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Monatlicher Stammtisch der JUG Berlin-Brandenburg
Liebe JUG-Mitglieder,
wir möchten Euch herzlich zu unserem nächsten Stammtisch, der jeden ersten Dienstag im Monat stattfindet, einladen. Alles weitere kann im unserem Blog unter http://www.jug-berlin-brandenburg.de/ gefunden werden.
Viele Grüße
Sandra, Jan, Jörg und Oliver
Creative Writing
## DNA. presents: "CREATIVE WRITING"
In this workshop, You will learn a method that can help You to strengthen Your access to Your creativity, write more, write better and get back into a flow state in which new ideas emerge.
Rediscover Your creative flow with Lena's hourglass method.
##### HOURGLASS METHOD
Lena will guide You through the three phases of her hourglass method, which consist of different writing exercises, and explain the background to them.
You will use pen, paper and Your words as tools, but You don't have to be a poet to have fun and benefit from the workshop :)
##### APPLICATION OF THE METHOD:
The method can also be used on Your own at home after the workshop, whenever You need a creative jump-start.
##### SETTING:
The small group setting as a safe space also allows You to share your thoughts with others.
You'll learn techniques to:
* Tap into Your Inner creativity.
* Overcome self-doubt and fear.
* Express Yourself authentically and confidently.
* Cultivate a sense of purpose in Your art and communication.
#32 AI Series: cohere - M. Fadaee
We are excited to feature **Marzieh Fadaee**, who is currently Head of Cohere Labs at **cohere** and will discuss "**Scaling LLMs Across Languages**", lasting approximately 45 minutes. After the talk, seize the opportunity to connect with fellow AI enthusiasts to share ideas and questions while enjoying free drinks and pizza. **Door close by 7.15pm, so please come early! Also, "attend"ing (RSVP) here on Meetup is strictly necessary to be guaranteed entry.**
Please note that Meetup has recently been quite keen on promoting its Plus program. However, you are not obligated to purchase it, as both our events and the platform remain free.
**Who is this event for?**
This event is open to everyone interested in state-of-the-art AI research. We especially design it for students, PhD candidates, academic researchers, and industry professionals with a research focus in machine learning.
**Abstract**: Scaling has driven progress in language models, but improvements in peak performance often fail to translate across languages. In this talk, I show how multilingual models expose the limits of scale and highlight the importance of balanced performance. I argue for a shift from optimizing peaks to lifting the floor, through better data, design, and evaluation illustrated through Tiny Aya.
**Bio**: Marzieh Fadaee is the Head of Cohere Labs, where she leads research on fundamental problems in artificial intelligence. Her work spans multilingual language models, data-efficient learning, model evaluation, and trustworthy AI, with a focus on building systems that are robust, inclusive, and globally impactful. She co-leads the Aya initiative that brought together over 3,000 collaborators worldwide to create the world's largest multilingual instruction dataset and the development of a series of state-of-the-art multilingual language and vision models. Before joining Cohere Labs, Marzieh was the Research Lead at Zeta Alpha Vector, where she pioneered innovative approaches to knowledge discovery and organization. She holds a PhD from the University of Amsterdam where she conducted foundational research on neural machine translation. Her research has been published in top venues such as NeurIPS, ACL, EMNLP, and ICLR, and she frequently serves as a mentor and advisor in the global AI research community.
We are [BLISS](https://bliss.berlin/) e.V., the **AI** **organization** in Berlin that **connects like-minded individuals** who share great interest and passion for the field of machine learning. This summer 2026, we will, again, host an exciting speaker series on site in Berlin, featuring excellent researchers from cohere, ETH Zürich, University of Oxford, HuggingFace, and Stanford University.
Website: [https://bliss.berlin](https://bliss.berlin/)
Youtube: [https://www.youtube.com/@bliss.ev.berlin](https://www.youtube.com/@bliss.ev.berlin)
Disclaimer: By attending this event you agree to be photographed.
Singing & Stage Performance
## DNA. presents: "Singing & Stage Performance"
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***Tola (Yellow) Janowska*** is a 24-year-old musician from Poland. She studied Musicology, graduated from the School of Modern Music in Wroclaw and is currently studying Musical Vocal Performance in Berlin. After recording two bilingual albums (English and Polish) with Sony Music Poland and several years of experience in vocal coaching, Tola discovered her own technique and she's ready to share this knowledge with fellow artists, musicians, sensitive souls, and people that are open to experience something new.******
***Dozy Jane*** is a Danish-German singer, songwriter, and producer based in Berlin. Blending dreamy clarity with electrifying energy, her music fuses ethereal vocals with 90s Euro-dance and Y2K pop influences. A self-taught producer, she brings her bold creative visions to life, crafting unique sonic worlds. Her upcoming single *"Close My Eyes"* drops in April, with her debut album arriving in Summer 2025.
