TL;DR Girona has no dedicated IT conferences. The local scene is small but real — GDG Girona runs free monthly meetups, and Girona Tech Hub anchors the startup community. For actual conferences, Barcelona is 40 min by high-speed train: DevBcn (Jun), AI Summit Barcelona (Sep), EuroRust (Oct), and DevOpsDays (Nov) are all within day-trip range.
In Girona
GDG Girona
GDG Girona is the city’s primary tech meetup community, a local chapter of Google Developer Groups [1]. 393 members, 51 events run to date, 4.9-star community rating. Events are free, held roughly monthly at rotating venues: the Centre Cultural de la Mercè (old town) and the TECNIO Centre EASY on the University of Girona campus.
Recent topics [1]:
- Google I/O Watch Party — May 19, 2026, Centre Cultural de la Mercè
- CTF de Ciberseguretat (capture-the-flag, co-hosted with GDG on Campus) — April 10, 2026, TECNIO Centre EASY, UdG
- IA per a la Ciberseguretat: Protegir i Utilitzar — November 2025, Aules Modulars EPS-UdG
- Q&A: Com hackejar una persiana (IoT security) — February 2026, online
Topics rotate between cybersecurity, AI/ML, IoT, and web. Events are announced 2–4 weeks in advance; check the Meetup page in the days before your visit for newly listed sessions.
GDG on Campus — Universitat de Girona
A companion chapter at UdG [2], 145 members, student-focused but open to all. Recent sessions include an agentic AI talk (Agentic Symphony, April 16, 2026) and the cybersecurity CTF (co-run with GDG Girona). Currently between event cycles with no upcoming dates posted.
Girona Tech Hub
Girona Tech Hub [3] is the province’s startup and digital ecosystem foundation, established 2022. It hosts networking events and occasional showcases (including a Girona Next startup pitch format) but runs no fixed conference calendar — events are announced ad hoc on LinkedIn and Instagram. The hub’s profile rose when fintech firm Fundcraft relocated ~100 employees to the space in 2025 [4], and Girona’s startup ecosystem ranks #428 globally / #9 in Spain with 78 tracked startups [8].
University of Girona — Technology Transfer Day
UdG runs an annual half-day event, Jornada de Transferència Tecnològica [5], connecting university research groups with local companies (March 25, 2026, Campus Montilivi). One afternoon per year; useful if your visit overlaps.
Academic note: CITS
Girona hosted CITS 2024 (International Conference on Computer, Information and Telecommunication Systems), an IEEE co-sponsored academic conference on networking, security and telecoms [6]. The series rotates globally; CITS 2026 is in Athens [7].
Barcelona — 40 min by AVE, day-trippable
Girona sits on the Barcelona–France high-speed line (AVE/Intercity, 37–45 min, ~€10–20 one-way). The Barcelona developer conference calendar [9] is active for the rest of 2026:
| Event | Dates | Venue | Focus | Ticket est. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring I/O [10] | Apr 13–15 (past) | Palau de Congressos, BCN | Spring/Java, 1,200+ devs, 60+ sessions | €467–€657 [11] |
| DevBcn [12] | Jun 16–17 | World Trade Center, BCN | Java/JVM, Cloud, DevOps, Frontend, AI | ~€300 [13] |
| AI Summit Barcelona [14] | Sep 22–23 | WTC Barcelona | AI/ML, 10k+ attendees, 200 speakers | — |
| EuroRust [16] | Oct 14–17 | Auditori L’illa, BCN | Rust: systems, WASM, embedded | — |
| DevOpsDays Barcelona [17] | Nov 13–14 | c/ Pujades 118, BCN | DevOps/SRE, ~200 attendees, trilingual | — |
| Smart City Expo [18] | Nov 3–5 | Fira de Barcelona | Smart cities, IoT, enabling tech | — |
DevBcn (Jun 16–17) is the most accessible general developer conference — 61 speakers, five tracks including AI/ML and Cloud, ~€300 [12] [13]. Two weeks from the date of this research: still time to buy tickets.
AI Summit Barcelona (Sep 22–23) is Europe’s largest AI event — 10 stages, 200+ speakers, a hackathon on Agent-Oriented Architectures, and a full AI Week of 50+ side events across the city September 18–27 [14] [15]. High-volume: 10,000+ attendees.
EuroRust (Oct 14–17) is the European Rust conference: workshops on Oct 14, conference on Oct 15–16, hackathon and side events on Oct 17 [16]. October also means the best weather window for combining Barcelona day-tripping with Girona old-town walks.
DevOpsDays Barcelona (Nov 13–14) is a community-scale event (~200 attendees), accepts talks in Catalan, Spanish, and English — the most accessible for a bilingual audience [17].
Practical notes
- Train: Girona ↔ Barcelona Sants, 37–45 min, ~€10–20. Trains run every 30–60 min.
- GDG Girona events are free and social — arrive early to talk to locals; the community is small and conversations are easy to start.
- ⚠ Spring I/O 2026 already ran (April 13–15); late-bird tickets had reached €657 and sold out.
- No Girona-specific developer conference exists; if a tech event is your primary reason for visiting Catalonia, time the trip to a Barcelona conference and use Girona as your base (quieter, cheaper, 40 min to the venue).