AI Meetup Copenhagen: Innovators, Creators & Techies

AI Meetup Copenhagen #9

Thu, May 21 · 5:00 PM CEST

Tactile Games, Vestergade 33, København, DK

Join us at AI Meetup Copenhagen 21/05/2026

Connect with innovators, designers, academics, suits and developers in a relaxed and positive environment. Enjoy talks from exciting speakers and demo your own ideas on stage. Be a part of our vibrant community!

This is a multidisciplinary community and meetup for innovators, creators, and techies who are passionate about learning and talking about artificial intelligence.

The event is open from 16:45. The program starts 17:15.

Lightning talks (15 minutes)

• Ali Reza Farahnak, Senior AI Architect, Microsoft
• Kræn Hansen, Developer Experience Engineer, Eleven Labs
• Daniella Feiglin, Product Manager, Tactile Games
• Olga Safonova, Lead Product Manager, Public 360° at Tieto

SPEAKER BIOS & TOPICS:

Ali Reza Farahnak is a Senior AI Architect at Microsoft, focused on AI, Azure, and GitHub. For the past 7 years he has worked out of Microsoft's Global Customer Success organization in Redmond with some of the world's largest customers, including Tesla, NEOM, the London Stock Exchange, Bank of America, Emirates, Aramco, Maersk, Novo Nordisk, and several governments. Since January 2026, he has been part of Customer Success in Denmark, helping Danish enterprises turn generative AI into production-ready solutions.

Topic: Most enterprise AI apps stop at the chat window, but your customers are on the phone, on WhatsApp, on SMS, in their inbox, and inside Teams. Ali shows how Azure Communication Services lets a single AI app reach customers across all of those channels, with a live demo of an outbound Danish speaking voice agent, similar to what has been built for the insurance industry, Vodafone Qatar, Norlys and many more, that calls a customer, runs a light identity check, and has a real conversation powered by Azure Voice Live and gpt-realtime-1.5.

Kræn Hansen is a Developer Experience Engineer at voice AI startup ElevenLabs where he builds SDKs to enable text-to-speech, speech-to-text, and voice-cloning on the real-time ElevenAgents platform. He formerly worked at MongoDB, building a local-first database and sync engine called Realm. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU).

Topic: "We talk to AI every day, but when we switch from typing to speaking, the rules change. A half-second delay breaks the illusion of conversation. In this talk, I'll take you behind the scenes of how voice agents actually work: what makes a voice conversation feel natural, why latency is the enemy, and the different ways you can deploy voice AI, from fully managed platforms to bringing your own AI model. Whether you're building with voice AI or just curious about where it's heading, you'll walk away understanding what's really going on when you talk to a machine."

Daniella Feiglin is a Product Manager at Tactile, where she works closely with development teams and stakeholders to turn ideas into fully launched game features. She joined the company in August 2025 and brings nearly a decade of experience in the mobile games industry with a background across game design, market research, and product management. At Tactile, she focuses on using data and market insights to shape product decisions and drive impactful player experiences.

Topic: A practical, honest look at how day-to-day work changed using Claude Code. Daniella will share how she transitioned to an AI-powered workflow that allows her to prototype features as she specs them, while providing consistent, high-detail output for her development teams at a higher pace.

Olga Safonova is a product leader with 20+ years in enterprise tech, currently Lead PM for Public 360° at Tieto (GovTech, 500K+ users). Previously at Siteimprove, Workday, LEO Innovation Lab and Saxo Bank. She also builds: Open-source MCP servers (a few running in production), an OTel observability library for AI tool infrastructure, and SkillCheck (getskillcheck.com). Where most product leaders talk about AI, she ships it on weekends.

Topic: From personal OS to team OS - Agentic skills, MCPs and team context. As product manager, Olga shares how she built her own AI tooling: A personal OS of agentic skills, MCP servers, CLIs, and the cross-machine configurations that keeps it coherent.

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Venue:
Tactile Games - Vestergade 33, Copenhagen

Sponsors:
Thanks to Tactile Games for event sponsorship along with sponsoring food, beverages and snacks.

A big thanks to our foundational sponsor Transmission.

Sponsorship opportunities:
Please contact the group administrator (Martin Schultz) if you would like to be an event sponsor, a sponsor of food and/or beverages or if you would like be a future venue sponsor. This is a non-profit event.

Please note:

1. Attendance is capped at 75 participants to maintain quality interaction, and we reserve the right to select attendees to optimize group dynamics.
2. Photos and perhaps video will be taken at the meetup and shared on our Meetup.com group, on various LinkedIn channels, our LinkedIn newsletter, the AI Meetup Copenhagen website, possibly by the event host, other participants and by our sponsors. Let us know at the event if you don't want to be in the photos or videos (that's not a problem).
3. If you're signed up, but find that you're unable to attend, you're expected to cancel your attendance (your RSVP status) here on the Meetup platform. You can still join future meetups - you will only cancel your attendance for this meetup.
4. Speaker bios are submitted by the speakers themselves and reviewed only for basic accuracy. AI Meetup Copenhagen does not independently verify all information provided.