Media Party Barcelona 2026 - A Global Laboratory

MEDIA PARTY 2026 • SEPT 7-9 (+ HACKATHON) • CAIXAFORUM BARCELONA • FREE REGISTRATION • MEDIA PARTY 2026 • SEPT 7-9 (+ HACKATHON) • CAIXAFORUM BARCELONA • FREE REGISTRATION •

MEDIA PARTY

BARCELONA 2026

September 7 and 8 - Conferences - CaixaForum
September 9 - Hackathon - Bit Habitat

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About the event

Media Party — the international conference that, across 15 editions, has brought the global media-innovation community together in Buenos Aires and the United States — is making its European debut.

On September 7 and 8, 2026, CaixaForum Barcelona becomes a living laboratory of keynotes, hands-on workshops, collaborative work spaces and a project fair. 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?

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Keynote Speakers

Nic Newman

Senior Research Associate, Reuters Institute

Lead author of the Journalism, Media, and Technology Trends and Predictions 2026 report.

Clara Jiménez Cruz

Co-founder & CEO, Maldita.es

Leader of the Spanish foundation dedicated to fighting disinformation. President of the EFCSN.

Teresa Mondría Terol

Senior Manager, AI, NPR

Specialist in applying AI in newsrooms, from algorithm-assisted investigation to internal tools.

Dmitry Shishkin

Independent Media Advisor

Leader of the BBC User Needs Model and expert in audience-centric media strategy.

Chema Alonso

VP & Head of International Development, Cloudflare

Former Chief Digital Officer at Telefónica and founder of cybersecurity companies ElevenPaths and Informática 64.

Elena Sanz

Editorial Director, The Conversation Spain

Award-winning science journalist with extensive experience writing for major outlets including El País, El Mundo, and La Sexta.

Olalla Novoa Ojea

Director of Artificial Intelligence, Prisa

Journalist with an extensive career in innovation, specializing in the strategic application of artificial intelligence in the media industry.

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Core Themes

What We Are Discussing

Info Integrity

Verification, traceability and synthetic-content detection.

Newsrooms + AI

Frameworks for assessing AI tools in real production.

Discovery

How news travels in AI-driven systems & fragmented audiences.

Ethics & Biz

Sustainable models, data governance and ethics.

HACKATHON

Media Party Barcelona 2026 | POWERED BY

Content Independence in the AI-Search Era
Hacking next-gen tools for bot governance, agentic journalism, and zero-click search monetization.

Who It’s For
100+ developers, journalists, data scientists, and designers. Whether you write code, craft stories, or design interfaces, your skills are needed to build the future of news.

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