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🧠🍺 EXPLAIN YOUR PHD / RESEARCH TO DRUNK PEOPLE Hosted by Ljubljana International 📅 Saturday, 6 June ⏰ 20:00 📍 Pub LOO-BLAH-NAH Center What happens when highly educated researchers try explaining complex science to a room full of slightly drunk internationals? We’re about to find out. Welcome to: “Explain Your Research / PhD to Drunk People” — a chaotic, social, and surprisingly educational night where PhDs, researchers, scientists, and academics present their work to a curious non-academic audience. 🎤 THE CONCEPT Researchers get: • 5–10 minutes • a microphone • a screen + PowerPoint • and one impossible challenge: Explain your research simply enough for drunk people to understand it. No academic jargon. No 45-minute lectures. No unreadable graphs. Just: 🧠 interesting ideas 🍺 alcohol 😂 unexpected questions 🌍 international crowd energy Whether you study: • AI • physics • psychology • chemistry • linguistics • biology • sociology • philosophy • robotics • climate • mathematics • literally anything interesting... ...we want to hear it. 🎯 EXPECT: • short entertaining presentations • audience Q&A • weird drunk questions • networking with Ljubljana’s international community • academics leaving more confused than when they arrived 🏆 Audience awards may include: • Most Mind-Blowing Research • Best Presentation • Most Confusing Scientist • Most Likely To Accidentally Start The Apocalypse 👨‍🔬 WANT TO PRESENT? Apply here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScsevowIxfZOBRBY0CxW4qDC1zgjcbXRbtrNEIFEPHIAe1j-A/viewform?usp=dialog ⚠ LIMITED SPEAKER SLOTS IMPORTANT FOR PRESENTERS: Please send your PowerPoint presentation before the event to: 📩 \[ljubljanainternationalevents@gmail\.com\]\(mailto:ljubljanainternationalevents@gmail\.com\) We strongly recommend: • keeping presentations visual and engaging • avoiding heavy academic jargon • focusing on why your research matters • having fun with it 📲 Presenter WhatsApp Group: Join this group to network with other researchers presenting and receive all last-minute event updates: https://chat.whatsapp.com/FV4FFSnaYNHIFaAhxXCtVT Whether you're doing a PhD, postdoc, research project, startup R&D, or just working on something fascinating: this is your moment. Come make science social again.

🎉🌍 LJUBLJANA INTERNATIONAL PRE-PARTY SATURDAYS @ LOO-BLAH-NAH 📅 Every Saturday ⏰ 20:00 – 23:00 📍 Pub LOO-BLAH-NAH Center Ljubljana — before the party, we meet here. Welcome to Ljubljana International Pre-Party Saturdays, the easiest way to start your night with the right people, the right energy, and the right vibe. Whether you're heading to Cvetličarna, Cirkus, Nebo, Zorica — or just figuring it out as you go — this is where the night begins. 🍻 WHAT THIS IS A social, high-energy pre-party where: • internationals, locals, Erasmus & travelers meet • conversations start instantly • drinks flow • groups form naturally Come solo or with friends — you won’t stay alone for long. 🔥 WHY START HERE • meet your crew before going out • avoid awkward solo pre-drinks • start the night in a social, open environment • connect with people heading to the same places The best nights aren’t planned — they start here. 🍺 EXPECT • a lively international crowd • music to set the mood • drinks & pre-party offers • spontaneous plans for the rest of the night 🚀 HOW IT WORKS Show up from 20:00 Grab a drink Meet people Decide where the night goes Around 22:30–23:00, we head out — together or in groups — to the hottest spots in the city. 🌍 THE LJUBLJANA INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY This event is powered by Ljubljana International — the biggest international community in Ljubljana, with 1000+ members and growing every week. What makes it different: • an active WhatsApp group where people connect daily • real friendships — not just one-time events • a mix of expats, Erasmus students, digital nomads, and locals • people who are open, social, and actually want to meet others 👉 You don’t just come to an event — you join a community. Before the event: • meet people in the WhatsApp group After the event: • continue the night together • join other events • build your social circle in Ljubljana 🌍 WHO SHOULD COME • anyone going out on Saturday • people new to Ljubljana • anyone looking to meet others before the party • anyone who wants a better start to their night ✨ HOSTED BY Ljubljana International × Pub LOO-BLAH-NAH Center 🌎 JOIN THE COMMUNITY 👉 https://chat.whatsapp.com/KB3YaX1GuqY4eYcYUh3TpK 👉 https://linktr.ee/ljubljanainternational 🎉 Don’t pre-party alone. Start your night here — with the right people.

