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Join us for an engaging 30-45-minute talk, followed by casual networking and drinks. The atmosphere is relaxed and friendly - perfect for learning something new, meeting interesting people, and enjoying good conversation over a glass of wine. **Who is it for:** This presentation is suitable for anyone interested in human or computer vision, and is designed to be informative and easy to follow. **What You’ll Learn:** You will learn how we see colour and how light works, how visual information is stored digitally, and the computer vision techniques used to manipulate visual data. **Why attend:** Feed your curiosity, enjoy a relaxed atmosphere with a glass of wine, and connect with others through networking.

​​**IMPORTANT: If you were not able to join our previous session on the 13th of December, we are re-doing the workshop with the SAME CONTENT, so more people can experience building AI apps using Redis AI products.** ​**​What?** ​​Redis AI workshop is a hands-on session with Redis AI products ​**​Why?** ​​Redis AI is a game-changer in the world of AI and machine learning **Where?** ​​Sofia, Synergy Tower, Boulevard "Tsarigradsko Shose" 111P, 1784 ​**​When?** 14th of May at 18:00 ​​ *Let’s run some live coding sessions together, where each participant can experiment with Redis LangCache, vector caching, and related features using their preferred programming language* ​**Workshop Agenda:** ​​17:30 - 18:00 Registration Session 1 ​​18:00 - 18:30 - Workshop intro and core concepts 18:30 - 19:15 - Coding Session 1 **Session 2** ​​ 19:15 - 19:30 - Recap and intro to Session 2 19:30 - 20:15 - Coding Session 2 **Session 3** ​​20:15 - 20:30 - Recap and intro to Session 3 20:30 - 21:15 - Coding Session 3 21:15 - 21:30 - Wrap up and Q&A 21:30 - 23:00 - Pizza and Networking ​**​*Bring your good coding mood and your own laptop with pre-installed containerization software (Docker, Podman, etc.)***

*🦞* Cogito Ergo Creo *🦞* Second gathering of OpenClaw Bulgaria. This time — we go local. On April 4th, Anthropic blocked Claude Pro and Max subscriptions from being used through OpenClaw and other third-party agent frameworks. The message was clear: if you want to run agents your way, you need to own your infrastructure. So that's exactly what we'll do. 🧠 Mental — Why local matters. What happened with Anthropic's decision, what it means for the agent ecosystem, and why running your own LLM isn't just a backup plan — it's freedom. 💻 Demo — Setup & run. Live walkthrough: setting up and running a local LLM from scratch. Models, hardware, tools, performance. No cloud, no API keys, no permission needed. 🔥 Live — Your turn. Bring your laptop, your project, your questions. Build something, break something, ask anything. Open floor. Who is this for? Developers, makers, entrepreneurs, and the simply curious. Whether you've been self-hosting for years or just want to understand what "running local" means — if you like building things, you belong here. Language: English + Bulgarian — whatever flows naturally. 📍 Location: SOHO — HOLISTIC Room, 4 Iskar Street, Sofia 1000 (near Serdika metro station) 🕐 Start: 17:00 🌐 www.openclaw.bg 💬 discord.gg/qu4gusnZd3 This is a recurring meetup — every first Thursday of the month (moved this month due to holidays). Come once, come always. Hosted by Alex Alexiew & Aria 🤖 ——— 🇧🇬 Български Cogito ergo creo. Втора среща на OpenClaw Bulgaria. Този път — ставаме локални. На 4 април Anthropic блокира използването на Claude Pro и Max абонаментите през OpenClaw и други агентни платформи. Посланието беше ясно: ако искаш да пускаш агенти по свой начин, трябва да притежаваш инфраструктурата си. Точно това ще направим. 🧠 Mental — Защо локалното има значение. Какво се случи с решението на Anthropic, какво означава за екосистемата на агентите и защо да пуснеш собствен LLM не е просто резервен план — а свобода. 💻 Demo — Настройка и стартиране. На живо: инсталация и стартиране на локален LLM от нулата. Модели, хардуер, инструменти, производителност. Без облак, без API ключове, без разрешение. 🔥 Live — Вашият ред. Донесете лаптоп, проект, въпроси. Създайте нещо, счупете нещо, питайте каквото искате. 📍 Локация: SOHO — зала HOLISTIC, ул. „Искър" 4, София 1000 (до метростанция Сердика) 🕐 Начало: 17:00 🌐 www.openclaw.bg 💬 discord.gg/qu4gusnZd3 Срещаме се всеки първи четвъртък от месеца (този месец преместен заради празниците). Елате веднъж, останете завинаги.

