Qué Pasa en Madrid
Your weekly newsletter with Business & Tech events in Madrid.
Week 9 // 23 February to 1 March
Hola, Madrileños! Qué pasa this week in Madrid?
Monday, 23
- ✍️ Co-writing Madrid #57/ 6 - 8pm: structured group writing session, with a shared silent writing block followed by a brief discussion, open to any type of writing project.
- 🤖 Da el Salto a la IA y los Datos Desde Cero/ 7 - 8pm: career-focused session at The Valley about how professionals without a technical background can move into data and AI roles, with concrete examples of AI projects already deployed in large organizations. Led by a Data Director from Mapfre, and with examples from AI shifts at companies like Amazon, Accenture, and HP.
- 📚 Entre Líneas – Book Club/ 7 - 9pm: book club meeting at The Shed Coworking focused on sharing personal emotions and memories triggered by meaningful books rather than literary analysis, and concluding with a simple creative exercise linked to what participants shared.
Tuesday, 24
- 🇪🇸 Spainskills/ 10am - 8pm (1/5): exhibition with demonstrations and competitions of advanced training skills, positioning professional talent as a driver of productivity and applied innovation. Led by the Ministerio de Educación, Formación Profesional y Deportes, and connecting Spain’s vocational ecosystem with the international WorldSkills framework.
- 🛡️ SICUR 2026/ 10.30am - 5pm (1/4): trade fair bringing together professionals and providers across physical security, cybersecurity, fire and emergency response, and workplace safety, with a strong focus on applied technology and innovation.
- 🤝 Networking Madrid/ 1 - 3pm: networking session organized periodically by Connecting People, built around its proprietary 3C method to help participants connect over exercises in a structured, time-boxed setting.
- 🔎 Radiografía del Comprador Online Español/ 6 - 7pm: data-driven briefing on how Spanish consumers buy online, using insights from the IAB Spain annual ecommerce study and helping digital professionals understand current buyer behavior, habits, and trends to improve decision-making in ecommerce.
- 👩 Women in AI | IA Generativa en Healthcare/ 6.30 - 8.30pm: workshop examining how GenAI is being applied in healthcare today, with concrete use cases, ethical constraints, regulatory accountability, rather than theoretical promises, and examples from OpenAI and Google.
- 💬 Fireside Chat: El Nuevo Liderazgo Tecnológico/ 6.45 - 9pm: high-level discussion on emerging trends in applied AI with the Head of Technology at AWS Iberia. It focuses on topics like governance, multimodal systems, and strategies to improve customer engagement and operational efficiency for executive decision-makers.
- 👨💻 Convierte en un Superheroe con Claude Code/ 7 - 9pm: practical coding and productivity session hosted by Google Developers Group, with speakers from Globant and Deloitte. It focuses on applying GenAI, software architecture best practices, and tools to improve project efficiency and execution quality.
- 📚 Offline Reading Party/ 7 - 9.30pm: being too much online? Join this casual reading and social event by The Offline Club, designed to disconnect from screens, enjoy focused reading, and optionally swap books.
- 💰 MDZ Meetup | Baby VC/ 7.30 - 9pm: meetup by baby vc to connect emerging talents with venture capitalists (VCs), investors and entrepreneurs through networking, learning about venture capital, and sharing details of the upcoming bootcamps in Spain and Portugal.
Wednesday, 25
- 📈 De Oficio a Negocio: Modelos de Emprendimiento/ 9am - 1pm: workshop for professionals and freelancers to transform their trade into a sustainable business, covering business models, value proposition, market analysis, pricing, marketing, and financial management with a 30-day action plan.
- 🔥 CryptoDays by La Familia - Web3 Meetup/ 5.30 - 8pm: CryptoDays is back in Madrid, launching a 4-month Solana-focused meetup series for Spanish-speaking founders, developers, and enthusiasts. This event includes ecosystem updates from La Familia and showcases local projects, with support from Nifty Club, CriptoTendencias, and Ibiza Tech Forum.
- 💥 Construyendo Sin Filtros: De Corporate a Founder/ 6 - 9pm: former executives from Google, Meta, and TikTok discuss how they turned their corporate experience into startups using AI to improve tech hiring and B2B sales efficiency. Learn which Big Tech skills are most useful for entrepreneurship and how AI automates key business processes.
- 💰 Cómo Preparar y Negociar una Ronda de Inversión con Éxito/ 6.30 - 7.30pm: session with lawyers on how to prepare and negotiate investment rounds, covering key documents, investment instruments like SAFE notes and convertible loans, and negotiable terms in term sheets.
- 🔜 Future Readiness: Cómo Poner a Prueba un Modelo de Negocio/ 6.30 - 8pm: workshop guiding founders and builders through testing a real business model under market, pricing, competition, and operational pressures, led by a consultant with experience at ING, eBay, Coca-Cola, and Toyota.
- 📊 Datadog User Group/ 6.30 - 8.30pm: presenting experiences using Datadog from engineers, with examples on monitoring, observability, and implementing it in real-world projects.
- 🥦 Tu Media Alcachofa Laboral: Cómo Hacer Match con tu Próximo Trabajo/ 6.45 - 9.30pm: event providing practical guidance for students, junior professionals, and career changers on evaluating company fit, navigating tech job market changes, and making strategic career decisions.
