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SRH University and ESCP Blue Factory Berlin host the first Berlin Campus Startup Night, a structured matchmaking evening between selected startup teams and hand-picked business angels. Each angel interviews three founders in a moderated matching game led by German TV host Christian Oberfuchshuber, followed by captain tables and open networking. Worth the trip if you are raising a pre-seed round in Berlin or investing at that stage.

The September edition of the Cursor Berlin community hackathon series, co-hosted by Taxfix. Every participant gets Cursor credits to build with multiple agents, explore agent orchestration and ship something working in a single evening, followed by demos and networking with Berlin founders, engineers, designers and product people. Bring a laptop — this is a build night, not a talk.

Mindspace Berlin's pitch evening puts some of the city's most promising startups on stage in front of a jury of investors, founders and industry leaders. Expect short pitches, candid feedback from the panel and open networking afterwards. Useful whether you are preparing your own raise or want a quick read on what early-stage Berlin is building right now.

with Jon Freeman (Partner, Product People) · Diana Pulnar (Senior VP of Product, Babbel) · Veronika Braun (CPO, YourHero) + 1 more

Product People and Babbel host a German-language morning panel on what is left of the product manager's job once AI handles the execution: where judgement still decides outcomes and which calls cannot be delegated. Jon Freeman (Partner, Product People) moderates a panel with product leaders from Babbel, YourHero and Doctolib, followed by coffee and an hour of networking. Aimed at CPOs, CTOs and heads of product, engineering and growth.

with Bob Baxley (Product design leader (formerly Apple, Pinterest, ThoughtSpot), Independent)

Designer Friends Berlin host a long-form conversation with Bob Baxley, the design leader behind Apple's retail experience and later Pinterest and ThoughtSpot, on how Apple's approach still shapes the way the industry thinks about craft, teams and the relationship between design and engineering. A rare chance to hear an operator of that seniority in Berlin, held at N26's offices with time for questions.

with Max Scherf (Co-host, M&M Siblings) · Marie Scherf (Co-host, M&M Siblings)

The second Berlin demo night from the M&M Siblings, hosted at Almedia's Friedrichshain offices. Up to twenty three-minute live demos from some of the city's most technical builders, a talk on bringing San Francisco's building culture to Europe, and currywurst and drinks afterwards. Applications to demo are open; Almedia is one of Europe's fastest-growing companies and a Berlin-based host worth meeting.

The tenth edition of Merantix AI Campus's no-hierarchy gathering for software engineers, AI/ML practitioners and technologists. There is no preset schedule and no speaker list — the agenda is built on the spot by whoever turns up, whether they are training foundation models, running inference pipelines or scaling systems in production. Good for deep technical conversation rather than polished talks.

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.

with Emmanuel Marill (Executive, OpenAI) · Isabelle Sonnenfeld (Strategic Advisor, Explicit Protocol)

Emmanuel Marill of OpenAI in conversation with Isabelle Sonnenfeld, Strategic Advisor at Explicit Protocol, on why experimentation is everywhere but impact at scale is rare — and what changes when AI moves from tools that help with individual tasks to agents that carry work across a whole process. Hosted by Merantix AI Campus for enterprise and scale-up operators.

The Berlin stop of the German Legal Tech Hub roadshow, under the banner The Legal Shift: From Idea to Impact. An evening on legal tech in practice — how in-house legal teams and law firms actually identify and adopt tools, and where startups in the space are finding traction. Hosted at KI Park in Marienpark and conducted in German.

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.

Eleventh edition of the IxDF Berlin series at Spiced Academy, this time on designing conversational AI experiences and what behavioural psychology has to say about them. A practitioner evening for interaction designers, UX researchers and product designers, with time to meet others working on the same problems in Berlin.

Circuit hosts a deliberately small Kreuzberg meetup for about fifty people who run Nous Research's Hermes models in real work — daily, wired into their own stack, pushed past what the documentation covers. Nobody explains what an agent is. The goal is to get Berlin's Hermes users into one room and work out how the city and Nous Research collaborate from here.

