AI Austria Meetup

GenAI Community: Autonomous Agent Edition
Fiskaly, Vienna | March 25, 2026 | 5:30 PM

AI Agents are moving from hype to reality – and the community is figuring out what actually works.

From real-world deployments to global hackathons, from research-driven architectures to lessons learned in production: this GenAI Community Edition focuses entirely on agent-based systems and the challenges that come with building them.

Together with leading voices from Austria’s AI ecosystem, we will explore how agentic architectures are evolving, what technical and organisational hurdles teams face, and how the global developer community is experimenting with new paradigms.

Hosted by Ruben Hetfleisch (AI Austria), this evening combines short impulse talks with open discussion and networking, bringing together builders, researchers, and practitioners working on the next generation of AI systems.

Expect deep technical insights, honest lessons from the field, and lively discussions with the community.

17:30 – Welcome & Opening
Hosted by Ruben Hetfleisch (AI Austria)
→ Why agentic systems are redefining software architectures

17:40 – Agent Challenges & Global Hackathons
Felix Krause & Rinat Abdullin (AI Impact Mission)
→ Lessons from building agents and organising global AI hackathons

17:50 – Agentic Code Generation
Ivan Birkmaier (IBM)
→ How is IBM coding

18:00 – Exploit Arena - CLI Battlebots
Andrew Demczuk (CTO, OpenClaw Maintainer)
→ Developing Agents to beat other Agents

18:15 – AI Austria Community Insights
Daniel Noszian (AI Austria)
→ What the Austrian AI ecosystem is learning about agentic systems

19:00 – Networking, Drinks & Conversations
→ Meet the speakers, exchange ideas and connect with the AI community

More speakers to be announced soon!

### 📍 Location

Fiskaly, Vienna

### 🗓 Date & Time

March 25, 2026 – from 5:30 PM

### 🎟 Admission

Free & open to the community – limited seats.

Dear AI Austrians,

It’s time to get together again.

No agenda, no talks, no program. Just good conversations, familiar faces, and meeting new people from the AI Austria community.
Whether you’ve joined our meetups before or this would be your first one: you’re warmly invited. Come by for a quick hello or stay the whole evening — totally up to you.

📍Location:
Gleis//Garten
Eichenstrasse 2, 1120 Vienna

🕖 Time:
From 18:30 - open end.

Looking forward to seeing many of you there,
AI Austria

The Codeforce Returns: Taming LLMs! 🦁

Gone are the days when we just accepted whatever an AI decided to spit out. Nowadays, it’s all about control, precision, and reliability.

Making an agentic system do exactly what you want is an art of its own. This time around, the Codeforce goes hands-on to explore how we can tame these models and force them to play by our rules.

Our regular online meetup brings together makers, tinkerers, and thought-leaders in the GenAI space to unpack what’s new, what matters, and what’s next. We’re inviting everyone to join us for a virtual evening of insights, demos, and discussion.

🌐 What to expect:

• 📈 Trend Talk: The latest GenAI developments and community hot takes
• 🧭 News Radar: Fresh updates from the AI frontier (you know how fast it moves!)
• 🛠️ Live Demo: Taming LLMs. A deep dive into fine-tuning, distillation, and deterministic guardrails in an agentic system.
• 💬 Open Floor: Bring your thoughts, your hacks, and your questions. Everyone’s voice counts!

🎯 Who should join?
Developers, data scientists, AI enthusiasts, or anyone curious about reshaping automation and creativity. Whether you’re building, experimenting, or just exploring: This is your place!
Let’s exchange ideas, explore the tools, and push GenAI forward together.

See you at the GenAI-Codeforce.

🗓️ Online Session – Free to join