Smart Cities

**What this is** A high-signal networking night for founders, developers, operators, and ambitious future founders exploring how AI can help build, run, and grow a business. Bring a concrete challenge, a workflow, or an idea you want to sharpen, and leave with practical insights, fresh perspectives, and a few strong new connections. **Where** Motel One Zurich, bar area. Head to the bar and ask for Financial Network Zurich. **When** Mondays, 19:00 to 22:00 19:00 arrivals and welcome 19:30 open discussion on AI for Business, tools, workflows, and real use cases 20:30 open networking until 22:00 **How we roll** Practical, thoughtful, and high-trust conversation. Less hype, more substance. No pitch theater, no guru performance, just real people sharing useful ideas on how AI can create leverage in business. **Who this is for** Developers, startup founders, business owners, solo builders, and aspiring founders who want to use AI in a smart, strategic, and genuinely useful way. **Bring** A real question, a current business challenge, or one AI use case you want to explore, plus a positive mindset. **Food and drinks** Order food and drinks with the waitresses whenever you like. **LINKS** Community Owner’s Direct (All Infos & Questions): Alessandro +41 76 279 32 84 WhatsApp Group: [https://chat.whatsapp.com/DCSSmdHj7xr6F39ZAAWubX](https://chat.whatsapp.com/DCSSmdHj7xr6F39ZAAWubX) Financial Network Zurich: [https://www.meetup.com/entrepreneurs-focus-and-network-workshop/](https://www.meetup.com/entrepreneurs-focus-and-network-workshop/) Founder’s Links (Alessandro): [https://linktr.ee/alessandronfthyme](https://linktr.ee/alessandronfthyme)

As the relentless heat wave continues to bake the streets of Zurich, we invite you to escape the glare of the city and step into a space where the air is heavy with a different kind of intensity. In the cool, quiet halls of the **Kulturhaus Obere Stube**, a layered world unfolds in which grief is not only felt, but also questioned as experience: as a possible form of knowledge whose recognition cannot be taken for granted. «The Shroud 2026» is not merely a technical showcase; it is a haunting, immersive encounter with Seraina’s fate — a mother’s loss seen through a fractured state in which grief is already distorted by silence, self-doubt, displacement, and the pressure of a world unable to meet it on its own terms. This experience is brought to life through the multi-disciplinary artistry of Alexander Vögeli, a media artist whose work seamlessly spans the physical and digital realms. Serving as the project's architect, Vögeli’s vision encompasses everything from the initial research and concept to the art direction, technical programming, and dramaturgy. Through the delicate interplay of a physical book and a digital veil, you enter a space in which Seraina’s loss is mediated through silence, self-doubt, displacement, and distortion.The atmosphere of this world is further textured by the sound design of Jan Meier, while the voices of Francesca Ruch, Jan Meier, Leon Zahler, and Maya Lewandowski breathe life into the narrative, making the presence of Seraina and the AI mourning companion feel both intimate and unsettling. Additional technical assistance was provided by iffn and Melvin Sprenkels. Together, these contributions craft a space where grief becomes a point of departure for questioning how we, and our technologies, respond to loss, mourning, and experiences that seem to resist easy understanding. **Join us in Stein am Rhein from July 6th to July 12th** to explore this intersection of mixed reality, literature, mourning, and technology. Let’s leave the burning sun behind and enter a world shaped by loss, mourning, technology, recognition, silence, and the fragile conditions of understanding.

This special holiday program is perfect for children who love being creative and want to try out different techniques. Inspired by the "All You Can Eat" principle, you can create as much as you like within your booked time. What can you create? During the summer holidays, you'll have a wide range of creative activities to choose from. You can focus on one technique or try several. Manga Drawing (1.5 hrs) \*starts at 1:00 pm\* Learn step-by-step how to draw manga characters. You'll learn the basics of manga faces, eyes, and proportions, and you can create your own character. Pottery (2 hrs) Shape a small bowl, mini vase, or figurine with your hands! I'll show you how! Acrylic Painting (2 hrs) Paint your own picture with acrylic paints on canvas. Whether it's cute animals, food illustrations, or summer scenes – let your imagination run wild! Coloring (0.5 hrs) Perfect for relaxing between other projects. Choose a template or create your own design and experiment with colors. Decoding (0.5 - 1 hr) In this popular technique, you decorate objects with a creamy paste and cute decorative elements. For example, cases, mirrors, or small boxes. The finished piece needs to dry overnight in the studio and can be picked up the next day. (max 3) Punch Needle (1 - 2 hr) Using yarn and a special needle, you create textured patterns and small textile artworks. This technique is easy to learn and especially fun. Crochet Tote Bag (1 hr) Using simple crochet techniques, you can make a small bag or accessory from yarn. Design Jewelry & Keychains (0.5 - 1 hr) Create your own bracelets, pendants, or small gifts. Hand Lettering & Greeting Card Design (1 - 1.5 hr) Learn beautiful lettering and design personalized cards – perfect for birthdays or short messages. Nail Design (1 hr) You can also get creative with your nails. For hygiene reasons, please bring your own nail file and nail polish. Just like with "All You Can Eat," there's only one important rule at All You Can Create: 👉 You must complete your project. If a project appears incomplete, an additional fee of 10 CHF will be charged. This rule helps ensure that the creative space is used fairly for everyone and motivates participants to consciously complete their projects.

