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We live in a time of constant movement — always connected, always performing, always becoming. And yet, many of us feel increasingly disconnected from ourselves. We chase success, recognition, and the next milestone, hoping they will bring peace, only to discover that what we’re truly seeking can’t be found outside of us. Our Breathwork Circles at **Light House Cape Town** are an invitation to pause, soften, and return inward. Through Conscious Connected Breathwork (CCB), we create a safe and intentional space to peel back layers of conditioning, expectation, and self-performance — and to reconnect with the truth that already lives within you. This practice supports nervous-system regulation, emotional release, and deep self-insight, allowing clarity and inner stability to emerge naturally, without force or pressure. Breathwork is a powerful experiential practice that can create profound shifts in a short amount of time. Participants often experience deep relaxation, emotional release, increased mental clarity, and a renewed sense of energy and focus. The practice can help reduce stress, calm an overactive mind, release stored tension in the body, and unlock insights that feel difficult to access through thinking alone. Many people leave a session feeling lighter, more grounded, emotionally clear, and reconnected to themselves — with a tangible sense of relief, openness, and inner balance that carries into their daily lives. **About us:** These circles are facilitated by Sophie and Bjoern, certified Conscious Connected Breathwork facilitators and co-founders of *onoera*. Coming from high-performance career backgrounds and having experienced burnout and misalignment firsthand, they guide each session with depth, sensitivity, and respect for individual processes. Their work blends science-informed nervous-system awareness with embodied presence, creating a grounded, non-dogmatic space where participants can explore at their own pace. Each circle is intentionally limited in size to ensure personal attention and a contained group experience. No prior breathwork experience is needed — only curiosity and a willingness to meet yourself honestly. **Address:** Light House Holistic Wellbeing 6th Floor, The Barracks, 50 Bree Street, Cape Town, 8000 **Important Booking Information:** You need a ticket for this event. Tickets can be purchased using this link: https://onoera.com/group-circles/breathwork-circle-light-house-holistic-wellbeing

**Discover the Power of Public Speaking & Leadership — Join the Blue Danube Leaders!** Are you looking for a new hobby that's not only fun but also helps you grow? Join us at **Blue Danube Leaders**, a Toastmasters club where you can improve your **public speaking**, **leadership**, and **communication** skills - all in a friendly, encouraging environment. Whether you’re just starting out or are already a seasoned speaker, you're welcome as our guest. **THIS PARTICULAR MEETING IS A CONTEST EVENT** Every year Toastmasters International holds the World Championship of Public Speaking, starting at club level for general speeches, evaluation speeches and table topics.This meeting on Jan 26 is our club contest.You are very welcome to join, just be aware that the meeting format on this evening is entirely different to our normal meetings described below. This is the usual meeting format: **What happens at a Meeting?** Our meetings follow a structured, interactive format: * **Welcome and Introduction** The meetings begin with a warm welcome from the Club President and the host (called *Toastmaster of the Evening)*. Then, we do a short introduction round where everyone - guests too - say a few words on the evening's topic. * **Word of the Day** A challenge that builds your language skills and sharpens your attention to word choice. A special word is introduced and everyone is invited to use this word whenever they speak. * **Table Topics** This is an exciting segment! Volunteers - guests too! - are invited to speak for 1-2 minutes on a surprise question or topic. It's a great way to practice thinking on your feet. * ***Short Break of 10 minutes*** * **Prepared Speeches** * Members deliver speeches prepared ahead of time, usually 5-7 minutes in length. Each speech is a step in the Toastmasters learning pathway. * **Evaluations** Every speech will be thoughtfully evaluated by a designated Evaluator. These evaluations focus on strengths, improvement tips, and encouragement. It's a crucial part of the Toastmasters experience. * **Role Reports** Throughout the meeting, members take on supportive roles that ensure the flow of the evening and give everyone a chance to grow. **Be our guest!** This meetup is open to guests. Toastmasters have a separate platform for the member registration. There are always 10+ people in the meeting. Join us at **18:45 CET** for a casual **Meet & Greet**; The program starts **sharp at 19:00 CET.** After the meeting, we often head to a nearby spot for food or drinks - a great way to relax and connect! Learn more: https://bluedanubeleaders.at/ Email: info@bluedanubeleaders.at

