Applying AI Events in Barcelona

Join us monthly for an exclusive gathering of product strategists, growth specialists, and AI enthusiasts.

This networking event brings together professionals focused on product innovation, strategic growth initiatives, and AI implementation to exchange ideas, share experiences, and forge valuable connections.

Our informal yet focused setting provides the perfect environment to discuss current challenges, explore emerging trends, and discover potential collaborations. Whether you're looking to expand your professional network, gather insights on strategic product development, or explore how AI is transforming growth opportunities, this is your monthly destination.

Expect engaging conversations, practical takeaways, and the chance to connect with like-minded professionals who are shaping the future of product strategy and growth through innovative approaches and AI applications.

AI EMOTION BCN es el evento para sentir y descubrir cómo la inteligencia artificial conecta con nuestras emociones.

AI Emotion BCN es un evento único diseñado para explorar cómo la inteligencia artificial está transformando el presente y el futuro del ecommerce y los marketplaces.

Un punto de encuentro para profesionales del sector digital, innovación y negocio que quieren entender cómo la IA se está convirtiendo en el gran catalizador del cambio en la forma en que las marcas se posicionan, venden y conectan con sus clientes.

En el corazón del Eixample, en Barcelona, Aclam Club acoge esta experiencia en un entorno singular. Entre guitarras icónicas, motocicletas legendarias y fotografía analógica, se abre un espacio para repensar el comercio digital desde una nueva perspectiva: más inteligente, más eficiente y, sobre todo, más humana.

Durante la jornada, expertos compartirán casos reales, tendencias y estrategias aplicadas al ecommerce, marketplaces y retail media, en un formato pensado para inspirar, generar conversación y fomentar conexiones de valor.

Una experiencia para quienes quieren adelantarse al futuro del comercio digital y formar parte activa de su evolución.

📍 Barcelona
📅 7 de mayo
⏰ De 9:00 a 14:30

Mas información: www.aiemotionbcn.com

Join us at our TECH MIXER AND SOCIAL for afterwork drinks, networking with tech / IT workers in and connect with others in tech

Whether you're a seasoned tech veteran or just starting out, let's create the ideal afterwork place to meet and chill with other workers in tech - find that new job, expand your network, share ideas, and stay up-to-date on the latest trends in the industry. Let's inspire, innovate, and shape the future of technology in Barcelona!

Tech, AI, Data, IT, and more ~

💰 Cost: Free

🍺🥃 Afterwork drinks and social

📍 CocoVail Beer Hall (Inside, or ask for Tech Social) - Carrer d'Aragó, 284, L'Eixample

🕕 5:30pm onwards every Friday

Or RSVP on the website for our Discord / WhatsApp communities, and to see who else is going and what their backgrounds/seniority/interests are:

🔗 Link to Website

If you cannot find us, ask staff about Tech Social, or ask in the WhatsApp community above.

Perfect for Barcelona tech professionals including:

• Software Developers & Engineers (Python, JavaScript, Java, C++, React, Node.js)
• Data Scientists & Analysts (Machine Learning, AI, Data Visualization, SQL)
• Cybersecurity Professionals (InfoSec, Ethical Hacking, Cloud Security)
• Product Managers & Tech Entrepreneurs
• Students & Tech Graduates looking to break into tech
• Career Changers entering tech industry
• Remote Workers & Digital Nomads in Barcelona
• Startup Employees & Entrepreneurs
• Digital Marketing & Product Professionals
• Senior Engineers looking to mentor and network

• 🤝 Network with Barcelona tech community
• 💼 Job opportunities and referrals from peers
• 🚀 Career acceleration through peer networking
• 🎯 Skill sharing and tech discussions
• 🧠 Knowledge sharing on latest tech trends
• 🎉 Social activities and games
• 🧠 Learn from peers about real-world challenges
• 🚀 Collaborate on projects and ideas
• 🎯 Mentorship connections (both ways!)
• 🍻 Fun, casual atmosphere - no matter your seniority level

• Support the venue by purchasing drinks/food (no outside items allowed)
• Maintain appropriate behavior and respect for all attendees
• Bring physical ID if required by venue (call ahead to confirm)

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If you’re actively building/coding AI projects (LLM apps, agents, evals, RAG, infra), come join.

