Biotech Meetups Berlin

Sunday Tech Coffee Meetup

Welcome to Sunday Tech Coffee. This is a **networking** event for those in the tech industry in Berlin. We are usually inside and to the right. Ask the barista/bartender if you can't find us.

Berlin Tech & Creative Industry Afterwork (English/German) (Free Welcome-Drink)

Welcome to the Berlin Tech and Creative Industry Afterwork! ✨ Are you tired of stiff networking events, formal agendas, and endless slide decks? So are we. This group brings together Berlin's most exciting minds, from tech and corporate professionals to creative freelancers and artists, for a genuinely relaxed evening out. We meet in my favorite Cocktailbars to unwind, share ideas, and connect with great people over good drinks. What to expect: NO PowerPoints & Ads. Leave the hustle and the pitches at the door. Our focus is strictly on real, authentic exchanges, sparking inspiration, and having fantastic conversations. ONLY the Best Bars in Berlin: We hit up at my favorite spots in the city. From hidden gems to cool cocktail lounges and cozy pubs with great beer and wine. Bilingual and welcoming: Whether you're a native Berliner or an expat who just arrived, everyone is welcome! Conversations naturally flow in both English and German. A Brilliant Crowd: Mingle with startup founders, tech professionals, designers, corporate innovators, and creatives who just want to make new friends and enjoy a great evening. If you want to bounce an idea off someone, chat about industry trends, or simply enjoy a well-deserved after-work drink with a fantastic group of people, this is the place to be. See you! Follow us on IG: https://www.instagram.com/berlin_afterwork/

After Work Jam Session

Dear Community, on **October 13** it is time again: We are meeting for our **After Work Jam Session at the Wiener Café of Bayer AG in Wedding!** **Music, drinks and good vibes for free!** **Join in, sing along or simply listen and meet great people.** Also joining us again: Our wonderful guest musicians **Oli Bott on vibraphone and** **Anna Carewe on cello.** Do not miss it. **Since we are opening the outside entrance, you can easily bring along family, friends and music-loving acquaintances,** **....and from 20.00 we will continue in our splendid Bayron Bar!**

13th Berlin Meetup – From Gatekeeper to Force Multiplier

**13th Berlin Meetup – From Gatekeeper to Force Multiplier** Development is getting faster. But QA cannot simply scale by hiring testers at the same rate as developers. So what happens when QA changes its role? At The Test Tribe’s 13th Berlin Meetup, Mofazzal Hossain will share how Cybus has evolved QA from a traditional gatekeeping function into an advisory and system-level quality function — and how agentic AI can help make that model scalable. Instead of asking AI to simply write tests, the approach encodes testing expertise into repo-based skills that are versioned with the code, reviewed through pull requests, and executed in CI. **Event Details** * Date: 7 October 2026 * Time: 06:00 PM – 08:00 PM CET * Venue: Room 121, Building 1, 2nd Floor, Kastanienallee 82, 10435 Berlin **Session – From Gatekeeper to Force Multiplier** **[Speaker: Mofazzal Hossain, QA Lead at Cybus](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mofazzal/)** The session explores how QA teams can scale their impact by changing where and how they apply their expertise. At Cybus, tickets are explicitly routed as dev-verified, advisory, or QA-owned. Developers verify their own features against a test plan shaped and reviewed by QA, while QA focuses its capacity on system-level, non-functional, and other areas where deeper quality expertise is needed. The next layer is agentic AI: encoding QA knowledge into reusable, version-controlled skills that can move from a Jira ticket to an executable test. You’ll see how this model works in practice, including the skills currently used in production and the limitations that still require human judgment. **How This Meetup Solves Your Problem** * QA is struggling to keep pace with development? Explore a model that scales QA expertise without simply scaling headcount. * QA is becoming a bottleneck? See how explicit ownership can help distribute verification across developers, advisory QA, and QA-owned testing. * AI-generated tests aren't enough? Explore how repo-based skills can turn testing expertise into reusable automation. * Worried about trusting AI agents? Understand why outputs remain drafts until reviewed and where agents can still produce confident but incorrect results. * Not sure what governance AI testing needs? Explore the considerations that should be addressed before rolling agentic workflows out. **Why Show Up on 7 October?** * Because development speed is increasing, and QA needs new ways to scale its impact. * Because “issues found by QA” may not be the most useful measure of a modern QA team's value. * Because you’ll see how QA expertise can become part of the codebase through repo-based AI skills. * Because advisory QA can shift the focus from testing everything to applying quality expertise where it matters most. * Because understanding the limits of agentic AI is just as important as understanding its capabilities. **Become a Speaker at The Test Tribe events:** ​Wish to share your insights with the community at a future event? Submit your talk idea [here](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc8xebmOBD2WYXwGKWj7GteY-tMLaj-aZzQk88MAsE0LUiMUQ/viewform?utm_source=luma) and our team will get back to you, if the idea resonates with them too. **​About The Test Tribe** ​The Test Tribe is the world's largest software testing community, empowering testers globally since 2018. With 700+ events and 150K+ members across 130+ countries, we bring testers together to learn, grow, and connect through meetups, conferences, cohorts, masterclasses, and more. ​By RSVPing, you agree to our [Terms and Conditions](https://www.thetesttribe.com/website-terms-conditions/?utm_source=luma) and [Privacy Policy](https://www.thetesttribe.com/our-privacy-policy/?utm_source=luma) and consent to be contacted by The Test Tribe and our event partners

