• The content-driven event organized by the Tech Barcelona association and the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce surpasses 4,000 attendees, who filled the spaces of La Llotja de Mar over two days
• This sixth edition featured more than 150 speakers and 60 sessions, highlighting the importance of fostering homegrown, purpose-driven technology from Barcelona
• Shinephi, a startup developing technology to measure nanometric-scale structures in the semiconductor field, won the Catalan Pitch Competition organized by ACCIÓ, being named ‘Catalan Startup of the Year 2025’

Barcelona, December 11, 2025. Tech Spirit Barcelona, the city’s technology and digital content event, successfully concludes its sixth edition after bringing together more than 4,000 attendees at La Llotja de Mar. The initiative, driven by the Tech Barcelona association and co-organized with the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce, has reaffirmed itself as the annual meeting point for the city’s innovation ecosystem.

Over the two days, held on December 10 and 11, the program revolved around the central message of this edition: the need for Barcelona to promote technologies capable of strengthening its competitiveness while at the same time improving people’s lives. “We have seen how Barcelona can lead a future with its own technology—competitive and purpose-driven,” said Miguel Vicente, president of Tech Barcelona, at the close of the event, thanking all the companies and institutions involved for their support.

The program took a cross-cutting approach to debates on entrepreneurship, the advancement of artificial intelligence and its economic and ethical impacts, trends in public and private investment, the transfer of science to the market, and new creative approaches in a transforming digital environment. To this end, it brought together 65 entrepreneurs, 25 investors, around a dozen scientific profiles and another dozen creatives, as well as some twenty representatives from major companies such as Google, AWS, and HP, among others.

One of the most notable talks during the second day was delivered by David Sanmartín, co-founder of Nothing, a British unicorn that has sold more than 7 million devices and is on track to exceed €1 billion in revenue in 2025. In a conversation with Josep M. Ganyet (Mortensen), Sanmartín shared how differentiation has enabled the company to grow in a sector dominated by giants: “Nothing was born with the idea of making phones that are different, both in design and software; they show what’s essential, and AI takes care of simplifying the experience even further.”

Artificial intelligence once again played a central role. Diana Núñez (Clueless Agency) explained how it is possible to create virtual influencers with thousands of followers and explore new creative models; Gonzalo Romero (Google for Education) highlighted the value of AI as a “virtual assistant” in learning, while Jorge Juan Fernández (Hospital Clínic) and Pep Martorell (Invivo AI) did the same in the healthcare field; Andreas Merentitis (OLX) reminded attendees that “the companies that integrate AI now will define the new rules of the game”; and Yuval Dvir (SandboxAQ), from a more disruptive perspective, warned that “we are still unable to imagine the superhuman intelligence that artificial general intelligence (AGI) could represent.”

According to Cristian Canton, associate director of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, “AI will eventually become an infrastructure accessible to everyone, but we will need to invest millions of euros to reduce Europe’s current dependence on the United States.” In this vein, companies such as Aistech Space, Ideaded, Yplasma, Mitiga, Indra, and TRC, as well as research centers like i2CAT and Eurecat—all of them present during the event—are working from Barcelona to develop deep technologies that will enable greater sovereignty and competitiveness in global markets.