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GrafanaCON Local meetup: Prague
**There is still capacity in the event!** đ **You just need to add yourself to WAITLIST - and we will review your registration and confirm you!** Just because the venue capacity is limited, to ensure the best experience & relevance for the community, the registrations are not auto-confirmed - but managed this way. Without a previous confirmation email, we won't be able to let you in! đ˘
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Join your local observability community for an evening of open source inspiration, real-world stories, and meaningful connections - all in a laid-back, meetup-style setting.
This event will feature a recap of the [GrafanaCON](https://grafana.com/events/grafanacon/) keynote, combined with fresh voices from your own community.
Grafana team members walk through Grafana 13 and the most impactful improvements across the platform. Learn about how Grafana is becoming easier and safer to operate as production infrastructure, with updates that improve configuration management, recovery, and long-term maintainability. The session showcases significant advances in core user workflows, including more flexible and powerful dashboards, with improved performance.
Whether youâre building dashboards, scaling Kubernetes, contributing to open source, or just getting started - this meetup is for you!
**đ Free to attend**
đ Pizza + soft drinks provided
đ¤ Built for connection
đĄ Real talks from real practitioners
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**AGENDA:**
**17:30 - 18:00**: Arrivals and pizza
**18:00 - 18:30:** GrafanaCON recap presentation - by **Grafana Labs** team: **JĂĄra Benc,** Staff Software Engineer & **Juraj Michalek**, Senior Solutions Architect
**18:30 - 18:45:** Q & A
**18:45 - 19:40:** Community talks
***1\. "Who gets paged? Unit\-testing Grafana notification policies\.*" by Martin FryÄ, Staff Infrastructure Engineer at SentinelOne**
\*Grafana notification policies decide who wakes up at 3am, and a single mistyped label can silently reroute an alert into the wrong team's branch. Grafana 13 and grafana-operator let teams own their slice of the policy tree, but Alertmanager still evaluates one merged tree, so a too-broad matcher in team A's subtree can quietly swallow team B's alerts. This talk shows a small Go tool that treats routing as code: declarative "given these labels, expect these receivers" assertions, run in CI against the assembled policy. We will walk through the routing semantics, real misroutings the tool can catch, and why multi-tree provisioning makes this test layer more necessary, not less.
**2\. "*Using OpenTelemetry in development of resin 3D printers*" by** **Pavel Ĺ trobl**
\*In this talk we will take a look how it's possible to get metrics from upcoming resin printers from Prusa Research using OpenTelemetry, why it was not possible to use Prometheus Remote Write and the quirks while getting metrics from hardware constrained environment.
**19:40 - 21:30**: Discussion and more pizza
Note that by registering for this event you consent to related event & product communications from Grafana Labs and agree to our[ code of conduc](https://grafana.com/events/events-code-of-conduct/)t
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**âPLEASE NOTE**: at the SentinelOne office, in line with the venue security requirements - all meetup attendees will be required be verified by their\*\* ID card (or passport\*\*), also to\*\* sign a generic ND\*\*A used for all office visitors and to wear a visitor badge with their name during the whole event - to be able to attend the meetup
Make Friends | International Meet-Up
\~FREE EVENT\~
Meet Locals & internationals People Every Tuesday & Make New Friendsđ
For introverts and shy people (we all are sometimes), we have ice-breaking games and more... so feel free to come by.
Everyone is invited to enjoy amazing Cocktails in 135kc onlyđ¸
Beer in 49 kc đĽđť
It is organized after our Biggest Event in Central Europe with 234 people in a single event. đ
đLOCATION
TEQUILA TALES BAR & MUSIC CLUB
Ăjezd 409/19, 118 00 MalĂĄ Strana, 118 00 Prague, Czech Republic
(Nearest tram stop- Hellichova & Ujezd)
âQuestionsâ
Follow & write to
https://www.instagram.com/tequilatales_prg/
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\~AKCE ZDARMA\~
KaĹždĂŠ ĂşterĂ˝ se seznamte s mĂstnĂmi a mezinĂĄrodnĂmi lidmi a najdÄte si novĂŠ pĹĂĄteleđ
Pro introverty a stydlivĂŠ lidi (vĹĄichni jsme nÄkdy) mĂĄme hry na lĂĄmĂĄnĂ ledu a dalĹĄĂ... tak nevĂĄhejte a pĹijÄte.
