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Design Management Events Today
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Taller de Pintura (mañana)
Este taller es un espacio de aprendizaje y búsqueda creativa. La idea es acompañar procesos personales e ir aprendiendo técnica. Vemos obras de artistas. Un espacio para indaga en nuestro estilo personal. Materiales incluidos. 20 euros la clase/ 60 el mes
Hack & Tell: Music Gen, Real-Time Avatars, Vectorial AI & Multi-Agent Systems
Join us for a very special **Hack & Tell** hosted by **Allianz Technology**!
We’ve curated a lineup of **four talks spread across 2 tracks** that dive into the intersection of high-end research and creative engineering - plus plenty of time to meet other AI engineers, researchers and founders over pizza and drinks.
This time, we’ll be looking at how AI is built and deployed across four distinct domains:
🎵 Training AI on personal musical styles
🖊️ Building editable vectorial design systems
👤 The math behind real-time avatars
⚙️ Managing context within large-scale agentic workflows
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🗓 **Agenda**
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**18:00** – Doors open *(Arrive early for security)*
**18:30** – Start of Talks *(You can switch tracks between talks)*
**Track 1:**
* Teaching AI to Make Music Like I Do
* Building a Real-Time Interactive Avatar Pipeline
**Track 2:**
* Penpot Wizard: Bridging Design and AI
* Managing Context Bloat in Agentic Workflows
**20:00** – Networking *(Pizza & Drinks)*
**21:00** – End
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📍 **Location**
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[Allianz Technology, Av. d'Icària, 199, Sant Martí, 08005 Barcelona](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Allianz+Technology/@41.3939789,2.1971547,1145m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x12a4a34d7c19ee79:0x4b6de71e7cf72dd8!8m2!3d41.3939749!4d2.1997296!16s%2Fg%2F11fqq5rg6h?entry=tts&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDQxNS4wIPu8ASoASAFQAw%3D%3D&skid=5dca3ee1-5bdf-4435-ac07-8d823898778f)
⚠️ **Important:** Registration with **DNI/NIE** is required (\*)
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🎤 **Bianca Cheng** **–** **Teaching AI to Make Music Like I Do**
Bianca is a musician, designer, and technologist (formerly at Apple and MIT Media Lab) who approaches engineering with a creative soul. She’ll be sharing her work with HeartMula, a project where she trained models on recordings of her own songs. Learn how she uses AI as a collaborative partner to explore new musical ideas while staying true to her unique creative voice.
🎤 **Arnab Dey & Marcel Alcoverro (UNITH) – Building a Real-Time Interactive Avatar Pipeline**
What does it actually take to turn an image into a real-time photorealistic human avatar? Arnab (Senior Research Engineer) and Marcel (Head of AI) will walk through the full engineering stack behind a live interactive avatar: from LLM-driven speech synthesis and autoregressive 3D motion generation to Gaussian Splatting rendering streamed at 60 FPS. This talk dives into the research models powering visual avatars, the hard latency trade-offs that shape every design decision, and what production MLOps looks like when your service is a human face.
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🎤 **Xesca Alabart (Gluecharm) – Penpot Wizard: Bridging Design and AI**
Why do most AI design tools give you code instead of editable design objects? Current tools like v0 or Bolt often leave designers stuck in a "prompt loop" - where even a minor layout tweak requires a new prompt rather than a simple click-and-drag.
Xesca, creator of Penpot Wizard, is pioneering a fundamentally different path. Her talk introduces a Vectorial AI-driven methodology that treats the canvas as a live environment rather than a code-generation target. By designing with AI and Vectorial Design as a structural foundation, Penpot Wizard generates native design objects—shapes, paths, and components—that designers can edit normally. It’s about moving past the prompt-only bottleneck to provide a functional, editable starting point for real-world UX.
🎤 **Gabriel Llauradó Queralt (Allianz Technology) - Investigator: A Multi-Agent System That Digs into Tickets**
Every Jira ticket hides a trail across code, databases, logs, and half-forgotten Slack decisions. Gabriel built Investigator using LangGraph, with specialist agents for code, DB, Jira, OpenSearch, Confluence, GitHub and Vision — Orchestrated by a Planner, Router, Critic and Evaluator that argue with each other until the evidence holds up. He'll walk through the architecture, the prompts that actually work, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, and lessons learned making LLMs reason about real enterprise codebases.
