TechTalk x OpenAI: The September Afterwork

Bon dia! Benvinguts a Barcelona. Imagine an evening where Barcelonins [citizens of Barcelona] are meeting with human rights advocates from all over the world. Exactly to establish a dialogue between local and global causes from Autistici/Inventati to Chat Control. Imagine time when activists explore socio-political history of Sant Andreu - barrio that will host Mozilla Festival at Fabra i Coats space. Imagine where ecosystem of projects Vocdoni, Dappnode, Sentinel Alliance, hacklabs and others share with global colleagues the state of local democratic tech. La Cinetika -> Sant Andreu -> Barcelona -> Spain context Meet first speakers from BlackSky Algorithms, Conexión Segura y Libre, Phoenix R&D (behind Air messaging), Vocdoni. Isabela Fernandes - Executive Director, Tor project 🇧🇷 Kay Coghill, PhD - Head of Community @ BlackSky algorithms 🇺🇸 Valentina Aguana Villegas - digital security for activists; Conexión Segura y Libre and Bellingcat, Mozilla Fellow 🇻🇪 Ying Tong Lai - applied cryptographer exploring gender based violence, solidarity economies and privacy [Community Privacy Residency host] 🇸🇬 Julian Mair - Phoenix R&D, Air Messager 🇩🇪 no phone number or email private messaging based on in-house MLS Encryption Nadim Nashif - Executive Director @ 7amleh 🇵🇸 Jordi Pinyana - catalan-born protocol for private voting with 200.000 votes processed across unions, coops: Vocdoni, Davinci 🇨🇭Marguerite Meyer - investigative journalist from Switzerland [Tech & AI, financial flows, defense, migration, culture]. Won case against Palantir video / article Tessa Brown - Germ Network co-founder 🇺🇸 atproto native end-to-end encrypted messenger Guillem Córdoba - Dash Chat / Engineering 🇩🇪 offline-first, encrypted, peer-to-peer messaging Mario Havel - hacktivist & Bordel hacklab co-founder from Prague 🇨🇿 Mykola Siusko - grassroots W3PN collective co-founder 🇺🇦 Expect hybrid-format: talks, circles, panels & debates. Special location - La Cinètika La Cinètika is an autonomous, femin

Join us in Barcelona for an evening with the Mozilla community. We’re bringing together Mozilla staff, contributors, Firefox users, and open source enthusiasts for an informal gathering to talk about Firefox and connect with the people behind it. The meetup will feature Firefox lightning talks, space to exchange ideas, and plenty of time to get to know each other. It’s also a chance to discover how you can get involved with Firefox and Mozilla. Whether you’ve been contributing for years or are simply curious about Firefox, you’re welcome. Come meet the community, share your perspective, and help shape what’s next. Agenda 6pm - 6:15pm: Welcome check-in guests 6:15pm - 7:15pm: Lightning Talks + presentations 7:15pm - 7:50pm: Mingling + drinks and light bites 7:50pm - 8pm: Raffle for prizes + closing Who Should Attend Mozilla contributors Developers and open source enthusiasts in Barcelona Anyone interested in the open web Note: Spots are limited, please RSVP to secure your place.

'Gradient Descending' is a series of roundtables on AI: curated deep dives with technical builders. Past roundtables discussions covered RL Environments, Evals, Fine-Tuning, Agent Frameworks, Open Source Models, and Knowledge Graphs with companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Scale AI and many more. For our second Gradient Descending session in Barcelona, we’re looking at voice AI from two very different sides: building the infrastructure behind it and getting it into the hands of non-technical customers. We’ll be joined by Jaime Farrés, co-founder of Flyboard, and Luke Miller, co-founder of SLNG, to compare what each side is seeing in practice. How do you build the underlying systems to be fast, reliable and affordable? And once the technology works, how do you deploy it for customers who don’t have technical teams, don’t speak in APIs and simply need the product to solve a real problem? We’ll talk about where the infrastructure layer and application layer meet, what each side needs from the other and what tends to get lost between a technically impressive product and something a customer can actually adopt and use every day. Agenda: Arrivals: 18:30–19:00 Roundtable discussion: 19:00–20:00 Drinks at the rooftop: 20:00–21:30 See past roundtables here: https://www.akashbajwa.co/t/ai-roundtables I agree that photographs and/or video may be taken during the event and used by the hosts on social media and in future promotional materials.

El Foro de Inversión Healthcare Barcelona reunirá el 29 de octubre a startups, proyectos biomédicos e inversores para impulsar la financiación y la transferencia de innovación en salud.