Madrid Connect 2026

28 – 29 Oct 2026 | Madrid, Spain

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Event agenda

Wednesday, 28 October 2026

09:00 - 09:30

Reception & coffee

Location:Auditorium hall - Meeting Place Orense

09:30 - 10:00

Institutional opening - Madrid, Building a Global Deep Tech Hub

Location:Auditorium - Meeting Place Orense

Institutional welcome and strategic vision regarding Madrid’s international standing in science and innovation.

10:00 - 10:45

Future Outlook: Technologies that will reshape the coming decade

Location:Auditorium - Meeting Place Orense
  • Health & Biotech
  • Knowledge Transfer
  • Tech Transfer
  • Innovation
  • Financing
  • Drug discovery
  • Quantum Comm&Computing
  • Advanced Materials&Biomaterials
  • Industrialization

10:45 - 11:15

Strategic coffee & networking

Location:Auditorium hall - Meeting Place Orense

11:15 - 12:30

Panel discussion 1 - Advanced quantum computing and communication

Location:Auditorium - Meeting Place Orense
  • Quantum Comm&Computing

Workshop 1 - Accelerating omics research

Location:Rooms 2&3 - Meeting Place Orense
  • Health & Biotech
  • Drug discovery

Spatial transcriptomics, biomarkers (qPCR) and new business models

12:30 - 13:45

Panel discussion 2 – Next-generation drug discovery

Location:Auditorium - Meeting Place Orense
  • Health & Biotech
  • Drug discovery

14:00 - 15:30

Healthy lunch & networking

Location:Auditorium hall - Meeting Place Orense

15:30 - 16:30

Panel discussion 3 – From lab to factory

Location:Auditorium - Meeting Place Orense
  • Industrialization
  • Scaling

16:30 - 17:45

Panel discussion 4 – Factories of the future

Location:Auditorium - Meeting Place Orense
  • Advanced Materials&Biomaterials
  • Industrialization

17:45 - 18:00

Closure Day 1

Location:Auditorium - Meeting Place Orense

Thursday, 29 October 2026

09:00 - 09:30

Reception & coffee

Location:Rooms 4&5 - Meeting Place Orense

09:30 - 10:30

Europe’s deep tech gap: from science to industry

Location:Rooms 1,2&3 - Meeting Place Orense
  • Knowledge Transfer
  • Innovation
  • Internationalization

Workshop 4 – From challenge to consortium creation

Location:Rooms 6&7 - Meeting Place Orense
  • R&I projects

10:30 - 11:00

Strategic coffee & networking

Location:Rooms 4&5 - Meeting Place Orense

11:00 - 12:15

Collaborating for growth: what are investors looking for in deep tech?

Status:Approval requiredLocation:Rooms 1,2&3 - Meeting Place Orense
  • Financing

Workshop 5 – Is your technology ready for transfer?

Location:Rooms 6&7 - Meeting Place Orense
  • Knowledge Transfer
  • Tech Transfer
  • Scaling
  • Acceleration

12:15 - 13:30

Access to global markets

Location:Rooms 1,2&3 - Meeting Place Orense
  • Internationalization

Workshop 6 – Scaling Talent

Status:Approval requiredLocation:Rooms 6&7 - Meeting Place Orense
  • Scaling
  • Talent

13:30 - 14:30

Cocktail & final networking

Location:Rooms 4&5 - Meeting Place Orense