Conference
AI Congress Barcelona 2026with CIDAI and Eurecat
The twelfth edition of CIDAI and Eurecat's artificial intelligence congress, at the Auditori L'illa, could be followed in Catalan, Spanish or English on each attendee's phone.
Three days, three angles
From 20 to 22 October 2026, the Auditori L’illa on Barcelona’s Avinguda Diagonal hosted the twelfth AI Congress Barcelona. It is a CIDAI event organised by Eurecat, within the Catalonia AI Strategy 2030 promoted by the Government of Catalonia, and this year it was held in person only, in morning sessions.
Each day had its own focus: strategy and trends on the first, technology and development on the second, and inspiring projects on the third.
Agentic AI, data and sovereignty
The programme revolved around agentic AI and multi-agent systems, data spaces and synthetic data, security and human oversight. Ariadna Font, of ALINIA AI, gave one of the talks on the first day, and that same morning Meritxell Borràs, director of the Catalan Data Protection Authority, spoke about the hidden risks agentic AI brings under the GDPR.
What we set up
We ran Speech at the Auditori L’illa on all three days. With a QR code, each attendee followed the sessions on their own phone in Catalan, Spanish or English: some heard it interpreted by AI in their headphones, others read it on their screen.
That way, the talks on agentic AI, data and security reached the whole audience, whatever language each speaker used.
Resources
- Event websiteAI Congress Barcelona 2026aicongress.barcelona
- Organiser websiteEurecateurecat.org
- SolutionAI simultaneous interpretation
- SolutionSimultaneous translation for conferences
- GuideAI translation for conferences: how it works with Link3rs
- GuideSimultaneous interpretation without booths or receivers: what the room really needs
