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Let's talk Android! This time we have two amazing talks prepared: Shaders on Android by Nicole Terc In this talk Nicole will introduce the totally not shady world of programming Shaders on Android. What are they? What do they want? What can they do? What can you do with then? How much do they cost and do they have a dog? These are only a few questions answered by this talk. Python on Android by Mario Bodemann Snakes. Don't be afraid of snakes. Especially not the programmable ones! Mario will talk us through 3 different way to integrate the snake taming language in your Android application. Ever wanted to run snake on your phone? This talk is your chance to learn how. 🎉🎉 Happy new year everyone, we're happy to host you at c-base again this year.🎉🎉 Join for some healthy discussions about our favorite mobile operating system ("Android") and maybe learn or teach a thing or two. Agenda --- Hosted By Mario Bodemann, GDG Organizer 🧑‍💻 Louis Tsai, Android Developer Matthias Geisler, "Geißler" Complete your event RSVP here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-berlin-android-presents-berlindroid-monthly-meetup-2026-01-28/.

**Hi everyone!** We’ll now be meeting twice a week at Denizen House (Köpenicker Str. 40, 10179 Berlin), on **Mondays and Wednesdays**! * **Mondays:** levels A1 to B1 * **Wednesdays:** levels B1 to C1 We work with dedicated materials tailored to each level, so everyone will have a place to practice and improve. **Event schedule** * **18:00 – 18:30** Arrival and registration * **18:30 – 19:50** Sprachcafé * **19:50 – 20:00** End and clean up Please be aware that the moderated event starts at **18:30**. Before this time, we are busy setting up the space. Registrations usually take place around **18:15 / 18:20**. Participants are kindly asked **not to arrive too far in advance** at the house. If someone arrives much earlier, Denizen may ask them to pay either for a drink (consumption) or for a **day pass**, as the space is a co-working environment during the day. **Please remember, our event is only happening from 18:00 to 20:00** **How the Sprachcafé works** We use different materials to help participants gain confidence in German. Together with whiteboards and our volunteers, the Sprachcafé is based on **interactive conversations** in small groups. **Participation fee** The Sprachcafé has a **participation fee of 5 €**, which helps cover organizational costs and **includes one soft drink for free**. Tickets can be purchased directly on the day of the event, card and cash payments are accepted. As the Sprachcafé has become very popular, we now need to **limit the number of participants**. Please understand this measure; it ensures that everyone has a comfortable space to practice. We kindly ask you to be **rücksichtsvoll** and only RSVP “Yes” if you are certain you can attend. If your plans change at the last minute, please update your RSVP so someone on the waiting list can take your spot. Getting your ticket early can help secure your place. **Please note** Our event will begin **promptly** at the scheduled start time. If you arrive late, we cannot guarantee your participation, even if you have a ticket or have RSVP’d. We encourage all guests to arrive on time to ensure a smooth and enjoyable experience for everyone. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation. **About Denizen** Denizen is a new-style co-working space focused on being an integral part of local communities. Located on the ground floor of the historic Eiswerk on Köpenicker Straße in Kreuzberg, Denizen House is a communal place providing work, refreshment, and recreational facilities throughout the day. Think of it as a living room for the neighborhood. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to let me know. If you’d like to contribute to this night, send me a message! Ich freue mich schon! Grüße, **Nacho**

We are very excited to announce another Search Tech Berlin Meetup. The meetup will be hosted and sponsored by Zalando (thank you!). **Agenda** 18:15 - Doors open 18:45 - Introduction 19:00 - **Talk: Samay Kapadia: Multi-Modal Embedding Search with modern VLMs** 19:40 - Networking, food & drinks 20:00 - **Talk: David Fennesey: Automating the tedium of golden sets with agentic flows** 20:40 - Let’s socialize and grab some drinks 21:00 - Doors closing **Talks** **1) Multi-Modal Embedding Search with modern VLMs** Samay Kapadia, Principal ML Engineer, Zalando Creating a state-of-the-art search embedding model for products, that supports both text and visual inputs. Since there are no open-weight multimodal embedding models, we will convert VLMs like Qwen3 and Ministral 3 into embedding models using LoRA (Low Rank Adapters). **2) David Fennesey: Automating the tedium of golden sets with agentic flows** David Fennesey, Principal Engineer, Flink Search relevancy optimization, such as taxonomies, labeling, and query classification, is expensive to build and painful to maintain. Modern reasoning LLMs, with a small agentic framework around them are easily capable of exploring, evaluating, and iterating through your data. This talk builds that workflow from scratch: tool calls for strategic exploration and guardrails to keep it in check. See you at the event René & Roman

