Makers

No slides. No speaker. No agenda. Just developers talking shop over a cold one. This is an informal gathering for engineers, founders, and builders who are deep in the agentic coding trenches — using tools like Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Code, OpenCode, or rolling their own agent pipelines. Come swap what's actually working, what blew up in production, and what you're excited about right now. We'll be at Barcelona, and the format is simple: show up, grab a drink, and share what you know. Bring a laptop if you want to show something, but it's not required. WhatsApp Group: https://chat.whatsapp.com/GVS0bHMPIzID3Ch9lt6YsU?mode=gi_t **What we talk about (but not limited to):** *Agentic coding workflows and tooling - Prompt engineering & context engineering in practice *Multi-agent architectures and orchestration - AI-native product building *What's broken in the ecosystem and how you're working around it **Who should come:** Developers, technical founders, and AI engineers who build with (or on top of) LLMs. All levels welcome — senior devs with war stories and curious beginners both make the conversation better. **Format:** Open conversation, round-table style. Everyone teaches, everyone learns.

*Please note: a one-drink minimum per person is required.* Welcome to our weekly Meetup group for Expats & English speakers permanently living in Barcelona! If you're a Barcelona local looking for a laid-back way to connect with fellow English speakers & residents, this is the perfect gathering for you. Whether you've lived in Barcelona for years or are new to the city, our informal meetups provide a great opportunity to socialize, unwind, and forge connections with like-minded individuals who call this vibrant city home. Come join us, we can't wait to meet you!!

**UX Hub** is thrilled to welcome you to an event hosted by [Docplanner](https://www.docplanner.com) at their beautiful office in Poblenou, in the heart of Barcelona's innovation district. **Hope in the Age of AI: How Your Design System Just Might Save You** As AI accelerates the pace of production, the fear of being "out-paced" is real. But designers already hold the key to the future: the Design System. Far from just a library of components, a robust Design System sits at the critical intersection of design and code—the exact language AI speaks. In this talk, we’ll explore why the foundations you’ve already built are the ultimate launchpad for AI-driven scale and speed. Learn how to pivot your design system from a static resource into an automated engine, ensuring that as we scale at the speed of light, Design remains the pilot, not just a passenger. **Speaker** [Nikki Plyem](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikkiplyem/) is Design Manager of Product Platform at Docplanner. With over 15 years in the design industry, Nikki leads the design in the Product Platform team at Docplanner, where she focuses on building the systems and services that allow design to scale globally. Her career spans award-winning agencies and high-growth Fintech, but her unique approach to design systems is rooted in her earlier life in New York City. Before pivoting to design, Nikki spent years as a professional improviser with a background in Theater and Sociology—disciplines that taught her how to navigate complex human systems and collaborate in real-time. **Hosts** This event is hosted by [Docplanner](https://www.docplanner.com), a global healthcare platform focused on making access to care simpler, from discovery to booking. They design tools for both patients and clinics, shaping how millions of people experience healthcare every day. **Location:** Docplanner, Omron Europe, [Carrer de Josep Pla, 2, Sant Martí, 08019 Barcelona](https://www.google.com/maps/place//data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x12a4a35a284a30e3:0xffdc5d7e01ee12a?sa=X&ved=1t:8290&ictx=111) **To join us, just:** ✅ RSVP here on Meetup ✅ Answer [this form](https://48db4b2d.sibforms.com/serve/MUIFALfB0bn_p1G9zS7yYICl8fr4aT-cjBYl7Ow1DKvi6gv1FzDSE3Dt9fmIH5k78PONlJNEn2S6UnpOuo_VNIeUd69dkI5RJ0kaw7TjtxPjtwYy8KKc80BkMTozTqyRXiKCcXK9G8y-NccOB4S1Ci0SPkuWLJ5BCVWC80yGZ9bhinpCpoBKNV5cyovr3wH4BWM1_lNTf8IsVTvO) **What’s Happening?** * Keynote Talk: Nikki Plyem * Hope in the Age of AI: How Your Design System Just Might Save You * Hosts: Docplanner * Interactive Q&A: Get your questions answered * Community Networking: Connect with fellow designers, AI specialists, and UX thinkers **Details:** **🗓️ Date**: Tuesday, April 28, 2026 **⏰ Time:** 18:30–21:30 📍 **Location:** Omron Europe, [Carrer de Josep Pla, 2, Sant Martí, 08019 Barcelona](https://www.google.com/maps/place//data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x12a4a35a284a30e3:0xffdc5d7e01ee12a?sa=X&ved=1t:8290&ictx=111) **Why You’ll Love It:** A discussion about hope for the future of AI and UX. **Agenda:** **18:30 – Door Opens** **19:00 – Introduction** **19:15–20:00 – Talk & Q&A** **20:00–21:30 – Socialization & Fun!** **Educational partner:** [Interaction Design Foundation](https://www.interaction-design.org/turn-passion-into-paycheck?ep=ux-salon-bcn) [Uxcel](https://uxcel.com/) **P.S.** Please make sure to show up on time. **If we reach full capacity, we'll not be able to let you in**, even if you have a ticket!

