Information Security

🧠🍺 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 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.

🎉🌍 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.

🧠🍺 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 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.

🎉🌍 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.

**The Behavior Gap: Where Products Win or Lose** Teams today have more data than ever, and yet many still struggle to understand why customers adopt, engage with, or abandon their products. Teams sprint, ship faster, and chase more signals… all while metrics stall and confidence drops. The missing piece isn’t more data. It’s often the behavioral insight between the metrics, explaining why the numbers move in the first place. Dashboards can tell you what customers did, but understanding why they did it (and how to influence what they do next) requires a deeper blend of insights. This session is about closing that gap. Drawing from real-world experience designing and scaling products as [ZoCo Design](https://zocodesign.com/)’s CEO, [Lacey](https://www.linkedin.com/in/laceypicazo/) will share how to cut through the noise and identify the insights that actually change behavior—moving people, and moving metrics. You’ll learn: * Why understanding customer behavior is a quant and qual challenge * How to spot the signals that actually predict behavior change * Where AI accelerates insight, and where it creates distraction * How to get meaningfully closer to customers, without adding more tools This talk reframes how to evaluate performance and identify what levers actually improve it, helping your team to make smarter bets with greater confidence. Every meaningful outcome is driven by behavior change. And when you know how to design for behavior, you stop guessing, and start building things that work. **About Our Speaker** [Lacey Picazo](https://www.linkedin.com/in/laceypicazo/) is the Founder and CEO of ZoCo, a healthcare product studio that turns complex, high-stakes ideas into products that drive real-world adoption. She partners with healthcare organizations to uncover critical care delivery insights, focus product strategy through behavior design, and build solutions that patients and providers actually use. 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)

**Latest Dojo Location!** **Knotty Pine Brewing** 1765 W 3rd Ave, Columbus, OH 43212 We're going to try a new dojo location for a few weeks and see how it works Dojos are informal Python group study sessions where everyone interested in Python gathers to learn about Python, help others with Python, or just hang out. Everyone is welcome from Python beginners to experts. Bringing a laptop is encouraged (we'll have extension cords and power strips). If there's something you want to learn leave a comment on this invite so we can plan ahead. We're looking for speakers for our Monthly Meetups! Fill out the form if you are interested in presenting to the Python Community. https://forms.gle/ehSfUAC2WgR34Crq9

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

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!

Join us to learn more about baseline controls that you can put in place to start your fledgeling AI governance program!

QA or the Highway is a one-day, affordable, regional, professional conference featuring real-world experience and thought leadership in the QA and testing industry. This is a ticketed event please register here: https://www.qaorthehwy.com/ Featured Keynote Speakers: **Matthew-Hope Eland** **(Wizard at Leading EDJE)** \- An AI Specialist and Wizard at Leading EDJE who is known to teach software engineering\, AI\, and data science concepts in the most ridiculous ways possible\. Matt has used machine learning to settle debates over whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie\, reinforcement learning to drive the behavior of digital squirrels\, data analytics to suggest improvements to his favorite TV show\, and AI agents to play board games and create an AI agent with the personality of a dog\. Matt is the author of "Data Science in \.NET with Polyglot Notebooks" and "Refactoring with C\#" as well as several LinkedIn Learning courses\. Matt helps organize the Central Ohio \.NET Developer Group\, runs several blogs and a YouTube channel\, has a Master’s of Science in Data Analytics\, and is a current Microsoft MVP in AI and \.NET\. **Tatyana Arbouzova** **(CEO at Innovate QA)** \- Tatyana Arbouzova is an engineering and business leader with a strong background in Quality Engineering across multiple industries\, including Big Tech\, Healthcare\, and Entertainment\. She has held leadership roles at world\-class companies such as Microsoft\, VMware\, Disney\, and The Pokémon Company International\, where she focused on building quality\-driven cultures and scaling teams to deliver high\-impact products\. With decades of experience\, Tatyana has helped organizations transform their quality practices so teams can deliver software efficiently\, confidently\, and with measurable business outcomes\. Today\, Tatyana advises software companies on adopting AI to optimize quality practices and improve how software is delivered at scale\. She is also a passionate community builder and the founder of Innovate QA\, a thriving Seattle\-based community and conference for quality professionals\.

Columbus Code & Coffee is an inclusive, informal co-working session. People of all skill levels attend, and we love it that way. Many people (optionally) bring projects to work on, and many other people (optionally) socialize the entire time. It's entirely up to you! **What to Expect at the Intro Circle** \~\~\~\~\~\~\~\~\~\~\~\~\~ Near the beginning of the event (1:30 pm), we do a standup: * Organizer announcements, updates, and logistics Round 1 - (7 secs max): * Your name * What you're working on * What you can help others with Round 2: * Community events you wanna plug. If none, that's cool too. Round 3: * Job opportunities you're hiring for OR announce that you are looking for one. If none, that's cool. After the introduction circle, everything is self-organized! Feel free to work alone, pair up, attend one of our workshops/presentations, or mingle!