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#39 Prague: 5 Levels of AI Adoption. Which One Are You On? Prove it.
We give you a full **explanation of the KPI Framework.**
> Do You **Measure** the Most Valuable KPIs? Red/Amber/Green Thresholds for Each of Your Levels Explained.
## Situation
You burn $$$ on AI tokens. You run hackatons. Git repo full of AI pilots.
You're spending more on AI than last year.
Yet, you can't shake the feeling that you're paying faster than you're shipping.
> 📣 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.
3 CTOs share where they actually are on the AI adoption ladder, what worked, what they'd undo, and what comes next.
✅ The 3 KPIs you should actually be tracking at each level. And the ones to stop tracking.
The 5 levels of AI adoption, mapped from engineering orgs.
**1️⃣ L1: Nothing in production.** How to leave it without burning two quarters on pilots.
**2️⃣ L2: Talent:** upskilling, reskilling and firing.
**3️⃣ L3: Proof:** When the cost curve overtakes the delivery curve, and how to calculate AI efficiency proof?
**4️⃣ L4: Going AI-native:** What concretely changes when AI moves from IDEs into production.
**5️⃣ L5: You've won** the AI race. Where's the new edge in 2027?
Bring 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.
No hype, no AI gospel. Two practitioners, real experience, with answers.
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20-minute lightning talks + Q&A followed by legendary networking!
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## What makes our meetups different:
* **Action-oriented:** Every talk includes takeaway guides/frameworks you can photograph or access via QR code
* **Case study focused:** Real implementations, real results, real failures
* **Interactive:** Audience Q&A with people who've actually done this
* **Practical:** Skip the vendor pitches—hear from practitioners
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> Perfect for engineering leaders tired of AI marketing fluff who want practical insights.
How to Evaluate Well-Being Claims & Discover What Works for You
**Please note that this event is not for free and we have limited spots! Save yours by signing up [here](https://locusworkspace.com/events/2026/06/17/happiness-hacks-vs-evidence/)!**
**🧠What You'll Learn**
“How can I be happier?” is a question we all ask ourselves at different points in life.
Many “hacks” have been proposed to answer it:
– Think positively
– Practice gratitude
– Meditate
– Exercise more
– Socialise more
– Help others
– Reduce screen time
– Stop comparing yourself to others
– Act happy
But how strong is the evidence behind these recommendations? And do they work equally well for everyone?
In this workshop, we will critically explore the psychological science of well-being and learn how to design simple personal experiments to discover what genuinely helps you.
**🎤About the Speaker**
**Ángel V. Jiménez** is passionate about intentional living, scientific psychology, and the evolutionary study of human behaviour.
He holds a PhD in Evolutionary Social Psychology from the University of Exeter, where he studied status acquisition and interpersonal influence, with a particular focus on prestige and social learning. He has also conducted postdoctoral research at Brunel University London and the University of Exeter.
He currently works as a freelance psychology lecturer at the University of Essex Online and writes about personal development and intentional living at [www.incomparable.info](http://www.incomparable.info/).
**📆Format & Schedule**
17:15 – Doors open
17:30-19:00 – Talk by Ángel V. Jiménez, with an interactive format where participants are welcome to ask questions at any time.
19:00-20:00 – Networking time
**🎟️Price**
**100 CZK per person**. Includes a drink (beer, wine or non-alcoholic).
**Locus members can join for free!**
78. pražský sraz přátel PHP@Keboola
Ahoj Péhapkáři!
Zveme vás na další sraz komunity.
🎤 Martin Vaško - Benchmarking agentů
🎤 Tomáš Fejfar - Jak jsme potřetí přepsali agenta
🎤 Adam Štrauch - Efektivní nasazení kódu přes AI agenta
17:30 – open doors
18:00 – přednáška
18:40 – přednáška
19:20 – přednáška
20:00 - kvíz & networking
Děkujeme našim partnerům a těšíme se na viděnou!
Adresa: Keboola - Dělnická 191/27, Praha 7-Holešovice
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[Open] Happiness Hacks vs Evidence with Ángel V. Jiménez
**Please note that this event is not for free and we have limited spots! Save yours by signing up [here](https://locusworkspace.com/events/2026/06/17/happiness-hacks-vs-evidence/)!**
**🧠What You'll Learn**
“How can I be happier?” is a question we all ask ourselves at different points in life.
Many “hacks” have been proposed to answer it:
– Think positively
– Practice gratitude
– Meditate
– Exercise more
– Socialise more
– Help others
– Reduce screen time
– Stop comparing yourself to others
– Act happy
But how strong is the evidence behind these recommendations? And do they work equally well for everyone?