Welcome to our friendly badminton event! Let's get moving, improve our game, and make some new friends. **Very important: this event is for you if your level is upper intermediate or advance.** 🏸🙂 **If you're joining us for the first time, the organizer will contact you directly to confirm that you have the required level for this event.** Feather shuttles (Babolat 1 / Viktor Master ACE / Forza s 6000) will be provided for this event and are included in the event fee The location: Sport & Fun Halle Favoriten / Windtenstraße 2, 1100 Wien The Price: We try our best to provide you with the best price in Vienna. You will be paying 9 euros for 2 hours. How to pay: We accept cash and bank transfer Number of players: 6 players for 1 court and about 10 -11 players for 2 courts. Remember to bring your own racket, please. **Cancellation policy:** 1- 24 hours before the event = free cancellation. 2- Any time after the 24-hour limit, I will ask you kindly to pay the event fee, if we can't find a suitable replacement. (No exceptions) See you on the court :)

Hi Deep Learners, Our first Deep Learning Meetup in 2026 is taking place on **January 26** at Sky lounge of Raiffeisenbank International in Wien Mitte. Our topics this time are: Agentic RAG and Surprise Estimation in Music. \*\*\* **Agenda:** * 18:30 **Introduction** by the meetup organizers * **Welcome** by the host: Raiffeisenbank International * 18:45 **Talk 1:** **Agentic RAG: Advances in Autonomous Information Retrieval, Quantized Indexing, and Scalable System Design** by Liad Magen *(Raiffeisen Bank International)* * 19:30 **Announcements** * **Networking Break** * 20:00 **Talk 2:** **Surprise Estimation in Music** by Mathias Bjare *(Johannes Kepler University)* * 20:45 **Networking** * \~22:00 **Wrap up & End** \*\*\* **Talk Details:** **Talk 1: Agentic RAG: Advances in Autonomous Information Retrieval, Quantized Indexing, and Scalable System Design** Agentic RAG systems enable AI to plan how to find and utilize information autonomously, moving beyond simple lookup-and-answer patterns. Traditional RAG follows a fixed approach: retrieve documents, then generate an answer. Agentic RAG, on the other hand, utilizes autonomous agents that can reason through problems in multiple steps, reformulate queries intelligently, and adapt their retrieval strategy based on what they discover. This talk examines the architecture and capabilities of agentic RAG, focusing on how retrieval strategies have evolved to support multi-hop reasoning (following chains of related information), tool integration, and agent-driven workflows. Special attention will be paid to recent advances in quantized indexing and vector search, including Matryoshka embeddings. This technique stores information at multiple levels of detail, enabling scalable retrieval with tunable trade-offs between accuracy and storage. **About the Speaker:** Liad Magen is a senior data scientist at Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) and serves as the product owner of the Data Science Academy, an internal school within the RBI to upskill employees in machine learning and data science. In addition, he is teaching selected courses on NLP, computer vision and Information Retrieval as part of Master's degrees in Hochschule Campus Wien (HCW) and the university of applied sciences - IMC Krems. **Talk 2: Surprise Estimation in Music** The presentation will focus on Bjare's work on latent autoregressive diffusion models for computationally estimating experienced "expectedness" and "surprise" (surprisal) in music listening, presented at [Neurips 2025 - AI for Music Workshop](https://openreview.net/forum?id=rXUKO0ysUy&referrer=%5BAuthor%20Console%5D(%2Fgroup%3Fid%3DNeurIPS.cc%2F2025%2FWorkshop%2FAI4Music%2FAuthors%23your-submissions)). We revisit an established connection between music appreciation during listening and the extent to which humans or autoregressive models can predict musical continuations. We visit [Music2Latent](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.06500), an open-source, computationally efficient audio codec used as the audio representation on which surprisal is modeled. We review GPT-style autoregressive diffusion models and show how they are suitable for surprisal estimation. We discuss the prediction of EEG responses to music listening based on our surprise estimates. **About the Speaker:** Mathias Rose Bjare is a fourth year PhD student at the Institute of Computational Perception, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria. He builds computational models for the estimation of musical expectancy and surprisal in audio and general symbolic music using modern artificial neural networks. His surprisal estimates enable research into how features of general recorded music correlate with neural responses to music listening We'd like to thank Raiffeisen International for providing the venue, drinks & snacks. ** Please note that the venue has a capacity limit of 120 people and people will be admitted on a first come, first served basis. ** We are very much looking forward to seeing you at our first meetup in 2026! Your VDLM organizers

PCE - "Philosophic Conversation in English" is a discussion event in English language which focuses on psychology, philosophy, self-consciousness and self-realization. The conversation is based on inclusive discussion rules. We will meet at at a restaurant where we will have a private room exclusively reserved for our event. At the beginning we will choose the topic to discuss. Everybody can suggest a topic. Then we will vote what to discuss. The person who suggested the winning topic will then explain his idea of the topic. Afterwards everybody gets his/her chance to make a statement. But you can also decide to remain silent and only listen, if you prefer that. We have a time limit for statements, so that everybody has enough time to speak. It is not allowed to interrupt somebody who is speaking. After a statement everybody can ask a question and the speaker will answer. After the first part there will be a 10 minutes break before we start the second part. Everybody is welcome to our event: We are interested in your thoughts and opinions! It is no problem if you arrive late and you can also leave whenever you want. Please check out last event's topics via this link: [http://pce-topic.project-website.org](http://pce-topic.project-website.org/)

