Berlin tech events this week: Michael Moritz in Neukölln, and a week sorted by building

Last week we closed by pointing you at Unicon at CODE University on the 13th and the MLcon and AI Engineering Summit stack at the Maritim on the 16th. Both are here. Neither is the room you'll talk about on Monday. That's the one in Neukölln this afternoon. Twenty-five tech events in Berlin on our city page between Friday and Thursday, nineteen free to register, nothing on Sunday.

The Big One: Sir Michael Moritz, this afternoon

Fri 13 Nov, doors 16:00 - In conversation with Sir Michael Moritz, The Delta Campus, Donaustraße 44. Free, approval-based.

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Nearly four decades at Sequoia. Early money in Google, PayPal, LinkedIn and Stripe. Chair of Klarna. Julian Teicke of The Delta asks how he judges founders before there's a track record, whether Europe can build generational companies, and what Berlin founders get right and wrong. He'll also talk about his parents' flight from Nazi Germany, the subject of his recent writing - which gives the Berlin room weight no other city could. Fireside at 16:35, Q&A at 17:20, drinks from 17:50. If you're raising now, or writing angel cheques, come with one sharp question.

The week ahead, by building

The Delta Campus, Neukölln

Moritz isn't the only reason to learn the way to Donaustraße. On Tuesday the Entrepreneurship Festival Hackathon runs 09:00 to 20:00, free: ESCP Blue Factory founders bring real problems, twelve teams build prototypes, demos to a jury. Tuesday evening, The Design Gathering from 17:30, free, asks who we're designing for once agents act on the user's behalf. Wednesday, Global AI Nights - Berlin, 18:00, free: four talks on agents, with Neo4j and Postman speakers.

CIC Berlin, Kreuzberg

AI Builders Berlin - November, Tue 17 Nov, walk-in 17:30, EUR 14. Three talk-and-demo slots on evals, LLMOps and agents. Thursday the building fills: Thursday Gathering #79 from 17:00, free, sixteen Polish healthtech and medtech startups pitching at 18:30. Upstairs, SIBB's Startup Co-Founder Matching - paid, price not shown, and the doors close at 19:00.

Merantix AI Campus, Wedding

GTM Week Berlin Opening: The Rise of the GTM Era - Mon 16 Nov, doors 18:00, free, approval-based. Florian Heinemann of Project A, Kaythlin Das of HubSpot for Startups, Luca Jonas Moormann of OpenAI and Alan Poensgen of Antler on growth levers, then a panel on engineering as a GTM edge.

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Maritim proArte, Friedrichstraße

From Monday, two five-day conferences under one roof, ticketed separately. MLcon Berlin 2026, from EUR 1,079 plus VAT: agents, RAG, MLOps, bootcamps Monday and Tuesday. AI Engineering Summit, from EUR 1,199 plus VAT: legacy modernisation and governance, the tracks most AI conferences skip.

Everywhere else

• Fri 13 Nov - Unicon 2026 at CODE University, free, 300 seats, speed-dating round before the sessions. Schedule still moving.
• Sat 14 Nov - AI Agents for Founders Workshop: Claude Community x Taxfix, Köpenicker Str. 122, free; build an agent for your own business. Same afternoon, the Game Jam Workshop with Claude, check-in 14:00, no coding needed.
• Wed 18 Nov, 09:00 - Female Founders Breakfast at NLND Neuland, EUR 15.
• Wed 18 Nov, 18:30 - Vention Unplugged: Demo or It Didn't Happen, betahaus Kreuzberg, free. Five minutes of live demo each, no slides. gematik's CIO is on the bill.
• Wed 18 Nov, 18:30 - Antler's Co-Founder Matching Night, application-only.
• Thu 19 Nov, 09:30 - 4th KI-Tag at HÄRTING, EUR 178.50, the Bavarian data protection authority's president on stage.
• Thu 19 Nov - Silicon Allee's last Deep Tech Night of the year: Techniker Krankenkasse's CEO, Fraunhofer HHI and a clinician on one health-tech panel. Then Unicorns in Tech FLINTA* Afterwork at Curly Bar, 19:00, free ticket needed.

Theme of the week: does anyone trust the model?

Five rooms ask the same question from different ends. Entropy's Alignment Security Hackathon on Saturday, 10:00 to 22:00, puts 100 people on a vulnerable AI range to break it - Anthropic, HackTheBox, Circuit and Nebius sponsor. Monday's Symposium: AI and Truth at Publix, in German, puts a Dachau memorial educator beside an AI vendor. Tuesday, BLISS has Jonas Geiping of Max Planck on where reasoning chains get attacked. Wednesday's breakfast and Global AI Nights take the governance and engineering angles. Berlin argues before it ships.

First time? Mind the gates

Five of this week's best rooms want an approval before they give you an address: Moritz, GTM Week, Entropy, Antler, Deep Tech Night. Apply today, not Wednesday. SIBB shuts the door at 19:00 sharp.

Who should go where

Sales and marketing, Monday at Merantix. GTM Week's opening puts Project A, HubSpot, OpenAI and Antler on one growth panel, free.

Founders, Friday at The Delta, then pick your co-founder night: Antler on Wednesday if you're senior and vetted, SIBB on Thursday if you want structure.

Investors, Moritz on Friday; Thursday Gathering's sixteen Polish healthtech pitches if you want volume.

Builders, Saturday's Entropy hackathon if you get in, AI Builders on Tuesday if you don't. Skip the Maritim unless the employer pays.

Worth knowing

• Deep Tech Night offers a livestream-only ticket if Thursday's room is beyond you; the address comes after approval.
• Thursday evening is full on our page - four rooms, and we stopped there.
• MLcon and AI Engineering Summit are separate tickets, despite the shared venue.

Bring one question for Moritz, send us the event we missed, and browse the full Berlin listings.