Harbour Space · TLF · Barcelona
This guide gives you context for the camp as a whole, how your role lab session fits into the two-week arc, who your fellow coaches are, and what to focus on during your 90 minutes in the room.
Tech.Summer.2026 is a two-week intensive at Harbour Space in Barcelona where 50+ students aged 15 to 17 form startup teams and build investor-ready pitchdecks from scratch. It runs from 22 June to 3 July, and ends with each team pitching to working investors and unicorn founders.
Students come into the camp with a wide range of experience — some have already been working on a startup for a year, some arrive with teammates from school, others come with no idea and no team. By the time you arrive on Tuesday (or later in the week), all of them will have formed teams of six to eight and landed on an initial idea. Across the two weeks they go from that initial idea to a real pitchdeck — through a structure designed around three daily slots, anchored by people who actually build and fund startups for a living.
In the morning, all students attend a masterclass together. Week 1 is led by Kamran Elahian — an Iranian-American serial entrepreneur who has co-founded ten tech companies with six exits, including three unicorn IPOs. Week 2 is led by Igor Ryabenkiy — founder of AltaIR Capital, whose portfolio of 350+ startups includes 11 unicorns, among them Miro, Turing, Deel, PandaDoc, OpenWeb, and Socure.
In the afternoon, students separate into role labs — four groups for the four roles a startup needs (CEO, CTO, Design, Marketing/Sales), each led by a working practitioner. This is where you come in. Across the two weeks, sixteen role lab coaches lead these sessions — that's you and fifteen others, from a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree to a generative-art pioneer whose work is in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum.
At the end of the day, students return to their startup teams, where a dedicated mentor guides them through the pitchdeck. Each week ends on Friday with a pitch. Week 1 is a checkpoint (5–6 slides, ~3 minutes) to a coaching panel. Week 2 is the final investor pitch (8–10 slides, ~4–5 minutes) — to real investors.
Nearly half are learning tools — research without hallucinations, exam feedback, mentor matching, guitar coaching, re-teaching lessons you didn't catch the first time, and a game for getting new IB students up to speed. The rest range across health, accessibility, safety, privacy, and ways to navigate misinformation. Most use AI in some form. By Friday of Week 02, every one will be a pitch to real investors.
Every weekday has the same three-slot structure. You lead a role lab session in Slot 2. Knowing what happens before and after helps you frame what students bring into your room and what they'll do with what they learn from you.
All 50+ students attend together. Led by Kamran Elahian in Week 1 and Igor Ryabenkiy in Week 2 — both deeply experienced operators and investors, with eleven unicorns between their portfolios.
The masterclass plants the big ideas of the day: frameworks for building startups, lessons from decades of building and backing companies. This is the only slot where every student receives the same content.
This is your slot. Students separate into four role groups — CEO, CTO, Design, Marketing/Sales — and you lead the session for one of them. Each group has roughly 12 to 15 students who chose this role at the start of the camp.
You have 90 minutes. The session covers what their role contributes to a startup team and gives students something concrete they can bring back to their team afterward.
Students return to their startup teams of 6 to 8 people. Each team has a dedicated mentor who guides them through building the pitchdeck across the two weeks.
This is where students take what you taught them and try to apply it to their team's specific startup — under the mentor's guidance.
All sessions happen at Harbour Space's TLF building in Barcelona. Your role lab is in one of four dedicated rooms — depending on which role you're coaching. The morning masterclass happens elsewhere in the same building.
Across the two weeks, sixteen coaches lead the role labs — plus open troubleshooting sessions with rotating tech specialists. They're grouped below by role. Take a look at the lineup you're part of.
Each day's role labs build toward the slide students will draft that afternoon with their team. Below is the full arc across the two weeks — what students focus on each day, the topic of each role lab, and which coach leads it. Find your day and your role group to see where you sit in the journey.
The camp is a living, breathing organism — topics, coach assignments, room rotations, and daily focus may shift as the two weeks unfold. We'll keep this page updated as things evolve.
You're not lecturing a university course — you're bringing real, working practitioner perspective into a room of teenagers who've already absorbed a morning of frameworks. The job is to make it concrete, useful, and energizing.