A breakfast for HR, People, Talent and Learning & Development (L&D) professionals, as well as team leaders, to exchange ideas about people, talent and what helps teams thrive.

Good Coffee. Different Perspectives.

A morning for HR, People, Talent and L&D professionals, and team leaders.

We want to have an honest conversation about how hiring, developing and retaining talent is changing, and what technology cannot solve for us.

This isn’t just an event where you sit and listen. We’ll start with an inspiring conversation and then move to the heart of the morning: small-group discussions where different perspectives come together, ideas are challenged and everyone has a seat at the table.

First, a Fireside Chat

Timo Buetefisch (Cooltra) × Damiana Casile (Dow Jones)

We’ll kick off the morning with an open conversation between Timo Buetefisch, founder and CEO of Cooltra, and Damiana Casile, Senior Manager, People Business Partners at Dow Jones.

Timo founded Cooltra in Barcelona almost 20 years ago and has grown it into a company operating across Europe. Together, they’ll explore the human side of building a business: the people-related decisions that made the biggest difference, what it really means to bring AI into a company, and how leadership and teams are evolving.

Real stories, lessons learned and a few questions we still don’t have answers to.

Then, pick a table and bring your perspective. Or simply stay for a coffee and some networking.

After the opening conversation, we’ll move into small-group discussions around coffee tables, each hosted by an expert bringing a different perspective on people, teams and the changing world of work.

Why this format? Because some of the best ideas come from unexpected conversations, different disciplines and people who don’t always see things the same way.

Meet the Table Hosts & Explore the Conversations

Bring your questions, experiences and curiosity. You don’t need to be an expert in any of the topics. At the end, each table host will share some of the key ideas and questions that emerged with the whole group.

Table 1 — Future-Ready: Are We Learning Fast Enough?

AI, upskilling and the skills we’ll need tomorrow.

AI is transforming how we work, but are we also changing how we learn? Let’s explore how to develop future-ready skills, embrace artificial intelligence and help people grow alongside technology.

Table expert: Alfonso Bustos, Ph.D. — Head of Digital Skills & Workforce Transformation at RICOH Europe.

Table 2 — What Makes People Want to Stay?

Motivation, belonging and team engagement.

What really keeps people motivated? Beyond perks and pay, we’ll explore what makes people feel valued, connected and excited to contribute, especially when everything around them is changing.

Table expert: Damiana Casile — Senior Manager, People Business Partners at Dow Jones.

Table 3 — From Colleagues to Community: Closing the Belonging Gap in Hybrid Teams

For people who move to a new city or country for work, their team often becomes their first community in that new environment. If they don’t find a sense of belonging there, they may disengage or decide to leave.

When we spend less time together in person, how can we get to know our colleagues beyond their professional roles? What new dynamics, adapted to hybrid working, can help turn a team into a supportive community?

At this table, Yeon Sue will bring an anthropological perspective to exploring how teams can become genuine communities.

Table expert: Yeon Sue Park — Anthropology Practitioner and Founder of Culturematters.

Table 4 — Are We Hiring the Same People Over and Over? Who Are We Missing?

We often hire for what feels familiar: the right degree, the expected career path or a CV that ticks all the boxes. But what if we’re overlooking the talent our teams need most?

Critical thinking, communication skills and the ability to bring fresh perspectives don’t always fit the traditional mould. Humanities graduates are a great example.

In this conversation, we’ll explore how to identify overlooked talent, recognise transferable skills and rethink recruitment practices to bring in people we might otherwise miss.

Table expert: Núria F. Rius — Professor of Art and Visual Culture at Pompeu Fabra University and Vice-Dean for Employability and Institutional Relations at the Faculty of Humanities.

Table 5 — What Does a Good AI Future Look Like for Your People?

Vision, purpose and the positive impact on people that HR professionals and team leaders can help shape.

Most conversations about AI at work focus on reacting: which tools to adopt, which roles will change and which risks to manage. Yet far fewer of us stop to think about what a genuinely positive future for people would look like.

Without that vision, we risk making decisions driven by fear and uncertainty rather than by a clear sense of purpose.

At this table, we’ll try to build that vision together. What would a positive AI future mean for the people in your teams? What would you like to see five years from now? And what would need to change in the way we hire, develop and lead to make it happen?

Table expert: Tobias Haug — Founder of Humanizing Business Network and former Head of Humanizing Business at SAP.

Tick the relevant box during registration to receive a notification when sign-ups for the discussion tables open.

On November 13, Urbine (Districte Cultural de L’Hospitalet) will host the 4th edition of VIBEZ Festival, a meeting point for digital culture, technology, creativity and entrepreneurship, showcasing young talent and creating new opportunities.

What can you discover at VIBEZ?

