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The "AI hype" is everywhere, but the challenge is moving from a prompt in a browser to a deployed, functional product. Join GDG Zagreb for a hands-on technical workshop in Google’s #BuildWithAI series. We are moving past basic chat interfaces to build a real-world application layer around Gemini. We’ll start by building a YouTube Summarizer as our reference architecture, then dive into the codebase to refactor and adapt it for your own custom content-processing tools. 🏗️ Technical Roadmap This isn't just a tutorial; it’s a build session. We will focus on the end-to-end lifecycle of an AI microservice: The Model Layer: Authenticating and interfacing with the Gemini API using the Google Gen AI SDK or REST endpoints. The Application Layer: Implementing the logic to handle media inputs, transcripts, and structured prompting. We'll use Python (Flask) for backend and a little bit of HTML for basic frontend. The Deployment Layer: We’ll cover Dockerizing your application and pushing it to Google Cloud Run for a live, scalable, and serverless URL. 🔄 From Reference to Reality Once we have the baseline YouTube Summarizer live, the workshop shifts to a "spinoff" phase. You’ll have the autonomy to refactor the logic to create a specialized tool of your choice, for example: Audio Intelligence: Processing MP3s/Podcasts into structured show notes. Document Synthesis: Building a "TL;DR" engine for long-form research or PDFs. Meeting Insights: Turning raw transcripts into actionable tasks. 💻 Who Should Attend? This workshop is designed for developers and tech professionals who: Have a basic understanding of full-stack development. Want to understand the practical integration of LLMs into production-ready web services. 🎒 Requirements A Google Cloud account (we'll provide credits and instructions on how to activate them). A working computer with wifi A curious mind. ⏱️ The Schedule 18:00: Intro to #BuildWithAI. 18:15: Workshop: Building the Summarizer. (optional) Customization: Refactoring for your own use case. 20:00: Deployment to Cloud Run & (optional) Submission for prizes. 20:30: Networking, Pizza, and Refreshments. 21:00: Closing ceremony & Announcing prize winners. Build it. Ship it. Own it. Space is limited to ensure quality mentoring for all participants. #GDGZagreb #BuildWithAI #GoogleCloud #GeminiAPI #Docker #CloudRun #ZagrebTech Agenda --- Hosted By Mario Vegh, Organizer Petra Brčić, Data Scientist An experienced applied mathematician who has transitioned into IT, still thinking about PhD. Worked as a data scientist in big corp, applying strong mathematical background to extract valuable insights from complex datasets, enabling informed decision-making. Now living freely, leading a startup and building an AI product to improve the lives of 1 in 10 women worldwide, hopefully more. Antonio Hadrović, Organizer Front-end, Figma and Future Ivan Štajcer, Flutter developer Sandro Lovnički, Flutterer Flutterer at SciPly | Organizer at GDG Zagreb and Flutter Croatia | Creator of Beamer package | Co-host of Flutter dArtists | Consultant, speaker and open source contributor Complete your event RSVP here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-zagreb-presents-build-and-deploy-your-own-ai-powered-product/.

