Natural Language Processing

Hi Deep Learners, We are happy to announce our next Vienna Deep Learning Meetup on **May 19** at Bosch. Our topics this time are: Improved Optimizers for Deep Learning and Automatic Speech Recognition in Air Traffic Management. \*\*\* **Agenda:** * 18:15 Arrival * 18:30 **Introduction** by the meetup organizers * **Welcome** by the host: Bosch * 18:45 **Talk 1:** **Momentum, Preconditioning, and Beyond: Practical Advances in Optimization** by Ionut-Vlad Modoranu (*ISTA*) * 19:30 **Announcements** * **Networking Break** * 20:00 **Talk 2:** **Cleared for Takeoff: Automatic Speech Recognition in Air Traffic Management** by Christian Sobtzick & Sahebeh Dadboud *(Frequentis)* * 20:45 **Networking** * \~21:30 **Wrap up & End** \*\*\* **Talk Details:** \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- **Talk 1:** **Momentum, Preconditioning, and Beyond: Practical Advances in Optimization** Modern Deep Learning optimization is largely dominated by first-order methods such as Adam, yet their limitations in memory usage, scalability, and curvature awareness motivate the search for improved alternatives. This talk provides a practical perspective on optimization, starting from the roles of momentum and preconditioning and extending to recent advances that go beyond standard adaptive methods. We present techniques that improve optimization along three key axes: memory, structure, and computational efficiency. In particular, we introduce MicroAdam, a memory-efficient variant of Adam based on compressed optimizer states; Trion, a low-rank method that replaces costly SVD/QR projections with efficient, rank-independent alternatives; and DASH, a GPU-efficient implementation of Shampoo that accelerates second-order preconditioning via improved parallelization and fast matrix inverse root approximations. Together, these methods illustrate how careful algorithmic and systems-level design can overcome the practical limitations of existing optimizers, offering a path toward scalable, memory-efficient, and high-performance training beyond Adam. **About the speaker:** Ionut-Vlad Modoranu is a PhD student at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), specializing in efficient optimization for Deep Learning. His research focuses on reducing the memory usage and computational cost while maintaining the performance, including the development of practical optimizers for large-scale models, with publications at top tier international conferences. **Talk 2:** **Cleared for Takeoff: Automatic Speech Recognition in Air Traffic Management** Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has made tremendous progress in recent years. However, its deployment in safety‑critical operational environments poses a fundamentally different set of challenges compared to demonstration systems or research prototypes. In this talk, we present how speech‑to‑text models are used in a real Air Traffic Management (ATM) product at Frequentis. We walk through the end‑to‑end lifecycle of an ASR system: how training data is collected and curated, how models are selected and evaluated, and what it takes to deploy and operate them reliably for customers in a regulated, safety‑critical domain. Beyond the models themselves, we discuss practical challenges from bringing ASR from research into production, where reliability and trust matter as much as accuracy. **About the Speakers:** Sahebeh (Saba) Dadboud is an Expert Data Scientist at the Frequentis AI Competence Centre. With over eight years of experience in the tech industry, she specializes in bridging Deep Learning, MLOps, and product development to build trustworthy AI for safety-critical systems. At Frequentis, she plays a pivotal role in driving company-wide AI initiatives, supporting the adoption of advanced technologies in domains where reliability, safety, and strict regulatory constraints are absolutely critical. She holds a Master’s degree in Computational Science from the University of Vienna. Christian Sobtzick is Audio Expert at Frequentis, leading the HET Audio Competence Centre. He is responsible for improving audio quality across all Frequentis voice communication products, drawing on more than 15 years of professional experience. In addition, he supports product development related to automatic speech recognition and contributes to research projects, such as the FFG “Next Generation Safety” project, which aimed to enable AI‑based automation in Air Traffic Management. His background is the field of acoustics, including electroacoustic transducers, acoustic measurements, and signal processing. He holds an MSc in Electrical Engineering and Audio Engineering from Graz University of Technology and the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. We are looking forward to welcoming you at our next meetup. Your VDLM organizer team.

