Qué Pasa en Madrid
Your weekly newsletter with Business & Tech events in Madrid.
Week 39 // 22 to 28 September
Hola, Madrileños! Qué pasa this week in Madrid?
Monday, 22
- 🌐 De La Incertidumbre A La Ventaja: Inteligencia Anticipatoria Para Proteger Tu Expansión Internacional/ 9.30am - 12.30pm: session showing companies how to anticipate global risks, avoid costly disruptions, and make smarter international expansion decisions using tools like early warning checklists, regulatory correlation analysis, and intelligence reports.
Tuesday, 23
- ❄️ Snowflake Experience: Essentials | Workshop presencial/ 10am - 12pm: practical workshop on the essentials of Snowflake, covering its interface, key features, and marketplace tools while providing hands-on exercises with expert support.
- 👩 FinTech Women Network/ 10am - 2pm: discussing women’s leadership, mental wellbeing, financial education, gender perspectives in fintech, and the intersection of technology and equality, with the collaboration of PayPal.
- 💻 Jornada Triple Código: Shock, Aorta y TEP/ 10am - 1.45pm: conference focused on emergency cardiovascular care, addressing protocols and real cases related to shock, aortic emergencies, and pulmonary embolism.
- 🤓 Liderar Sin Improvisar: 6 Ciencias del Talento que Construyen Tu Forma de Emprender/ 6.30 - 8pm: session exploring six key sciences of talent that influence how entrepreneurs lead, decide, and build their projects, with tools to avoid common startup mistakes and strengthen leadership.
- 🔥 Fuckup Nights (Vol. XVIII)/ 6.30 - 9.30pm: 18th edition of this event where speakers can openly share their professional failures, from failed businesses to bad partnerships, in an engaging and honest format.
- ⚡ Lightning Talks #33 @ Maria Pandora/ 7.10 - 9pm: a series of short, five-minute talks on diverse topics, each followed by audience questions, creating an engaging mix of ideas and discussions.
Wednesday, 24
- 🤖 Presentación Horizon Deep Tech Summit 2025/ 11am - 1.30pm: presentation introducing disruptive technologies such as quantum computing, AI, space tech, energy, and biotechnology.
- 🆆 Meetup WordPress | La magia de los GPTs adaptados/ 6.30 - 8.30pm: meetup exploring how customized GPTs can be integrated into WordPress to create practical assistants without coding.
- 🙋🏻♀️ Women in Tech Madrid | Taller de empleo/ 6.30 - 9pm: workshop at the Google for Startups Campus designed to support women in tech navigating the job market, offering an interactive session about recruitment, hiring processes, and career challenges.
- </> BrowserStack QA Meetup/ 6.30 - 9pm: meetup bringing Quality Assurance (QA) professionals together for a talk on the evolution of quality assurance from gatekeeping to enabling, followed by open discussion and networking.
- 🚀 Women4Cyber Startup School/ 6.30 - 9.30pm: event gathering startups from the Women4Cyber program, mentors, investors, and experts to share successes, discuss challenges, and foster female entrepreneurship in cybersecurity.
- 💡 ¿Tienes lo que Hace Falta para Liderar el Marketing con IA?/ 7 - 9pm: masterclass on the emerging role of “Vibe Marketers” and how AI, automation, and MarTech are transforming marketing.
- 𝐑 Reunión Grupo de R/ 7 - 9pm: session introduces tidymodels, a set of R (programming language) packages designed for building high-quality predictive models in statistics and machine learning, following the tidyverse philosophy.
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Thursday, 25
- ☕ Climate Coffee Madrid/ 8.30 - 10.30am: monthly meetup for anyone interested in climate impact, climate tech, and impact investing, offering a space for founders, investors, and professionals to connect and discuss projects in both English and Spanish.
- 👨💼 People Talks - ¿Por qué se van nuestros empleados?/ 9 - 11am: bringing together experienced leaders from various industries to explore the real reasons employees leave companies and share practical strategies for improving talent retention.
- 🤖 Microsoft - Copilot & Agents Summit/ 9am - 2pm: summit on AI and agent-based solutions, discussing how they are transforming business operations across finance, sales, marketing, and HR - including Copilot and other low-code workflows in action.
- 😬 AI, Other Disruptive Technologies and The Law/ 9am - 8pm (1/2): conference exploring the legal and ethical implications of AI and other disruptive technologies, including blockchain, quantum computing, and IoT.
- 🚗 Transformación Digital de la Movilidad/ 9.30am - 1pm: bringing together public authorities, companies, and research centers to discuss the digital transformation of mobility, focusing on sustainable, safe, and citizen-centered urban transportation.