This is a technical networking meetup. Conversations are usually technically deep and hands-on.

👉🏻 Good fit: engineers, technical founders, researchers.
👉🏻 Not a fit: "AI curious", general networking.
👉🏻Bring: a project, demo, repo, problem you’re stuck on, or a hiring need.

⏰ We'll start at 7:00 PM at Alice Secret Garden C/ de Pau Claris, 90, L'Eixample!
After you enter through the main entrance, please go straight to the garden in the back: video

🔥 Join our community on WhatsApp (developers only)
🔥 LinkedIn: LinkedIn
🔥 Website: https://ai-engineers.community

See you then!

Join us for a very special Hack & Tell hosted by Allianz Technology!

We’ve curated a lineup of four talks spread across 2 tracks that dive into the intersection of high-end research and creative engineering - plus plenty of time to meet other AI engineers, researchers and founders over pizza and drinks.

This time, we’ll be looking at how AI is built and deployed across four distinct domains:

🎵 Training AI on personal musical styles
🖊️ Building editable vectorial design systems
👤 The math behind real-time avatars
⚙️ Managing context within large-scale agentic workflows

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🗓 Agenda
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18:00 – Doors open (Arrive early for security)
18:30 – Start of Talks (You can switch tracks between talks)

Track 1:

• Teaching AI to Make Music Like I Do
• Building a Real-Time Interactive Avatar Pipeline

Track 2:

• Penpot Wizard: Bridging Design and AI
• Managing Context Bloat in Agentic Workflows

20:00 – Networking (Pizza & Drinks)
21:00 – End

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📍 Location
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Allianz Technology, Av. d'Icària, 199, Sant Martí, 08005 Barcelona

⚠️ Important: Registration with DNI/NIE is required (*)

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🎵👤 Track 1
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🎤 Bianca Cheng – Teaching AI to Make Music Like I Do
Bianca is a musician, designer, and technologist (formerly at Apple and MIT Media Lab) who approaches engineering with a creative soul. She’ll be sharing her work with HeartMula, a project where she trained models on recordings of her own songs. Learn how she uses AI as a collaborative partner to explore new musical ideas while staying true to her unique creative voice.

🎤 Arnab Dey & Marcel Alcoverro (UNITH) – Building a Real-Time Interactive Avatar Pipeline
What does it actually take to turn an image into a real-time photorealistic human avatar? Arnab (Senior Research Engineer) and Marcel (Head of AI) will walk through the full engineering stack behind a live interactive avatar: from LLM-driven speech synthesis and autoregressive 3D motion generation to Gaussian Splatting rendering streamed at 60 FPS. This talk dives into the research models powering visual avatars, the hard latency trade-offs that shape every design decision, and what production MLOps looks like when your service is a human face.

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🖊️⚙️ Track 2
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🎤 Xesca Alabart (Gluecharm) – Penpot Wizard: Bridging Design and AI
Why do most AI design tools give you code instead of editable design objects? Current tools like v0 or Bolt often leave designers stuck in a "prompt loop" - where even a minor layout tweak requires a new prompt rather than a simple click-and-drag.
Xesca, creator of Penpot Wizard, is pioneering a fundamentally different path. Her talk introduces a Vectorial AI-driven methodology that treats the canvas as a live environment rather than a code-generation target. By designing with AI and Vectorial Design as a structural foundation, Penpot Wizard generates native design objects—shapes, paths, and components—that designers can edit normally. It’s about moving past the prompt-only bottleneck to provide a functional, editable starting point for real-world UX.

