Marketing and Sales

👋 Hello guys and gals, 👋 🎉🎉🎉 Get ready for the after Summer event. 🎉🎉🎉 Doors open at 18:00 18:15 - 18:30 - Gathering and welcome from the organizers. 18:30 - 19:00 - Faris Aziz - The Hidden Battleground, Engineering High-Conversion Payment Experiences 19:00 - 19:30 - Nestor Lopez Federation of Specialists: From Module Federation to AI Orchestration 19:30 - 20:00 - George Karalis - Exploring MCP Apps: Practical Use Cases for the Enterprise [Get your CityJS Athens Blind tickets now before the end of Month as our prices will go Save 50% off.](https://athens.cityjsconf.org) **Faris Aziz - The Hidden Battleground, Engineering High-Conversion Payment Experiences** For most products, the checkout is the most critical and fragile part of the funnel. It’s where traffic turns into revenue, where small UX regressions compound into large financial losses, and where system failures become immediately visible on the balance sheet. This talk explores how to build resilient, high-converting payment experiences as systems, not screens. Drawing on hundreds of A/B experiments run on tens of millions of users and lessons from operating a global subscription platform generating tens of millions in annual recurring revenue, we’ll look at how payment orchestration evolves as products scale across regions, currencies, and providers. We’ll cover how to design checkout UX that converts consistently even for low-frequency products, how to orchestrate multiple gateways without leaking complexity to the user, and how to test and monitor flows where failure tolerance is extremely low. Along the way, I’ll even show a shocking example where adding just two form inputs, implemented correctly, could cost over a million dollars in lost revenue. This is a practical talk from the trenches about why checkout is a hidden battleground, and how resilient payment engineering protects both conversion and growth. **Nestor Lopez //** **Federation of Specialists: From Module Federation to AI Orchestration** The industry has already learned how to break frontend monoliths apart without breaking the product experience. A similar shift is now happening in AI. This talk traces the move from federated UI and composable runtime systems to a federation of AI specialists—and shows why production AI works better when agents have clear roles, controlled tools, workflow hooks, shared collaboration context, and policy boundaries. **George Karalis - Exploring MCP Apps: Practical Use Cases for the Enterprise** What happens when you give an LLM structured access to your company's actual systems, its APIs, data, internal tools? MCP Apps are a new extension to the Model Context Protocol that lets servers return interactive HTML interfaces, dashboards, forms, data explorers, rendered directly inside the conversation. Instead of bouncing users between chat and separate web apps, the UI lives right where the discussion happens, with bidirectional data flow and sandboxed security. We'll look at how tool handlers expose API endpoints to LLMs, how OAuth fits into the picture, and how the data and context flow into a React app rendered inside the conversation. Whether you're considering MCP for your own product or just curious about what generative UI looks like, this talk will give you a practical intro on building AI-native enterprise tools with React. A word from our sponsors. * [EPIGNOSIS](https://www.epignosishq.com/) * [CityJS Conferences](https://cityjsconf.org) 🏆Mini surprise🏆 🍕Pizzas🍕 🦸‍♀️Socializing🦸‍♂️!

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**🎉 Our very first NestJS Meetup!** Join us for an after-work technical meetup focused entirely on the **NestJS Framework**. Connect with fellow engineers over drinks and snacks, and dive into practical, architecture-focused sessions designed to level up your backend development. Whether you're exploring the framework or deploying it at scale, this event is built for you. **Talk 1: From Request to Response – Observing Fastify in NestJS** * **Getting Started:** Core concepts, project scaffolding, and leveraging NestJS's modular architecture for scalable applications. * **The Request Lifecycle:** A deep dive into the execution flow. Understand the exact ordering of Middleware, Guards, Interceptors, Pipes, Exception Filters, and Controllers. * **Observability with Interceptors:** Implement cross-cutting concerns (logging, metrics, payload transformation, error tracking) cleanly without polluting business logic. **Talk 2: Clean CQRS with Pipelines** * **CQRS Implementation:** Build clean and maintainable CQRS architectures using pipeline behaviors for commands, queries, and events. * **Centralized Logic:** Encapsulate logging, correlation IDs, authorization, and validation in reusable components. * **The Outcome:** Achieve decoupled event flows, consistent validation, and significantly improved system maintainability. **Event Details** * Two technical deep-dives + Q&A + Networking * Drinks & Snacks provided * Backend Engineers. All NestJS experience levels welcome! Come learn, share your architectural insights, and help grow the local NestJS engineering community. We look forward to seeing you!

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What happens when **Data** **Streams**, **Kafka Queues** and **LLMs** walk into a meetup in Athens? See for yourself! **Viktor Gamov** \- Principal Developer Advocate \(Confluent\) **and** **Sandon Jacobs** \- Developer Advocate \(Confluent\) will be dropping by to talk about: * **The Missing Protocol: How MCP Bridges LLMs** **and Data Streams** \- Viktor Gamov * **What you can do with a Kafka Queue** \- Sandon Jacobs Join us for an exciting and insightful evening, get to know the growing community while geeking and networking! 📍 You will find us at **ImpactHub Athens,** Karaiskaki 28, Athens 105 54 🕡 at **6:30 pm** 📅 on the **22nd** of **April** Big shoutout to **Confluent** for making this event happen! Their active support is what helps the community grow even bigger! 💪

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Communication is everything in life You are only as successful as your ability to communicate. \- What if you could confidently talk to anyone? \- What if you had the ability to calmly control every conversation? \- What if you could close that sale\, ask for that date\, make new friends\, repair problematic relationships\, get that raise\, or effortlessly express any idea with confidence? You can! The secret to success relies on your ability or inability to effectively communicate. Attend a free seminar and gain a better ability to communicate. Hosted by the Church of Scientology of Central Ohio 1266 Dublin Road, Columbus, OH 43215 For more information, contact Rhiannon, the Event Host at 614-221-5024