Hello Viennovans! Pickwick's is getting quizzical every monday night! You have a chance to win a round of shots, a 40€ bar tab and/or eternal bragging rights 😉 Teams of up to 6 people, reserve your spot today! Start time is 7! FREE SHOT FOR EVERYONE COMING FROM VIENNOVA!

Join Vienna’s longest-running English stand-up comedy open mic for laughs, live comedy, and English-language performances. Drop by to see experienced comedians work on their new jokes or maybe you will catch somebody trying to be funny on stage for the first time ever! We don't really know what will happen and that's part of the magic! Join Vienna’s longest-running English stand-up comedy open mic for laughs, live comedy, and English-language performances. Drop by to see experienced comedians work on their new jokes or maybe you will catch somebody trying to be funny on stage for the first time ever! We don't really know what will happen and that's part of the magic! **Do you want to perform yourself?** Hit us up on Instagram (@wiener.comedy) or Facebook (Wiener Comedy). Not on social media? Send us an email at wienercomedy5000@gmail.com If you’re waiting on a reply, please also check your spam folder. **Do you just want to watch?** Just come on over before 19:30, wear something comfortable, enjoy a pint and/or a burger, lean back and let us tickle your funny bone! **Tickets:** Seats can fill up fast, so we recommend reserving yours on Eventbrite. This is a *pay what you like* show so it doesn't cost you to reserve your seat. **Need a table for dinner or coming with a larger group?** Write us an email to sort everything out: wienercomedy5000@gmail.com or contact Charlie P's directly Doors Open: 19:00 Show Starts: 19:30 ***We'll hold your reservations until 19:20 at which time we will release the remaining seats to the public*** Age - 16+ Good talk, see you out there! **Do you want to perform yourself?** Hit us up on Instagram (@wiener.comedy) or Facebook (Wiener Comedy). Not on social media? Send us an email at wienercomedy5000@gmail.com If you’re waiting on a reply, please also check your spam folder. **Do you just want to watch?** Just come on over before 19:30, wear something comfortable, enjoy a pint and/or a burger, lean back and let us tickle your funny bone! **Tickets:** Seats can fill up fast, so we recommend reserving yours on Eventbrite. This is a *pay what you like* show so it doesn't cost you to reserve your seat. **Need a table for dinner or coming with a larger group?** Write us an email to sort everything out: wienercomedy5000@gmail.com or contact Charlie P's directly Doors Open: 19:00 Show Starts: 19:30 ***We'll hold your reservations until 19:20 at which time we will release the remaining seats to the public*** Age - 16+ Good talk, see you out there!