**See you soon!**
*(\*) You will greatly help us by providing your DNI/NIE upfront when you RSVP. It is solely used for access to the building and will not be used or stored for any other purpose. In any case, you can also answer with "I want to register onsite". In that case, please **show up early at 18:00** to guarantee that the registration can be finished before the event starts.*
GitOps for Frontend & ElastiCache on AWS
## ☁️ AWS User Group Barcelona x bsport
### GitOps for Frontend & ElastiCache on AWS
📅 **Date:** Tuesday, May 12th
🕕 **Time:** 18:00 – 20:30
📍 **Location:** bsport office – Passatge de Tasso, 8, Barcelona
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We’re excited to announce a new **AWS User Group Barcelona meetup**, hosted by **bsport**, where we’ll explore **real-world architectures and scaling strategies on AWS**.
This session will focus on **practical implementations**, featuring live demos and insights from engineers working in production environments.
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## 🚀 What to expect
### 🎤 Gitops for Frontend with CloudFront & S3
**Speaker:** Alan Longuet (Staff SRE)
Discover how bsport deploys frontend applications using **React and NX**, leveraging **AWS CloudFront and S3** to achieve scalable, global delivery.
We’ll also dive into how this approach is a key building block in their journey toward **GitOps for frontend**.
Expect a **demo** and real-world lessons learned.
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### ⚡ How bsport scaled AWS ElastiCache
**Speakers:** Ayoub Bentires Alj (Engineering Manager SRE) & Maxime Vernhet (SRE)
A deep dive into how bsport scaled **ElastiCache (Redis)** in production.
Join us for an evening of **hands-on learning, real-world architectures, and great community vibes** in Barcelona 🚀
AnatomYoga® Sesiones Regulares
Yoga Anatómico: Una práctica revitalizante que entrena tu cuerpo y calma la mente, coordinando la respiración y el movimiento de manera fluida. Las secuencias combinan posturas de pie, tumbados, flexiones, extensiones y torsiones. Una disciplina que aporta equilibrio, autoconocimiento y bienestar.
Interesados en el mundo Wellness, todas las edades.
Sesiones regulares y talleres de movimiento para la conciencia y el bienestar personal.
Magical Mindfulness Tour of the Senses
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**Please read the full description for details on booking.**
On this guided tour with a difference, discover how to live life lucidly in the present moment, open to your senses, listen to yourself and start to be your own guide!
Using a walk through the streets of Barcelona as practice, I will guide you in a mindfulness meditation which will help you get out of your head, bringing attention to your senses and the felt sensations in the body, stepping into deeper awareness of yourself, making your experience of the city even more magical and vibrant.
We will begin our time together in the hidden oasis of carrer d’Allada Vermell, in the barrio of El Born, with an initial guided meditation. From this point of connection to yourself, anchored in the present, will we continue the practice walking through El Born with its winding streets and surprises around every corner.
On our magical tour of sensorial delights, lasting approximately 2 hours, we will take in such places as the Palau de la Musica, Casa Perris, Funky Baker, Santa Maria del Mar and Santa Caterina Market, ending up at a nearby square for a chat about your experience.
Take the opportunity on your trip to tune into yourself and see how things start to unfold magically!
Leave your guidebook at home, instead come into your senses and discover your inner guide!
The experience is suitable for single travellers and includes a tea or coffee and delicious pastry.
**Please note, this is a paid tour. For more details and to book:** https://www.airbnb.com/experiences/1562789 or
https://www.eventbrite.es/e/magical-mindfulness-tour-of-the-senses-el-born-barcelona-tickets-916187099277
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**Por favor, leerlo la descripcion entero para detalles de reservacion.**
En este tour guiada única, descubre cómo vivir la vida con lucidez en el momento presente, ábrete a tus sentidos, escúchate a ti mismo y comenzar a ser tu propio guía.