We are **[Rhacklette](https://rhacklette41.github.io/),** a group of female, inter, non-binary, trans and agender (FINTA) people in Security. Our goal is to create a protected space for gender minorities in the security industry, this applies to professionals as well as students or career changers. We are a subgroup of **[DEFCON Switzerland](https://www.defcon-switzerland.org/)**, a non profit well known for the **[Area41 conference](https://area41.io/)** and **[Beer On Tuesdays (BoTs)](https://www.beerontuesday.ch/)**. DEFCON Switzerland strives to support and foster the local hacker community. We want to create a network, mainly in Switzerland, where people feel safe and understood. A safe space to learn together, in which knowledge is imparted and built up, where you can have fun together and meet other people who share the same passion. Did someone say **SWAG?! –** That’s right! **:D** We have a refreshed swag shop where you can now purchase the latest and sexiest DC4131 Swag, all locally sourced and produced – All options and details can be found here: **[DC4131 Swag Shop](https://boxprint.store/dc4131)** Come and join us for our monthly meetups, we look forward to welcoming you! :)

Join us for the weekly Language Exchange! 🚀 Language Exchange WhatsApp Chat https://chat.whatsapp.com/BXLxbQAOG1bEJnsGPQ8YlL Join the weekly Language Exchange (every monday) to work on your language skills, socialize and meet cool and open people. 💡HOW DOES IT WORK💡 1. Come to the location (for Spring and Summer the event will take place on a outside)☀️🍹 2. The Event Host will greet you🤜🏽🤛🏾 3. We will place large flags on to the grass. You can sit on them or stand around them and speak the language of the flag. 🇪🇸🇬🇧🇵🇹🇮🇹🇩🇪🇨🇭🇫🇷 4. Start talking with people around the world and improve your language skill💪🏽💭 🍔Food & Beverages WHEN OUTSIDE🍹 Bring your own, with HB only 2 mins away, bring what ever you like. But please don't leave your trash behind ⛈️Bad Weather🌧️ If the forecast is bad, watch out here or on WhatsApp for updates. We might need to change the location or cancel the event.

18:00 Doors open 18:15 Talk: Unlocking the future of Fashion Shopping with AI & 3D 19:00 Networking 20:00 End of Event Please note: **We need your full name in the participant list.** This is due to security requirements at the venue.

Start um 19.00 Uhr ab Marktplatz Zürich Oerlikon Dauer: 60 Minuten Lauftempo: 6 min/km (10 km/h) Start 7pm at Marktplatz Zürich Oerlikon Duration: 60 minutes Pace: approx. 6 min/km (9:39 min/mile)

