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9 listed worldwide, in date order.
This event explores the challenges of sustaining civic technology and public infrastructure after initial funding ends. It brings together community members, policymakers, and operators to discuss governance, licensing, and shared space management. Attendees will learn about systems that enable ongoing civic collaboration and infrastructure use.
Participants form teams to build and sell a minimum viable product with paying customers in one week. This event targets developers, designers, and operators who want to validate ideas fast and gain traction. Attendees benefit from expert mentoring, pitch opportunities, and networking with founders and investors.
Sunday Tech Coffee is a networking event for professionals in Berlin's tech industry. Attendees can meet peers and build relationships in an informal setting. The event supports community building within Berlin's technology sector.
This event hosts a 5 km social run in Berlin targeting the startup and finance community. Participants meet at an office, run at a relaxed pace, and enjoy drinks and snacks before and after. It encourages community building and exercise across all fitness levels rather than competition.
Creative and tech professionals share honest stories about their biggest professional mistakes and what they learned afterward. The event features short talks, an open mic, and networking with drinks. It is for designers, developers, product managers, marketers, and founders who want to connect and learn from failure experiences.
Participants demo projects built using AI-powered development tools and share insights on their workflow, challenges, and lessons learned. The event is for designers, developers, product managers, founders, marketers, and anyone interested in AI-driven creative projects. Attendees can engage in demos, audience questions, and networking conversations.
Hacker Room Demo Day showcases technical demos from AI projects developed by residents of the Merantix AI Campus in Berlin. Attendees can see early-stage prototypes and experiments, engage in technical conversations, and connect with AI engineers and builders. The event offers a casual and collaborative environment for exploring experimental AI ideas.
Berlin AI Day gathers leaders, operators, and builders to explore how AI and automation are transforming organizations. The event features no-hype talks from companies sharing real use cases, lessons, and outcomes. Attendees can learn practical strategies across leadership, operations, and product development for building AI-first organizations.
For Designers, UX/CX Strategists, Product Leaders, and Business Decision-Makers. What if the website you've spent years perfecting quietly stops being where your customers meet your brand? You optimized the navigation. Refined the design system. Obsessed over every step of the customer journey. But AI is changing where people actually go looking for answers. Instead of visiting your site, they ask an AI assistant, and your website becomes a source it pulls from, not a destination people arrive at. At our next HelloDigital MeetUp, Nikolaus Stemmer (a Berlin-based UX/CX Director, researcher, and speaker with more than 25 years designing digital products) takes on the question most brands and design teams are avoiding: what happens to digital brand experience once AI becomes the gateway, not the website? He'll walk through machine-readable brands, Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), and what he calls the Intent Era, a future where AI increasingly decides what your customers see of you. No predictions dressed up as hype. A sharp, evidence-grounded look at what's shifting, and what you can start doing about it now. What we'll explore Why the website's role is changing in an AI-first world How AI is reshaping the way people discover brands What machine-readable brands and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) mean in practice, not just in theory Whether design systems and interfaces still matter once AI generates the experience How the job of designers and digital teams is shifting under all of this Who should attend? This is for designers and UX/CX strategists who build digital brand experiences, and for product leaders and business decision-makers who fund and own the strategy behind them. You'll leave with a sharper read on where digital experience is headed and what to question in your own work. To keep the room sharp and the conversation real, seats are limited to 60 guests. Schedule 6:00 PM – Doors open 7:00 PM – Talk by Nikolaus Stemmer 8:00 PM – Drinks & networki