More than 30 projects by young talents in digital culture, across six different areas:

Fashion Tech · Gaming · Food Tech · Music Tech · Digital Art · New Technologies

What’s in store?

Morning (9:00 am–1:00 pm)

• Talks on future skills, culture and innovation.
• Speed Job Dating sessions connecting students with companies and professionals.

Afternoon (4:00–8:00 pm)

• Conversations with inspiring professionals about creativity, the jobs of the future and entrepreneurship.
• A Playground showcasing more than 30 projects by young talents.

Evening (7:00–11:00 pm)

• LAN Party, games and activities to meet new people and discover exciting projects.
• Followed by a party hosted by @trama.world.

All centred around six areas of digital culture: Gaming · Food Tech · Fashion Tech · Digital Art · Music Tech · New Technologies (AI, VR, AR…).

🎟️ Tickets are now available!

📲 @vibezfestival

Come and discover, connect and experience youth digital culture.

See you on November 13 at Urbine!

Before we come together for our next afterwork, we’re bringing the Tech Barcelona community a hands-on workshop to explore how AI agents and CRM intelligence can transform the way startups build their sales pipelines.

Build a pipeline that learns, with Clay agents and HubSpot.

A sequencer knows who opened your email. Your CRM knows who became a customer. But what if your pipeline could learn from the deals that actually close?

In this hands-on workshop, you’ll connect Clay and HubSpot to build a smarter, self-learning pipeline for your own startup.

Bring your laptop and your ICP. In just two hours, you’ll put AI agents to work finding and researching accounts, build your pipeline in HubSpot, and use real deal outcomes to improve who you target next. All directly in your browser.

Then, team up for a 35-minute challenge. The best system wins €1,000 from HubSpot for Startups, plus Clay credits.

What’s in it for you?

• 2,000 Clay credits and access to Clay agents.
• 14 days of HubSpot Professional.
• A hands-on AI-powered pipeline built for your startup.
• A chance to win €1,000 from HubSpot for Startups.
• The opportunity to connect with fellow founders and GTM builders from the Tech Barcelona community.

Workshop agenda

• 16:30 — Doors and check-in
• 17:00 — Welcome and HubSpot for Startups
• 17:10 — Guided build
• 17:55 — Break and team formation
• 18:10 — Team challenge
• 18:45 — Demos, jury and prizes
• 19:00 — Networking

Who’s it for?

Tech Barcelona members, seed-stage founders and GTM builders ready to put AI to work. Coming solo? No problem — we’ll match you with a team.

Before joining, create your Clay and HubSpot accounts using the links in our 5-minute guide, and write down your ICP in 3–5 lines.

📍 Pier01, Tech Barcelona

Hosted by Tech Barcelona, HubSpot for Startups and Clay Club Barcelona.

Build something useful. Connect with your community. Then join us for the afterwork!

Put your project to the test, but don’t do it alone

We know that moving a project forward raises many questions. Who am I targeting? Is the need strong enough? What price should I set? How can I test it before taking the leap? These questions are best answered together. That’s why we’re inviting you to a meetup designed to exchange ideas, share challenges and build connections.

Introducing TestLab, the 2nd networking event of the Idees amb Futur 2026 Programme, promoted by Barcelona Activa. It’s a space to connect young women entrepreneurs, like-minded projects and key players in the entrepreneurial ecosystem around a common challenge: validating your project.

The aim of this activity is to help you put your idea to the test and find partnerships and synergies that will help you take the next step.

🗓️ When? Tuesday, November 24

⏰ Time: 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

📍 Where? Sala Emprèn · Barcelona Activa Emprenedoria · Glòries (carrer de la Llacuna, 156–162, 08018 Barcelona)

What will you take away from this event?

• A fresh perspective on your validation challenge: target audience, customer need, business model or pilot test.
• Key contacts relevant to your sector.
• New partnerships and collaboration opportunities.
• Concrete ideas to define your next steps and take action.

Attendance is completely free, but places are limited.

We look forward to seeing you there and growing the entrepreneurial community together!

Futuros: Free, open online session — 45 minutes.

Bring the 2027 decision you still haven’t made, and we’ll work through it live: three scenarios, the signals worth watching, and a first decision with a date.

We’ll select three challenges from the ones you send us, and each of those three will receive their scenarios in PDF format.

For consultants and strategy, innovation, and marketing teams who need to make decisions under uncertainty.

The session will be led by Oliver Henares, co-founder of Futuros, an AI-powered futures design platform built in Barcelona by Mimetik.

Only 12 spots available. Your Google Meet link will arrive by email when you book.

Reserve your spot

At InnoIT Consulting, we are delighted to invite you to our upcoming event, together with the Barcelona MuleSoftcommunity, on Wednesday, November 18, at 6:30 PM.

