AGENDA
EADA ANNUAL MEETING 2026
A festival of activities and moments
This year we will surprise our Alumni Community and environment with our annual meeting in FESTIVAL format.
25 speakers and moderators, 11 activities, 6 floors, 22 passes and 500 guests. Are you going to miss it?
Explore the agenda and plan your tour of each space, where experts and professionals will share knowledge, trends and transformative experiences. Additionally, enjoy unique moments of connection, networking and surprises that will make this meeting an unforgettable experience.
EMPLOYABILITY MATTERS
1. RECRUITERS
Discover why employability is essential today to achieve your job position in a changing, uncertain and volatile environment. Talking to recruiters and headhunters during this day will help you understand what is being requested today from consultants who recruit talent, and why. They will accompany us:
1st Roundtable -English- 6:40 PM
Melissa Handley- Moderator
EADA International Careers Director
Carla Arimont
Founder / Managing Partner at Lincoln Leadership Advisors
Álvaro Cárcel
Partner at KINT.
Yolanda Gómez
Senior Consultant at Morgan Phillips Executive Search.
2nd Roundtable – Spanish – 7:30 PM
Miquel Roselló-Moderator
Executive Education Director of EADA Business School.
Álvaro Cárcel
Partner at KINT.
Anna Segarra
Director at TALENGO .
Àngels Barti
Director at Morgan Phillips Executive Search .
2. AI & EMPLOYABILITY
How AI can help me to be more employable, what benefits me and what can harm me. A specialist in the matter will accompany us:
Andreu Ortiz
Senior Consultant at Xpand International Ltd. | Consultant, Coach.
Bilingual session: English and Spanish
3. FROM EMPLOYEE TO EMPLOYER. ALUMNI EADA EXPLAINS TO US
Our Alumni Ambassadors in Peru, Portugal and Chile will explain to us how they have gone from being top employees to employers. They will also give us information on employability in their countries. They will accompany us:
Moderator:
Pilar Petrone - Alumni Coordinator
Inês Marques
Founder & CEO - Pointer 5.
EADA Portugal Alumni Ambassador.
Juliana Ospina
Committee Director - Board of Member GIRO + CBA.
EADA Chile Alumni Ambassador.
Stephanie Hoyle
Marketing Director - Laboratoria.
EADA Perú Alumni Ambassador.
Sessions: English and Spanish
BARCELONA MATTERS
1. BARCELONA: ITS CONTEMPORARY BEGINNINGS AND ITS DEVELOPMENT AS AN INNOVATION HUB
A look at the transformation of Barcelona: a success story in innovation, multiculturalism and sectoral diversity.
Joan Albert G. Moga
EADA Professor, BBA Fairleigh Dickinson University (USA), EMBA EADA and PhD student Innovation Management. Strategy and innovation management consultant.
2. BARCELONA: LEARN WHY LARGE CORPORATIONS INSTALL THEIR INNOVATION HUBS
Recognized companies with their centralized hubs in Barcelona explain to us why they chose this city to centralize their talent. We will have:
Anton Giulio Manganelli - Moderador
PhD in Economics, professor and Director of International Master i Pharma & Biotech at EADA Business School.
Martina Hörrmann
Director / Head of Global Finance Hub at BAYER
Sergio Zaforas
Director, Corporate Incubation Enablement at HP
ENTREPRENEURSHIP MATTERS
1. LEARN FROM ENTREPRENEURS
A live podcast with young entrepreneurs who will explain to us how they have managed to start a business with proposals aimed at young people, and their challenges. We will learn with:
Alex Torras
CEO and co-founder UNIFIT
Co-Founder of STUDENTFY & CampusWise
PROFIT & PLANET IMPORTA
1. PROFITABILITY AND SUSTAINABILITY IS POSSIBLE
An inspiring brand that will show us how businesses can be profitable and sustainable at the same time. We will have:
Manel Echevarria
CEO ECOALF
2. SOLIDARITY AND MANAGEMENT
How a culinary solidarity project today is a global phenomenon that spans the entire globe. But you have to know how to manage it, and well managed with management professionals. He explains this milestone to us:
Gabriel Becker
Regional Distribution Manager for Europe at World Central Kitchen. WCK
HAVING FUN MATTERS
1. HOW DIFFERENT GENERATIONS RELATE TO EACH OTHER AT WORK: IMPROVISED AND PARTICIPATIVE SHOW
Again Improshow will make us participate in this moment in which you will participate in what happens during the show. Don't miss it:
Improshow team
IMPROSHOW
SURPRISES MATTER
1. AND ENJOY MORE!!
A good pica-pica, photos and a lot of music with a DJ