We're back again with another awesome Swift Barcelona event—this time in **Talent Garden,** where we will focus on augmented experiences with **visionOS** and **Meta AI Glasses.** **Juan Moya: Why Spatial UX Remains Deeply Human** AI can help us make XR apps functional and faster than ever —but it’s human perception and empathy that can make them memorable and enjoyable **Kelvin: Harron: Phones Away, Glasses On! The Making of DUMBO Spatial Guide** How we built a public art spatial guide for Meta AI glasses, comparing computer vision approaches and sharing what we learned about designing for a glasses-first experience. More TBC Huge thanks to L+R for the sponsorship and to Talent Garden for hosting and supporting our community.

Hello everyone!!! Let's play beach volleyball 🏐 on a sunny day! Let's meet new people, expand our social circle, and have a fun time through beach volleyball! We recommend bringing a towel and a drink. Please come in casual clothes. This event is free and beginners are welcome to join. I would like to remind you that registration on the Meetup page is mandatory to attend an event. I also want to emphasize that proper and appropriate behavior is required for all proposed activities, and that if this is not the case, the organizers reserve the right to refuse admission. Spam of any kind is not permitted. Contact us via WhatsApp: 633 90 64 00 or if you have any questions. We look forward to your participation. 😉 ¡Hola a todos! ¡Juguemos vóley playa 🏐 en un día soleado! Conozcamos gente nueva, ampliemos nuestro círculo social y divirtámonos jugando al vóley playa. Recomendamos traer toalla y bebida. Por favor, vengan con ropa informal. Este evento es gratuito y los principiantes son bienvenidos. Les recordamos que es obligatorio registrarse en la página de Meetup para asistir al evento. También queremos enfatizar que se requiere un comportamiento adecuado en todas las actividades propuestas, y que, de no ser así, los organizadores se reservan el derecho de admisión. No se permite ningún tipo de spam. Contáctenos por WhatsApp: 633 90 64 00 o si tienen alguna pregunta. ¡Esperamos contar con su participación! 😉