Fourth edition of a Berlin meetup on both halves of the security equation now that AI has changed them at once: attackers automating reconnaissance, phishing and exploit development at new scale, defenders shipping agents that triage alerts and hunt threats, and the models themselves becoming an attack surface that is being shipped into products before anyone has agreed how to secure it. Run by Startups.Berlin; venue shared with registered attendees.

Venture Cafe Berlin's weekly Thursday Gathering at CIC Berlin, this week on how customer centricity is reshaping the way organisations compete — from experience design to the metrics, data and AI behind it, including what it took to put that into practice across a universal German bank. As always: open to all, free, and followed by demo tables and open networking.

Women Techmakers Berlin bring together three women working across AI, technology, product and biomedical research to talk about how emerging technology is reshaping health and healthcare. Hosted at Doctolib's Berlin office, with snacks, drinks and time for questions and conversation rather than a one-way panel.

An evening at deepset's Berlin HQ where open agents meet open tabular models, run by Haystack (the open-source AI orchestration framework) and Prior Labs (creators of TabPFN, an open-weight foundation model for tabular data). Sessions are shaped by what attendees are actually building, aimed at AI engineers building agentic systems and ML engineers building the models underneath them.

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.

Nebius and Tavily bring their flagship builder community series to Berlin as a full build day, alongside the Nebius Global AI Hackathon run with NVIDIA. Workshops, technical support from the teams behind the tools, and focused build time with n8n and AI Agents Berlin co-hosting. A working day rather than a talk track — come with a project.

The Berlin edition of Devopsdays, the long-running community conference series on software development, IT operations and everything in between. Two days of talks plus the open-spaces format the series is known for, where the agenda is set by attendees. Relevant to platform, SRE and infrastructure engineers and the leads who run those teams.

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.

The payments edition of bitcoin++, the developer-focused conference series on Bitcoin and Lightning engineering, running three days in Berlin. Deeply technical rather than market-facing — protocol work, payment rails and the open-source tooling around them. For engineers working in crypto payments infrastructure.

Venture Cafe Berlin's weekly Thursday Gathering at CIC Berlin: a programme of talks and sessions, demo tables where founders show what they are building, and several hours of open networking across founders, investors, corporates and researchers. Free and open to all, no membership needed.

One of Europe's largest conferences for Black tech professionals returns to Berlin for a full day at Berlin Global Village: career and leadership tracks, technical sessions, hiring partners in the room and an evening programme. Strong, well-established community event with a genuine recruiting function attached — worth the day whether you are hiring or being hired.

with Christoph Jentzsch (CEO, beel)

The finale of the second Foundacious season returns to Berlin for an evening built entirely around fundraising, with three speakers including Christoph Jentzsch (CEO, beel) and exclusive networking with business angels and VCs from across the region. Supported by WeWork, CMS, BAND and the BACB. Held in English; five euros on the door.

A two-day Berlin conference on the longevity economy, on the premise that by 2050 one in three Europeans will be over 60 and health, care, housing, finance and work are all being forced to rebuild around that. Brings together startups, investors, corporates and care operators treating demographic change as a market rather than a problem to manage. Paid conference with tiered tickets.

Silicon Allee's first-Tuesday morning meetup at St. Oberholz in Kreuzberg — coffee, community and open conversation with Berlin's longest-running tech network. No agenda and no pitching: come with whatever you are building or thinking about. A reliable fixture and an easy entry point into the Berlin scene.

An evening of career stories, connection and belonging hosted by the Black community at GetYourGuide. Instead of a panel it runs as a human library: real people available for short conversations in small groups or one to one, on topics like changing careers at 31, failing a promotion, or navigating a visa application. Rotate, meet someone new, repeat.

A SaaS Week Berlin side event on what an AI-native company actually looks like in 2026 — not a tech company that uses AI, but one rethinking headcount, hierarchy and hiring around what the tools can now do. Hosted at Doctolib for women working in SaaS across product, engineering, go-to-market and operations.

Three days of Android engineering at Berlin Dev Week, the long-running droidcon conference covering Kotlin, tooling, architecture and the platform's direction, with an international speaker line-up. Co-located with FlutterCon Europe, reactCon, swiftcon and xr&gamesCon, so one ticket week puts most of Berlin's mobile and front-end community in the same building.