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## **From Data Autonomy to Adaptive AI: Building Systems That Change How Decisions Get Made** **DOORS OPEN: 18:30** **TALKS START: 19:00** **NETWORKING: 20:00 - 21:30** ## **Our Speakers** **Marta Expósito Ventura, PhD, Head of Data, Stark Future** **Africa Perianez, Co-founder & CEO, Causal Foundry** ## **Marta Esposito - From ticket queues to data autonomy - engineering the shift** **Marta Esposito is Head of Data at Stark Future, an electric motorcycle company building high-performance, connected vehicles at the intersection of hardware, software, manufacturing and data.** **In her talk, Marta will explore what it takes to move a data function away from reactive ticket queues and towards a more autonomous operating model. As connected products generate increasingly rich streams of operational, product and user data, the role of data teams changes: from responding to requests, to enabling better decisions across the organisation.** **Her session will look at the engineering, organisational and cultural shift behind data autonomy: how teams structure data work, prioritise internal demand, build trust in data products and move closer to the real systems they support.** ## **Africa Perianez - Designing AI for imperfect conditions** **Africa Perianez is Co-founder and CEO of Causal Foundry, where she leads a team of engineers and AI scientists building reinforcement learning and personalisation technologies for real-world operational decision-making.** **Her work focuses on adaptive AI infrastructure that supports decisions across healthcare, logistics, behavioural nudging, demand forecasting, stockout prevention and resource allocation. Causal Foundry works with global partners including the Gates Foundation, Google.org, GAVI, Lilly and Johnson & Johnson, applying AI in environments where decisions are complex, resources are constrained and impact matters.** **In this talk, Africa will explore how AI systems move beyond prediction and dashboards into adaptive decision support. What does it take to build systems that can operate across changing contexts, local constraints and human behaviour? And how do you design AI that supports better decisions without pretending the real world is cleaner than it is?** ## **What’s In It For You?** **Some of the most interesting work in AI today is not just about building more powerful models. It is about turning data, machine learning and decision intelligence into systems that people and organisations can actually use.** **In this DeepTech Talks edition, Marta and Africa will explore two complementary sides of applied AI: how data teams become more autonomous inside complex organisations, and how adaptive AI systems support operational decisions in the real world.** **You’ll hear about:** * **How data teams move from reactive service models to autonomous data products** * **What it takes to build AI systems that support operational decision-making** * **How reinforcement learning and personalisation can be applied beyond consumer tech** * **The gap between dashboards, predictions and decisions that actually change outcomes** * **How technical teams work with messy real-world systems, constraints and stakeholders** **Expect a grounded conversation about AI that becomes s part of how organisations sense, decide and act.** ## **Who Should Come?** * **Data scientists, ML engineers and AI engineers** * **Data leaders, analytics leaders and engineering managers** * **Product leaders working with data-heavy or AI-enabled systems** * **Deep tech founders and technical operators** * **People working across healthtech, mobility, logistics, manufacturing or decision intelligence** * **Anyone curious about how applied AI becomes operational infrastructure** ## **Extras** **We’ll have food and drinks. 🍷🍕** **Come ready to meet engineers, founders, esearchers, data leaders and technology builders working on the next generation of applied AI systems.** **Spaces are limited, so grab your spot on Meetup while you can.** **Brought to you by DeepTech Recruitment & Cloudworks.** The organisers and venue reserve the right to refuse admission or entry and shall not be held liable for any incidents, losses or damages occurring during the event.