🎤 Gabriel Llauradó Queralt (Allianz Technology) - Investigator: A Multi-Agent System That Digs into Tickets
Every Jira ticket hides a trail across code, databases, logs, and half-forgotten Slack decisions. Gabriel built Investigator using LangGraph, with specialist agents for code, DB, Jira, OpenSearch, Confluence, GitHub and Vision — Orchestrated by a Planner, Router, Critic and Evaluator that argue with each other until the evidence holds up. He'll walk through the architecture, the prompts that actually work, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, and lessons learned making LLMs reason about real enterprise codebases.

See you soon!

(*) You will greatly help us by providing your DNI/NIE upfront when you RSVP. It is solely used for access to the building and will not be used or stored for any other purpose. In any case, you can also answer with "I want to register onsite". In that case, please show up early at 18:00 to guarantee that the registration can be finished before the event starts.

No slides. No speaker. No agenda. Just developers talking shop over a cold one.
This is an informal gathering for engineers, founders, and builders who are deep in the agentic coding trenches — using tools like Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Code, OpenCode, or rolling their own agent pipelines. Come swap what's actually working, what blew up in production, and what you're excited about right now.

We'll be at Barcelona, and the format is simple: show up, grab a drink, and share what you know. Bring a laptop if you want to show something, but it's not required.

WhatsApp Group: https://chat.whatsapp.com/GVS0bHMPIzID3Ch9lt6YsU?mode=gi_t

What we talk about (but not limited to):

*Agentic coding workflows and tooling

• Prompt engineering & context engineering in practice
  *Multi-agent architectures and orchestration
• AI-native product building
  *What's broken in the ecosystem and how you're working around it

Who should come: Developers, technical founders, and AI engineers who build with (or on top of) LLMs. All levels welcome — senior devs with war stories and curious beginners both make the conversation better.
Format: Open conversation, round-table style. Everyone teaches, everyone learns.

🎉Our next event is here!

After the great success of the last event, we’re glad to announce our next Claude Code Barcelona meetup! Don’t miss these two talks plus a great networking session, all thanks to our new host InnoIT.

⚠️ Spots are limited. We recommend reserving your spot as soon as possible. If you’re unable to attend, please let us know in advance so we can release your seat.

📅 May 20th | Doors open at 6:00 PM, kick off at 6:15 PM
📍 InnoIT - C/ Diputació 280, Bajos 2ª, Eixample, 08009, Barcelona

Agenda
➡️ 6:15 PM — Check-in
🏢 6:30 PM — Host company presentation
🎤 6:40 PM — From Chaos to Marketplace: A Practical Guide to Sharing AI Agent Best Practices at Scale, by Dror Asaf, in English
🎤 7:20 PM — Claude en modo red team y blue team: de repartir leña a sacar el extintor, por Joaquín Gamiz Delgado, in Spanish
🤝 8:00 PM — Networking
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🎙️Talks

From Chaos to Marketplace: A Practical Guide to Sharing AI Agent Best Practices at Scale (In English)

AI coding agents are transforming how we build software, but getting your whole engineering organization to benefit from them is harder than it looks. At Kovant, we learned this the hard way, going through four stages of trial and error before landing on something that actually works at scale. In this talk, Kovant's CTO will share the honest story behind that journey and reveal the approach that finally made it click for our teams.

By Dror Asaf, CTO and Co-founder

Claude in Red Team and Blue Team Mode: From Breaking Things to Putting Out Fires (In Spanish)

A practical talk on how to use Claude for reconnaissance and early phases of pentesting (red team), as well as a technical aid for incident analysis (blue team).

This talk explores what it truly means to be a hacker, separating myths from reality, and dives into a hands-on lab using Claude Code, covering setup, context, and operational rules. We introduce MCP as the interface that enables models to interact with tools, and walk through real testing targets and methodologies. Through practical exercises, we demonstrate how to identify web vulnerabilities, interpret Nmap outputs to prioritize risks and define next steps, and finally how Claude Code can also support defensive strategies, showing its value for both red and blue team scenarios.

