Startup Events in Vienna

This event is free of charge and only takes place on-site! Language of the Meetup: ENGLISH 🇬🇧 Talk #1: Call center audio analytics: Hours of sensitive customer calls, turned into insights - with sovereign and private AI [Georg Heiler, Danilo Labanca] The most valuable data in a telco is the data you are least free to send anywhere. A recorded customer call carries a voice fingerprint - biometric data under GDPR - and that holds for your evaluation set just as much as for production. We show how sovereign AI unlocks use cases an external API may never touch, and why the same setup turned out cheaper. Open weights, Ray, Dagster and Metaxy - and an honest look at where the GPUs should live for operational AI. Talk #2: The Agent, Your Business Need [Martin Mayr, Adrian Dimaano] More businesses than ever explore the use of agentic workflows to automate manual tasks. One common use case is the integration into company data and knowledge landscape. This integration comes with a few challenges: How should one reflect company polices? How can one connect different software solutions to the agent and how can one make sure to reflect and isolate workflows. In this talk we are going to explore possible answers to each question and present a practical example, how one can integrate agentic workflows to support the company in day-to-day business. — 📅 September 24th, 2026, from 17:30 📍 Location: weXelerate Auditorium, Praterstraße 1, 1020 Vienna 🚇 Approach: U1/U4 to Schwedenplatz, entrance via Taborstraße or Praterstraße. Parking available in the building garage. — ⏰ Schedule: Check-in: 17:30 – 18:00 Talk #1: 18:00 – 18:30 Break & Networking: 18:30 – 18:45 Talk #2: 18:45 – 19:15 Networking, Food & Drinks: 19:15 – 21:00 — We are now part of the GDG community. You can also find our and other upcoming events on the Google Developers Community webpage! For inquiries: office@posedio.com

GenAI Community: "High-Impact AI" Edition kununu\, Vienna \| September 24th \| 17:30 High-impact AI is quite fast. And before we reach AGI, lets take a look at some of the most interesting Uses of AI. Together with leading national voices from Austria's AI ecosystem, we dive into advanced use cases, technical breakthroughs and the practical lessons learned when building, deploying and scaling AI – from medical imaging and semiconductor simulation to AI-assisted coding and company-wide AI enablement. Hosted by Ruben Hetfleisch (AI Austria). 17:30 – Welcome & Opening Hosted by Ruben Hetfleisch (AI Austria) → Setting the stage: from GenAI hype to high-impact AI to AGI 17:40 – Attention is all you read Philipp Besinger & his surprise guest (Codeforce, AI Austria) 17:55 – Do You Wanna Build a Surrogate? -- Lessons from surrogate modelling for semiconductor devices Suchita Kulkarni (University of Graz) 18:10 – Digital Pathology: AI-based Image Processing Robert Reihs (Beko Solutions) 18:25 – Our Journey from AI Noob to Mastery Angela Rumpl (kununu) → How we measure adoption, what we learned – from AI Playbook to Dojos to AI Toolkit & Guardrails 19:00 – Networking, Drinks & Conversations → Meet the speakers, exchange ideas and connect with the AI community 📍 Location kununu, Schottenring 2–6, 1010 Wien, 4. Stock 🗓 Date & Time September 24th, from 17:30 🎟 Admission Free & open to the community – limited seats

Dear Data Enthusiasts, Save the date! More details to follow. 🎤🎤 Open Mic We are going to open up the stage after the talks for community announcements. If you'd like to announce something, open this slide deck, make sure you are signed in with a google account, and click "View Only" -> "Request Edit Access". Explain in the text box what you want to announce, and we'll give you edit access to the slide deck. 🎤🎤 Also, please note that during the event, photos might be made and later posted on VDSG's or Cloudflight's social media page. Please notify us if you do not agree. Attention attendees with food allergies. Please be aware that the food and drinks provided may contain or come into contact with common allergens, such as dairy, eggs, wheat, soybeans, tree nuts, peanuts, fish, shellfish, or wheat.

☕ AI Breakfast: Real Talk, No Slides We’re bringing the AI community together at AI Breakfast Vienna — a relaxed, high-signal meetup for meaningful conversations and new connections. Whether you’re involved in research, product, engineering, policy, or business, this is a place to share perspectives, exchange ideas, and meet others shaping the future of AI. Here, corporate meets startup, policy meets engineering, and research meets product. We’re creating space to break down silos, spark thoughtful discussions, and encourage genuine cross-pollination — all before the workday begins. When: September 25th, 09:00 AM Where: Cafe Museum - Operngasse 7 - Literatursalon - Tables reserved under "Cristian Hofmann / AI Austria" Hosts: Cristian, Amin, and Ruben Cost: Order breakfast at your own expense Space is limited! 👉 RSVP only if you’re 100% sure you can make it.