You'll learn techniques to:
* Tap into Your inner creativity
* Overcome self-doubt and fear
* Express Yourself authentically and confidently
* Cultivate a sense of purpose in Your art and communication
##### *Stay open and inspired & Find Your Authentic Voice Through Musical Expression.*
##### *Join us for an Experience, share Your Story with fellow Artists & grow. Together.*
##### **SIGN UP:**
Limited Spots. First come, First served.
Tickets available: Online Tickets / Box Office
See Us Soon :)
Love.
[Tola (Yellow)](https://www.instagram.com/yell_o_woman/), [Dozy Jane](https://www.instagram.com/dozyjane/) & [DNA.](https://www.instagram.com/nightart.club/)
regular NixOS Meetup @c-base
We are back in the c-base!
Do you already run NixOS and want to talk to other people or want an introductory session with some NixOS users. Just bring your machine!
Usually there are no topics, we just sit in front of our computers, talk about stuff, debug some problems or review some PRs on nixpkgs.
There are drinks usually available from the c-base bar.
If you can't find us. just ask around or ask in irc (#krebs on hackint)
AWS UG Berlin Workshop - Kiro Bootcamp
You built, you broke, and now you will learn! Agentic coders are a major breakthrough for developers, making work easier (then at times more challenging!) Think about how these tools evolved from providing simple code blocks to actively rewriting the code inside IDE.
As we, developers, engineers and designers, who are still learning how to use them, we need to understand the reasoning behind these tools and follow some best practices.
**Kiro Bootcamp - Learn from the Experts**
In light of all these, we kept our promise and are happy to organize a half-day long Kiro Bootcamp for you.
Thanks to **Rackspace Technology** we will be gathering in WeWork, inviting experts from AWS to introduce you Kiro, explain the critical parts, help with getting the most out of it.
This is a hands-on workshop with a practical deep dive into starting-up, running and optimizing Kiro. You work through independent tasks that you can pick and choose from, learning how to build, deploy, and operate your ideas on Kiro IDE. By the end of the workshop, we aim that you understand how Kiro works, what things you have to take into account at spec-driven development, and how you can integrate your Kiro IDE to external and internal tools.
This workshop is aimed at developers, designers, cloud specialists and product developers. While it is not necessary to have extensive knowledge on AI development, it is ideal that you install Kiro in your device and try to build some minor projects in advance.
**When?** 5th of May\, Tuesday\,\| 12:00 \- 17:00
**Where?** WeWork - Stresemannstraße 123, 10963 Berlin
**How?** Fill out this form to apply. Limited seats are available. You can only participate in the workshop if you receive a confirmation mail from us (**kadir@berlinawsug.de**).
You need to bring your own laptop to this workshop.
❗**Registration - Read Carefully**❗
Participation is free of charge. Your Kiro resource usage is also covered. You will be provided a sandbox Kiro account. Therefore, you won't need an AWS account!
❗Please register with your full name by filling out this form: **[https://forms.gle/PedkUUfJwVxoujVr8](https://forms.gle/PedkUUfJwVxoujVr8)**
❗You need to bring your own laptop to this workshop. Make sure AWS CLI is installed. Contact us if you're not sure how.
❗A confirmation e-mail from Meetup is not relevant. **You can participate only if you receive a confirmation from us: kadir@berlinawsug.de**
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**Additional Information**
**This event is wheelchair friendly.** Help us spread the word, and invite your friends & colleagues! If you're attending with wheelchair and need assistance, please mail us: organisers@berlinawsug.de for further details.
Would you like to host AWS UG Event at your company? [Register here](https://bit.ly/aws-host)
Would you like to speak at AWS UG MeetUp? [Submit your topic here](https://bit.ly/aws-talk)
From Events to Boundaries: Hands-On Context Mapping
Join us for our next Berlin Collaborative Modelling session — a hands-on workshop where we'll build a Context Map from scratch.
Context Maps make the big picture of a system explicit: which bounded contexts exist, how they relate to each other, and where the friction, dependencies, and power dynamics between teams actually live. They help you make better decisions about integration strategies, team ownership, and where to invest in clean boundaries versus where to accept pragmatic compromise.