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**🔹Please fill in your details to confirm your attendance.** **[Confirm my attendance, click here](https://www.dopplerpages.com/dmktribe-BC897/TheAgeofAIAgents-89815)** **🎤 Talk : The Age of AI Agents** **How Businesses Are Replacing Response Time with Intelligence** **Description** We are entering a new era where AI Agents are becoming the first point of contact between businesses and customers. In this talk, Weslley Harakawa, founder of Oryxa AI, explores how intelligent agents are transforming customer communication through channels such as WhatsApp, helping businesses respond instantly, capture more opportunities, and scale customer interactions efficiently. Drawing from real-world experience building Oryxa AI, Weslley will share practical insights into the shift from traditional chatbots to autonomous AI Agents, the opportunities this creates for entrepreneurs and agencies, and why the next generation of businesses will be powered by AI-first customer interactions. Topics include: \* The evolution from chatbots to AI Agents \* Why response time is becoming a competitive advantage \* Real-world use cases from service businesses and SMEs \* The rise of Agent-as-a-Service (AaaS) business models \* How AI Agents are changing sales, support, and customer experience \* What business leaders should expect in the next 5 years Whether you are an entrepreneur, marketer, developer, or business owner, this session will provide a practical perspective on how AI Agents are reshaping the future of business communication. ***About our speaker:*** **Weslley Harakawa** With over 20 years of experience, Weslley has built a career that blends creative direction, web and app development, graphic design, digital marketing, and innovative solutions in blockchain and artificial intelligence. As an entrepreneur and founder of several projects, he stands out for delivering tailored, technology‑driven solutions for both corporate and individual clients. Over the past decade, he has worked as a freelancer in London, collaborating with a wide range of clients and leading W8TOWN LTD since 2019. He is currently seeking full‑time or part‑time opportunities—hybrid or remote—in England or Portugal, where he can contribute his expertise and continue growing within innovative teams. ***We look forward to seeing you there 💙!*** **Venue Partner** **MOB** Makers of Barcelona, we strive every day to empower rebels and creative geniuses to innovate, make connections and have fun in the process. We do so by providing them with a space to call home, a community to grow with and skills to match their ambitions. We envision a world where everyone is empowered to innovate, creativity is celebrated and technology fosters equality. 💙**Please register only if you genuinely intend to attend.** If, for any reason, you are unable to make it, please cancel your registration as soon as possible to allow those on the waiting list to take your place and enjoy the event. **Join our channels:** **WhatsApp:**[ I’d like to be part of the WhatsApp group](https://www.dopplerpages.com/dmktribe-BC897/joinusourwhatsappgroups) Please complete this form to join the group. You’ll be added to the WhatsApp group shortly afterwards. **Instagram:** [@dmktribebcn](https://www.instagram.com/dmktribebcn/?hl=en) **LinkedIn: [DMK Tribe](https://www.linkedin.com/company/dmktribe/?viewAsMember=true)** [💙](https://www.linkedin.com/company/dmktribe/?viewAsMember=true) **LinkedIn Group:** [Digital Marketing Group Lisbon](https://www.linkedin.com/groups/9249844/) **Telegram: [Group 🙌](https://t.me/+YrJYhbXrDDYwYjg0)** **🤝 Register on our platform:** **🔗 [https://dmktribe.com/be-a-member/](https://dmktribe.com/be-a-member/)📝👥** **🌍 About DMK Tribe** **DMK Tribe** is an international community of marketers, creatives, entrepreneurs, and curious minds who believe in the power of genuine human connection. With two inspiring years of growth behind us in Lisbon, Barcelona, Cascais, and Milan, our journey of expanding reach and impact continues. Our mission is to empower professionals and businesses through authentic connections, continuous learning, and purposeful collaboration. With over **7.000 active members**, we organise regular events, workshops, and masterminds focused on digital marketing trends, personal branding, content creation, AI, and entrepreneurship. We’re more than a network – we’re a movement of value-driven professionals building lasting impact. ***We're a global community of marketing professionals united by our values*** ❤️ Love \| 🤝 Caring \| 🎁 Serving \| 📚 Learning \| 🌍 Inclusion

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L'échange linguistique est d'espagnol/catalan-français Les horaires sont de 11h à 13h (flexibilité pour le début et la fin des échanges) Le prix du billet est de 4 Euros.

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**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

**Intercambio de idiomas: castellano, catalán, japonés y chino** スペインやその他の国の日本が大好きな人たちや、日本語を勉強している人たちと、バルセロナに住んでいたり、旅行で来ている日本人との交流です。参加費はありません。 スペイン語が分からなくても日本語のレベルが高い世界各国の人たちと、スペイン語のレベルが高い日本人がいますので、コミュニケーションに問題はありません。 Cada miércoles, nos reunimos para practicar idiomas tales como castellano, catalán, japonés, chino, coreano, francés, rumano, inglés, etc. ¡Únete a Mundiñol si quieres conocer a gente de otros países! Te lo pasarás la mar de bien. 这是一次让西班牙以及其他国家热爱中国文化圈、正在学习中文的人们，与居住在巴塞罗那或前来旅行的日本人进行交流的活动。 不收取任何参加费用。即使不会西班牙语也没有问题。这里有中文水平很高的各国人士，也有西班牙语水平很高的中文使用者，因此在交流沟通上不会有任何障碍。 Every Wednesday we get together in order to practice languages such as Spanish, Catalan, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, French, Rumanian, English, etc. If you want to meet people from other countries, please drop by this free meeting. You'll have a great time! **☆ Cada lunes / Every Monday, 20:45 - 22:45** New Orleans Coffee : [Pere d'Artés 10, Nou Barris, Barcelona](https://maps.app.goo.gl/xLh2Yk1Yxw82QvKK6) **☆ Cada miércoles / Every Wednesday, 20:30 - 22:30** Viena Paseo de San Joan : [Pg. de St. Joan, 26, Barcelona](https://maps.app.goo.gl/c7bHnT16pmgjB8bVA) **☆ Cada viernes / Every Friday, 21:00 - 23:00** Alex Bar Restaurant : [Córcega 170, Barcelona](https://maps.app.goo.gl/83yAPsJFejE2pKHH9) ※※※※※※※※ **INTERCAMBIO DE IDIOMAS JAPONÉS CASTELLANO CHINO** **言語交換 日本語 スペイン語 中国語** * [Castellano (スペイン語)](https://magradacatalunya.com/intercambio_idiomas_japones.html) * [Japonés (日本語)](https://magradacatalunya.com/spanish_japanese.html) * [Chino (中文)](https://magradacatalunya.com/intercambio_idiomas_chino.html) * [Idiomas europeos y asiáticos](https://magradacatalunya.web.fc2.com/spanish.html) ※※※※※※※※ **[Exploración Cultural y Lingüística](https://magradacatalunya.com/barcelona/linguist/)** Mundiñol es un espacio muy valorado donde se puede aprender y practicar en serio idiomas asiáticos, especialmente japonés y chino. Al mismo tiempo, es también un punto de encuentro para quienes vienen de Asia y desean mejorar su español, catalán u otras lenguas romances, en un ambiente internacional y acogedor. ※※※※※※※※ **[Mundiñol 文化と言語探究会](https://magradacatalunya.com/barcelona/linguist/)** バルセロナの Mundiñol（ムンディニョール） は、アジアの言語 (特に日本語や中国語) を本気で学び、練習できる場所として高く評価されています。 また、アジア出身の人たちがスペイン語やカタルーニャ語、そしてその他のロマンス諸語を真剣に学んだり練習したりする場としても知られています。 ※※※※※※※※ **VÍDEOS DE NUESTROS EVENTOS** **私たちのイベントのビデオ** * [Welcome to Barcelona!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl7kwr2PQgY&list=PLikpj83315BvAJpJQqpElcMjX01m5qjcR) * [Mundiñol バルセロナ国際交流](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnCxP7KnQXc&list=PL-5dlWpXEyn70DUhASm5K5CmBTLZPLCgN) * [Japoneses en Barcelona バルセロナの日本人](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVcylH4u7Ao&list=PLa_detxXmbGHCSMjgG55eap0xRALJpjnZ) ※※※※※※※※ ***