Join us for this year’s meeting with the queen of Guinean West African dance tradition – **Byshara Shokolate!** ✅ You can participate in the classes even without prior dance experience. 📅 **Program:** 💃🏾 **May 14 / 20:00 – 21:30 – Comorian Women’s Dances** 💃🏾 Learn how women from the Comoros Islands cultivate their femininity and strength through dance. 🥁 **May 15 / 20:00 – 21:30 – Drum and Dance** 🥁 NEW CLASS where we’ll dance while creating rhythm, inspired by STOMP and West African DUN DUN dances. Participants will both play instruments and dance at the same time. 🌴 **May 16 / 11:00 – 12:30 – West African Traditional Dance** 🌴 West African dances with live percussion. An exciting synergy between musicians and dancers, experienced through the traditions of Guinea and Mali. 👪 **May 16 / 12:30 – 13:30 – Dance for Kids & Parents** 👪 Time for parents and children spent on dancing, fun games, and bonding. 🥘 **May 16 / 18:30 – 20:30 – Cultural Night** 🥘 An evening to explore the cultures Bishara Chocolat comes from – the Comoros Islands and Guinea. Expect delicious food, captivating stories, and a small market with authentic jewelry and souvenirs. 🎟️ **Participation:** Pre-registration is required due to limited studio capacity – up to 25 people. (During Bishara’s previous visits, when the maximum capacity of 35 was reached, people continued to register at the last minute. Register early to secure your spot.) * Single class: €40 \* * Full pass – €140 / 8 passes available \*\* * Half pass (2 classes of your choice + Cultural Night) – €85 / 8 passes available * Cultural passes (3 classes of your choice + Cultural Night) – €110 / 8 passes available * \* For the “Dance for Kids & Parents” session, entry includes one parent with one child up to 13 years old. To receive a full / half / cultural pass, please contact us \- e\-mail: afrocenterbg@gmail\.com \- Viber / WhatsApp: \+359892 018 768 or sign the form - [MOVE YOUR AFRO with BYSHARA SHOKOLAT / 2026](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdci4Kjcafexsmjb4dhFF_8v2KYSdPMDjlAALLwq8UCrQPsHA/viewform)

Are you ready to enjoy warmer spring evenings together again? We are, and that’s why we’re inviting you to our next Data & AI Engineering [applydata](https://applydata.io) Meetup, taking place at our Bucharest office on the 14th May. **Bogdan Beda:** ***"Beyond Syntax: The Evolving Role of the Software Engineer in the AI Era"*** [Bogdan Beda](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bogdan-beda/) is a Principal Software Engineer at [Microsoft](https://www.linkedin.com/company/microsoft/), working on \*Copilot for Work\* backend, on a non-deterministic product using a codebase that is increasingly being generated by AI. In his presentation, Bogdan will explore the new essential toolkit for the AI era – moving beyond basic prompt engineering to mastering product development, from system design decisions to validating outputs. **Costin Vilcu: *"SOC Transformation in the AI Era"*** [Costin Vilcu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/costin-vilcu-oscp-pentester/) is an Information and Network Security Professional with 20+ years of experience, passionate about Penetration Testing, Security Consulting, Teaching and Social Communication. Costin's presentation explores how Security Operations Centers (SOCs) must evolve in the age of AI, from reactive monitoring to intelligent, autonomous threat detection and response. **Dana Juncu: *"The Invisible Threat: How a Sticker on a Traffic Sign Could Compromise Autonomous Vehicles"*** [Dana Juncu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/danajuncu/) is a Senior Product Manager at [Diconium](https://www.linkedin.com/company/diconium/posts/?feedView=all), working at the intersection of data, engineering, and product, owning end-to-end delivery of labeled datasets for ADAS & autonomous driving systems. In her presentation, Dana will cover why AI security is fundamentally different from traditional software security and what it actually takes to build robust, trustworthy AI in safety-critical domains. If you're curious, you can read more about the importance of Data Labeling in her previous blog articles: [Data Labeling as Continuous Service](https://applydata.io/data-labeling-as-a-continuous-service/) & [Traffic Sign Recognition at Scale](https://applydata.io/traffic-sign-recognition-at-scale-why-the-dataset-is-the-hard-part/) **What to expect:** * Three expert talks * Networking opportunities in our historical villa office * Some snacks & drinks **Timetable:** * 18:30 - Event admission * 19:00 - Welcome & introduction * 19:05 - First speaker * 19:30 - Second speaker * 20:00 - Third speaker * 20:30 - Connect & chat ✧ ✧ ✧ **Our goal is to form a local data-loving community, so join us and let's talk data together!** ✧ ✧ ✧ *At the event, sound, image and video recordings are created and published for documentation purposes as well as for the presentation of the event in publicly accessible media, on websites and blogs and for presentation on social media. By participating the event, the participant implicitly consents to the aforementioned photo and/or video recordings. Find [more information on data protection here](https://applydata.io/events/information-on-data-protection/).*