Meetup **#1** for **Vibe Coders Croatia** — a community for **builders who ship**. No gatekeeping, no corporate stiffness. Hosted at Reactor Studio with two talks: **Ivan Horvat** on the agentic multi-repo workflow behind a real mobile app — specs, Figma via MCP, cross-repo issue dispatch, daily status sync. **Ivan Klarić** on The Solow Paradox of AI in Software Development — twenty years of building software and the teams that ship it (Google Search, Superbet, Cognism), freshly turned consultant, with a framework for measuring AI's real impact beyond raw velocity. Food, drinks, and the hallway conversations where the next side project starts. 📣 **From Specs to Production: An Agentic Multi-Repo Workflow** A look at how we use AI coding agents as team members across the entire product lifecycle — from writing product specs and designing in Figma via MCP, to automated cross-repo issue dispatch and daily status sync. One docs repo owns the "what and why," one app repo owns the "how," and agents bridge the gap — keeping two repos, multiple tools, and a GitHub Project board in sync without manual handoffs. This talk will walk through the real workflow behind a mobile app built in Reactor Studio, showing how AI agents brainstorm features, generate structured specs, dispatch issues across repos via GitHub Actions, and keep everything tracked automatically. Whether you're a PM, designer, or developer — you'll see how agentic workflows can remove the glue work between your tools and repos. **Ivan Horvat** is a full-stack software engineer with experience delivering product-focused web applications across frontend and backend. With a strong focus on building high-quality, user-centered solutions, he works closely with design and product teams to bridge the gap between idea and implementation. When he's not shipping features, he's exploring how AI coding agents can take over the boring parts of the development lifecycle. * [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivan-horvat-24a4b417b/) 📣 **The Solow Paradox of AI in Software Development** Development velocity is the main metric used to evaluate AI's impact on engineering. After surveying freelancers, agencies, and large product organizations, we found that velocity is only part of the story — and for some teams, not even the most important part. This talk introduces a three-part framework for understanding AI impact across different types of orgs: velocity, completeness, and confidence. After summarizing and explaining these effects, we'll correlate them to existing research, turn them into actionable advice for engineers and their managers, and close with some speculation on where engineering teams — and software development as a discipline — are headed, based on the shifts we've already seen over the last year. **Ivan Klarić** is a software consultant whose career quickly evolved from building software to building the teams that build it. He's worked across startups, scale-ups, big tech, product, and agency environments — co-founding a software agency with a few friends in 2007, spending five years at Google getting Search engineers to care about cross-cutting concerns like annotation quality and freshness, joining Happening/Superbet in 2019 for another five years building a sports engineering team that scaled Superbet from Romania-only to 5+ countries and millions of users, and a short stint at Cognism on a next-generation B2B sales intelligence platform. In early 2026, he joined the dark side and became an independent software consultant. * [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/iklaric/) \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- 🍕 Food and drinks provided. 📹 Not recorded or streamed this time — you have to be in the room. 🗓️ RSVP is mandatory due to limited seating. 📍**Location**: **Zadarska ulica 80, 6th floor — Reactor Studio.** Use the main entrance on the right side of the building. If you're driving, the Lidl parking lot nearby is your best bet, or grab any free spot around the buildings.

**Let’s Talk Data is back - *and this time, we’re hosting you at our Valcon Office in Zagreb.*** We’re kicking off our second meetup, bringing the data community together for an evening focused on what actually works in real-world delivery. 📊 📅 **Date:** Wednesday, 29 April 2026 🕠 **Time:** 17:30 – 20:30 📍 **Location:**[ Valcon Zagreb Office, Heinzelova 70](https://maps.app.goo.gl/8Bmjwa2SzTVPJ7n8A) Join us for an evening of learning, networking, and **honest conversations** about what actually works when **building real-world data pipelines**. **Agenda:** * 17:30 – 18:00 → Arrival, registration & networking * **18:00 – 19:30** → Welcome words, introductions & talks (CRO language) * 19:30 – 20:30 → Networking & informal hangout **Speakers:** * **[Petra Martinjak](https://www.linkedin.com/in/petra-martinjak/)** (in collaboration with **[Marko Horvatinec](https://www.linkedin.com/in/marko-horvatinec-55b583105/)**) Data & Analytics Specialists, Prinicipals, at Valcon **Talk: dbt in Production - What We Built, What We Learned, What AI Brings Next** * **[Matija Draženović](https://www.linkedin.com/in/matija-drazenovic-6bb46910b/)**, Prinicpal Data Engineeer at Valcon **Talk: Databricks at Scale with Terraform Modules** Whether you're part of the data community, working with data, or just curious about how things look in real delivery today, you’re more than welcome. **Follow us and drop by, let’s keep building this data community together.**

