A two-day HR and learning technology fair at IFEMA Madrid on 4 and 5 November 2026, held inside Tech Show Madrid, with free conferences, about 70 programme slots over three theatres and 46 listed exhibitors.
HR Technologies Spain, branded HR & Learning Technologies Spain on its site, is an annual, in-person fair and conference for HR, talent and corporate learning technology held at IFEMA Madrid. The organiser calls it the main HR technology event in Spain, and says the 2026 edition follows the success of a first edition. It runs inside Tech Show Madrid, a multi-fair technology event that also covers data centres, cloud, cyber security, big data and AI, marketing and e-commerce. It is organised by CloserStill Media.
4 to 5 November 2026, Wednesday and Thursday, with opening hours of 10:00 to 19:00 on both days. IFEMA Madrid, Pabellón 3 according to the HR Technologies Spain site (the Tech Show Madrid footer gives Pabellones 3 to 5 for the whole show), Madrid, Spain.
CloserStill Media, through CloserStill Media Tecnología, S.L.U., Via Augusta 48, Barcelona. HR Technologies Spain is one of the fairs of Tech Show Madrid (the show was formerly called Madrid Tech Show), which the organiser calls its sixth edition in 2026. The database also names Madrid Tech Show as an organiser, which is the show's former name and not a separate company.
3,000 professionals, the organiser's figure for the HR fair on its home page. The exhibitor page of the same site says 14,000 HR professionals (unverifiable information), and Tech Show Madrid reports more than 27,000 visitors for its 2025 edition across all fairs, so the HR fair's own audience is not clear. The organiser names these visitor profiles: CHROs, chief learning officers, CEOs, IT and process automation leads, e-learning directors, talent and training heads, occupational health and safety directors, and internal communication directors. It states that 42.6% of the audience come from companies of 1 to 250 employees, 15.4% from companies of 1,001 to 5,000 employees and 19.1% from companies of over 10,000 employees. Students are not admitted.
Status: published roster on the speakers page, read 16 October 2026, 88 names, which may still grow. Roles are translated from Spanish; "independent" means the page shows no company.
The organiser presents 2026 as the second edition of the HR and learning fair, following a first edition inside Tech Show Madrid. New this year is an HR Congress Theatre with two congress tracks (occupational risk prevention, and HR corporate services) on both days, and a Well-Being and Employee Benefits theatre next to the Talent and Recruitment and HR and Learning theatres. Tech Show Madrid moves to 4 and 5 November 2026 from 29 and 30 October in 2025 (third-party report). What changed in exhibitor numbers or attendance against the first edition is Not publicly disclosed.
Three theatres on both days, plus the HR Congress Theatre. The programme page lists 40 slots on 4 November and 32 on 5 November, several marked to be confirmed, with most talks of 20 minutes and panels of 45 minutes. Talks run from 10:30 on 4 November and from 10:00 on 5 November.
Short talks (about 20 minutes), panel discussions of 45 minutes, executive roundtables, a live interview, a case study, an open forum, sponsor presentations marked Ponencia with a company name, and "Power Sessions" for which registration is free. The event app offers a networking tool to schedule meetings before, during and after the event. An exhibition floor with stands runs alongside.
Free: the organiser says registration gives free access to the conferences and Power Sessions. Students are not admitted, and the organiser reserves the right to cancel a badge. Stand and sponsorship prices are Not publicly disclosed; the commercial team quotes on request.
Use the speaker application form on the Tech Show Madrid site, where HR and learning technologies is one of the fairs you can choose. No deadline or selection criteria are published, and speaker fees are Not publicly disclosed. Several speakers on the roster are exhibitors' own staff, so a stand or sponsorship is another route.
Request information through the exhibitor form on the site (Reserva tu stand), or contact the commercial team: Ignasi Iturralde, Event Manager, 936 268 736, i.iturralde@closerstillmedia.com. Prices and packages are Not publicly disclosed. The HR Congress page also invites sponsors for its two congress tracks. The organiser says it is possible to arrange meetings before the event.
Published roster of partners, read 16 October 2026. The partner pages show logos with links, so names are taken from the link addresses and the roles are the organiser's labels.
The 46 exhibitors listed on 16 October 2026 are Clasing, Factorial, Sage, Zoho, Lucca, Apprecio, Bizneo, Buscos, Coverflex, Edflex, Endalia, Hrider, Insights, isEazy, iTopTraining, Kelio, Onirica VR, Sensei, Shakers, TramitApp, Twenix, UKG, Vidext, Waipoints, Wooclap, 3iPunt, 3MT Global Services, ADR Formación, Atmanco, Betterfly, Foxize, Genially, HOLDED, ISYC, Lemon Learning, Moodle, MUCHBETTER.AI, Panthr, Pitch Avatar, Pluxee, Skolae, Synthesia, Talentware, Vértice, Virtual Mirror and Youtrust. Dothegap appears in the sponsor logos and not in the exhibitor list.