**Practical AI for Professionals & Students in Zürich (Free Session)** Let's make this a fun experience for all who have questions and are eager to learn. This is a 90-minute hands-on session — no tech background needed. Before I schedule or book a room, I'd like to get a sense of how many people will be attending. The location will be in the city of Zürich, TBD. Bring a real task or decision you're working on and a working laptop with Claude, ChatGPT, or any AI. If you need help with installation, please come 15–20 minutes before the session. **AGENDA** **1\. Setup\, Welcome & Why We're Here \(10 min\)** \- Quick intros: name\, what you do\, one thing you wish AI could take off your plate \- Framing: AI as a thinking tool\, not a magic answer machine \- Ground rules for using AI \(what to never paste into a chatbot\, when to disclose AI use\, energy/cost awareness\) **2\. Live Demo 1 — From Brain\-Dump to Plan \(15 min\)** \- Volunteer \(or facilitator\) dumps a messy list of tasks/worries into AI \- Watch it become a clear\, prioritized plan \- Key skill: giving context \+ asking for structure **3\. Live Demo 2 — AI as Critic \(15 min\)** \- Take a real idea or decision from the room \- Prompt AI to poke holes\, surface blind spots\, argue the other side \- Key skill: asking for critique instead of validation **4\. Live Demo 3 — Research Without the Confident Nonsense \(10 min\)** \- How AI gets things confidently wrong \(hallucination\, in plain terms\) \- Techniques: ask for sources\, ask "what might be wrong here?"\, verify before you trust \- When to use AI for research vs\. when not to **5\. Hands\-On: Your Turn \(25 min\)** \- Everyone works on the task or decision they brought \- Pick one: brain\-dump → plan\, idea stress\-test\, or research kickoff \- Facilitator \+ experienced attendees float and help \- Pairs welcome — one drives\, one observes

Start um 19.00 Uhr ab Hafen Zürich Enge Dauer: 60 Minuten Lauftempo Gruppe 1: 6 min/km (10 km/h) Lauftempo Gruppe 2: 7 min/km (8.5 km/h) Start 7pm at Hafen Zürich Enge Duration: 60 minutes Pace group 1: 6 min/km (9:39 min/mile) Pace group 2: 7 min/km (11:16 min/mile)

**This time we map at the Office of Médecins Sans Frontières** (Doctors Without Borders, Ärzte ohne Grenzen). The event will also feature a speaker from MSF. Got a laptop? Ready to make a difference? 💥 We're on a mission to create life-saving maps for disaster response, and we need YOU. No experience? No problem. Whether you're a mapping newbie or an OpenStreetMap Pro, you'll learn, collaborate, and help create maps that matter. What to bring? Your laptop (mouse = bonus points!) Why join? Learn cool mapping skills Make a real impact in crisis zones Meet like-minded change-makers Ready to map for good? Let’s do this.

Start um 19.00 Uhr ab Lindenplatz Zürich Altstetten Dauer: 60 Minuten Lauftempo: 6 min/km (10 km/h) Start 7pm at Lindenplatz-Zürich-Altstetten Duration: 60 minutes Pace: approx. 6 min/km (9:39 min/mile)

**Speakers:** Paulo Martins (GitLab) – **We Tried to Detect Indirect Prompt Injection in Coding Agents. Here’s What Broke** Gianlorenzo Occhipinti (Exa) – **Beyond the Knowledge Cutoff: Agentic Search in Practice** Marius Colacioiu (Norm) - **Your Repo Is the Memory: Durable Context for AI Coding Agents** **Agenda:** 17:30-17:40 – Welcome & intro 17:40 – 18:10: Paulo Martins 18:15 – 18:45: Gianlorenzo Occhipinti 18:45 – 19:15: Marius Colacioiu **Abstract**: **We Tried to Detect Indirect Prompt Injection in Coding Agents. Here’s What Broke** As a community, we are delegating a significant part of our development workflow to agents, and as the use cases grow, the risk of prompt injection keeps increasing - to the point that it made it to the top of the OWASP LLM Top 10. In this talk, I’ll explore the concept of “detect and prevent prompt injection” and why it is particularly hard to do for coding agents. \-\-\- **Beyond the Knowledge Cutoff: Agentic Search in Practice** An LLM is a lossy compression of the internet: the long tail gets blurred, concepts interfere, and anything after the training cutoff simply doesn't exist. The fix isn't a bigger model, it's giving agents the ability to search. This talk walks through the shift from classic retrieve-then-read RAG to agentic search, where the search engine becomes part of the agent's environment and the model learns what, when, and how to query: decomposing questions, parallelizing searches, and chaining multi-hop lookups \-\-\- **Your Repo Is the Memory: Durable Context for AI Coding Agents** AI coding agents are becoming useful fast, but they still do not know the local truth of your codebase. This talk shows how to make repo-local context durable so agents produce work that fits the project and humans can still understand, review, and maintain what gets merged.

NFT's are here to stay folks! This is a group for like minded people interested in understanding, leveraging, using, creating for, profiting from, trading too i suppose, NFT's.. everything around them, complexity, fear and exploits, best practices and more. **PLUS** This group will talk AI ART tools, techniques, artists, video, audio, prototypes and more in the AI assisted production space- ART specifically, but we can get into any aspect of some of the cooler things happening in AI in general.

