eyeveebee https://eyeveebee.dev Imma Valls Thu, 29 Oct 2026 15:35:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.11 https://eyeveebee.dev/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/cropped-ico_eyeveebee-32x32.png eyeveebee https://eyeveebee.dev 32 32 Getting started with OpenTelemetry instrumentation: A practical playbook https://eyeveebee.dev/getting-started-with-opentelemetry-instrumentation-a-practical-playbook Thu, 29 Oct 2026 02:47:00 +0000 https://eyeveebee.dev/?p=6261

Workshop delivered with Arthur Picerna at Dutch Cloud Native Day 2026.

OpenTelemetry has become an essential open source framework for standardizing telemetry data. In this beginner-friendly hands-on lab, you’ll walk through the journey of instrumenting an application with OpenTelemetry and sending metrics, logs, and traces to the Grafana LGTM stack (Loki for logs, Grafana for visualization, Tempo for traces, and Prometheus for metrics).

You’ll learn common instrumentation approaches, such as adding application-level telemetry using the OpenTelemetry SDK, collecting basic infrastructure metrics with the OpenTelemetry Collector, and implementing cross-service communication with zero-code eBPF instrumentation. You’ll also apply practical customization techniques, such as enriching and sampling spans, tuning metrics, and adding your own signals when auto-instrumentation isn’t enough.

By instrumenting a sample application step by step, you’ll leave this lab with a clear roadmap for choosing the right OpenTelemetry instrumentation approach within your own environment.

By the end of the three hours, you will:

  • Have a core understanding of the OpenTelemetry project and its key components
  • Select the right level of instrumentation based on various use cases
  • Understand how zero-code eBPF instrumentation helps reveal cross-service communication
  • Instrument applications using OpenTelemetry SDKs
  • Apply end-to-end instrumentation patterns to get started quickly and improve over time
  • Send telemetry to the Grafana stack and understand how it’s used

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Shift Left with Reliability Testing: A Hands-on Introduction to k6 https://eyeveebee.dev/shift-left-with-reliability-testing-a-hands-on-introduction-to-k6 Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:36:00 +0000 https://eyeveebee.dev/?p=6256

Workshop delivered with Tom Donohue at Cloud Native Days Nowrway 2026

Incidents are expensive, stressful, and lead to poor user experiences. The good news is that they’re also preventable. With the right tools and practices, you can uncover and address performance issues before they affect your users.

Performance issues are easier to address when you find them before your users do. In this beginner-friendly, hands-on workshop, you’ll learn how to combine load testing and observability to understand how your applications behave under load.

You’ll write and run k6 scripts, simulate API traffic, define checks and performance thresholds, and analyze results in Grafana to identify potential bottlenecks.

We’ll then explore how to scale beyond a single machine using the k6 Operator to orchestrate distributed load tests on Kubernetes.

By the end of this two-hour workshop, you’ll be able to:

  • Write and run k6 scripts to test APIs under load.
  • Use checks and thresholds to evaluate responses and performance.
  • Interpret test results in Grafana.
  • Understand how the k6 Operator distributes tests across Kubernetes runners.

Requirements:

  • Laptop with WiFi, a browser, terminal, and code editor
  • Git
  • Docker with Docker Compose
  • kind and kubectl – kind runs the local Kubernetes cluster using Docker

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How to create an effective Call for Papers (CFPs) https://eyeveebee.dev/how-to-create-an-effective-call-for-papers-cfps Thu, 22 Oct 2026 15:14:14 +0000 https://eyeveebee.dev/?p=6234

This talk was presented at the Grafana Labs Community Champions call.

You don’t need to know everything about a topic to have something worth sharing. Your experiences, lessons learned, and side projects can be the starting point for a conference talk—but how do you turn them into a compelling proposal?

This session introduces a practical five-step framework for preparing a Call for Proposals (CFP) submission: identify the right event, understand its audience, find your story, research its relevance, and brainstorm and shortlist your ideas. We’ll also explore local meetups as a starting point and how AI can support your research.

Whether you’re considering your first submission or looking for a clearer approach, you’ll leave with a framework to help you choose a relevant topic and take the next step toward sharing it.

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OpAMP and Fleet Management (Grafana ❤️‍🔥 OpenTelemetry Community Call #11) https://eyeveebee.dev/becoming-an-otelhttp-code-owner-grafana-%e2%9d%a4%ef%b8%8f%f0%9f%94%a5-opentelemetry-community-call-10-2 Wed, 21 Oct 2026 15:19:11 +0000 https://eyeveebee.dev/?p=6248

The preparation checklist available here.

RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/grafana-friends-virtual-meetup-group/events/316934660

We’re back with the new Grafana ❤️‍🔥OpenTelemetry Community Call!

In this episode of the Grafana OTel Community Call, we’re joined by Bejal Lewis and Paschalis Tsilias from Grafana Labs to talk about OpAMP, the Open Agent Management Protocol, and what it takes to manage OpenTelemetry Collectors at scale. We’ll cover what OpAMP is and why fleet management matters, where the spec stands today (it’s still pre-release), and what it was like building production tooling on top of it.

We’ll also look at what went into adding the OpAMP extension to Grafana Alloy’s OTel Engine, what “GA” means for Grafana Fleet Management versus the maturity of the upstream spec, and where OpAMP is headed next.

Guests:

Host:

This event will be livestreamed on YouTube and published at the same link after the fact: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYLxme3CoZg

Join the conversation, bring your questions, and learn how OpenTelemetry evolves with contributions from across the community.

#opentelemetry #opamp #collector #grafana #observability

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AI Socratic Barcelona | October 2026 https://eyeveebee.dev/ai-socratic-barcelona-october-2026 Wed, 21 Oct 2026 15:14:29 +0000 https://eyeveebee.dev/?p=6243

RSVP: https://luma.com/xrfnq6gw

AI Socratic Barcelona is a monthly gathering for AI practitioners, researchers, builders, educators, and design thinkers shaping the Barcelona AI ecosystem.

​As an AI Socratic chapter, we run Socratic dialogues on the latest developments in AI: new models and architectures, breakthrough research, agentic ecosystems, socio-technical alignment, philosophy, and geopolitics.

​We believe the most profound insights happen when diverse perspectives share the same room. Whether your background is in engineering, research, product, ethics, art, or education—if you care about AI and its trajectory, you belong here.

​This is our second Socratic Dialogues session, and we want to thank Clovr Labs for kindly hosting us.

​Attendance & Participation

​To keep discussions interactive and meaningful, space is limited, and we review every application. We are not looking for specific job titles, corporate hierarchy, or elite backgrounds. We look for curiosity, diverse points of view, depth of thought, and willingness to contribute to a shared conversation.

​The event runs in English 🇬🇧 unless everyone in the room is comfortable speaking Spanish/Catalan.

​Agenda

​How the Conversations Work

​We open with informal networking so you can connect with people in the room before the main session begins.

​The core dialogue centers on the latest AI Socratic monthly themes published on our blog, leaving plenty of room for the threads, questions, and technical deep dives that matter most to the attendees.

​Everyone is encouraged to contribute. We moderate the sessions to ensure a flowing, balanced discussion where every voice has space to be heard.

​We close the evening with short, high-fidelity technical demos and presentations. Submit yours here.

​Code of Conduct

​AI Socratic Barcelona is built on the premise that better ideas emerge when we build on diverse perspectives. The Code of Conduct ensures the vision is real, safe, and actionable for everyone.

​Who this is for:

​Everyone: attendees, speakers, hosts, facilitators, and guests. No exceptions.

​What we cultivate:

  • ​Be curious, not combative. Challenge ideas, hypotheses, and architectures—never the person presenting them. The Socratic method thrives on collective good faith.
  • ​Make room for others. If you naturally lean toward speaking, practice active listening. If you notice a perspective being sidelined, help invite them into the conversation.
  • ​Respect identities and expertise. Avoid assumptions about what someone knows (or doesn’t know) based on their background, role, accent, or appearance.
  • ​Constructive engagement. Offer feedback and insights thoughtfully, ensuring discussions remain collaborative and respectful of everyone’s ongoing work.

​What has no place here:

  • ​Harassment or exclusionary behavior of any kind, including comments related to gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, ethnicity, religion, or age. This applies to dialogues, presentations, networking, and digital channels.
  • ​Disruptive behavior, including sexualized imagery or language, deliberate intimidation, persistent interruption, or taking photos/recordings without explicit consent.

​Accountability:

​If you experience or witness anything that compromises the safety or inclusivity of the space, please speak directly with an organizer or reach out via aisocraticbarcelona@gmail.com. All conversations will be handled with strict confidentiality.

​Anyone asked to stop a specific behavior is expected to do so immediately. Persistent violations will result in removal from the event and future editions.