In this workshop, we will critically explore the psychological science of well-being and learn how to design simple personal experiments to discover what genuinely helps you.
**🎤About the Speaker**
**Ángel V. Jiménez** is passionate about intentional living, scientific psychology, and the evolutionary study of human behaviour.
He holds a PhD in Evolutionary Social Psychology from the University of Exeter, where he studied status acquisition and interpersonal influence, with a particular focus on prestige and social learning. He has also conducted postdoctoral research at Brunel University London and the University of Exeter.
He currently works as a freelance psychology lecturer at the University of Essex Online and writes about personal development and intentional living at [www.incomparable.info](http://www.incomparable.info/).
**📆Format & Schedule**
17:15 – Doors open
17:30-19:00 – Talk by Ángel V. Jiménez, with an interactive format where participants are welcome to ask questions at any time.
19:00-20:00 – Networking time
**🎟️Price**
**100 CZK per person**. Includes a drink (beer, wine or non-alcoholic).
**Locus members can join for free!**
Comedy Open Mic at Ty Kávo!
🎤 A cozy Wednesday-night standup comedy open mic for testing new jokes — from first-timers to seasoned comedians.
🍺 FREE entry, good drinks and cool underground venue near Anděl.
🎭 Want a spot? [Sign up with the MC](https://comedyprague.cz/tykavo/) for 5 minutes on stage.
Pyvo Prague #181 - Summer Edition: Grill & Chill
It's summer! That means it's time for our special summer edition - grill & chill. The pub offers grilled food - you don't need to take your own.
Doors open at **18:30**. There will be only lightning talks.
You can have a lightning talk as well – please register at [Lightning Talks – bit.ly/prpylight](https://bit.ly/prpylight).
**Good to know**
* You don’t have to register for this meetup – the actual attendance is much bigger (40–70 Pythonistas) than indicated in the “Going” list here.
* **Cash only payments – club doesn’t accept cards.**
* Talks at Pyvo are mostly in Czech but it there’s somebody who doesn’t understand Czech talks are switched to English if the speaker is able to do so.
* Besides both soft drinks and beer it's possible to eat at the club. Choice is variable and consists of 4 to 7 options ranging from toast, sausages and soup to fried cheese in a bun, goulash or schnitzel.
* Club closes at midnight.
Wednesday Vltava Run
We are a group of runners who meet most weeks for a run around the beautiful Vltava River's edge.
You can bring your running shoes straight from the office/home office if you don't have time to stop at home. There will be a place to put your bags in the Cafe. We will run about 9 km along the river and have a drink afterwards. Paces vary!
We will meet in the square near Kavarna Liberal (Hermanova 6), near the Vltavska metro/tram stop at 6:30 on Wednesday.
See you there!
Test Driven Development Events This Week
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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 — 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 — 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 — 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 Bureš from Sky
Modern engineering organisations accumulate platform silos faster than they can pay them down — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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.
🤖 Research Tuesday Friday Special: Jak nám AI mění výzkum pod rukama?
AKCE JEN PRO ZVANÉ
🤖 Ahoj, v rámci setkávání Research Tuesday jsme naplánovaly Friday special. Cítíme už nějakou dobu, že naše researchová komunita má potřebu sdílet, co nového nám do práce přinesla umělá inteligence, jak nám mění výzkum pod rukama. Chceme si povídat, chceme si navzájem sdílet, chceme vytvořit mapu, kam si zaneseme, v jakých fázích výzkumu a jakým způsobem používáme AI a co nám funguje dobře a co až tolik ne.
Pracovat a sdílet se bude převážně v menších skupinkách a výstup se na konci odprezentuje ostatním. Mapu pak pravděpodobně dáme k dispozici komunitě.
Pátek 19. června 9 - 12 do Slevomatu v pražském Karlíně. Setkání se koná pouze offline, a kapacita je omezená na 30 pozvaných.
Žádná velká příprava netřeba, jen teď dávej víc pozor, kdy a jak v rámci výzkumného workflow používáš AI a jak ti to funguje, ať se o to můžeš podělit s ostatními.
**🕒 Agenda:**
* **08:30 AM** – Otevření dveří & ranní networking
* **9:00 AM** Workshop
* **12:00 PM** – Závěr & možný společný oběd
**🧸 Hlídání dětí na vyžádání:**
Research Tuesday stavíme na tom, že profesní rozvoj má být přístupný všem. Chceme podpořit i rodiče malých dětí, aby mohli zůstat v kontaktu s oborem a potkávat se bez zbytečných překážek.
