Monthly highlights
September 2026 highlights
Artificial intelligence, women in tech and foundations: three Barcelona events worth highlighting, the last one already reaching into October.
From September, we highlight three Barcelona events, and all three had something in common: a programme that moved from one language to another. At two of them, Speech let each person choose theirs on their phone; at the third, Captions showed two languages at once on the stage screen. The last one, DEMOS, ran until 1 October, so it belongs in this review too.
FORWARD Summit 2026
On 15 September, Foment del Treball launched a congress at its Via Laietana headquarters about how companies actually adopt artificial intelligence and what role Europe can play. Sessions were in Catalan, Spanish or English, and with Speech each attendee stayed in the language they preferred, whoever was speaking. The whole FORWARD Summit story is in Impact.
Tech Spirit Women
Two days later, Tech Barcelona returned to Pier07 with Tech Spirit Women, a morning with women who found, lead, research and invest in technology. The programme switched between three languages. Scanning the QR code and choosing one was enough to follow all of it, either listening to the AI-interpreted version or reading along live.
DEMOS 2026
The foundations’ forum reached its tenth edition and came to Barcelona for the first time, on 30 September and 1 October, to talk about social vulnerability. At CosmoCaixa, DEMOS 2026 had Captions on the auditorium screen: one strip in Spanish and another in Catalan, both controlled through Backstage on a laptop right there in the auditorium.
Three events, three ways of mixing languages on the same stage. Below you’ll find a card for each one, with its story, its photos and what we set up in detail.