[Únete a nuestro grupo de Whatsapp](https://chat.whatsapp.com/DUg0NDBb4IhG50CVm9gDiW?mode=gi_t) **Volver a encontrarse: un encuentro para hablar de lo que importa** Inspirado en el estudio del psicólogo Arthur Aron sobre la generación experimental de cercanía interpersonal, este encuentro propone una experiencia diferente: **comprobar si la intimidad entre personas puede acelerarse** cuando nos atrevemos a hacernos las preguntas adecuadas. A través de una selección guiada de las famosas *preguntas*, dos personas —o pequeños grupos— se sumergen en un espacio seguro, estructurado y profundamente humano, donde lo importante no es “quedar bien”, sino **conectar de verdad**. Este no es un evento de networking, ni una dinámica superficial. Es una invitación a parar, mirar al otro sin prisa y permitir que aparezca algo más auténtico: escucha, vulnerabilidad y presencia. **Qué vas a vivir:** * Conversaciones guiadas que van de lo ligero a lo profundamente personal * Un entorno diseñado para generar confianza y cercanía real * Dinámicas inspiradas en investigación científica sobre la intimidad “Volver a encontrarse” es una experiencia para quienes sienten que las conversaciones importantes se están perdiendo en la vida cotidiana… y quieren recuperarlas. **Porque a veces, la distancia entre dos personas no se mide en metros, sino en preguntas que nunca se hicieron.** **Solo 5€ en efectivo Sorteo regalo al final**

**🔎The session:** AI is already part of how we work, but most people are still using it as a chat or an autocomplete tool. The next step is moving from asking for help to letting AI actually do parts of the work for you. **That is where agents come in**. In this session, we explore **how to build and use AI agents in a practical way using tools like GitHub Copilot, Agent Mode, MCP, and reusable skills**. The focus is not on complex architectures, but on what is useful in real day-to-day work. We walk you through **what an AI agent is** and why it makes sense to use one instead of just prompts or simple automations. You will see how agents can reason, plan, and execute tasks across multiple steps, and how to apply patterns that already work in production. We also look at **how this fits into your existing workflow**, especially in environments like VS Code, and **how agents can connect to real systems and data**. Real examples will show how to automate documentation, interact with data platforms such as Microsoft Fabric, and create reusable workflows that save time. The session also **covers common mistakes**, including overcomplicating solutions with too many agents, and how to keep things simple, controlled, and maintainable. 🎯**The goal is to give you a clear and practical understanding so you can start using agents in your own work without overengineering.** 👩‍💻**This session is for you if:** * you are a developer working with code on a daily basis * you use tools like VS Code, GitHub, or similar environments * you are an engineer interested in improving productivity using AI beyond autocomplete * you want to explore how to integrate AI agents into real workflows -No prior experience with AI agents is required -Basic understanding of development workflows is enough 📋**Agenda** 🙋18:00 Registration & Welcome **🗣️18:30** Session and Q&A 🌮19:30 Drinks & Bites We look forward to this inspiring evening together! 🤩

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.

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You can sleep in on the Sesquicentennial (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.