Novamira: dare all'AI accesso completo a WordPress. Inventare strumenti per convivere con l'evoluzione. Giovanni Cintolo ci mostra come connettere un agente AI direttamente a WordPress tramite MCP: eseguire PHP, interrogare il database, interagire con plugin e file. Vedremo anche come l'agente AI può creare nuove ability personalizzate per automatizzare i flussi di lavoro del sito. Il tutto reso possibile da Novamira, plugin free e open source. **Agenda** * **18:15** \- Presentazione del Pisa WordPress Meetup \(chi siamo\, cosa facciamo\) * **18:45** \- Presentazione del talk: "Novamira: dare all'AI accesso completo a WordPress\. Inventare strumenti per convivere con l'evoluzione\." * **19:15** \- Osservazioni conclusive * **19:30** \- Domande e risposte * **19:45** \- Proposte per i prossimi meetup * **20:15** \- After Meetup: socializzazione in un ristorante/pizzeria nelle vicinanze **After Meetup** Al termine dell'evento, ci sposteremo presso un ristorante/pizzeria della zona per continuare le discussioni e il networking in un ambiente informale. Tutti sono benvenuti! **Informazioni Utili** * **Dove**: CNA Pisa è nel quartiere "La Fontina" alle porte di Pisa. La località è Ghezzano, nel comune di San Giuliano Terme. È raggiungibile sia a piedi che in bici dal centro, il posto si trova dietro il Carrefour, nella zona dove stanno anche attività come Mercatopoli e CampoBase. * **Accessibilità**: Il luogo è accessibile ai partecipanti con mobilità ridotta. **Partecipa!** Vuoi proporre un talk per il prossimo meetup? Compila ed invia il [modulo di proposta](https://wppisa.it/partecipa-proponi-tu-un-meetup/). **Contatti** * **Slack** ([https://it.wordpress.org/slack/](https://it.wordpress.org/slack/)): [#wppisa](https://italia-wp-community.slack.com/archives/C05EJKEKT6V) * **Email**: [wpmeetuppisa@gmail.com](http://mailto:wpmeetuppisa@gmail.com/) * **Social**: [facebook](https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61553606083235&locale=it_IT), [instagram](https://www.instagram.com/wpmeetuppisa/) * **Whatsapp:** [canale pubblico](https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaMgd0W3QxRwzxDIC11f) * **Sito Web**: [wppisa.it](https://wppisa.it/) **Informazioni Aggiuntive** * **Pubblico di Riferimento:** Sia che tu sviluppi temi o plugin, sia che tu gestisca solo siti o i suoi contenuti, questo incontro è fatto per te. * **Livello delle Competenze**: Che tu sia un veterano alla ricerca delle ultime novità o un nuovo utente ansioso di gettare basi solide, troverai qualcosa adatto a te. * **Cosa Aspettarsi**: Partecipa per apprendere, condividere esperienze e connetterti con la community locale di WordPress.

The "AI hype" is everywhere, but the challenge is moving from a prompt in a browser to a deployed, functional product. Join GDG Zagreb for a hands-on technical workshop in Google’s #BuildWithAI series. We are moving past basic chat interfaces to build a real-world application layer around Gemini. We’ll start by building a YouTube Summarizer as our reference architecture, then dive into the codebase to refactor and adapt it for your own custom content-processing tools. 🏗️ Technical Roadmap This isn't just a tutorial; it’s a build session. We will focus on the end-to-end lifecycle of an AI microservice: The Model Layer: Authenticating and interfacing with the Gemini API using the Google Gen AI SDK or REST endpoints. The Application Layer: Implementing the logic to handle media inputs, transcripts, and structured prompting. We'll use Python (Flask) for backend and a little bit of HTML for basic frontend. The Deployment Layer: We’ll cover Dockerizing your application and pushing it to Google Cloud Run for a live, scalable, and serverless URL. 🔄 From Reference to Reality Once we have the baseline YouTube Summarizer live, the workshop shifts to a "spinoff" phase. You’ll have the autonomy to refactor the logic to create a specialized tool of your choice, for example: Audio Intelligence: Processing MP3s/Podcasts into structured show notes. Document Synthesis: Building a "TL;DR" engine for long-form research or PDFs. Meeting Insights: Turning raw transcripts into actionable tasks. 💻 Who Should Attend? This workshop is designed for developers and tech professionals who: Have a basic understanding of full-stack development. Want to understand the practical integration of LLMs into production-ready web services. 🎒 Requirements A Google Cloud account (we'll provide credits and instructions on how to activate them). A working computer with wifi A curious mind. ⏱️ The Schedule 18:00: Intro to #BuildWithAI. 18:15: Workshop: Building the Summarizer. (optional) Customization: Refactoring for your own use case. 20:00: Deployment to Cloud Run & (optional) Submission for prizes. 20:30: Networking, Pizza, and Refreshments. 21:00: Closing ceremony & Announcing prize winners. Build it. Ship it. Own it. Space is limited to ensure quality mentoring for all participants. #GDGZagreb #BuildWithAI #GoogleCloud #GeminiAPI #Docker #CloudRun #ZagrebTech Agenda --- Hosted By Mario Vegh, Organizer Petra Brčić, Data Scientist An experienced applied mathematician who has transitioned into IT, still thinking about PhD. Worked as a data scientist in big corp, applying strong mathematical background to extract valuable insights from complex datasets, enabling informed decision-making. Now living freely, leading a startup and building an AI product to improve the lives of 1 in 10 women worldwide, hopefully more. Antonio Hadrović, Organizer Front-end, Figma and Future Ivan Štajcer, Flutter developer Sandro Lovnički, Flutterer Flutterer at SciPly | Organizer at GDG Zagreb and Flutter Croatia | Creator of Beamer package | Co-host of Flutter dArtists | Consultant, speaker and open source contributor Complete your event RSVP here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-zagreb-presents-build-and-deploy-your-own-ai-powered-product/.

