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RE:VALUE — Professional Design Lab
Wed, Oct 21, 4:00 PM### **RE:VALUE your skills** *Rethinking your professional value when your job, country, or direction changes.* **Are you navigating a career transition, moving to a new country, or redirecting your professional path?** Changing careers, relocating, or taking your first steps into a new market often comes with the same challenge: figuring out how to translate your past experiences into new value. The hardest part isn't starting over—it's realizing you **don't** have to start from scratch **RE:VALUE** is an interactive **Professional Design Lab** created to help you map your existing skills, redefine your professional positioning, and build a clear strategy for your next move. ### Who is this lab for? * **Career Switchers:** Shift into a new industry without losing the value of your background. * **Expats & Newcomers:** Translate your local or international experience to thrive in a new country or market. * **Students & Recent Graduates:** Enter the job market with clarity and a strong professional identity. * **Aspiring Entrepreneurs & Freelancers:** Define your value proposition before launching your activity. ### What we will cover in 90 minutes: * **Skill Mapping:** Identify your core transferable skills and see how they apply to new contexts. * **Value Positioning:** Reframe your story so employers, clients, or partners immediately get what you offer. * **Actionable Next Steps:** Leave with concrete, practical actions you can take right away. * **Berlin Network:** Meet professionals navigating similar transitions in a supportive environment. ### Agenda (18:00 – 19:30) * **18:00 - 18:15:** Welcome & Intro * **18:15 - 19:15:** Interactive Professional Design Lab & Exercises * **19:15 - 19:30:** Q&A, Wrap-Up & Connections The workshop will be held in English but it is possible to have it in Italian too, as well Spanish and German if needed **Note:** Spots are limited to ensure a high-impact, interactive session. Please keep your RSVP updated! 👉 **Reserve your spot now and start redesigning your professional path.**
A Talk on Career & Personal Insights with Torsten Waack van Wasen
Thu, Oct 29, 9:00 AM**CEO of GERRY WEBER, Managing Director at Internetstores, COO of Marc Cain, Operating Partner in private equity: on paper, Torsten’s career looks like a classic success story.** But that’s not the story he is coming to Visionary Voices to tell. Instead, he will talk about what rarely makes it onto a CV: decisions that didn’t work out, unexpected detours, moments of doubt — and why some of his biggest mistakes became some of his most valuable experiences. His path to senior leadership was anything but conventional. Rather than starting out in finance or business, Torsten began his career in communications and marketing. He will take us back to the marketing world of the 1980s and reflect on just how much the way we work has changed since then. What have we gained — and what might we have lost along the way? Does everything we call progress actually move us forward? And what role do the latest digital tools and AI play in all of this? After decades in international business and senior leadership, his perspective ultimately leads to a much more personal question — one that no CV can answer: What truly matters in the end? Which experiences and values stay with us? How does our understanding of success change over the course of a career? And what can we learn from the moments that didn’t go according to plan? An invitation to look beyond titles, positions, and polished success stories — and discover a more personal and reflective perspective on a remarkable career.
