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OpenAI hosts an evening of hands-on building, live demos and discussion in Berlin, co-hosted with Parloa. The programme covers how leading engineering teams are approaching useful agents, a fireside with Parloa on what they have learned in production, what is new in Codex, and open office hours with OpenAI engineers for technical and product questions. Food provided, and the room is built around local founders, CTOs and engineers — rare direct access to the model provider, and it will fill quickly.

Merantix DevDay gathers the engineers, researchers and applied scientists working at the frontier of AI research and development for a full day at the AI Campus in Wedding. It has become the event where the field takes stock: what works, what scales, and what is next. Expect talks, technical deep dives and hands-on sessions across the whole stack — new architectures and training methods, evaluation and benchmarking, AI-native development workflows, and what deploying under real constraints actually costs. Co-hosted with Merantix Momentum and Merantix Capital, which puts applied teams and investors in the same building. The strongest single AI engineering day in Berlin this window.

A 250-seat single-track conference for engineers working where SRE meets AI and ML operations. Two days of practitioner talks on observability, incident response and what reliability actually means once non-deterministic models sit on the critical path — the sharpest technical programme in Berlin this month, and small enough that the hallway track is as valuable as the stage. Welcome reception the evening before.

Germany's largest business-leader AI summit brings roughly 2,000 executives to the Estrel for a day on enterprise AI strategy — deployment economics, governance under the EU AI Act, and the organisational changes that decide whether a pilot ever reaches production. Strong draw for CTOs, heads of product and transformation leads at non-native-tech companies as well as the startup side.

An evening session at Merantix AI Campus on Article 22 territory: when the EU AI Act and GDPR actually entitle someone to a human in the loop, how that constrains automated decisioning in hiring, credit and healthcare, and what compliant design looks like in practice. Directly relevant to anyone shipping decision automation into a European market.

A one-day summit for the 300-plus engineers and technology leaders putting AI agents into production: evaluation harnesses, tool-calling reliability, cost control and the failure modes that only appear at scale. Practitioner-weighted programme at the Ritz-Carlton on Potsdamer Platz, with the agent-tooling vendor ecosystem well represented in the room.

A three-day Berlin conference on AI and innovation, bringing together founders, researchers and corporate innovation teams. The programme runs deliberately across disciplines rather than staying inside one vertical, which makes it one of the more useful weeks of the autumn for anyone whose work sits between research and product. Hybrid attendance available.

Germany's principal legaltech gathering takes over the Kulturbrauerei for two days: contract automation, AI in document review, the economics of the billable hour under automation, and the regulatory questions specific to legal AI. The Legal Tech Night that closes day one is where most of the ecosystem's dealmaking actually happens. Relevant well beyond lawyers — legalops, procurement and any SaaS founder selling into legal.

An evening at Merantix AI Campus on running AI locally in healthcare settings — on-premise and on-device inference, what that unlocks for patient data that cannot leave the building, and where the clinical workflow actually absorbs it. Brings together founders, ML engineers and clinicians, which is a rarer mix than it sounds. Free.

The world's leading trade fair for transport technology takes over the whole of Messe Berlin for four days. Increasingly a software and data event as much as a rolling-stock one: digital signalling, predictive maintenance, autonomous operation and passenger-facing platforms all have substantial programme space, alongside a startup and innovation area. Worth the day for anyone building mobility, IoT or industrial data products, not just the rail industry.

Berlin Expert Days returns for two days of deeply technical talks from working software engineers — architecture, JVM and platform topics alongside a now-substantial AI engineering track. Community-run and reliably free of vendor keynotes, which is why Berlin's senior engineers keep turning up. Two days, single city, no marketing.

Nebius and Voxel51 run a hands-on afternoon at MotionLab.Berlin on physical AI: working with robot sensor data, computer-vision datasets and the FiftyOne toolchain, with a workshop segment rather than a talks-only format. Bring a laptop. Berlin's robotics and CV community concentrates here, and MotionLab is the right room for it.

Two days at the Maritim proArte on the unglamorous half of the AI stack: compute procurement, storage architecture, data pipelines and the operational discipline that keeps training and inference affordable. Run by we.CONECT, whose events skew senior and enterprise. The most substantive infrastructure programme in Berlin this autumn short of GTC.

The ninth AI for Media meetup, hosted at dpa's Berlin headquarters, on responsible AI in newsrooms: provenance and governance, bias in editorial automation, and deepfake detection as an operational problem rather than a research one. Draws journalists, media engineers and the trust-and-safety community. Free, afternoon format.