**Máte zájem o hlídání?** Rádi ho na místě zajistíme, ale potřebujeme vědět, jestli o něj bude zájem.
Dejte nám vědět v komentářích nejpozději do pondělí 15.6. do 8:00, jestli službu využijete a pro kolik dětí. Podle toho rozhodneme, jestli ji zajistíme.
**Rezervace:** Zarezervuj si místo včas. Pokud se ti plány změní, prosíme, uvolni místo ostatním.
**Těšíme se na známé tváře i nové účastníky!**
Běla, Ivana, Lucie
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.
Prague Writers Group [in-person & virtual]
\*\*\*\*\* We're meeting both in-person and virtually via Skype depending on the week. Contact Sonya Lano for more information if you want to join \*\*\*\*\*
This is for anyone wanting feedback! We mostly focus on novels and longer works, but short stories are welcome, as well. You can submit anything you want feedback on in any genre. Current word limit for submissions is 4,000 words. Send your submissions by 13:30 the Thursday before the meeting (or we have a grace period during which you can submit a lower limit of 2,500 words if you submit by midnight Thursday evening). Also, if you don't have time to read through everyone's submissions, still join the meeting! We know that busy schedules don't always make finding reading time easy.
To submit, use the Dropbox folder. If you don't have access to it, send sonyalakadosch@yahoo.com your e-mail address so I can add you.
Looking forward to seeing everyone there! My number in case of any confusion the day of the meeting is 737 118 530 - or on Facebook: Sonya Lano (https://www.facebook.com/sonya.lano)
DROPBOX INFO:
* add new submissions for the next meeting in the " submissions" folder for the meeting date. Put your name at the beginning of the file name (for example: "Sonya Somewhere in the Dark")
* When providing written feedback (not required, but deeply welcome), save the file as a separate document on your device, then mark your changes/ feedback in the saved file. After you're finished, put the file in the "Feedback" folder under the folder for the meeting date and then under the person the feedback is for (e.g. "For Sonya").
* The submissions folder will be replaced within a week after the meeting has taken place. Feedback will be deleted within 2 months after the meeting, so if you need it longer than that, make sure to copy it to your own disk.
Saturday running and coffee
NOTE THE TIME CHANGE TO 9AM
Hi All,
Come and join us for social running and a coffee!
We meet at the main gate of Vystaviste - tram stop Vystaviste Holesovice. We will run in Stromovka.
Usually we run around 50mins and it is up to everyone how many kilometres. We welcome all levels of runner. We can all run together or, if there is more of us, we can split into groups and at the end of the run we all meet close to the starting point to go for a coffee to a nice local coffee place (where they also sell cakes and great chocolate). If the weather is great, we can also just sit in one of the outside coffee placces in Stromovka and enjoy the sun.
This is where we meet:
http://photos2.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/7/7/3/1/600_447930513.jpeg
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)).**
Eros Reading Circle: The seven deadly sins and the price women pay to be good
Would you like to add more depth to your sexual life but don’t know where to start?
Would you like to deepen the relationship with yourself or with your partner?
Or maybe you just want to be able to talk about these topics openly with like-minded people?
I created Eros Reading Circle because I believe erotica nowadays is very misunderstood. Fast satisfaction is the preferred way on societal level. There are plenty of negative emotions – shame, guilt, low self worth – attached to the topic of pleasure in the collective and also on the individual level.
The past few years I dedicated to self-exploration and the broadening of my horizon when it comes to depths of pleasure and living the tantric approach.
We gather every three weeks in a cozy tearoom in the heart of Prague (near I.P. Pavlova).
You don’t need to join every time. You can attend only one session or more – each time we will cover a different topic.
We don’t read full books. When you book your spot, you will receive an email with the text for the upcoming circle and 2-3 reflection prompts.
We usually cover one chapter, 10 to 30 pages (written in English). You are asked to read the chapter before the session.
All genders, singles and couples are welcome. Our readings explore erotica, pleasure, tantra, ecstasy, desire and the polarity of masculine and feminine energies. Some sessions focus on men’s sexuality, others on women’s, and some on pleasure as a whole.
During each circle, we begin with a short grounding practice, share what resonated or didn’t, engage in discussion and end with a closing reflection.
