🦞OpenClaw & Codex - Lightning Talks Night
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[UPDATE Feb 26]
We have some incredibly good news 🎉🥳 for you, but before we get to that (read to the end!), we must reiterate our call for lightning talks:
📢 Call for Lightning Talks — We Want YOU on Stage!
We need 6–7 more speakers (we already have 3 confirmed) 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?"
You don't need perfect slides or a rehearsed talk. Just show up with a demo, a workflow, a lesson learned or even a spectacular failure. 7 minutes, that's it.
How to submit: Write us an email at viennaaiengineering+speakers@gmail.com. A few sentences about what you would present is enough. First come, first served.
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🎉 Now to the great news:
📍 We have a much bigger venue: Magenta HQ
Demand for this meetup has blown past what we imagined and what our Greentube venue could handle, so our friends at Magenta jumped in to help — their venue gives us room for a much bigger audience. A huge thanks to Magenta and especially to Georg for getting this approved so quickly!
Find the exact address in the location section. The rest remains unchanged: same date, same time, same schedule.
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🥳 And now for the amazing news that probably everybody has been hoping for:
🦞 The Clawfather is joining us!
The Clawfather himself, Peter Steinberger, will greet the Vienna OpenClaw community from SF via live stream.
So see you at Magenta, and for Pete's sake, submit your lightning talk to viennaaiengineering+speakers@gmail.com !
[END UPDATE]
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Hello 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 Magenta Telekom at their HQ on Rennweg 97-99.
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 viennaaiengineering+speakers@gmail.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 Magenta Telekom!
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This event is sponsored by Magenta Telekom, part of the Deutsche Telekom Group.
Magenta is one of Austria's leading telecommunications providers, offering mobile, internet, and entertainment services. 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.