VĹĄichni jsou zvĂĄni k vychutnĂĄnà úŞasnĂ˝ch koktejlĹŻ jen za 135 kÄđ¸
Pivo za 49 kÄ đĽđť
Je poĹĂĄdĂĄna po naĹĄĂ nejvÄtĹĄĂ akci ve stĹednĂ EvropÄ s 234 lidmi na jedinĂŠ akci. đ
đ POLOHA
TEQUILA TALES BAR & MUSIC CLUB
Ăjezd 409/19, 118 00 MalĂĄ Strana, 118 00 Praha, ÄeskĂĄ republika
(nejbliŞťà tramvajovĂĄ zastĂĄvka- Hellichova & Ăjezd)
âOtĂĄzkyâ
Sledujte a piĹĄte
https://www.instagram.com/tequilatales_prg/
Tune-Up Tuesday | Karaoke & International Meetup
~~Because nothing says âmidweek crisisâ like screaming pop ballads with strangers~~
So youâve survived Monday... congrats! Celebrate by joining us **every Tuesday** for the most *questionable life choices* youâll never regret â Karaoke Night!
**FREE ENTRY** â because we know you blew your paycheck on brunch last weekend.
đ§ââď¸đ¨âđŚŻFor the socially allergic (aka shy or introverted), weâve got **ice-breaking games** that are only mildly awkward. You might actually meet someone who *also* sings off-key. Soulmates? Maybe.
đ¸ Cocktails for **135 KÄ** â dangerously tasty.
đş Beer for **49 KÄ** â cheaper than therapy.
đ **WHERE THE MAGIC HAPPENS**
**TEQUILA TALES BAR & MUSIC CLUB**
Ăjezd 409/19, Prague 1
(Tram stop: Hellichova or Ăjezd â donât pretend you donât use Google Maps)
đ˛ Stalk us or message your future karaoke group here:
[https://www.instagram.com/tequilatales_prg/](https://www.instagram.com/tequilatales_prg/)
AI on Trial: What AI Act actually means for your company
Join us for another AI Transformers Prague meetup â a community for leaders, innovators, and practitioners who want to turn AI from buzzword into real business impact. This time organized in cooperation with KPMG.
**This session puts AI on trial â through the lens of the EU AI Act.**
As regulation becomes reality, companies are being forced to move from experimentation to accountability. The question is no longer *âCan we use AI?â* but *âAre we allowed to â and under what conditions?â*
The AI Act is set to reshape how organizations design, deploy, and govern AI systems. But what does it actually mean in practice? Who is responsible? Whatâs high-risk? And how do you stay compliant without slowing innovation to a halt?
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đ§ **Theme: AI on Trial â Navigating the EU AI Act**
Weâll explore questions like:
* What does the AI Act require from companies today and in the near future?
* How do you determine if your AI system is âhigh-riskâ?
* What are the biggest compliance challenges organizations face?
* How can companies balance innovation with regulation?
* What practical steps should teams take now to prepare?
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đ **Speakers**
Experts from consulting, corporate, and public sector bringing different perspectives on how the AI Act is interpreted and applied in practice:
[Martin Äapek](https://www.linkedin.com/in/martincapeklawyer/) â KPMG
[Ivana KudlĂĄÄkovĂĄ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivana-kudl%C3%A1%C4%8Dkov%C3%A1-4b17923ab/) â ÄeskĂ˝ telekomunikaÄnĂ ĂşĹad
Petr BerĂĄnek â MSD
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đ¤ **Format**
Short expert talks followed by a panel discussion and audience Q&A â focused on practical implications, not legal theory.
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đ **Agenda (June 16)**
17:30â18:00 â Arrival, registration & networking
18:00â18:10 â Welcome & intro
18:10â19:00 â Expert talks
19:00â19:45 â Panel discussion & Q&A
19:45â20:30 â Networking, drinks & informal conversations
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đĽ **Who Is This For?**
* Founders & startup leaders working with AI
* Product managers & engineering leaders
* Corporate innovators & transformation teams
* Legal, compliance, and risk professionals
* Data scientists and AI practitioners
* Anyone affected by upcoming AI regulation
Whether you're building AI products or evaluating their use, this session will help you understand what the AI Act means for your organization â and what to do next.
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đ **Practical Info**
Date: June 16
Time: 17:30â20:30
Location: KPMG offices, Prague
Language: English
Attendance is free, but spots are limited.