​The Short Version:

​Treat everyone in the room with the empathy, respect, and openness you would want if you were the only person holding your specific viewpoint or background.

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AI for Allyship and Inclusion: Supporting CNCF Communities with Context-Aware AI https://eyeveebee.dev/ai-for-allyship-and-inclusion-supporting-cncf-communities-with-context-aware-ai Mon, 19 Oct 2026 01:04:00 +0000 https://eyeveebee.dev/?p=6227

This lightning talk was presented at KCD Edinburgh 2026.

Companion repo: https://github.com/immavalls/ai-for-allyship

Using GenAI to draft community emails or presentation assets should save organizers time. However, default models often create a manual review loop where we can’t miss those nuances. Standard LLMs frequently fall back on biases: generating meetup images of only white men, missing gender-neutral nuances in non-English languages, or adopting an exclusionary tone that alienates underrepresented groups. To prevent this constant rework, we need to embed allyship skills and context directly into our AI tools. This talk explores how to design and build context-aware AI assistants tailored for community operations. We will look at how to inject the right cultural context, linguistic rules, and guardrails so your AI tools can catch exclusionary language and evaluate event assets for representation bias out of the box. Attendees will walk away with actionable blueprints to teach their own AI tools these vital allyship skills, shifting the operational burden away from manual human review.

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Where are the others? A weekend at Extremadura Digital Day https://eyeveebee.dev/where-are-the-others-a-weekend-at-extremadura-digital-day Wed, 07 Oct 2026 07:53:57 +0000 https://eyeveebee.dev/?p=6186 Cáceres is not exactly around the corner from Barcelona.

Getting there takes time. Quite a lot of it, actually.

And yet, after spending a couple of days around Extremadura Digital Day, my main thought when leaving was: I would absolutely come back.

Not because it was the biggest conference I’ve attended, or because of some spectacular production. What stayed with me was something much simpler: how much the people organizing it seemed to care.

About the speakers. About the attendees. About the community. And, particularly close to my heart, about who gets to be part of that community.

It started before the conference

This wasn’t my first trip to Cáceres, and my relationship with this community didn’t start with EDD.

ed to Cáceres to deliver a GET /Speaking workshop with Women in APIs, one of the workshops we run to help people turn their experience into a conference proposal and take their first steps into public speaking. Daniel Castañera and Francisco Hermoso from the EDD organization helped us make it happen: finding the venue, attending the workshop, and generally making us feel welcome.

It started with a podcast between Almudena Vivanco and Julia Durán, where Julia mentioned “Why don’t we have things like GET /Speaking here in Cáceres”?. And the EDD organization helped us make it happen. They helped us find a venue, joined the workshop and, more importantly, made us feel that we weren’t simply bringing an activity to Cáceres. We were connecting with a local community.

There was another connection too. The people behind EDD used to organize DevOpsDays Cáceres, and I’m now one of the organizers of DevOpsDays Barcelona. So we already spoke a little bit of the same community language.

When the EDD CFP opened a few months later, applying felt natural. Nobody invited me to speak. I went through the CFP like everybody else. But this time I knew something about the people who would be on the other side of that submission.

And I knew exactly which talk I wanted to send them.

¿Dónde están las demás? El impacto del sesgo de supervivencia en nuestro sector.

Not because it was the safest talk to submit, but almost the opposite.

This is probably the most personal talk I give. It asks why some of us have managed to stay in tech for decades while so many others have disappeared along the way. And from what I’d already seen of this community — including the effort EDD was making to reach women through the CFP — it felt like the right place to have that conversation.

There was one more first for me: after evolving this talk for a year and a half, Cáceres would be the first place where I delivered it in Spanish.

A conference where care is visible

The organizers were incredibly attentive even before we arrived.

On Friday, a coworking space was available for those of us already in Cáceres. There was breakfast waiting for us. They took us to lunch. Later, Almudena Vivanco ran her practical workshop on chaos engineering and resilience.

These may sound like small things, but if you’ve ever organized a conference, you know what the day before looks like. There are a thousand things going wrong simultaneously.

Somehow, they still found time to look after us.

That continued throughout Saturday. The volunteers were always around to guide attendees, answer questions and make sure speakers had what we needed. Water, directions, information, help with questions from attendees… always with a smile.

Even the conference app was really useful for navigating the agenda and the venue. And what a venue.

EDD took place at the Complejo Cultural San Francisco, a conference and cultural complex built around the former Monasterio de San Francisco el Real, whose origins date back to the 15th century. Walking from one technical session to another through its historic cloisters was quite something.