Únete a la comunidad de GDG Barcelona y Flutter Barcelona en un encuentro técnico presencial en el campus de 42 Barcelona, donde exploraremos las últimas novedades del ecosistema Flutter y Dart. En esta sesión, Óscar presentará cómo crear tu primer plugin para Dart Analyzer utilizando el nuevo sistema de plugins introducido en las versiones recientes de Dart y Flutter. Aprenderás cómo definir reglas de lint personalizadas para mejorar la calidad del código en tus proyectos, así como a implementar quick-fixes automáticos que faciliten la adopción de buenas prácticas dentro de los equipos de desarrollo. Esta charla está especialmente dirigida a desarrolladores Flutter con conocimientos básicos o intermedios de Dart que deseen profundizar en herramientas avanzadas de productividad y calidad de código. ✨ Qué aprenderás: • Diferencias entre el nuevo sistema de plugins del analyzer y el enfoque anterior • Cómo crear reglas de lint personalizadas según los estándares de tu equipo • Cómo automatizar correcciones mediante quick-fixes • Buenas prácticas para escalar la calidad del código en proyectos Flutter 📍 Evento presencial – Networking con la comunidad incluido. 🎟️ Plazas limitadas con inscripción previa obligatoria. Agenda --- Speaker Óscar Martín Martín - Very Good Ventures (Senior Developer) Hosted By Joan Fuentes, Mobile software engineer Rosemarie Garcia, UX UI Designer Ekaterina Nosova, Product Manager Founder of Relato Network, expat in Barcelona, learning Catala, castellera. GDG Barcelona, Marcia Paola Rodriguez Briceño, Marketing & Tech Consultant Consultora de Marketing Digital y aplicación de herramientas digitales para impulsar marcas. Diseño tu plan de acción con las principales tácticas en marketing y las mejores herramientas digitales para que optimices tu presupuesto e impulses tu negocio. Digital Marketing Consultant and Application of Digital Tools to Boost Brands. I design your action plan with key marketing tactics and the best digital tools to optimize your budget and boost your business. Dani GN, Tech nerd Romina Elena Mendez Escobar, Cloud Soy Cloud & AI Architect con experiencia diseñando soluciones distribuidas en entornos multicloud, edge y on-premise, aplicando prácticas de MLOps, automatización y Generative AI. He liderado proyectos en sectores como salud, genómica, fintech, energía, turismo, automoción, retail, arte, construcción y sector público. Como docente universitaria, dicté materias como Inteligencia Artificial y Computación en la Nube, y actualmente me desempeño como tutora de tesis en temáticas como Big Data, NLP, infraestructura cloud y analítica avanzada, acompañando a estudiantes en el desarrollo de soluciones técnicas conectadas con desafíos reales de la industria. Formo parte de comunidades globales como AWS Community Builders y Google Women Techmakers, desde donde promuevo la divulgación tecnológica con enfoque en diversidad, educación técnica y liderazgo femenino. Además, soy speaker, mentora técnica y creadora de contenido, enfocada en compartir conocimiento aplicado a través de artículos, workshops y soluciones reproducibles sobre arquitectura de datos, herramientas open source, migración, automatización y aplicaciones de IA generativa. Me apasiona combinar innovación tecnológica con impacto social, colaborando en iniciativas que integran datos abiertos, ética en IA y educación accesible. Samar El souki, Product Designer With 6 years of experience in UX design, I craft user-centered solutions by combining research, wireframing, and prototyping to deliver intuitive and impactful digital experiences. Lizzeth Quinteros, Platform Engineering Lead Gabriela Soto, Data Management Specialist Software Engineer with 12+ years of experience in software development, including application life cycles and modern design. Skilled in analyzing workflows, business logic, and leading development teams while emphasizing best practices and communication. Active volunteer in tech communities addressing gender gap in STEAM and promoting social inclusion. --- Partners 42 Barcelona Fundacion Telefónica (https://www.42barcelona.com/) 42 Barcelona es el campus de programación más innovador y gratuito que te abre las puertas al mercado laboral. Con una metodología revolucionaria y una duración media de tres años, está abierto las 24 horas del día, 7 días a la semana para que puedas aprender a tu ritmo. Flutter community --- Complete your event RSVP here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-barcelona-presents-flutter-amp-gdg-barcelona-tech-talk-creando-tu-primer-plugin-de-dart-analyzer/.

