n8n hackathon with balloons 🎈 (English)
Hola! Hello! You're reading this page, so there's a chance that you're interested in automation & probably even in n8n. Don't worry if you're not engineer. So, Welcome to the second n8n event in Valencia 🇪🇸 in beautiful La Harinera 🏰!
Omg, the first event had 186 sign-ups, so we suggest reserving your spot asap to avoid jumping on waiting list. We have 80-90 attendees capacity cap this time (due to venue limit).
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n8n is an open-source workflow automation platform that lets you visually connect apps, data, and AI models. No coding knowledge required (welcome Product Managers, Marketing, etc, but also Engineering & Tech people).
What to expect
We came up with something exciting. A mini-hackathon! 🔥
You’ll get a chance to learn more about automation and n8n, and I promise you’ll leave the event with 10x more knowledge.
Idea is simple:
Join a random team of 4–5
Solve together a 10 challenges of different difficulty
Work for 2 hours with super mentor support
Complete a challenge -> get a special balloon 🎈
The most active participants will get a special prizes 📚 and branded n8n t-shirts 👕.
🍕 Free pizza, 🍻 drinks, and practice and sharing knowledge — as always, all is included!
Agenda
17:30 – 🍕 Welcome & Pizza at La Harinera
18:00 – 🎈 Welcome words
18:15 – 🎈 Start challenges on teams!
20:15 – 🎈 Announce winners, and prizes
20:30 – 👋 End & Networking outside
About the organizers & mentors
👨 Roman Rodomansky
Roman has been automating internal ops at Ralabs with n8n for 2 years, and consulted SF-based enterprises — he can share what actually worked (and what didn't). Roman built many complex AI projects, including n8n, MCP-custom apps, etc.
👨 Keivan
Keivan is Co-Founder of a mobility startup in Germany, then moved to Valencia, and now manages an AI & Automation agency here. Keivan consults the German government on using n8n (wow!). Also, Keivan has the magic ability to always find ways to motivate people both in business and private.
👨 Martin Jokub
Martin is an n8n Ambassador in Valencia, has lived in Valencia for the last 10 years, and is the founder of AI Masters Apps, which provides 70+ digital business tools under one roof and specializes in building custom AI applications for companies. Martin spent 26+ years building digital businesses in the UK, Lithuania, Latvia, and Ireland, and witnessed the transformation of the Valencia & Spain startup ecosystem over the last decade.
👨 Arvin Ansari
Arvin is a Senior AI Software Engineer at n8n, based in Valencia. He authored a preprint paper in early 2026 on AI context management. He initially started working at n8n in the AI-Trust team but was recently tasked with improving AI performance through context in the new AI Context team.
👩 Frederike Engel
Frederike is the founder and CEO of phima tech, an AI product company based in Valencia. She worked as a data scientist at Ford, founded a marketplace for female well-being, was a Senior Product Owner on a regulated digital health platform, and now builds AI products and automations for small and mid-sized companies. She has an entrepreneurial mindset, loves solving problems and isn't afraid to make a decision. If you need to prioritize or dig into data, reach out to her. Originally from Germany, she is also Femtech Spain Ambassador for Valencia.
👨 Richard Rietdijk
Dutch AI / ML Engineer who just this month moved to Valencia. I’ll be joining the upcoming n8n hackathon as a mentor.
👨 Davide Rapidà
Davide has 5+ years of experience working with early-stage startups, VC and accelerators across Spain, Italy, Netherlands and US. He designed and executed 4+ international open innovation programs connecting 40+ startups with large organizations, hosted events and demo days with 60+ people and ran GTM workshops for incubator cohorts. Today, Davide serves as fractional AI & GTM Engineer for founders & commercial leaders at B2B Seed-Series C Startups and service-based SMEs.
Location
La Harinera – Open in Google Maps
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We'll keep everything in English so the whole Valencia tech community can join in.
Reasons to join ;)
we'll have branded n8n t-shirts 👕,
amazing well-quality photos during event (so you can post on your linkedin),
few awesome books 📚 about AI and automations for most active people (for those who're not proactive we'll have books about PHP)
🍕 pizza and 🍻 drinks
and most important – super-smart and open people!
and fun time! We'll make this event without theory. Only good practice for everyone.
Previous event photos
📸 All photos of previous event you can find here – https://photos.app.goo.gl/5EtysTq7vsyZzEDh8