Ready to see GenAI beyond the hype? 🚀

The OLX Masterclass – Gen AI in Action showcases real-world GenAI implementations that are already transforming how we build products. This isn’t theory – it’s a deep dive into practical use cases and battle-tested solutions you can actually implement.

What you’ll discover:
• Live demonstrations of GenAI solving real business problems
• Proven implementation strategies from production environments
• Architecture patterns and best practices

Whether you’re exploring your first GenAI integration or optimizing existing implementations, this masterclass delivers the practical knowledge and real-world examples that developers need.

Join fellow developers and see GenAI in action – not just in theory. 💡

Event Details:

• Date: 29.10.2025
• Time: 18:30 CEST
• Location: Tech Barcelona – Pier 07, Via Laietana, 26, Ciutat Vella, 08003 Barcelona, Spain

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from industry experts, network with like-minded individuals, and take your AI knowledge to the next level. See you there!

From 21 to 23 November, ConstruHack 2025 will take place, a hackathon where start-ups, students and professionals will work together to solve real challenges in the construction and sustainability sector.

It is an ideal opportunity for start-ups and entrepreneurial teams who want to:
🚀 Propose ideas or products that provide solutions to real challenges.
🤝 Network with professionals and companies in the sector.
🎓 Receive specialised mentoring and practical training on AI, business models and pitching.
🏆 Compete for technology awards and give visibility to your project.

You can participate with your team or individually (we will help you form one).
In-person or online participation — you choose how to experience it!

🏆 Prizes: on the 23rd, the solutions will be presented to a professional jury and each member of the winning team will receive prizes designed to enhance your innovative talent:

• XREAL Air 2 Augmented Reality Glasses + accessories.
• Yate Smart Man kit with sensors and actuators for experimenting and prototyping.
• Creality Ender 3 V3 KE 3D printer to bring new ideas to life.

📽️ Watch the presentation video.
➡️ More information.

🔗 Sign up! (The first 30 people to sign up will receive a commemorative ConstruHack 2025 T-shirt).

ConstruHack is more than a hackathon: it is a space where companies, talent and technology come together to build the future of sustainable innovation.

We look forward to seeing you there! 🚀

From 4–6 November, the global Deep Tech community will gather in Barcelona to connect, share, and create a better future.

We’re buzzing with excitement to bring you an edition packed with groundbreaking innovation, visionary speakers, and unmatched opportunities to network with top leaders across science, tech, and entrepreneurship.

This years’ key themes:

• The Future of Life and the Planet: medtech and digital health, sustainability and biodiversity, decarbonization, energy and mobility.
• Computing and Tech Sovereignty: space economy and space tech, semiconductors, chips, quantum and photonics, security, privacy and strategy.
• From Lab to Market: technology transfer, deep tech talent, innovation ecosystems, venture building.

Let’s drive Deep Tech for a Better Future.

Check out the full speaker lineup and agenda here.

Join us for an AI Startups Meetup & Pitching Session hosted by Pre-Seed to Succeed. The event brings together founders, investors, and AI experts to explore practical applications of artificial intelligence in business, investment opportunities, and live startup pitches to venture capital funds.

​This meetup is a side event of AI Summit Barcelona.

​Agenda highlights:

• ​AI applications in marketing and business process automation

• ​”How to raise funding for your AI startup” by Denis Kalyshkin, a principal at I2BF Global Ventures

• ​Startup pitch session with VCs (startups selected via open application)

• ​Networking with founders, investors, and industry experts

​Format: one stage, 50–100 participants, engaging talks, and new business connections.

​About Pre-seed to Succeed

​​​​Pre-seed to Succeed is helping young and ambitious companies raise their first funding round. It’s an investment program launched by AltaIR Capital, Yellow Rocks, Smart Partnership Capital and I2BF Global Ventures. The P2S is designed for startups in the early stages with MVP and first traction and focuses on the following industries: B2B / SaaS, FinTech, AI, Future of Work, Productivity Tools, Digital Health, HR Tech.

​​​The program offers initial funding from participating venture companies, ongoing support from seasoned experts and mentors, and 50% of the next round for proven startups.

​​​​​If you have any questions please contact us by email: raise@p2s.vc

The new edition of the BDTS Connection event by CONNECTIO is a unique opportunity to present your solution and explore new collaboration opportunities with top companies actively looking for innovation.

Through one-to-one meetings, you’ll connect directly with industry leaders like ABB, Acciona, Aigües de Barcelona, AstraZeneca, Cisco, Gebro Pharma, HP, and Vueling, all seeking Deep Tech solutions in areas such as:

• AI & Advanced Computing
• Robotics & Automation
• Energy & Sustainability
• Water Tech & Infrastructure
• Health & Longevity
• Quantum & Photonics

This is your chance to pitch your solution, explore collaboration opportunities, and build lasting relationships with corporate innovation leaders.

Join us on 5 November, from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm, for an exclusive session at Barcelona Deep Tech Summit 2025 (Fira Barcelona – Gran Via, Smart City Expo World Congress – Hall 3).

Register now for the event and seize this opportunity to create the future of Deep Tech alongside global innovation leaders. The deadline to sign up is 13 October.

