Conference Venue Address
Rafaelhoteles Forum Alcala
Calle Bulgaria 2
28802 Alcala De Henares Spain
(Rafaelhoteles Forum Alcalá, Calle de Bulgaria, 2, 28802 Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain)

 “I would sooner be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain!”

– George Orwell (English Novelist and Essayist, Journalist and Critic)

Madrid is the capital and biggest city of Spain. The number of inhabitants in the city is practically 3.2 million and that of the Madrid metropolitan zone, around 6.3 million. It is the third-biggest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan region is the third-biggest in the European Union after London and Paris. The city traverses a sum of 604.3 km2 (233.3 sq mi). 

The city is situated on the Manzanares River in the focal point of both the nation and the Community of Madrid (which involves the city of Madrid, its conurbation and expanded rural areas and towns); this network is flanked by the self-ruling networks of Castile and León and Castile-La Mancha. As the capital city of Spain, seat of government, and living arrangement of the Spanish ruler, Madrid is additionally the political, monetary and social focal point of Spain. The present civic chairman is Ana Botella from the People's Party (PP). 

The Madrid urban agglomeration has the third-biggest GDP in the European Union and its persuasions in legislative issues, instruction, excitement, condition, media, style, science, culture, and human expressions all add to its status as one of the world's major worldwide urban communities. Because of its monetary yield, elevated expectation of living, and market size, Madrid is viewed as the major money related focus of Southern Europe and the Iberian Peninsula; it has the administrative centers of by far most of the significant Spanish organizations, for example, Telefónica, Iberia or Repsol. Madrid is the seventeenth most decent city on the planet as per Monocle magazine, in its 2014 record. 

Madrid houses the base camp of the World Tourism Organization (WTO), having a place with the United Nations Organization (UN), the SEGIB, the Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI), and the Public Interest Oversight Board (PIOB). It additionally has significant worldwide controllers of Spanish: the Standing Committee of the Association of Spanish Language Academies, base camp of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE), the Cervantes Institute and the Foundation of Urgent Spanish (Fundéu BBVA). Madrid sorts out fairs, for example, FITUR, ARCO, SIMO TCI and the Cibeles Madrid Fashion Week. 

Madrid is home to an enormous number of open and private colleges. Some of them are among the most seasoned on the planet, and a significant number of them are the most lofty colleges in Spain. 

The Complutense University of Madrid (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) is the biggest college in Spain and probably the most seasoned college on the planet. It has 10,000 staff individuals and an understudy populace of 117,000.