💃🔥 LJUBLJANA INTERNATIONAL GOES TO LA GOZADERA LATIN PARTY 🔥💃 🌍 Drinks, New Friends & Latin Dancing All In One Night This Saturday we're combining one of Ljubljana International's most unique events with one of Ljubljana's hottest parties. We'll start the evening by listening to researchers, PhDs, scientists, and academics explain their work to a room full of curious internationals. Then we'll grab a drink, socialize, and head together to La Gozadera at Nebotičnik for a night of salsa, bachata, reggaeton, Latin pop, and dancing. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📍 PLAN FOR THE NIGHT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🧠 20:00 — Explain Your Research / Pitch Your PhD 📍 Pub LOO-BLAH-NAH Center Ever wondered what happens when researchers try explaining years of academic work to a room full of internationals? Come find out. Expect: 🎤 short presentations 🧠 fascinating ideas 😂 unexpected questions 🍻 drinks and socializing ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🍸 21:30 — La Gozadera Pre-Party 📍 Pub LOO-BLAH-NAH Center After the presentations we'll stay for drinks, meet new people, and organize our groups for the night. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚶 22:30 — Group Departure We'll head together towards Nebotičnik. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💃 23:00 onwards — LA GOZADERA 📍 Nebotičnik 🔥 Reggaeton 🔥 Salsa 🔥 Bachata 🔥 Afrobeat 🔥 Latin Pop 🌃 Amazing views 🍸 Great atmosphere 💃 Packed dance floor 🌍 International crowd ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥 SAVE UP TO 53% ON TICKETS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Regular ticket: 🎟️ €15 But we're organizing group purchases. Best option: 👥 12-person group ticket 🎟️ €84 total 🔥 Only €7 per person Save more than 50% by joining the Ljubljana International crew. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎫 OFFICIAL TICKETS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ https://www.eventim.si/event/zlata-disco-mrzlica-golden-disco-fever-zlata-disco-mrzlica-neboticnik-skyscraper-21645815/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👥 JOIN THE LA GOZADERA GROUP CHAT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ We're organizing: ✅ discounted group tickets ✅ who is coming ✅ meeting points ✅ group departures ✅ afterparty coordination Join here: 👉 https://chat.whatsapp.com/HCq3gMslGXxAJ1KlpFh4OY The earlier you join, the easier it is to secure a discounted ticket. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌍 WHO SHOULD COME ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🧠 Curious people 🌍 Internationals 🇸🇮 Locals 💃 Dancers 🕺 Non-dancers 🍸 Social people ❤️ Singles 🎉 Friends No dance experience needed.