- 🤖 IA y Talento: Multiplica la Productividad/ 9.45am - 12pm: introduces the Online AI School for Companies, showcasing how AI is transforming productivity and workforce training, with sessions led by experts from Prosegur, Mioti, isEazy, and Telefonica.
- 📊 Potencia la Experiencia del Cliente en el Día a Día con HubSpot y Ringover/ 10am - 1.30pm: demonstrating how to improve customer experience using HubSpot and Ringover, with practical tips to increase engagement and satisfaction while providing actionable strategies for business growth.
- 🔥 Microsoft Fabric Day | El poder del Dato en la Era de la IA/ 10am - 2pm: exploring how intelligent data management drives innovation in the AI era, with insights, best practices, and practical guidance on using Microsoft Fabric for cloud, data governance, and AI solutions.
- 💬 Aprende a Hablar con los Medios de Comunicación/ 4 - 6pm: practical workshop empowering women to communicate their projects effectively with the media, offering guidance on message crafting, interview techniques, media mapping, and social media strategies, along with hands-on practice.
- 🛑 Club Empresarios de Madrid y Banco Santander/ 5 - 7pm: business networking event at Work Café Santander designed to connect entrepreneurs and company leaders, offering sessions on growth, innovation, and topics like fiscal optimization and regional business strategies.
- 🤝 Innobar: Talento para Startups (Empleo y Creación de Equipos)/ 6 - 8.30pm: startup-focused event exploring strategies to attract, retain, and manage top talent, with talks on building scalable teams and engaging employees in dynamic environments.
- 🎯 Conocer, Conectar y Comunicar lo que la IA no Puede Hacer por tu Marca Personal/ 6.30 - 8pm: hands-on workshop on building a strong personal brand, focusing on authentic communication, self-awareness, and meaningful connections that AI cannot replicate.
- 💻 Acelera tu Productividad con VS Code y GitHub Copilot - Workshop/ 6.30 - 8pm: learn how to boost your development productivity using Visual Studio Code and GitHub Copilot, featuring hands-on exercises, expert guidance from a Microsoft MVP, and networking with other local developers.
- 🔄 Jira - Cómo Controlar Planificado vs Realizado/ 6.30 - 8.30pm: demonstrating how to track and analyze team performance in Jira using ActivityTimeline, focusing on comparing planned versus actual work and optimizing capacity management for more efficient project execution.
- 📱 Repensando el Certificate Pinning en Aplicaciones Móviles y de Escritorio/ 6.30 - 10pm: event with Google Developer Groups exploring common issues with traditional SSL pinning in mobile and desktop applications and presents how TrustPin, following OWASP guidelines, enables more secure pinning without downtime or user disruption.
- 🌐 Global Elixir Meetups: 1. Journey to a Better Elixir Experience/ 7 - 9.30pm: talk on improving developer experience with Elixir at Cabify, covering code organization, DDD, testing, and simplification, followed by an open-slot talk, networking, and drink
- 📚 Book Club: Antifragile by Nassim Taleb/ 9pm - 12am: book club session discusses Nassim Taleb’s Antifragile, exploring concepts of resilience, risk, and systems that benefit from disorder, fostering critical thinking and debate among participants.
Friday, 26
- 💰 Investors Day/ 5 - 8pm: event with the five finalist startups from a Web3 and tokenization program, with pitch presentations, expert talks on blockchain and tokenization, and insights into the future of digital assets in the Web3 ecosystem.
- 📈 Exploring the Future of AI and Multimodal Systems/ 6 - 9pm: expert talks at the Google for Startups Campus on AI, ML, and computer vision, covering multimodal models, semantic search, AI agent planning, and vision model optimization.
Saturday, 27
- ₿ Trading Real en Criptomonedas – Masterclass Gratuita/ 11am - 2pm: free masterclass teaching beginners how to trade cryptocurrencies safely and strategically, covering risk management, market analysis, and building consistent long-term profitability.
Sunday, 28
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Upcoming Events
- 🎤 Open Mic Storytelling #20 - "Almost..", September 30
- ☕️ Coffee Training Jornada VII, September 30
- 📊 Meetabase - Data, dashboards and vibes, September 30
- 🚀 Startup Grind AI Summit, October 1
- 🎯 Ahrefs Meetup, October 2
- 🍸Professional Networking & Drinks, October 6
- 🔴 Red Hat Summit: Connect 2025, October 9
- ❄️ Snowflake Forum, October 23
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- 24 assets: Create a digital, scalable, valuable, and fun business that will thrive in a fast-changing world. How to make your business worth more by focusing on creating valuable assets. Get the free PDF version (official website).
- Aquí no Hay Reglas, about Netflix’s culture that gives high freedom to employees, like unlimited vacations, unlimited travel budget, and similar.
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