Mientras paseamos por las calles de Barcelona, te guiaré en una meditación de atención plena (Mindfulness) que te ayudará a salir de tu cabeza, poniendo la atención sobre tus sentidos y las sensaciones en el cuerpo, entraras en una conciencia más profunda de ti mismo, dándote una experiencia de la ciudad aún más mágica y vibrante.
Comenzaremos nuestro tiempo juntos en el oasis escondido de la calle d'Allada Vermell, en el barrio de El Born con una meditación guiada inicial. Desde este punto de conexión contigo mismo, anclado en el presente, continuaremos la práctica caminando por el barrio con sus sorpresas en cada esquina.
En nuestro recorrido mágico de delicias sensoriales, que dura aproximadamente 2 horas, visitaremos lugares como el Palau de la Música, Casa Perris, Funky Baker, la Basílica de Santa María del Mar y el Mercado de Santa Caterina, terminando en una plaza cercana para conversar sobre tu experiencia.
¡Aprovecha la oportunidad en tu viaje para sintonizarte contigo mismo y ver cómo las cosas comienzan a desarrollarse con magia!
¡Deja tu guía en casa, en su lugar, entra en tus sentidos y descubre tu guía interior!
La experiencia es adecuada para viajeros individuales e incluye un té o café y delicioso pastel.
**Esto es un tour pagado. Para mas info y reservar:** https://www.airbnb.com/experiences/1562789 o
https://www.eventbrite.es/e/magical-mindfulness-tour-of-the-senses-el-born-barcelona-tickets-916187099277
Yoga Anatómico® Clases Regulares en Barcelona.
Yoga Anatómico: Una práctica revitalizante que entrena tu cuerpo y calma la mente, coordinando la respiración y el movimiento de manera fluida. Las secuencias combinan posturas de pie, tumbados, flexiones, extensiones y torsiones. Una disciplina que aporta equilibrio, autoconocimiento y bienestar.
Interesados en el mundo Wellness, todas las edades.
Sesiones regulares y talleres de movimiento para la conciencia y el bienestar personal.
29th Meetup - AI Power in Talent Acquisition
Barcelona’s TA community is getting together to talk about what *actually works* when it comes to AI in TA. No hype, no fluff.
If you're curious about how teams are really using AI day-to-day (not just what vendors promise), this one’s for you.
In this meetup hosted by our friends at Factorial, we’ll learn how they are leveraging AI in Talent Acquisition.
[Raquel Fole](https://www.linkedin.com/in/raquelfole/?locale=en) and [Federico d’Alessio](https://www.linkedin.com/in/federicoda/) will show us how their team are using AI tools such as Gemini, Claude and others to reduce admin work, find new candidates and improve engagement with vibe-coded tools.
📍 **Details:**
* **Date:** May 12, 2026
* **Time:** 18:30–20:00 (event) + 20:00–21:00 (networking)
* **Location:** **New Factorial Office** — Carrer de la Llacuna, 56, Sant Martí, 08005 Barcelona ([map](https://maps.app.goo.gl/hqMptdwuvxqB9tmW6))
🤝 A great opportunity to connect with other TA professionals in Barcelona who are exploring the future of TA.
If you're in Talent Acquisition, People Ops, or just curious about AI in hiring, you should definitely join.
Design Management Events This Week
Discover what is happening in the next few days
🍺 Agentic Coding Meetup — Devs & Drinks
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
**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.
Beyond the Silo: How Small Research Teams Can Influence the Entire Org
**The schedule:**
* **18:30 – 19:00:** Meet & Greet (Arrivals)
* **19:00 – 19:45:** Panel Discussion: *Beyond the Silo*
* **19:45 – 20:00:** Q&A with our three guest speakers
* **20:00 – 21:00:** Networking & Pica Pica Social (**with beer and snacks!**)
**How to find us:**
This meetup is held at the **Docplanner BCN** offices at Torre Diagonal Mar complex (**Carrer de Josep Pla, 2**), located across from the Diagonal Mar shopping center.
* **Public Transport:** Tram or Metro stop **El Maresme \| Forum**.
* **Finding the Building:** There are three towers; please head to the **middle building**.
* **Entrance:** Look for the **B2** sign.
* **Check-in:** You will need to show your **ID** at the BMar reception desk to gain access.