Bring your Raspberry Pi, Arduino, microcontroller, or any other electronic project and join fellow electronics makers for a night of creativity and collaboration! This session is open forum to share your current projects—whether complete or in progress, it’s all interesting! Whether you’re deep into embedded systems, exploring new ideas, or just getting started, you’ll find a welcoming space to collaborate, share, and get inspired. **New to electronics or curious about tinkering?** You’re absolutely welcome. If you’re a beginner and want to experiment, I’ll have a couple of starter kits available so you can try things out—whether that’s blinking your first LED, putting something on a display, or experimenting with simple sensors. No pressure and no experience required—just an interest in learning and building. While we continue to pursue a more permanent venue for this Meetup, we’ll be using public library facilities based on availability. This session will be at the Worthington Park Library in the Olentangy Meeting Room.

Bring your Raspberry Pi, Arduino, microcontroller, or any other electronic project and join fellow electronics makers for a night of creativity and collaboration! This session is open forum to share your current projects—whether complete or in progress, it’s all interesting! Whether you’re deep into embedded systems, exploring new ideas, or just getting started, you’ll find a welcoming space to collaborate, share, and get inspired. **New to electronics or curious about tinkering?** You’re absolutely welcome. If you’re a beginner and want to experiment, I’ll have a couple of starter kits available so you can try things out—whether that’s blinking your first LED, putting something on a display, or experimenting with simple sensors. No pressure and no experience required—just an interest in learning and building. While we continue to pursue a more permanent venue for this Meetup, we’ll be using public library facilities based on availability. This session will be at the Worthington Park Library in the Olentangy Meeting Room.

When judging morality, should we prioritize **intentions/duty** or **outcomes/results**? It introduces two influential philosophers as representatives of these approaches. * **Immanuel Kant (deontology):** An action is moral when it is done from **duty** and follows rational, universal principles (the **categorical imperative**). Certain acts—like lying—are wrong regardless of the consequences; you can’t do a wrong thing for a right reason. * **John Stuart Mill (utilitarian consequentialism):** The morality of an action is determined by its **effects**, specifically how much **happiness/well-being** it produces. Mill argues that some pleasures are “higher” than others, and that good intentions don’t redeem harmful outcomes. ## Discussion Questions 1. **The lying dilemma:** A murderer comes to your door and asks if your friend is hiding inside. Kant would say you must not lie. 2. **Can good intentions rescue a bad outcome?** 3. **The organ harvest problem:** A surgeon has five patients dying of organ failure and one healthy patient in for a checkup. Killing the one to harvest organs would save five lives, and the math works out for the utilitarian. Why does this feel so deeply wrong? Is that feeling a point in Kant's favor, or just a bias we should overcome? 4. **Do rules need exceptions?** Kant insists moral rules must be universal, with no exceptions. But most of us can imagine extreme scenarios where any rule seems like it should bend. Does the need for exceptions fatally undermine deontology, or is the strength of the system precisely that it refuses to bend? 5. **Who gets to calculate the consequences?** Utilitarianism asks us to maximize good outcomes, but we're notoriously bad at predicting consequences. If we can't reliably know the results of our actions, is it practical to base our entire moral system on outcomes? Does this uncertainty push us back toward rules and principles? 6. **Everyday morality:** Think about a real moral decision you've made recently, even a small one. Did you reason more like a Kantian (what's the right thing to do in principle?) or more like a utilitarian (what will produce the best result?)? Do most people naturally lean one way? 7. **Justice vs. the greater good:** A town can prevent a deadly plague by sacrificing one innocent person. The greater good is clearly served. But is it just? Can an action be morally right and deeply unjust at the same time? 8. **The big synthesis question:** Are these two systems actually opposed, or do they often arrive at the same answers by different paths? Is it possible that we need both: rules to guide us in the moment and consequences to evaluate systems and policies over time?

It feels like we just saw each other 🤷. Join members of the local design and UX community for our monthly breakfast. For May we’re stopping in for Rooh’s popup breakfast/cafe concept. You know someone is getting the lobster yuzu croissant, and that’s not even the prettiest thing on the menu!.