RSVP to secure your place and join others navigating the future of AI in Europe.
By attending this event, you agree that photos and videos may be used for marketing purposes. If you do not consent, please inform the organizers in advance or at the venue.
CCC-BMG-MOON2-1 Defenders of Caer Moray
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**RISING SHADOWS**
Far to the west of the Sword Coast, the Moonshae Isle rise from the storm-wracked Sea of Swords. Cloaked in mists and draped in legend, the Moonshaes are more than mere rocks. For them courses the primal power of the Earthmother who maintains the precarious Balance between creation and destruction. But now that is all in danger.
A new foe rises from the Shadowfell to threaten the Balance. Known only as the Slain, this mysterious adversary casts a deepening shadow of despair upon the Moonshaes.
**CCC-BMG-MOON2-1 Defenders of Caer Moray (Level 1 - 4)**
The most untamed of the Moonshaes, residents on Moray are accustomed to defending themselves. Recently something has stirred the dark forces that threaten the families of this strategically vital location. With every spare sword allocated to the homelands, who will answer their call for aid?
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**CAST IDENTIFY: WHAT IS ADVENTURERS LEAGUE?**
Adventurers League (AL) is a D&D public play program - start the story at one table, and bring your character to the next part of the adventure at any AL table in the world!
**New to D&D?** No problem! Our DMs will be happy to help you - just bring your imagination and the items below!
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**ADVENTURING GEAR: WHAT TO BRING**
Mandatory:
⌠200 CZK (pay in cash or by QR code)
Recommended:
⌠Snacks
⌠Pen or pencil
⌠Polyhedral dice (or borrow some of ours)
⌠A Lv 1 - 4 AL legal character
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**STUCK IN A PIT TRAP: CANCELLATIONS**
If you realize you cannot join us, please do change your RSVP to "No" as soon as possible - there may be other players waiting to join.
See you there, Adventurer, and may your dice roll high!
⌠Discord: https://discord.gg/WXvRrksrT4
⌠Facebook: facebook.com/ddalprague
⌠Contact: ddalprague@gmail.com
⌠Adventurer's League: https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1676-what-is-adventurers-league
⌠Current Player's Guide: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yaVW5QrBNCaXPJ1uOSCLaa7v4BCBnUBi/view?usp=sharing](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yaVW5QrBNCaXPJ1uOSCLaa7v4BCBnUBi/view?usp=sharing)
Czech Conversation Sessions đ¨đż
Ahoj!
Want to work on your Czech in a fun and playful way?
Come join us to practice together!
âĄď¸Can't make it at this time? No problem, join in when you can. Not available this time? Don't worry, we organise events regularly, so make sure to follow our page to stay updated!
âĄď¸ Mixed levels
You donât need to worry about your level of Czech, given that you already have some basic familiarity with the language.
We will provide guidance throughout the event adapted to different levels, so anyone who wants to learn can easily participate. You are also welcome just to listen, it can be very helpful!
This is a unique learning experience as well as a way to find like-minded language enthusiasts over a cup of coffee or a beer.
âĄď¸For organisational reasons we ask to rsvp if you plan to join. In order to guaranty qualitative learning for everyone present we will limit the inscriptions if we are getting too full.
âĄď¸Price: For you to decide! We accept donations to make sure we can continue organising regular events.
Looking forward to meet you! đ¤
Tuesday 3x3 Basketball in PraĹžaÄka with Galaksians
**3x3 Basketball** practice in **GymnĂĄzium Na PraĹžaÄce** indoor basketball court.
**Start at 19h00**. Everybody is welcome, no age, gender nor any restriction of any type to join.
We got a full field, rotating with 3x3 matches on each side.
Cost: **90 crowns**.
Please send the money using the **QR Code** stored here: https://imgur.com/a/thtAJd0
In case of any Opt-out within 24h of the session, or no show, the payment will be due (you still can ask someone to come instead of you, as your spot will be booked)
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Uninstall Duolingo - Weekly Language Exchange
Free Event/Vstup Zdarma
Pro ÄeĹĄtinu, podĂvejte se nĂĹže
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Hello, people of Prague!! We bring you a forum to trade your language skills and learn something more. If not interested in language, you could have a general conversation.
The goal is to create a chill environment for social networking with a focus on learning the language of your choice.
So grab some beverages at the bar/cafe and get on with it every Thursday.