​​**IMPORTANT: If you were not able to join our previous session on the 13th of December, we are re-doing the workshop with the SAME CONTENT, so more people can experience building AI apps using Redis AI products.** ​**​What?** ​​Redis AI workshop is a hands-on session with Redis AI products ​**​Why?** ​​Redis AI is a game-changer in the world of AI and machine learning **Where?** ​​Sofia, Synergy Tower, Boulevard "Tsarigradsko Shose" 111P, 1784 ​**​When?** 14th of May at 18:00 ​​ *Let’s run some live coding sessions together, where each participant can experiment with Redis LangCache, vector caching, and related features using their preferred programming language* ​**Workshop Agenda:** ​​17:30 - 18:00 Registration Session 1 ​​18:00 - 18:30 - Workshop intro and core concepts 18:30 - 19:15 - Coding Session 1 **Session 2** ​​ 19:15 - 19:30 - Recap and intro to Session 2 19:30 - 20:15 - Coding Session 2 **Session 3** ​​20:15 - 20:30 - Recap and intro to Session 3 20:30 - 21:15 - Coding Session 3 21:15 - 21:30 - Wrap up and Q&A 21:30 - 23:00 - Pizza and Networking ​**​*Bring your good coding mood and your own laptop with pre-installed containerization software (Docker, Podman, etc.)***

Join us for an engaging 30-45-minute talk, followed by casual networking and drinks. The atmosphere is relaxed and friendly - perfect for learning something new, meeting interesting people, and enjoying good conversation over a glass of wine. **Who is it for:** This presentation is suitable for anyone interested in human or computer vision, and is designed to be informative and easy to follow. **What You’ll Learn:** You will learn how we see colour and how light works, how visual information is stored digitally, and the computer vision techniques used to manipulate visual data. **Why attend:** Feed your curiosity, enjoy a relaxed atmosphere with a glass of wine, and connect with others through networking.

