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Let's back to run ! We will meet by the Magic Fountain (Font Magica de Montjuic ([https://goo.gl/maps/RWPuTcn8htM2](https://goo.gl/maps/RWPuTcn8htM2))) - Plaça de Carles Buïgas at the end of the first stairs - just 2 minutes walking from placa Espana towards Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya. We'll decide the route on the day.. or just follow Olivier... ;) We'll meet at 7:30pm but we'll start running at 7:35pm. Please be on time. Normally we do about 8-10kms in an hour during which we climb to the castle at the top of Montjuic. The accumulated elevation is about 300m depending on the route. Note that this is *NOT* a beginner's run. It can be quite challenging. We recommend that you only join this run if, on a flat course, you can do 10km in 50mins or less or really like running up hill! If not it might be better to first start with one of the beach runs on Tuesday or Thursday. Starting from October it is getting dark pretty early and not all the streets of the route have lights. If you have a headlamp please bring it with you but it is not mandotory. Let´s do the entire route together and after the training we can go as usual for a fresh drink at a bar nearby De vuelta en el Montjuic ! Quedamos en la Plaça de Carles Buïgas (donde está la Font Magica de Montjuic), exactamente aquí ([https://goo.gl/maps/RWPuTcn8htM2](https://goo.gl/maps/RWPuTcn8htM2)), al lado de la barandilla que está al final de las primeras escaleras. Si vienes desde plaça Espanya, son 2 minutos caminando en dirección al Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya. Cada lunes hacemos un recorrido distinto por Montjuic que decidimos en el mismo día… o sencillamente seguimos a Olivier… ;) Nos encontramos a las 7:30, y empezamos a correr a las 7:35. Normalmente hacemos más o menos 8-10 km en una hora, subiendo hasta el castillo en la cima de Montjuic, con un desnivel positivo total de cerca de 300 metros. Es un entrenamiento exigente aunque accesible si ya tienes algo de experiencia corriendo. No está hecho para debutante. Por favor apúntate solo si puedes correr 10km en 50 minutos mas o menos. De octubre a mayo el recorrido es de noche por lo que es recomendable llevar frontal, aunque si no tienes, no hace falta. Realizamos todo el recorrido juntos y después del entreno solemos ir a tomar algo a un bar cercano. Monday is Montjuic track example [https://www.strava.com/activities/926870931](https://www.strava.com/activities/926870931) [https://www.strava.com/activities/5431087155](https://www.strava.com/activities/5431087155) [https://www.strava.com/activities/5275162408](https://www.strava.com/activities/5275162408) OIivier

El proper **vespreig musical LGBTI per parlar català**, de la colla [Treu la llengua (de l'armari)](https://www.treulallenguadelarmari.cat/) de Barcelona, serà al bar **Moeem** el dilluns 6 de juliol a les 19.30 h. Els nostres vesprejos consisteixen en **trobades de conversa** **en català** **per al** **públic LGBTI**, tant per a catalanoparlants nadius com per a nous parlants de català. Si ets catalanoparlant nadiu podràs ajudar els nous parlants a millorar el seu català, i si ets nou parlant podràs practicar la llengua que has après o que estàs encara aprenent, tot plegat en un entorn LGBTI. En aquesta ocasió, com a **activitat especial**, comptarem amb la presentació del vídeoclip del single **"[xulito (Remix)](https://www.instagram.com/p/DaCi4q2Ag2g/?igsh=dWZrcDYzcmV6NmNo)"**, de Pol Urbano (cantant) i David Santa (cantant, director i editor del vídeoclip). I, com sempre, es punxaran també **hits variats en català**! Vine a **parlar en català** amb nosaltres; coneixeràs gent i descobriràs música!

Cada lunes de de 16 a 18 horas en Sabadell realizamos talleres gratuitos para mejorar la autoestima, son talleres de crecimiento personal y emocional que desarrollamos desde el año 2012. Para venir envíanos un mensaje al teléfono 617 927 423 aforo limitado En Sabadell Salud, El Nostre Espai.