The care wasn’t one big spectacular gesture. It was visible in lots of small ones.

Diversity doesn’t just happen

One of the reasons I submitted this particular talk was something EDD had done before the conference even started. The organizers had actively reached out to women’s communities to encourage people to submit to the CFP.

The result? 19 of the 25 speakers were women. That’s 76%.

What I liked was that nobody created a special diversity track off to one side. Women were simply… everywhere. Talking about AI, performance, testing, infrastructure, careers and all the other subjects you’d expect at a technology conference.

Plenty of women were in the audience too.

This isn’t formal research, just an observation from years of attending and organizing communities. At many cloud-native and DevOps events I’ve been part of, women can still be a very small minority. I’ve also repeatedly noticed something interesting in the meetups I help organize: when women are visible among the speakers, more women seem to attend.

I don’t think we can draw a simple line of causality between those two things. But representation matters. Seeing people like you on stage makes it easier to imagine yourself belonging in the room.

EDD also thought about inclusion in other practical ways. They offered free activities for adults and children, with a STEM component, so parents could attend while their kids had something interesting to do.

Removing barriers doesn’t always require a grand initiative. Sometimes it starts by asking who isn’t here, and why?

¿Dónde están las demás?

This is probably my favorite talk to deliver. And it keeps evolving each time. The starting point is uncomfortable because it requires looking at ourselves.

I’ve spent almost 30 years in technology. I’m still here. It would be very easy for me to look at my own career and conclude:

I managed, so other women can too.

But that’s survivorship bias. The much more interesting question is: Where are the women who aren’t here anymore? And what can I learn from their stories?

Preparing and evolving this talk has sent me on my own journey towards becoming a better ally.

Intersectionality and tools such as the Wheel of Privilege have helped me understand that my experience isn’t the experience of women in tech.

I’ve started listening much more carefully to stories that aren’t mine: migrants, career changers, women of different skin colors and backgrounds, people encountering barriers I haven’t personally experienced. That doesn’t invalidate my story. It puts it in context and helps me understand what systemic change should look like.

After the talk, several women came to speak with me. Some particularly connected with the survivorship-bias perspective. Others appreciated that I had explicitly talked about the experience of migrants. Those conversations are one of the reasons this talk keeps changing every time I deliver it.

You can find the talk and resources on my website and the full deck on Speaker Deck.

Nobody gets here alone

One of my favorite slides comes near the end. It’s a heart made of the names of people who have been my allies.

These are people who, at different moments in my life and career, helped me get here.

People who opened doors, taught me something, encouraged me, challenged me, advocated for me or simply helped me continue.

I think that matters when talking about survivorship bias. If I’m going to say “look, I survived”, I also need to acknowledge all the people and circumstances that made my survival more likely.

None of us gets here entirely alone.

And then four young women took the stage

One of my favorite moments of the entire conference happened immediately after my talk.

Four students presented Flood Detector, a low-cost system designed to detect rising water levels and warn communities about potential flooding.

And they didn’t come on stage with just an idea. They had built it.

They talked about water-level sensors, Arduino, LoRa communications, automated alerts, coverage and cost. They had thought about how the devices could communicate with each other and how warnings could ultimately reach people.

This was a real engineering project addressing a real problem. It reminded me of Technovation, groups of young women building tech projects for a better world.

There was something particularly lovely about watching them right after spending fifteen minutes asking:

Where are the others?

Four students presenting one project at one conference obviously don’t solve the gender gap in technology. But I couldn’t have planned a better session to follow mine.

Put young women on a technology stage. Let younger kids experiment with STEM. Put women throughout the technical program. Make it completely ordinary for the people attending to see them there. That’s part of how we create the possibility of a very different answer to “Where are the others?” in the future.

I loved their project. And I loved seeing them own that stage.

And yes, there were technical talks too

I spent much of the rest of the day doing what I came to EDD to do: listening and learning.

Javier Alonso Gómez opened the day with a very entertaining and deliberately provocative argument around AI agents: perhaps we need to embrace being lazy, let AI do more of the work and confront the reality that we won’t necessarily review everything it produces.

Guillermo Ruiz gave a great session on performance and why performance is fundamentally a design problem, rather than something we simply solve by throwing more hardware at it.

Marisa Martín Serrano showed Workita, the AI companion she has been building for job searching with Claude and Genkit. I particularly like talks where the speaker has actually built what they’re discussing, rather than only talking about what AI might theoretically do.

