The Cabildo of Tenerife and Cadena SER will host a meeting in Barcelona on 9 October to explore the opportunities Tenerife offers for the development of business and innovative projects in strategic sectors such as aerospace, telecommunications and renewable energy.

The session will bring together institutional representatives, experts and companies from Tenerife and Catalonia to share experiences, identify opportunities for collaboration and connect both business and technology ecosystems.

During the event, participants will learn about the capabilities, infrastructure and projects positioning Tenerife as a territory of opportunity for innovation and investment. The programme will include a conversation with representatives from the Cabildo of Tenerife and a panel of local experts from Cellnex, MWCapital and Incotec, a consultancy specialising in innovation incentives for companies.

The event will conclude with a networking session, designed to facilitate direct connections between companies, institutions and professionals.

📅 Date: 9 October 2026
📍 Location: Cadena SER Studios, Barcelona
🕘 Time: 9:30 – 11:10 a.m.

The session will be closed-door and Cadena SER will subsequently share the most relevant content from the event.

Due to limited capacity, attendance must be confirmed in advance at TenerifeOportunidades@romanrm.com.

The Ajuntament de Barcelona, through the Directorate of Trade, Food and Catering Services, together with Barcelona Activa and Fundació Barcelona Innova, is launching a new call for grants for urban innovation projects as part of the European Capital of Local Commerce 2026 initiative.

The call seeks innovative solutions that contribute to improving the competitiveness and sustainability of local commerce in Barcelona.

The call has a total budget of €200,000 and will fund up to 4 projects, with a maximum grant of €50,000 per project, equivalent to up to 80% of the total project budget.

Proposals must demonstrate a strong innovative component, tangible impact, potential for replication and scalability, as well as include pilots or tests in real-world environments.

Areas of action:

• Digitalisation, new technologies and the strategic use of data to improve local commerce.
• Adapting and transforming commerce in response to new consumer habits and urban life.
• Urban logistics, mobility and goods and retail distribution networks.

The call is open to startups, companies, cooperatives, universities, research and innovation centres and other organisations, as well as consortia made up of different stakeholders from the innovation ecosystem.

Applications are open from 16 September to 15 October 2026. Following an initial evaluation phase, the 10 highest-scoring applications will be selected to move on to a second phase, after which the projects receiving funding to develop their pilots in the city will be chosen.

More information and applications

The event will bring together students, professionals, and representatives from startups, companies, funds, and social organizations. Its aim is to help people facing a professional decision better understand the different career paths linked to impact. The program, which will be mainly held in English, will include:

• Reverse Pitches, offering a direct insight into how different types of organizations work and what skills they require.
• Career Roundtables, in small groups of up to eight people.
• Career Labs, with practical tools to navigate professional decisions.
• A final space for exchange and networking with professionals and organizations from the ecosystem.

What does it take to thrive as a founder, not just build a successful venture?

Building a venture can be deeply rewarding, but it also comes with uncertainty, pressure, setbacks, difficult decisions, and emotional demands. Expect research-backed insights, real founder experiences, practical takeaways, and an open conversation with the entrepreneurial ecosystem.

For the fourth edition of Promoting Entrepreneurship: Lessons Learnt from Research, the Esade Entrepreneurship Institute brings research and practice together to explore an increasingly important topic: founders’ wellbeing.

The session will be led by Professor Annelore Huyghe from the Esade Entrepreneurship Institute, who will share research-backed insights into:

• What puts founders’ psychological and emotional wellbeing under pressure.

• How wellbeing affects decision-making, leadership, and venture development.

• How founders navigate setbacks, uncertainty, and persistent adversity.

• What investors, accelerators, and other ecosystem actors can do differently.

• How we can create healthier and more sustainable entrepreneurial journeys.

Following the presentation, Annelore will be joined by Marta Gràcia Vilar, CEO of Cloudworks, and other invited guests for a round-table discussion connecting the research with real experiences from the entrepreneurial ecosystem.

The evening will conclude with networking and an opportunity to connect with founders, researchers, investors, and other ecosystem professionals.

Agenda

• Welcome and introduction

• Research insights

• Round-table discussion

• Networking

📅 13 October 2026
📍 Cloudworks Sagrada Família, Barcelona

This event is hosted together with Cloudworks and forms part of Barcelona4Impact, the city-wide initiative bringing together events focused on impact, entrepreneurship, and solutions for people and the planet.

Places are limited. Register to secure your spot!

Shape your ideas with the free TaleS programme. If you’re over 50 and want to develop a new project, reinvent yourself professionally, or expand your network, the TaleS programme is for you.

This initiative by CISE and Fundación Mapfre offers practical training, mentoring, and the opportunity to compete for national prizes of up to €2,000. You don’t need to have a defined business idea—just the desire to keep making a contribution.

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What does it take to lead technology on a global scale?

Sergio Gago started founding companies at the age of 20 in Valladolid. Today, he is CTO of Cloudera, one of the world’s largest data platforms and one of Spain’s most internationally recognized tech leaders.