**NEW** Venue: Tequila Tales Bar
**NEW** Location: Ujezd 409/19, 11800 MalĂĄ Strana
Timing: 1900-2200 (Every Thursday)
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CZ
Ahoj PraŞåci!! PĹinĂĄĹĄĂme vĂĄm fĂłrum, kde mĹŻĹžete vymÄnit svĂŠ jazykovĂŠ znalosti a dozvÄdÄt se nÄco vĂc.
CĂlem je vytvoĹit pohodovĂŠ prostĹedĂ pro sociĂĄlnĂ sĂtÄ se zamÄĹenĂm na vĂ˝uku jazyka dle vaĹĄeho vĂ˝bÄru.
TakĹže si vezmÄte nÄjakĂŠ nĂĄpoje v baru/kavĂĄrnÄ a pusĹĽte se do toho kaĹždĂ˝ Ätvrtek.
**NOVE** MĂsto: Tequila Tales Bar, Ujezd 409/19, 11800 MalĂĄ Strana
Äas: 1900-2200 (kaĹždĂ˝ Ätvrtek)
June 2026 DevOps Meetup
Talk 1
**Title: The Platform Is the People: SLAs, DORA and Trust at Billions of Requests a Month**
By: Harry Bouras
Role / LinkedIn: AI & Cloud Engineering leader, formerly heading the API organisation of a leading, extremely global and multicultural corporation. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harry-bouras/
Abstract:
Most "platform" talks are about tools. This one isn't. Heading the API organisation of a leading, extremely global and multicultural corporation, interconnecting decades of legacy systems while serving billions of requests a month and scaling across both Azure and Google Cloud, taught me a contrarian lesson the hard way: at that volume, platforms don't fail on technology, and cloud bills don't explode because of bad Terraform. They fail, or succeed, on how the organisation is set up to own, deliver and grow the thing. The org chart is the real architecture.
I'll walk through the levers that actually moved the needle, each anchored in real moments from that scale. How SLAs, framed as clarity rather than punishment, change engineer behaviour more than any dashboard. Why extending trust and time to a team up front - the most uncomfortable thing a leader can do, is precisely what raises build quality and cuts the rework you can't afford at billions of requests. What genuinely changed when we dragged a waterfall-shaped organisation toward iterative, Scrum-based delivery, and why that was about shortening feedback loops, not adding ceremonies. And how DORA metrics became our objective answer to a question every team argues about: what actually makes a successful Senior Software Engineer and what a DevOps engineer?
Then the human core, told honestly, which means told as comedy. What makes a good manager in this world, narrated through the things I was certain about and was completely wrong about. The running joke is also the real point: nearly every instinct that made me a good engineer made me a mediocre manager until I unlearned it.
Finally, a look at what we're all about to get wrong together: AI is forcing DevOps to grow up into DevSecOps - and the teams that handle it well will be the ones that already have the ownership, trust and growth culture this talk is really about.
Talk 2
**Postmortem Culture: Turning Failures into Learning, Not Blame**
By: Dani Yelovitch
Most engineering teams treat incidents as embarrassments to bury â a quick fix, a vague Slack message, and everyone moves on. This talk argues for a different approach: treating every failure as a gift.
The core idea is blameless postmortems â a practice pioneered at Google and Netflix where the goal isn't to find a scapegoat, but to understand how the system (people, tools, processes) allowed a failure to happen in the first place. If a human made a mistake, the real question is: why did the system make that mistake easy to make?
The talk would cover:
What a good postmortem looks like (and the common ways they go wrong)
How to run a blameless review without it becoming a blame-by-committee session
Turning action items into actual change, not a graveyard doc nobody reads
Building psychological safety so engineers report problems early instead of hiding them
The key takeaway: teams that learn from failure faster than their competitors ship better software with fewer catastrophic incidents â not because they have better engineers, but because they've built better feedback loops.
**Talk 3:**
Title: From Service Organization to Self-Service: Platform Engineering in Action
By Pavel BureĹĄ from Sky
Modern engineering organisations accumulate platform silos faster than they can pay them down â each team picking its own way to provision workloads, databases, queues and caches, each with subtly different security, observability and cost profiles. In this talk we share how we are tackling that problem at scale through a Platform Engineering practice built on the principle of a unified, abstracted interface for application-centric configuration â an approach that shifts platform teams from "ticket-driven plumbing" to product thinking: stable contracts, golden paths, and self-service by default.
