Cologne AI and Machine Learning Meetup

CAIML #43 is going to happen on July 21, 2026, at IQMatix.

We will have two talks with additional time for networking.

Talk 1: Gabriel Firmino Barjollo (Cybersecurity Specialist, Pentester & AI Engineer) and Sebastian Kröger (Architect & AI Engineer): Background of jailbreaking LLMs, Pentest Agents, and Supply Chain Attacks

Modern LLM safety alignment is a moving target - and understanding where it breaks is essential to building better defenses. We introduce in the background of jailbreak techniques across prompt, system, and model levels, then demonstrate how an unaligned model becomes the reasoning core of an autonomous pentest agent, wired to standard offensive tooling with a plan-execute-observe-adapt loop. Once an AI agent acts on a developer's behalf, how far can a compromise propagate? We walk through a realistic end-to-end supply chain attack - a manipulated agent introduces a malicious dependency that survives code review and flows through CI/CD to downstream consumers. Attack primitives include LLM-amplified typosquatting, prompt injection via package metadata, and lateral movement into build and signing infrastructure.

Talk 2: Maurice Kraus (Research Associate / PhD Candidate at Technische Universität Darmstadt): Do We Really Need Another Forecasting Model?

We will share more details on the talks and an agenda soon.

See you in July,
Aaqib, Marc & Fabian