Ximba takes over the rooftop from 18:00 to 00:00 with a live DJ set that's built to move you. Founded by a Colombian-Peruvian duo, Ximba blends European tech house with Latin vocals and percussion to create their signature Latin Tech House sound. Expect infectious rhythms, sunset views, and two signature Licor 43 drinks available throughout the evening: the refreshing Ibiza Spritz and the playful Mini-Beer Shot. Whether you're dancing from the first track or just soaking up the atmosphere with a cocktail in hand, this is one rooftop party you won't want to miss. Don't miss out on the fun — RSVP to let us know you're interested and join us for an evening of great music, good vibes, and some of the best views Vienna has to offer. Pssst... want to include this event in a blog post or article? Reach out to pr@livezoku.com for more info!

Welcome to the 4rd Design Systems Meetup in Vienna This meetup is a place to learn about design systems and to connect with other designers and developers working with and on design systems. Schedule Our speakers will cover different topics. 18:00 – Entry, first networking 19:00 – Introduction & sponsor shoutout 19:10 – Oliver Schöndorfer & Manuel Matuzović„Typography Tuning of wien.gv.at“ 19:50 – Refreshment break, food & drinks 20:10 – You?Second Talk – do you want to present something? 20:50 – Connect with each other 22:00 – End of meetup Information Find out more about the Design Systems Meetup on https://dev.orf.at/meetup Sponsors Our sponsors allow us to have good catering and beautiful locations! WienIT Location WienIT WIT Base, Thomas-Klestil-Platz 13, 1030 Wien, Austria

THE KEEPING SEASON Dialog · Writing Workshop · Vinyl Session · Connection Ein Abend, der in Erinnerung bleibt. The Keeping Season verbindet echte Gespräche, gemeinsames Schreiben und Musik mit einem limitierten Paper Republic Ledernotizbuch, das nur für diesen Abend produziert wird. 5. Oktober 2026 · La Maison in Wien · Limitiert auf 60 Plätze Early Bird: 60 € bis 14. September Im Ticket enthalten sind das limitierte Ledernotizbuch, das gesamte Abendprogramm, Drinks, Fingerfood und eine Goodie Bag unserer Partner im Wert von über 200 €. Wir leben in einer Zeit, in der fast alles darauf ausgelegt ist, ersetzt zu werden. Nachrichten verschwinden nach 24 Stunden. Fotos verschwinden im Archiv. Gedanken verschwinden, bevor wir sie zu Ende gedacht haben. Der Oktober ist Keeping Season: eine Zeit des Erntens, Sammelns und Bewahrens. Im Mittelpunkt steht eine Frage: "In a disposable age, what is worth keeping?" Ein Abend über Erinnerungen, bewusste Entscheidungen und die Dinge, die bleiben dürfen. Zum ersten Mal öffnen wir dafür gemeinsam mit Paper Republic deren Store La Maison in der Wiener Innenstadt - ein Ort, der seit jeher dem Handwerk des Bewahrens in Form von Schreiben gewidmet ist. Der Abend entfaltet sich in drei Akten: 📖 AKT I - Dialog Der Abend beginnt nicht mit einer Bühne, sondern mit einem Raum, mit Karten und Spielen zum Kennenlernen von Better Talks. Es gibt keine Speaker und kein Panel Talk, sondern ganz viele Menschen mit denen du auf Augenhöhe quatschen kannst. Du wirst keinen Ice Breaker brauchen oder lang überlegen worüber du reden könntest, denn das Material von Better Talks macht es für jeden zum einfachen Spiel. Mit wem du wann und wie viel sprichst, wählst du frei aus. ✍️ AKT II - Writing Workshop Im zweiten Akt tauchen wir gemeinsam in die Frage der Nacht ein: Was möchte ich in diesem Leben oder genau jetzt behalten und für die Zukunft mitnehmen? Jede:r Gast erhält ein exklusives, co-produziertes Ledernotizbuch von Paper Republic und darf es dire

Join us for a meaningful day of community and action! We are coming together as AIM Austria to support the "Lauf für die Krebsforschung" (Run for Cancer Research) hosted by the Medical University of Vienna. Whether you are a seasoned runner or just want to show your support for a great cause, this event is a fantastic opportunity to make an impact. Let’s run together to advance vital medical research. Event Details: Date: Saturday, October 10, 2026 Time: 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM Purpose: Supporting cancer research We look forward to seeing the AIM Austria team there!