This time, it’s all about **Agentic Coding**! Whether you are a pure vibecoder building entire apps with natural language or a seasoned dev architecting autonomous agent loops, we want to hear your story. The session is designed to be accessible for newcomers, while still providing depth and practical value for people already working with AI tools. **🕒 Date:** May 19th, 18:00 📍 **Location:** Walls.io Vienna Office **How to get there:** Schönbrunner Strasse 213-215 (close to U4/U6 Längenfeldgasse). Follow the Meetup-Signs! Enter the inner yard through the gas-station, then go up to the 3rd floor! ([https://share.freshvanroot.com/LBYdlr3Z](https://share.freshvanroot.com/LBYdlr3Z)) **Agenda:** TBA **Confirmed Speakers:** **[Edouard Maleix](https://www.linkedin.com/in/edouard-maleix/) \- How AI\-First Dev Teams Build Collective Intelligence** Edouard has been watching teams accumulate agent rules, notes, and feedback controls that never quite add up to a real system. Agents repeat mistakes across sessions, guidance grows without being validated, and what gets built is instructions, not reusable knowledge. His talk is about closing that gap: giving agents their own identity, signed commits, and reasoning linked to every change. When something breaks, the agent captures it, links it to the fix, compares it with lessons from other agents and humans, and feeds what survives back into future work. The goal is making mistakes compound into collective intelligence instead of disappearing into chat history. *** **[Andrew Demczuk](https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-demczuk-4038a217/) \- Claws Across the Internet** Andrew is an OpenClaw contributor and AI battle arena builder who has spent his time figuring out what happens when you stop thinking about single agents and start connecting agents with agents. His talk is about AWA: Agents with Agents. When one agent can securely spawn and coordinate subagents across the internet, the force multiplier changes the game entirely. Andrew has stress-tested this in some of the more demanding environments imaginable: competitive AI battle arenas like CodeClash and BitGN, where agents don't just assist, they compete. The talk covers what agentic coordination actually looks like in practice, what secure subagent spawning requires, and what builders can take from the competitive AI space into their own workflows. *** **[David Wischnewski](https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-wischnewski/) \- Vibe Coding vs\. Agentic Engineering** David isn't a developer. He's a builder who uses AI to turn ideas into working tools, workflows, and products. That puts him in an interesting position to compare two distinct ways of working with AI: vibe coding, which is fast and chaotic, and agentic engineering, which starts to become reliable. In this talk, he shares what he's learned building with AI as a non-engineer: where coding agents genuinely help, where they break, and which habits separate a fun demo from something you can actually trust. *** **[Karim El Kaddioui](https://www.linkedin.com/in/karim-elkaddioui/) \- AI Agents in Knowledge Work** Karim is the FP&A Team Lead at Meister, and he's increasingly adding terminal-based AI agents into new and existing workflows. Using