Un encuentro para soltar el cuerpo, relajar la mente y recargar energía. Comenzaremos con una práctica de yoga suave, movimientos accesibles y respiración consciente para liberar tensiones y despertar el cuerpo desde la amabilidad. Cerramos con un baño de sonido con cuencos tibetanos, campanas y otros instrumentos vibracionales que armonizan el sistema nervioso y llevan a un estado profundo de calma. No necesitas experiencia previa. Solo ropa cómoda, una mente abierta y ganas de cuidarte. 📍 Sala B del Yoga Club Carrer de Francisco Giner, 14 — Gràcia, Barcelona 🗓️ Miércoles 10h | Domingo 18:30h

**RESERVA TU MESA DE JUEGO DE LUNES A DOMINGO EN EL ARCHIVO ARCANO** 🎲 Bienvenido al mejor club de juegos de mesa de Barcelona! Hazte miembro gratis y disfruta de un espacio para jugar único, con ludoteca propia, tienda y salas tematizadas. **¿Qué es un club de juegos de mesa?** El Archivo Arcano no es solo una tienda con mesas para jugar; es un espacio exclusivo para miembros, donde disfrutar de tus partidas tranquilamente mientras tomas o comes algo rodeado de juegos y manuscritos. **¿Cómo ser miembro?** Fácil. Puedes hacerte miembro gratuitamente adquiriendo una Membresía Primigenia. Si el Arcanismo se apodera de ti, siempre estarás a tiempo de ampliar a las membresías Sectaria o Arcana, con más y mejores ventajas. Puedes hacerte miembro directamente en el Archivo Arcano o en https://www.archivoarcano.com/tienda/Membres%C3%ADas-c121295603?sort=priceAsc **Reserva de mesas** Puedes reservar una mesa en cualquier momento. Por un precio de 6€ por persona, dispondrás de tu mesa durante toda una franja horaria de 5 horas (mañana, mediodía o tarde-noche) de lunes a domingo entre las 10h y las 22h. Puedes reservar a través de meet up, en wahtsapp al +34930253566 o en https://www.archivoarcano.com/reservas **Ludoteca Arcana** ¿Quieres probar juegos antes de comprarlos o simplemente no quieres traer los tuyos? Échale un ojo a mas de 200 juegos disponibles en el Archivo Arcano y ven a jugar con cualquiera de ellos: puedes pedirlo al hacer tu reserva o directamente en el local. Ya conoces las ventajas, estás a un solo paso de disfrutarlas todas. Mira a través de la cerradura, el ARCHIVO ARCANO te aguarda!

Have you ever thought about getting into DBT but you didn’t know where to start? Want to get started or want to learn a bit more? Maybe you’re completely new to Data (Analytics) Engineering and want to get started, or you’re an experienced data veteran looking for community. In this session I’m going to teach you about DBT, what makes it tick, why it’s great, and especially how to get started. At the end of this session you should be able to use DBT in practice and have enough ammo to kickstart your DBT journey! These session are held at the we work offices and drinks + snacks will be provided. Always sign up beforehand so that I know how many people will attend for buying refreshments. After the tutorial there will be ample time to hang out and chat with your peers!