Bachata (the dance of our generation) is a social couple dance like Salsa - no choreography. The community in Berlin is active daily - you will meet a lot of open-minded people and make new friends quickly! Every Wednesday we have Bachata dance classes in Berlin - we are usually a group of around 20 people (95% beginners): 🕖 19:00 - class: Technique for Beginners+ (0-1+ years experience) • No partner needed (we switch). • You can start from zero in any of these classes! 📍 Adress: Klosterstraße 44 ([Google Maps Link](https://maps.app.goo.gl/5VGEqaVSy9xBCoHv9)) - near S+U Alexanderplatz • Entry: Entrance A, code: 5928# - 5th floor (500), then black door. • Price: 12€ per class. ✅ Dance teacher contact: [WhatsApp-group](https://chat.whatsapp.com/IWKPsid0cBDAUHCWKZNL2B) / [Instagram](https://instagram.com/mahir.bachata.berlin) 🇩🇪: Bachata (der Tanz unserer Generation) ist ein sozialer Paartanz wie Salsa - keine Choreographie. Die Bachata-Szene in Berlin ist groß und täglich aktiv - du wirst schnell viele offene Leute kennenlernen und neue Freundschaften schließen! Jeden Mittwoch findet dieser Bachata Tanzkurs statt - wir sind meistens eine Gruppe von 20 Leuten (95% Anfänger): 🕖 19 Uhr - Kurs: Technik für Anfänger+ (0-1+ Jahre Erfahrung) • Kein Partner nötig (wir wechseln). • Du kannst in diesen Kursen jederzeit von null starten! 📍 Adresse: Klosterstraße 44 ([Google Maps Link](https://maps.app.goo.gl/5VGEqaVSy9xBCoHv9)) - Nähe S+U Alexanderplatz • Zugang: Eingang A, Code: 5928# - drinnen Knopf drücken links an der Tür. 5. Etage (500). • Preis: 12€ je Kurs. ✅ Tanzlehrer Kontakt: [WhatsApp-Gruppe](https://chat.whatsapp.com/IWKPsid0cBDAUHCWKZNL2B) / [Instagram](https://instagram.com/mahir.bachata.berlin) Schreib uns gerne eine Nachricht, wenn du offene Fragen hast! Wir freuen uns auf dich ❤

Du möchtest Russisch lernen, stellst aber fest, dass dir die Sprachpraxis fehlt? Hast du bereits Russischkurse besucht und möchtest deine Sprachkenntnisse auffrischen und auf einem guten Niveau halten? Dann ist unser Sprachklub genau das Richtige für dich! Das bevorstehende Treffen des Sprachklubs widmet sich Michail Saltykow-Schtschedrin, einem bedeutenden Schriftsteller und bekannten Satiriker des 19. Jahrhunderts. Seine Werke zeichnen sich durch scharfsinnige Gesellschaftskritik und tiefgründigen Humor aus, der auch heute noch relevant ist. Die Diskussion wird die literarische Bedeutung Saltykow-Schtschedrins sowie seinen Einfluss auf die russische Satire beleuchten. Besonderes Augenmerk liegt auf seinen charakteristischen Stilmitteln und den sozialen Themen, die in seinen Texten behandelt werden. Das Treffen bietet die Gelegenheit, seine Werke im historischen Kontext zu verstehen und die satirische Perspektive auf die Gesellschaft des 19. Jahrhunderts näher zu erkunden.