To get there, we'll use Event Storming as our starting point — laying out domain events to discover natural clusters of behavior, then drawing boundaries around them to identify candidate bounded contexts and subdomains. From there, we'll sketch out the relationships between contexts and discuss what patterns like Customer/Supplier, Conformist, or Anti-Corruption Layer look like in practice.
What to expect:
This is a collaborative, stickies-on-the-wall kind of evening. No laptops needed, no prior DDD experience required — just curiosity about how to make sense of complex systems. We'll work through a shared example domain together, so everyone starts from the same place.
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PostgreSQL May Meetup: We didn't Know Postgres Could Do That!
We will be hosting our May Meetup.
Thanks to Amazon for sponsoring us. Please note that you have to show sign up with your real name and show a Photo ID to the building security before entering the building. Every visitor will have their photo taken that will be printed on their paper visitor badge. This is a requirement from the building security. If you are not ok with that, please do not sign up. You can not bring a +1, everyone needs to sign up.
Please only sign up if you plan to come, we will keep notes.
*Excited to announce our talks:*
**pg_lake: Unifying transactional and analytical data with Postgres**
by Celeste Horgan, Sr. OSS Developer Advocate at Snowflake.
The common wisdom goes: data is either transactional or analytical, and workloads are OLTP and OLAP-shaped to match. The reality of generating and using data is different, and often we need a bit of both. The pg_lake extension brings OLAP workloads to OLTP Postgres.
This talk will explore the pg_lake extension, including how to build it, and demos of using it with modern data workloads in object storage like Amazon S3. We’ll create simple data pipelines with no ETL and high performance analytics.
**I Didn't Know Postgres Could Do That!**
by Robert Treat, Principal Database Engineer at AWS and PostgreSQL Major Contributor.
PostgreSQL is often thought of as "The Database for DBAs", but what more and more developers are finding out is that what makes Postgres "The Worlds Most Advanced Open Source Database" is its wide array of features, many of which are really geared towards engineers building applications on top of Postgres. In this talk, we'll look at some of the features in Postgres you may not have seen in other database systems, and talk about how you can make use of those features in your applications. Queries, indexing, data types, and more will all be up for discussion as we show you examples of just what Postgres can do.
Real Long Term Friendship
Nice! You are looking for real long time friendship! You might have already lived in Berlin or other big cities and experienced the "Anonymous" culture for a while. Meeting random people over and over and never see the same person again! In order to find "Real Long Term Friendship" in Berlin, do as follows:
* You should not care how many people are joining this meetup.
You RVSP. Even if only one person is joining. Because if everyone are waiting for everyone else to RVSP, nobody joins and nobody finds a new friend.
* You do not care how many people of the opposite sex are joining.
You are looking for friends. Finding the best romantic partner in the world, while avoiding not very attractive others, can be your other goal, for another time. Here we are looking for Friends. Real ones.
* You are going to risk a very precious property of yours: Your time!
Yes, there are thousands of opportunities in Berlin, there might be a rock concert for free, a birthday party you might miss, an important person might call you and invite you spontaneously, but you never find new friends until you decide to risk your time and meet people anyway. "I will check my calendar and get back to you" also does not work. Commit your time and spend it. Trust me, you won't go bankrupt ;-)
* You are ready to use your phone as a real phone!
You might have been using your phone as a tablet to visit Instagram and Facebook and watch movies. But if you want to find friends, you must know that people might take your phone number and give you theirs. That means they will Call you! And you have to pick up the phone and answer it. If you want to find new friends, you must be ready to do something really hard for the first time after years: Call people first, and if they called you: Answer your phone!
* You are going to meet some people twice!
That's the point of friendship. We already can experience random encounters with random people in random places one at a time. But that is not called friendship. If you want friends, you must be ready to meet the same person more than once.
If you agree with above, RVSP and COME! You will meet other people who think the same way.
P.S: Now that you've read all the way down to here, I suggest you [watch this animation](https://player.vimeo.com/video/547249272?h=22f3dd0f6f).
Open Source Data Builders Workshop
Join Aiven and Google Cloud for a hands-on lab to learn building data infrastructure for AI applications in production, and how to run OpenSearch in production for AI and GenAI workloads.
