DevOps Club Brno

Join the first DataOps meetup in Brno.
When: March 12, 2026, from 18:00
Where: 10-Z bunker (Husitská street)

=== Program ===

​1. Beyond the Dashboard: Why DataOps is the Silent Engine of 2026
Speaker: Michal Němec, Data Analytics Department Lead at Datamole
Why are we gathering in an atomic bunker? Because building reports & data pipelines the "old way" is no longer an option. We are moving from static "Data Museums" to operational analytical systems and RAG-based AI. DataOps has shifted from a buzzword to a critical engineering survival skill.
This keynote sets the stage for tonight’s technical deep dives.

We’ll bridge the gap between architectural philosophy and the specific tools that make it real (like Marimo and RAGthoven).
We aren’t just building reports & pipelines anymore. We are engineering the nervous system of our future analytical environments. Come see how the gap between prototypes and rigorous production deployments is closing.

2. RAGthoven in Action: Efficient, Scalable RAG Experimentation
Speaker: Gregor Karetka, Machine Learning Engineer from Slido (part of Cisco)
RAGthoven is a toolkit designed to make Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) experiments easier to setup, faster to execute, and more reproducible. It brings together execution, and evaluation of RAG pipelines into a single configuration file, so you can focus on experimentation rather than glue code. Whether you’re benchmarking different retrieval strategies or iterating on LLM setups or prompts, RAGthoven helps turn complex RAG ideas into structured, repeatable results.

3. Deployable Analytics Prototypes with Marimo
Speaker: Martin Čičala, Data analyst at Datamole
There are Jupyter notebooks. Then there is production code. But where does iterating on analytics prototypes directly with your stakeholder - on the scale of hours to days - belong?
In this talk, I will introduce Marimo, a next-gen Python notebook framework that elevates prototyping with reactivity and reproducibility, and turns a notebook into an interactive web app without rewriting everything into a separate app framework. You will see how Marimo fits into the product discovery phase, where quick validation of data-driven ideas is achieved by deploying shareable Marimo apps.

4. A panel discussion and lightning talks about DataOps

The event is free to attend, please register over https://luma.com/zpjy6wtn

The meetup is hosted by Adam Ťápal, Data Analyst Team Lead at Datamole, organized by Jan Bleha, and sponsored by Datamole.
If you want to join the meetup as a speaker or help with organization, let us know: jan.bleha@datamole.ai