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🦞 Cogito Ergo Creo 🦞 Third gathering of OpenClaw Bulgaria. This time — Demo Day. Less talk, more show. We're opening the floor to the community: bring what you've built, plug in, and walk us through it. Agents, local LLM setups, side projects, half-broken experiments — all welcome. The point isn't polish. The point is to see what people are actually making. 🎤 Demos — 5–10 minutes each. Show the thing, tell us what's working, what isn't, what you'd build next. 💬 Q&A — Real questions from a room of builders. 🔥 Open floor — Stick around, swap notes, find collaborators. Want to demo? Please register your presentation at https://openclaw.bg/events/ — or ping us on Discord so we can sketch out a running order. Who is this for? Developers, makers, entrepreneurs, and the simply curious. Whether you're shipping in production or just got something running for the first time — if you're building, you belong here. Language: English + Bulgarian — whatever flows naturally. 📍 Location: SOHO — HOLISTIC Room, 4 Iskar Street, Sofia 1000 (near Serdika metro) 🕐 Start: 17:00 🌐 www.openclaw.bg 💬 discord.gg/qu4gusnZd3 Recurring meetup — every first Thursday of the month (moved this month). Come once, come always. Hosted by Alex Alexiew & Aria 🤖 ——— 🇧🇬 Български Cogito ergo creo. Трета среща на OpenClaw Bulgaria. Този път — Demo Day. По-малко приказки, повече показване. Отваряме сцената за общността: донесете това, което сте направили, включете го и ни го разкажете. Агенти, локални LLM, странични проекти, полусчупени експерименти — всичко е добре дошло. Целта не е лъскавост. Целта е да видим какво всъщност прави хората. 🎤 Demos — 5–10 минути на човек. Покажете нещото, кажете какво работи, какво не, какво следва. 💬 Q&A — Истински въпроси от стая пълна с builders. 🔥 Open floor — Останете, обменете идеи, намерете съмишленици. Искаш да демонстрираш? Моля, регистрирай презентацията си на https://openclaw.bg/events/ — или пиши в Discord, за да направим програма. 📍 Локация: SOHO — зала HOLISTIC, ул. „Искър" 4, София 1000 (до метростанция Сердика) 🕐 Начало: 17:00 🌐 www.openclaw.bg 💬 discord.gg/qu4gusnZd3 Срещаме се всеки първи четвъртък от месеца. Елате веднъж, останете завинаги.

The event is free, but **prior registration is required -** [Mindset to Move - Growth, vulnerability, and the courage to change. · Luma](https://luma.com/4uo58izw) Growth rarely happens while staying in our comfort zone. In this inspiring session, Temenuzhka Zlateva will share her personal and professional journey from Development to VP Operations and the mindset shifts that helped her navigate change, embrace uncertainty, and continue growing along the way. ​Through real experiences and practical insights, the session will explore how growth, vulnerability, and the courage to move forward are deeply connected. From taking small steps without always knowing the full path ahead, to understanding why saying “I don’t know” is not a weakness, this talk is about building the confidence to keep evolving. ​We’ll also dive into the power of transferable skills, visibility, curiosity, and asking questions and how the lessons we gain professionally often help us grow personally as well. ​**What to expect:** * ​Lessons from a career journey across different roles and functions * ​Why growth starts outside the comfort zone * ​The importance of visibility, curiosity, and vulnerability * ​How transferable skills shape both career and personal development * ​A practical perspective on embracing change and continuous growth ​This is a session about developing a **mindset to move -** because growth is not about having all the answers, but about having the courage to take the next step.