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**Practical Curiosity: Learning from Everyday Data** How do we actually get better at utilizing our day-to-day data? Fancy dashboards and complex models might look nice and draw attention, but that’s not where most of us spend our time. In fact those shiny outputs frequently sit unused, while the real insights are drawn from the analyst’s daily practice. Sometimes it’s as simple and as powerful as noticing that a segment is shrinking, a channel is underused, or certain links keep getting all the clicks. There’s many different places that the spark of insight can come from, but you have to keep your head in the data and know where to look. In this session, we’ll explore real-world examples of how segmentation, testing, and click behavior can uncover practical digital marketing opportunities. You’ll leave with inspiration for your own use cases, along with a few simple ways to ask better questions, spot meaningful patterns, and make smarter decisions without overcomplicating it. **About Our Speaker:** [Elaine Armbruster](https://www.linkedin.com/in/elainearmbruster/) is a Director of Digital Experience at the [American Diabetes Association](https://diabetes.org/), where she focuses on using data and insights to create smarter, more effective digital experiences. A lifelong Columbus resident, she has built her career in email marketing and the broader digital user journey, and is finding she most enjoys working in the messy middle where systems, data, and big ideas don’t quite line up yet. Thanks to our 2026 sponsors: [Clarivoy](https://www.clarivoy.com), [What Box Consulting Group](https://www.whatboxconsultinggroup.com), [Conductrics](https://www.conductrics.com), and [Piwik PRO](https://piwik.pro) More info at [cbusdaw.com](https://cbusdaw.com)

A great musical deserves a great dinner! Join us for dinner at the Gahanna CAP CITY FINE DINER immediately following HADESTOWN! The film takes us from Broadway to the Big Screen! Dinner will take us to a CMG favorite location for another great dinner and a fun time together! Here’s the plan: HADESTOWN: From Broadway to the Big Screen, this presentation of Hadestown is a not theatrical adaptation of a beloved musical but a chance to see the actual musical featuring many of the original cast members from the hit Broadway production, recorded at the Lyric Theatre in London! Set to New Orleans-style jazz, the musical follows Orpheus and Eurydice. Desperate to get his love back, he travels down into Hadestown! Please purchase your ticket for the 1:00pm showing and meet in the lobby area between 12:35 and 12:45pm. See separate event announcement for complete details or to RSVP for the Movie Portion of this event. CAP CITY FINE DINER: Cap City Fine Diner is part of the Cameron Mitchen family of restaurants and their menu offers “a new spin on old school – classic comfort food made modern.” From starters like their Blue Cheese Potato Chips and Tamarind Glazed Chicken Wings to Soups, Salads, Sandwiches, and Classics like Cap City Diner Meatloaf, Glazed Salmon, the much welcome return of their Vegan Veggie Plate, Cap City has something for every taste. And don’t get me started on their desserts which match the epic theme! You can check out their menu here: https://capcityfinediner.com/locations-menus/gahanna/menus/dinner/ DINNER PLAN: Join us immediately following the movie for dinner at nearby Cap City Fine Diner! Always a great meal and a fun time! Seating is limited for the dinner portion of the event, so please be sure your RSVP is firm and updated as soon as possible if your plans change. REMINDER: if you’d like to join in for dinner, please be sure to RSVP in BOTH the Movie and Dinner Portions of the event. Look forward to seeing you there, Dan

Topic to be announced. **CALL FOR SPEAKERS** Learn more: 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/ **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

*We'll update this with the specific topic(s) once they're set for the month.* A relaxed, community-driven Unity GameDev meetup. No strict agenda — just developers getting together to talk shop, share projects, and exchange ideas. Some topics that may come up (based on attendee interest): * Frame Debugger & performance tooling * Addressables & additive scene workflows * Input System, localization, responsive UI * AI integration approaches * DevOps & LiveOps experiences * Full lifecycle: idea → cross-platform publishing * Favorite Asset Store tools and hidden gems * Weird Unity quirks we've all run into Nothing is locked in. Bring a project if you'd like, bring a question, bring a lesson learned — or just come hang out and meet other developers. All skill levels welcome. Food and drinks provided.

You can sleep in on the Semiquincentennial (observed), we’re shifting to the following Friday. But join the local UX community for a chat and some biscuits to catch up. If you were in CA for Figma Config, tell us all the lines and you can tell me how I can animate an SVG without coding it by hand, and why I’d even want to. Thanks to the team at Nationwide of supporting the group.