Codex, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork, he runs data analysis, builds decks, and manages his task tracker without touching most of the traditional tooling. This talk is a practitioner's view of agentic coding outside of software development: what it actually looks like when a finance professional runs agents in the terminal, where it works well, and what it takes to get there. *** **[Daniel Siegl](https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-siegl-b5903a24/) \- The Worktree Multiverse: Where AI Agents Build Software** Daniel Siegl is talking about infrastructure: specifically, the Git primitives that agentic development needs. Worktrees and Git notes have been around for years and mostly ignored. Agentic software engineering makes them essential. When autonomous agents work in parallel, managing state, history, and collaboration across sessions requires more than a single checkout and a commit message. This talk revisits these underused Git concepts and explains why they're suddenly at the center of orchestrating agents that build software. *** We’re excited to share that [SmartGit](http://clicks.meetup.com/ls/click?upn=u001.NY3oBFzZ5LJDG7YcnfSAKsNQOkaxabS6VuUPrlnpHzu8EAPOAc2-2FLyeGuorvSoWce0k5_ObpWV8nzFc9vT8vR4IfdMjR3-2BTWThn0qk33fQ5q-2F29EJaEeD0L-2FPDytPRQrB-2BsUDtKMeGzaIdwbp1FGmo9PE6l49ZAfxZLiwTQ6s9XbkH6uGC6wbt6-2FQCnYmAv3xTHdEc3XPhoZ-2FFXWDSJekk42IULJ-2FF1dAKsajRzahm-2ByuJNbvNnXlHG-2BKddt78zjTwDUCJdBWXmpvSt6VBHSKkXiZ-2BuDokbOEu1-2FP3smPBaMOgImWp0kO-2F3eildobgO6ZZCUNgBPSQ-2BA53lIskQE8Frk49nQGvQYyJW340Lb-2B949yK0O5TjB7rew08D8D4hhaBFwRgpu92uHAjuGR5tkUwhuajsTo6s97LhPUvYBmSmuon5uKncF73Dk1XMPVFbj7uuGbSChlcew2bRo7kmea1bfYMg5o-2BQWm1rzsnbrthIndgl0h2pPhCe9OMftpbr-2BWtOZYZfZiM2Rz1ThF9ttB6B7IUNHVrnBofXkzPZVFJ2tI-2FqkqTDyQuO3Gljd7CW7c1Cq8Hj3NOvEy4HVtxUoi3iCzrpWG-2Fm2p7oRPL0b6BlBI-2FoMX4kBoLoXPIU6WbWhY-2BgvrYNSsmcrqSxnSXUeY4RwFYdWiBhSfj5XUfmcaRR8YLwil8xH-2Bh0LXpulKdQlBMfXb7L32e1OagLarUjPXyj-2BAdDilcZ82siah8dJI9hfg6Xj2R7rhxsEMYuvJCKiWRYfocmxcuvZz2SyKPLThxkH-2Feg-3D-3D) has joined this edition of Vibecoding Vienna as a sponsor, alongside Walls.io and [Fresh van Root](http://clicks.meetup.com/ls/click?upn=u001.NY3oBFzZ5LJDG7YcnfSAKtyU3FvSAroXsYeII059Pq-2FwFUZdDRWR4xSsOgUJwveTzrO2_ObpWV8nzFc9vT8vR4IfdMjR3-2BTWThn0qk33fQ5q-2F29EJaEeD0L-2FPDytPRQrB-2BsUDtKMeGzaIdwbp1FGmo9PE6l49ZAfxZLiwTQ6s9XbkH6uGC6wbt6-2FQCnYmAv3xTHdEc3XPhoZ-2FFXWDSJekk42IULJ-2FF1dAKsajRzahm-2ByuJNbvNnXlHG-2BKddt78zjTwDUCJdBWXmpvSt6VBHSKkXiZ-2BuDokbOEu1-2FP3smPBaMOgImWp0kO-2F3eildobgO6ZZCUNgBPSQ-2BA53lIskQE8Frk49nQGvQYyJW340Lb-2B949yK0O5TjB7rew08D8D4hhaBFwRgpu92uHAjuGR5tkUwhuajsTo6s97LhPUvYBmSmuon5uKncF73Dk1XMPVFbj7uuGbSChlcew2bRo7kmea1bfYMg5o-2BQWm1rzsnbrthIndgl0h2pPhCe9OMftpbr-2BWtOZYZfZiM2Rz1ThF9ttB6B7IUNHVrnBofXkzPZVFJ2tI-2FqkqTDyQuO3Gljd7CW7c1Cq8Hj3NOvEy4HVtxUoi3iCzrpWG-2Fm2p7oRPL0b6BlBI-2FoMX4kBoLoXPIU6WbWhY-2BgvrUUsBkP0lI2pjjLQE1f844pTcm9yC4hHRLy89KKIj9IaVC9OAriE7cvq-2FU3qbtr6mDV-2Fw-2BaSnypyyvgqqKmQisDjktez0D-2BMcOh6GIiLvpGGyj7IMM-2BPiVVneDtzAJGa0NAdjzch-2FcZiwDt2tddQXUw-3D-3D)! **Want to speak at our next event? The topic of our next meetup is Vibecoding in Marketing. How do marketers of all types use vibecoding in their roles?** **Apply** ➡️ [https://forms.gle/z3GwEheRycJGMfZ6A](https://forms.gle/z3GwEheRycJGMfZ6A)