***IMPORTANT: Please register on* \*\*\*[HERE](https://bit.ly/4sLWiua) \*\*\**to secure your sport.***
This interactive, instructor-led workshop is designed for developers and data engineers who want to build and run real-world data pipelines using open source tools.
Note: Bring your laptop, we’ll be shipping code together.
Agenda:
\* 5:00pm\~5:30pm: Check-in, Food, Networking
\* 5:30pm\~7:30pm: Tech talks and Hands-on Workshop
\* 7:30pm\~8:00pm: Q&A, wrap-up
⚡️ Workshop 1 — Foundations: Build Your Own Pipeline
Start from scratch and assemble a complete data pipeline using Aiven services.
\- Provision and manage services
-Connect systems into a unified pipeline
- Build an observability setup
\- Query real\-time data across services using SQL
⚡️ Workshop 2 — Advanced: Real-Time Retail Streaming Pipeline
Go deeper with a real, production-inspired use case.
\- Design and implement a high\-quality streaming pipeline
\- Work with real\-time retail data flows
\- Apply best practices for scalability and reliability
What you’ll learn:
* Deploy and scale OpenSearch for production
* Best practices for vector and hybrid search
* Build efficient real-time data pipelines
* Design and optimize RAG architectures
Why attend?
* Build a production-style data pipeline
* Learn how to connect Kafka, ClickHouse, OpenSearch, and PostgreSQL into a working, real-time architecture.
* Learn by doing and Apply proven patterns
* Provision services, stream data, and run queries yourself using both UI and CLI workflows.
* Walk away with practical approaches you can reuse for streaming, analytics, and observability use cases.
Who Should Attend:
Developer and data engineer, interested in moving from prototype to production with OpenSearch.
**RSVP is not enough. You must apply for a ticket here:** [https://bit.ly/4sLWiua](https://bit.ly/4sLWiua)
Berlin Singles Bowling Together | Zeya: 6 Curated Hangouts 🎳 Exciting 🤩
**Why bowling?** Because movement breaks the ice and takes the pressure off! Join Zeya Social for a **fun, curated singles hangout in Berlin.** **Forget swiping, endless texting, or awkward first-date tension, we bring 6 carefully selected singles together** for a exciting, interactive time. 🇩🇪 **Zeya bietet kuratierte Hangouts für Singles in Berlin. Sicher, persönlich und ohne Dating-Apps.**
**[Join next Berlin hangout – RSVP now!](https://zeya.cc/register)**
✅ **Women-Founded & Safe:** We prioritize a safe, respectful, and high-quality environment. ✅ **Expertly Curated:** We handpick 6 people based on vibes and interests = not just a random crowd. ✅ **Proven Success:** Proud **Web Summit Alpha Startup \| 92%** 🙌 Showed\-up \| **43%** 🔥 Hangouts matched \| **60%** 💖 Joined again \| **16** 💬 Hangouts
**📋 How it works:**
1. **Register (1 min):** Fill out a curation form at **[https://zeya.cc/register](https://zeya.cc/register)**
2. **Get Matched:** We find the best match for you among Berlin singles.
3. **Join the Hangout:** Once matched, you’ll get a WhatsApp invitation to a cozy Berlin spot.
4. **No Pressure:** Just 🎳 Bowling €22 \| With friends €20 to ensure a balanced mix and no\-shows\. If no hangout offer in 31 days? **100% Full Refund.**
**🥰** **Why Berliners Love Zeya?**
* 🔒 **Privacy First:** No public profiles. No one sees you until you meet in person.
* ⏳ **Zero Effort:** Skip the endless "Hey, how's your weekend?" texts. We do the work.
* 🍸 **Organic Vibes:** No awkward ice-breakers or loud moderators. Just 6 like-minded people having a great time.
* 💌 **Smooth Follow-ups:** Like someone? Let us know privately via our post-event form. We connect you if it's a match!
**[Join next Berlin hangout – RSVP now!](https://zeya.cc/register)**
🎳 Move, laugh, and connect! Low-pressure fun, genuine conversation, and real sparks—bowling your way to new connections.
#BerlinSingles #SinglesHangout #BowlingNight #ZeyaSocial #DatingAlternative #MeetNewPeople #FunFirstDate #BerlinEvents #SocializeBerlin
Mai ist für AI: Opening Event @ 42 Berlin
***Community Partnership with 42 Berlin - Main Regestration***
***https://www.eventbrite.de/e/mai-ist-fur-ai-opening-event-42-berlin-tickets-1984054863506?aff=ebdsoporgprofile***
Welcome to the future! Join us at the 42 Berlin campus to celebrate the official launch of "Mai ist für AI 2026". Let's talk AI.
