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Week 13 // 23 to 29 March
Hola, Madrileños! Qué pasa this week in Madrid?
Monday, 23
- 🤝 Liderazgo en Acción: Experiencias y Perspectivas de WITH/ 4 - 8.30pm: session sharing practical perspectives on how leadership is changing across AI, self-leadership, sustainability, autonomous work, re-skilling, and wellbeing, with senior leaders from frog (Capgemini), Mentiness, Talengo, Shakers, and Grup Montaner.
Tuesday, 24
- 📲 Convivencia Digital e IA/ 9am - 2pm: session on how AI, algorithms, and social platforms are changing work, communication, public opinion, and everyday digital habits, with practical discussion on responsible technology use and digital wellbeing.
- 📉 El Coste Real de Implantar IA: de Recortar Minutos a Crear Valor/ 9.30 - 11.30am: learn the real operational costs of adopting AI in the legal sector, including process redesign, data governance, team adoption, result validation, and continuous training needed to generate measurable business value.
- 💰 Taller | Financiación inteligente 360º/ 10am - 12pm: practical workshop for founders, researchers, and companies on how to fund innovation projects through public grants, private capital, technology transfer support, and other startup financing routes.
- 🤝 Coworking Tuesdays with Guiris de Mierda/ 10am - 1.30pm: join the Golden Guiri community and co-work in a shared environment for focused time and new connections.
- 📈 Emprender desde tu Profesión: Detectar Oportunidades y Activar Ideas/ 10am - 2pm: hands-on workshop, led by a Madrid Emprende trainer, for people exploring entrepreneurship through their existing profession, focused on spotting real opportunities, shaping ideas into viable projects, and communicating them clearly enough to take a first step.
- 🤖 Comida de Networking: Conexiones Reales en la Era de la IA/ 1.30 - 4pm: learn how AI affects daily work and relationships through guided interaction exercises, a talk on practical AI impacts, and group discussion designed to help apply AI concepts to real professional situations.
- 💻 Empieza a Usar Git en tu Proyecto WordPress/ 6.30 - 9pm: practical session for WordPress developers, companies, and freelancers on using Git to replace messy file versioning with proper source control, starting from the basics.
- ☕ Café con Ethichubbers/ 7 - 9pm: community meetup for people interested in impact tech, Web3, blockchain, regenerative finance, sustainability, and specialty coffee, with updates from the EthicHub ecosystem and open discussion around purpose-driven technology.
- ⚡ Lightning Talks #44 @ Maria Pandora/ 7.10 - 9.10pm: listen to 5–6 short presentations on diverse topics, each followed by questions, allowing you to explore new ideas across fields such as technology, psychology, and philosophy.
Wednesday, 25
- 🔒 WTM | Dos Visiones de Tecnología: Ciberseguridad y Accesibilidad/ 6.30 - 9pm: dual-session meetup by Women Techmakers Madrid (WTM) and Google Developers Group for web and security professionals on building genuinely accessible interfaces and understanding how AI is making phishing, fraud, and automated attacks more sophisticated.
- 🚀 Construyendo Sin Filtros #11 - De Ejecutiva a Founder/ 6.30 - 9.30pm: Startup Grind is back with another event 'without filters', where you'll hear stories on how professionals transitioned from corporate roles at Pleo and El Ganso to founding companies as entrepreneurs.
- 🗣️ Public Speaking Club – The Key Elements of a Speech/ 7 - 9pm: learn how to structure a message so it is clear, persuasive, and easier for an audience to follow and remember. The session is led by a university professor and focuses on the six core elements of an effective speech and their use in real-world situations.
- 💬 Deep Chats: Who Are You Becoming?/ 7 - 10pm: guided conversation night for people who want more thoughtful discussions around identity, personal growth, and the question of who they are becoming, using storytelling, prompts, and group dialogue instead of standard small talk.
- 🌟 Madrid Tech Stories/ 8 - 10pm: share and hear personal career stories from the Madrid tech community, ranging from first coding experiences to major career pivots, with structured storytelling rounds and Q&A to highlight lessons and insights from diverse tech journeys.
Thursday, 26
- ☕ Climate Coffee - Madrid/ 8.30 - 10.30am: monthly coffee meet up for anyone working in or interested in the impact and climate spaces.
- 🎤 Comunica y Convence: Como Presentar un Pitch Ganador/ 4 - 8pm: practical workshop on how to present ideas clearly to investors, clients, partners, or internal stakeholders, with a focus on what makes a pitch credible, easy to follow, and persuasive.
- 💭 Burbujas & IA/ 5 - 7pm: session for business owners and company partners who want to understand how to apply AI to improve efficiency, decision-making, and new business opportunities without technical jargon, hosted by a TEDx speaker.
- 🏷️ Brand Training: A Contracorriente/ 5 - 8pm: talk for entrepreneurs and professionals by Crescendo Impulsa about backing your own ideas and moving forward without second-guessing, built around unfiltered lessons from a successful business founder.
- 📊 Database Upgrade with Terraform on AWS/ 6 - 8pm: hands-on cloud engineering session for DevOps, platform, and security professionals on managing AWS database upgrades with Terraform in a controlled and repeatable way, including version planning, backups, snapshots, rollback, maintenance windows, and coordination with dependent applications.
- 👥 Recursos Humanos en la Era Post-IA/ 6.30 - 8.30pm: discussion for HR professionals on what will actually change in people teams after the AI wave, with a focus on how roles, priorities, and decision-making are evolving.