Komm am Dienstagabend von **18:00 bis 20:00 Uhr** zum English Café im Vienna Mosaik! In entspannter und freundlicher Atmosphäre kannst du kostenlos dein Englisch üben, neue Leute kennenlernen und gute Gespräche führen. Egal ob Anfänger:in oder ob du deine Englischkenntnisse verbessern möchtest – alle sind herzlich willkommen. Es gibt Gruppengespräche, Gesprächsimpulse und viel Raum für lockeren Austausch. Snacks und Getränke stehen bereit, also komm vorbei und genieße eine schöne gemeinsame Zeit. Wir freuen uns auf dich! \~\~\~\~\~\~\~\~\~\~\~\~\~\~\~\~\~\~\~\~ Join us Tuesday evening from **18:00 to 20:00** for English Café at Vienna Mosaik! This is a relaxed and welcoming space to practice speaking English at no cost. Meet new people and enjoy meaningful conversations in a friendly atmosphere. Whether you’re a beginner or want to sharpen your English skills, everyone is welcome. We’ll have group discussions, conversation prompts, and plenty of space to chat naturally. Snacks and drinks are provided, so come as you are, grab a cup, and enjoy a fun time together. We’re looking forward to seeing you!

Join us for a deep dive into DeFi, blockchain analytics, and real-world blockchain applications. ABC Research is excited to present the **ABC Research Track** as part of the **Vienna Blockchain Week 2026 – VBW26**. Building on the success of the Austrian Blockchain Conference, the new ABC Research Track @VBW26 marks its natural evolution. In collaboration with Vienna Blockchain Week, we are pleased to integrate our Austrian Blockchain Conference into the broader VBW26 program, creating an even more impactful platform for exchange and innovation. Join us for a gathering that brings together players from academia, business, and the blockchain community to exchange ideas, spark collaboration, and explore emerging opportunities. This event fosters meaningful dialogue across disciplines, bridging research, innovation, and real-world application. Be part of a forward-thinking conversation shaping the future of decentralized technologies. **Why attend the ABC Research Track @ VBW26:** * **Learn:** Gain valuable insights into the latest developments in DeFi and blockchain analytics. * **Discover:** Discover real-world applications of blockchain technology across industries. * **Connect:** Benefit from cross-sector perspectives that connect academia, business, and innovation. * **Network:** Expand your network by engaging directly with academics and blockchain pioneers shaping the next market cycle. * **Party:** Join the legendary VBW Afterparty from 19:00 onward—because the conversations and connections continue well beyond the conference. **Themes & Sessions – 2026 Edition** * **The New DeFi Stack: Where Real Value Is Emerging** An exploration of the latest trends shaping decentralized finance, highlighting where sustainable value is being created and how the DeFi ecosystem is evolving beyond speculation. * **The Future of Blockchain Analytics: From Strengthening Financial Oversight to Improving Investment Decisions** This panel examines how advanced blockchain analytics is transforming transparency, compliance, and risk management across financial systems. It will also explore how data-driven insights empower smarter investment strategies and more informed decision-making in an increasingly complex digital asset landscape. * **Outside the Bubble: Real-World Applications of Blockchain Technology** A practical look at how blockchain is being applied beyond the crypto space, showcasing real-world use cases and the tangible impact of decentralized technologies across industries. **Event Schedule:** * **Tuesday, May 19:** 13:00 – 19:00 \| ABC Research Track @ DC3 * **Tuesday, May 19:** from 19:00 \| Event Closing \| Legendary Afterparty @ DC3 **Check out the full program here:** [https://viennablockchainweek.org/agenda](https://viennablockchainweek.org/agenda "https://viennablockchainweek.org/agenda") **⚠️ Tickets for the ABC Research Track are FREE but capacity is limited:** To ensure high-quality networking, tickets are strictly limited. Book Now. **⚠️ Please note that tickets for the ABC Research Track are only valid for the ABC Research Track and the Event Closing in DC3**. If you plan to attend the full VBW26, please book your ticket here: [https://www.eventbrite.at/e/vienna-blockchain-week-vbw26-tickets-1979158837360?aff=erelexpmlt#location](https://www.eventbrite.at/e/vienna-blockchain-week-vbw26-tickets-1979158837360?aff=erelexpmlt#location "https://www.eventbrite.at/e/vienna-blockchain-week-vbw26-tickets-1979158837360?aff=erelexpmlt#location") *For full information about the Vienna Blockchain Week 2026 visit [https://viennablockchainweek.org/](https://viennablockchainweek.org/ "https://viennablockchainweek.org/").*

Are you interested in improving your presentation skills? Want to become more comfortable speaking in front of people? Do you feel the need to enhance your creativity and connect better with your audience? Here, you'll have the opportunity to practice your presentation skills in a fun and creative environment like never before! This evening, you will have the opportunity to participate at an event called PowerPoint-Karaoke: presenting slides that you've never seen before. There will be random short presentations but also special group presentations created for this event. And if you want to challenge yourself even more then there is the option of grabbing some additional feelings from the challenge box 😊. Even if this sounds daunting, we encourage you to embrace the challenge and experiment in a fun and safe environment where you're allowed to fail! You're also welcome to join regardless of whether you want to present or simply observe. Expect a pressure-free atmosphere that encourages everyone to at least try and tap into their talent, as it's bound to be an enjoyable experience filled with improvisation. *** We'll meet at **Quentin Kaffeebar** in Kaiserstraße 96. We'll be there from 7:00pm onwards and begin with the event at 7:15pm. You'll find us in the back where the beamer is. The event lasts around three hours with a 15-minute break in between. *** We are a group of people who organize monthly Social Adventures, everyone is free to join. This event will be held in English, please respect each other and speak English only. German events will be organized in the future as well. ### 📢 **Stay Updated** Join our Telegram to keep up with all upcoming events: 👉 **t.me/czc_vienna**