**Berlin’s most critical exploration of the AI age is back.**
After last year's massive success, 42 Berlin is proud to kick off **Mai ist für AI 2026:** a month-long collision of code, art, and ethics designed to challenge the paradigm shifts defining our tech-driven future.
This opening event is designed to look beyond the hype. We are bringing together developers, artists, industry leaders, and the 42 community not just to celebrate what is possible, but to ground the conversation in critical thought.
**Agenda:**
**18:00** – Doors Open
**18:30** – Welcome: The mAI Manifesto
**18:40** – **The Integrity Stack: Aligning Research, Policy, and Deployment for Reliable AI**
* [Carmen Loew](https://www.linkedin.com/in/carmen-loew/ "https://www.linkedin.com/in/carmen-loew/") \- Founder and COO of Sapper Intelligence
* [Dat Daryl Ngo](https://www.linkedin.com/in/datdarylngo/ "https://www.linkedin.com/in/datdarylngo/") \- AI Architect and VP of Strategy at Arize AI
* [Dei Vilkinsons](https://www.linkedin.com/in/delta/ "https://www.linkedin.com/in/delta/") \- Founder at HASH
* [Michael Bornholdt](https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-bornholdt-pi314159/ "https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-bornholdt-pi314159/") \- Senior AI Solutions Architect Public Sector at Merantix Momentum
* [Monika Kwiatkowski](https://www.linkedin.com/in/datascienceberlin/ "https://www.linkedin.com/in/datascienceberlin/") \- Doctoral Researcher in Machine Learning at Technical University Berlin
**19:20** – mAI Programme Outlook
**19:30** – Networking
**20:00** – Performance & Dance
**22:00 – End of Event**
Whether you are actively coding the future or simply curious about the intersection of human and machine, join us on campus to connect with Berlin's brightest tech minds.
We host the opening Event with [Neo4j](https://neo4j.com/ "https://neo4j.com/") as offical Community Partner.
Space is limited. Secure your spot now and be part of the conversation.
Become a Landlord/lady. Werde Vermieter:in. On Demand: MON THR 6pm-7pm R.s.v.p.
We make landladies and landlords. They buy a flat and pay just 1/4. Tenants and tax cuts pay 3/4. It's not a trick. It's government policy. Our Federal Governments, past and present, want taxpayers to become landlords and landladies, buy property, rent it out to tenants and enjoy passive income later. Come check this out. No strings attached. No sales. Just a meet and greet for orientation. And an after work drink.
Wir machen Vermieter. Steuerzahler kaufen eine Wohnung und zahlen dafür nur 1/4. Mieter und Finanzamt zahlen 3/4. Das ist kein Trick. Das ist Politik: Alle Bundesregierungen wollen, dass Steuerzahler Wohnungen kaufen, Mieter reinnehmen und später Beton‑Rente bekommen. Info-Abend nur zur Orientierung. Kucken kostet nichts.
S,U Bahnhof Zoo, Kantstraße 163-165, 10623 Berlin,
Motel One Upper West, 10th floor, exit lift to the right, turn left,
circumvent the sign "vorübergehend geschlossen"
Go justs there. I'll be there Georg Holzach. 0177 8181 900 WhatsApp
Wanna read somethin before: landlord.holza.ch betonrente.holza.ch
AWS UG Berlin Workshop - Amazon Aurora DSQL
Amazon Aurora DSQL is a groundbreaking technology that has a potential to re-define the entire DBMS solutions. Yet there are lots to uncover, lots to learn on the resource!
Therefore, we are inviting you experts on Aurora DSQL with an engaging hands-on workshop to experiment uses of Aurora DSQL, and also learn on the topic.
**Build a Multi-Region, Active-active Rewards App with Aurora DSQL**
In this workshop, get hands-on experience with Amazon Aurora DSQL, a serverless distributed SQL database that delivers active-active high availability.
Learn how to build a retail rewards points application with active-active resiliency across multiple Availability Zones and two Regions. Explore how ACID transactions and active-active replication work in Aurora DSQL. Discover best practices for data model and application design and more. You must bring a laptop to participate.
This is a hands-on workshop with a practical deep dive into Amazon Aurora DSQL. You work through independent tasks that you need to complete, with support of AWS Facilitators.