By Joaquín Gamiz Delgado, Security Engineer, Content Creator & Instructor

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We’d like to thank our sponsor, InnoIT 🙌, for providing the space, snacks, and drinks! 🍕🧃

Don't miss it! 🎉

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🎉 ¡Ya está aquí nuestro siguiente evento!

Después del éxito del estreno, estamos encantados de anunciar el siguiente evento de Claude Code Barcelona. ¡No te pierdas estas dos charlas y su correspondiente networking, esta vez gracias a nuestro nuevo host, InnoIT!

⚠️ El aforo es limitado . Te recomendamos reservar la tuya cuanto antes. Si finalmente no puedes asistir, por favor avísanos con antelación para liberar tu plaza.

📅 20 de mayo | Apertura de puertas a las 18:15h, empezamos a las 18:30h
📍 InnoIT - C/ Diputació 280, Bajos 2ª, Eixample, 08009, Barcelona

Agenda:
➡️ 6:15 PM — Check-in
🏢 6:30 PM — Presentación de nuestro anfitrión
🎤 6:40 PM — From Chaos to Marketplace: A Practical Guide to Sharing AI Agent Best Practices at Scale, por Dror Asaf, en Ingles
🎤 7:20 PM — Claude en modo red team y blue team: de repartir leña a sacar el extintor, por Joaquín Gamiz Delgado, en Español
🤝 8:00 PM — Networking

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🎙️ Charlas

Del Caos al Marketplace: Una guía práctica para compartir agentes IA con buenas prácticas de escalado (en Inglés)

Los agentes de programación con IA están transformando la forma en que desarrollamos software, pero lograr que toda tu organización de ingeniería se beneficie de ellos es más difícil de lo que parece. En Kovant, lo aprendimos por las malas, pasando por cuatro etapas de prueba y error antes de dar con algo que realmente funciona a escala.

En esta charla, el CTO de Kovant compartirá la historia sincera detrás de ese recorrido y revelará el enfoque que finalmente hizo que funcionara para nuestros equipos.

Por Dror Asaf, CTO and Co-founder

Claude en modo red team y blue team: de repartir leña a sacar el extintor (en Español)

Una charla práctica sobre cómo usar Claude en tareas de reconocimiento y fases iniciales de un pentesting (red team), y también como apoyo técnico para analizar incidentes (blue team).

Esta charla explora qué significa realmente ser hacker, desmontando mitos y conceptos erróneos, y se adentra en un laboratorio práctico con Claude Code, cubriendo su configuración, el contexto y las reglas de uso. Se introduce MCP como el mecanismo que permite a los modelos interactuar con herramientas, y se recorren distintos objetivos y metodologías de testing. A través de ejercicios prácticos, se muestra cómo detectar vulnerabilidades en una web, interpretar resultados de Nmap para priorizar riesgos y definir siguientes pasos, y finalmente cómo Claude Code también puede apoyar al blue team, demostrando su valor tanto en escenarios ofensivos como defensivos.

Por Joaquín Gamiz Delgado, Security Engineer, Content Creator & Instructor

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Queremos agradecer a nuestro sponsor, InnoIT🙌, por facilitarnos el espacio, snacks y refrescos!🍕🧃

¡No te lo pierdas! 🎉

At InnoIT Consulting, we are delighted to invite you to our upcoming event, organized in collaboration with Claude Code Barcelona, on Wednesday, May 20.

🎙️Claude Code: Scaling AI Agents & Security in the Wild

SUMMARY

We will be joined by Dror Asaf (Co-Founder & CTO, Kovant) and Joaquín Gamiz (Security Engineer, Content Creator & Instructor).