**Scientific Paper Reading Club: Beyond Transformers & Multimodal Frontiers** This is part of the scientific paper reading club. This Saturday, we are expanding our horizons beyond standard LLMs! Following our recent discussions, we will be diving into points 3 and 5 from our reading list presentation: **Alternative architectures (SSM/RNN)** and **Multimodal foundation models**. To make it even more exciting, we will be connecting these topics to some of the freshest breakthroughs presented at the recent ICLR conference ([https://iclr.cc/](https://www.google.com/url?sa=E&q=https%3A%2F%2Ficlr.cc%2F)). **What to expect:** Our presenter, Maxim Musin, will guide us through these two major frontiers in modern AI: 1. **Alternative Architectures (SSM/RNN):** Transformers are incredibly powerful, but their computational costs remain a massive bottleneck for long contexts. We will discuss why State Space Models (SSMs) like Mamba are emerging as the next big leap. We will look at fresh ICLR[[1](https://www.google.com/url?sa=E&q=https%3A%2F%2Fvertexaisearch.cloud.google.com%2Fgrounding-api-redirect%2FAUZIYQGC4niR9aCGjHBT9LMF4wz46OkiGKU9B7nghuo3OzbRQCWNy4fGizlUydBsvuhZgYay8Y31rCTrfquWnuEHjAibPui0IrBi71JMXQG59U0rk5DKa-hzJg%3D%3D)] insights, such as "Mamba-3: Improved Sequence Modeling using State Space Principles" [https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.15569](https://www.google.com/url?sa=E&q=https%3A%2F%2Farxiv.org%2Fabs%2F2603.15569) and "MambaSL: Exploring Single-Layer Mamba for Time Series Classification" [https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15174](https://www.google.com/url?sa=E&q=https%3A%2F%2Farxiv.org%2Fabs%2F2604.15174) 2. **Multimodal Foundation Models:** We will explore how AI is learning to "think" natively across different continuous spaces and complex interactions. We will touch on standout ICLR papers like "Massively Multimodal Foundation Models: A Framework for Capturing Interactions with Specialized Mixture-of-Experts" [https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25678](https://www.google.com/url?sa=E&q=https%3A%2F%2Farxiv.org%2Fabs%2F2509.25678) and "Theory of Space: Can Foundation Models Construct Spatial Beliefs through Active Exploration?" [https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.07055](https://www.google.com/url?sa=E&q=https%3A%2F%2Farxiv.org%2Fabs%2F2602.07055) You don't need a heavy math background to join—Maxim will break down the intuition behind these complex architectures so that the core concepts are easy to follow for everyone. **Meeting Details:** 🗣 **Presenter:** Maxim Musin 💬 **Language of the meeting:** English 🎟 **Entrance donation:** 10 eur 📍 **Location:** Maui coworking (Note: For some reason, Meetup maps sometimes wrongly point to other addresses. Here is the exact address: [https://maps.app.goo.gl/fjx9t4zG8GnEmXLr9?g_st=ac](https://www.google.com/url?sa=E&q=https%3A%2F%2Fmaps.app.goo.gl%2Ffjx9t4zG8GnEmXLr9%3Fg_st%3Dac) ) Looking forward to a great discussion this Saturday! Aparently there is no way of fixing meetup's markdown mess, sorry for this guys, just use your abstract imagination and experience with latech to read anouncement, this markdown render problem seem so be some kind of bug, i cleaned it in the redactor but with no effect, probably copying and pasting it clean into editor will solve it, but generating clean landing page with similar capabilities in claude code would also solve it in a way, so i didn't bother, see you at saturday

💃🕺💃🕺💃🕺💃🕺💃🕺💃🕺💃🕺💃🕺 ‼️‼️‼️‼️**VAMOS A BAILAR** ‼️‼️‼️‼️ Tal vez la mejor manera de hacer nuevos amigos, pasar tiempo en buena compañía con buena música y aprender algo nuevo! No pierdas la oportunidad de aprender a bailar LA DANZA MÁS POPULAR DE EUROPA ✨✨✨✨✨✨**BACHATA**✨✨✨✨✨✨ ‼️Todo lo que necesitas es un poco de GANAS con todo lo DEMÁS te AYUDARÉ‼️ Soy Pavel Solvev vice campeon de bachata sensual 2023 Te explico todo desde principio ✅Los pasos basicos ✅Técnica ✅Musicalidad ✅Los combinaciónes de muvimientos Explico en 🇷🇺🇬🇧🇪🇸 [Group WhatsApp ](https://chat.whatsapp.com/JzsGCffpnpM3dznmEMKax5) [Location ](https://maps.app.goo.gl/guBUfm1WB8KdbVj26?g_st=ic) [Telegram group ](https://t.me/bachata_bcn) 💃🕺💃🕺💃🕺💃🕺💃🕺💃🕺💃🕺💃🕺💃 ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️☺️ТАНЦУЮТ ВСЕ ☺️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ Пожалуй лучший способ завести новые знакомства, провести время в хорошей компании под отличную музыку в классной дружеской атмосфере и научиться чему то новому! Не упустите свой шанс научиться танцевать САМЫЙ ПОПУЛЯРНЫЙ В ЕВРОПЕ ТАНЕЦ ✨✨✨✨✨✨BACHATA✨✨✨✨✨✨