Meetup **#1** for **Vibe Coders Croatia** — a community for **builders who ship**. No gatekeeping, no corporate stiffness. Hosted at Reactor Studio with two talks: **Ivan Horvat** on the agentic multi-repo workflow behind a real mobile app — specs, Figma via MCP, cross-repo issue dispatch, daily status sync. **Ivan Klarić** on The Solow Paradox of AI in Software Development — twenty years of building software and the teams that ship it (Google Search, Superbet, Cognism), freshly turned consultant, with a framework for measuring AI's real impact beyond raw velocity. Food, drinks, and the hallway conversations where the next side project starts. 📣 **From Specs to Production: An Agentic Multi-Repo Workflow** A look at how we use AI coding agents as team members across the entire product lifecycle — from writing product specs and designing in Figma via MCP, to automated cross-repo issue dispatch and daily status sync. One docs repo owns the "what and why," one app repo owns the "how," and agents bridge the gap — keeping two repos, multiple tools, and a GitHub Project board in sync without manual handoffs. This talk will walk through the real workflow behind a mobile app built in Reactor Studio, showing how AI agents brainstorm features, generate structured specs, dispatch issues across repos via GitHub Actions, and keep everything tracked automatically. Whether you're a PM, designer, or developer — you'll see how agentic workflows can remove the glue work between your tools and repos. **Ivan Horvat** is a full-stack software engineer with experience delivering product-focused web applications across frontend and backend. With a strong focus on building high-quality, user-centered solutions, he works closely with design and product teams to bridge the gap between idea and implementation. When he's not shipping features, he's exploring how AI coding agents can take over the boring parts of the development lifecycle. * [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivan-horvat-24a4b417b/) 📣 **The Solow Paradox of AI in Software Development** Development velocity is the main metric used to evaluate AI's impact on engineering. After surveying freelancers, agencies, and large product organizations, we found that velocity is only part of the story — and for some teams, not even the most important part. This talk introduces a three-part framework for understanding AI impact across different types of orgs: velocity, completeness, and confidence. After summarizing and explaining these effects, we'll correlate them to existing research, turn them into actionable advice for engineers and their managers, and close with some speculation on where engineering teams — and software development as a discipline — are headed, based on the shifts we've already seen over the last year. **Ivan Klarić** is a software consultant whose career quickly evolved from building software to building the teams that build it. He's worked across startups, scale-ups, big tech, product, and agency environments — co-founding a software agency with a few friends in 2007, spending five years at Google getting Search engineers to care about cross-cutting concerns like annotation quality and freshness, joining Happening/Superbet in 2019 for another five years building a sports engineering team that scaled Superbet from Romania-only to 5+ countries and millions of users, and a short stint at Cognism on a next-generation B2B sales intelligence platform. In early 2026, he joined the dark side and became an independent software consultant. * [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/iklaric/) \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- 🍕 Food and drinks provided. 📹 Not recorded or streamed this time — you have to be in the room. 🗓️ RSVP is mandatory due to limited seating. 📍**Location**: **Zadarska ulica 80, 6th floor — Reactor Studio.** Use the main entrance on the right side of the building. If you're driving, the Lidl parking lot nearby is your best bet, or grab any free spot around the buildings.

