Panels are nice. But the structural shortage of women in technology will not be solved by just talking about it.
So for International Women’s Day, we opened our laptops.
As part of Lovable’s SheBuilds initiative, we hosted a Build Day where people spent the day creating real products. No more passive participation but active creation.
Because while progress has been made, the numbers are still stark.
A recent article asked: “Why are women disappearing from Europe’s tech workforce?”
In 2025, women held just 19% of tech roles in Europe. (Euronews, 2026)
Which raises a question: How can women be less represented in tech today than last year, at the very moment when the barrier to building is no longer “can you code?”
With the right tools (and right judgement) the real questions are now:
- Can you frame the problem?
- Can you embed your own expertise into a machine’s output?
- Can you combine technology, ethics and strategy into a single decision and roadmap?
Because technology is not neutral.
The people who build systems shape the systems. They decide what problems get solved, what data gets used, and what values get embedded into the tools billions of people will eventually use.
So if you care about the future of technology, there’s really only one option:
— Join the builders —.
Huge thank you to Lovable for supporting the initiative in Madrid and to everyone who showed up with curiosity, ambition, and the energy to build.
More build days soon with Sobremesa(tech). 🚀 Thank you to our partner Startup Grind Madrid Latinas in Tech and the wonderful Mad Tech Campus.
A special thank you to Deborah Li & Naily Makangu 🎤 for jumping onboard so quickly to help! As well as our fantastic overall team: Iñigo Peña Medrano Kelly Cuesta Micaela Villalobos Estefanía Puente Alarcón Francesca Fuentes 🌟
Thank you for last night! 🍷
30 people wrestling with whether cheap AI healthcare solves inequality or just reshapes it. Health tech founders, ex-OpenAI folks, investors, doctors, neuroscientists—even one who ditched the lab for computer science.
Edward brought the VC perspective. Someone defended pharma. Someone called it dystopian. Most of us sat in the productive discomfort between.
That’s the whole point.
Photos attached. Next Sobremesa TBD, stay in the group chat so you don’t miss it.
And if you know someone who’d appreciate this kind of conversation, bring them.
Photos by @silvsdediego 📸
@the.manley and I have been hosting @sobremesatech every month since April. It started off as a place to discuss AI from a philosophical lens, and now it’s evolved into an incredible community of humans in Madrid.
Want to join the next one? It’s going to be pretty insane (talking to an academic @ibrahim.almarashi who got his thesis plagiarized by the UK gov to justify the Iraq war level crazy). DM me for the details 🤍
And if your event wants content as cool as this, @silvsdediego is a genius.