It’s time to take control of your mental health. How do you get rid of stress, anxiety and uncertainty? These emotions are buried deep in your reactive mind. Find out what the reactive mind is, and in the process find yourself. Have you ever suffered from a traumatic experience, a deep loss or been through a painful breakup? Has your ability to communicate suffered as a result? And after that, even though you "moved on" did you find that things were never quite the same? Have you ever looked at childhood photos, or reminisced your early life and wondered where that happiness and spark went? Are your emotions out of your own control? Have you ever felt, even if you aren’t aware of it, that possibly you are getting in your own way of your happiness and success? How does this affect your self-confidence? Find out what is at the root of all stress, anxiety, depression and self-doubt. Find out how and why you hold yourself back from achieving your goals and having the life you have dreamed of. As soon as you learn what is at the root of these unwanted conditions, you’ll see it is something you can DO something about. You will not be labeled or categorized at this MeetUp.

## Candle Making Night at The Arcane Foundry \| Design Your Own Custom Candle **SPECIAL PROMOTION**: Buy 3 and get 1 Free! Step into The Arcane Foundry and create your own custom candle from start to finish. This is a laid back, hands-on experience where **you’ll blend fragrances, choose your vessel, and pour your own candle using 100% soy wax**. Whether you’re coming solo or with friends, it’s designed to be simple, creative, and a good time. We’ll walk you through the entire process, from picking your scents to choosing between a traditional cotton wick or a crackling wood wick. You can go with one fragrance or mix your own blend to create something completely unique**. No experience needed**, just show up and we’ll handle the rest. While your candle sets, feel free to hang out, play a game, explore the shop, or just relax and talk. Drinks and snacks are available, and the atmosphere leans into the **fantasy**, **dark academia**, and **gothic horror** vibe The Arcane Foundry is known for. Learn More: [Candle Making in Columbus, Ohio at The Arcane Foundry](https://thearcanefoundry.com/candle-making/) *** ### What to Expect: * Guided candle making experience * Choose your own vessel, wax, wick, and fragrance * 100% soy wax candles * Optional drinks and snacks * Time to relax while your candle cools *** ### Important Notes: * Please arrive on time so we can start together * Candles will need time to set before taking home * This is a beginner-friendly event *** ### RSVP Required Reserve your spot on Meetup to lock in your seat. **Candle Making** (includes vessel, your choice of wick, wax, scented oil, labels and lids) 5oz Glass Jars $15 8oz Candle Tins $25 12oz Glass Candles $35 12oz Amber Jars $40 16 oz Skull or Jack o Lantern Candle Mugs $65 (Limited Edition!) **All materials included. You just bring yourself (and your drink of choice).** **Payments accepted:** * Credit Card * Venmo: @Daclaud-Lee * Cashapp: $DaclaudL

⚠️ **IMPORTANT: You must sign up and buy a ticket here to attend:** [https://groupvibe.com/](https://groupvibe.com/) **Join the Columbus City Brunch Club and make new friends!** Each meetup brings together 4–6 people for casual conversations over brunch. We use the Groupvibe platform to facilitate the meetup and ensure everyone’s a good fit. 👉 **To attend, you’ll need to complete registration via this link:** [https://groupvibe.com/](https://groupvibe.com/) We’ll share the exact location of the upcoming meetup the night before only if you have bought a ticket or membership plan. **Why this works:** \* Smaller groups make real conversations easier. \* Discover new restaurants in your city, together. \* Curated lunch venues with good food and vibe. \* If you hit it off with your group, there’s plenty of time to hang out afterwards. **Note:** RSVPs on Meetup don’t reflect total attendance. Many attendees register directly via our website. The event on [Meetup.com](http://meetup.com/) is only a placeholder. This meetup is organized by Groupvibe, a small team passionate about helping people form meaningful friendships offline.