Every other Wednesday in the heart of neuökolln come and start your weekend off with laughter. In the vegan punk bar with some of the funniest comedians in Berlin. tickets below ⬇️ 📍19:77 🎤showtime 8:30 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/black-in-berlin-english-comedy-show-tickets-767523913687?aff=oddtdtcreator

An inspiring, high-energy meeting of public speaking, connection, and personal growth in the heart of Berlin. **Mercury Toastmasters Berlin** invites you to our weekly meeting at our new home at **Das Center, Potsdamer Platz**, in the stunning **Historic Imperial Breakfast Hall**. *Experience the **power of prepared speeches** loaded with bold ideas, participate in our **dynamic Impromptu Session**, and **gain valuable insights** during our feedback segment.* *Leave with practical tools, fresh ideas, and renewed inspiration.* *Whether you want to speak up at work, boost your presence, or just meet inspiring people, you’ll feel at home at Mercury Toastmasters Berlin.* *** **[What to Expect:](https://mercurytoastmasters.de/find-toastmasters-meetings-in-berlin/)** ✨ A supportive space to speak, grow, and connect 🎤 Engaging prepared speeches ⚡ Fun, fast-paced impromptu speaking challenges 💬 Feedback session you can actually use 🌍 A friendly, international crowd (around 25–30 people) **Schedule** (times may vary) ⏰ 19:15 - Doors open & networking 🎙️ 19:30 - Prepared Speeches 🏓 20:35 - Impromptu Session (Guest welcome to join) ↩️ 21:00 - Constructive feedback 💬 21:30 - Food, drinks & relaxed socializing **No experience needed.** ***Come curious. Leave energized.*** *** **🤙 [Hear it from our members:](https://maps.app.goo.gl/eRtvR9DRNqU9WZQn7)** *“You can sharpen your public speaking skills and gain tons of confidence, while having fun and making new friends. Mercury is well-structured, fun, and affordable.”* — *Therese Pitt* *“Mercury gave me a safe place to speak, create, and grow. I love the multicultural vibe and supportive community. It’s the best place to learn and have fun.”* — *Krisztina Linka* *** **[Did You Know?](https://mercurytoastmasters.de/about-mercury-toastmasters-berlin/)** Toastmasters is where people go to get better at speaking—and grow into confident communicators and leaders. Today [Toastmasters ](https://mercurytoastmasters.de/about-mercury-toastmasters-berlin/)has 350,000+ members across 16,000 clubs in 143 countries. And [Mercury](https://mercurytoastmasters.de/find-toastmasters-meetings-in-berlin/) is one of the best places to experience it. So bring your curiosity, your energy—and just be yourself. Whether you’re just starting or ready to level up, there’s a place for you here. *** **[Wondering what you get as a member?](https://mercurytoastmasters.de/membership-mercury-toastmasters-berlin/)** Think expert feedback, real-world speaking practice, and a supportive crew that’s got your back. [See you Wednesday night! 🎉](https://mercurytoastmasters.de/find-toastmasters-meetings-in-berlin/)

