About us
We are a community of engineers, developers, and data practitioners focused on building applications powered by Artificial Intelligence. Our meetup explores the emerging field of AI Engineering, focusing on the tools, patterns, and best practices that enable production-ready AI systems.
We originally founded this meetup group in 2015 as the "Vienna Spark Meetup" and then evolved into the "Vienna Data Science Tools Meetup" as our focus shifted towards broader topics beyond Spark. After the pandemic, we revived our meetup with in-person events and a fresh focus on the "Modern Data Stack". After covering the MDS for some time, we decided to embrace the next topic that we are deeply passionate about: AI Engineering.
What do we mean by AI Engineering? Well, the aspirational definition we came up with is:
AI Engineering is the art and craftsmanship of creating reliable AI-powered applications that users love.
A more down-to-earth definition would be:
AI Engineering is the discipline of designing, developing, and deploying AI-driven applications in a scalable, reliable, and maintainable way. It merges principles from Software Engineering, Machine Learning, and Data Engineering to bring AI into real-world production environments.
So whatever your preferred definition is, if you're already building AI-powered applications, looking to integrate AI into existing products, or simply curious about this transformative technology, join us to share knowledge, learn from practitioners, and help shape the future of AI Engineering together.
Upcoming events
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🦞OpenClaw & Codex - Lightning Talks Night
Greentube GmbH, Wiedner HauptstraĂźe 94, Wien, Ma, ATHello everyone!
We're beyond excited to announce the OpenClaw & Codex Edition of our Vienna AI Engineering Meetup on Tuesday, March 10th! Once again, we'll be hosted by Greentube at their HQ on Wiedner HauptstraĂźe.
This one is going to be different.
If you've been following what's happening in the OpenClaw community, you know the energy is through the roof. The recent OpenClaw Vienna Meetup organized by Peter Steinberger was an absolute blast, and we knew immediately: we need to bring this energy to our next meetup.
So here's the plan: we're doing lightning talks. Short, punchy, 7-minute demos and mini talks - no death by PowerPoint, just builders showing what they've built. The topics: OpenClaw and coding with OpenAI Codex. Whether you've wired up an OpenClaw agent to automate your entire deployment pipeline, built something weird and wonderful with Codex, or found a creative way to combine the two — we want to hear about it.
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Call for Lightning Talks — We Want YOU on Stage!
This is the heart of the event. We're looking for 8–10 speakers who want to share something cool they've built with OpenClaw or Codex in a maximum of 7 minutes.
What we're looking for:
- OpenClaw agents and automations you've built
- Creative Codex workflows and coding setups
- Combinations of OpenClaw + Codex (or other AI tools)
- Lessons learned, fails, surprises — the real stuff
- Anything that makes the audience go "wait, you can do THAT?"To keep it simple and engaging, you don't need to prepare a big polished slide deck. Just make 2-3 slides explaining the main ideas and show us what you've built or learned, ideally with a demo. Our main goal is to have fun and inspire eachother.
How to submit: Drop us a message on meetup.com or write us an email at talks@viennaaiengineering.com. A few sentences about what you would present and why you think the audience absolutely needs to hear it are enough. First come, first served.
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Welcome Alex Gavrilescu as Co-Organizer!
Furthermore we're thrilled to announce that Alex Gavrilescu is joining the organization of the Vienna AI Engineering Meetups! Many of you already know Alex. He's been a speaker at our meetup several times, most recently with his talks on the Cambrian Explosion of Agentic AI and his Backlog.md deep dives.
Alex is an OpenAI Codex Ambassador and the creator of Backlog.md. He's bringing fresh ideas and new initiatives to the meetup, and as Codex Ambassador he will be your direct point of contact with the OpenAI Codex team — meaning he can forward your feedback and questions straight to the source. If you have thoughts on Codex, this is your channel.
Welcome aboard, Alex!
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Schedule
18:00 - Get together with food and beverages
18:30 - Welcome & intro
18:40 - Lightning talks begin (7 min each, back to back)
20:30 - More drinks & networking.Looking forward to seeing you at the Greentube HQ!
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This event is sponsored by Greentube, a NOVOMATIC company.
NOVOMATIC is the leading provider of gaming technology and casino equipment in Europe. Sponsoring the Vienna AI Engineering Meetup is part of our effort to contribute to the creation of a strong Data & AI community in and around Vienna.
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Past events
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