Eros Reading Circle is for you:
* If you are desiring to have a more conscious sexual life
* If you want to deepen your relationship to self (and to your partner)
* If you would love to attract a partner who complements you
* If you would like to connect and exchange ideas with like-minded people
* If you want to experiment with new practices, try new things
* If you would like to leave behind negative imprints attached to your sexuality
* If you are interested to learn about pleasure from a more spiritual or philosophical aspect
* If you have wondered what tantra is and how could you apply it in your own life
* If you would love to join a circle of book lovers but can’t commit to reading long books
When? 1, 19.00-21.30
Where? Čajovna Šamanka
How much does it cost? 350 CZK
Facebook event link:
https://fb.me/e/4m1kPuPD5
You can book your spot after clicking the link below:
https://buy.stripe.com/3cI3cuelraocf8T0rP5Ne07
If you cancel with more than 24 hours’ notice, you can reschedule within three months.
Our topic will be: Lust and the price women pay to be good - how the sociocultural context related to the seven deadly sins impacts women
I look forward to welcoming you in the circle <3
Test Driven Development Events Near You
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Customize the IDE: Building Extensions for Visual Studio Code - Alan Barber
**Important time note:** Please plan on arriving between 5:30 and 6:00 as the elevators lock after 6 and you'll need to message us and we'll need to come get you.
The building address is 4450 Bridge Park
The entrance is 6620 Mooney St, Suite 400
You will need to scan your ID at the door to get a visitor badge.
**Abstract**
*Customize the IDE: Building Extensions for Visual Studio Code*
Visual Studio Code is one of the most widely used development environments today, and much of its flexibility comes from its extension ecosystem. Extensions allow developers to customize the editor with new features, integrations, and workflow improvements tailored to their needs.
In this session, we’ll cover what extensions are and the different types available, including full extensions written in TypeScript or JavaScript, along with lighter-weight extensions such as color themes, language packs, language support, code snippets, and keymaps. We’ll also look at practical reasons a developer might create an extension, from automating repetitive tasks to adding custom tooling.
The session includes a hands-on walkthrough of creating a new extension, testing it locally, and understanding the basic project structure. We’ll close with a brief overview of how extensions are packaged and published to the Visual Studio Marketplace and other distribution options.
**YouTube Link**
TBD
Prototype, Play, and Build Workshops (In-Person @GameArena)
We're going to GameArena! We'll be in-person at the GameArena Gateway for our monthly COGG Prototype and Play event. Come to play and showcase your games!
We're back in the upper levels of the catwalk area. It'll be packed with lots of camaraderie playing your game(s) and other's games on the 2nd floor. Light snacks and water provided but you can buy food and drinks at the bar (alcoholic drink ID required).
[www.game-arena.co](http://www.game-arena.co/)
**Attendees:**
Don't have a game to show? Not a problem! All are welcomed and invited from all ages and backgrounds. The more we can have to play test our games is all the better!
**Developers:**
Do you have a game that you would like to get critical feedback on? Would you like an excuse to work on a game with other talented artists, programmers, musicians, designers, and writers? Digital, table-top, non-experienced developers, and the like are welcomed! We'll provide signage for your game to help others learn more about your work. Wifi, outlets, tables, and seats (though standing tables also) are available.
Come to the Prototype and Play workshop to collaborate and meet local game developers for an evening of epic and raw game play fun! Play works-in-progress, show off your own game, work with others to add polish to a game, or even lend your talents to other fellow developers. For this event, light snacks from the bar and water will be provided!
Though you can purchase you own if you like at the bar:
[https://www.game-arena.co/menu](https://www.game-arena.co/menu)
Can use South Garage at the Gateway with a $5 voucher on your way out.
75 E 11th Ave, Columbus, OH 43201
[https://maps.app.goo.gl/UwgveUYG37Jy7RtS9](https://maps.app.goo.gl/UwgveUYG37Jy7RtS9)
If you have any questions or comments, as always, feel free to reach out to us at [info@thecogg.com!](http://info@thecogg.com!/)
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/).
AI Improv: let’s build a game together with Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini and b
We are going to build together with all the CLIs! E will be doing it at Columbus Code and Coffee
Agenda
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Hosted By
James Power, Organizer
Pete Gordon, Organizer
Just a Software Guy in the age of the Internet.
Complete your event RSVP here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-columbus-presents-ai-improv-lets-build-a-game-together-with-claude-code-codex-and-gemini-and-be-the-judge/.
Site Building with Etch (Class 04 of 10) (FEE BASED)
**PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING IMPORTANT NOTES:**
1. The dates for this series are simply placeholders at the moment. We are working on our 2026 schedule, and adjustments are forthcoming.