Bring your JS interest and a good vibe! Everybody is welcome & feel free to share this invitation! https://viennajs.org/en/meetup/vienna-js-january-2026 **Timetable:** * 18:00: Gathering, food & drinks * \~18:45 - 19:00: Start of the first talk **Talks:** 🗣️ Housein Abo Shaar ▶️ AI Just Made Us Better at Typing AI can write code now, and it's only getting better at it. Which changes something I genuinely love: the act of *programming*. Just opening up an editor and typing away, observing problems and patterns, finding reusable solutions, caring about how my code *looks* while probably making a few too many premature abstractions. However, I say "programming" for a reason, because it's entirely distinct from software engineering, the thing I actually do for a living. In this talk, I'll go through my experience with AI: the ups and downs, the mistakes I made, and why I think I'll be using it a lot more in the future. \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- 🗣️ Marcel Maßmann ▶️ It's about time - a new Date() with Temporal Working with dates and times in JavaScript has always been… complicated. new Date() looks simple, but quickly turns into a source of bugs, confusion, and timezone-related headaches. Adding days, comparing times, or reasoning about “what date is it really?” often requires defensive coding or third-party libraries. Temporal is a new JavaScript API designed to fix this. In this talk, we’ll explore what Temporal is, why it exists, and which long-standing problems it solves compared to Date. We’ll look at how Temporal makes time arithmetic predictable, how it models concepts like instants, calendar dates, durations, and time zones explicitly, and how it can replace much of the functionality we currently rely on external libraries for. We’ll also cover how Temporal interoperates with legacy Date objects, and— most importantly — what mental model you need to use it correctly. You’ll leave with a clear understanding of when to use Temporal.Instant, Temporal.PlainDate, or Temporal.ZonedDateTime, and when Temporal is not the right tool. If you’ve ever been bitten by time zones, off-by-one-day bugs, or confusing date math, it’s about time we talked about Temporal. **🗣️ Give a Talk:** [https://viennajs.org/en/participate/give-a-talk](https://viennajs.org/en/participate/give-a-talk) **Location:** Sentry 📍 **NEW ADDRESS** Jakov-Lind-Straße 5, 4. OG (Entrance next to Max & Benito) 1020 Wien **Sponsors:** 🙏 Sentry Sentry is the market leader in the error monitoring space and like many startups with engineer founders, Sentry was born out of frustration with technology. David started Sentry as an open-source side project in 2008. We started in a small community — the Django web framework — and over time expanded our technology to support dozens of other platforms, including browser JavaScript and mobile applications. Fast forward to today, we're a $90M Series E company with a $3B valuation and 200+ employees on a mission to help developers write better software faster, so we can get back to enjoying technology. As one can see, the adventure continues to be exciting as we bring our developer-first Application Monitoring to more customers and industries worldwide. Consider us for the ride - We're hiring a JavaScript developer! 🙏 Ketryx Ketryx is an American based AI-powered platform specifically designed for the life sciences industry supporting companies that build regulated software. Its core function is to bridge the gap between agile software development practices and stringent regulatory compliance. The platform operates as an overlay that integrates seamlessly with existing, best-of-breed developer tools like Jira and GitHub. By doing this, Ketryx automates compliance-related tasks, such as generating audit-ready documentation, maintaining a real-time, end-to-end traceability matrix across all connected systems. This automation significantly reduces the manual burden of paperwork allowing development teams to accelerate their release cycles and bring safer, compliant products to market much faster. We're building up our engineering hub in Vienna. Our Co-Founder and CTO, [Jan Pöschko](https://www.linkedin.com/in/poeschko/), is based here, and we’re on the hunt for best-in-class engineering talent to join our team. Link to Open Roles: [https://www.ketryx.com/about/open-positions](https://www.ketryx.com/about/open-positions) **🙏 Want to sponsor?** We are looking for more sponsors! If you are interested please contact us via [viennajsmeetup@gmail.com](http://viennajsmeetup@gmail.com/) or at [viennajs.org.](http://viennajs.org./) \*\*\* **Don't forget to RSVP!**

Let’s kick off the year with some talks in collaboration with the **[Java and Friends](https://www.meetup.com/java-and-friends/)**[ meetup group](https://www.meetup.com/java-and-friends/). Fresh topics, shared knowledge and a strong community vibe. **===Topic===** **1st talk: WebAssembly** If you have been living under a rock like me and have heard about WebAssembly but don't really know what it does, then this talk is right for you! WebAssembly is one of the biggest standardization efforts in modern computing and we will have a look at how it works, why you should care, and why big players like Microsoft, Intel, and the CNCF alike have a vested interest to push it further. Did you know that Kotlin is implementing a wasm backend, so we can run Kotlin code without the JVM? What once started out as a browser hack to make javascript faster is slowly but steadily growing into a new computing substrate, and finally, a common architecture and compilation target for our programs. It's write once, run everywhere, but hopefully for real this time. Oh and it will also replace docker. And Kubernetes. Okay, I am overdramatizing. I swear my takes are not as biased as this introduction but you will have to listen to my talk to find out. **Speaker:** Florian Schindler **2nd talk: Spring Boot 4 with Kotlin: Modern Spring Development, Refined** Spring Boot 4 raises the bar for modern development in the JVM ecosystem, and Kotlin fits it perfectly. This talk highlights what’s new in Spring Boot 4 and how Kotlin helps you build cleaner, safer, and more concise applications with less boilerplate and better defaults. **Speaker:** Marián Varga **===Schedule===** 18:00 - Doors open 18:30 - Welcome by Erste Bank, Kotlin Vienna & and SQUER 18:40 - First talk 19:25 - Break 19:35 - Second talk 20:20 - Pizza, Drinks & Networking **===How to find us===** Canetti Tower - Erste Group, Canettistraße 5, 1100 Wien