Join us for the **first Berlin meetup of the year** as we bring together **Kong × Kafka × Grafana** for an evening focused on **real-time data, streaming, and observability** 🚀 This meetup is all about learning from practitioners, sharing experiences, and kicking off 2026 with the local data & platform community. As always, expect **high-quality technical talks**, **great conversations**, and **good vibes** — plus **pizza 🍕 and cold drinks** to keep things flowing. *** **🔐 Important** For security reasons, please provide your **Full name and surname** during registration. Our volunteers will verify your registration at the entrance — this is **mandatory** to access the venue. Your information will be used **only** for this purpose. *** **🗓️ Event Details** **📅 Date:** 29.01.26 *** **🕐 Agenda** **18:00 — Welcome & Snacks** Doors open! Grab a slice, meet fellow community members, and get settled. **18:30 — Opening Remarks** A warm welcome from the **Berlin community** and event partners. **18:45 — Tech Talks Begin** 📚 **Talk Details** ### **Talk 01: Keeping data private in real-time pipelines By Olena Kutsenko** **Abstract** We all love real-time data — clicks, payments, rides, messages — but most of it comes with a catch: it often includes personal information we’re not allowed to leak, such as names, emails, locations, or subtle clues that can identify someone. So how do we keep streaming data **useful** and **safe** at the same time? In this talk, we’ll explore practical approaches to protecting privacy in streaming systems using **Apache Kafka**, Apache Flink, and Apache Iceberg. We’ll cover: * Simple techniques like **masking and tokenizing PII** * Why “anonymous” data often **isn’t really anonymous** (the re-identification problem) * Privacy-preserving approaches such as **bucketing, k-anonymity, and adding noise** * How to **balance privacy and data utility** (because over-hiding can make data useless) *** ### **Talk 02: Blackbox Monitoring is Hard! (And Why That’s the Best Part) By Goutham Veeramachaneni** I’ve been experimenting with [Beyla](https://grafana.com/oss/beyla-ebpf/) and [eBPF-based monitoring](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-ebpf-instrumentation) since its inception. While it’s an incredible tool for getting started with zero-code instrumentation, making it work reliably at scale presents a unique set of hurdles. In this session, we’ll introduce Beyla’s architecture and show how it can kickstart your observability journey.But the real story lies in what happens next. Navigating the scaling challenges has been an absolute blast, and we’ve tackled each bottleneck unfazed—sometimes by leaning into the tech, and other times by resorting to white box native instrumentation to gain the granular insights we need.What you’ll learn: * • **The "How":** A technical deep dive into how Beyla works under the hood. * • **The "Real-World":** The specific challenges we faced when moving beyond the initial phase. * • **The "Trade-offs":** A transparent look at the limitations of different approaches, from pure blackbox eBPF to native instrumentation. * • T**he "Product":** Insight into the intricacies of building a new product in a rapidly evolving ecosystem. Whether you are an observability veteran or just starting with eBPF, you’ll walk away with a better understanding of your monitoring stack and the confidence to handle the limitations of the tools you use. ### **Talk 03: Securing and governing both external and internal traffic By Sven Walther** Modern enterprises must secure and govern APIs, event-driven systems, and internal services—without fragmenting control across multiple platforms. This talk shows how a unified management plane brings consistency, visibility, and security across the entire application landscape using Kong Konnect. The session will cover three key areas: * **External connectivity & event exposure** Securely connect partners and customers to your event-driven systems without exposing internal infrastructure directly. * **Internal service governance with Service Mesh** Apply security, traffic control, and observability across your internal network using a service mesh. * **Fine-grained Kafka governance** Enforce policies and security down to the individual message level for internal event streams. *** ### **🤝🏻 21:00 — Networking & Q&A** Connect with fellow developers, data engineers, platform teams, and observability enthusiasts. Share ideas, experiences, and maybe even exchange a LinkedIn connection or two. **21:30 — Event Wrap-Up** *** **📷 Photo Notice** By attending this event, you consent to being photographed. These photos may be used for future community and event promotions. Don’t forget to smile 😄 *** We’re excited to kick off 2026 with the Berlin community and can’t wait to see you there! If you have any questions or are interested in **speaking at future meetups**, feel free to reach out.

***Join Kara, Ivan, Tina, and I for the second half of our Sweet Revenge campaign!*** We play *every other Thursday* evening in the RPG room at [Tales Untold](https://talesuntold.de), starting with this event this coming Thursday. Due to some temporary work related absences, we have two open spots at our table, and we're looking for two reasonably committed folks to fill them. **Second half of the campaign?** We had an extended break from the campaign while we were playtesting some other games *(\*cough\* [Wolden](https://mottokrosh.com/machinations/wolden/), \*cough\* [Knightcore](https://mottokrosh.com/knightcore), \*cough\*)*, but now we're back. There will be an extensive recap of the first half, so don't worry about joining it half-way through, you'll catch up immediately! **Perils & Princess?** Yes, it's a [great, simple but flavorful system](https://perilsandprincesses.com) where you play as any number of types of princesses with special gifts. Very quick to learn, very fun to play. **Sweet Revenge?** A terrible curse has befallen the formerly cozy village of Deerhollow: Inhabitants and animals alike are slowly turning into candy and confectionary! By now several player characters are equally affected! Can you solve the riddle and reverse the curse? **Experience?** None needed! We welcome players of all stripes of life and all levels of experience. Some of us have been roleplaying for a long time, but all of us are great at guiding new players. **Not first-come-first-served** Since this is an ongoing campaign you'll be joining, which we expect to last several months, we want to ensure a good group fit. As such, once you've RSVPed to the event, please tell us in one or two sentences a little bit about you and what you like in particular in roleplaying games. Send me a message here on Meetup, or hit us up in the #mobegari channel on [my Discord](https://mottokrosh.com/discord).