**Multicultural Salsa & Bachata in Barcelona presenta** Estimados Amigos Multiculturales, Cada Sábado tendremos talleres de Bachata Sensual y Salsa Cubana por nuestro instructor , posteriormente social Salsa y Bachata 50% (3 bachatas 2 salsas) hasta las 3 am. **Tenemos el siguiente programa**: 21:30 Apertura 21:30: Taller de Salsa 22:30: Taller de Bachata 23:00 Inicio Baile Socia 50% Salsa, 50% Bachata, algo de Merengue, Cumbia y Reaggetón * El sitio se llama Gaby's Club tienen una hermosa pista de baile, ubicado en el barrio de Gracia. * Puedes venir sol@ siempre encontrarás con quien bailar, pero siempre es mejor con compañía de tu pareja de baile, y amig@s. * **Las clases son gratis pero se ruega su cooperación para colaborar con Gaby's Club, el lugar con los mejores y más variados cocktailes de Gracia en Barcelona.** **Dirección: Gaby's Club: Carrer de Topazi 24, Metro Fontana, Barcelona** Informes al +34633333173, únete a nuestro grupo de Whatsapp para recibir más información de nuestros eventos: https://chat.whatsapp.com/9DYjrIu28yh1em2R8AVcvU, FB: @multisalsabcn , Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/multicultural_salsa_bcn/ **\**///////////ENGLISH DESCRIPTION\\\**** **Multicultural Salsa & Bachata in Barcelona presents:** Dear Multicultural Friends, we have the requested Saturday Party for all of you, **so every Saturday**, you are more than welcome to attend as we are having Sensual Bachata & Salsa's Workshop by our instructor, later Salsa and Bachata Social Dance Party 50% (3 bachatas 2 salsas) until 3 am. **We have the following program**: 21:30: Opening Doors 21:30: Salsa's Workshop 22:30 Bachata's Workshop 23:00: Start Social Dance 50% Salsa, 50% Bachata, a bit of Merengue, Cumbia & Reaggetón. 03:00 End of the sesion * The venue is called Gaby's Club, they have a beautiful dance floor, located in the Gracia neighborhood. * You can come alone, you will always find someone to dance with, but it is always better with the company of your dance partner, and friends. * Classes are for free but your cooperation is requested to collaborate with Gaby's by ordering a drink, the best place with the cocktails in Barcelona in Gracia **Address**: **Gaby's Club: Carrer de Topazi 24, Metro Fontana, Barcelona** Contact&info at +34633333173, join our WhatsApp group to receive more information about our events: https://chat.whatsapp.com/9DYjrIu28yh1em2R8AVcvU, FB: @multisalsabcn, Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/multicultural_salsa_bcn/