### **,,Wirklich sehen, hören, fühlen – Wie geschärfte Wahrnehmung Nähe ermöglicht''** **Workshop für Sinne, Selbsterkenntnis & Beziehungstiefe** *** **Was, wenn echte Verbindung nicht durch Reden, sondern durch Wahrnehmen beginnt?** Wie nah wir anderen kommen – in Partnerschaft, Freundschaft oder Familie – hängt oft davon ab, **wie klar und fein wir wahrnehmen können**: uns selbst, den anderen, die Situation. In diesem Workshop schulen wir unsere Sinne – **sehen, hören, riechen, fühlen** – und erkennen, was zwischen Wahrnehmung und Reaktion liegt: unsere gelernten Muster, Schutzmechanismen und tiefen Bedürfnisse. *** **Inhalte & Übungen**: * Wie „Wahr“-nehmung funktioniert – und wie sie getäuscht werden kann * Sehen, Hören, Riechen, Fühlen bewusst trainieren – mit alltagsnahen Übungen * Schulz von Thun: Was höre ich wirklich, wenn jemand spricht? * Virginia Satir: Welche Reaktionen schützen mich – und verhindern Nähe? * Karen Horney & Bindungstheorie: Warum wir uns so schwer tun mit Kontakt * Sinneserfahrungen mit Alltagsgegenständen (z. B. Kaffee, Stoffe, Düfte) * Achtsame Selbstwahrnehmung & ehrlicher Austausch in Kleingruppen *** **Warum das wichtig ist:** Viele Kommunikationsprobleme und Beziehungskonflikte entstehen nicht durch bösen Willen – sondern durch **nicht wahrgenommene Signale**, alte Muster oder unbewusste Schutzreaktionen. Wenn wir die Welt feiner spüren lernen, **werden wir echter, weicher, verbindlicher** – ohne uns zu verlieren. *** **Für wen?** Für Menschen, die sich selbst und andere besser verstehen wollen – nicht theoretisch, sondern **im Spüren, Erleben und im echten Kontakt**. *** 📍**Ort:** jeden Sonntag 🕖 **Zeit:** 11:00-14:30 ☕ **Mit Sinnesimpulsen wie Kaffee & Duftübungen** Kaffee & kleine Snacks inklusive! 💶 **Beitrag:** 25€ 📝 **Anmeldung:** über Meetup oder Emailanmeldung unter: orhanberatgueclue@gmail.com

**Designing Clarity Before UX Had a Name** If you work in UX, product, service, or information design; data visualization; or user research — or if you simply care about how **design shapes understanding** — then this event is for you! 100 years ago in Vienna, Marie and Otto Neurath, along with Gerd Arntz, created the **International System of Typographic Picture Education** (ISOTYPE), a design system that transforms data into understanding. This was long before UX even existed. 👉 Join us on Saturday, January 31, 2026 at 2 PM for a group visit to the Neurath [exhibition, "Knowledge for All", at the Wien Museum](https://www.wienmuseum.at/knowledge_for_all). We'll walk through the exhibition together, after which we'll have drinks and discuss one central question: **What does it mean to design like this — today?** We'll connect their ideas to today's UX practices: * How do we design for clarity and accessibility at scale? * How do diverse roles align around one shared model of meaning? * And, most fascinatingly, how would the Neuraths approach our challenges now? Action items 1. Select "Attend" to attend the event 2. [Purchase your special exhibition ticket](https://shop.wienmuseum.at/en/tickets/ticket-exhibitions/wissen-fuer-alle-?date=2026-01-31) (only the permanent exhibition is for free) 3. Meet us at the "[Pavillon](https://www.wienmuseum.at/renting_wien_museum_pavillon_und_foyer)". It is right after the entrance. The time is 2 PM Photo copyrights: Marie Neurath: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 [link](https://permalink.obvsg.at/wbr/AC15771755). Photos of the exhibition: Klaus Pichler, Wien Museum