*🦞* Cogito Ergo Creo *🦞* Second gathering of OpenClaw Bulgaria. This time — we go local. On April 4th, Anthropic blocked Claude Pro and Max subscriptions from being used through OpenClaw and other third-party agent frameworks. The message was clear: if you want to run agents your way, you need to own your infrastructure. So that's exactly what we'll do. 🧠 Mental — Why local matters. What happened with Anthropic's decision, what it means for the agent ecosystem, and why running your own LLM isn't just a backup plan — it's freedom. 💻 Demo — Setup & run. Live walkthrough: setting up and running a local LLM from scratch. Models, hardware, tools, performance. No cloud, no API keys, no permission needed. 🔥 Live — Your turn. Bring your laptop, your project, your questions. Build something, break something, ask anything. Open floor. Who is this for? Developers, makers, entrepreneurs, and the simply curious. Whether you've been self-hosting for years or just want to understand what "running local" means — if you like building things, you belong here. Language: English + Bulgarian — whatever flows naturally. 📍 Location: SOHO — HOLISTIC Room, 4 Iskar Street, Sofia 1000 (near Serdika metro station) 🕐 Start: 17:00 🌐 www.openclaw.bg 💬 discord.gg/qu4gusnZd3 This is a recurring meetup — every first Thursday of the month (moved this month due to holidays). Come once, come always. Hosted by Alex Alexiew & Aria 🤖 ——— 🇧🇬 Български Cogito ergo creo. Втора среща на OpenClaw Bulgaria. Този път — ставаме локални. На 4 април Anthropic блокира използването на Claude Pro и Max абонаментите през OpenClaw и други агентни платформи. Посланието беше ясно: ако искаш да пускаш агенти по свой начин, трябва да притежаваш инфраструктурата си. Точно това ще направим. 🧠 Mental — Защо локалното има значение. Какво се случи с решението на Anthropic, какво означава за екосистемата на агентите и защо да пуснеш собствен LLM не е просто резервен план — а свобода. 💻 Demo — Настройка и стартиране. На живо: инсталация и стартиране на локален LLM от нулата. Модели, хардуер, инструменти, производителност. Без облак, без API ключове, без разрешение. 🔥 Live — Вашият ред. Донесете лаптоп, проект, въпроси. Създайте нещо, счупете нещо, питайте каквото искате. 📍 Локация: SOHO — зала HOLISTIC, ул. „Искър" 4, София 1000 (до метростанция Сердика) 🕐 Начало: 17:00 🌐 www.openclaw.bg 💬 discord.gg/qu4gusnZd3 Срещаме се всеки първи четвъртък от месеца (този месец преместен заради празниците). Елате веднъж, останете завинаги.

**Founders Running Club** (FRC) brings founders, investors, tech, creative people and startup enthusiasts together for weekly easy runs and networking. We like to be comfortable when we run and finish with coffee and conversations. Choose your pace or follow a pacer—pets, friends, family, are welcome. 🗓️ Launched in San Francisco, July 16, 2022 🌍 Now in 35+ cities 📅 Running + Networking events + Community **Join the community** [http://foundersrc.com/chats](http://foundersrc.com/chats) **Stay updated**: Instagram [http://instagram.com/foundersrc/](http://instagram.com/foundersrc/) Podcast [http://podcast.foundersrc.com/](http://podcast.foundersrc.com/) LinkedIn [http://linkedin.com/company/foundersrc/](http://linkedin.com/company/foundersrc/) Strava [http://strava.com/clubs/foundersRC](http://strava.com/clubs/foundersRC) Website [http://foundersrc.com/](http://foundersrc.com/)

Join us for this year’s meeting with the queen of Guinean West African dance tradition – **Byshara Shokolate!** ✅ You can participate in the classes even without prior dance experience. 📅 **Program:** 💃🏾 **May 14 / 20:00 – 21:30 – Comorian Women’s Dances** 💃🏾 Learn how women from the Comoros Islands cultivate their femininity and strength through dance. 🥁 **May 15 / 20:00 – 21:30 – Drum and Dance** 🥁 NEW CLASS where we’ll dance while creating rhythm, inspired by STOMP and West African DUN DUN dances. Participants will both play instruments and dance at the same time. 🌴 **May 16 / 11:00 – 12:30 – West African Traditional Dance** 🌴 West African dances with live percussion. An exciting synergy between musicians and dancers, experienced through the traditions of Guinea and Mali. 👪 **May 16 / 12:30 – 13:30 – Dance for Kids & Parents** 👪 Time for parents and children spent on dancing, fun games, and bonding. 🥘 **May 16 / 18:30 – 20:30 – Cultural Night** 🥘 An evening to explore the cultures Bishara Chocolat comes from – the Comoros Islands and Guinea. Expect delicious food, captivating stories, and a small market with authentic jewelry and souvenirs. 🎟️ **Participation:** Pre-registration is required due to limited studio capacity – up to 25 people. (During Bishara’s previous visits, when the maximum capacity of 35 was reached, people continued to register at the last minute. Register early to secure your spot.) * Single class: €40 \* * Full pass – €140 / 8 passes available \*\* * Half pass (2 classes of your choice + Cultural Night) – €85 / 8 passes available * Cultural passes (3 classes of your choice + Cultural Night) – €110 / 8 passes available * \* For the “Dance for Kids & Parents” session, entry includes one parent with one child up to 13 years old. To receive a full / half / cultural pass, please contact us \- e\-mail: afrocenterbg@gmail\.com \- Viber / WhatsApp: \+359892 018 768 or sign the form - [MOVE YOUR AFRO with BYSHARA SHOKOLAT / 2026](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdci4Kjcafexsmjb4dhFF_8v2KYSdPMDjlAALLwq8UCrQPsHA/viewform)