2. Each class in this series has an attendance fee.
3. Each class, from BOTH a sign-up and fee perspective, is a separate entity.
4. As the Etch toolset evolves, so too will the class outline below.
**Introduction:**
Our Site Building with Etch class provides detailed instructions on the philosophy of the Etch development framework, as well as in-depth, hands-on instruction on using the Etch environment and associated tools. Anyone familiar with Kevin Geary and the Digital Gravy set of products will tell you that they offer ground-breaking approaches to professional WordPress site development.
As we write this, the Etch toolset and environment are rapidly taking shape, with weekly quantum leaps forward in WordPress development methodologies. As early investors in the Etch product offering and its development process, we are actively testing and evaluating the toolset as it takes shape. We are beyond excited to see how WordPress site development is being modernized, and can't wait to bring this course set to you. It will be a paradigm shift in page and site development within WordPress, as well as moving your development mindset light-years forward.
Join us as we explore Etch and dive deep into development approaches that will genuinely elevate your craft as a website developer and agency provider. Scalable, responsive, compliant websites are now within easy reach, and Etch provides both the platform and toolset to take you there.
**The breakdown of the 10-class series is as follows:**
* Class 01 - TBD
* Class 02 - TBD
* Class 03 - TBD
* Class 04 - TBD
* Class 05 - TBD
* Class 06 - TBD
* Class 07 - TBD
* Class 08 - TBD
* Class 09 - TBD
* Class 10 - TBD
Throughout the class sessions listed above, we cover the following key areas of web development with Etch:
* **Introduction to Etch Interface:**
* Familiarization with the toolset's layout and understanding how to navigate and interact with its various components.
* **Visual Site Building:**
* Techniques for creating layouts using Etch's interface, incorporating sections, divs, containers, and elements to build semantically correct page structures.
* **Styling and Design:**
* Utilizing Etch's styling approach to customize elements, apply global CSS classes for consistent design, and leverage features like Flexbox and CSS Grid for responsive layouts.
* **Dynamic Content and Custom Fields:**
* Integrating dynamic content from custom post types and custom field plugins (like ACF, Meta Box, and even built-in fields) to build data-driven websites.
* **Component Building:**
* Creating and managing reusable components for headers, footers, post type layouts, and other site-wide elements.
* **Performance Optimization:**
* Understanding how Etch contributes to fast-loading websites and implementing performance best practices.
* **Advanced Features:**
* Depending on the class level, it might delve into advanced topics such as conditional logic, interactions, and custom code integration to enable more complex functionality.
The series aims to equip participants with the skills to efficiently build, customize, and maintain WordPress websites using Etch, catering to both beginners and experienced web developers alike.
Claude Code with Unity
A session on using Claude Code, Anthropic's AI coding agent, in real Unity development. We'll cover what coding agents are, where Claude Code fits, and how to apply it to an actual game project.
The format is presentation-style, with live demos and time for questions throughout. After brief scene-setting on coding agents and what makes Claude Code distinct, we'll go problem-driven: demoing it live on a released Unity game and introducing each feature as a solution to a problem we hit.
What to Expect:
* An intro to coding agents and where Claude Code fits
* A live demo on a real Unity project
* Key features as solutions to real problems: 𝖢𝖫𝖠𝖴𝖣𝖤.𝗆𝖽, context management, hooks, skills, subagents, and MCP
* Unity-specific pain points, including Domain Reload and MCP caveats
* Putting it together
All experience levels welcome. Food and drinks provided.
*Note: meetup topics may change — check back for the latest details.*
Stop Guessing: A Product Person's Guide to AI Adoption
## 🤝 Host Information
A co-hosted event by ProductTank Columbus & Women in Product Columbus
💡 About the Workshop
AI adoption is stalling across organizations — not because of a lack of motivation or tools, but because it's fundamentally a behavior design challenge.
This hands-on workshop applies proven Behavior Design models and methods to help you move from a vague organizational wish to boost AI adoption to 3-5 concrete, testable interventions you can act on starting tomorrow.
Whether you're a product manager, on a product team, or just someone trying to get AI to actually stick at work, you'll leave with a clear picture of what's worth focusing on, what to ignore, and how to drive real, sustained adoption — no guesswork required.
🛠️ What to Bring
Laptop: Fully charged and ready to go.
AI Assistant: Have your favorite AI assistant pulled up. (Dom will be using Claude, but feel free to use whichever assistant you prefer!)
🍕 Logistics & Perks
Food & Drink: Pizza and drinks provided!
Parking: Plenty of free spaces available on-site.
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