AI Austria Meetup "Inside the AI"-Edition NTS Netzwerk Telekom Service AG\, Vienna \| October 15th \| 17:30 Word Models, Context Engineering and AI Reasoning. Main topics that decide, if we can use AI in a structured way. Join us in this deep dive. Together with leading voices from Austria's AI ecosystem, we look at the next layer of the stack: world models, self-advancing context, and the tracing and reasoning that make agent decisions transparent. Hosted by Ruben Hetfleisch (AI Austria). 17:30 – Welcome & Opening Hosted by Ruben Hetfleisch (AI Austria) → Setting the stage & News about AI 17:40 – World Models and Their Impact on AI Fabian Lächler (Fraunhofer Austria) 17:55 – Self-Advancing Context in the Age of Agents Mario Deubler 18:10 – AI Tracing & Reasoning: Understanding How AI Makes Decisions Maximilian Süss (KHoch3) 18:30 – On-premise AI: The Pain, The Suffering and Why We Still Do It Dino Begicevic (NTS) 19:00 – Networking, Drinks & Conversations → Meet the speakers, exchange ideas and connect with the AI community More speakers to be announced soon! 📍 Location NTS Netzwerk Telekom Service AG, Trabrennstraße 2b, Wien 🗓 Date & Time Thursday, October 15th 2026, from 17:30 🎟 Admission Free & open to the community – limited seats

THIS MEETUP WILL BE IN PERSON What to expect: 🗣️ Two or Three speakers 👥 Meet old and new friends from the community 🍕 Free food 🎉 Open-end and free drinks afterwards ✔️ Just RSVP! Agenda: 17:30 - Doors open 18:00 - Welcome 18:05 - 🗣️ Lukas Zainzinger \- Escaping the Trap: A Pragmatic Approach on Decision Making to avoid Vendor Lock\-In 18:50 - Break 19:00 - 🗣️ Roland Rittchen \- OpenStack: From Sovereignty to Liberty 19:45 - 🎉 Open-end 🧑‍💻 Speakers: Lukas Zaininger \- Site Reliability Engineer at Willhaben Escaping the Trap: A Pragmatic Approach on Decision Making to avoid Vendor Lock-In Adopting third-party platforms and cloud-native services accelerates delivery, but it often comes with a hidden cost: vendor lock-in. When switching costs balloon and migration paths vanish, architectural agility suffers. How do you balance development velocity with long-term technological independence? In this talk, I will break down a pragmatic, 2-step evaluation process used at willhaben to assess third-party solutions before writing a line of integration code. You’ll learn how to implement a practical Service Decision Matrix that quantifies service quality, operational complexity, and operation costs within a realistic vendor lock-in framework. Roland Rittchen \- Senior Platform Engineer at SQUER OpenStack: From Sovereignty to Liberty Europe has spent three years building sovereign cloud. Regulators demand it, the European Commission procures it, and a dozen providers now sell it. But sovereignty answers a question about jurisdiction — and it quietly leaves the harder one unanswered: if you can't actually move, you aren't free. You've just changed who owns you. This talk takes the promise literally and tests it. One OpenTofu repository, one Flux repository, three targets: a self-hosted OpenStack cluster running on three mini PCs, plus two European public clouds. We measure how much genuinely transfers, find the places it leaks, and confront the gap nobody p

THIS MEETUP WILL BE IN PERSON 🕺 What to expect: 🗣️ Two or Three speakers 👥 Meet old and new friends from the community 🍕 Free food 🎉 Open-end and free drinks afterwards ✔️ Just RSVP! Agenda: 17:30 - Doors open 18:00 - Welcome 18:05 - 🗣️ Dmytro Hlotenko - My Step Functions DAG Was a Lie: Going Agentic on 8,000 Photos 18:50 - Break 19:00 - 🗣️ Martin Flechl - From Alert to Fix: Agentic Root Cause Analysis and Self-Remediation 19:40 - 🗣️ Marco Basmaji - LLM Observability: What Happens When You Can't Just Read the Stack Trace 20:00 - 🎉 Open-end 🧑‍💻 Speakers: Dmytro Hlotenko \- Senior Cloud Operations Engineer at Sage Austria Dmytro Hlotenko is a Senior Cloud Operations Engineer at Sage Austria, working on the cloud platform behind its HR and payroll products for the DACH market - the kind of environment where decades-old business logic meets a modern hybrid cloud estate, and where reliability is not negotiable. He is an AWS Community Builder, co-lead of AWS User Group Vienna, an AWS New Voices 2025 graduate, and an event manager with AWS Community DACH e.V., where he helps organise AWS Community Day DACH and co-organised AWS Community GameDay Europe in Vienna. Seven AWS certifications later, he still believes the interesting part of the job is the part that does not fit the reference architecture. He has spoken at AWS Community Days across Europe, at Conf42, on the re Recap Tour, and at the AI for Developing Countries Forum at the United Nations in Vienna. Ukrainian, based in Vienna, and an analog photographer — which is how the agentic photo pipeline he now talks about got started in the first place. Dmytro's session My Step Functions DAG Was a Lie: Going Agentic on 8,000 Photos Once I decided to translate my photography experience into a serverless pipeline. I judged 8,000 photos of your faces, and it was a big success - we turned a problem into a solution with AWS. Lambdas, Rekognition, Bedrock and the rest played together as a system, delivering a m