**Walk & Talk** Willst du auch mehr Bewegung in dein Leben bringen? Und dich dabei noch gut unterhalten, so dass die Zeit verfliegt? Dann bist du hier genau richtig, denn mir geht es genauso. Alleine ist langweilig und die Zeit vergeht nicht, daher hab ich mir Walk & Talk überlegt. Inspiriert wurde ich durch die Walk & Talk Gruppe in Hamburg, wo ich mehrere Male dabei war als ich in Hamburg lebte. Unterschiedliche Menschen treffen sich einmal in der Woche für einen flotten Spaziergang und unterhalten sich dabei. Ich liebe es neue Menschen kennenzulernen und auch bekannte Gesichter wiederzusehen, dann geh ich ganz nebenbei und das macht auch noch Spaß.😊 **Walk:** Wir brauchen einfach regelmäßige Bewegung und ich weiß selbst, wie schwierig es ist, diese in den Alltag zu integrieren. Deshalb ist dieser Walk genau richtig. Nach diesem Spaziergang fühlst du dich einfach wohl, fit und entspannt. **Talk:** Das Reden kommt ganz von selbst beim Gehen. Du kannst über alles reden, egal, ob privates oder berufliches, alles was sich ergibt ist willkommen. Und wenn du keinen Bock aufs Reden hast, dann gehst du alleine, auch das ist völlig in Ordnung. **Wie das ganze abläuft:** * Die Teilnahme ist völlig kostenlos. * Wo: U6 Spittelau (im Freien), Richtung Donaukanal, Ausgang Josef-Holaubek-Platz, direkt vor dem Fernwärme-Turm (https://maps.app.goo.gl/XwAayz4FQe2EW8WK9) Wenn du mit der U4 kommst, geh bitte zum Hauptgebäude, wo die Züge und die U6 fahren. * Wann: Wir treffen uns dienstags um 13 Uhr, egal, ob bei Regen, Sturm und Kälte oder bestem Sonnenschein – Walk & Talk findet nahezu JEDE Woche statt außer ich bin mal im Urlaub. * Wir starten pünktlich und beginnen mit einer kurzen Vorstellungsrunde. * Wie gehen am Donaukanal entlang von Höhe Spittelau bis zum Schwedenplatz und zurück. * Ca. 7 Kilometer sind wir unterwegs und unterhalten uns dabei mit interessanten Menschen. Dabei kannst du neue Bekanntschaften schließen, dich inspirieren lassen, von Projekten erzählen oder einfach nur smalltalken und die frische Luft genießen. Alles ist erlaubt. * Nach ca. 1,75 Stunden sind wir wieder am Ausgangspunkt zurück. * Bei einer Teilnahme von über 5 Personen gehen wir in Paaren und wechseln diese alle 10 Min. Wenn du aber lieber alleine gehst, ist das auch vollkommen in Ordnung. * Für alle, die einfach mal etwas Neues ausprobieren wollen. **Bist du bereit?** Dann komm mit! **Start bei U6 Spittelau Ausgang Donaukanal** Nochmal: um **PUNKT 13.00 Uhr dort sein**, denn **nach kurzen Vorstellungsrunde gehen wir gleich los. Sei pünktlich, denn die Gruppe wartet nicht.** Du musst nichts vorbereiten oder dich gar anmelden, komm einfach vorbei. Ausreden gibt es nicht. Geh mit und freu dich auf eine tolle neue Erfahrung. **Wer macht es?** Ich bin Marie Meyer-Marktl und Ideengeberin, Host und Organisatorin von Walk & Talk. Ich unterstütze seit 2019 Menschen dabei Freude ins Arbeitsleben zu bekommen und bin Business und Life Coachin. „Strahle, wenn du an deine Arbeit denkst“, ist meine Vision für jedermann und jedefrau. Privat merkte ich, dass ich endlich wieder mehr Bewegung brauche – und das klappt am besten gemeinsam mit anderen Menschen. Sei dabei bei Walk & Talk und bring Bewegung in dein Leben. **Do you speak English? Then welcome to Walk & Talk!** This event is suited for all people who like to connect to other people and like to walk. The beauty of this regular event is that you are in the nature and you walk around 7 kilometers. In the meantime, if you feel for it, you talk, if not, you just walk. You do something for your health, get to know new people and you will feel much better. It’s FREE, all you need to do is to show up this Tuesday at no later than 1 pm at the U6 Spittelau exit to Donaukanal.

