Cantabria · Spain · 30-km radius Ed. May 2026 · 15 sources

A chronogram · 12 months · 10 fixtures

The tech year inside a 30 km circle drawn around a Michelin table.

A 30-km radius from Cenador de Amós is essentially Santander's metro area ^[1]. The IT-conference calendar in that circle is thin but not empty — two academic anchors carry 2026, a quiet summer follows, the autumn summit waits on a date. Read this as a stamp-book: each event, its day, its weight.

Anchor academic Summit / showcase Training · CTF Recurring series Ad-hoc meetup Already past

The Year · 2026 Plotted by date · cancelled-stamp style

JAN2026

— quiet —

FEB2026

— quiet —

MAR2026

— quiet —

APR2026

14APR

CERN Quantum Master Class

Facultad de Ciencias · UC

23APR

Caña Digital opens season

Series · 8 sessions → Dec

MAY2026

14MAY

CantabRobots + Math

Palacio de Exposiciones · 1,500 kids

GDG · Generative SDUI in Flutter

Google Developer Group

↓ here

JUN2026

14–16JUN

XXXV ACEDE Congress

★ Anchor · AI & business · UC

JUL2026

01–03JUL

XVII TAEE Congress

★ Anchor · Electronics · ETSIIT-UC

AUG2026

— summer pause —

SEP2026

— quiet — (watch PINN agenda for additions)

OCT2026

TBAOCT

C-Meet · 5th edition

Escenario Santander · 500+ firms expected

NOV2026

— quiet —

DEC2026

17DEC

Caña Digital closes season

Cervezas Smach · final session

Across the year · ribbons

The things that run regardless.

Caña Digital · monthly tech-talks

Free 18:30–20:00 talk + networking, organised by CEOE-CEPYME and Clúster TERA at Cervezas Smach (Raos) and CIE Santander ^[5].

JFMAMJJASOND

C3 cybersecurity · training + monthly CTF

Free SODERCAN-funded NIS2/CRA, monitoring & awareness sessions plus a monthly Capture-The-Flag, year-round at Torre Xtela / PCTCAN ^[7]^[8].

JFMAMJJASOND

CISE · entrepreneurship programmes

STARTinnova and e2, ongoing year-round — programmes not single-day events, backed by Banco Santander & the University of Cantabria ^[15].

JFMAMJJASOND

Date-stamp dossiers

The five fixtures that justify a Saturday dinner.

ACEDE

★ Anchor

Sun 14 → Tue 16 · June 2026

XXXV ACEDE International Congress

University of Cantabria, Santander

Academic business-management conference, this year on Responsible Governance & Business Transformation in the AI age^[3]. ⚠ Business academy — not a dev conference. Pairs cleanly with a Sat 13 Jun dinner, then Sun-Tue at the congress.

UC Santander Academic AI / mgmt

★ Anchor

Wed 01 → Fri 03 · July 2026

XVII TAEE Congress

ETSIIT — University of Cantabria, Santander

Iberian electronics-engineering teaching & tech conference — papers, demos, posters ^[4]. Closes Friday afternoon and lines up exactly with a Sat 4 Jul dinner at Cenador.

ETSIIT-UC Academic Electronics

Summit · TBA

Two days · expected October

C-Meet · 5th edition

Escenario Santander

Cantabria's flagship digital-innovation event. 2025 ran 2–3 Oct with 500+ firms and keynotes from Google, Microsoft and Spotify ^[6]. 2026 dates not yet posted — historically lands early October.

Escenario Santander 500+ firms Free

Series · Apr → Dec

Thursdays · ≈ monthly · 18:30–20:00

Caña Digital 2026

Cervezas Smach (Raos) & CIE Santander

8-session free talk + networking series, 15–20 min talk plus ~1 h networking. Co-organised by CEOE-CEPYME Cantabria and Clúster TERA ^[5]. Pair a Thursday session with a Saturday dinner.

Free 15-min talk Networking

Training · CTF

Year-round · CTF most months

C3 · cybersecurity centre

Torre Xtela, PCTCAN, Santander

SODERCAN-funded NIS2/CRA, monitoring, awareness sessions plus a recurring Capture-The-Flag competition (most recently 28–29 May) ^[7]^[8]. ✓ Open to SMEs & self-employed.

SODERCAN Free CTF · NIS2

Ad-hoc

Sporadic · check ahead

GDG Santander

Varies, usually Santander

Google Developer Group — Flutter, Android, web meetups. Calendar is sparse; latest listed was 29 May (Generative SDUI in Flutter) ^[9]. Useful if it lines up; not bookable in advance.

Community Flutter / Web Free

The dinner-anchor overlay

Saturdays that already line up.

The geometry of the trip is set by one constraint: do not drive after dinner. So the calendar gets read backwards — find an event that brackets a Saturday, book the dinner that night, sleep in Santander, drive 20 min for the tasting menu. Three weekends already qualify in 2026.

▣ SAT 13 JUN

Dinner → Sun open of ACEDE

ACEDE opens Sunday 14 Jun at UC ^[3]. Dinner Saturday, hotel in Santander, walk into the congress Sunday morning.

▣ SAT 04 JUL

TAEE close → dinner

TAEE wraps Friday 3 Jul at ETSIIT ^[4]. Stay one extra night, Saturday at Cenador, drive home Sunday.

▣ SAT ≈ 3 OCT

C-Meet weekend (if confirmed)

C-Meet historically lands early October at Escenario Santander ^[6]. If the 5th-edition dates land Thu–Fri, the Saturday after pairs cleanly.

Not on the calendar — outside the 30-km circle

The big Spanish IT crowd-pullers — Spring I/O, South Summit, DES — sit in Barcelona, Madrid and Málaga respectively. No FOSDEM/KubeCon/PyData-scale event lands inside the radius in 2026. Torrelavega, Reinosa and Bilbao all fall outside the circle ^[1].

Borderline. IC2 (construction innovation, 1 June at Palacio de la Magdalena) is on the PINN agenda but skews AEC industry, not software ^[12].

PCTCAN

Science-tech park · 82 firms, 4,800 employees · hosts C3 ^[13]

Clúster TERA

ICT industry association · co-organiser of Caña Digital ^[14]

CISE

Entrepreneurship hub · Banco Santander + UC + Gov. of Cantabria ^[15]

PINN agenda

Cantabria innovation calendar · check for late additions ^[12]

Chronogram view · drawn from 15 cited sources Dated 30 May 2026 · Villaverde de Pontones, ES