🎙️ From Chaos to Marketplace: A Practical Guide to Sharing AI Agent Best Practices at Scale, Dror Asaf

As AI agents become central to development workflows, the real challenge is no longer adoption — it's scaling them without letting knowledge become siloed within individuals or teams. At Kovant, this challenge drove a progressive evolution: from ad hoc use in individual repositories to a central instructions repository, to a dynamic skills system that adapted to the context per project, ultimately culminating in an internal plugin marketplace that made sharing capabilities intuitive. Along the way, we discovered which simple approaches broke down at scale — and which solutions actually held up.

This talk provides a clear framework for managing agent knowledge based on organizational maturity, along with practical lessons and actionable starting points for any team looking to consolidate scattered knowledge into shared infrastructure.

🎙️ Claude en modo red team y blue team: de repartir leña a sacar el extintor, Joaquín Gamiz

Una charla práctica sobre cómo usar Claude en tareas de reconocimiento y fases iniciales de un pentesting (red team), y también como apoyo técnico para analizar incidentes (blue team).

Esta charla explora qué significa realmente ser hacker, desmontando mitos y conceptos erróneos, y se adentra en un laboratorio práctico con Claude Code — cubriendo su configuración, el contexto y las reglas de uso. Se introduce MCP como el mecanismo que permite a los modelos interactuar con herramientas, y se recorren distintos objetivos y metodologías de testing. A través de ejercicios prácticos, se muestra cómo detectar vulnerabilidades en una web, interpretar resultados de Nmap para priorizar riesgos y definir siguientes pasos, y finalmente cómo Claude Code también puede apoyar al blue team — demostrando su valor tanto en escenarios ofensivos como defensivos.

With time for a dynamic Q&A session and, of course, our networking with food 🍕 and drinks 🍻.

👥 Do you want to come along? Share this invitation with all your contacts, or click the "share" button below.

WHEN: Wednesday, May 20 at 6:30 PM
WHERE: Oficinas InnoIT Consulting, C/ Diputació, 280, Bajos 2ª, 08009, Barcelona
LANGUAGE: English & Spanish

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Build Your First AI Agent with Google ADK

Ready to build your first AI agent? Join us at GDG Barcelona for a hands-on workshop where we will code an AI agent together from scratch using Google ADK.

Whether you are completely new to the concept of agents or looking to get hands-on experience with Google's latest tools, this session is for you. We are starting from the absolute basics and working our way up toward building a complete Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system together.

This session is designed as a practical, code-along experience, so bring your laptop and get ready to build!

Whether you’re curious about agentic AI or looking for a practical introduction to building real-world systems, this workshop will give you a solid foundation and working code you can continue exploring after the event.

💻 What to Bring

• Your laptop, ready to code: this is a strict requirement! This is a 100% hands-on workshop, and we will be writing code together.

• A collaborative spirit: be ready to code, ask questions, and help your neighbors.

📚 What You Will Learn

• The fundamentals of AI agents

• How to get started with Google ADK

• How to build an agent step by step

• How to create a simple RAG system together

🎤 Speaker: Fabrício Carraro

Computer Engineer (UNICAMP) and Data & Machine Learning Specialist, Fabrício is a leading figure in AI across Brazil and Latin America.

✨ Published author on Artificial Intelligence

✨ Host of the #1 technology podcast in Brazil: "IA Sob Controle"

✨ LinkedIn Top Voice for Artificial Intelligence

✨ TEDx Speaker

✨ AI Developer Advocate at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Agenda

Speaker

Fabricio Carraro - Barcelona Supercomputing Center (Ai Developer Advocate)

Hosted By

Joan Fuentes, Mobile software engineer

Rosemarie Garcia, UX UI Designer

Ekaterina Nosova, Product Manager

Founder of Relato Network, expat in Barcelona, learning Catala, castellera.