JOB INTERVIEW LAB
Tue, Oct 20, 4:30 PMTICKETS AVAILABLE VIA [EVENTBRITE](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1995040747581?aff=oddtdtcreator) €35 Early Bird, €40 Regular Ticket ### Inside Secrets from the Other Side of the Table A practical workshop combining recruiter insights, interview practice, confidence-building tools, and real-world feedback. You've updated your CV. You've sent the applications. You've rehearsed your answers. Then the interview invitation arrives... and suddenly your confidence decides to take a coffee break. Job Interview Lab is a practical, interactive workshop designed to help you prepare for interviews with more clarity, confidence, and real-world insight. Led by a former international recruiter who has interviewed, hired, and trained hiring managers across multiple countries, this workshop offers a rare opportunity to understand what actually happens on the other side of the table. This is not another lecture about "selling yourself" or memorising perfect answers. Instead, you'll explore how interviews work from the recruiter's perspective, practice in a supportive environment, receive feedback, and learn simple techniques to manage nerves and communicate with greater confidence. ### During the workshop, you'll learn: • What recruiters and hiring managers are really looking for • What happens after you leave the interview room • Common interview mistakes and how to avoid them • How to answer challenging questions with authenticity and clarity • How body language and presence influence first impressions • Simple breathing and grounding techniques to manage interview stress ### Interview Practice Lab You'll also take part in guided mock interview exercises in pairs and small groups, giving you the chance to practice, observe, receive feedback, and learn from others. ### Who is this for? • Professionals preparing for upcoming interviews • Job seekers returning to the market after a break • Career changers • International professionals navigating the German or international job market • Anyone who wants to feel more prepared and confident during interviews ### What to bring Bring a recent job description you're interested in or preparing for. This will help make the practice more relevant to your situation. ### About the facilitator Martyna Chelinska is an Emotional Intelligence & Life Transformation Coach, former international recruiter, and workshop facilitator. Over her career, she has interviewed and hired thousands of candidates across different countries and industries, trained hiring managers on recruitment and interviewing, and supported professionals through career transitions, personal challenges, and periods of change. She combines recruitment expertise with coaching, emotional intelligence, and body-based tools to help people show up with greater confidence and authenticity. ### Duration 2 hours ### TICKETS AVALIBLE VIA [EVENTBRITE](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1995040747581?aff=oddtdtcreator) €35 Early Bird €40 Regular Ticket Tea & Water will be provided. Less performance. More preparation. Less guessing. More understanding.
Where do your users get stuck?
Wed, Oct 21, 7:00 AMYou know how your product or service is supposed to work. But what does the experience look like from your user’s side? A confusing first step, missing information, an unclear next action: small moments can make people hesitate or give up. In this free, hands-on workshop, we’ll use a Customer Journey Map to explore an experience from the user’s perspective and identify something worth improving. No previous experience with journey mapping is needed. **WHAT WE’LL DO** Bring a product, a service or a startup idea you’d like to work on. Together, we’ll: • Choose a specific user and a goal they want to achieve • Map the steps they take, including their questions and possible frustrations • Identify one critical moments • Sketch a possible improvement and a way to test it You’ll leave with a first journey map, fresh perspectives from other participants and a concrete next step to explore. **WHO IT’S FOR** Startup founders, early-stage teams, freelancers, and people working in UX, product or service design who want to explore a real challenge together. Come with a project if you have one. If you don’t, you can work through an example. **THE FORMAT** 90 minutes · In person In English (possible interaction in Italian, Spanish and German too) A small-group session with guided activities and peer feedback. **ABOUT THE FACILITATOR** I’m Corinna Fumagalli. My work brings together UX, training and project design. I use human-centred design tools to help people understand challenges, exchange perspectives and turn ideas into practical next steps. **WHAT TO BRING WITH YOU?** Bring your curiosity — and a problem you haven’t quite figured out yet. Register to join us!
Data Science Retreat Demo Day #47