Hello everybody, Let’s start the new year with two great talks on how we can avoid falling into the legacy debt trap … **Agenda** 🕡 17:30 - Doors open 🕕 18:00 – Intro & First Talk 🗣️- Tracking Health over Debt: Strategies to keep a Microservice Architecture Healthy 🕢 18:50 – Break 🕖 19:00 – Second Talk 🗣️ - Architectural Fitness in Practice: Defining & Measuring your architecture goals with fitness functions 🕗 19:50 – 🎉 Open-end with 🍕&🍻 \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- **🗣️ First Talk - Tracking Health over Debt: Strategies to keep a Microservice Architecture Healthy** For a long time kununu focused on fixing what’s broken - a Big Ball of Mud Monolith - and how to move away from it. As we enter the last phase of what has been a multi-year migration, we are shifting from focusing on what's broken into maintaining what’s healthy (Known as [tracking health over debt](https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/techniques/tracking-health-over-debt)). Expect an inside view into kununu’s practices that maintain a healthy system. Learn how we define what healthy means through testable System Quality Requirements, how we ensure that we learn from incidents long term, and how regular domain health checks help teams prioritise what’s important. Whether you're stuck in tech debt discussions or looking for a more proactive approach to system quality, join us for practical lessons from our journey. ***Angela Rumpl*** *is a Solution Architect at kununu, the leading employer review platform in the DACH region. With 20 years of experience in software engineering, a strong background in backend development, and extensive leadership experience, she now leads the Architecture Council supporting approximately 80 engineers across 9 cross-functional teams. She drives cross-organisational strategic initiatives such as kununu's migration from monolith to microservices. Her approach emphasises architecture facilitation over gatekeeping – empowering teams through collaborative processes such as modeling workshops, Advice Forums & ADRs for decision making. Angela is a co-organiser of the DDD & MRDS meetup in Vienna and contributes to organising [ComoCamp](https://comocamp.org/).* \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- **🗣️ Second Talk - Architectural Fitness in Practice: Defining & Measuring your architecture goals with fitness functions** Modern software architecture needs measurable guardrails instead of PowerPoint wishful thinking. In this talk, I’ll show how to use fitness functions as a systematic approach to derive the right metrics for you to turn architecture goals into something concrete and verifiable. I'll show you my pragmatic catalog of building blocks you can use and combine to design your own fitness functions and why these are the most important dimensions to consider in practice. On this basis, I’ll introduce a fitness function testing pyramid, walk through concrete examples of useful checks and metrics, and demonstrate how to deliberately use generative AI as an architecture assistant – from generating ideas for fitness functions and target metrics to helping you shape your ideas into concrete metrics to verify. ***Rene Weiss*** *is an independent software and enterprise architect, consultant, and coach based in Vienna. He lives the “Architecture Elevator”: from the boardroom down to the code, he works with top management on transformation programs as well as with development teams on concrete architectures, fitness functions, and effective ways of working.* *For more than 20 years, Rene has supported agile software development projects and has been a regular conference speaker on evolutionary architectures, measurable architecture goals, and pragmatic software engineering practices.* \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- **🏢 Location sponsor** The location, food, and drinks are sponsored by kununu ([https://www.kununu.com/](https://www.kununu.com/)). kununu is the leading employer review and workplace insights platform in the DACH region, empowering employees to share authentic workplace experiences and helping job seekers make informed career decisions. With millions of reviews and salary insights, kununu creates transparency in the job market while helping companies build stronger employer brands. Sounds interesting? Check out [their open positions](https://www.kununu.com/at/kununu/jobs).

Hello everyone! We’re excited to announce the first **Vienna AI Engineering Meetup** of the year on **Tuesday, January 27**! This time we’ll be hosted by **Eversports** at their office next to **Praterstern**. **Alex Gavrilescu**, the creator of Backlog.md, will kick off the meetup with his talk about “**The Cambrian Explosion of Agentic AI”**. At the end of the talk you will have a good mental model of the current Agentic AI tooling landscape, which will hopefully make it easier for you to separate the wheat from the chaff in this space. Then, **Anna Saranti** will talk about **"Context Engineering in Practice"** and the lessons learned from putting Document RAG in production at RINGANA. Join us to explore the future of AI Engineering together! \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- Here are the detailed abstracts: **The Cambrian Explosion of Agentic AI (Alex Gavrilescu)** The landscape of AI coding tools is exploding. We evolved quickly from simple autocomplete to the GitHub Copilot era, and now we face a new wave of Agentic CLI tools, protocols like MCP, ACP and A2A, and frameworks like ADK. It moves so fast that catching up feels impossible. This talk aims to ground us. I will guide you through this explosion of tools, separating the hype from the reality. We will focus on practical applications and identify the specific tools that actually help us ship real software right now. **Context Engineering in Practice: From Documents to Answers with VectorDBs (Anna Saranti)** This talk focuses on the practical steps of digitalisation faced by organizations working with large, heterogeneous documents. Text and images must be preprocessed, stored, retrieved, and evaluated before they can reliably power AI systems. 1. Text Chunking Strategies: Semantic, late, and agentic chunking, with a focus on the pros and cons. 2. Vector Databases in Practice: Weaviate & Pinecone comparison through a practical scenario. 3. Query & Result Pre-processing and post-processing of retrieved results with an impact on relevance and context usability. 4. Evaluating Retrieval Quality: Evaluation of retrieved context and generated answers against human-defined ground truth through RAGAS. 5. Context Engineering as a discipline. \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- About the speakers: * **Alex Gavrilescu** leads backend & web engineering at Funstage GmbH in Vienna, keeping millions of free‑to‑play gamers happily tapping. He still ships code, tinkers with Raspberry Pi Kubernetes clusters for fun, and is passionate about weaving project‑management smarts with practical AI. Most recently he created Backlog.md, a micro‑tool that turns side‑project chaos into shippable tasks. * **Anna Saranti** is an AI Engineer at RINGANA, where she works on data-driven evaluations and the development of intelligent multi-agent systems using frameworks such as CrewAI and LangGraph, supported by Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). She holds both an MSc and a PhD in Explainable Artificial Intelligence (xAI), each awarded with distinction from Graz University of Technology (TU Graz). Before joining RINGANA, she served as a tutor and Postdoctoral Researcher at several universities in Austria. Anna’s research and professional interests include the practical application of AgenticAI, time-series forecasting, and causal modelling with counterfactuals. She also brings extensive industry experience as a software developer, data scientist, and AI engineer across multiple technology sectors. \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- Schedule \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- 18:00 - Doors open: get together with food and beverages 18:30 - Welcome talk by Eversports 18:40 - "The Cambrian Explosion of Agentic AI" (Alex Gavrilescu) 19:25 - Short break 19:30 - "Context Engineering in Practice" (Anna Saranti) 20:15 - More drinks & networking. Looking forward to seeing you on January 27th! \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- Location \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- Eversport GmbH Jakov-Lind-Strasse 13 / Door 6 / 5th Floor 1020 Vienna \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- Sponsor \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- This event is generously sponsored by Eversports. Thank you! 🙏