In the second half we zoom in on PEaaS (Persistence Engineering as a Service), our concrete implementation of these principles for stateful workloads. We will walk through the architecture â Crossplane 2.0 composition functions on EKS, application-centric Kubernetes claims (XRs), and a tenant-onboarding model that automates IAM, VPC endpoints, OIDC and S3 provisioning â and how it abstracts heterogeneous backends (Keyspaces, Aurora DSQL, Redis Cloud, and Kafka on EKS) behind one consistent interface.
Attendees will leave with: A practical pattern for designing engineering platforms in their own organisations.
A reference architecture for persistence-as-a-service on Crossplane.
Honest lessons on standardisation, tenant onboarding and platform adoption.
78. praĹžskĂ˝ sraz pĹĂĄtel PHP@Keboola
Ahoj PĂŠhapkĂĄĹi!
Zveme vĂĄs na dalĹĄĂ sraz komunity.
đ¤ Martin VaĹĄko - Benchmarking agentĹŻ
đ¤ TomĂĄĹĄ Fejfar - Jak jsme potĹetĂ pĹepsali agenta
đ¤ Adam Ĺ trauch - EfektivnĂ nasazenĂ kĂłdu pĹes AI agenta
17:30 â open doors
18:00 â pĹednĂĄĹĄka
18:40 â pĹednĂĄĹĄka
19:20 â pĹednĂĄĹĄka
20:00 - kvĂz & networking
DÄkujeme naĹĄim partnerĹŻm a tÄĹĄĂme se na vidÄnou!
Adresa: Keboola - DÄlnickĂĄ 191/27, Praha 7-HoleĹĄovice
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Brunch and Chill: Make New Friends
â ď¸ **IMPORTANT: You must sign up and buy a ticket here to attend:**
[https://groupvibe.com/](https://groupvibe.com/)
**This is a curated, small-group meetup make new friends in Prague.**
Each meetup brings together 4â6 like-minded people for casual conversations over brunch. We use the Groupvibe platform to organize and ensure everyoneâs a good fit.
đ **To attend, youâll need to complete registration via this link:**
[https://groupvibe.com](https://groupvibe.com)
Once you register, and **buy a ticket or become a Groupvibe member**, weâll share the exact location and match you with your group.
**Why this works:**
\* Smaller groups make real conversations easier
\* Matching helps avoid awkward dynamics
**Note:**
RSVPs here on Meetup donât reflect total attendance. Many attendees register directly via our website.
This meetup is organized by **Groupvibe**, a small team passionate about helping people form meaningful friendships offline.
Critique-Free Writing Group [in-person & virtual]
This group is for anyone who writes - for any reason. Have a thesis or article you need to write? Trying to finish a novel or an academic paper? This group is for you.
We are currently meeting in-person at Locus Workspace. If you have any questions, contact Sonya Lano here or on Facebook or Messenger (https://www.facebook.com/sonya.lano).
We start at 9:00, introduce ourselves, and share a few words about what we're working on and what we hope to accomplish during the session. At the end of the session, you can give us a brief recap of how it went. We'll break at noon.
The afternoon session starts at 2:00 pm. You're welcome to join both sessions or just one. Please come as close to 9:00 as you can if you come for the morning session. If you come to the afternoon session, we are usually back by about a quarter to 2:00.
#39 Prague: 5 Levels of AI Adoption. Which One Are You On? Prove it.
We give you a full **explanation of the KPI Framework.**
> âDo You **Measure** the Most Valuable KPIs? Red/Amber/Green Thresholds for Each of Your Levels Explained.
## âSituation
âYou burn $$$ on AI tokens. You run hackatons. Git repo full of AI pilots.
âYou're spending more on AI than last year.
âYet, you can't shake the feeling that you're paying faster than you're shipping.
> âđŁ We give you the manual to pick the top KPIs that demonstrate the value, based on the context of how far you are in AI adoption.
â3 CTOs share where they actually are on the AI adoption ladder, what worked, what they'd undo, and what comes next.
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The 3 KPIs you should actually be tracking at each level. And the ones to stop tracking.
âThe 5 levels of AI adoption, mapped from engineering orgs.
â**1ď¸âŁ L1: Nothing in production.** How to leave it without burning two quarters on pilots.
â**2ď¸âŁ L2: Talent:** upskilling, reskilling and firing.