🗣️ English below, español y català. 👩‍🎨 **Aprende de cero o mejora** tu dibujo y pintura en entorno inspirador pasándolo bien. 👉 **Conócenos** en Instagram: [emili.sensoriart](https://www.instagram.com/emili.sensoriart) **OBJETIVO** 🌳🪄 Inspírate en el **Jurassic Park** de Barcelona con los árboles más grandes, **estanque, saltos de agua**, refugio térmico natural y mucha tranquilidad. 🌴 Trabajaremos las diferentes plantas y su integración en los **paisajes**. 🎨 Te doy **todo el material y te guío** en el proceso de crear lo que elijas tú desarrollando **tu propio estilo**. 🤯 **Rompe** con el pensamiento de "yo no puedo dibujar o pintar bien" con un método que estimule tu creatividad. 🧘‍♀️ Usa el arte como herramienta de meditación y arte terapia de conexión con el entorno y contigo mism@. 🙋‍♀️ Conoce **futur@s amig@s** con tus mismas pasiones y aprende de sus diversos estilos y visiones. **PLAN** 👥 Seremos un **grupo reducido de 6 a 10 personas** para interactuar mejor entre nosotr@s. 1. 👋 **Dinámica inicial** para conocernos y profundizar en enfoque, materiales y referentes. 2. ✏️ **Fase de ejercicios y bocetos** rápidos dibujando tod@s lo mismo para aprender nuevas técnicas y experimentar otras combinaciones. 3. 🎨 **Fase de obra individual** donde cada un@ elige qué hacer. 4. 💬 **Dinámica final** de reflexiones, aprendizajes y puesta en común. 🎁 Llévate de recuerdo mi **reportaje audiovisual de la experiencia** y la obra realizada por ti. **⏳ Duración: 3 h.** **INVERSIÓN** 🐤 **25€ Early bird:** Reservando más de cuatro días antes. 💰 **28€** **Last minute:** Reservando menos de cuatro días antes. **OFERTA** **👫🏻20€ Comunidad:** Precio para cada un@ si traes nuev@ acompañante. 💎 **20** **Suscripción:** Adquiriendo bono de 5 experiencias SensoriArt. La suscripción se puede usar en mis otras actividades, durante medio año e incluye **cumplirte un deseo** de experiencia 🪔🧞. **CÓMO APUNTARSE** 1. ✅ Pulsa asistiré en esta actividad. 2. ✅ **Contacta al organizador** por WhatsApp al [34661511632](https://wa.me/34661511632). 3. ✅ Pagar vía bizum o revolut al mismo número de teléfono con antelación. La plaza no quedará confirmada hasta que te lo comunique. Solo habrá devolución en caso de cancelación con más de tres días de antelación. **QUE HAY QUE LLEVAR** 🔹 Mente abierta y ganas de vivir una experiencia artística personal. 🔹 Opcional pero recomendable traer tu libreta de artista. 🔹 Opcional traer tus materiales para combinar. 🖌️ **Yo pongo todo el material**: hojas, soporte, lápiz, bolígrafo, pincel, pinturas, agua, recipiente para el agua y sobre para llevarte la obra. **ORGANIZADOR** 👨‍🎨 Artista senderista con foco en la acuarela y la fotografía. 😍👉 **Sígueme** en Instagram: [emili.sensoriart](https://www.instagram.com/emili.sensoriart) 📱👉 **Pregúntame** por WhatsApp: [+34 661 511 632](https://wa.me/34661511632) **URBAN SKETCHING** Es la práctica de dibujar aquello que te rodea. Consiste en plasmar tu **visión personal** de tu mundo inmediato, o de los lugares a los que viajas. Es una narrativa de la vida cotidiana: ese café que te motiva, las calles o parques que recorres y te inspiran, etc. Boceta sin miedo a equivocarte, salte de lo figurativo y lo realista para experimentar el estilo con el que mejor te lo pases. **Vente a experimentar!** #urbansketching #paint #painting #drawing #art #mindfulness #watercolour \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- 🗣️ **ENGLISH** \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- 👩‍🎨 Learn from scratch or improve your drawing and painting skills in an inspiring environment while having fun. 👉 Find us on Instagram: emili.sensoriart OBJECTIVE 🌳🪄 Be inspired by Jurassic Park with Barcelona's largest trees, complete with a pond, waterfalls, natural thermal shelter, and plenty of tranquility. 🌴 We'll explore different plants and their integration into the landscape. 🎨 I'll provide all the materials and guide you through the process of creating whatever you choose, developing your own style. 🤯 Break free from the "I can't draw or paint well" mindset with a method that stimulates your creativity. 🧘‍♀️ Use art as a tool for meditation and art therapy, connecting with your surroundings and yourself. 🙋‍♀️ Meet future friends who share your passions and learn from their diverse styles and perspectives. PLAN 👥 We'll be a small group of 6 to 10 people to foster better interaction. 👋 Initial activity to get to know each other and delve into approaches, materials, and references. ✏️ Exercise phase with quick sketches where everyone draws the same thing to learn new techniques and experiment with different combinations. 🎨 Individual artwork phase where each person chooses what to create. 💬 Final activity for reflection, sharing, and discussing what you learned. 🎁 Take home a video report of the experience and your artwork as a souvenir. ⏳ Duration: 3 hours INVESTMENT 🍹 Drinks at the venue. 🐤 €25 Early Bird: Book more than four days in advance. 💰 €28 Last Minute: Book less than four days in advance. SPECIAL OFFER 👫🏻 €20 Community: Price per person if you bring a new guest. 💎 €20 Subscription: Purchase a voucher for 5 SensoriArt experiences. The subscription can be used for my other activities for six months and includes a one-time experience wish fulfillment 🪔🧞. HOW TO SIGN UP ✅ Click "Going" on this activity. ✅ Contact the organizer via WhatsApp at +34 661 511 632. ✅ Pay via Bizum or Revolut to the same phone number in advance. Your place will not be confirmed until I notify you. Refunds will only be issued for cancellations made more than three days in advance. WHAT TO BRING 🔹 An open mind and a desire to have a personal artistic experience. 🔹 Optional but recommended: bring your sketchbook. 🔹 Optional: bring your own art supplies to mix and match. 🖌️ I provide all the materials: paper, canvas, pencil, pen, brush, paints, water, a water container, and an envelope to take your artwork home. ORGANIZER 👨‍🎨 Hiking artist specializing in watercolor and photography. 😍👉 Follow me on Instagram: emili.sensoriart 📱👉 Contact me on WhatsApp: +34 661 511 632 URBAN SKETCHING Urban sketching is the practice of drawing what surrounds you. It consists of capturing your personal vision of your immediate world or the places you travel to. It's a narrative of everyday life: that coffee that motivates you, the streets or parks you walk through that inspire you, etc. Sketch without fear of making mistakes, move beyond figurative and realistic styles to experiment with the one you enjoy most. Come and experiment!