Maximiliano Mannise explored testing in the age of AI and what changes when AI becomes part of how we build software.

I would have liked to attend more sessions, but parallel tracks remain one of the unsolved problems at tech conferences.

Conferences are mostly people

Of course, the talks are only part of why I go to conferences.

I traveled there with my good friend Almudena Vivanco, caught up with brave women like Julia Durán and Guillermo Ruiz. Finally met Maximiliano Mannise in person, closing the circle!

There were conversations with María Sánchez, Marisa Martín Serrano, and even people who had attended our earlier GET /Speaking workshop. I met Mia Salazar, with whom I immediately clicked. And it looks like that conversation is going to turn into something in Madrid. And I got to spend more time with Daniel Castañera, Francisco Hermoso, Raúl Bordallo, and the people behind EDD. Particularly impressed with the EDD app that Sergio Fernández built for the conference!

That’s probably my favorite part of community events: revisiting relationships that started somewhere else while unexpectedly starting new ones.

A workshop leads to a conference. A conference conversation leads to something in Madrid. Someone sitting in an audience this year may be standing on its stage next year. I’m particularly hoping to see Julia Durán do exactly that in Valencia at VLC Tech Fest in 2027 😉

A tiny bit of Extremadura

And because we’d traveled all the way from Barcelona, we couldn’t leave without seeing at least a little of Extremadura. Almudena and I managed to explore some of Mérida, including its extraordinary Roman remains and bridge. I can only thanks her for taking me there!

And Cáceres gave us a beautiful old town that deserves considerably more time than we had available.

It was enough to make me want another visit.

Although perhaps next time somebody could move Cáceres a little closer to Barcelona.

Worth the journey

I’ve been to a lot of conferences. The things I remember afterward aren’t usually the expensive ones.

I remember somebody making sure you have what you need before your talk. A volunteer smiling while solving a problem. Breakfast waiting at a coworking space. A conversation with someone you’ve just met. A room where women don’t feel unusual. School students explaining how their flood detection system communicates over LoRa.

Those things don’t happen entirely by accident. They happen because somebody cared enough to create the conditions for them.

Cáceres is a long trip from Barcelona.

I’d make it again.

Thank you to everyone behind Extremadura Digital Day, especially to the organizers and volunteers who made us feel so welcome.

See you again, I hope ❤️

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Automating the Toil, Not the Community: AI-Assisted OpenTelemetry Docs Localization https://eyeveebee.dev/automating-the-toil-not-the-community-ai-assisted-opentelemetry-docs-localization Sun, 04 Oct 2026 23:30:58 +0000 https://eyeveebee.dev/?p=6173

This talk was presented at Observability Summit EU 2026.

Localization is a powerful, although often overlooked, gateway to open-source contribution. For projects like OpenTelemetry, translating documentation forces you to dive deep into the project, understand the core terminology, and navigate your first pull request.

It is a brilliant way to build confidence, until the friction hits. Managing formatting, context-switching, and OTel glossary alignment can easily turn a single-page translation into a repetitive 4-hour task. The cognitive toil is real, and it can cause localization efforts to stall.

What if we could automate the drag while preserving the human connection?

In this lightning talk, we will explore an AI-powered workflow that abstracts away the mechanical overhead of OpenTelemetry documentation localization while keeping the human in the loop.

We’ll close with an open question for the ecosystem: If we lower the friction of contributing through automation, do we dilute the learning experience? Or can we actually make localization efforts sustainable, allowing new contributors to focus on learning about the project rather than fighting the linter?

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¿Dónde están las demás? El impacto del sesgo de supervivencia en nuestro sector https://eyeveebee.dev/donde-estan-las-demas-el-impacto-del-sesgo-de-supervivencia-en-nuestro-sector Fri, 02 Oct 2026 22:05:24 +0000 https://eyeveebee.dev/?p=6169

This talk was presented at Extremadura Digital Day 2026.

¿Alguna vez te has preguntado por qué, a pesar de los esfuerzos, las cifras de diversidad en el mundo tecnológico apenas se mueven? Solemos celebrar a quienes han llegado a lo más alto tras superar obstáculos. Si bien su visibilidad es fundamental, a menudo cometemos un error de base: ignorar el sesgo de supervivencia. Miramos a quienes están, pero olvidamos por qué parte del talento se quedó por el camino.