Hello Gophers, Welcome back for another year of Go talks and networking! Would your company like to host our meetup? Let us know! If you'd like to give a talk - submit your proposals here: [http://goo.gl/forms/54YvJT223F](http://goo.gl/forms/54YvJT223F) All talk formats work: short talks (5-10 min) as well as regular length (25 min). If you have more ideas - talk to us at the Gophers slack: [https://invite.slack.gobridge.org/](https://invite.slack.gobridge.org/) in the #berlin channel, and follow us on twitter: [https://twitter.com/gdgberlingo](https://twitter.com/gdgberlingo) Join in person at: **Synthflow AI** Backfabrik, Saarbrücker Str. 36-38, 10405 Berlin, Germany [https://maps.app.goo.gl/cM7mrmRTZQfSBpudA](https://maps.app.goo.gl/TBD) or virtually at: [https://youtube.com/TBD](https://youtube.com/TBD) **Agenda** **7:00 PM: Networking** Networking over drinks and food **7:30 PM: Welcome** Welcome words from the organizers **7:35 PM: Building Low-Latency Voice AI with Go: Lessons from Production / Tom Arrell & Omar Davutoğlu @ Synthflow AI** Discover how Synthflow AI leverages Go's concurrency primitives and performance characteristics to build real-time voice systems that handle thousands of simultaneous conversations. We'll explore goroutine patterns for audio streaming, memory management strategies for low latency, and the trade-offs we've made scaling our voice agent infrastructure. Tom Arrell - Principal Software Engineer at Synthflow AI in Berlin, where he specialises in building scalable distributed systems and voice AI infrastructure. A specialist in Go and Rust, Tom is driven by a philosophy of writing useful, modular, and well-architected code. Before joining Synthflow, he held senior engineering roles at SumUp and Klarna, working on high-volume backend services. When not debugging Go routines, Tom can often be found hacking on custom mechanical keyboards. Omar Davutoğlu - Senior Software Engineer at Synthflow AI, where he architects infrastructure for autonomous voice agents. With a deep background in the programmable communications space, Omar previously served as a Software Engineer L3 at Vonage, working on core VoIP and communication platforms. His engineering experience spans multiple high-growth Berlin tech companies, including senior roles at Nuri (Fintech) and On, where he specialised in building resilient, distributed backend systems. **8:10 PM: Announcements and break** Announcements, HR lost & found, open mic **8:00 PM: Building GoVisual: Zero-Config HTTP Debugging in Go / Arif Dogan, Independent Tech Consultant** GoVisual is an HTTP debugging middleware used by 1,000+ Go developers. In this talk, I'll share why Go debugging is painful, how we architected GoVisual for zero-config integration, real production use cases (4hrs → 15min debugging), and lessons learned building developer tools at scale. Arif Dogan is a Independent Tech Consultant building high-performance Go systems in Berlin. Creator of GoVisual (HTTP debugger for Go, 1,000+ developers), fastapi-radar, and LLMDog. 8+ years building backend systems at scale. **8:40 PM: Networking** Networking over drinks and food \*\*\* Hosted By Natalie Pistunovich, Organizer Ole Bulbuk, Organizer Tim Scheuermann, Organizer Anderson Queiroz, Organizer Complete your event RSVP here: [https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-berlin-golang-presents-hybrid-january-golang-meetup-2/](https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-berlin-golang-presents-hybrid-january-golang-meetup-2/)