**❗️ 👉 TO THE EVENT:** [Kotlin & Java Kickoff 2026: WebAssembly & Spring Boot 4](https://www.meetup.com/de-de/java-and-friends/events/312867286/)**❗️** In cooperation with the[ ](https://www.meetup.com/re-presented-diversevoicesintech/)[Java and Friends](https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/java-and-friends/) Community and [Kotlin Vienna](https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/kotlin-vienna/) are hosting a meetup **at the Erste Bank Campus.** **👉** Please register on the dedicated [Kotlin & Java Kickoff 2026: WebAssembly & Spring Boot 4](https://www.meetup.com/de-de/java-and-friends/events/312867286/) Page to join us on January 27 at 6:00 PM 🥳 We are looking forward to seeing you there!

### Tools in your AI's Toolbox : An introduction to MCP Servers The generative AI revolution has unlocked unprecedented capabilities, but the next frontier is agency: empowering models to interact with, query, and act upon the world. The current challenge is the “N x M integration problem,” where every AI model requires a custom, brittle integration for each external tool or data source. This approach simply doesn’t scale. How can we give an AI access to our sales leads, code repositories, or IoT devices in a standardized, secure, and reusable way? This session introduces Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), the open-source framework designed to solve this challenge and become the universal connector—the USB-C port—for AI. MCP standardizes how AI models discover and use external tools, moving beyond simple function-calling to a robust, client-server architecture. We will dive into how this open protocol is creating a new ecosystem for building powerful, context-aware AI agents. Join this session for a developer-focused introduction where you will learn how to: Understand the core concepts of the open-source Model Context Protocol and its architecture. Utilize pre-built, open-source MCP servers to instantly connect AI to tools like Git, Slack, and databases. Build a custom MCP server to securely expose your own proprietary data and APIs as tools for any compliant AI. Move beyond bespoke integrations and contribute to a standardized, collaborative, and open ecosystem. Stop building one-off connectors and start building intelligent agents. This session will give you the practical knowledge to leverage MCP and create the next generation of AI that doesn’t just talk, but does. Want to be a speaker? submit your talk to our Call for Presenters!!! [https://sessionize.com/azure-cbus-2026/](https://sessionize.com/azure-cbus-2026/)

**HAPPY HOUSE HUNTERS JOIN THE CENTRAL OHIO INVESTOR NETWORK** \* Time: 5 pm‎ - ‎8 pm‎ ‎ [Eastern Time] \* JANUARY 2026 ONLY: FOURTH Tuesday the 27th, then back to the regular schedule of third Tuesdays next month \* Where: Pastimes Pub at Grandview Yard, 775 Yard St. Columbus 43212 \* Description: Join Us for the Ultimate Real Estate Meet and Greet! Flip, Buy and Hold, Long-Term Rentals, Mid-Term Rentals & Short-Term B&B! Are you passionate about real estate investments or curious about the world of long-term rentals, mid-term rentals, or short-term rentals? Look no further because the "Happy House Hunters" and "The Inns and Outs of a B&B" invite you to come together with COIN for exciting monthly Meet and Greet events for all real estate investors! We look forward to seeing you there!