Los datos son claros: hasta la mitad de las mujeres abandona el sector antes de los 35 años. Esta tasa de abandono es mucho mayor que la de los perfiles masculinos, sin contar a quienes nunca llegan a incorporarse debido a las barreras de entrada invisibles.

En esta charla de 15 minutos, aterrizaremos conceptos como la interseccionalidad para entender que no siempre se juega con las mismas cartas y cómo el sistema expulsa el talento de forma silenciosa. Veremos por qué el allyship (o la alianza real) no es una medalla que ponerse ni una cuestión de cortesía, sino la herramienta técnica y humana necesaria para que el éxito en nuestro sector deje de ser una carrera de obstáculos y pase a ser una cuestión de talento.

Esta sesión está pensada para cualquier persona del sector que sienta inquietud ante la falta de diversidad y quiera comprender sus causas. Quienes asistan se llevarán una nueva perspectiva sobre los mecanismos invisibles que expulsan el talento y aprenderán cómo la alianza real puede ser el motor de un cambio profundo, logrando que prosperar en nuestra industria deje de ser una carrera de resistencia individual y se convierta en una realidad compartida.

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AI Socratic Barcelona | September 2026 https://eyeveebee.dev/ai-socratic-barcelona-september-2026 Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:58:48 +0000 https://eyeveebee.dev/?p=6162

RSVP: https://luma.com/4wxixtxi

AI Socratic Barcelona is a monthly gathering for AI practitioners, researchers, builders, educators, and design thinkers shaping the Barcelona AI ecosystem.

​As a chapter of AI Socratic, we run Socratic dialogues on the latest developments in AI: new models and architectures, breakthrough research, agentic ecosystems, socio-technical alignment, philosophy, and geopolitics.

​We believe the most profound insights happen when diverse perspectives share the same room. Whether your background is in engineering, research, product, ethics, art, or education—if you care about AI and its trajectory, you belong here.

​This is our second Socratic Dialogues session, and we want to thank Runroom for kindly hosting us.

​Attendance & Participation

​To keep discussions interactive and meaningful, space is limited, and we review every application. We are not looking for specific job titles, corporate hierarchy, or elite backgrounds. We look for curiosity, diverse points of view, depth of thought, and willingness to contribute to a shared conversation.

​The event runs in English 🇬🇧, unless everyone in the room comfortably speaks Spanish/Catalan.

​Agenda

​How the Conversations Work

​We open with informal networking so you can connect with people in the room before the main session begins.

​The core dialogue is structured around the latest AI Socratic monthly themes published on our blog, leaving plenty of space for the threads, questions, and technical deep-dives that matter most to the attendees present.

​Everyone is encouraged to contribute. The sessions are moderated to ensure a flowing, balanced discussion where every voice has space to be heard.

​We close the evening with short, high-fidelity technical demos and presentations. Submit yours here.

​Code of Conduct

​AI Socratic Barcelona is built on the premise that better ideas emerge when we build on diverse perspectives. The Code of Conduct ensures the vision is real, safe, and actionable for everyone.

​Who this is for:

​Everyone: attendees, speakers, hosts, facilitators, and guests. No exceptions.

​What we cultivate:

  • ​Be curious, not combative. Challenge ideas, hypotheses, and architectures—never the person presenting them. The Socratic method thrives on collective good faith.
  • ​Make room for others. If you naturally lean toward speaking, practice active listening. If you notice a perspective being sidelined, help invite them into the conversation.
  • ​Respect identities and expertise. Avoid assumptions about what someone knows (or doesn’t know) based on their background, role, accent, or appearance.
  • ​Constructive engagement. Offer feedback and insights thoughtfully, ensuring discussions remain collaborative and respectful of everyone’s ongoing work.

​What has no place here:

  • ​Harassment or exclusionary behavior of any kind, including comments related to gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, ethnicity, religion, or age. This applies to dialogues, presentations, networking, and digital channels.
  • ​Disruptive behavior, including sexualized imagery or language, deliberate intimidation, persistent interruption, or taking photos/recordings without explicit consent.

​Accountability:

​If you experience or witness anything that compromises the safety or inclusivity of the space, please speak directly with an organizer or reach out via aisocraticbarcelona@gmail.com. All conversations will be handled with strict confidentiality.

​Anyone asked to stop a specific behavior is expected to do so immediately. Persistent violations will result in removal from the event and future editions.

​The Short Version:

​Treat everyone in the room with the empathy, respect, and openness you would want if you were the only person holding your specific viewpoint or background.

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