🎉 Get ready for the **Angular Vienna x MRDS Vienna Joint May Meetup!** This time we partnered up with our friends from **MRDS Vienna** ([meetup.com/reactive-vienna](meetup.com/reactive-vienna)) to bring you an amazing evening of **talks, networking and spring energy**! Expect deep dives, practical insights, and plenty of time to connect with the community. **What's on the agenda:** 🗣️ Expert speakers 🎓 Knowledge sharing on the latest in Angular 🎫 Raffles with cool prizes 👥 Meet old and new friends from the community 🍻 Free drinks 🍕 Free food 🎉 Open-end networking ✔️ Just RSVP! **Location:** LEAN-Coders, Hainburger Straße 33 **Agenda:** 18:00 – Warm-up 18:15 – Meetup Intro 18:30 – Dominic Bachmann 19:15 – Pizza Break (30 mins) 19:45 – Robert Maier-Silldorff 20:30 – Break (15 mins) 20:45 – Raffle 21:00 - Outro & Open-End **\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- 🗣️🗣️🗣️ Talks 🗣️🗣️🗣️ \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-** **Robert Maier\-Silldorff \- iteratec \| [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-maier-silldorff-71464ab2/)** **Microfrontend-Plugin-System: Architecture, Challenges, and Lessons Learned** This talk shares the story behind a microfrontend-based plugin system we built for a large enterprise customer. I’ll cover why we chose a plugin architecture, how the system is structured, key challenges we faced and how the solution has evolved over time—ending with lessons learned for building extensible frontend platforms. **Dominic Bachmann - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dominic-bachmann-645267319/)** **From Typos to Type Safety — Building a Typed Router for Angular** Route enums, path constant objects, flat route trees to avoid nesting complexity — Angular developers have invented all kinds of workarounds to bring some safety to navigation. But they all share the same problem: a second source of truth that you maintain by hand. In this talk, I'll share how I built angular-typed-router, a drop-in replacement that infers every valid path directly from your route configuration. You'll see the developer experience in action — full autocomplete, compile-time validation — and learn how interface augmentation, template literal types, and recursive conditionals make it work at zero runtime cost. **\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-❤️🤝❤️ Sponsors ❤️🤝❤️ \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-** **PushBased** PushBased is a close-knit group of IT experts offering their knowledge and services in #Angular #RxJS #NestJS #JavaScript #TypeScript #webperf #Nx and more. [https://push-based.io/](https://push-based.io/) **Lean Coders** Special thanks to the Lean Coders team for sponsoring the meetup venue! Check them out at lean-coders.at **\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-** 🎫🎫🎫 **Raffle Raffle Raffle** 🎫🎫🎫 **\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-** As always, everyone who asks a good question during the talks receives a raffle ticket. Win JetBrains licenses and other cool prizes! **\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- 😇😎🥳 Code of Conduct 🥳 😎😇 \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-** We value your safety. Please check our Code of Conduct here: [http://bit.ly/angular-austria-coc](http://bit.ly/angular-austria-coc) **\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- 🎥 LIVESTREAM 🎥 \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-** The event will be live streamed on the [Push-Based YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/@push-based). **\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- 📋 FEEDBACK 📋 \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-** Help us improve by sharing your feedback after the event!

Hello ! and welcome to our international family in Vienna! [[[Click this Whatsapp Groupchat link to join]](https://chat.whatsapp.com/Jga77Y4PCAJF4byfaVtOeZ) This isn’t just a language exchange — it’s a lively gathering of globally minded souls in their 20s and 30s who love new experiences. We meet every Saturday at 7:30 PM in the heart of the city. Whether you’re a backpacker passing through or a Viennese local curious about the world, you'll find open minds and open hearts here. Come practice new languages, share your culture, and make authentic connections.

Every year we host a free pre-event to the [CodeCrafts](https://code-crafts.com/) developer conference! This year we are bringing you **[Oliver Drotbohm](https://sessionize.com/s/odrotbohm/it-takes-two-to-tango-designing-module-interaction/84364)** of the **Spring open source engineering team** as a guest speaker from the conference. To celebrate this event we are joining forces with the Meetups [Wien Software Architecture Meetup](https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/wien-software-architecture-meetup-group/) and [Softwarearchitektur Wien](https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/softwarearchitektur-wien/) for an epic Meetup mashup 😎 🚀. Besides that one of our AI Experts from **SQUER** will dive into **Spec Driven Development!** **THIS MEETUP WILL BE IN-PERSON** 🕺 **What to expect:** 🗣️ Two or three speakers 👥 Meet old and new friends from the community 🍕 Free food 🎉 Open-end and free drinks afterwards ✔️ Just RSVP! Agenda: * 17:30 - Doors open * 18:00 - Welcome by SQUER and andamp * 18:15 - First talk * 19:00 - Break * 19:15 - Second talk * 20:00 - Food, Drinks & Networking * 21:50 - Doors closing 👂 **Talks:** 🗣️ Philipp Piwowarsky - **Spec Driven Development in the Wild** 🗣️ Oliver Drotbohm - **It Takes Two to Tango – Designing Module Interactions in Modulithic Spring Applications** 🧑‍💻 **Speakers:** **Philipp Piwowarsky** will talk about our key learnings and observations on the sociotechnical impact of Spec Driven Development in real-world enterprise projects.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ **Oliver Drotbohm** has been a member of the Spring open source engineering team for 15 years. His work focused on software architecture, DDD, REST, and persistence technologies. His new book, “Modulithic Applications with Spring”, is due for release in 2026. In his talk he will present different approaches to designing application module interactions and compares them regarding their applicability, effect on testability, consistency, error scenarios and how they affect the modularity of the system overall. Location, Food & Drinks are **sponsored** **by [Certible](https://www.certible.com/) 🫶** \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- **Can't find what you like?** **Got something to say?** 📢 Send us your thoughts in the comments. Whether you’re a seasoned speaker or stepping onto the stage for the first time, we’d love to have you share your insights at one of our upcoming events. Interested in giving a talk? Let us know! Our formats: • Full talks (\~30 to 45 min.) • Short talks (\~15 min.)