### 🚨 **Important**Registration will be handled via **Luma**👉 **Registration link:** [https://luma.com/pn05sdyw](https://luma.com/pn05sdyw) 🤖 **AI Meetup @ Ojin AixHaus** Join us for an evening at **Ojin AIxHaus**, a collaborative community where scientists, machine learning engineers, founders, creators, and AI enthusiasts come together to build the future of AI. This meetup is designed for hands-on builders and curious minds alike, offering real-world insights, practical experiences, and open conversations around how AI is shaping **products, platforms, and people**. Whether you’re deep in development or just starting your AI journey, expect meaningful discussions, strong community energy, and perspectives from practitioners working on real systems in production. 📍 **Venue** Hosted at **Ojin AIxHaus - Powered by Journee** Berlin’s home for builders, creators, and AI practitioners. Chausseestraße 36, 10115 Berlin 🗓 **Agenda** **17:30 – Doors Open** Arrive early, grab a drink, and connect with the community before the talks begin. **18:15 – Designing Real-World Multi-Agent AI Systems** *by Asad Ullah Khalid* Senior Frontend Engineer @ Mercedes-Benz.io *Have you been scrolling through social media and seeing everyone launching apps powered by AI. The apps that talk to databases, call third-party APIs, or use MCPs to handle tasks? Are you wondering: How are they building this? How does AI actually fit into that workflow?* *This talk is designed to answer those questions. I’ll walk you through what an agent is, how to create and connect multiple agents, and how to enable them to communicate with external resources. Together, we’ll see a AI multi-agent design system that is simple to build, secure, and scalable.* *If you’ve been curious about how AI agents actually work under the hood, this talk will provide the answers you've been looking for.* 🍕☕ **Break – 15 min** **18:55 – 19:10** **19:10 – AI in CyberSec** *by Sam Khawase* Engineering Manager @ Cloudflare *Talk description coming soon.* 🍕☕ **Break – 15 min** **19:50 – 20:05** **20:05 – Applying AI to Software Verification: Languages, Tools, and New Workflows** *by Aaron Elligsen* Senior Full Stack Engineer @ Seen Software verification is evolving rapidly as AI-assisted reasoning, synthesis, and proof tooling enter the mainstream. This talk explores how AI can amplify formal methods, the emerging languages and frameworks in this space, where the hard problems still remain, and what real-world workflows look like today. We’ll examine both the opportunities and the limitations—and discuss where the field may be heading next. 🕺 **Networking from 20:45 until 21:30** 💃 Continue the conversation with speakers, organizers, and fellow AI & cloud enthusiasts. **☁️ Google Cloud Credits** We’re planning to offer **Google Cloud credits** to attendees so you can explore and experiment on GCP after the event. Activation details and instructions will be shared on-site. 🙏 **Thanks & Credits** A big thank you to **Ojin AixHaus** for hosting this event. **Ojin AixHaus** is powered by Journee - The Human AI company. A new, collaborative community space in Berlin Mitte, where scientists, machine learning engineers, founders, creators, and AI enthusiasts come together to build the future of AI\*\*.\*\* Ojin AixHaus is free to join and is currently curating their 2026 events calendar. If you have a burning idea for an event, meetup or hackathon - bring your fire, they bring the space! Find out more & reach out for collaborations https://ojin.ai/community Special thanks to the team at Oji AixHaus and Journee - the Human AI company. And a huge thanks to everyone in the community who helps make these events possible 💙

Kick off the new year with our first gathering of 2026! As the days get colder, we’re bringing the Flutter community together for an evening of fresh inspiration and cutting-edge tech. Join us at Knowunity for a night of learning, networking, and a deep dive into the future of user interfaces. **Schedule** **18:30 — Doors Open & New Year Welcome** Check in, grab a drink, and catch up with the community as we start the year strong. **19:00 — Opening Remarks** A greeting from Flutter Berlin and our hosts at Knowunity to kick off the evening. **Talk 1 — Joshua Greenwood: From Prompts to Pixels: LLM-Powered Interfaces using Generative UI** Imagine asking an LLM a question and instead of receiving a static wall of text, you receive a fully tailored interactive interface that's built on the fly, specific to your task. In this talk, we'll dive into Google's new Generative UI paradigm and how it can be applied with Flutter. You’ll learn what it's capable of today, how it works under the hood, and how you can start integrating Generative UI patterns into your own Flutter applications. **Talk 2 — Norbert Kozsir: Pushing the boundaries of Dart and Flutter** This talk takes you on a short but unconventional journey: from re-implementing core Flutter concepts from scratch in the terminal, to building a coding agent on top of it - and eventually making Flutter run inside Minecraft. Along the way, I’ll share the technical challenges, unexpected lessons, and finally reveal why I actually did all of this in the first place 🙂 **20:00 — Networking** Meet fellow Flutter devs, exchange ideas, and chat over snacks. **22:00 — Doors Close** We say goodbye and step back into the crisp January night.