* **Elevator:** Head up to the **13th floor**.
Being the only researcher, or part of a small research team, often means carrying the weight of user advocacy entirely on your shoulders. The Barcelona tech ecosystem is fueled by fast-moving startups and agile product teams, but that reality can sometimes leave UX researchers managing backlogs and advocating for stakeholder buy-in without a massive support system.
Join us as we interview a panel of UXRs who have successfully built their company's research culture from within a lean team. We will dive into their firsthand experiences and talk through real-world playbooks for strategic roadmap influence. Expect thoughtful discussions on how to democratize your insights, scale your impact across the organization, and drive high-fidelity product decisions.
Whether you are a team of one or navigating the growing pains of a small team, bring your questions, your challenges, and your stories. See you there!
PLURAL EVENT #4
Calling anyone curious about *structures for deliberate democracy* to join a **Plural Event** 🌍
*Joining Partners: [RadicalXChange](https://www.radicalxchange.org/?utm_source=luma), [Web3Privacynow](https://web3privacy.info/?utm_source=luma), [Logos](https://logos.co/?utm_source=luma), [Comms Gardening](https://bit.ly/comms-gardening?utm_source=luma) and [Hubs Network](https://www.hubsnetwork.org/?utm_source=luma)*
## Do you care about how democracy actually works, and how it could work better?
Come share your ideas at [a local session] and be part of something bigger: conversations happening the same day across multiple cities. Your discussion at [your favorite hub] will connect with others around the world exploring the exact same theme.
We believe a true collective intelligence emerges from a plurality of voices.
✨ As a bonus, insights from these events will be showcased in a panel at the [Web3PrivacyNow Summit in Berlin on June 14, ](https://web3privacy.info/event/s26ber/?utm_source=luma)reaching a wider audience.
**What to expect in this session:**
* Explore a local breakdown in democratic coordination
* Imagine tools or processes that could improve it
* Reflect on where privacy and transparency matter
* Sketch a simple prototype
* Design a small collective action you can try within a week
**What are Plural Events?**
Plural events bring people together around one shared topic, on the same day, in different locations worldwide. Initiated by RadicalxChange Foundation, Hubs Network and Comms Gardening, they aim to gather diverse perspectives and weave them into richer, more inclusive insights.
Sponsored by: [Web3PrivacyNow](https://web3privacy.info/?utm_source=luma) & [Logos](https://logos.co/manifesto?utm_source=luma)
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One topic.
Many places.
Real voices, weaved into something larger.
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Extra!!!
If you publicly share what your group designed during the Plural event, your team will have the chance to win a bounty to continue developing it.
An independent jury will review all submissions and award prizes of €600, €300, and €100 to the top three ideas.
Full contest rules and judging criteria coming soon.
ReFest: Reusa · Repara · Regenera · Reimagina
**Us convidem a RE-FEST #1**
### Reusa · Repara · Regenera · Reimagina
El **RE-FEST** és una trobada comunitària per celebrar la reparació, la reutilització, la regeneració urbana i la imaginació col·lectiva.
Durant el matí ens trobarem per aprendre, compartir sabers, reparar objectes, descobrir projectes i imaginar altres maneres de viure a la ciutat: més sostenibles, més autònomes i més comunitàries.
**Recupera autonomia, comparteix coneixement i imagina altres maneres de viure.**
## Activitats
**Taller de reparació tèxtil** Amb Back to Eco. Porta una peça de roba que vulguis reparar, ajustar o transformar.
5€ aportació.
**Mercat de segona mà** Amb VeniVidi.
**Reparació i ajustos de bicis** Amb Juan A. Piedrahita.
Un espai pràctic per revisar i posar a punt la teva bicicleta.
**[Sofà Talks]**
#1 Club de BCN Permacomputing
#2 Com seria una ciutat que regenera?
**Zona cafè de reparadors**
Punt de trobada, conversa, intercanvi de sabers i comunitat.
**Intercanviem!**
Porta una cosa, emporta-te’n una altra.
**Zona oberta**
Espai per a projectes, idees o venda solidària.