If you have any questions, please send us an email at: connectio@barcelonactiva.cat

Be part of the future of Deep Tech in Barcelona! 🚀

AI is already a reality, but consciously adopting it remains a challenge for most organisations.

Seventy per cent of projects fail to generate real impact. This is not due to a lack of technology, but rather to weak strategies, poorly prepared data and processes that people do not adopt.

Our next webinar gets straight to the point: honest, no hype, and designed to help you build AI that delivers real, sustainable value. No spectacular demos that later fade away; we’ll talk about people, business, and technology working in balance.

📅 Date: Tuesday, 7 October 2025
‍⏰ Time: 10:00 – 11:00
‍📍Format: Online (access after registration)

While you wait, you can get started with this article where we share why 70% of AI projects fail and how to avoid it:

Don’t miss the opportunity to rethink your AI strategy without smoke and mirrors and with real impact.

Sign up and take the first step towards conscious AI.

Yes, young people also create (digital) culture. Want to discover it?

On 14 November, Urbine (Districte Cultural de l’Hospitalet) will host the 3rd edition of the young digital culture festival, where culture, technology and entrepreneurship come together to give a voice to emerging talent.
What can you expect?

• Afternoon (4–8 p.m.): video games, hands-on workshops, digital art demos, fashion tech performances and music jams.
• Evening (8 p.m.–midnight): concerts, DJ sets and immersive experiences that will transform your Friday into a party.

Immerse yourself in digital culture and discover more than 20 projects in gaming, food tech, fashion tech, digital art, music tech and new technologies (AI, VR, AR).
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Tickets now available!
👉 Buy your ticket here
Come and experience a different kind of Friday

On Wednesday, November 12th, Tech Up Nights returns to Pier01! In its 18th edition, this event will feature Ocado Technology and OLX tech use cases, followed by a networking session designed by and for tech profiles.

SPEAKERS & CONTENT

From Systems Thinking to Holistic Product Strategy

Join us to learn how we united cross-functional teams to be more user-focused and create a “big picture” view of an e-commerce platform. This session will shed light on how we connected basket-building features, identifying gaps and overlaps, and aligning teams to generate opportunities that impact the entire user journey. We will show how UX research and design can shape a powerful, holistic strategy, leading to innovative solutions that delight users and optimise basket building for both shoppers and businesses.

• Amalia Speratti – Senior UX Researcher at Ocado Technology
• Ligia Olmos – Senior UX Designer at Ocado Technology

Strategic Research in the Age of AI

Join us for a glimpse into OLX’s approach to evolving strategic research in an AI-accelerated world. We’ll start by grounding what “strategic research” looks like in practice. Then we’ll explore how AI is reshaping the craft and how Product and Design teams work with research—from democratisation and self-serve tools to early prototypes that speed retrieval and synthesis. Expect pragmatic takeaways from past and ongoing pilots, plus lessons learned you can apply today.

• Valentina Salvi – Head of Product Research at OLX

🍕🍺 Pizza and beers included! There’s no better way to expand your network.

The event will be held in English. Register now!

ATTENTION: Registration will be open until 6:45 pm.

RIGHT OF ADMISSION RESERVED

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

ICEX Spain Export and Investment and the Spanish Economic and Commercial Office in Miami, in collaboration with eMerge Americas, are organising this ICEX Conference and pitch competition on 16 October 2025.

The eMerge Americas fair is the most important technology event in Miami. Held annually since 2013, it has been a key element in turning this city into a leading technology hub, promoting innovation and investment in Florida and Latin America and allowing foreign companies access to these markets.

During the event, opportunities offered by Miami to Spanish start-ups will be promoted, and representatives from the fair will encourage participation in eMerge Americas 2026, to be held on 23-24 April 2026. ICEX, Red.es and the Spanish Economic and Commercial Office in Miami will organise the Spanish National Pavilion at eMerge Americas and immersion in the local ecosystem, with a delegation of more than 50 Spanish companies.

What will we talk about and do at this conference?

• The technology and innovation ecosystem in Miami and the annual eMerge Americas conference.
• Round table (moderated by ICEX) with representatives from eMerge, Madrid’s One-Stop Shop for Internationalisation, Ubicuity and Lodgerin.
• Coffee networking.
• Pitch competition for 8 start-ups.

The event will conclude with the selection of two winners to participate directly in the eMerge Accelerator programme, which is a great opportunity.

Register before 3 October!

We are turning metropolitan municipalities into laboratories for innovation in water and sustainability!

Aigües de Barcelona and Cornellà de Llobregat City Council are seeking innovative solutions to improve the renaturalisation of aquatic ecosystems in urban areas. This will accelerate open innovation in the region with scalable, autonomous solutions that transform water challenges into opportunities for the future.

Who can participate?

• National and international start-ups with digital and technological solutions that can respond to the water-related challenges of each municipality. The solutions must have a technological development level equal to or higher than TRL (Technology Readiness Level) 6, and their implementation through a pilot project must be viable, both technically and economically, within a period of 6 to 9 months.
• Solutions with potential for scalability and management that is as autonomous or independent as possible will be viewed favourably.
• The solution must respond to at least one of Aigües de Barcelona’s six lines of action and contribute to the achievement of one or more Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as well as the objectives of the Spanish Urban Agenda roadmap.

For more information, click here.