**Let’s Talk Data is back - *and this time, we’re hosting you at our Valcon Office in Zagreb.*** We’re kicking off our second meetup, bringing the data community together for an evening focused on what actually works in real-world delivery. 📊 📅 **Date:** Wednesday, 29 April 2026 🕠 **Time:** 17:30 – 20:30 📍 **Location:**[ Valcon Zagreb Office, Heinzelova 70](https://maps.app.goo.gl/8Bmjwa2SzTVPJ7n8A) Join us for an evening of learning, networking, and **honest conversations** about what actually works when **building real-world data pipelines**. **Agenda:** * 17:30 – 18:00 → Arrival, registration & networking * **18:00 – 19:30** → Welcome words, introductions & talks (CRO language) * 19:30 – 20:30 → Networking & informal hangout **Speakers:** * **[Petra Martinjak](https://www.linkedin.com/in/petra-martinjak/)** (in collaboration with **[Marko Horvatinec](https://www.linkedin.com/in/marko-horvatinec-55b583105/)**) Data & Analytics Specialists, Prinicipals, at Valcon **Talk: dbt in Production - What We Built, What We Learned, What AI Brings Next** * **[Matija Draženović](https://www.linkedin.com/in/matija-drazenovic-6bb46910b/)**, Prinicpal Data Engineeer at Valcon **Talk: Databricks at Scale with Terraform Modules** Whether you're part of the data community, working with data, or just curious about how things look in real delivery today, you’re more than welcome. **Follow us and drop by, let’s keep building this data community together.**

\*\*\*\* Practice Foreign Languages with Native Speakers \*\*\*\*\* === \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* at the Language Conversation Table \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* === \*\*\*\* Practice Foreign Languages with Native Speakers \*\*\*\*\* === \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* at the Language Conversation Table \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* === The caffe Domenico provides us with a back-room reserved just for this event, where we get to practice Croatian and other languages three hours for free.The entrance is free, but to be sure that Domenico will continue to host us, please have at least one drink when you're coming.At Domenico, Preradovićeva 33/3. See you soon!P.S. IF U HAVE ANY PROBLEMS FINDING THE PLACE BE FREE TO CONTACT THE ORGANIZER: +385953913346 \*\*\*\*\* Vježbajte Strane Jezike sa Izvornim Govornicima \*\*\*\*\* === Za organizaciju događaja se ne mora nista platiti. Radi korištenja prostora u kafiću (koji se nalazi u dvorišnoj zgradi) , bilo bi poželjno kad bi svatko naručio barem jedno piće. Nedjelja 18:00 - 21:00 sati Domenico Preradovićeva 33/3

**IvaDev Shorts #4** 🚀 IvaDev Shorts is BACK! Thrilled to announce we're continuing this incredible series that has been an absolute game-changer for our community. The concept? Every attendee gets the chance to share something they've seen, learned, built — or even broken 💥 Here's what makes it special: ✅ Max 15-minute slots (no minimum!) ✅ Low-pressure, high-energy format ✅ Way less formal than your typical meetup Whether it's a side project demo, a hot take on a new tool, or a spectacular failure story — we want to hear it. Same venue. Same vibes. Let's go.

