After 15 editions bringing together the global media-innovation community across Buenos Aires and the United States, Media Party is officially making its European debut.
On September 7 and 8, 2026, CaixaForum Barcelona transforms into a living laboratory where journalists, developers, designers, and media strategists collide. The agenda centers on a single, urgent question: how do we sustain the integrity of information in the post-search era and the age of generative AI?
To tackle this challenge, sessions focus on four core themes: information integrity, practical AI integration in newsrooms, modern content discovery, and sustainable business models and ethics.
Get ready to turn ideas into impact. Here is the official Media Party Barcelona 2026 schedule.
The Official Agenda
Day 1: Monday, September 7, 2026
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM
- General: Media Party Barcelona Registration — Auditorium, La Caixa Forum
10:00 AM – 10:20 AM
- General: Opening Media Party Barcelona — Mariano Blejman • Carles Escolà — Auditorium, La Caixa Forum
10:20 AM – 10:45 AM
Keynote: 3Cat — Judith Argila — Auditorium, La Caixa Forum
10:45 AM – 11:10 AM
- Keynote: AI for Deeper and Better Investigations — Teresa Mondria Terol — Auditorium, CaixaForum
11:10 AM – 11:45 AM
- Keynote: From Extraction to Exchange: Content Markets for the Agentic Internet — Chema Alonso — Auditorium, CaixaForum
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM
- Pitch Sessions: Pitch Sessions — Auditorium, La Caixa Forum
- Workshop: From AI Policy to AI Governance: Build Rules Your Newsroom Can Actually Use — Branislava Lovre — Room D, La Caixa Forum
- Workshop: How to Build an Effective Newsletter — Ismael Nafria — Educational Space, La Caixa Forum
- Workshop: Beyond the Newsroom: How to Involve Citizens in Your Investigations — Sabrina Faramarzi • Neus Vidal — Room C, La Caixa Forum
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
- Pitch Sessions: Pitch Sessions — Auditorium, La Caixa Forum
- Workshop: Do Agents Have Needs? Building Your Agent Readiness Layer — Room C, CaixaForum
- Workshop: Everyone Can Build: A Newsroom — Cloudflare — Educational Space, CaixaForum
- Workshop: Local LLMs for Investigative Journalism: The Epstein Files as a Case Study — Teresa Mondría Terol — Room D, La Caixa Forum
4:45 PM – 5:30 PM
- Lightning Talk: AURA: Building AI Editorial Intelligence Systems in an Independent Newsroom — Graciela Rock Mora — Auditorium, La Caixa Forum
- Lightning Talk: Building Conversational AI that Newsrooms Can Trust — Scott Hale — Auditorium, La Caixa Forum
- Lightning Talk: Build as Fast as You Think: AI for Visual Storytelling — Cecilia Tombesi — Auditorium, La Caixa Forum
- Lightning Talk: Kill the funnel! Build community instead — Richard Höchner Gallicani — Auditorium, La Caixa Forum
- Lightning Talk: Everyone Can Investigate: How citizens can work with media outlets and hold power to account — Neus Vidal — Auditorium, La Caixa Forum
Day 2: Tuesday, September 8, 2026
10:10 AM – 10:35 AM
- Keynote: How Journalism Needs to Change in the Era of AI and Content Creators? — Nic Newman — Auditorium, La Caixa Forum
10:35 AM – 10:50 AM
- Keynote: Clara Jimenez Cruz (Maldita) – Keynote — Auditorium, CaixaForum
- Keynote: Do Agents Have Needs? What Journalism Must Do to Survive AI Mediation — Dmitry Shishkin — Auditorium, CaixaForum
10:50 AM – 11:15 AM
- Keynote: From Article to Law: How Science Journalism Can Overcome Algorithmic Inertia to Shape Public Policy — Elena Sanz — Auditorium, CaixaForum
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
- Workshop: Google’s New Social Metrics: Measuring the Authority of Creators and News Organizations in the Age of AI — Clara Soteras — Room C, La Caixa Forum
- Workshop: Reporting from the Margins: Journalism, Trust, and Information Integrity in the Global South — Marcelle Chagas do Monte Gontijo — Room D, La Caixa Forum
- Workshop: What can we learn from Content Creators and Influencers about engagement, formats, business models and trust? — Nic Newman — Educational Space, CaixaForum
1:40 PM – 2:00 PM
- General: Hackathon proposals – Kickoff — Auditorium, La Caixa Forum
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
- Workshop: La Buloteca: cómo convertir pistas ciudadanas en agenda periodística — Lara Huwyler — Room D, La Caixa Forum
- Workshop: Nine Months of Investigation to Write Four Paragraphs: Everything You Need to Know About Investigating with AI — Romina Colman — Room C, La Caixa Forum
- Workshop: The Perfect Citation: What Rigour Really Costs — and How to Build Your Own Verification System with Claude Code — Andrea Cabrera — Educational Space, La Caixa Forum
4:45 PM – 5:30 PM
- Lightning Talk: From Hype to Impact: The Stories Missing from the AI Conversation — Nathalia Restrepo Hernandez — Auditorium, La Caixa Forum
- Lightning Talk: The ‘Kasparov moment’ in 226,000 examples: when AI stops being an experiment — David Torres — Auditorium, La Caixa Forum
- Lightning Talk: Sick of the status quo? Here’s how we change it together — Erica Owens — Auditorium, La Caixa Forum
- Lightning Talk: One Story, Five Screens — Ignacio Zaccagnino — Auditorium, La Caixa Forum
- Lightning Talk: Who’s Really Writing the News in Greece? AI, Disclosure, and the iNews Response — Catherine Sotirakou — Auditorium, La Caixa Forum
Ready to build the future of news? Spaces are limited for this historic European debut, so attendees are encouraged to secure their spots early. Register now to join the community and be part of Media Party Barcelona 2026!