🧠🍺 EXPLAIN YOUR PHD / RESEARCH TO DRUNK PEOPLE Hosted by Ljubljana International 📅 Saturday, 6 June ⏰ 20:00 📍 Pub LOO-BLAH-NAH Center What happens when highly educated researchers try explaining complex science to a room full of slightly drunk internationals? We’re about to find out. Welcome to: “Explain Your Research / PhD to Drunk People” — a chaotic, social, and surprisingly educational night where PhDs, researchers, scientists, and academics present their work to a curious non-academic audience. 🎤 THE CONCEPT Researchers get: • 5–10 minutes • a microphone • a screen + PowerPoint • and one impossible challenge: Explain your research simply enough for drunk people to understand it. No academic jargon. No 45-minute lectures. No unreadable graphs. Just: 🧠 interesting ideas 🍺 alcohol 😂 unexpected questions 🌍 international crowd energy Whether you study: • AI • physics • psychology • chemistry • linguistics • biology • sociology • philosophy • robotics • climate • mathematics • literally anything interesting... ...we want to hear it. 🎯 EXPECT: • short entertaining presentations • audience Q&A • weird drunk questions • networking with Ljubljana’s international community • academics leaving more confused than when they arrived 🏆 Audience awards may include: • Most Mind-Blowing Research • Best Presentation • Most Confusing Scientist • Most Likely To Accidentally Start The Apocalypse 👨‍🔬 WANT TO PRESENT? Apply here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScsevowIxfZOBRBY0CxW4qDC1zgjcbXRbtrNEIFEPHIAe1j-A/viewform?usp=dialog ⚠ LIMITED SPEAKER SLOTS IMPORTANT FOR PRESENTERS: Please send your PowerPoint presentation before the event to: 📩 \[ljubljanainternationalevents@gmail\.com\]\(mailto:ljubljanainternationalevents@gmail\.com\) We strongly recommend: • keeping presentations visual and engaging • avoiding heavy academic jargon • focusing on why your research matters • having fun with it 📲 Presenter WhatsApp Group: Join this group to network with other researchers presenting and receive all last-minute event updates: https://chat.whatsapp.com/FV4FFSnaYNHIFaAhxXCtVT Whether you're doing a PhD, postdoc, research project, startup R&D, or just working on something fascinating: this is your moment. Come make science social again.

We’re launching a beginner Bachata & Salsa course together with one of the best dance schools in Ljubljana — @utripplesa. You’ll learn the basics, get comfortable with the movements and simply enjoy dancing in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Perfect for those who have been wanting to try partner dancing but didn’t know where to start. 📅 **Sundays at 17:00 (starting 05.04)** ⏱ **4 classes (1.5 hours each)** 💶 **Price:** €45 for the full course €40 per person if you join with a partner or a friend If you didn’t attend the trial class, you can join the **first session for €10** to see if you like it before committing to the full course. 👉 **Register here:** [https://forms.gle/Gp47pWi8Pk2QsKTu5](https://forms.gle/Gp47pWi8Pk2QsKTu5) Please make sure to **check your email and WhatsApp after registering** — we’ll send all confirmations and updates there. Let’s dance ✨

🎉🌍 LJUBLJANA INTERNATIONAL PRE-PARTY SATURDAYS @ LOO-BLAH-NAH 📅 Every Saturday ⏰ 20:00 – 23:00 📍 Pub LOO-BLAH-NAH Center Ljubljana — before the party, we meet here. Welcome to Ljubljana International Pre-Party Saturdays, the easiest way to start your night with the right people, the right energy, and the right vibe. Whether you're heading to Cvetličarna, Cirkus, Nebo, Zorica — or just figuring it out as you go — this is where the night begins. 🍻 WHAT THIS IS A social, high-energy pre-party where: • internationals, locals, Erasmus & travelers meet • conversations start instantly • drinks flow • groups form naturally Come solo or with friends — you won’t stay alone for long. 🔥 WHY START HERE • meet your crew before going out • avoid awkward solo pre-drinks • start the night in a social, open environment • connect with people heading to the same places The best nights aren’t planned — they start here. 🍺 EXPECT • a lively international crowd • music to set the mood • drinks & pre-party offers • spontaneous plans for the rest of the night 🚀 HOW IT WORKS Show up from 20:00 Grab a drink Meet people Decide where the night goes Around 22:30–23:00, we head out — together or in groups — to the hottest spots in the city. 🌍 THE LJUBLJANA INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY This event is powered by Ljubljana International — the biggest international community in Ljubljana, with 1000+ members and growing every week. What makes it different: • an active WhatsApp group where people connect daily • real friendships — not just one-time events • a mix of expats, Erasmus students, digital nomads, and locals • people who are open, social, and actually want to meet others 👉 You don’t just come to an event — you join a community. Before the event: • meet people in the WhatsApp group After the event: • continue the night together • join other events • build your social circle in Ljubljana 🌍 WHO SHOULD COME • anyone going out on Saturday • people new to Ljubljana • anyone looking to meet others before the party • anyone who wants a better start to their night ✨ HOSTED BY Ljubljana International × Pub LOO-BLAH-NAH Center 🌎 JOIN THE COMMUNITY 👉 https://chat.whatsapp.com/KB3YaX1GuqY4eYcYUh3TpK 👉 https://linktr.ee/ljubljanainternational 🎉 Don’t pre-party alone. Start your night here — with the right people.