## Quan?
**16 de maig**
**11–15 h**
**Amb la col·laboració de:**
AKASHA Hub Barcelona · Back to Eco ·
BCN Permacomputing · VeniVidi · Civic Creative Lab
Registre en meetup.
Leading with TRUST: A Framework to Build Better Culture
A practical workshop for people wanting to build their communication skills as leaders.
This session is for people who want to communicate more clearly, give better feedback and build stronger team culture as they grow in leadership. It focuses on the behaviours that help people raise issues earlier, reduce avoidable friction and lead with more trust.
**We will cover:**
* recognising team wins.
* creating open communication.
* building psychological safety.
* sharing accountability.
* turning responsibility into ownership.
The format is practical and scenario-based. Clear tools, real examples and direct leadership actions you can use straight away.
You’ll leave with a clearer way to lead difficult conversations, reduce avoidable escalation and improve how teams work together.
**Don’t miss our next events:** [https://linktr.ee/LetsSpeakLeadership](https://linktr.ee/LetsSpeakLeadership)
**Grow Your Voice. Grow Your Impact. ✨**
KAZUO SHINOHARA, exposición del arquitecto japonés en el Dipòsit del Rei Martí
La propuesta de esta actividad es ir a visitar la exposición dedicada al arquitecto Kazuo Shinohara (Japón 1925 - 2006) que se celebra en el espléndido edificio del Dipòsit del Rei Martí.
La exposición, titulada *"La casa como obra de arte"*, es una muestra retrospectiva con motivo del centenario del arquitecto.
Shinohara está considerado uno de los arquitectos más influyentes de su generación en la arquitectura japonesa contemporánea.
Sus reflexiones arquitectónicas se centraron en la casa como medio para generar emoción, y en la ciudad como fuente de emociones.
La mayor parte del material presentado en la exposición es una reproducción de los archivos originales del arquitecto.
- Actividad gratuita
La lista definitiva de participantes en la actividad se creará siguiendo criterios de participación en el grupo.
Taller de Barro Sensorial
**¿Buscas un espacio para crear, soltarte y conectar contigo mismo sin expectativas?**
En este taller de creatividad con barro sensorial utilizamos herramientas interdisciplinarias como movimiento, mindfulness, imágenes, experimentación con materiales, etc., para tener una experiencia creativa encarnada.
Nos reunimos 2 horas cada semana. Un espacio para explorar sin juicios y despertar tu expresión más auténtica.
Aquí no venimos a enseñarte a hacer piezas perfectas; te acompañamos para que la creatividad salga de tu propio cuerpo. Usamos métodos sencillos pero poco convencionales. El objetivo no es "fabricar" algo bonito, sino experimentar y sentir lo que surja.
**¿Cómo funciona?**
Cada taller es un módulo independiente con una ruta diferente. A veces nos movemos, otras meditamos, y otras creamos un campo de juego. Además del barro, exploramos pintura, instalación efímera o escritura. Cada persona encuentra su propio camino para conectar con lo que realmente quiere expresar.
Creamos un círculo entre tú y tu creación. Tú eres el creador y el observador. Estás creando tu obra, pero al mismo tiempo la obra te está creando a ti.
**¿Es para ti?**
Si algo de esto te resuena, no necesitas experiencia previa. Solo ganas de probar y sumergirte.
**Te ofrecemos:**
• Un espacio seguro y sin prejuicios.
• Todos los materiales y herramientas (no traigas nada).
**Nota importante:** Las piezas no se hornean. El taller es una experiencia efímera: valoramos el proceso creativo, no el objeto final.
**Política de cancelación:** Cancela con 48 horas de anticipación porque hay plazas limitadas.
***Aportación voluntaria:*** *paga según tus posibilidades (referencia 25€).*
Design Management Events Near You
Connect with your local Design Management community
American Sign Language Beginners Meetup Group
We meet to learn and practice American Sign Language and to grow our familiarity with Deaf culture. Facilitated by hearing folks (with a connection to a professional interpreter) using Deaf-created content. People of all ASL skill levels are welcome! As we learn, we hope to connect more with the Deaf community in Central Ohio. Join us as you're able!