â**3ď¸âŁ L3: Proof:** When the cost curve overtakes the delivery curve, and how to calculate AI efficiency proof?
â**4ď¸âŁ L4: Going AI-native:** What concretely changes when AI moves from IDEs into production.
â**5ď¸âŁ L5: You've won** the AI race. Where's the new edge in 2027?
âBring your situation. By the end you'll know which level you're on, what is your KPI, what your next move is, and what to stop doing this quarter.
âNo hype, no AI gospel. Two practitioners, real experience, with answers.
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â20-minute lightning talks + Q&A followed by legendary networking!
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## âWhat makes our meetups different:
* â**Action-oriented:** Every talk includes takeaway guides/frameworks you can photograph or access via QR code
* â**Case study focused:** Real implementations, real results, real failures
* â**Interactive:** Audience Q&A with people who've actually done this
* â**Practical:** Skip the vendor pitchesâhear from practitioners
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> âPerfect for engineering leaders tired of AI marketing fluff who want practical insights.
Where will we work in the age of AI?
## **What IdeaVerse is about**
**We meet usually once a month to discuss some of the current challenges as well and perhaps come up with new ideas on how to overcome them. The format of the meeting includes an initial sharing of viewpoints by each participant without judgment, and in the second half we will discuss our ideas and try to find things to learn from each other.**
**In this next meeting we'll be discussing...**
the future of work in the age of AI. I know, people are talking too much about this already in tech meetups where they just praise it to Kingdom Come. We're tired of it. But whether we like that it exists or not, we are confronted with a choice that I'd like us to discuss: **Do I lean into AI like I'm told I HAVE TO, or choose a different path, one more into physical labor or working with people? Or do I just say goodbye to work and start my own business?**
We hear thhat AI is going to replace a large number of jobs, starting with call centers, Uber drivers, writers, graphic designers, translators, etc. That a senior expert will replace 4 others in his team using AI. That the only jobs that will remain are those which require human touch like holding meetings, talking face to face with customers, jobs that require empathy or jobs that require dexterity like plumbing.
**But the path forward seems so unclear:**
1\. Who should learn AI: young people who want to compete with seniors\, or seniors because juniors don't know enough to spot errors?
2\. Should I double down on AI courses and certificates or jump a sinking ship and learn a craft or improve my social work skills? Or start my own business to escape irrelevance at work?
3\. Do we go with the flow and adapt to this rapid overwhelming change\, or demand from policy makers that they do not let companies do as they please if that means lower wages and unemployment at scale?
**Some suggested reading/watching:**
* [If AI Takes All Of Our Jobs... Who's Going To Buy Everything?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYB0SVTGRj4) (the answer may shock you! :) - a 12 minute video) - good summary of the most likely future scenarios for automation and economics. Does not answer our questions but sets the scene for it.
* [AI Experts: These Are The Only 5 Jobs That Will Remain in 2030!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCjmK66x_Yk) (15 minute video) - a collage of various human and AI experts discussing options for work in the future (mostly from the famous DOAC).
* [The Future of Jobs Report 2025](https://www.weforum.org/publications/the-future-of-jobs-report-2025/in-full/3-skills-outlook/) (40 minute read) - lots of data, may need skimming but highly useful insight into projections for which jobs will be useful in the future.
**The meeting is free to attend, but please buy a drink or two at our patron's place, to make them happy. They also have food in case you find the meeting too early (see [menu](https://altangrebovka.choiceqr.com/section:kavarna---jidelni-listek)).**
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Smart Search + AI: An Outcome-Driven Journey from IDP to a Suite of AI
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 worldâs largest consumer of Amazon Textract, right when GenAI began reshaping whatâs possible. Since then, weâve built a suite of AIâdriven solutions that transform this data into real, measurable outcomesâaccelerating benefits decisions for our Nationâs Veterans.
Join us for a focused conversation on how an outcomeâdriven 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
Italian Conversation Hour
Ciao a tutt\*!
Let's meet Monday at 6.30pm at the Upper Arlington Library (Tremont Branch) in **Meeting Room A** to speak in Italian for 1 hour.
Rise and Shine with Atlassian - Reynoldsburg
Come chat about Atlassian tools and best practices at the Reynoldsburg Sunny Street Cafe and Breakfast is on Atlassian!
