Say It Right: Crafting the Winning Pitch, June 18th
- ₿ MERGE Madrid - Community Meetup, June 18th
- 🚀 Founders Live Madrid, June 18th
- 📈 CryptoDays - Build Your Career in Web3 – Storytelling Sessions, June 19th
- 🔮 FUTURΞALITY – Realidades Extendidas & Tecnología Inmersiva, June 24th
- 🤖 The Madrid AI Conference 2025, June 25th
Bi-weekly Business Book 📚
Million Dollar Weekend: The Surprisingly Simple Way to Launch a 7-Figure Business in 48 Hours (English version, Spanish Version)
by Noah Kagan, a serial entrepreneur, early Facebook and Mint employee, and founder of AppSumo, known for teaching practical, fast-paced business-building strategies.*
- What: a short and simple read about how to start a business, full of examples and practical challenges. Of course, don't expect magic: you won't build a complete business in a weekend, BUT you can ideate and start one in 48 hours. Noah explains the principles to keep in mind, starting with getting paid by manually doing tasks and slowly automating that into a product, instead of investing resources into building something wonderful that, in the end, nobody wants. See this blog post with Tim Ferriss if you want to get an idea.
- It's for you if: you are an inspiring entrepreneur getting started with your business idea, or want to understand the basic concepts behind building and running a business.
- Key takeaways:
- Don’t wait for perfect conditions or complete certainty to start; just start, and adjust your trajectory along the way.
- Keep it simple: find a way to get money for a product or service solving a real problem first, and get fancy building stuff later.
- The more you ask, the more opportunities you can open. Be comfortable with rejection: you have nothing to lose.
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