A new annual, inspiring, and cross-disciplinary initiative celebrating Barcelona’s creative talent under the Inspired in Barcelona brand. 💡✨

Over two days, the city will become a living stage for creativity, featuring informal conversations between local leaders and their guests. A unique opportunity to discover and experience our city’s creative ecosystem.

What to expect:
📍 10 iconic locations across BCN.
🎙️ 10 inspiring conversations.
🎨 10 fields: Music, Communication, Publishing, Video Games, Fashion, Craftsmanship, Gastronomy, Entrepreneurship, Design & Spaces, and Design & Mobility.

📌 SAVE THE DATE: June 3rd & 4th.
The full programme and registration details will be shared soon.

Stay tuned!

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The #ComuniConf26 is here! Comunicae’s flagship corporate communications event is back… and this year it’s also in-person.

June 3rd
3 p.m.
Col·legi de Periodistes de Catalunya + online
100% free

After a first online edition with over 450 views, we’re back with a new edition designed to explore what’s happening (and where things are heading) in corporate communications.

If you work in communications, marketing, media, or digital reputation, this is an unmissable event.

In this second edition of #ComuniConf26, we bring together leading voices from the industry to discuss some of the big topics of 2026:

AI in communications: what works and what’s hype
Digital reputation as a business asset
Marketing and communications in SMEs
Communication amplifiers: video, social media, events, and influencers
Journalism, media, and truth in the age of AI

Featuring professionals and organizations such as Cristina Aced, Ismael Nafría, Dircom & ESADE, YouTube, Metricool, Expansión, Agencia EFE, 202 Digital Reputation, among others.

Three hours of conversations, trends, and practical insights on corporate communications.

And from 6 p.m.… networking, snacks, and drinks to keep the conversation going.

In the age of AI…
We still believe in in-person conversations.

See you there!

Bcorporate Day is an event designed to connect startups and corporates in an environment built to foster collaboration, innovation, and business opportunities.

The next edition will take place on May 29th at the BStartup Hub of Banc Sabadell in Barcelona, in collaboration with BStartup from Banco Sabadell and with Qonto as co-host. The event already has several previous editions — three in Madrid and one in Barcelona — and has become a key meeting point within the entrepreneurial ecosystem.

The agenda includes sessions on corporate venturing, a fishbowl discussion on corporate collaboration, a fireside chat on growth with VTEX (NYSE-listed), startup pitches, and a final networking session.

Previous editions of Bcorporate Day have brought together some of the leading players driving corporate innovation in the national ecosystem.

Participants have included major listed companies and IBEX 35 benchmarks such as Sacyr, Enagás, and Naturgy, as well as leading firms in consulting, investment, and corporate venturing like Deloitte, PwC, and Grant Thornton. International players such as AWS, NTT Data, Airbus, and Renault Group have also taken part.

Which solution will win the third edition of the Structured Finance Hackathon?

Every year, we bring together innovators and professionals from the structured finance world to build prototypes solving real challenges in the sector. This year introduces fresh challenges, some of which impact our daily lives – whether directly or indirectly.

Challenges are announced on 27 May. Developers have two weeks to build the best solution they can, then join us in Barcelona on 10 June!

Challenges

Challenges will be announced on 27 May!

Have a challenge to suggest? Reach out to get involved!

Timeline

Venue

Demo Day takes place at Torre Diagonal Zero in Barcelona.

Just a 1-minute walk from the Barcelona International Convention Centre (CCIB)

It’s the perfect spot to bring together builders, finance professionals, and capital markets innovators for a day of demos, pitches, and networking.

Remote participants **can demo their prototypes online.

Prizes

To be announced!

On Thursday, June 10, Tech Up Nights returns to the Pier01 rooftop! In its 20th edition, the event will feature technology use cases presented by Ikea and Skyscanner, followed by a networking session designed by and for tech professionals.

SPEAKERS & CONTENT

• Tackling Customer Frustration with Visual AI: A Corporate + Startup collaboration
  Returns are one of retail’s most costly and underestimated problems — for businesses and customers alike. Susanna Kamph, from Ingka Group (the largest retailer in the IKEA franchise system), shares an honest account of how a tangible customer and operational pain point led to a collaboration with a Visual AI startup. She will also cover the technology behind the solution and the unfiltered reality of making a collaboration between two very different organizations successful.
• Designing for the AI Era: How the trio model and AI first design systems  are transforming product development at Skyscanner
  As AI reshapes how digital products are built, teams need new ways to collaborate, align, and scale decisions across design, product, and engineering. In this talk, Raquel Machin, Product Design Lead at Skyscanner, will share how the company is evolving its ways of working through the trio model, visual thinking practices, and the evolution of its design system to prepare for an AI-driven future. Expect real examples, visual frameworks, and actionable insights on how to create faster alignment, better product decisions, and more human-centered experiences in rapidly evolving tech environments.

🍻 Beers included! There’s no better way to grow your network.

The event will be held in English. Register now!

PLEASE NOTE: Registration will remain open until 6:45 PM.