No slides. No speaker. No agenda. Just developers talking shop over a cold one. This is an informal gathering for engineers, founders, and builders who are deep in the agentic coding trenches — using tools like Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Code, OpenCode, or rolling their own agent pipelines. Come swap what's actually working, what blew up in production, and what you're excited about right now. We'll be at Barcelona, and the format is simple: show up, grab a drink, and share what you know. Bring a laptop if you want to show something, but it's not required. WhatsApp Group: [https://chat.whatsapp.com/GVS0bHMPIzID3Ch9lt6YsU?mode=gi_t](https://chat.whatsapp.com/GVS0bHMPIzID3Ch9lt6YsU?mode=gi_t) **What we talk about (but not limited to):** \*Agentic coding workflows and tooling * Prompt engineering & context engineering in practice \*Multi-agent architectures and orchestration * AI-native product building \*What's broken in the ecosystem and how you're working around it **Who should come:** Developers, technical founders, and AI engineers who build with (or on top of) LLMs. All levels welcome — senior devs with war stories and curious beginners both make the conversation better. **Format:** Open conversation, round-table style. Everyone teaches, everyone learns.

**Practical Curiosity: Learning from Everyday Data** How do we actually get better at utilizing our day-to-day data? Fancy dashboards and complex models might look nice and draw attention, but that’s not where most of us spend our time. In fact those shiny outputs frequently sit unused, while the real insights are drawn from the analyst’s daily practice. Sometimes it’s as simple and as powerful as noticing that a segment is shrinking, a channel is underused, or certain links keep getting all the clicks. There’s many different places that the spark of insight can come from, but you have to keep your head in the data and know where to look. In this session, we’ll explore real-world examples of how segmentation, testing, and click behavior can uncover practical digital marketing opportunities. You’ll leave with inspiration for your own use cases, along with a few simple ways to ask better questions, spot meaningful patterns, and make smarter decisions without overcomplicating it. **About Our Speaker:** [Elaine Armbruster](https://www.linkedin.com/in/elainearmbruster/) is a Director of Digital Experience at the [American Diabetes Association](https://diabetes.org/), where she focuses on using data and insights to create smarter, more effective digital experiences. A lifelong Columbus resident, she has built her career in email marketing and the broader digital user journey, and is finding she most enjoys working in the messy middle where systems, data, and big ideas don’t quite line up yet. Thanks to our 2026 sponsors: [Clarivoy](https://www.clarivoy.com), [What Box Consulting Group](https://www.whatboxconsultinggroup.com), [Conductrics](https://www.conductrics.com), and [Piwik PRO](https://piwik.pro) More info at [cbusdaw.com](https://cbusdaw.com)

Highlights and Hidden Gems in SQL Server 2025 With so much emphasis on cloud data platforms and AI these days, SQL people can feel left behind by all the marketing hype. SQL Server 2025 was officially released in November of 2025, though, and contains a ton of improvements that will make our SQL Server deployments a bit faster, better, and more secure. There are even more improvements tucked into the release that never made a marketing blog or press release that you'll likely be learning about for the first time in this session! Join this session to learn about what makes your high availability a little more available, your performance a bit more performant, and your database more developer and app-friendly. Come spend an hour with SQL people talking SQL Server 2025 – the good, the "not quite ready for prime time", and the hidden awesomeness.