- 📱 The Art of Product Alignment/ 6.30 - 9.30pm: roundtable for product, UX, design, and development professionals on aligning stakeholders, turning research and metrics into product decisions, and making cross-functional teams work better in complex organizations, with practical perspectives from a Product Designer at Revolut, a former Senior Creative and Product Designer at Alibaba Group and other guests.
- 📦 AI+eCommerce by Clairo + Cañas y Tapas/ 6.30 - 10.30pm: discussion on how AI is actually being used to build, run, and scale online businesses, with a focus on automation, SEO, growth, content production, and operational use cases that already work.
- 🔥 The CEO´s Diary with Cremma/ 7 - 9pm: interview-style session with the founder of Cremma, a Cordon Bleu-trained pastry chef, telling her lessons on building and scaling a consumer brand, making difficult decisions, and handling common founder challenges such as hiring, investors, and work-life balance.
- 💻 LlmComposer: Construyendo Apps con LLMs en Elixir/ 7 - 9pm: technical session for Elixir developers on building LLM-powered applications with a single library that unifies multiple providers while handling real production concerns such as streaming, tool calling, structured outputs, routing, fallback, and cost control.
Friday, 27
- ☕ Digital Workers & Creators: Friday Coffee & Connections/ 2 - 4pm: informal meetup by Madrid Marketing Club for freelancers, digital marketers, remote workers, and people interested in the digital space to exchange what they are working on and share ideas with colleagues from the local marketing and creator community.
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, 28
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Sunday, 29
Madrid Tech Brunch/ 12 - 2pm: recurring informal meetup for Tech professionals and enthusiasts to discuss topics in small groups, like industry trends, career growth, tools, AI, and productivity. The format includes a short introduction round and rotating discussions to join focused conversations with different people.
Upcoming Events
Tuesday, 31 March
- 🎤 Open Mic Storytelling #31 - "Mischief"/ 7 - 9pm
Wednesday, 1 April
Tuesday, 7 April
- 🔒 Empresa Protegida Frente a Ciberataques: Claves de ISO 27001 y ENS/ 10 - 11am
- 🗣 Pitch Tank: Comunica tu Idea Emprendedora/ 12 - 2pm
- ⚡ Lightning Talks #45 @ Maria Pandora/ 7.10 - 9.10pm
Wednesday, 8 April
- 🚀 Startup Mentorship Program - Build, Fund & Scale/ 5 - 6pm
- 💰 Tips Para Ahorrar en la Declaración de la Renta/ 5 - 7pm
Thursday, 9 April
- 🔥 Del Concepto al MVP: Crea y Valida Productos con Herramientas NoCode/ 10.30am - 2.30pm
- 🤖 Machaca a tu Competencia: Cómo Aplicar IA en tu Empresa/ 5 - 7pm
- ☕ Café y Ciberseguridad: Protégete del Fraude en la Era de la IA/ 5 - 7pm
- 💜 BETA DASH × Lovable × CUNEF/ 6 - 9pm
- 💪 Google Technologies Workshop & Networking Evening/ 6 - 9pm
- 📊 Systems & Soul: From Chaotic Data to Inclusive Design/ 6.45 - 8.45pm
Friday, 10 April
- 1️⃣ Enseñando a Pensar a Robots (1/3): El Hardware/ 1.30 - 3pm
Saturday, 11 April
- 🤓 1-Hour Reading Rave/ 12.45 - 2pm
- 🟢 Otro Puto Mercadillo 70º/ 4 - 9pm
Monday, 13 April
- 🤝 Business Networking | PNM - Rooftop Edition/ 7 - 11pm
Tuesday, 14 April
- ☕ Coffee Break | Finanzas y Poder con el CEO de Embat/ 12 - 2pm
- ⚛️ Fujitsu en Computación Cuántica: Roadmap y Casos de Éxito/ 6 - 8pm
- 🎤 Open Mic Storytelling #32 - "Before Sunrise"/ 7 - 9pm
Wednesday, 15 April
- 📊 Microsoft - Fabric Analyst in a Day/ 9am - 5pm
- ⚙️ Recursive LM - Cuando el Contexto se Convierte en un Problema de Sistemas/ 7 - 9pm
Friday, 17 April
- 2️⃣ Enseñando a Pensar a Robots (2/3): Reinforcement Learning/ 1.30 - 3pm
Thursday, 23 April
Friday, 24 April
- 3️⃣ Enseñando a Pensar a Robots (3/3): Simulación y Competición/ 1.30 - 3pm
Good Books I'm Reading 📚
- Source Code (Código Fuente). This is the biography of Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, who doesn't need any further introduction. Well, I recommend it if you particularly like biographies; however, just be aware that the first half of the book tells mainly about his infancy, adventures, family and friends' stories, etc., and only towards the end it briefly explains Microsoft's beginnings, so you won't find a story of the company's growth. What is interesting is to understand the unique context of tech transformation in which Bill Gates grew up, how he dedicated endless hours to programming challenges, and how he started selling code when paid software wasn't even a thing. By the way, if you also like smaller pocket editions, I found one at my favourite English library in Madrid: Pasajes.
- What's Stopping You, where Timothy Armoo, the founder of the marketing agency Fanbytes, talks about his biggest lessons in business accumulated over his career as an entrepreneur. An easy and pleasant book to read; I also recently made a LinkedIn post with my biggest takeaways, with inspiring points that I haven't found in other personal development books yet.
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Disclaimer: Qué Pasa en Madrid is not responsible for the events included in the present email. Informational purpose only. Issue #67 (22.03.26)
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