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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

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

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.

Dear Data Enthusiasts, Summer might be over, but that means meetups are back on the menu! We’re kicking off the season with an exciting event featuring two fantastic Vienna-based startups. Lessons from bringing an AI agent to production (and building a start-up along the way) Patrick Hohenecker Heinz Eckert In this session, we, Patrick Hohenecker and Heinz Eckert, founders of AI consultancy Neural Natives, will share practical insights and surprising challenges from building an agentic AI system and putting it into production. The project we will focus on is an agent we developed for a group of functional fitness gyms in Vienna. The system helps prospective customers select and book a group class for their first trial session. We will cover learnings and surprises across the full project lifecycle: scoping the project and aligning with the client, development and deployment, and ultimately operating the solution in production. Our aim for this session is to give you a hands-on perspective on what it takes to make agentic AI work in practice today. Patrick has a background in Computer Science and AI, earned his PhD in Deep Learning from the University of Oxford, and previously founded and served as CTO of successful international tech startups in the legal and hospitality sectors. Heinz studied Computer Science and Psychology. He previously led the AI team at a large Austrian telecom provider and has more than 10 years of experience in data and AI. Beat Shaper: AI music-production tool; from concept to production Joaquin Ramiro Molina In this talk, Joaquín will walk us through the development of Beat Shaper — an AI-powered music production tool designed for electronic music producers. Joaquin is an SW Engineer at Cloudflight and Co-founder of Beat Shaper. He's passionate about AI and Retrieval systems, and firmly believes Friday evening is the best time to deploy to production. 🎤🎤 Open Mic We are going to open up the stage after the talks for community annou

"Own Your AI" is a community event for practitioners who want to run their own AI. We explore the sovereignty of infrastructure, models, and data, and what that means for controlling security, risk, and costs. Our focus is independence from the cloud foundation services and large hyperscalers that dominate the scene. We are an active community of people who are building AI systems and want to exchange notes with peers who do the same. Our Mission: Sovereignty • Optimization • Knowledge Who is this for? LLM- and Agentic-Engineers, Data Scientists, AI-Platform-Engineers, Hands-on Tech-Leaders Agenda 📢 Intro: "What's new in September 2026" by Andreas and Andreas A short overview of the latest developments in LLMs and agentic AI over the past five weeks. Talks 🚀 "Ten Ways to Hack AI Applications and How to Harden Them" by Andreas Burner Demonstrating attacks on prompts, tools and agents. And the controls that actually hold. 🚀 "(Agentic) Loops At Levels, Live" by Russ Miles Russ shows one real project, five levels of human-AI collaboration, and all the code in between. 🚀 "Voice AI - Local, Realtime, Best-Practices" by Andi Kunar Building voice assistants without the cloud. Addressing latency, quality and running on your own hardware. Lightning Talks ⚡ "Was KI kann" by Florian Zsifkovics Florian is a journalist and the host of the AI podcast "Was KI kann", where he discusses hype and reality. ⚡ "Governance Architecture & Drift Detection" by Jürgen Eckel Jürgen will show how to build governance into the architecture and spot drift before it hurts. Format Agenda: Focus talks (20 min), Lightning talks (5 min) - each followed by a Q&A Followed by: Meeting peers and discussing topics - have a drink together Location: Vienna (in person only. No online attendance) Cadence: Once every month. Language: English - we appreciate our very international community! Hosts Andreas Burner — Management Advisor for AI & Cloud Strategy, Board Advisor, and Court-Certified Expert. 25+ yea