Dear all, we’re back with the PyData meetups, focused as always on sharing best practice, methodologies, analysis, machine learning systems, .., with the open-source projects of the [NumFOCUS](https://numfocus.org/sponsored-projects) program — but not only! We’ll meet **#InPresence on Thursday, April 30 at 7:00 PM**. We’ll be hosted by [Anda Venice Hostel](https://www.andavenice.com/) in the Medusa Room and, for those who cannot join us, it will also be on YouTube in **#streaming**. 👥 We’ll have two interesting sessions in English 🇬🇧: 🗣 [Tomas Scagliarini](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomscag/) studies the **#analysis** of Earth’s tipping elements that is crucial for understanding the **#stability** of the **#ClimateSystem**. He will discuss how the interdependencies among tipping elements evolve over time under different anthropogenic forcing. 🗣 [Babatunde Monye](https://www.linkedin.com/in/babatundemonye/) will present a **#MultiTimeframe** algorithmic trading **#signal** system built on probabilistic confidence **#model**, combining momentum, adaptive smoothing, and convergence & divergence indicators to generate structured buy/sell signals across multiple asset pairs. And afterwards\, for those who want\, we’ll stay there for \( 🍸 \| 🍺 \) & \( 🍕 \| 🍔 \) and **#networking** until late ‼️ 📽 And if you’d like to share ideas, projects, topics, or propose yourself as the next speaker, here’s the usual [Google form](https://forms.gle/rVMWxFnodHaNb9ab9) or [Sessionize](https://sessionize.com/pydata-venice-2025-12-18) !

Novamira: dare all'AI accesso completo a WordPress. Inventare strumenti per convivere con l'evoluzione. Giovanni Cintolo ci mostra come connettere un agente AI direttamente a WordPress tramite MCP: eseguire PHP, interrogare il database, interagire con plugin e file. Vedremo anche come l'agente AI può creare nuove ability personalizzate per automatizzare i flussi di lavoro del sito. Il tutto reso possibile da Novamira, plugin free e open source. **Agenda** * **18:15** \- Presentazione del Pisa WordPress Meetup \(chi siamo\, cosa facciamo\) * **18:45** \- Presentazione del talk: "Novamira: dare all'AI accesso completo a WordPress\. Inventare strumenti per convivere con l'evoluzione\." * **19:15** \- Osservazioni conclusive * **19:30** \- Domande e risposte * **19:45** \- Proposte per i prossimi meetup * **20:15** \- After Meetup: socializzazione in un ristorante/pizzeria nelle vicinanze **After Meetup** Al termine dell'evento, ci sposteremo presso un ristorante/pizzeria della zona per continuare le discussioni e il networking in un ambiente informale. Tutti sono benvenuti! **Informazioni Utili** * **Dove**: CNA Pisa è nel quartiere "La Fontina" alle porte di Pisa. La località è Ghezzano, nel comune di San Giuliano Terme. È raggiungibile sia a piedi che in bici dal centro, il posto si trova dietro il Carrefour, nella zona dove stanno anche attività come Mercatopoli e CampoBase. * **Accessibilità**: Il luogo è accessibile ai partecipanti con mobilità ridotta. **Partecipa!** Vuoi proporre un talk per il prossimo meetup? Compila ed invia il [modulo di proposta](https://wppisa.it/partecipa-proponi-tu-un-meetup/). **Contatti** * **Slack** ([https://it.wordpress.org/slack/](https://it.wordpress.org/slack/)): [#wppisa](https://italia-wp-community.slack.com/archives/C05EJKEKT6V) * **Email**: [wpmeetuppisa@gmail.com](http://mailto:wpmeetuppisa@gmail.com/) * **Social**: [facebook](https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61553606083235&locale=it_IT), [instagram](https://www.instagram.com/wpmeetuppisa/) * **Whatsapp:** [canale pubblico](https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaMgd0W3QxRwzxDIC11f) * **Sito Web**: [wppisa.it](https://wppisa.it/) **Informazioni Aggiuntive** * **Pubblico di Riferimento:** Sia che tu sviluppi temi o plugin, sia che tu gestisca solo siti o i suoi contenuti, questo incontro è fatto per te. * **Livello delle Competenze**: Che tu sia un veterano alla ricerca delle ultime novità o un nuovo utente ansioso di gettare basi solide, troverai qualcosa adatto a te. * **Cosa Aspettarsi**: Partecipa per apprendere, condividere esperienze e connetterti con la community locale di WordPress.