GDG Barcelona,

Marcia Paola Rodriguez Briceño, Marketing & Tech Consultant

Consultora de Marketing Digital y aplicación de herramientas digitales para impulsar marcas. Diseño tu plan de acción con las principales tácticas en marketing y las mejores herramientas digitales para que optimices tu presupuesto e impulses tu negocio.

Digital Marketing Consultant and Application of Digital Tools to Boost Brands. I design your action plan with key marketing tactics and the best digital tools to optimize your budget and boost your business.

Dani GN, Tech nerd

Romina Elena Mendez Escobar, Cloud

Soy Cloud & AI Architect con experiencia diseñando soluciones distribuidas en entornos multicloud, edge y on-premise, aplicando prácticas de MLOps, automatización y Generative AI. He liderado proyectos en sectores como salud, genómica, fintech, energía, turismo, automoción, retail, arte, construcción y sector público.

Como docente universitaria, dicté materias como Inteligencia Artificial y Computación en la Nube, y actualmente me desempeño como tutora de tesis en temáticas como Big Data, NLP, infraestructura cloud y analítica avanzada, acompañando a estudiantes en el desarrollo de soluciones técnicas conectadas con desafíos reales de la industria.

Formo parte de comunidades globales como AWS Community Builders y Google Women Techmakers, desde donde promuevo la divulgación tecnológica con enfoque en diversidad, educación técnica y liderazgo femenino.

Además, soy speaker, mentora técnica y creadora de contenido, enfocada en compartir conocimiento aplicado a través de artículos, workshops y soluciones reproducibles sobre arquitectura de datos, herramientas open source, migración, automatización y aplicaciones de IA generativa.

Me apasiona combinar innovación tecnológica con impacto social, colaborando en iniciativas que integran datos abiertos, ética en IA y educación accesible.

Samar El souki, Product Designer

With 6 years of experience in UX design, I craft user-centered solutions by combining research, wireframing, and prototyping to deliver intuitive and impactful digital experiences.

Lizzeth Quinteros, Platform Engineering Lead

Gabriela Soto, Data Management Specialist

Software Engineer with 12+ years of experience in software development, including application life cycles and modern design. Skilled in analyzing workflows, business logic, and leading development teams while emphasizing best practices and communication. Active volunteer in tech communities addressing gender gap in STEAM and promoting social inclusion.

Partner

42 Barcelona Fundacion Telefónica (https://www.42barcelona.com/)
42 Barcelona es el campus de programación más innovador y gratuito que te abre las puertas al mercado laboral. Con una metodología revolucionaria y una duración media de tres años, está abierto las 24 horas del día, 7 días a la semana para que puedas aprender a tu ritmo.

Complete your event RSVP here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-barcelona-presents-build-with-ai-build-your-first-ai-agent-with-google-adk/.

ISTQB® AI TESTER, 3 days The aim of this course is to provide you with the knowledge and skills to pass the exam

The ISTQB® AI Testing (CT-AI) certification extends understanding of artificial intelligence and deep (machine) learning, most specifically in testing AI-based systems and using AI in testing. This course will provide you with the knowledge and skills to pass an exam certifying you as an ISTQB® Certified Tester - AI Testing (CT-AI).

Our trainers will fully prepare you by employing scenarios that mirror the real life challenges, and by focusing course delivery with a balance of theory and practice.

​Prerequisites: candidates must hold the Foundation Certificate.

​Duration: 3 days. ​

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​Training objectives:

• Understand the current state and expected trends of AI
• Experience the implementation and testing of a ML model and recognize where testers can best influence its quality
• Understand the challenges associated with testing AI-Based systems, such as their self-learning capabilities, bias, ethics, complexity, non-determinism, transparency and explainability
• Contribute to the test strategy for an AI-Based system
• Design and execute test cases for AI-based systems
• Recognize the special requirements for the test infrastructure to support the testing of AI-based systems
• Understand how AI can be used to support software testing

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Language: English

Artificial Intelligence (AI) conference in Barcelona, Spain