👋 Welcome Back Data People! It's Meetup #23 but after a long pause we have our FIRST event from our new organising committee! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Rigerta, Thorsten, Boris, Georg and Timo invite you to the Data Engineering Meetup REBOOT at our newest event host, Journi GmbH! As usual, first we will have food and drinks and then, as of **6:30PM**, we will start with our evening program. Looking forward to seeing many of you there! Rigerta, Thorsten, Boris, Georg and Timo **Agenda:** * 18:00 - Doors open; food & drinks [🍔](https://emojipedia.org/food-drink)🥂 * 18:30 - Welcome talk by **Journi GmbH** * 18:40 - **Stefan Maxone 🎤** **Why AI Systems Fail...Hint, It's NOT because models are bad** *Stefan Maxone is an enterprise data architect at PWC, with deep experience in SAP as well as the data governance side of the business. His talk on how "functioning AI models fail" will turn a head or two!* 🤓 * 19:10 - **Mariano Rodriguez 🎤** **Hidden Costs: Moving Image Data thru Swift, C++, and JNI** *Mariano is a Machine Learning Ops Engineer at Journi, helping to change the face of printing memories!* 📸 * 19:40 - Networking and Drinks 🍻🍷 * **21:00** \- End **Location:** Journi GmbH [Goldschlagstraße 172/4/2/2+3, 1140 Wien](https://maps.app.goo.gl/41rNyKjsTpLXAF1b7) Journi is a tech company, changing the multi-billion euro personalized print industry. Its mission is to turn your photos into printed memories in the most customer-centric way: Making the creation process feeling as easy as taking photos and the results looking like made by a designer. **\*\*\*** 👋 Don't forget to RSVP!

💻 Build Your AI Assistant AI Career Coach * AI Marketing Assistant * AI Content Creator * AI Travel Planner * AI Business Assistant 🧩In this practical workshop, you’ll build your own AI assistant for work, business, or everyday life. ✨Participation fee is 10€ (cash) and order a drink ⛳️Register if you come and unregister if you don’t come 👨‍💻This workshop is designed for beginners, freelancers, professionals, and business owners who want to start using AI in a practical way. During this hands-on session, you will: ✅ Learn how people use AI to save time and work smarter ✅ Discover the most useful AI tools for everyday work and life ✅ Build your own AI assistant step-by-step ✅ Get ready-to-use prompts and templates ✅ Meet like-minded people interested in AI and the future of work 🚀WHAT YOU WILL BUILD You can create: * AI Productivity Assistant * AI Marketing Assistant * AI Career Assistant * AI Content Creator * AI Business Assistant * or your own custom AI helper WHO IS THIS FOR? * Beginners curious about AI * Freelancers * Entrepreneurs * Office workers * Creators & marketers * Anyone who wants to work smarter with AI 📚Bring your laptop and leave with tools you can use immediately. Build your own AI assistant in 2 hours🔥

If you want to stay up to speed with the AI era in SEO, PPC, online marketing, and e-commerce, this is the event you shouldn’t miss. AI Growth Meetup brings professionals together in a relaxed, informal setting, creating the space and opportunity to connect and dive into the topics that matter most the business. 📅 **Date:** 20 May 🕖 **Time:** 6:30 PM to 10:00 PM 📍 **Location:** Café Neunzehn Döblinger Hauptstraße 23–25, 1190 Vienna **What to expect:** * A few words from the hosts - [Andrian Alipiev](https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrian-alipiev/) & [Mattia Geremicca](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattia-geremicca/) * A short 15-min talk from [Patrick Schmid](https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-schmid-563634132/) * Open conversations about SEO, PPC, Online Marketing and e-Commerce * Plenty of time to talk and meet like-minded people After the event, you’ll be able to join our private group so we can stay connected and continue the conversations. The event is FREE, but seats are limited - RSVP to secure your spot. Food and drinks are not included - you can order anything you like from the restaurant menu (and yes, we’ve heard good things about the beers 😉).