It feels like we just saw each other 🤷. Join members of the local design and UX community for our monthly breakfast. For May we’re stopping in for Rooh’s popup breakfast/cafe concept. You know someone is getting the lobster yuzu croissant, and that’s not even the prettiest thing on the menu!.

**A Transformative Half-Day Event** Welcome to Confidence Lab, the ultimate experience designed to help you step into your most confident self. This half-day event is packed with actionable strategies, inspiring sessions, and opportunities to connect with like-minded individuals who are ready to invest in their personal and professional growth. Whether you’re looking to advance in your career, deepen your self-belief, or simply embrace new challenges, Confidence Lab is your starting point. **What You’ll Experience** **Your Confidence Lab ticket includes:** * **Engaging Speaker Sessions**: Learn from experts about harnessing confidence in your career, relationships, and everyday life. * **Interactive Experiences:** Participate in dynamic activities designed to help you step into your most confident self. * **In-Depth Audience Q&A:** Get direct insights from speakers as they answer your most pressing questions about building confidence and stepping into leadership. * **Networking Opportunities**: Connect with a supportive community of professionals and confidence enthusiasts. **2026 Speaker Sessions:** * **Seeing Clearly** Understand how you show up - and what’s been getting in the way. * **Confidence in Relationship** Communicate, navigate conflict, and build trust more effectively. * **Sustainable Agency** Learn how to lead without burning out. Your energy is part of the strategy. * **Confidence in Service** Align how you show up with the impact you actually want to have. **This Is For You If…** * You’re ready to take up more space in your work or life * You want to communicate with clarity and confidence * You’re stepping into (or preparing for) leadership * You’re done second-guessing yourself **Our Speakers** **Lachandra Baker** Founder of LBB Edutainment and the kind of person who makes you realize you’ve been confusing confidence with performance your whole life. Lachandra blends psychology, research, and radical humanity to help individuals and teams stop code-switching their way through the day and start showing up as someone they actually recognize. Expect to be challenged, affirmed, and genuinely seen - sometimes all in the same breath. **Annette Santiago Reyes** Annette has a rare talent: she makes the way you communicate feel like a discovery, not a critique. A connection catalyst and culture strategist, she helps people understand why they show up the way they do, and how to bridge the gap between intention and impact. Whether you're navigating change, life’s challenges, or simply trying to better understand yourself and others. Annette gives you the language and the lens to get there. **Elizabeth Wangugi** Creator of The Nap Concert and the RESTOR™ framework, Elizabeth is here to tell you that rest is not a reward - it’s a strategy. Rooted in neuroscience and restorative practice, her work helps high-achievers stop running on fumes and start leading from a place of actual capacity. If your calendar is full and your tank is empty, Elizabeth might be the most important person you hear from at Confidence Lab. **Stephanie Andrews** Founder of Social Black Butterfly Training & Consulting, Stephanie knows what it takes to lead through complexity because she’s done it across social services, healthcare, and operations. She specializes in succession strategy and leadership development, equipping leaders to build trust, navigate the hard moments, and leave something worth inheriting. Stephanie doesn’t just develop leaders. She develops the kind of leaders people actually want to follow. **Lillian Morales-Laster** SVP Human Resources Director at United Midwest Savings Bank and Executive Director of the Empowering Latinas Leadership Academy (ELLA). Lillian has spent her career combining her passion for equity and inclusion with her experience in human resources to lead teams and organizations in the development of supportive work environments. She leads with a vision of ensuring Latinas' voices are included in crucial decision-making processes, because for Lillian, ELLA is more than just a program. It's a vibrant community of hermanas supporting and uplifting each other as they navigate their paths to leadership. A Columbus Business First Community Champion and Distinguished Hispanic Ohioan, her commitment to empowering others shows up everywhere she goes. **Rachyl Kershaw** Founder of Greater Columbus Consulting and the architect behind the Confidence Lab Annual Summit, Rachyl has a gift for cutting through the noise, helping high-achievers stop performing success and start living it. She asks the questions most people are afraid to, creates space for honest reckoning, and somehow makes the hard work feel energizing. If you’ve ever wondered why doing everything right still feels like something’s missing, you’re in exactly the right room. **Why Confidence Lab?** Confidence is the foundation for success in every area of life. Whether you’re navigating a career change, launching a business, or striving for personal growth, building your confidence is the key to unlocking your higher purpose. This is your chance to invest in yourself and start living boldly. **Join Us on May 4** Confidence Lab is more than just an event - it’s a movement. Step into your power, embrace your potential, and make this the year you thrive. Secure your spot today and take the first step toward a more confident YOU. Cost should never be a barrier to growth. If you'd like to request a complimentary community ticket, reach out to us at [hello@confidencelab.org](hello@confidencelab.org), no explanation needed. Read more and see additional ticketing options at [https://confidencelab.org/](https://confidencelab.org/)