Right of admission reserved.

Tech Up Nights is an initiative created together with Ocado Technology to bring together Barcelona’s tech community. Our goal is to inspire you with high-quality content and offer an opportunity for open dialogue between technical attendees and tech speakers. We want to create a space where engineers, data scientists, UX specialists, software product managers, and similar profiles can share best practices and challenges, learn from mistakes, and solve doubts together.

You’re building your product and believing in success. But unfortunately, statistics are far less romantic than ambition. Whether you have already launched your product and spoken with investors, or you are just exploring a startup idea, join our event where we will discuss why 9 out of 10 startups fail — and how to avoid it.

​During the event, we’ll break down:

• ​5 systemic thinking mistakes that kill projects faster than a cash-flow crisis,

• ​The real reasons startups fail,

• ​A case of a successful startup that reached a $10 billion valuation and went public,

• ​How investors pick startups,

• ​Your startup cases and questions,

• ​Opportunities for non-dilutive funding.

​We hope this event will help you build your startup more successfully!

​About the speaker:
Denis Kalyshkin is the founder of Ask VC, an all-in-one ecosystem for startup founders, and a US VC with 12+ years of experience investing in vertical solutions and DeepTech. Denis holds two master’s degrees in aerospace engineering and finances.

​Date: May 28, 2026
Time: 6 PM
Location: Carrer de Rosa Sensat, 9–11, Sant Martí, Barcelona, Spain, Harbour.Space Institute of Technology

​See you next week!

At InnoIT Consulting, we are pleased to invite you to our next meetup together with SpainClouds, on Tuesday, June 9th at 18:30.

🎙️ Cloud and AI. In production

SUMMARY

We will be joined by:

Edu Borrego (Security Delivery Senior Analyst, Accenture)
Renato Terreros (Innovation Lead, CaixaBank Tech)
Joaquín Gamiz (Microsoft Security Expert, Softeng)

🎙️ Entitlements as Code: access governance for the cloud-native era (Edu Borrego)

Many companies already manage infrastructure as code, but access management still relies on manual processes and key individuals.

Edu will share how to apply cloud-native principles to identity management, permissions, and governance to build systems that are more traceable, auditable, and scalable.

🎙️ AI-ready context: preparing corporate knowledge for intelligent agents (Renato Terreros)

AI doesn’t fail due to lack of models, but due to lack of context.

Renato will talk about how to structure an organization’s internal knowledge so that agents, copilots, and AI solutions actually work in enterprise environments with control, traceability, and real adoption.

🎙️ Production security: automation and real defense in the cloud (Joaquín Gámiz)

Cloud security is not only about protection, but also about fast response and constant visibility.

Joaquín will share a practical perspective on automation, observability, and real defense in modern cloud environments.

After the talks, we’ll move on to networking, with food 🍕 and drinks 🍻.

👥 Want to bring someone? Feel free to share this invitation with your contacts, or click the “share” button at the bottom.

We look forward to seeing you!

DATE: Tuesday, June 9th at 18:30
LOCATION: InnoIT Consulting Offices, C/ Diputació, 280, Ground Floor 2ª, 08009, Barcelona
LANGUAGE: English

On May 23rd, get an inside look at the official LEINN degree (Entrepreneurial Leadership and Innovation) from Mondragon University and TeamLabs/.

The session is split into two parts:

1/ Discover LEINN — We’ll introduce the program and its methodology. You’ll also meet LEINN team coaches and current students (LEINNers), and have the chance to ask any questions you have.

2/ Experience LEINN — A hands-on activity designed to bring out your best using the same tools and approaches used in the program day to day. While you take part in the session, your guest will have time to connect with the coaches and continue the conversation.

In this session we’ll explore how to build a fully automated outbound engine, from trigger to sent email.

We’ll start from a CRM segment as the entry point and go through every layer of the system: cascading contact prospecting across multiple providers, ICP-based scoring so only qualified leads get through, AI-driven personalization based on real data (web, LinkedIn, recent news), and automatic enrollment into sequences with pre-written messaging.

We’ll also cover how to close the loop: automatic classification of replies back into the CRM and escalation of non-responses into call tasks for the sales team.

By the end, you’ll have a clear understanding of how this type of system works, the tools and decisions involved, and how to replicate it within your own stack.

45 minutes. Free.

Important: the event will be held in English.

An exclusive breakfast for senior executives leading the transformation towards AI.

Join a roundtable in an intimate setting, featuring a dynamic exchange of ideas and high-level networking: a confidential environment to share experiences and connect with peers driving AI strategy from the top levels of their organizations — all over breakfast.

Previous editions have welcomed senior executives and board members from Santander, Nestlé, AstraZeneca, HP, and other leading companies.

This breakfast is hosted by Dr. Raoul-Gabriel Urma, Founder and CEO of Cambridge Spark, to introduce the AI Leaders Bootcamp — Barcelona’s leading executive program for leaders driving AI adoption within their organizations.

Places are strictly limited. Attendance is subject to approval.

Location: Barcelona city centre; full address will be shared upon approval.