Tue, Oct 20, 3:30 PM**Hey Berlin Data Folks!** We’re looking forward to welcoming you to our next **Data Science Demo Day on 20th October**. Our **Batch 47 participants** have been busy working on their final projects, and they’re ready to share what they’ve built. This time, we have **7 projects** covering a pretty wide mix of topics, from groundwater exploration and healthcare to career transitions, engineering, agriculture, fire detection, and even fermentation. It’ll be a relaxed autumn evening to see some practical data science and AI applications, meet others from Berlin’s data community, and chat about ideas, projects, and what people are working on. And, of course, we’ll have some pizza and drinks to keep everyone going. **Free to Attend!** **Agenda:** **17:30** \- Drinks and Networking **18:00** \- Welcome & Introduction Followed by Project Presentations **Project Ideas:** **1\. DeepWell \- Machine learning for predictive groundwater mapping** ***Project by Sascha Alexeyenko*** Finding reliable groundwater is a major challenge in regions where water is scarce, and drilling a borehole can be expensive without any guarantee of success. DeepWell explores how machine learning can help identify promising locations for groundwater drilling. By combining historical borehole records, including unsuccessful attempts, with geological, terrain, and climate data, the project aims to predict the likelihood of finding water with sufficient yield and quality. The initial focus is on Kenya, particularly Turkana and Marsabit counties, where access to reliable water remains a challenge. The goal is to help make drilling decisions more informed, reduce unsuccessful attempts, and support better groundwater planning. **2\. Personalized Psychiatric Treatment Selection for Depression** ***Project by Aleksandra Garifulina*** Finding the right antidepressant treatment can be a very individual process. This project explores whether machine learning can help support more personalized treatment selection using patient-level clinical characteristics and treatment-response data. The project looks at supervised classification methods to match treatments more closely to individual patient profiles. It also explores how clinical guidelines, treatment suitability, and contraindications could be incorporated into the process. The goal is to investigate how these tools could support clinical decision-making rather than replace it. **3\. Job Transition Workspace** ***Project by Timothy LeBon*** Changing careers can mean juggling job searches, applications, skills, resumes, advice, and a lot of uncertainty all at once. This project brings those pieces together in one intelligent career transition workspace. Using data from O\*NET, the U.S. Current Population Survey, and the Anthropic Economic Index, the system recommends roles based on a person’s skills, experience, career goals, and job-market demand. It also includes an LLM workspace that can work with resumes, chats, and cover letters, along with tools for things like job searches, email, reminders, and calendar management. The goal is to create one place where people can plan and manage a career change with more personalized, data-informed support. **4\. AI\-Assisted Requirement Change Impact Analysis** ***Project by Lakshmi Swetha Pasupuleti*** In complex engineering projects, changing one requirement can affect many other things, from software requirements and design decisions to test cases. This project looks at how AI can help engineers understand those connections, especially when they are not already documented. The idea is to use semantic analysis to find related engineering artifacts and, importantly, explain why they might be affected by a change. The project will compare AI-based methods with more traditional traceability approaches across different change scenarios. The end goal is a lightweight prototype that explores where AI can make requirement change analysis easier and more useful for engineers. **5\. cropSpectAI: Spectral Sensing and AI\-Driven Crop Health Monitoring** ***Project by Sharana Shivanand*** What if farmers could spot changes in a plant’s health before those changes were visible to the eye? cropSpectAI explores this idea using a low-cost portable device that combines spectral sensing with machine learning. The system captures how leaves reflect light across different wavelengths and uses those patterns to estimate important plant traits such as chlorophyll and nitrogen content. The project experiments with several machine-learning approaches to see how affordable, edge-based technology could help farmers identify problems earlier, make better-informed decisions, and potentially reduce unnecessary use of resources. **6\. Residential Fire and Smoke Detection Platform** ***Project by Abhishek Acharya*** Traditional smoke and heat detectors are essential, but they usually react once smoke or heat has reached the sensor. This project explores whether computer vision can provide an additional layer of information by recognizing signs of fire and smoke visually. The system is designed to understand context too. It looks at situations involving cooking flames, candles, fireplaces, steam, cigarette smoke, pans, stoves, and people to help distinguish an actual hazard from normal household activity. The aim is not to replace certified smoke or heat detectors, but to explore how visual AI could complement them with earlier, more context-aware detection while reducing unnecessary alarms. **7\. Predictive Fermentation Assistant** ***Project by Sylas Lau*** Fermentation sounds simple: give microbes the right ingredients and conditions, then give them time. In reality, factors like temperature, moisture, oxygen, and timing all interact, which makes getting consistent results surprisingly tricky. This project explores how machine learning can help home fermentation enthusiasts better understand and manage that process. From bread and yoghurt to koji, tempeh, and kimchi, the idea is to use data to make fermentation a little more predictable while still keeping the hands-on nature that makes it interesting. **20:10** \- Open for Networking **20:30** \- Wrap Up Come by, grab some pizza and a drink, meet the people behind the projects, and spend a cosy October evening with Berlin’s data community. We have **limited seats**, so please RSVP soon.
Life as Work – Do We Have to Optimize Everything?