The exhibitor list is mostly HR software, payroll, learning platform and talent vendors, many of them Spanish startups and scale-ups (Factorial, Bizneo, Buscos, Hrider), with international suppliers such as Sage, UKG, Zoho, Moodle and Synthesia. On the buyer side, the organiser reports that 42.6% of visitors come from companies of 1 to 250 employees and 19.1% from companies of over 10,000 employees. The speaker roster is mostly HR and talent directors from large Spanish and multinational employers.
Not publicly disclosed. No press page, accreditation form or press contact was found on the HR Technologies Spain site. The commercial and registration contacts are published; the Tech Show Madrid registration email is registro@madridtechshow.es.
None found for the HR fair itself in independent sources. The organiser's site publishes news items and partner articles (for example on exhibitor BUSCOS and on DCH becoming strategic partner of Tech Show Madrid, 29 May 2026). Coverage of Tech Show Madrid as a whole exists in Spanish trade media: a report of the 2025 results (27,000 attendees, 470+ exhibitors) and 2026 forecasts of around 30,000 attendees and 500 companies.
Mostly organiser-claimed and placed: the news section is the organiser's own, RRHH Digital (media partner) and elEconomista (media partner) are listed media partners, and the figures in trade reports of Tech Show Madrid repeat organiser numbers. No independent audit of attendance was found, and the organiser's own figures for the HR fair conflict (3,000 on the home page, 14,000 on the exhibitor page).
Students, who are not admitted. Readers who need English-language content: the site and most sessions are in Spanish, although some session titles are in English. Buyers who want a large HR-only event: the HR fair is one hall section of a seven-fair technology show, with about 46 exhibitors. Visitors who expect a vendor-neutral programme: many slots are presented by exhibitors, and the sponsor presentations are marked with company names.
It is the HR and learning fair of Tech Show Madrid, the Spanish technology show that CloserStill Media runs at IFEMA Madrid each autumn. The 2026 date is 4 and 5 November. Its relation to other HR technology events in Europe is Not publicly disclosed in the sources read; the previous record's claim that it is Southern Europe's leading fair does not appear on the organiser's site.
No edition outside Madrid was found. The HR and learning fair held its first edition in 2025 inside Tech Show Madrid at IFEMA Madrid (29 and 30 October 2025, according to a third-party report), and the 2026 edition is the second. The previous record said the organiser also runs HR Technologies in France and the UK; the Spanish site does not confirm it (unverifiable information).
Mainly Spanish. The site, registration form and most session titles are in Spanish, and several session titles are in English, for example Talent Acquisition in a Box and Complexity Doesn't Disappear. The language of delivery of each session is Not publicly disclosed.
Not publicly disclosed for 2026. The registration privacy notice mentions an event app with virtual stands and on-demand sessions, but the programme and registration pages do not say whether a livestream or replay is offered this year.
Not publicly disclosed. Registration is free, so no refund applies to visitors. The registration page says the organiser reserves the right to cancel a badge, and that exhibitor staff must register through the exhibitor portal.
Not publicly disclosed. No accessibility statement was found on the HR Technologies Spain or Tech Show Madrid pages read. IFEMA Madrid publishes its own visitor information.
The venue is IFEMA Madrid (Feria de Madrid), Pabellón 3 for the HR fair, with the Tech Show Madrid footer naming Pabellones 3 to 5. Directions, transport and parking are Not publicly disclosed on the event pages; check IFEMA Madrid's visitor information.
Because entry to the conferences is free and the programme is dense: about 70 slots over two days, delivered mostly in Spanish by HR directors of employers such as BBVA, Banco Santander, Nespresso, Diageo, Volkswagen Group and El Corte Inglés, next to 46 listed vendors of HR software and learning tools. For a Spanish HR buyer it is a low-cost way to compare vendors and hear practitioner cases in one place.
Because the HR fair shares IFEMA, one registration and a much larger audience: Tech Show Madrid reports 27,000 visitors for 2025 across all fairs, while the HR fair claims 3,000. That helps HR vendors reach IT and cyber buyers, and it means the HR crowd is a small share of the building.
Because the organiser gives 3,000 professionals on the home page and 14,000 on the exhibitor page, quotes 27,000 for Tech Show Madrid as a whole, and the roster of 88 speakers includes many exhibitors' own staff. None of the figures is audited. Treat attendance as an organiser claim, and use the exhibitor list and programme as the checkable facts.
Official site: https://www.hrtechspain.com/ (alive on 16 October 2026 and carrying the 4 and 5 November 2026 dates, in Spanish). Registration: https://www.hrtechspain.com/registro. Programme: https://www.hrtechspain.com/programa. Speakers: https://www.hrtechspain.com/ponentes. The host show is Tech Show Madrid at https://www.techshowmadrid.es/.