The event will also begin with an expert talk: "The Evolution of Resilience - Lessons Learned from 25 Years of Infrastructure Architecture" - further details ahead!
**When?** 7th of May\, Thursday\,\| 12:30 \- 18:00
**Where?** AWS Office - BER 21 - Tamara-Danz-Str. 13, 10243 Berlin.
**How?** [Fill out this form ](https://forms.gle/CMoz6qGraX8HBHVU6)to apply. Limited seats are available. You can only participate in the workshop if you receive a confirmation mail from us (**kadir@berlinawsug.de**).
You need to bring your own laptop to this workshop.
❗**Registration - Read Carefully**❗
Participation is free of charge. Your workshop resource usage is also covered. You will be provided a sandbox AWS account. Therefore, you won't need an AWS account!
❗Please register with your full name by filling out this form: [Registration Form](https://forms.gle/CMoz6qGraX8HBHVU6)
❗You need to bring your own laptop to this workshop. Make sure AWS CLI is installed. Contact us if you're not sure how.
❗A confirmation e-mail from Meetup is not relevant. **You can participate only if you receive a confirmation from us: kadir@berlinawsug.de**
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**Additional Information**
**This event is wheelchair friendly.** Help us spread the word, and invite your friends & colleagues! If you're attending with wheelchair and need assistance, please mail us: organisers@berlinawsug.de for further details.
Would you like to host AWS UG Event at your company? [Register here](https://bit.ly/aws-host)
Would you like to speak at AWS UG MeetUp? [Submit your topic here](https://bit.ly/aws-talk)
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Building Scalable Customer Identity Resolution Pipelines on AWS Using AI
Customer identity resolution becomes increasingly complex as organizations scale across multiple systems, regions, and data formats. Traditional rule-based approaches often fail to keep up with data variability, require constant manual tuning, and struggle with real-time processing needs.
This session presents a practical approach to building a scalable identity resolution pipeline using AWS services and modern AI techniques. The architecture combines data ingestion through Amazon S3 and AWS Glue, transformation pipelines using Spark on EMR, and machine learning models deployed via SageMaker for entity matching and standardization. Graph-based relationship modeling is implemented using Amazon Neptune to improve resolution accuracy by incorporating household and shared attribute context.
We will walk through how machine learning models can be used for name and address normalization, how intelligent blocking strategies improve matching efficiency, and how feedback loops can be introduced to continuously improve accuracy. The session also highlights how serverless components such as AWS Lambda can be used for orchestration and real-time processing.
**SPEAKER BIO**
Mosaic Syed is a Senior Data Engineering and Cloud Solutions Architect with over 20 years of experience designing and delivering scalable, secure, and high-performance data solutions across global enterprise environments.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mosaic-basha-syed-92300856
**CALL FOR SPEAKERS**
Learn more: [https://www.awscolumbus.com/get-involved/](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/](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
Manic Mondays with Salsamante Dance Academy
Start your week the right way with Manic Mondays. Giving you an enjoyable Bachata lesson with a push of cool moves.
The second hour has Beginner/Intermediate Salsa on 1. You must understand basic Salsa skills to participate.
730pm-830pm Bachata Cool Moves
830pm-930pm Salsa On 1 (Beginner/Intermediate)
$15 for One Class
$20 for Both
Free Parking & Plenty of Dance Space.
LLM Showdown: ChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini vs Local Models
Join us for a practical, beginner-friendly guide to choosing the right large language model. We’ll compare major models like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Llama, talk about when to use hosted APIs versus local models, and break down the tradeoffs around cost, speed, quality, privacy, context windows, coding ability, and reliability.
You’ll leave with a clearer mental model for picking an LLM based on your actual use case instead of hype, benchmarks, or brand names. No deep AI background required.
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.
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.
COhPy Monthly Meeting
**Improving Office in Franklinton**
Physical location:
Improving Office
330 Rush Alley Suite #150
Columbus, OH 43215
Schedule:
6:00 p.m.: Socialize, eat, and drink. Improving will be providing pizza and beverages.
6:30 to 8:00 pm. Main meeting and presentation(s).
Topic: This month John Lairson will share a notebook describing the Alpaca (Paper) Trading API and discuss different algorithms for evaluating stock trades.
We meet on the last Monday of each Month. Presentations are given by members and friends of this group. If you would like to do a presentation (small or large) on a python topic, please contact Central OH Python at centralohpython@gmail.com























