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Events I’ve attended: a walk through these years

A walk through the events, conferences and meetups I attended between 2019 and 2026 — from DeveloperWeek and meetups in San Francisco to Dreamforce and DynamicsCon — with the key takeaways from each one.

Timeline of events and conferences 2019–2026 with San Francisco skyline

A look back at the events, conferences, courses and meetups I’ve attended over the last few years: what I took away from each one, the people I met, and how every gathering has shaped my view on technology, product and leadership.

2026 · DynamicsCon

2026 · Global Fabric Day Barcelona

2026 · 4YFN–MWC Founders & Investors Afterwork

  • 4YFN–MWC Founders & Investors Afterwork by Bcombinator
    March 2026 · Barcelona, Spain
    Networking evening on the sidelines of 4YFN / MWC, organised by Bcombinator. A condensed dose of the Barcelona startup ecosystem — founders raising, investors scouting, and a lot of honest conversation about what’s actually working in deep-tech and AI.

2026 · Negotiating Conflict at Work

  • Negotiating Conflict at Work — with Fotini Iconomopoulos
    February 2026 · Online
    A practical session on negotiation and conflict management at work with Fotini Iconomopoulos. Concrete frameworks to navigate hard conversations, align stakeholders and turn friction into better decisions — useful in any leadership role.

2025 · Dreamforce, DES & Agile Open Space

  • Dreamforce 2025 — Strategic Insights for the Agentic Enterprise Era
    October 2025 · Salesforce · San Francisco
    A week of ideas, leadership and forward vision. Vibes, Voice and Slack as the Agentic OS are redefining how we build, collaborate and interact with AI — more naturally and more contextually than ever.

  • DES 2025 — Driving Digital Transformation & Innovation
    2025 · Málaga, Spain
    Three days of digital transformation, AI adoption and innovation strategy with leaders from across industries. A great chance to compare notes on how European companies are operationalising AI beyond the hype.

  • Agile Open Spain Valencia 2025 — AOS25
    May 2025 · Valencia, Spain
    Two days of open-space format where the agenda is built by the participants. Honest, lateral conversations about leadership, team dynamics and what “agile” actually means in 2025 — beyond the certifications.

2024 · Dreamforce

  • Dreamforce 2024 — AI + Data + CRM: The Next Era of Business Transformation
    September 2024 · Salesforce · San Francisco, CA
    The year Agentforce moved from keynote slide to real product. AI agents, data cloud and the early signals of the agentic enterprise that would explode the following year.

2023 · AOS Pirineos

  • AOS Pirineos 2023 — Agile Open Space in the Pyrenees
    June 2023 · Pyrenees, Spain
    An Agile Open Space retreat in the Pyrenees: nature, open-format sessions and unhurried conversation about agile leadership, coaching and team culture. The kind of off-site that resets how you think about work.

2023 · San Francisco & Dreamforce

  • San Francisco 23
    September 2023 · San Francisco
    Three weeks in a city I’ve always held close, watching the profound changes since the pre-COVID era. A pause to reflect on technology, digital transformation and how cities absorb (or resist) it.

  • Dreamforce 2023 — The AI + Data + CRM Revolution
    September 2023 · Salesforce · San Francisco
    The first Dreamforce where generative AI took centre stage. Einstein GPT, Data Cloud and the shift from “CRM as a system of record” to “CRM as a system of intelligence”.

2020 · Bay Area

  • DeveloperWeek
    February 2020 · Oakland
    My first time at this event. Blockchain, new e-commerce trends, GraphQL, microservices and DDD, customer-centric vision, Agile & Lean, and the idea that engineering and product must work as a single team. Storytelling as an essential tool.

  • StartupGrind 2020
    February 2020 · San Francisco
    Two days among entrepreneurs looking for funding, co-founders and engineers. Talks on culture of failure, product management, marketing and management — a perfect snapshot of the pulse of the startup community.

2019 · Meetups in San Francisco

  • Agile Meetup with Michael Spayd
    December 2019 · San Francisco
    Michael Spayd shared his “path of heart” in Agile. Two ideas that stuck with me: “I’m the leader, so I’m the biggest problem” and the uncomfortable but useful “You call yourself an Agile coach, but you don’t know the first thing about coaching”.

  • Deep Learning & TensorFlow.js · Slack Office
    December 2019 · Slack HQ, San Francisco
    A developer meetup at Slack’s offices. A solid introduction to Machine Learning and Deep Learning, and the discovery of TensorFlow.js: a JavaScript ML library that’s easy to apply to real business problems.

  • Marketing & Trends Meetup
    December 2019 · San Francisco
    An evening sharing ideas with local marketing managers about 2020 trends. The kind of conversations you take more from than from many formal talks.

Training & courses along the way

  • AI Course — From 0 to Agents
    Certificate of attendance
    A hands-on path from LLM fundamentals to building autonomous AI agents. The natural continuation of everything Dreamforce 2024 and 2025 hinted at: moving from “using AI” to “orchestrating agents”.

  • Facebook Ads Training — Lessons from a Former Facebook Employee
    Practical performance-marketing playbook straight from someone who built the system from the inside.

  • Facilitación Gráfica
    Visual facilitation — turning ideas, workshops and strategy sessions into drawings that actually help teams decide. A skill that pays off in every single offsite.

Some cross-cutting takeaways

  • The constant: San Francisco / the Bay Area as a thermometer for where the industry is going — from blockchain and microservices in 2020 to AI agents and the Agentic OS in 2025.
  • From technology to leadership: the early events were deeply technical (TensorFlow, GraphQL, DDD); the latest ones are about how we evolve as leaders to guide the transformation.
  • Community > content: small meetups and open-space formats have left me with as many lessons as the big conferences. Informal conversation is still the best channel.
  • From CRM to Agentic Enterprise: following Dreamforce from 2023 → 2024 → 2025 is basically watching the agentic enterprise being born in real time.

And this keeps going. If you’re curious about what’s next, I put together a list of upcoming conferences in Conferences to attend · rest of 2026.

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