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We are pleased to bring you two talks this time. This event will be held in the offices of our sponsor Moro Technology, 28is Oktovriou 5, Omonia square, Stoa Trikoupi. **1st talk:** "Building with Antigravity" by [Mete Atamel ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/meteatamel/) **Abstract:** Google Antigravity transforms your regular IDE into an agentic development platform. Beyond basic tab completion, Antigravity offers an intuitive, artifact-based approach to monitoring and providing feedback to agents. By utilizing rules, workflows, and skills, you can fully customize the environment to your team’s best practices, while a dedicated browser subagent handles tasks outside the editor. Last but not least, its Agent Manager can spin up and coordinate multiple parallel agents across various workflows, allowing you to work at a higher level than the code itself. **Presenter:** Mete is a Software Engineer and a Developer Advocate at Google in London. He builds tools, demos, tutorials, and [gives talks](https://atamel.dev/speaker-profile/) to educate and help developers to be successful on Google Cloud. **2nd talk:** "Beyond RCA Speed: Understanding Change in Modern Production Systems" by [Spiros Economakis](https://www.linkedin.com/in/spirosoik/) **Abstract:** In cloud-native environments, deployments, configuration updates, scaling events, and dependency changes continuously reshape system behavior. Incidents rarely arrive without warning, they emerge from subtle interactions and behavioral drift that are difficult to interpret using dashboards, alerts, or post-incident analysis alone. This talk explores why improving root cause speed eventually plateaus, and why many teams are shifting focus toward understanding how change propagates through production systems. **Presenter:** A systems engineer with over 12 years of experience in diverse tech environments and author of "Argo CD in Practice" book. Founder & CEO of [NOFire AI](https://www.nofire.ai/). A Full Context Embedded SRE platform that operates across the entire lifecycle. Before Change, During Failure, After Resolution.

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👋 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🦸‍♂️!

It's not a therapy session. It just feels like one...🤷🏻‍♂️ ​Για όσα δεν λέγονται στα τραπέζια... ​ 🎭Ένα διαφορετικό (private) event στο roof top του (Boutique Hotel) Moon & Stars, σε έναν ιδιαίτερο χώρο και με θέα την Ακρόπολη! (Δες φώτο πιο κάτω) 🗓️ Σάββατο 25/4 και ώρα 19:30. ​ 💬 Τι θα γίνει εκεί λοιπόν; Καθόμαστε όλοι μαζί και ξετυλίγουμε ανώνυμα τις σκέψεις μας. Σκέψεις, εξομολογήσεις, ερωτήματα και εσωτερικές ανησυχίες... ​Εκφράζουμε (ανώνυμα) αυτά που μας καίνε, μας φτιάχνουν, μας χαλάνε ή δεν έχουμε πει ποτέ δυνατά ενώ θα θέλαμε. Μιλάμε για ύπαρξη, κοινωνία, φιλοσοφία, σχέσεις, επιλογές, διλήμματα ή και όχι μόνο. (Δε μιλάμε για αθλητικά και πολιτική) ​ 🎲 Τι είναι και πώς λειτουργεί.. ​Μόλις δηλώσεις συμμετοχή, αυτόματα θα λάβεις μέσω email ένα link όπου με όλες τις σχετικές οδηγίες, θα περιέχει μεταξύ άλλων, την φόρμα για να γράψεις και να στείλεις το δικό σου twist ανώνυμα. twist = ένα θέμα προς συζήτηση, ή μία ερώτηση ή μία εξομολόγηση ή μία ιστορία που σε άγγιξε. [Για ακόμη περισσότερες λεπτομέρειες πάτα εδώ να μάθεις!](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gNDtiTrcUOQQmEWunBj4h8FtbE06tZCb2SWhMIhBfnE/edit?usp=sharing) ​Στο event και όταν τα twists αρχίζουν να "ξετυλίγονται" στο τραπέζι, δεν είσαι υποχρεωμένος/η να πάρεις θέση απαραίτητα, εάν ένα twist τύχει να σου προκαλέσει δυσφορία. Αλλά μπορείς να πας "πάσο" μέχρι δύο φορές... ​Αν θες ακόμη περισσότερες και πιο αναλυτικές διευκρινίσεις σχετικά με την διαδικασία ρώτησέ με ή στείλε μου μήνυμα... ​ 🎯 Στόχος; να περιφρονήσουμε τα συμβατικά small talks και να συνδεθούμε μέσα από απαντήσεις που δεν λέγονται η δίνονται τόσο εύκολα. Να γελάσουμε, να νιώσουμε, να σκεφτούμε, να εκφραστούμε χωρίς λογοκρισία, ή ίσως και να ανακαλύψουμε μεριές του εαυτού μας, που για κάποιο λόγο ήταν κρυμμένες ή και που αποφεύγαμε να δούμε... 🎟️ Σε αυτό το event υπάρχει συμμετοχή 9€ έως 12€ για τον συγκεκριμένο χώρο, που περιλαμβάνει κρασί, ή μπύρα στα 9€, ή ποτό στα 12€. Με προκράτηση τα παραπάνω. Πέρα από αυτά μπορεί κάποιος να παραγγείλει κάτι extra αν θελήσει και ανάλογα την διαθεσιμότητα. [Εδώ είναι η φόρμα για να δηλώσεις συμμετοχή!](https://luma.com/vsbyqndx)

