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Thu, Nov 6 · 11:00 AM CET

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[Community Partner Event] Free Online Access to the NODES 2025 conference

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(Please note that you will need to sign up for the event via this registration link. Do not sign up via meetup.com)

We are pleased to be a Community Partner at NODES 2025, Neo4j's Online Developer Conference.

NODES 2025 is a free, 24-hour, multi-track, virtual conference loaded with highly technical presentations, delivered by Neo4j experts and users from around the world. They'll present sessions in these four tracks: AI Engineering, App Dev, Data Intelligence and Knowledge Graphs.

Register for the event HERE.

Time Slots:
🌏 APAC: 10:00 am SGT/ 7:30 am IST - 5:30 pm SGT/ 3:00pm IST - (6:00 pm PT on 11/05)
🌍 EMEA: 10:00am BST/11:00 pm CEST - 17:30 BST/18:30 CEST - (2:00 am PT on 11/06)
🌎 AMER: 10:00 am PT/1:00 pm ET - 5:30 pm PT / 8:30 pm ET

Check out the Conference Agenda.

There is more, before the conference, you have a chance to attend the free Road to NODES Workshops on the following topics:

• Neo4j Fundamentals
• Document Graph with GraphRAG
• AI Agents with MCP
• Mastering GraphRAG

The two-hour online workshops are hands-on and free. You don’t want to miss out!
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• Contact
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Sat, Nov 15 · 10:00 AM CET

Reimagining the (inter)faces of AI

School of Machines, Making & Make-Believe, Veteranenstraße 21, Berlin, DE

‼️ We are changing to Luma, please register to the event there: https://luma.com/g9silhrp ‼️

How should AI look, sound, and feel? What are your aesthetics of AI? Beyond the now-familiar chat boxes and sleek gradients lies a vast universe of unexplored possibilities for human-AI interaction. This hands-on workshop invites you to question and critique the interfaces shaping our relationship with artificial intelligence. Then build something about it: design, prototype, and hack together new possibilities.

What to Expect
Following an opening presentation, you'll work in small groups (2-3 people) to explore whatever aspect of AI interface design most interests you. This is a choose-your-own-adventure event – you decide what to explore! Want to prototype for a specific domain or audience? Design a general-purpose model with a radically different interface? Hack together a proof-of-concept? It's up to you.
To inspire and guide your exploration, the room will feature curated "relay stations" – themed areas offering provocations, resources, and creative constraints. Stations will include both conceptual and design-focused explorations (What can science fiction teach us? How do rhetorical styles shape conversational AI? What inspiration can we draw from folklore?) and technical, hands-on resources (prompt engineering playgrounds, UI component libraries, hacking and prototyping tools).
Mix and match stations as you like. Follow your curiosity, then share your discoveries, prototypes, or concepts with the group in our closing presentations (4-5pm).

Who Should Come
This workshop welcomes PyLadies members and your designer friends! Cross-functional collaboration makes for the most interesting outcomes. Whether you code, design, or simply care about how technology shapes our world – you belong here.

Schedule

• 10:00-11:00 AM: Welcome & opening presentation
• 11:00 AM-4:00 PM: Collaborative exploration time (with break)
• 4:00-5:00 PM: Group presentations

Prep for the event
Watch Laura's talk "The Aesthetics of AI: from cyberpunk to fascism"

Optional extras:

• Watch "The (ancient) art of conversation - styling beyond the GUI" on rhetoric and conversational interfaces:
• Watch some sci-fi! Bring aesthetic or style references that interest you and you want to discuss

Background
This workshop builds on Laura Summers' April 2025 talk "The Aesthetics of AI: from cyberpunk to fascism," which explored how aesthetic choices in AI reveal deeper assumptions about technology's role in society. Now it's your turn to imagine alternatives.

Registration
Spots are limited – register fast!
Please register via Luma (not Meetup). Registration will be confirmed.

Sponsored by Python Software Verband with the support of PyLadies Berlin and School of Machines

Sat, Nov 15 · 10:00 AM CET

Docker Fundamentals & Optimisations Workshop (FLINTA only event)

Ecosia, 13347 Gerichtstrasse 23, Berlin, DE

IMPORTANT Sign up is handled via our Luma page https://luma.com/event/manage/evt-v9pwSdx9QIDhdnK/more

In this hands-on workshop, we'll learn to run containers, write Dockerfiles, optimize images with multi-stage builds, and orchestrate multi-containers apps with Compose!
Do you want to get started with Docker and containers?
Or perhaps you've already run some containers, built some images, and now you want to go farther by learning best practices as well as tips & tricks to optimize the way you work with containers?
Then this workshop is for you!
We'll cover:

• Docker fundamental concepts (starting with "docker run"!)
• Building images with Dockerfiles
• Optimizing builds: reducing build time and image size
• Orchestrating multi-container apps with Compose

You'll apply what you learn thanks to numerous interactive labs. We'll give you some demo apps to containerize, but feel free to bring your own apps too for personalized guidance!

## Important Info

This is a joint event between Empowered in Tech and PyLadies Berlin - please note that this event is a FLINTA only event, we thank our allies for their support.
Please only sign up if you intend to come as space is limited, if you have signed up and are no longer able to come please reach out to us at berlin@pyladies.com to let us know.

## Agenda

10am: Intro & workshop starts
12:30: Lunch break (we'll provide predominantly vegan lunch options - if you require/want something else, feel free to bring your own food)
4pm: Workshop ends

## Pre-requisites

• You will need a laptop with one of the following installed: Docker, Docker Desktop, Podman, or Podman Desktop (alternatively, we'll give you cloud-based lab environments)
• Basic UNIX shell familiarity

No coding required! Examples will use Python, Ruby, Go, and more; but we'll focus on containerization, not writing code.

## Speakers

Marinka began in Astronomy before finding a new passion in Data Science. She now works as a Teacher Assistant in the AI Engineer course at Spiced Academy. Originally from Uruguay, she’s made Berlin her home. Outside of tech, she is a passionate animal rights activist and a devoted Beatles fan.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/marinka-egorov/

Jérôme was part of the team that built and launched Docker. He worked there for 7 years. These days he teaches Kubernetes at Enix, a French Cloud Native shop. When he's not busy with computers, he collects musical instruments. He can arguably play the theme of Zelda on a dozen of them.
https://hachyderm.io/@jpetazzo/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jpetazzo/

## About our Host

https://www.ecosia.org is the search platform for a better planet 🌱🌐🔎
Ecosia is a not-for-profit company that plants and protects trees. We dedicate 100% of our profits to the planet and create simple ways for people to be climate active every day. Collaborating with local communities, we have planted more than 200 million trees (and counting) all over the world

## ☂️ About the FLINTA label

This event is labelled as FLINTA (women, lesbians, intersex, non-binary, trans and agender) as we make it a mission to empower women and other underrepresented minorities in the tech community.

## 💗 Code of Conduct

We are dedicated to providing a safe and welcoming experience for everyone who participates in our events.
By attending our event, you agree to the PyLadies Code of Conduct: https://www.pyladies.com/CodeOfConduct/

## 📸 Media Consent

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📧 Contact
Interested in speaking at one of our events? Have a good idea for a Meetup? Get in touch with us at berlin@pyladies.com
💬 Find us on the PyLadies Global workspace:

1. https://slackin.pyladies.com enter your email address.

Accept the email invitation
2. Go to workspace https://pyladies.slack.com
3. Join channel #city-berlin, #germany, #jobs-europe