Are you ready to enjoy warmer spring evenings together again? We are, and that’s why we’re inviting you to our next Data & AI Engineering [applydata](https://applydata.io) Meetup, taking place at our Bucharest office on the 14th May. **Bogdan Beda:** ***"Beyond Syntax: The Evolving Role of the Software Engineer in the AI Era"*** [Bogdan Beda](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bogdan-beda/) is a Principal Software Engineer at [Microsoft](https://www.linkedin.com/company/microsoft/), working on \*Copilot for Work\* backend, on a non-deterministic product using a codebase that is increasingly being generated by AI. In his presentation, Bogdan will explore the new essential toolkit for the AI era – moving beyond basic prompt engineering to mastering product development, from system design decisions to validating outputs. **Costin Vilcu: *"SOC Transformation in the AI Era"*** [Costin Vilcu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/costin-vilcu-oscp-pentester/) is an Information and Network Security Professional with 20+ years of experience, passionate about Penetration Testing, Security Consulting, Teaching and Social Communication. Costin's presentation explores how Security Operations Centers (SOCs) must evolve in the age of AI, from reactive monitoring to intelligent, autonomous threat detection and response. **Dana Juncu: *"The Invisible Threat: How a Sticker on a Traffic Sign Could Compromise Autonomous Vehicles"*** [Dana Juncu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/danajuncu/) is a Senior Product Manager at [Diconium](https://www.linkedin.com/company/diconium/posts/?feedView=all), working at the intersection of data, engineering, and product, owning end-to-end delivery of labeled datasets for ADAS & autonomous driving systems. In her presentation, Dana will cover why AI security is fundamentally different from traditional software security and what it actually takes to build robust, trustworthy AI in safety-critical domains. If you're curious, you can read more about the importance of Data Labeling in her previous blog articles: [Data Labeling as Continuous Service](https://applydata.io/data-labeling-as-a-continuous-service/) & [Traffic Sign Recognition at Scale](https://applydata.io/traffic-sign-recognition-at-scale-why-the-dataset-is-the-hard-part/) **What to expect:** * Three expert talks * Networking opportunities in our historical villa office * Some snacks & drinks **Timetable:** * 18:30 - Event admission * 19:00 - Welcome & introduction * 19:05 - First speaker * 19:30 - Second speaker * 20:00 - Third speaker * 20:30 - Connect & chat ✧ ✧ ✧ **Our goal is to form a local data-loving community, so join us and let's talk data together!** ✧ ✧ ✧ *At the event, sound, image and video recordings are created and published for documentation purposes as well as for the presentation of the event in publicly accessible media, on websites and blogs and for presentation on social media. By participating the event, the participant implicitly consents to the aforementioned photo and/or video recordings. Find [more information on data protection here](https://applydata.io/events/information-on-data-protection/).*

Bonsoir à tous! Venez nombreux pour causer autour d'un repas ou d'un verre chez La Madeleine. On n'a que deux règles: (1) qu'on y parle exclusivement le français et (2) qu'on achète quelque chose à boire ou à manger (c'est La Madeleine qui le demande). Merci et à bientôt!

Let's meet to chat and work on WordPress projects! If you're running into problems, bring them and we'll look for solutions together. All are welcome. We're meeting at Frederick Social. Parking is available at the Court Street garage, accessible from South Court Street and Citizens Way, for $1 per hour. Street parking is less convenient, but is available on South Market Street and West Patrick Street for $2 per hour.

Join us for Beloved Yoga at Reston Metro Plaza! Enjoy complimentary fitness classes every Monday and Wednesday from May 27 - September 2!

