Munich Datageeks November Edition

As always, there will be plenty of time for networking, discussions, and snacks & drinks courtesy of our host.

📍 Event Details
📅 Date: Thursday, November 26th, 2026
📍 Venue: Studio G3, Sponsor: Ververica
📫 Address: Gudrunstraße 3, 80634 München

🎤 The Real-Time Logistics Control Tower: Turning Live Data into Intelligent Decisions with Apache Fluss by Arash Attarzadeh, Siemens Healthineers

Logistics teams can't act on yesterday's data. In this talk, Arash Attarzadeh from Siemens Healthineers walks through Project River, a real-time control tower that brings logistics data from multiple sources into one live view. He’ll cover the streaming lakehouse architecture behind it, built on Apache Flink and Apache Fluss, and show how the data powers a live map, sends alerts into Microsoft Teams, and feeds an LLM layer for faster decision-making. The talk is practical, architecture-first, and based on a real production use case.

About Arash Attarzadeh:
Arash Attarzadeh leads streaming platform work at Siemens Healthineers, where he is building the company’s next-generation real-time data platform. He has several years of hands-on experience with Kafka-based streaming and has built real-time prototypes connecting industrial robots and MRI machines to live data pipelines. His focus is on turning streaming data into decisions people can act on in the moment.

🎤 Generating personalized children's storybooks with AI by Kerem Senel, TNG Technology Consulting GmbH & Thomas Endres, TNG Technology Consulting GmbH

With CaptAIn Bookworm, an idea like "a shy dragon who's afraid of the dark for a four-year-old" becomes a finished storybook within minutes. Every page is written, illustrated, narrated, and bundled into a print-ready PDF. In this talk, we introduce this TNG project for generating personalized children's books and manga.
Getting a story is easy. The hard part is producing text and artwork that is coherent, faithful to the request, fun, and pitched at the right age group. The pictures have to match the words, and the dragon on page nine still has to be the dragon from the title page.
We walk you through the pipeline that gets us there. We start by planning the story and its characters before a single page is written. Then we show how we keep illustrations consistent and how we combine text, image, and speech models from several providers. Finally, we explain how we decide which providers to trust when a new model lands every few weeks.

About Kerem Senel:
Kerem Senel is a Software Consultant at TNG Technology Consulting in Munich, where he builds applications on top of generative AI. At TNG, he has worked on AI-assisted 3D design for the automotive industry, interactive exhibits featuring personalized image generation and real-time deepfakes, and an AI video creation tool for professionals. He helped build CaptAIn Bookworm, from age-specific story generation and image pipelines to the AWS infrastructure behind it, and now focuses on AI enablement in enterprises. Before TNG, he was a Research Associate at LMU Munich, where he earned a PhD with a thesis on world understanding and language model evaluation. Earlier, he interned at Amazon in Seattle and worked as a research engineer at ASELSAN in Ankara.

About Thomas Endres:
Thomas Endres is a Managing Partner at TNG Technology Consulting in Munich. Besides his "normal" work for the company and the management of client projects, he develops various prototypes together with the Innovation Hacking Team - including an augmented reality application that shows the world from an artist's perspective, real-time deepfakes, or an AI for generating presentations. He works on applications in the field of AR/VR and AI and gesture control, in order to make, for instance, quadrocopters fly autonomously or to control them touch-free. He is also involved in various open source projects. Thomas holds a degree in computer science (TU Munich) and is a passionate software developer. As Intel Software Innovator and Black Belt, he presents new technologies such as AI, AR/VR and robotics around the world. His achievements include, among others, a JavaOne Rockstar Award and several Best Speaker Awards.