Get ready for our biggest event so far, in partnership with Togeda and Sofia Expats! The main focus of this networking event is to bring our two vibrant communities together, sparking new friendships, valuable connections, and great conversations. **Grab your ticket here**: [https://go.sofiaexpats.com/togedasofiaexpats](https://go.sofiaexpats.com/togedasofiaexpats) **Please note:** The primary language of communication for this event will be English to accommodate our international guests. **🌟 What to expect?** To make networking as smooth and engaging as possible, the venue will be divided into 6 dedicated interest zones: Travel, Socialising, Business, Tech, Sport, and Arts. You choose your preferred zone, and the games begin! ⏱️ **Event Program & The Rules of the Game** **Game 1: The Icebreakers (30 minutes)** Start by connecting with people who share your specific interest. You will chat 1-on-1 or in small groups (up to 5 people). We will provide specially curated icebreaker questions tailored to your zone to help you kickstart meaningful conversations easily. **Game 2: The Dilemmas** Participants in each zone will gather into larger groups. Together with your like-minded peers, you will discuss and debate engaging dilemmas prepared by our team. **Game 3: Cross-Zone Bingo** Time to mingle! In this dynamic round, you will need to meet people from the other interest zones. Your goal is to discuss specific topics, find individuals with certain traits, or complete fun tasks together to fill out your Bingo card. **🎟️ The Reward:** Everyone who successfully completes their Bingo card will enter a raffle for an exclusive rewards. There will be three winners. **🥂 Networking & Party Time** After the structured games are over, the whole venue turns into a free zone. This is your time to relax and continue the conversations that intrigued you the most. 🎉 At 22:00, the venue will kick off a special party night! It’s the perfect way to elevate the mood, celebrate your new connections, and enjoy the rest of the evening on a high note. We wish you successful partnerships, new friendships, and an unforgettable night! **Location:** [Bar de Rouge](https://maps.app.goo.gl/wDJr6JfboskSxznx6?g_st=ic) You need a ticket for this event: **Grab your ticket here**: [https://go.sofiaexpats.com/togedasofiaexpats](https://go.sofiaexpats.com/togedasofiaexpats) See you there!

**MEET THE FUTURE OF SOUND IN EASTERN EUROPE AT //S//S ’26** The second edition filled with gear demos, hands-on workshops, and live performances. Expect more makers, more music, and even more ways to connect with the region’s growing community of artists, inventors, and innovators. Tickets available at [https://www.synthsymposium.com/](https://www.synthsymposium.com/) or at the door. Single day ticket €10, two day ticket €15. 50% discount available for students (student ID required). ## Friday June 12 – Opening Party @ Atelieto Bar **(Free entrance)** * 22:00 **LTNC – Live** * 23:00 **Preslava Krasteva (aka LVA) – Live** * 00:00 **YAPACC (Berlin) × DESI (Sofia) × PAKKADEJ (London) – Live** * 01:00 **ArteFactor – Live** * 02:00 **Wrighter – Live** ## Saturday June 13 – Expo Day 1 10:00 – Expo Doors open 12:00 – Start of the program ### Talks & Demo sessions * 12:00 – 13:00 **Creating Audio Plugin in JUCE** **Desislava Ilieva (daudio.dev)** * 13:00 – 14:00 **How to embed an AI Model into your music plugin (C++/JUCE)** **Achillefs Sourlas** * 14:00 – 14:30 **Audiowizz - EVE Audio** * 14:30 – 15:30 **Game Audio** **Sound Ninja** * 15:30 - 16:30 **Modular Synthesis Demo** **Uwe George (Rides In The Storm)** * 16:30 – 17:00 **Live Performance** * 17:00 – 18:00 **Ableton – Deep Dive** **Preslava Krasteva (aka LVA)** * 18:30 – 22:00 **Live Performance** ### Workshops * 12:00 – 13:30 **Kids music making workshop** **Boyan Avramov** * 14:30 – 15:30 **Procedural Audio** **Petar Guglev** * 17:00 – 18:30 **Audio Coding** **MusicTechBG** ## Sunday June 14 – Expo Day 2 10:00 – Expo Doors open 12:00 – Start of the program ### Talks & Demo sessions * 12:00 – 13:00 **Sound & Music Creation with Max/MSP** **Vladimir Vlaev** * 13:00 – 14:00 **Circle Of Live: The Architecture of Collaborative Live Improvisation** **Niko Seizov (Grammy nom. Creative Producer)** * 14:00 – 14:30 **Live Performance** * 14:30 – 15:30 **Recording Techniques vs. Audio Editing** **Strezov Sampling (WSA nom.)** * 15:30 – 16:30 **Randomness as a Method in Electronic Music, Sound Design, and Film Scoring** **Emilian Gatsov (Elbi)** * 16:30 – 17:00 **Live Performance** * 17:00 – 17:30 **Software Giveaway Draw** Win software licenses and prizes from our partners * 17:30 – 18:30 **Past and future of electronic music** **Simo Lazarov** ### Workshops * 12:00 – 13:30 **Kids music making workshop** **Boyan Avramov** * 14:00 – 18:30 **Design & Build a Simple Effect Module** **Nikolai Dichev (Rides In The Storm)** ## Closing Party 19:00 – 22:00 @ Toplocentrala ## ТЕЖЪК ЛУКС (Shamanez + Superseko)

