Events

On November 10–12, 2026, Barbara will be attending Enlit Europe in Vienna, Austria, the leading summit for energy transition and decarbonization. Bringing together more than 15,000 energy professionals, 750 exhibitors, and 600 speakers, Enlit Europe serves as a key meeting point for utilities, technology providers, grid operators, and industry leaders driving the future of smart grids, digitalization, and sustainable energy systems.

Joining the event from Barbara at the BASQUEnergy Cluster stand, Booth B.d132, Hall B, will be David Purón, CEO and Enrique Ramírez, Senior Solutions Architect. If you'd like to connect with them during the summit, feel free to reach out.

From November 24 to 26, 2026, Barbara will be at SPS – Smart Production Solutions in Nuremberg, Germany, one of Europe's leading trade fairs for smart and digital automation. The fair brings together more than 1,000 exhibitors and an international audience of automation professionals, system integrators, manufacturers and technology providers shaping the future of industrial automation.

Representing Barbara at the fair will be Javier Rodríguez, VP Sales and Jaime Vélez, Key Account Manager. Barbara is also part of UniversalAutomation.org (UAO), the independent association advancing Open Software-Defined Automation and the IEC 61499 standard, and the UAO community will be present at the Schneider Electric booth. Go and visit our colleagues from UAO there, or reach out to Javier or Jaime if you'd like to connect during the event.

On Thursday, October 8, 2026, Barbara took part in the XVIII Jornadas Internacionales de Redes Eléctricas (JIEEC), held at the BAT | B Accelerator Tower in Bilbao, Spain, under the theme “Technologies at the Service of the Grid of the Future for Industrial Electrification”. JIEEC 2026 brought together utilities, equipment manufacturers, engineering firms, technology providers and public institutions to explore the role of the electricity grid in the competitive decarbonization of industry. The day opened with the Grid4Industry project, part of the Basque Country's Plan de Industria Euskadi 2030, and moved through innovative grid technologies, digitalization, AI, cybersecurity, and grid storage and flexibility, closing with a startup pitch session.

Representing Barbara at the event was David Purón, CEO, who spoke at 16:30 CEST in the panel “Innovative Startups and SMEs Facing the Challenges of the Future Electricity Grid II”, alongside Alvaro Sánchez Cuervo (Plexigrid) and Julio Echenique Carbonell (Phygital X), moderated by Oscar Puche (EVE). Read the full recap of our time at JIEEC 2026 on the Barbara blog.

On October 7, 2026, Barbara attended IoT Sparks 2026 in Valencia, Spain, the conference and exhibition dedicated to the practical adoption of IoT technology. Now in its third edition and hosted at the Palau de les Arts, IoT Sparks connects telcos, hardware manufacturers and solution developers with the innovation, IT and operations leaders deploying connected solutions across industry and energy, smart city and utilities, mobility and logistics, and sustainability.

Representing Barbara at the event was Javier Rodríguez, VP Sales, who presented “From Connected Assets to Software-Defined Operations” at 10:20 in the Strategy Block.

On September 30, 2026, Barbara took part in the Edge Observatory Online Workshop, “Edge AI: Unlocking the potential of distributed intelligence in the EU”, organized by the European Commission (DG CNECT) from 10:00 to 12:00 CET. The interactive workshop explored the evolving EU edge AI landscape, drawing on exclusive insights from the Edge Observatory study on developments and trends across Member States. Participants had the opportunity to share their perspectives and discuss the opportunities, challenges, and conditions needed to build a secure, sustainable, and trusted edge AI infrastructure in the EU.

Juan Pérez-Bedmar, VP Marketing at Barbara, delivered the presentation “Insights from the edge AI ecosystem” at 11:40 CET, sharing what Barbara sees in the field as industrial operators deploy, run and secure industrial applications and AI models across distributed edge infrastructure.

From September 29 to October 1, 2026, Barbara attended the UAO Global Summit 2026 in Milan, Italy, the annual gathering organized by UniversalAutomation.org around the theme “Open Software-Defined Automation: From Academia and Research to Real-World Deployment with IEC 61499”. The summit brought together industrial leaders, system integrators, and academics to explore how Open Software-Defined Automation and the IEC 61499 standard are decoupling industrial software from hardware, and included a private visit to GR3N's industrial-scale recycling plant near Lake Como.

Representing Barbara at the event was David Purón, CEO, joining the community that is advancing a more open, interoperable and software-defined future for industrial automation. Read the full recap of our time at the UAO Global Summit 2026 on the Barbara blog.

From September 28 to October 2, 2026, Barbara was present at the Feria Internacional Industrial de Bogotá (FIB) in Bogotá, Colombia, the largest industrial trade fair in the Andean region. Held at Corferias, this edition brought together more than 500 exhibitors from 16 countries across manufacturing, energy, metal-mechanical, logistics and infrastructure.

Barbara was represented at the fair by Summan, our system integrator partner in Colombia, at Hall 3, Stand 349. Summan ran live demonstrations of digital twin projects in critical industries, running on Barbara across distributed edge nodes. Presenting Barbara at the stand were Camilo Posada, Antonia Palacio and Heidelyn Díaz, from Summan.