You can sleep in on the Semiquincentennial (observed), we’re shifting to the following Friday. But join the local UX community for a chat and some biscuits to catch up. If you were in CA for Figma Config, tell us all the lines and you can tell me how I can animate an SVG without coding it by hand, and why I’d even want to. Thanks to the team at Nationwide of supporting the group.

Topic to be announced. **CALL FOR SPEAKERS** Learn more: https://www.awscolumbus.com/get-involved/ **THANK YOU** *VEEAM* for hosting our meetup! To learn more about *Veeam*, please visit their website: https://www.veeam.com/ **DIRECTIONS** 8800 Lyra Dr #450 · Columbus, OH go to 4th floor. **Want to sponsor the pizza and/or bar tab?** Please contact me if you would like to sponsor this meetup's pizza and/or bar tab: angelo@mandato.com

Welcome to Casual Boardgames, where we enjoy classic tabletop games and social deduction games while bonding over good food, drinks, and great conversations. 
We started this group to meet new people and make new friends, and bonding over games in a relaxed atmosphere is a great way to do that. We currently meet near route 23 and Polaris Parkway, and this is close to areas like Powell, Lewis Center, Worthington, and parts of Westerville and Columbus. 
Feel free to bring your own games or play one of the many games our members bring. If you are inexperienced, we will help you learn. 
Here are just a few examples of the kind of games we play. 
Tabletop/board games: Splendor, Catan, Azul, Dominion, 7 Wonders… 
Social deduction games: Code Names, Chameleon, Werewords… 
IMPORTANT: 
1. While we love playing a variety of games and competing, we are not just about the games. We interact and talk while playing, and this leads to a lot of laughter and fun. If you just want to compete and focus solely on the game, then this is probably not the group you are looking for. 
2. Many people join groups like this and never (or rarely) show up after weeks or months. If you join and never really come, we will eventually remove you from the group as a courtesy to our members. Why? Because limiting group conversations (on the app) to regular members makes communication and planning much easier. Also, while it may be rare, it protects members from people who join because they are interested in following a person instead of having a real interest in our group. If you get removed, it is just because you haven’t come, and we follow this protocol as a courtesy to our regular game players.

Most people use LLMs by feel: ask a question, read the answer, decide whether it “seems good,” and move on. That works for casual use. It does not work when you are building software, automating workflows, writing important documents, or relying on AI for anything that needs to be repeatable. In this talk, we’ll look at how to improve and evaluate the inputs and outputs of LLMs using practical measurement techniques. We’ll cover how prompt changes affect results, how to compare outputs, how to build simple evaluation sets, and how math-based methods like similarity scoring can help you move beyond guesswork. This will be beginner-friendly, so even if you don't know anything about AI, you should get something out of it. However, this will be a little more technical than our intro talks. You do not need to be an AI researcher, but programmers and technically curious attendees will get a lot out of it. We’ll cover: * Why “it looks good” is not enough * How to improve prompts by changing the input, context, and constraints * How to compare LLM outputs more systematically * Basic evaluation techniques for accuracy, consistency, and usefulness * How embeddings, cosine similarity, and scoring can help evaluate results * Where automated evaluation works — and where humans still need to stay in the loop By the end, you’ll have a practical mental model for treating LLMs less like magic and more like systems you can test, measure, and improve. LOGISTICS AND PARKING: The talk starts at 7:00 PM. The first half hour is reserved for everyone to get set up and mingle. Free pizza and drinks! The cheapest parking option is to find street parking, which will only cost you a few bucks. Otherwise, park in the nearby veteran's museum lot for $8. It's highly recommended you avoid the nearby $15 garage parking.

NFT's are here to stay folks! This is a group for like minded people interested in understanding, leveraging, using, creating for, profiting from, trading too i suppose, NFT's.. everything around them, complexity, fear and exploits, best practices and more. **PLUS** This group will talk AI ART tools, techniques, artists, video, audio, prototypes and more in the AI assisted production space- ART specifically, but we can get into any aspect of some of the cooler things happening in AI in general.