💃🔥 LJUBLJANA INTERNATIONAL GOES TO LA GOZADERA LATIN PARTY 🔥💃 🌍 Drinks, New Friends & Latin Dancing All In One Night This Saturday we're combining one of Ljubljana International's most unique events with one of Ljubljana's hottest parties. We'll start the evening by listening to researchers, PhDs, scientists, and academics explain their work to a room full of curious internationals. Then we'll grab a drink, socialize, and head together to La Gozadera at Nebotičnik for a night of salsa, bachata, reggaeton, Latin pop, and dancing. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📍 PLAN FOR THE NIGHT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🧠 20:00 — Explain Your Research / Pitch Your PhD 📍 Pub LOO-BLAH-NAH Center Ever wondered what happens when researchers try explaining years of academic work to a room full of internationals? Come find out. Expect: 🎤 short presentations 🧠 fascinating ideas 😂 unexpected questions 🍻 drinks and socializing ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🍸 21:30 — La Gozadera Pre-Party 📍 Pub LOO-BLAH-NAH Center After the presentations we'll stay for drinks, meet new people, and organize our groups for the night. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚶 22:30 — Group Departure We'll head together towards Nebotičnik. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💃 23:00 onwards — LA GOZADERA 📍 Nebotičnik 🔥 Reggaeton 🔥 Salsa 🔥 Bachata 🔥 Afrobeat 🔥 Latin Pop 🌃 Amazing views 🍸 Great atmosphere 💃 Packed dance floor 🌍 International crowd ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥 SAVE UP TO 53% ON TICKETS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Regular ticket: 🎟️ €15 But we're organizing group purchases. Best option: 👥 12-person group ticket 🎟️ €84 total 🔥 Only €7 per person Save more than 50% by joining the Ljubljana International crew. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎫 OFFICIAL TICKETS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ https://www.eventim.si/event/zlata-disco-mrzlica-golden-disco-fever-zlata-disco-mrzlica-neboticnik-skyscraper-21645815/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👥 JOIN THE LA GOZADERA GROUP CHAT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ We're organizing: ✅ discounted group tickets ✅ who is coming ✅ meeting points ✅ group departures ✅ afterparty coordination Join here: 👉 https://chat.whatsapp.com/HCq3gMslGXxAJ1KlpFh4OY The earlier you join, the easier it is to secure a discounted ticket. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌍 WHO SHOULD COME ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🧠 Curious people 🌍 Internationals 🇸🇮 Locals 💃 Dancers 🕺 Non-dancers 🍸 Social people ❤️ Singles 🎉 Friends No dance experience needed.

Topic to be announced. **THANK YOU** *Franklin University* for hosting our meetup! To learn more about *Franklin University*, please visit their website: https://www.franklin.edu/ **DIRECTIONS** Franklin University Fisher Hall 300 E. Main St, Columbus, OH 43215 Map: https://maps.app.goo.gl/jxjBA2hUmS5qrvhq8 Parking is FREE! Please park in Lot C in front of Fisher Hall. See attached map. NOTE: Map the address only. When mapping with Google Maps it may use the Fisher Hall at OSU, which is NOT correct. **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

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We are bringing Microsoft Build sessions to Columbus Ohio! The Central Ohio Azure Meetup and Central Ohio .NET Developer's Group (CONDG) are coming together to bring some of the labs and breakouts from Microsoft Build to your backyard. In this free, 1 day event, you are going to Build stuff with us! And yes, there will be free food. So please RSVP for a head count!

Couldn't make Knowledge? Or want to debrief the dancing robots or Autonomous Workforce? Join us for a Knowledge '26 recap, insights sharing, a couple rounds of golf, and fun at Topgolf. As always, drinks and food will be provided. More details to come — mark your calendar, RSVP, and save your spot today!