From October 26 to 30, in the city of Barcelona, the second edition of Open Tech Week will be an international meeting dedicated to open technologies, digital rights and democratic innovation.
This October, the city of Barcelona will host the second edition of Open Tech Week. The event, which will take place from 26 to 30 October in different spaces of the city, will become an international meeting dedicated to open technologies, digital rights and democratic innovation. Organised by the Barcelona City Council , the Decidim Association , Canòdrom , XNET , Accent Obert , the Mozilla Foundation and Barcelona Innova , the second edition of Open Tech Week will begin on 26 and 27 October with the Open Technologies Research Symposium at the University of Barcelona, where the topic of how to move towards open technologies will be discussed. On Tuesday 27 October, the Cibernàrium will become the stage for the Open Technologies Policy Summit , the first event on digital sovereignty and public policies to be held in Catalonia.
On October 28, 29 and 30, Decidim Fest 2026 will be held at the Canòdrom and Fabra i Coats venues. Under the title 'Democracy and technology in a multipolar world', the event will bring together the international community of this open source participation platform, public institutions, researchers and activists to debate who governs the digital infrastructure. At the same time, Mozilla Fest 2026 will be held at the Fabra i Coats venues with the aim of renaturalizing technology and exploring alternatives to its centralization. The organization is planning more than 200 sessions, experiences and artistic installations and more than 2,000 participants. Similarly, on Thursday 29 October, from 6 to 8.30 pm, the third edition of the 'European Conference 4D: democratic digitalisation and digital rights' will be organised at the Espai Bota de Fabra i Coats. In this sense, the event will propose to mock power and favour changes and transformations, publicising good practices that use humour to challenge the pre-established order and inspire global action. The third edition of the 'European Conference 4D' will also feature the awarding of the 'Call for applications 4D: digital rights from design' awards, which will recognise outstanding actions that help advance digital rights. Finally, on Friday 30 October , the Popular Assembly for Open Technologies will be held at the Fabra i Coats premises. The meeting will aim to generate a roadmap and a call to action that coordinates current demands to reorient public policies towards accessible and respectful technologies.