Inaugural BAD meetup

Name: Inaugural BAD meetup
Start: 2026-06-02T11:00:00.000+02:00
End: 2026-06-02T14:30:00.000+02:00
Location: Carrer de la Ciutat de Granada, 150

BAD Meetup

Carrer de la Ciutat de Granada, 150

Barcelona, Spain

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About Event

Join us for the inaugural edition of the Barcelona AI & Data Systems (BAD) Meetup kindly hosted by Microsoft. BAD is a community-driven forum for deep technical conversations at the intersection of AI and data systems.

Barcelona is rapidly emerging as a hub for cutting-edge work across academia, startups, and large-scale enterprises. This meetup brings these worlds together to foster collaboration, learning, and real-world impact.

Agenda:

11:00am-11:10am - Welcome/Intro

11:10am-11:40am - Flavio Junqueira, CTO, Qbeast

11:40am-12:10pm - Carlo Curino, Research Director (Microsoft)

12:10am-12:40pm - Ernest Teniente, Director inLab FIB (UPC)

12:40pm-13:00pm - Feedback/thoughts

13:00pm-14:30pm - Lunch/Social Hour (food provided)

This meetup focuses on the architecture, operation, and evolution of AI-native large-scale cloud data systems—systems where intelligence is embedded not only in models, but in the platforms and operations that build, run, monitor, and continuously improve data-intensive services. Key topics include:

· Distributed data processing and large-scale analytics platforms

· Cloud data infrastructure and warehouses

· Database engines and open data ecosystems

· Graph and large-scale analytics systems

· AI-ready data platforms and real-time pipelines

· End-to-end lifecycle of intelligent systems in production environments

Location

Carrer de la Ciutat de Granada, 150

Sant Martí, 08018 Barcelona, Spain

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Hosted By

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