Θέλετε να βελτιώσετε τις ικανότητές σας στην ομιλία μπροστά σε κοινό; Θέλετε να ξεπεράσετε το τρακ της δημόσιας ομιλίας; Ελάτε στην επόμενή μας συνάντηση Toastmasters! Δημιουργούμε όλοι μαζί ένα ανοικτό, φιλικό και ευχάριστο περιβάλλον, στο οποίο εξασκούμε τον δημόσιο λόγο και αξιολογούμε ο ένας τον άλλον. Εφαρμόζουμε το δοκιμασμένο πρόγραμμα των Toastmasters που έχει ιστορία άνω των 100 ετών και εφαρμόζεται στην Ελλάδα από το 2005. Περισσότερες πληροφορίες στο: https://web.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61556529585790 Συναντιόμαστε 2 φορές τον μήνα, την δεύτερη και τέταρτη Πέμπτη κάθε μήνα, από Σεπτέμβριο μέχρι και Ιούλιο (εκτός περιόδων Χριστουγέννων-Πρωτοχρονιάς & Πάσχα). This will be a Greek-speaking meeting. For our English-speaking meetings please see our page at https://www.meetup.com/ethos-pathos-logos-toastmasters-club.

**Attend our 383rd Educational Meeting!** Improve your communication skills! Overcome your fear of public speaking! Experience the incredible training of Toastmasters International! Together we practice our public speaking and communication skills in an open, fun, and friendly environment! Our meetings alternate between English and Greek, with prepared speeches presented in both languages. This meeting will be conducted in **English**. We meet on **Tuesdays**. Arrival time is 18:45. **Guests are always welcomed! Simply RSVP and attend!** Educational meetings until end of June: April 21\, 2026 \| English May 5\, 2026 \| Greek May 19\, 2026 \| English June 2\, 2026 \| Greek June 16\, 2026 \| English June 30\, 2026 \| Greek 1924\-2024 \| 100 years Toastmasters International

⚠️ **IMPORTANT: You must sign up and buy a ticket here to attend:** [https://groupvibe.com/](https://groupvibe.com/) **Join the Athens Brunch Club and make new friends!** Each meetup brings together 4–6 people for casual conversations over brunch. We use the Groupvibe platform to facilitate the meetup and ensure everyone’s a good fit. 👉 **To attend, you’ll need to complete registration via this link:** [https://groupvibe.com/](https://groupvibe.com/) We’ll share the exact location of the upcoming meetup the night before only if you have bought a ticket or membership plan. **Why this works:** \* Smaller groups make real conversations easier. \* Discover new brunch spots in your city, together. \* Curated brunch venues with good food and vibe. \* If you hit it off with your brunch group, there’s plenty of time to hang out afterwards. **Note:** RSVPs on Meetup don’t reflect total attendance. Many attendees register directly via our website. The event on Meetup.com is only a placeholder. This meetup is organized by Groupvibe, a small team passionate about helping people form meaningful friendships offline.

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The Forge does have a full bar and kitchen. There is no cover charge but they do request all attendees to purchase a minimum of ~$20 per person. Soft drink refills are $1 each. Please support our hosts so we can continue to provide great events for the group! The Forge has a large library of games available for us to enjoy. Hosts and regulars will also provide numerous popular games but please bring any games you would like to teach and/or play. Doors open at 6, and we expect gaming to be rolling by around 630. Please promptly end your games and clear out the space at 10pm when the bar closes. We encourage socializing but do not permit disruptive behavior of any kind. Thank you for your continued commitment to providing a fun and welcoming space to veteran, newbie, and rookie gamers in the Columbus area. Parking can be challenging. There is a parking lot behind the neighboring Mexican restaurant that is free and easy to walk from but it's a bit hidden.

Bring your Raspberry Pi, Arduino, microcontroller, or any other electronic project and join fellow electronics makers for a night of creativity and collaboration! This session is open forum to share your current projects—whether complete or in progress, it’s all interesting! Whether you’re deep into embedded systems, exploring new ideas, or just getting started, you’ll find a welcoming space to collaborate, share, and get inspired. **New to electronics or curious about tinkering?** You’re absolutely welcome. If you’re a beginner and want to experiment, I’ll have a couple of starter kits available so you can try things out—whether that’s blinking your first LED, putting something on a display, or experimenting with simple sensors. No pressure and no experience required—just an interest in learning and building. While we continue to pursue a more permanent venue for this Meetup, we’ll be using public library facilities based on availability. This session will be at the Worthington Park Library in the Olentangy Meeting Room.

Private Group. Closed to the Public Knowing ourselves and understanding our abilities is the first step toward wielding our gifts with control and accuracy. In subsequent classes we will verify and hone our talents with activities and discussion. These are hands-on workshops and participation is expected. The goal of our series will be to develop expertise in areas of particular interest such as mediumship, channeling, divination, healing and, etc.. Our ultimate directions will be determined by class members as we evolve. I look forward to sharing and discovering with you. - Cynthia

Stop by the Licking County Master Gardener Volunteers’ (MGVs) table at the Farmers Market to pick up your free Veggie plant of the month to add (or start!) your vegetable garden. The little plants come with instructions and tips. Have other garden related questions? Bring your questions to one of the MGVs in the green shirts. ******************* Newark Grows 1st & 3rd Friday, May 1-Oct. 2 Our Booth at the Canal Farmers Market 4pm- 7pm 36 E. Canal Street, Newark JOIN US AT THE CANAL MARKET DISTRICT FARMERS MARKET IN NEWARK, May – October (First and third Fridays of the month) Free plants, seeds, and gardening information! May 1 Buttercrunch Lettuce May 15 Double Curled Parsley June 5 Mark Twain Tomato June 19 Aconcagua Elongated Sweet Pepper July 3 Market Closed for 4th of July Weekend July 17 Silver Slicer Cucumber August 7 Wizard Coleus August 21 German Thyme September 4 Sweet Bunch non heading Broccoli September 18 Strike Shell Pea October 2 Garlic No RSVP needed- just show up and enjoy the market! See you there!