Our monthly PHP meetup. A virtual shindig courtesy of Zoom. Check back here for the details around 6:15 pm

**We are expanding our creative programming opportunities with Queer Quills, a quiet writing and sharing space. Queer Quills features some prompts, supplies and friendly faces to help get some inspiration or feedback for your writing. Hope to see you there!**

Come out to Improving for our monthly iOS and Mac meetings. This Month's Presentation: Nothing yet. (You should volunteer). What is Cocoaheads (http://cocoaheads.org/)? CocoaHeads is a group devoted to discussion of Apple Computer's Cocoa Framework for programming on MacOS X and iOS (including the iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch). During monthly meetings, members present on their projects and offer tutorials on various programming topics. What is BuckeyeCocoa (http://buckeyecocoa.org/)? BuckeyeCocoa is a group of Objective-C/Swift developers/enthusiasts. We host monthly Cocoaheads and near-weekly NSCoder meetings in Columbus, Ohio. The meetings are free to attend. Presentations! Presenters welcome! We are always in need of people willing to present material. Any Swift and/or Objective-C related topic is welcome. Times can be 5 minutes (i.e. lightning talks) to a maximum of 2 hours. Interested? Contact info is on the BuckeyeCocoa website. To volunteer for a presentation contact us at @BuckeyeCocoa on Twitter. Follow us on Twitter! @BuckeyeCocoa (https://twitter.com/#!/Buckeyecocoa/) For more information: http://buckeyecocoa.org/

**URGENT NOTICE: VENUE AND FORMAT CHANGE -** due to our agreement with Alive614 we are getting bumped from the space this Friday and will instead be meeting at Nick's house. Now our format will be "Nick @ Night + Fire + Freestyle." That means A.) No formal wine tasting, B.) Bring a bottle of wine to share and C.) Wear fire retardant clothing so you don't burst into flames while standing by the bonfire AND D.) braving the risk of being redundant, we will be meeting at Nick's House. **Door Charge: *$0*.** There is no door charge this night. **SIDE NOTE:** New members are welcome to ALL our Friday night wine tastings. You are still welcome. **Wine**: Please do bring a bottle. **Parking**: Street parking only. This is a residential area. **Glasses**: …will be provided. Please note that after the wine tasting, the glasses need to be returned to the boxes at the service table. Please be gentle, our glasses are fragile. Uh, they are made of glass! **Food**: You are welcome to bring a snack to share. It is not required. Most people do though. If no one brings anything, there will be nothing. **Code of Conduct**: Though mostly understood, it’s still worth mentioning. We don’t have rules per se, but we highly discourage the following topics of discussion because they are likely to incite anti-social responses - Sex, Politics, Religion. Please don’t mistake this as an attempt to limit your free speech rights but rather a guide to a place and time for appropriate discussions. **After the lights go out**: After the last sip of wine, when we clean up and turn the lights out, just go home. Call an Uber if needed, but please don't sleep in Nick's back yard. His neighbors are friendly, but let's not push it. Again, We look forward to meeting new members and reuniting with old friends. Sincerely, ***Paul Uttermohlen***, **Red 1 Realty** *Your Hilliard Wine Club Host*

Want to be a speaker? submit your talk to our Call for Presenters!!! https://sessionize.com/cbus-hug-2026/