- 🗣 Club de Oratoria: Improvisación para Discursos con Técnicas Teatrales/ 7 - 9pm: training for professionals with theatrical and improvisation techniques to improve public speaking, presence, and mental agility during unplanned presentations or meetings.
- 📚 Booksellers of Madrid: A Roundtable for Readers and Writers/ 7.30 - 9.30pm: roundtable with independent booksellers to explore how books reach shelves, the role of indie bookstores in promoting diverse voices, and their impact on writers outside major publishing channels.
Thursday, 26
- ☕ Climate Coffee/ 8.30 - 10.30am: monthly coffee meet up for anyone working in or interested in the impact and climate spaces.
- 🏦 FinTech Worldwide: The Intercontinental Future of the Sector/ 10am - 12.30pm: conference on emerging trends in the EU FinTech sector, cross-border growth, and key drivers, with international leaders from N26, Binance, PayPal, and Mastercard.
- 📍 Historias que Cruzan Fronteras: Emprender Lejos de Casa/ 12 - 2pm: session exploring entrepreneurship from the perspective of migrants, highlighting challenges, community-building, and cultural diversity as drivers of innovation.
- 🚀 De Carabanchel al Top 50: Coffee Break con STAMP/ 12 - 2pm: hear the story of STAMP, a fintech startup using blockchain to streamline Europe-wide VAT refund processes, recognized as one of Spain’s 50 most innovative startups and awarded the 2024 Expansión fintech startup prize.
- 📈 Impulsa PYME 2026: Ética y Seguridad en la Era de la IA/ 5 - 8.30pm: panel on AI ethics and security, covering emerging risks, data protection, social impact, ethical dilemmas, intellectual property, and legal frameworks for responsible AI use in businesses.
- 📊 Escalando Soluciones de Observabilidad con el Ecosistema de VictoriaMetrics/ 6 - 8pm: talk on scaling observability solutions using VictoriaMetrics, presented by the Product Lead and covering open-source and enterprise options, integration with Grafana and OpenTelemetry, and best practices for expanding from small setups to large cluster deployments.
- 🎯 The CEO´s Diary with Cerclé Studio/ 7 - 9pm: presenting the story of the creation and scaling of Cerclé Studio, a women-focused fitness and movement community, covering investor relations, hiring, work-life balance, and other entrepreneurial challenges.
- 💸 Compran Empresas sin Poner un Euro: Así lo Hacen/ 7.30 - 9.30pm: session on private acquisitions led by two entrepreneurs explaining how they acquired automotive workshops without using their own capital, covering seller financing, bank requirements, negotiation strategies, and mistakes to avoid when buying an existing business.
Friday, 27
- 💻 Diverger: El fin de la Programación Tradicional/ 4 - 6pm: the Spanish tech consultancy Diverger presents how agents and GenAI are transforming software development, detailing their growth from 0 to 100+ employees in two years.
- 🔗 Curso Programación Blockchain No-EVM/ 4 - 8pm: free half-day course on Non-EVM blockchain programming, covering wallet creation, token and NFT management, smart contracts, and consensus mechanisms. The course is aimed at beginners, developers exploring alternatives to EVM, and technical entrepreneurs
Saturday, 28
- 🎨 Cómo Invertir en Arte | Una Mañana de Arte/ 12 - 2pm: learn how to evaluate artwork, identify emerging artists, and navigate the art market for collectors with any budget.
Sunday, 1
- 📵 Offline Hangout | Bastardo Hostel/ 10.30am - 1.30pm: another relaxed, tech-free event by The Offline Club to enjoy some time to work on personal hobbies or projects, network and meet like-minded people, and disconnect from digital distractions for deeper concentration.
Upcoming Events
Monday, 2 March
- 🍹 Business Networking (Emprendedores, Freelancers, Autónomos)/ 7 - 11pm
- 👨💻 DevMad! Talks/ 6.30 - 8.30pm
Wednesday, 4 March
- 📉 Salir de Compras en Época de Crisis: Oportunidad para el Comprador, Solución para el Vendedor/ 9 - 11.30am
- 🤖 Agentic Apps con Gemini en Flutter/ 7 - 9.30pm
Thursday, 5 March
- 🔥 Think, Build, Launch: Convierte tu Idea en un Emprendimiento/ 10am - 2.30pm
- 🤖 Modern kdb+ Deployments and Deep Learning/ 6.20 - 8.20pm
- 🍻 #AdminBirras/ 7 - 10pm
Friday, 6 March
- 🤖 Diseño de Plataformas Agénticas/ 6 - 8pm
- 🌐 March Global Macroeconomic and Geopolitical Open Discussion/ 9pm - 12am
- 🔁 AWS reCap/ 6 - 9pm
Good Books I'm Reading 📚
- The Money Trap. Alok Sama, ex-Morgan Stanley banker, tells the story of how he became CFO of SoftBank (a massive Japanese conglomerate dominating Tech investments worldwide), diving into tech trends and bubbles, and telling inside stories about billion-dollar deals with multiple startups, including investments in companies like Uber and WeWork. It's a full-immersion into Tech-related investment banking, narrated via the author's unique and fun way of explaining things - for sure not your average read. Bonus point: despite Alok's impressive career, he still finds the time to reply to LinkedIn connection requests:
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Disclaimer: Qué Pasa en Madrid is not responsible for the events included in the present email. Informational purpose only. Issue #63 (22.02.26)
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