SESSIONS

🎙️ Intelligent Automation at Scale, Jordi Serra (IT Architect, CaixaBank Tech)

How the combination of deterministic systems and non-deterministic artificial intelligence can transform complex problems into automated, controlled, and scalable solutions.

Through a practical use case, we will explore how this approach helps reduce manual effort, facilitate technological evolution, and manage large-scale scenarios sustainably.

🎙️ Agent Fabric: Agent Integration and Orchestration, José Miguel (Technical Architect, Salesforce) and José García(MuleSoft Technical Consultant, Salesforce)

How Agent Fabric enables the integration, governance, and orchestration of AI agents within enterprise architectures. We will explore the challenges it addresses, how it fits into APIs and enterprise systems, and how it can be used to build practical, scalable agent-based solutions, including a use case or demonstration.

🎙️ From Vibe Coding to Harness Engineering, Anyul Rivas (Senior Architect, GFT Technologies)

How artificial intelligence, agents, and MCP tools are transforming software development in regulated environments. Drawing on the experience of modernizing a banking mainframe, we will explore the evolution from vibe coding to harness engineering, using Spec-Driven Development, extensive testing, evolution, and manage large-scale scenarios sustainably.

🎙️ Agent Fabric: Agent Integration and Orchestration, José Miguel (Technical Architect, Salesforce) and José García(MuleSoft Technical Consultant, Salesforce)

How Agent Fabric enables the integration, governance, and orchestration of AI agents within enterprise architectures. We will explore the challenges it addresses, how it fits into APIs and enterprise systems, and how it can be used to build practical, scalable agent-based solutions, including a use case or demonstration.

🎙️ From Vibe Coding to Harness Engineering, Anyul Rivas (Senior Architect, GFT Technologies)

How artificial intelligence, agents, and MCP tools are transforming software development in regulated environments. Drawing on the experience of modernizing a banking mainframe, we will explore the evolution from vibe coding to harness engineering, using Spec-Driven Development, extensive testing, evolutionary pipelines, and continuous validation to control and certify AI-generated code.

🎙️ TBD, Anna Sarria (AI Product Lead, InnoIT Consulting)

After the presentations, we will move on to our networking session. And, of course, there will be food 🍕 and drinks 🍻.

👥 Would you like to bring someone along? Feel free to share this invitation with your contacts.

We look forward to seeing you!

DATE: Wednesday, November 18, at 6:30 PM
VENUE: InnoIT Consulting offices, C/ Diputació, 280, Ground Floor, Suite 2, 08009, Barcelona
LANGUAGE: Spanish

To avoid interruptions, NO entry to the room will be permitted once the event has started (6:30 PM). We recommend arriving a few minutes early.

At InnoIT Consulting, we are delighted to invite you to our upcoming event on Wednesday, November 18, at 6:30 PM.

SPEAKERS

• Javier Rodríguez Salarichs, Data Governance Manager at Mahou San Miguel
• Laura Bueno Díaz, Global DPO, Global Compliance Deputy and Information & Governance Officer at Insud Pharma
• Patricia Llaque, Data & AI Governance
• Héctor Borobia, Head of AI at Flanks

At the heart of our discussion is the idea that regulation and privacy are no longer a final step, but part of the design process. We are bringing together data, AI, and compliance leaders from different companies to discuss how to put this into practice: where to position the data and AI function within an organization and which roles are needed to govern it.

We will share real-world experiences on how to integrate the AI Act and privacy into day-to-day data governance, who takes responsibility for AI, and which profiles a data and AI team needs today.

Is there anything you would like to see discussed during the panel? Let us know in the registration form.

Moderator: Dachi Gogotchuri, AI Architect at Nationale-Nederlanden and Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies.

After the presentation, we will move on to our networking session. And, of course, there will be food and drinks!

Would you like to bring someone along? Feel free to share this invitation with your contacts.

We look forward to seeing you!

DATE: Wednesday, November 18, at 6:30 PM
VENUE: Utopicus Paseo de la Habana (Paseo de la Habana 9, 11, 28036, Chamartín, Madrid)
LANGUAGE: Spanish

To avoid interruptions, NO entry to the room will be permitted once the event has started (6:30 PM). We recommend arriving a few minutes early.

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Capitole Tech Talk: Apache Iceberg, more than just a table format

Storing data in a data lake is cheap and scalable. The real challenge comes afterwards: correcting a data point, deleting a customer’s information, or figuring out what happened to a piece of data yesterday.

Yassin Lalj El Assri, Senior Data Engineer & Architect at Capitole, will explain how Apache Iceberg addresses these challenges: evolving data structures without breaking anything, securely deleting data to comply with GDPR requirements, and travelling back in time to investigate errors. He will also compare it with Delta Lake and walk through a practical example of a data pipeline.

10 November | 6:00 pm (CET)

Online | Free