**Founders Running Club** (FRC) brings founders, investors, tech, creative people and startup enthusiasts together for weekly easy runs and networking. We like to be comfortable when we run and finish with coffee and conversations. Choose your pace or follow a pacer—pets, friends, family, are welcome. 🗓️ Launched in San Francisco, July 16, 2022 🌍 Now in 35+ cities 📅 Running + Networking events + Community **Join the community** [http://foundersrc.com/chats](http://foundersrc.com/chats) **Stay updated**: Instagram [http://instagram.com/foundersrc/](http://instagram.com/foundersrc/) Podcast [http://podcast.foundersrc.com/](http://podcast.foundersrc.com/) LinkedIn [http://linkedin.com/company/foundersrc/](http://linkedin.com/company/foundersrc/) Strava [http://strava.com/clubs/foundersRC](http://strava.com/clubs/foundersRC) Website [http://foundersrc.com/](http://foundersrc.com/)

June 17, 2026: Worthington Library. Wild Ohio: The Best of Our Natural Heritage. Jim McCormac. Worthington, Ohio. 7 pm.

Join the Columbus AI community for a special event. **Battle of the Personal Agents** is your chance to see what people are actually building with AI agents and personal automation systems. Whether you’re running OpenClaw, Hermes, or a completely custom solution, bring your agent and show the community how it works. We’re interested in real-world implementations: the problems your agent solves, how you use it day-to-day, how it’s hosted and managed, how you built it, and why you’ve chosen to keep using it. Live demonstrations are encouraged, so be prepared to show your code, architecture, workflows, and your agent performing real tasks. This is less about polished presentations and more about sharing practical experience, comparing approaches, and learning from one another. If you’d like to present, please contact Chris Slee (via meetup) before the event so we can allocate enough time for everyone’s demonstrations. Come ready to show what you’ve built, discover what others are doing, and maybe find a few ideas worth taking home. 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)

Granville Land Lab 2025 Burg Street | Granville MEADOWS FOR MONARCHS PROJECT Learning Landscapes Tour + Community Science at the Land Lab Wednesday, July 1, 2026 9 a.m. - 12 noon: Program 12- 12:30: picnic lunch *meet at shelter house near Granville Intermediate School playground* Free. Registration Required so we know to expect you,[ click here https://www.lickingpollinatorpathway.org/land-lab-tour](https://www.lickingpollinatorpathway.org/land-lab-tour) Want to make your own wildflower meadow? Residents of licking county can sign up for this free program to receive free seed and training https://www.lickingpollinatorpathway.org/meadows **ABOUT THE EVENT** Join Pollinator Pathway for a morning at the Land Lab, a ~100-acre prairie and outdoor learning space just steps from Granville Intermediate School. This event explores how schools and other campuses can create living classrooms and contribute to community science. * **Tour the Land Lab:** Award-winning environmental science educator Jim Reding will lead guided tours through prairie, wetlands and other restored habitat, sharing the story behind this nationally-recognized space and the students and partnerships who helped make it happen. * **Contribute to Community Science with iNaturalist App:** Learn to identify and document plants, pollinators and other wildlife using iNaturalist. Dr. Karen Goodell, professor of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology at The Ohio State University at Newark and one of Ohio's foremost experts on native bees will share how to use this powerful tool to learn about the natural world while contributing to scientific research. * **Connect & Collaborate:** The morning program concludes with an optional BYO picnic lunch and networking at the Land Lab shelter house, overlooking the prairie. **🌸Anyone passionate about conservation and outdoor learning is welcome🌸** **WHAT TO BRING, WEAR & PREPARE** * **Download the iNaturalist app (the new one vs. the "classic" one) & create an account prior to the event if you don't have one already.** * **Sunscreen** * **Water bottle** * **Insect repellent** * **Hat** * **Comfortable closed-toe shoes suitable for uneven terrain** * **Light-colored clothing.** * **Long pants and socks are encouraged.** * **Please bring a reusable water bottle** * **Packed/picnic lunch.** **Picnic table seating will be available at the shelter house overlooking the Land Lab**