We’re excited to bring the community together for an evening of learning and connection. This time, we'll have a community member from Chainguard sharing a use case and, as usual, an Elastic employee sharing their expertise as well. Come support your fellow developers, learn something new, and meet others who are passionate about search, observability, and security. **Date and Time:** Tuesday, May 19th, from 5:30-7:30 pm EDT **Location:** Elastic Arlington Office - 4100 Fairfax Drive, Ste 500, Arlington, VA 22203 **Agenda:** * 5:30 pm: Doors open; say hi, grab a seat, and eat some food. * 6:00 pm: The SBOM Pile in Your S3 Bucket: Turning Bills of Materials Into a Risk Dashboard; and Watching It Shrink with Chainguard, by Mike Barreta, Senior Manager, Engineering at Chainguard * 6:30 pm: Q&A * 6:40 pm: **Agentic Observability: Next-Gen Alerting and Auto-Detected Significant Events**, by Jason Rhodes, Senior Manager, Software Engineering at Elastic * 7:10 pm: Q&A * 7:20-7:30 pm: Networking & refreshments **Talk Abstracts:** **"The SBOM Pile in Your S3 Bucket: Turning Bills of Materials Into a Risk Dashboard; and Watching It Shrink with Chainguard**" Most organizations now generate SBOMs because someone — EO 14028, a FedRAMP auditor, an ISSM — told them to. They land in an S3 bucket, get versioned, and are almost universally never queried. This talk is about what happens when you finally do. I'll stand up a self-contained Elastic stack, pour in SBOMs (SPDX), SLSA provenance, Sigstore signatures, Grype vulnerability scans, the CISA KEV catalog, and OpenVEX adjudication for 30 container images, and show the queries that only become possible once SBOMs stop being compliance artifacts and start being telemetry: which packages I actually run right now, which CVEs are real exposures versus VEX-suppressed noise, what swapping a stock image for its Chainguard equivalent would buy me, and how much of my CVE list is just stuff I inherited from the base layer. Then the cleanup. The same dashboards on Chainguard images show what disappears when the SBOM is small, the signatures verify, and the advisory feed is active: \~9,000 fewer CVEs and \~2.5 GB saved across 20 image pairs, KEV exposure dropping from 7 hits to 0, compliance pass rate going from 0% to 76.5% against NIST 800-218 / FedRAMP Moderate / SSDF. **Bio:** Mike Barretta leads Chainguard’s public sector solutions engineering team, focused on helping ensure the federal government receives its fair share of the future. Barretta has worked across civilian, defense and intel programs in a variety of roles—software developer, data scientist, solution architect—for a variety of organizations—system integrators, consulting companies, software vendors—with the common purpose of creating and championing technologies and techniques for simplifying the extraction and utilization of information from lots of data. Having witnessed the ever-increasing threats to those systems, Barretta is now focused on methods and mitigations to secure them **Agentic Observability: Next-Gen Alerting and Auto-Detected Significant Events** We're rebuilding Elastic's alerting engine to make alerts more flexible\, more powerful\, and more valuable as data\. Next\-gen alerting rules will run anything ES\|QL supports and capture whatever fields matter to you\, so alerts carry the context you need for real downstream analysis\. And if you'd rather not manage these rules yourself\, AI agents can help\, drafting them from natural language\, recommending tuning and configuration changes\, and reducing noise through deduplication\. On top of this, we're also building a new Significant Events system which automatically builds a continuously updated knowledge base of your incoming data's own metadata. Using this deep understanding, our agentic tools will detect significant events from log patterns, anomalies, and predicted behavior — without you having to create a single rule. **Bio:** Jason Rhodes is a software engineering lead at Elastic, where he works on alerting and observability features. Based in the DC area, he has over 15 years of experience in software development and has been an active contributor to the local tech community — creating and organizing Baltimore NodeSchool and charmCityJS. When he's not writing and reviewing code, he's probably watching too many movies. **Parking:** * The building’s parking garage is operated by Colonial Parking and is located off N. Randolph Street * Book a spot on[ SpotHero](https://spothero.com/search?kind=address&latitude=38.8818514&longitude=-77.1095268&search_string=4100+Fairfax+Dr+%23500%2C+Arlington%2C+VA+22203%2C+USA) * A Metro Station is located across the street

Dieser Stammtisch findet jeden Monat am ersten und dritten Freitag statt. Kommen Sie doch mal vorbei, um Deutsch zu sprechen und nette Leute kennenzulernen!

Laser tag with the GLTech community