All are welcome. Whether you are new to Berlin, have lived here for a long time or are just passing through. Come on a Thursday, enjoy a drink and have a good time, meet new people and have interesting conversations with us. The place is wonderful, the first cocktail bar in Prenzlauer Berg. The offer only for Meetup members is Aperol Spritz for 6 € the whole evening. Now takes place on Thursday again. :)

**📅 Week 2 Focus: Image Processing Recap & Intro to Deep Learning** Each 7-week cycle focuses on a **small, well-defined part of a larger system**—and over time, these cycles build toward a complete, real-world project (covering data engineering, data science, and deployment). Feel free to join at any week and we will catch you up. There is no need to be at the beginning of the cohort to build. Complete beginners welcomed! 🧠 Current Project This cycle’s shared project is an **image-based knowledge extraction system** Last week, we kicked off our shared project by getting our hands dirty with OpenCV and exploring traditional image processing techniques. In Week 2, we’ll: * **Recap what we explored last week** and share cool experiments * **Look under the hood** of the OpenCV techniques we used * **Start exploring deep learning–based approaches** for text and object detection 📌 By the End of a Full Cycle, You should Have 🎯 A working project in your own GitHub repo 🎯 A small but real portfolio piece you can demo or write about 📅 When: Saturday, Jan 31 · 9:30–11:30 📍 Where: Torstraße 59, Forward Earth 💻 Bring: Your laptop, an idea—or just curiosity **👋 Who Is This For?** 🔹 Beginners who learn best by doing — no prior experience needed 🔹 Career switchers from product, engineering, design, marketing, or other fields who want to break into data 🔹 Analysts, engineers, and PMs looking to sharpen their skills or build real-world projects 🔹 Data professionals who want a creative playground outside of work 🔹 Anyone with big questions and a love for learning through experimentation \*\*\* **BUILD. LEARN. EXPERIMENT. OVER COFFEE.** Come hang out, meet like-minded people, and work on something fun. 📍 Based in Berlin – in-person meetups only (for now!) 💻 Laptops + ☕ highly encouraged Join our Discord → [https://discord.gg/dPnmzcCP8w](https://discord.gg/dPnmzcCP8w) Check out our program resources: [Google Drive](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/15DmZqD4bLBk2vU4zpvh1HiB3_5n09v-q?usp=sharing) \*\*\* ✨ Who’s Hosting? I’m Lindsey, a senior data scientist working on AI, causal inference, and data products. I’ve built models for fraud detection, uplift modeling, and LLM-based systems. I am always open to suggestion for different format for this meetup.

Our monthly PHP meetup. A virtual shindig courtesy of Zoom. Check back here for the details around 6:15 pm

If you are interested in selecting investment choices for your 401(k) or other workplace savings plan, minimizing your income tax liability, or identifying the most effective investments for your brokerage account, we are the group for you. We are a local chapter of Bogleheads**®**, whose investment strategy can be found here: https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Bogleheads%C2%AE_investment_philosophy Or you can peruse the Boglehead forum here: https://www.bogleheads.org/index.php I look forward to seeing you there. Mark Vonder Haar

Come out to Improving for our monthly iOS and Mac meetings. This Month's Presentation: Nothing yet. (You should volunteer). What is Cocoaheads (http://cocoaheads.org/)? CocoaHeads is a group devoted to discussion of Apple Computer's Cocoa Framework for programming on MacOS X and iOS (including the iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch). During monthly meetings, members present on their projects and offer tutorials on various programming topics. What is BuckeyeCocoa (http://buckeyecocoa.org/)? BuckeyeCocoa is a group of Objective-C/Swift developers/enthusiasts. We host monthly Cocoaheads and near-weekly NSCoder meetings in Columbus, Ohio. The meetings are free to attend. Presentations! Presenters welcome! We are always in need of people willing to present material. Any Swift and/or Objective-C related topic is welcome. Times can be 5 minutes (i.e. lightning talks) to a maximum of 2 hours. Interested? Contact info is on the BuckeyeCocoa website. To volunteer for a presentation contact us at @BuckeyeCocoa on Twitter. Follow us on Twitter! @BuckeyeCocoa (https://twitter.com/#!/Buckeyecocoa/) For more information: http://buckeyecocoa.org/

We’re hosting a Super Bowl Party. We’ll have a taco bar, drinks flowing, plenty of laughs, and a relaxed vibe. Come for the game, stay for the people. Whether you love football or just enjoy great conversation, good food, and good company, come join us.✌️.