Over a billion documents processed. Millions of Veterans impacted. Hundreds of thousands of employee hours saved. Faster decisions. Greater accuracy. More benefits in the hands of our disabled Veterans. We created Smart Search, the world’s largest consumer of Amazon Textract, right when GenAI began reshaping what’s possible. Since then, we’ve built a suite of AI‑driven solutions that transform this data into real, measurable outcomes—accelerating benefits decisions for our Nation’s Veterans. Join us for a focused conversation on how an outcome‑driven approach to AI is helping us boost accuracy, streamline workflows, and deliver faster results for those who have served. This is a follow up to the AWS re:Invent 2023 "Intelligent Document Processing with Gen AI for Public Sector" presentation. About Speaker: Cameron Williams is a Senior Technical Project Manager and cross-functional technical leader at Booz Allen Hamilton with 15+ years of experience architecting and evolving scalable, cloud-native systems, from greenfield development to complex enterprise modernization. https://www.linkedin.com/in/cameronw711/ **THANK YOU** *Franklin University* for hosting our meetup! To learn more about *Franklin University*, please visit their website: https://www.franklin.edu/ **DIRECTIONS** Franklin University Fisher Hall 300 E. Main St, Columbus, OH 43215 Map: https://maps.app.goo.gl/jxjBA2hUmS5qrvhq8 Parking is FREE! Please park in Lot C in front of Fisher Hall. See attached map. NOTE: Map the address only. When mapping with Google Maps it may use the Fisher Hall at OSU, which is NOT correct. **Want to sponsor the pizza and/or bar tab?** Please contact me if you would like to sponsor this meetup's pizza and/or bar tab: angelo@mandato.com

Most people still use AI like a search box: type one question, get one answer, repeat. But the next step is AI agents: systems that can take a goal, break it into steps, use tools, remember context, and produce useful work for a human to review. In this beginner-friendly session, we’ll demystify what AI agents actually are — without hype or jargon. We’ll walk through practical examples of how agents can help with research, planning, writing, coding, operations, and personal productivity. We’ll cover: * What makes an AI “agent” instead of just a chatbot * How agents break tasks into steps * Where agents are genuinely useful today * Where they fail, hallucinate, or need human review * How to design simple AI workflows for your own work * A live demo of an AI agent-style workflow from start to finish No coding experience required. This is for anyone who wants to understand where AI tools are going and how to use them more effectively right now. 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.

Hosted by Ohio History Connection Address: Octagon Earthworks 125 N. 33rd St., Newark, OH 43055 UNESCO World Heritage Site Join us on June 18 at the Octagon Earthworks Visitor Center for a special evening celebrating the release of John E. Hancock’s new book, **Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks: Landscape Monuments of the Ancient Ohio Valley.** Event Schedule • Doors open: 6:30 p.m. • Lecture begins: 7 p.m. John Hancock will share the story behind Ohio’s remarkable Hopewell earthworks and how eight of these architectural masterpieces became UNESCO World Heritage Sites. He will also discuss how this new Smithsonian publication presents the latest knowledge about their astonishing scope, subtle beauty, and the brilliant Indigenous designers and builders who created them nearly 2,000 years ago. • Book signing: Immediately following the lecture. Books will be available for purchase. **Admission** • $10 per person or Free with a purchase of a book • Free for OHC members • Free for students with a valid ID **About the Book** Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks presents Ohio’s eight UNESCO-inscribed earthworks in a richly illustrated volume from Smithsonian Books. This expanded and re-edited edition of the sites’ World Heritage nomination dossier was produced in collaboration with the Ohio History Connection and the National Park Service. The book features illustrated descriptions and histories of these Indigenous masterpieces, summaries of archaeological research, insights from American Indian scholars and leaders, and discussions of the earthworks’ design, construction, and cultural significance. **About the Author** John E. Hancock taught architecture, design, and history at the University of Cincinnati for 40 years. He has produced numerous multimedia exhibits and publications about Ohio’s earthworks and served as the principal author and photographer for the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks UNESCO World Heritage nomination. In addition to this Smithsonian publication (April 2026), he has also released Traveler’s Guide to Ancient Ohio (April 2026). Come learn about one of the world’s greatest ancient landscapes and meet the author behind this exciting new publication! More info: [https://www.ohiohistory.org/events/lecture-and-book-signing-with-john-e-hancock/](https://www.ohiohistory.org/events/lecture-and-book-signing-with-john-e-hancock/)

## 🤝 Host Information A co-hosted event by ProductTank Columbus & Women in Product Columbus 💡 About the Workshop AI adoption is stalling across organizations — not because of a lack of motivation or tools, but because it's fundamentally a behavior design challenge. This hands-on workshop applies proven Behavior Design models and methods to help you move from a vague organizational wish to boost AI adoption to 3-5 concrete, testable interventions you can act on starting tomorrow. Whether you're a product manager, on a product team, or just someone trying to get AI to actually stick at work, you'll leave with a clear picture of what's worth focusing on, what to ignore, and how to drive real, sustained adoption — no guesswork required. 🛠️ What to Bring Laptop: Fully charged and ready to go. AI Assistant: Have your favorite AI assistant pulled up. (Dom will be using Claude, but feel free to use whichever assistant you prefer!) 🍕 Logistics & Perks Food & Drink: Pizza and drinks provided! Parking: Plenty of free spaces available on-site. ###