Have a question for Sergio Gago? Send it to us through the registration form.

Gago will sit down with an interviewer on stage for a Fireside Chat exploring not only the theory behind AI, but what is actually happening inside companies trying to deploy it in the real world.

• AI in production: the difference between experimenting with AI and turning it into real infrastructure. Why so many projects remain stuck at the prototype stage.
• Data governance: without well-governed data, AI agents become a risk rather than an advantage.
• Frankenstein platforms: the hidden cost of accumulating tools without a coherent architecture.
• AI agents: what they promise, where they fail, and how to deploy them without losing control.
• Private AI & technological sovereignty: what it really means to control your model — what data goes in, where it runs, and how to change it without rebuilding everything.
• Quantum Computing: when it will become relevant for businesses and which sectors are likely to see real-world impact first.
• The role of the CTO: what CEOs need to understand about technology today and the mistakes leadership teams make.

An event designed for decision-makers, not just those who write code: CTOs, CEOs, CIOs, VPs of Engineering, Data & AI leaders, investors, and tech leads with a business perspective.

Sergio Gago is a Spanish engineer with more than 20 years of experience as a CTO across startups, scaleups and corporations. He founded five companies before the age of 25, worked at Rakuten, led AI and Quantum Computing strategy at Moody’s, and today leads Cloudera’s technology vision from Berlin.

He is also Director of the Master’s in Big Data & AI at Barcelona Technology School, an early-stage angel investor, and a regular international speaker at events including the Swiss AI Summit, UN Open Source Week, MWC Barcelona and Cloudera Evolve.

After the talk, we’ll move into networking — with food and drinks, of course.

Want to bring someone along? Feel free to share this invitation with your network.

We look forward to seeing you there!

📅 DATE: Thursday, October 15th, at 7:00 PM
📍 LOCATION: InnoIT Consulting offices, C/ Diputació, 280, Ground Floor 2A, 08009 Barcelona
🗣️ LANGUAGE: Spanish

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​Sergio Gago en el pasado evento.

The initiative connects university students with sustainability experts and companies that present real-world challenges related to circularity. Throughout the day, students will work in mixed groups and take part in an AI-assisted co-creation methodology.

The programme includes the presentation of business challenges, group work, table rotations, innovation case studies and the evaluation of solutions based on their impact, feasibility and cost.

Participation is free for selected students and offers them the opportunity to meet sustainability professionals, work on real-world circular economy challenges and discover the career opportunities emerging in this field.

You can find more information and complete your registration through the participation form.

For more information, visit the WAS Circulamos Barcelona page.

​At InnoIT Consulting, we are delighted to invite you to our upcoming event, organised in collaboration with Claude Code Barcelona, on Wednesday, October 21.

• Magdalena Ruyú (Business Analytics Consultant, InnoIT Consulting)
• Johnny Fekete (Software Engineer, Reddit)

Two talks

🎙️ Code in Days, Decisions in Weeks: Coordinating Data and Business When AI Accelerates Delivery, Magdalena Ruyú

AI has dramatically reduced development timelines: what used to take weeks now takes days. But strategic decisions— what to build, where to pivot, or what to prioritise — still take weeks, if not months. This difference in pace is the new organisational bottleneck, exposing silos that longer timelines helped hide: technical teams delivering quickly, but in the wrong direction; business teams changing course without fully understanding the work involved; and a bridge between both worlds that can no longer rely on planning cycles.

This talk explores how the relationship between Development and Business changes when delivery is no longer the problem, and what needs to happen to ensure that coordination doesn’t become the new constraint.

🎙️ Context Is a Team Sport: Claude Code in Large, Existing Codebases, Johnny Fekete

Claude Code works great on a fresh project. But what about a codebase with years of history and dozens of engineers, each with their own AI setup?

In this talk, Johnny Fekete will show how a large team can share AI context within the repository: a shared layer for everyone, skills for recurring tasks, and a personal layer that remains your own. And there’s one step further: when the agent repeatedly makes the same codebase-specific mistake, the fix becomes a new rule, reviewed by the team like any other piece of code.

There will also be time for a dynamic Q&A and, of course, networking over food 🍕 and drinks 🍻.

👥 Are you joining us? Share this invitation with your contacts.

WHEN: Wednesday, October 21
WHERE: InnoIT Consulting offices, C/ Diputació, 280, Bajos 2ª, 08009, Barcelona
LANGUAGE: English

Vall d’Hebron University Hospital is looking for technology companies to develop, together with its clinical teams, solutions based on AI, medical data and digital twins to personalise the diagnosis, surgical planning and treatment of patients with complex conditions.

The tender is divided into 9 lots, covering areas such as paediatric cardiology, arrhythmias, liver tumours, migraine and robotic surgery.

• Estimated value: €7.27M
• Budget including VAT: €8.79M
• Duration: until December 2029
• Procedure: Open tender
• Objective: to develop and validate the solutions in a real clinical environment so they can be scaled up afterwards.

If you’d like to learn more, click here.