## Learn Infrastructure-as-Code (the FUN Way) — Through Minecraft 🎮☁️ **Joint Meetup: Azure CBUS × Columbus HashiCorp User Group × DevOps Columbus** What if learning Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code didn’t feel like a whitepaper… but more like a game? Join us for a joint Azure CBUS, Columbus HashiCorp User Group, and DevOps Columbus meetup where **Mark Tinderholt** \(Principal Architect\, Microsoft Azure \| HashiCorp Ambassador \| “The Azure Terraformer”\) shows how **Minecraft** can be used as a surprisingly powerful way to understand real-world Infrastructure-as-Code concepts. In this session, Mark will demonstrate how Terraform and Azure can be used to provision, configure, and manage Minecraft servers—while teaching the same patterns you’d use for production cloud infrastructure. ### What we’ll cover * Infrastructure-as-Code fundamentals using **Terraform** * Provisioning real infrastructure on **Azure** * Applying **IaC best practices** (immutability, repeatability, versioning) * How playful environments like Minecraft make complex concepts *click* * Why learning through experimentation beats click-ops every time ### Who should attend * Developers, platform engineers, and cloud engineers * Terraform users (new or experienced) * Anyone curious about Infrastructure-as-Code but tired of boring examples * Minecraft fans who want to see it used in a totally unexpected way No prior Minecraft experience required—just curiosity and a willingness to learn infrastructure the fun way. Come for the blocks, stay for the Terraform. 🧱➡️📐 Want to be a speaker? submit your talk to our Call for Presenters!!! https://sessionize.com/azure-cbus-2026/

OWASP is ending use of Meetup, so I built an eventbrite for the event. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ai-development-risk-case-studies-and-how-agentic-ai-is-the-future-of-appsec-tickets-1981450622150?aff=oddtdtcreator AI is transforming how software is designed, developed, and deployed, dramatically accelerating velocity while introducing new categories of risk. As organizations adopt AI-assisted coding, autonomous agents, and increasingly complex model interactions, traditional application security approaches struggle to keep pace. This talk examines emerging AI-driven risks through real case studies from the field, highlighting issues such as insecure code generation, data-leakage pathways, model manipulation, and evolving supply-chain threats. We will explore how engineering teams must adapt their people, processes, and governance models to secure AI-augmented development workflows effectively. The session will then introduce agentic AI as the next evolution in application security—autonomous systems capable of continuous analysis, multi-step reasoning, and real-time remediation. Attendees will learn how combining agentic AI with modern practices can reduce developer friction, improve coverage, and create a future-ready application security strategy designed for the demands of AI-native software development

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

**Chaos Monkeys, Open Telemetry, and .NET Aspire: Taming Complexity in Modern Apps** .NET Aspire is far more than just a sleek dashboard for wowing your boss and co-workers. It's also a gateway to increased observability with open telemetry, better fault tolerance to fend off chaos monkeys, and a drastically improved onboarding experience for new developers. This session will explore Microsoft's latest guidance for building distributed, cloud-first applications, with practical strategies for enhancing simpler existing apps. You'll discover the inner workings of Aspire, from installation to customization, and learn how it streamlines integration with performance boosters like Redis. Most importantly, you'll see why scalable microservices architectures can be challenging—and how Aspire helps simplify the journey. **Presenter:** Lee Richardson, Microsoft MVP **Pizza starts at 6. Presentation starts around 6:30.**

**\*\*\* We've Moved! Bold Penguin - 6555 Longshore St, Dublin, OH 43017 \*\*\*** Please note that the Jan meeting is moved to the following week because of the MLK Holiday (instead of the 3rd Monday of the month) **AGENDA:** * Doors open at 5:30, feel free to come and hang out before! * Official start of the meeting is at 6:30pm * After the meeting is done, we will go hang out at a nearby space in Bridge Park! If you can, please sign up via meetup by noon the day of the meeting so we can have an estimate headcount for food :) We always order extra, so feel free to join us even if you don't get signed up! Thank you to Bold Penguin for providing the location! **Parking & Arrival:** **Parking:** Parking in Bridge Park is free. The closest lots are the Mooney Garage and the Hotel/Endres Garage. **Entry:** The doors to the office are to the right of PINS. The street level door and elevators lock at 6pm. If you arrive after that, someone should be there to let you in, else call the number posted. Take the elevator to the 2nd floor. Once you exit the elevator, turn right. \*\*\* We are a bunch of professionals, students, and geeks who are excited about Ruby programming language ([http://ruby-lang.org/](http://ruby-lang.org/)) and Rails framework ([http://rubyonrails.com/](http://rubyonrails.com/)) and the joy they have brought back to web development. Our main goal is to share the love of the Ruby and Rails ecosystems with anyone that is interested. We cater to everyone, whether a non-programmer through advanced Rubyists. We give lectures on programming topics We freely provide decades worth of experience For full details of this month's meeting please visit [http://columbusrb.com](http://columbusrb.com)