Fedit's Meetech Spain 2026 uses life on the Moon to showcase Spanish technology centres

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Fedit, the Spanish federation of technology centres, set its annual Meetech Spain gathering for 14 and 15 October in Madrid, under the motto "Made in Spain, fit for other worlds". The premise is a future human presence on the Moon, treated as an extreme test case where energy, water, food and materials leave no margin for error. The point is more terrestrial: to show companies, large and small, what the centres can already do for them. "The Moon is the excuse," said Fedit director general Áureo Díaz-Carrasco, with Spanish industrial competitiveness as the actual destination.

The programme covers infrastructure and energy, life support, robotics, and communications and data, with speakers including Spanish Space Agency director Juan Carlos Cortés and companies such as Naturgy, Lanzo Batteries, Hispansion, IENAI Space, GMV and Airbus. GMV sets a real problem for teams of technologists drawn from centres across the country. About 15 demonstrators are on show, among them Tekniker's Horace, a triboelectric generator meant to make electricity from Martian wind, and an Itecam hydroponic vertical farm running on solar power, batteries and hydrogen.

No lunar travel is scheduled; a debate on the EU's competitiveness against the US and China is. Organisers expect more than 500 professionals, 60 technology centres, 80 organisations and 40 speakers, with support from CDTI, the Community of Madrid, the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office and the Spanish Aerospace Technology Platform.