Come regularly or just once - whatever you're looking for! Each meetup will explore different topics related to ASL/Deaf culture, and will feature time to practice conversation with one another. Just bring yourself and a willingness to learn!
Building Momentum: From Ambiguity to Execution
**Building a great product is one thing—building momentum behind it is another.**
Join **Senior Product Manager Adam Solaiman** and **User Experience Manager Tyson Smith** for a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to turn complex ideas into scalable products inside large organizations.
In this session, they’ll share how teams move from ambiguity to execution—navigating organizational complexity, aligning stakeholders, and continuously evolving products after launch.
You’ll walk away with insights on how to:
* Build and sustain momentum across teams
* Adapt to changing priorities without losing direction
* Scale products thoughtfully in complex environments
Whether you're driving a new initiative or growing an existing product, this conversation will give you practical strategies to keep things moving forward.
Come connect, learn, and swap stories with fellow product professionals.
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Food and drinks will be provided by Switchbox, our generous host.
Free parking will be available at the front and back sides of the Switchbox Office.
Data & Analytics Wednesday - Mapping and Dashboards
**Total Eclipse of the Chart: School Redistricting Dashboards**
In this presentation, we will explore the utilization of maps, sets, and SQL within a Tableau dashboard to help provide “what-if” analyses generated through the use of a mapped dashboard, providing different scenarios and the potential implications of these.
While in this use case we are focused on a large school district, the concepts of utilizing existing data to explore the future impacts of modifying different geographic boundaries can be useful to many industries, balancing the mix of maps with visual analytics.
**About Our Speaker**
Robert Kramer is the Data Systems and State Reporting Coordinator at South Western City Schools in Grove City. He has worked there for 17 years, serving previously in the roles of Data Analyst, Programmer, and Operations Coordinator. Prior to working at South Western, he worked as a Systems Engineer at Pinnacle Data Systems in Groveport. He graduated in 2005 from The University of Toledo with his Bachelor’s in Computer Science and Engineering, and a minor in Mathematics. Robert resides in Obetz with his wife, and their 15 and 12 year-old daughters. He was also just elected to his 3rd four-year term on the Obetz City Council.
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)
CBusData - Practical AI for Power BI Developers
Practical AI for Power BI Developers
A year ago, “agentic AI” was mostly hype for Power BI teams. Today, it deserves your undivided attention. For Power BI pros, there is now a real opportunity to reduce repetitive development work, accelerate delivery, and help developers do more, but only when strong DataOps practices are in place to make AI workflows effective.
This session is a no-nonsense introduction to effective AI patterns for Power BI and Fabric development. Along the way, we will make sense of the growing pile of terminology, including skills, plugins, hooks, and MCP. You will see examples of how modern AI tooling can help with development tasks across Power BI and Fabric, along with the prerequisites, guardrails, and DataOps principles needed to use it responsibly.
Whether you're burned out on AI hype or already using Copilot CLI daily, this session will show you the foundations that are finally making AI-assisted development genuinely useful.
TBD
**Important time note:** Please plan on arriving between 5:30 and 6:00 as the elevators lock after 6 and you'll need to message us and we'll need to come get you.
The building address is 4450 Bridge Park
The entrance is 6620 Mooney St, Suite 400
You will need to scan your ID at the door to get a visitor badge.
**Abstract**
TBD
**YouTube Link**
TBD
CHROMA @CCAD
FREE event
[https://www.ccad.edu/chroma](https://www.ccad.edu/chroma)
Friday, May 15, 3–7 p.m.
CCAD campus, 60 Cleveland Ave, Columbus, OH
Join Columbus College of Art & Design for *2025* *Chroma: Best of CCAD*, our annual campuswide exhibition showcasing outstanding student work from across the college’s academic programs. This faculty-juried show features select work from CCAD students of all class years, and is a can’t-miss end-of-year campus celebration recognizing their tremendous achievements.
It’ll be a night of fun and entertainment, with interactive games, animation and film screenings, art symposiums, poetry and prose readings, and more (along with some of the best local food trucks). *Chroma* is free and open to all.
Many exhibitions including...
**Game Art & Design:**
**DSB, first floor, Welcome Center lobby and Room 115**




