Let's get the day started off with breakfast with your ACE Leaders! We're always excited to talk about Atlassian Products, share our knowledge and hand out swag! Come chat with us about new product news and anything you are working on within the Atlassian product stack. This is a great opportunity to come see what we are all about, hear new business news and share with other Atlassian users your questions and experiences. We'd love to see new and old friends come out to chat and learn about Atlassian!
Agenda
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Moderators
Kimberly Deal - Columbus Atlassian User Group Leader
Kevin Stanley - Columbus Atlassian User Group Leader
Greg Sprowls - Columbus Atlassian Community Leader
Hosted By
Kimberly Deal, Atlassian User Group Leader
Kevin Stanley, Chief Everything
Greg Sprowls, Agility Lead
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Global Partner
Atlassian (http://atlassian.com)
Millions of users globally rely on Atlassian products every day for improving software development, project management, collaboration, and code quality.
Partner
Atlassian
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For over a decade, Atlassian customers have come together to network, share ideas, solve problems, and find new ways to use Atlassian products. Today, more than 15,000 people take part in Atlassian community events in more than 30 countries.
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Complete your event RSVP here: https://ace.atlassian.com/events/details/atlassian-columbus-presents-rise-and-shine-with-atlassian-reynoldsburg-5/.
Happy Hour on the Green: Celebrating Fathers, Friends & Family
Happy Hour on the Green âł
Join Black Love & Friends for a laid-back evening at Topgolf as we celebrate the fathers, father figures, brothers, uncles, mentors, friends, and positive male role models who enrich our lives and communities.
This isn't a golf tournamentâit's a social gathering designed to bring great people together for conversation, connection, laughter, food, drinks, and a little friendly competition.
Whether you're a father, celebrating a father, bringing your brother, cousin, friend, or simply looking for a fun Saturday evening, you're welcome to join us.
No golf experience is necessary. Come for the happy hour, stay for the company.
Expect:
⢠Topgolf games for all skill levels
⢠Food and drinks available for purchase
⢠Networking and socializing
⢠Great music and positive vibes
⢠A welcoming atmosphere for singles, couples, and friends
Bring someone special or come solo and meet new people.
Let's raise a glass to the men who lead, support, inspire, and show up for the people they love.
Microsoft Build - Columbus Edition!
We are bringing Microsoft Build sessions to Columbus Ohio!
The Central Ohio Azure Meetup and Central Ohio .NET Developer's Group (CONDG) are coming together to bring some of the labs and breakouts from Microsoft Build to your backyard. In this free, 1 day event, you are going to Build stuff with us!
And yes, there will be free food.
Please RSVP via [Microsoft Build //localhost:columbus | Microsoft Reactor](https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/reactor/events/27247/).
In Person Event: The Secrets to Mental Health
Mental Health, how do you understand it? How can you improve it?
How do you get rid of stress, anxiety and uncertainty? These emotions are buried deep in your reactive mind. Find out what the reactive mind is, and in the process find yourself.
Have you ever suffered from a traumatic experience, a deep loss or been through a painful breakup? Has your ability to communicate suffered as a result? And after that, even though you "moved on" did you find that things were never quite the same? Have you ever looked at childhood photos, or reminisced your early life and wondered where that happiness and spark went?
Are your emotions out of your own control? Have you ever felt, even if you arenât aware of it, that possibly you are getting in your own way of your happiness and success? How does this affect your self-confidence?
Find out what is at the root of all stress, anxiety, depression and self-doubt. Find out how and why you hold yourself back from achieving your goals and having the life you have dreamed of. As soon as you learn what is at the root of these unwanted conditions, youâll see it is something you can DO something about. You will not be labeled or categorized at this MeetUp.
This group is hosted by the Dianetics and Scientology Life Improvement Center of Central Ohio.
AWS Columbus: Smart Search + AI: An Outcome-Driven Journey
Title: Smart Search + AI: An Outcome-Driven Journey from IDP to a Suite of AI
Register at the Columbus AWS meetup: [https://www.meetup.com/columbus-aws-amazon-web-services-meetup/events/313426379/](https://www.meetup.com/columbus-aws-amazon-web-services-meetup/events/313426379/)
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 worldâs largest consumer of Amazon Textract, right when GenAI began reshaping whatâs possible. Since then, weâve built a suite of AIâdriven solutions that transform this data into real, measurable outcomesâaccelerating benefits decisions for our Nationâs Veterans.
Join us for a focused conversation on how an outcomeâdriven 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











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