Introduction
I’ll be honest — I wasn’t sure what to expect. Valencia has a growing tech scene, but there’s no dedicated automation community here yet. When I started putting this together, I didn’t know if ten people would come or a hundred.
160 sign-ups. Nearly 100 people showed up. I’m genuinely happy we have such smart, curious people in Valencia who care about automation, AI, and what’s actually possible with the right workflows.
Nearly 100 people showed up for Valencia’s first n8n meet-up — and stayed well past the end.
But this didn’t happen overnight — so let me start from the beginning.
Why I organized this
A few years ago, I founded NodeSchool Lviv, a community where developers could learn and share knowledge in a hands-on way. What I loved about it wasn’t the events themselves. It was everything in between: the conversations, the ideas that surfaced over coffee after a talk, the friendships that started because two people happened to sit next to each other.
When I moved to Valencia, I wanted to build something like that again. By then, I was deep in enterprise work — helping companies implement n8n automations and workflows, speaking at conferences, and sharing what I’d learned along the way. Becoming an n8n Ambassador felt like a natural next step. And once that happened, the question was never whether I’d organize a community event in Valencia. It was just when.
What happened in the room
We had four speakers, and the format was simple: share something real. Not slides full of theory — actual cases, actual workflows, actual problems they solved with n8n.
Ailin Werner, Jorge Andrés Nieto, Maksym Dudkin, and Vadym Nahornyi did exactly that — each one came with a real case, not a theoretical overview.
Ailin, AI automation specialist, opened with a talk on what actually works when non-technical people start using n8n.
See Ailin’s presentation
Jorge, a DevOps and process automation specialist, walked through how he automated the real estate sales funnel for SMEs — end-to-end, no bottlenecks.
See Jorge’s presentation
Maksym, a software engineer and entrepreneur, joined remotely and shared a hands-on comparison of n8n and OpenClaw for real AI tasks
Vadym, who builds AI automation solutions for businesses, closed with something the audience needed to hear — when a simple n8n workflow outperforms a fancy AI agent, and why complexity isn’t always the answer.
See Vadym’s presentation
The topics covered enough ground that almost everyone in the room found something directly applicable to their own work.
Valencia’s First n8n Meet-Up
The talks ended. The conversations didn’t. People were still talking an hour later. That’s the best signal I could get.
What I noticed
A few things stood out to me as an organizer and as someone who thinks a lot about how automation is changing the way we work.
The interest is real — and it’s not just technical people. The room was full of founders, product managers, and operations leads who are actively looking for ways to automate their workflows. This is a hot topic right now, and not just in theory. People are actually building things.
Community matters. I’ve spoken at ODSC San Francisco, HBR Live, and WAW Tech — and I love those stages. But there’s something about a room of a hundred people who all showed up for the same reason — the conversations just hit differently.
Valencia is ready for this. 160 sign-ups for a first event — that tells me there’s a community here waiting to be built.
What's next
The next event is coming soon! I’m already planning it.
My goal is to keep building this community in Valencia — and not stop here. We’re planning to expand to other cities as well. Regular events, real cases, real people. If you’re based in Valencia and working with n8n or automation, follow me on LinkedIn to stay updated.
And if you have a case you’d like to share as a speaker — reach out. That’s what makes these evenings work. I believe this is a golden time for people who want to turn their ideas into real products, and I’m very happy to be part of that story here in Valencia.
P.S. If you want to stay close to what’s happening in automation and AI — we also run a regular podcast where we cover the latest tech news and trends. Short, practical, no fluff. Check it out here.
Roman Rodomansky is Co-Founder & COO at Ralabs, an official n8n ambassador, the founder of NodeSchool Lviv, and a speaker at ODSC San Francisco, HBR Live, DEVWorld Amsterdam, and TestCon Europe. His insights on leadership have been featured in Harvard Business Review.
