Inaugural BAD Meetup · Barcelona
AI & Data Systems
The inaugural edition of the Barcelona AI & Data Systems community. Deep technical conversations at the intersection of AI and data systems, kindly hosted by Microsoft.
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Recap
How the inaugural edition went.
The inaugural BAD Meetup brought academia, startups and large-scale enterprises together for deep technical conversations on AI-native, large-scale cloud data systems. Intelligence is embedded not only in models, but in the platforms and operations that build, run, monitor and continuously improve data-intensive services.
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Topics covered
- 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
Resources
Slides from the session.
Presentation materials shared by the speakers.
Programme
The running order.
11:00–14:30 · Microsoft Barcelona
- 11:00–11:10
Welcome / Intro
BAD community 10 min - 11:10–11:40
Talk
Flavio Junqueira, CTO, Qbeast.
Flavio Junqueira 30 min - 11:40–12:10
Talk
Carlo Curino, Research Director, Microsoft.
Carlo Curino 30 min - 12:10–12:40
Talk
Ernest Teniente, Director inLab FIB (UPC).
Ernest Teniente 30 min - 12:40–13:00
Feedback / thoughts
BAD community 20 min - 13:00–14:30
Lunch / Social Hour
BAD community 90 min
- 11:00–11:10
Welcome / Intro
BAD community 10 min - 11:10–11:40
Talk
Flavio Junqueira, CTO, Qbeast.
Flavio Junqueira 30 min - 11:40–12:10
Talk
Carlo Curino, Research Director, Microsoft.
Carlo Curino 30 min - 12:10–12:40
Talk
Ernest Teniente, Director inLab FIB (UPC).
Ernest Teniente 30 min
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- 12:40–13:00
Feedback / thoughts
BAD community 20 min - 13:00–14:30
Lunch / Social Hour
BAD community 90 min
Speakers
Local voices, practical perspectives.
Meet the people building and researching AI and Data systems in Barcelona.
Profile 01
Flavio Junqueira
CTO, Qbeast
Profile 02
Carlo Curino
Research Director, Microsoft
Profile 03
Ernest Teniente
Director, inLab FIB (UPC)
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Venue
Microsoft Barcelona
Hosted by Microsoft
Carrer de la Ciutat de Granada, 150, Sant Martí, 08018 Barcelona, Spain
- Date
- Tuesday, 2 June 2026
- Time
- 11:00–14:30