**New Dojo Location!** **Draft Day Columbus** 1130 Dublin Road Columbus, OH 43215 We're going to try a new dojo location for a few weeks and see how it works Dojos are informal Python group study sessions where everyone interested in Python gathers to learn about Python, help others with Python, or just hang out. Everyone is welcome from Python beginners to experts. Bringing a laptop is encouraged (we'll have extension cords and power strips). If there's something you want to learn leave a comment on this invite so we can plan ahead. We're looking for topic suggestions and people interested in presenting at our monthly meetings. To this end we've set up a survey form at [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/15eBKF1nQQ2XS5gzD4rvhVRHMBEj7lJtHuA9wXupS3Uc](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/15eBKF1nQQ2XS5gzD4rvhVRHMBEj7lJtHuA9wXupS3Uc)

This is a free, in-person meeting on the subject of betrayals, losses and how to get over them so you can build lasting relationships. Burdened by a stressful relationship? Unhealthy relationships can trigger feelings of anger, despair or self-doubt. They can create dwindling spirals of fights and seeking to make-up, or trying to “pin the blame” on someone or something. If you don’t find the RIGHT reasons, or select the correct sources of the problem, the problem can just get worse and worse. Whether in love or personal ties, with friends or at work, our life really IS affected by the quality of our relationships. Good ones can promote pleasure and survival while less optimum ones can lead to annoyance, anger, self-doubt, stress, or even affect our health and ability to survive well. Whether you are suffering from a divorce, or a painful break-up, don’t know who to trust (or who to CHOOSE) as a partner, friend, boss or employee - the anxiety of relationship troubles can really make a mess of things. Maybe you’ve suffered a betrayal, or are dealing with hostility or criticalness or invalidation. Dwindling relationships can involve destructive behavior, where we hurt those we love, or start succumbing to self-destructive thoughts, attitudes or behaviors that spiral out of control and affect much more than our immediate relationship. Past losses in love or life can affect how we act or react to new people and situations and hold us back from even starting to create new, possibly great relationships! How can one get back onto a saner course of action? Come to our Meetup, where we can introduce you to some of the knowledge, tools and techniques of the breakthroughs in the field of the mind that we can apply to this ever important area of life: human relationships! Break free from self imposed limitations Here we will discuss: • How to “erase” the trauma of past hurts and betrayals so that one isn’t always repeating past mistakes. • Why and how do the negative emotions of others affect you? • Why is my partner withdrawing and what can I do about it? • Why do we sometimes feel compelled to hurt the ones we love? • Fights & arguments - what's really behind them? • What underlies “corrosive criticism” or the need to invalidate self or others? • How one can stably change one’s outlook on life so they can affect positive change? • Where do compulsive destructive behaviors come from and what can be done about them? • How to form closer bonds & keep growing the relationships with the people you care about? • How to enhance one’s own ability to survive and create positive healthy relationships whether in love, family & friendships or in work, business or one’s career? Relationships can be hard and life itself IS challenging. Why not arm yourself with the knowledge and breakthroughs that have been made about the mind, mental reactions & interpersonal relationships, so that one has better awareness and control over themselves and life in general. Learn where painful experiences are “stored” and how they can unknowingly affect us. You will also find out how one can “erase” those past painful experiences so that one is free to move forward without being tripped up by the past. Learn too, about what can lead some people to become “toxic” personalities and how to identify those traits in others so you won’t be tripped up trusting the wrong person. Our free Meet-ups occur in a safe environment where one can learn, without fear of judgment or criticism, and without the recommendation of harmful mental techniques or therapies, just how YOU can get yourself onto a happier & more successful path: in love & in life. We look forward to having you join us! This class is sponsored by the Dianetics & Scientology Life Improvement Center of Central Ohio.

Let’s meetup at Cafe Istanbul for the last day of Restaurant Week. You get three courses for $30. This is the menu: https://614now.com/rw-menu/cafeistanbul-easton