About us
A community for developers who build with AI and build for AI.
AI is reshaping how software gets written and what software can do. This meetup is where Athens developers come together to explore both sides of that shift. Practically, honestly, and hands-on.
🛠️ AI in your dev workflow
Using AI to do our actual jobs better. Coding agents and assistants (Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor and friends), prompt and context engineering, code review and testing with LLMs, debugging, documentation, and the real-world workflows that make us faster without breaking things. What actually works, what doesn't, and how the best teams are integrating these tools day to day.
🤖 Building AI applications
Writing software that's powered by AI. LLM APIs, RAG, agents and tool use, evals, vector databases, fine-tuning, orchestration, and shipping AI features to production. From first prototype to reliable, scalable systems.
Who's this for?
Software engineers, tech leads, founders, and anyone curious about putting AI to work in real projects. Whether you're AI-curious or already shipping, you'll find your people here.
What to expect
Talks, live demos, lightning sessions, and plenty of time to swap notes over pizza. Practical over hype.
Come learn, share what you've built, and connect with the Athens Dev community.
Want to speak or demo something?
We're always looking for speakers, so don't be shy and reach out!
Upcoming events
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Local Models 101: Running AI on Your Laptop
XM, Michalakopoulou 80, 1st floor, Athens, GRWe are happy to announce our next meetup that will be held physically at XM, in Athens. After the talk there will be time for Q&A, food and networking.
📍 Location 📍
Michalakopoulou 80 street, 1st floor.
Attendees should register with their meetup name at the entrance⏰ Date & Time ⏰
24th of September, 19:00🔗 Prerequisites & Target audience 🔗
The talk is aimed at developers and tinkerers who are interested in running LLMs locally.
Some kind of ID is required for entrance to the building.🇬🇷 Language 🇬🇧
The talk will be in Greek unless otherwise requested.📃 Agenda 📃
18:30 - Intro, Agenda of meetup
18:35 - A message from our sponsor - XM
18:40 - "Local Models 101: Running AI on Your Laptop" by Filippos Karailanidis
19:45 - Pizza, kindly offered by XM 🍕🎤 About the talk 🎤
You keep hearing you can run AI models on your own laptop — but which models, on what hardware, and how good are they really?This first edition of AI for Devs Athens is a hands-on primer on running LLMs locally. In 45 minutes we'll go from "what even is a local model" to knowing exactly what you can run on the machine you already own — no cloud, no API keys, no data leaving your laptop.
It's a technical talk, but not a deep one: if you're a curious hobbyist you'll walk out able to download and run your first model tonight; if you're a developer you'll leave with the mental model to reason about size, memory and performance.
What we'll cover:
- What local models are, and why you'd run one on your own machine
- Model size vs performance — and how to tell what your hardware can handle
- The tools that make it easy to get started
- A live demo: running a model from scratch
Who it's for:
developers, tinkerers and hobbyists curious about AI. No ML background needed, you can just show up.🎤 About the speaker 🎤
Filippos Karailanidis is an AI coach at ByteRail, where he helps companies and professionals adopt AI in their processes. Behind the consulting sits 10+ years of software engineering across frontend, backend and DevOps, and 5 years leading development
teams. He's enthusiastic about the AI ecosystem but still believes vibe-coding must be exercised with restraint. He co-organizes AI for Devs Athens to bring that ecosystem closer to the local developer community.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/filkaris/
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