**❗️ 👉 TO THE EVENT:** [Java & Friends + Architecture² Mashup — Edition ](https://www.meetup.com/java-and-friends/events/313430813/?utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=share-btn_savedevents_share_modal&utm_source=link&utm_version=v2&member_id=357085385)**❗️** In cooperation with the [Java and Friends](https://www.meetup.com/java-and-friends/) Community are hosting a meetup **at the Certible Office Vienna** **👉** Please register on the dedicated[Java & Friends + Architecture² Mashup — Edition ](https://www.meetup.com/java-and-friends/events/313430813/?utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=share-btn_savedevents_share_modal&utm_source=link&utm_version=v2&member_id=357085385) Page to join us on May 20th at 5:30 PM 🥳 We are looking forward to seeing you there!

Let's grab some coffee/food and share a morning chat! The East Market has an ample parking lot and outdoor and indoor seating. Grab a cup of coffee from Winston's Coffee & Waffles or on your way to East Market and meet us on the second floor - table behind or east of the elevator. Per what this group is about: "Everyone is welcome! International transplants to Columbus who want to improve language skills, Columbus residents who enjoy talking to people from other countries, and those who would like to discuss international travel and culture, and who enjoy getting together for good conversations."

We meet to learn and practice American Sign Language and to grow our familiarity with Deaf culture. Facilitated by hearing folks (with a connection to a professional interpreter) using Deaf-created content. People of all ASL skill levels are welcome! As we learn, we hope to connect more with the Deaf community in Central Ohio. Join us as you're able! Come regularly or just once - whatever you're looking for! Each meetup will explore different topics related to ASL/Deaf culture, and will feature time to practice conversation with one another. Just bring yourself and a willingness to learn!

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

**Welcome to Drunken Philosophy** a casual, curious social discussion **Optional topic for this meetup: What's up with all the AI hate?** A recent survey found that 74% of Americans have a negative view of AI, and I want to know why. Come out and debate whether AI is good or bad. My hot take: a labor-saving tool that could potentially help cure cancer gets called dangerous because it might raise unemployment or cause a speculative investment bubble, that tells you a lot more about capitalism and the economic system we live under than it does about the tool itself. As a computer programmer, I think AI is a wonderful tool that has increased my productivity by at least an order of magnitude. I'd go so far as to say Claude Code is the best tool I have ever used. Debate me and name a better one. Is AI potentially dangerous? Yes, but so are a lot of tools. Chainsaws. Steam engines (early ones would occasionally explode and kill everyone in the room). Do you think cavemen sat around debating whether fire could be used as a weapon or for self-harm, and decided not to discover it? I have two friends who hate AI for opposite reasons: one thinks it's a fad and not useful, and the other thinks it's going to take over everything and cause human extinction. Come out tonight, have a friendly debate, and make some friends. No lectures. Friendly crowd. Drop in for one drink and stay if it's fun.

**Important time note:** Please plan on arriving between 5:30 and 6:00 as the elevators lock after 6 and you'll need to message us and we'll need to come get you. The building address is 4450 Bridge Park The entrance is 6620 Mooney St, Suite 400 You will need to scan your ID at the door to get a visitor badge. **Abstract** TBD **YouTube Link** TBD

Nature Printing with Gelli Plate Thursday May 21, 2026 Join local artist Diana Andrews to explore the process of gelli plates. This hands-on, creative experience is suitable for all skill levels, focusing on creating unique monoprints without a traditional printing press. All materials will be provided, but participants are asked to bring additional leaves. Class Fee - $30 6PM - 8PM Location: James Bradley Center, Infirmary Mound Park Register and pay here: [https://www.lickingparkdistrict.com/269/May-2026](https://www.lickingparkdistrict.com/269/May-2026)

Join the Columbus AI community for our quarterly gathering — a casual, community-focused evening where everyone has a chance to share, learn, and connect. These open mic–style events give anyone in the community up to **5 minutes** to present a project, share a tool, pose a question, or offer a perspective on the evolving AI space. No slides required — just a welcoming space to exchange ideas and keep the local AI conversation moving. If you’d like to take the stage, message \*\*Chris (the organizer)\*\*with a **title and short description** of what you’d like to share. Whether you’re deep in the field or just getting curious, come connect with others building and exploring AI in Columbus. Sponsored by [Transform Labs](https://www.linkedin.com/company/transformlabs/) Sign up also accessible via [Transform Labs Luma](https://luma.com/transformlabshq)