Sun, Oct 18, 9:00 AM# Life as Work – Do We Have to Optimize Everything? We live in a world that constantly encourages us to become better versions of ourselves. We try to manage our time more effectively, develop healthier habits, acquire new skills, and make the most of every opportunity. Productivity, efficiency, and continuous improvement have become familiar expectations, not only in our professional lives but also in how we approach everyday activities. We measure our steps, track our sleep, plan our personal development, and search for ways to make our routines more effective. Even our free time can begin to feel like something we should use productively. There are good reasons to value improvement. Scientific discoveries, technological innovations, and access to education have expanded human possibilities. The ability to learn, adapt, and shape our circumstances can give us greater independence and control over our lives. But **at what point does the opportunity to improve become a pressure to constantly achieve more?** What begins as a personal ambition can gradually turn into an expectation. We may start viewing ourselves as projects that require endless attention, investment, and development. Our understanding of success is not formed in isolation. Family, education, social background, economic conditions, and cultural values influence what we consider a meaningful or successful life. For some, success means professional achievement, financial independence, or personal growth. For others, it may mean having time for friendships, family, creative interests, or simply enjoying everyday experiences. Yet modern life often encourages us to evaluate these different possibilities through the same principles of performance and efficiency. Technology offers an interesting example. We have developed countless tools to reduce effort and save time. We communicate instantly, automate routine tasks, and gain access to information within seconds. Nevertheless, our days do not necessarily feel less demanding. The time we save often becomes available for additional responsibilities. **Are we becoming more efficient in order to live better, or are we simply creating more things to accomplish?** Even activities that traditionally belong to leisure can acquire a practical purpose. We exercise to maintain our health, read to improve our knowledge, travel to broaden our perspectives, and rest to recover our energy. These motivations can be valuable, but they raise another question: must everything we do contribute to some future benefit? Could an afternoon spent doing nothing, an aimless walk, or a conversation without any particular purpose be meaningful in itself? The same tension appears in our relationships. When networking, personal branding, and professional connections become increasingly important, we may begin to evaluate social interactions according to the opportunities they provide. But friendship, curiosity, affection, and shared experiences do not necessarily follow the logic of investment and return. There is also a broader social dimension. Economic systems, professional competition, and cultural expectations influence how we organize our lives. The possibility of choosing a simpler or less demanding lifestyle depends partly on our material circumstances. Not everyone has the same freedom to reduce working hours, decline opportunities, or prioritize leisure over financial security. And even attempts to escape the pressure of productivity can become new forms of self-improvement. We may try to become more mindful, more minimalist, or better at relaxing. Perhaps the deeper issue is not whether progress and ambition are desirable, but whether every aspect of human existence should be measured by their standards. After all, greater efficiency does not automatically mean greater satisfaction, just as having more opportunities does not necessarily make our choices easier. This brings us to the central question: **Can we create a fulfilling life without constantly treating ourselves and our experiences as something that needs to be improved?** Perhaps the challenge is to distinguish between changes that genuinely enrich our lives and expectations that keep us pursuing goals without ever feeling that we have achieved enough. In this session, we will examine how the pursuit of efficiency, achievement, and personal development influences our understanding of freedom, happiness, success, and the good life. We will focus on six central questions: 1. **Why has self-optimization become such an important part of modern life?** 2. **How do social expectations, economic conditions, and personal backgrounds influence our definitions of success?** 3. **Does greater efficiency give us more freedom, or does it simply create additional demands?** 4. **Can leisure, friendship, learning, and personal experiences have value without serving a particular goal?** 5. **Where is the boundary between meaningful personal growth and the pressure to constantly improve ourselves?** 6. **What would a life based on the idea of "enough" look like, and is it realistically possible in modern society?** This will be an open and thoughtful discussion bringing together perspectives from philosophy, sociology, psychology, economics, culture, and everyday experience. Together, we will reflect on what we gain from our desire to improve and what we might overlook along the way—and consider whether living well sometimes means allowing things to remain exactly as they are. *** 📅 **Event Details** 🗓️ **Date:** Sunday, 18 October 2026 ⏰ **Time:** 11:00 📍 **Location:** Cafe Hardenberg, Hardenbergstraße 10, 10623 Berlin 📱 **WhatsApp:** For preparation materials, updates, and directions, join the group chat. Make the introduction more conciseReduce repetition around efficiency [Group Chat Bio KI](https://chat.whatsapp.com/Ba8ZAaH2Yuk6FGmD3LLO7H)
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