Rich Internet Applications

**It’s time to chat with an investor 🤝** **Startup Social Kaunas** is a monthly meetup that happens every first Tuesday of the month. We welcome everyone – startup founders, service providers, investors, or anyone simply curious about the Kaunas startup scene 🫡 This month, we’re switching things up a bit. Instead of a founder, we’re welcoming an investor – **[Paulius Vilemas](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pvilemas/)**. We often hear real, raw stories from founders – but investors play a huge role in the startup journey too. How do they see startups? What are the main mistakes, deal breakers, or early signs of future success? How are investment decisions actually made? Paulius is a founding member of **[LitBAN](https://www.litban.lt/)** and an Investment Director at **[SOFIGAMA Investments](https://www.sofigama.com/).** In addition to being an investor, Paulius is an experienced business development professional and Chief Executive Officer of **[Energenas Group.](https://energenas.lt/)** **❗ Don't forget to register!** **When: Tuesday, February 3rd, at 6:00 pm (doors open)** **Where: Cinema "Daina"** **AGENDA:** 18:00 - Doors open + networking 18:30 - Intro 18:35 - Investor Spotlight: a fireside chat with [Paulius Vilemas](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pvilemas/) + QnA from the audience Moderator: [Šarūnas Straševičius](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharunas/), CEO & Automation Engineer [@Tillforty](https://www.tillforty.com/) 19:35 - networking, snacks, and drinks **Powered by: Confluence Investment** Confluence Investment, a Kaunas-based family office with a history of investing in startups through global funds, is now turning its attention to Kaunas. They are eager to contribute directly to the growth of startups in the city. With a commitment to empowering ambitious founders, Confluence Investment aims to be an active player in helping Kaunas startups scale beyond Lithuania. ❗️IMPORTANT: The event will be photographed. Interview language - English. [sTARTUp Day](https://www.startupday.ee/) is comming (January 28-30). Wanna join? You can use the code **kaunasin15** for a ticket discount;)

**It’s time to chat with an investor 🤝** **Startup Social Kaunas** is a monthly meetup that happens every first Tuesday of the month. We welcome everyone – startup founders, service providers, investors, or anyone simply curious about the Kaunas startup scene 🫡 This month, we’re switching things up a bit. Instead of a founder, we’re welcoming an investor – **[Paulius Vilemas](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pvilemas/)**. We often hear real, raw stories from founders – but investors play a huge role in the startup journey too. How do they see startups? What are the main mistakes, deal breakers, or early signs of future success? How are investment decisions actually made? Paulius is a founding member of **[LitBAN](https://www.litban.lt/)** and an Investment Director at **[SOFIGAMA Investments](https://www.sofigama.com/).** In addition to being an investor, Paulius is an experienced business development professional and Chief Executive Officer of **[Energenas Group.](https://energenas.lt/)** **❗ Don't forget to register!** **When: Tuesday, February 3rd, at 6:00 pm (doors open)** **Where: Cinema "Daina"** **AGENDA:** 18:00 - Doors open + networking 18:30 - Intro 18:35 - Investor Spotlight: a fireside chat with [Paulius Vilemas](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pvilemas/) + QnA from the audience Moderator: [Šarūnas Straševičius](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharunas/), CEO & Automation Engineer [@Tillforty](https://www.tillforty.com/) 19:35 - networking, snacks, and drinks **Powered by: Confluence Investment** Confluence Investment, a Kaunas-based family office with a history of investing in startups through global funds, is now turning its attention to Kaunas. They are eager to contribute directly to the growth of startups in the city. With a commitment to empowering ambitious founders, Confluence Investment aims to be an active player in helping Kaunas startups scale beyond Lithuania. ❗️IMPORTANT: The event will be photographed. Interview language - English. [sTARTUp Day](https://www.startupday.ee/) is comming (January 28-30). Wanna join? You can use the code **kaunasin15** for a ticket discount;)

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

Join members of the local UX and Digital Design community for a casual monthly breakfast. There _might_ be a little snow, but there _will_ be effectively infinite serve-yourself coffee, so it evens out if you ask me. Just a reminder, while the other locations are great too, we’re at the Lane Ave one this time.

**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.**

### 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/)

***THERE ARE BIG SCREENS FOR THE START OF THE WINTER OLYMPICS*** 👍 After being cooped up all week with this snow and cold, it’s a great time to get up out of the house and join us for a fun time at the Pint House!! **Come anytime during 4-8. Stay as long as you want. No set time*** **WE’RE NOW IN A BIGGER AREA!** It’s a chance to meet people in our age group regardless if you’re in your fifties, sixties or seventies! Retired or still working.

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

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