GitHub Copilot Dev Days Berlin

✨ Dev Days is a global, in-person community-led initiative taking place from September 1st - October 31st, 2026. The series brings together developers, enthusiasts, and local tech communities to explore the power of GitHub Copilot through practical, hands-on experiences. Open to all developers, each session runs for approximately 2-3 hours and focuses on real-world workflows, hands-on activities, and workshops centred on GitHub Copilot in the Copilot app and the CLI. Agenda: 04:00 PM - 04:15 PM Opening and Networking 04:15 pm - 05:00 pm Talk **Yuriy Varshavskyy** *Agentic Workflows with GitHub Copilot* Discover how GitHub Copilot Agentic Workflows can automate complex development tasks by combining AI-driven planning with GitHub Actions. In this session, you'll learn what agentic workflows are, how to create them using a simple Markdown definition, compile them into executable GitHub Actions workflows, and integrate them into your development process. We'll also explore key benefits such as automation, consistency, reduced manual effort, and faster delivery of software solutions. 05:00 pm - 05:15 pm Break 05:15 pm - 06:00 pm Talk **Luise Freese** *Beyond Proof-of-Concept Prison: Who Owns What We Ship?* In a proof of concept, AI is a feature. In production, it becomes infrastructure. The impressive demo is the easy part. Shipping it means confronting everything the prototype was allowed to ignore: maintenance, integration, failure, accountability, cost, and the people whose work will be reorganized around the system. Organizations often treat Proof-of-Concept Prison as a technical problem. But many prototypes remain prototypes because nobody has made the decisions a real product requires. Ownership stays vague, budgets remain temporary, and delivery teams inherit risks they do not have the authority to resolve. The organization wants innovation, but hesitates when innovation demands lasting responsibility. Yet assigning a product owner does not settle the deeper question of ownership. Who owns the models, infrastructure, data and knowledge the product depends on? Who gains control when work is moved into systems operated by a handful of vendors? Who captures the productivity gains, and who carries the social and environmental costs? A system can be technically robust, operationally mature and commercially successful while still making its users more dependent and concentrating power elsewhere. This talk connects the practical challenge of escaping Proof-of-Concept Prison with the politics of putting AI into production. Because shipping is never merely the moment a prototype becomes a product. It is the moment technical choices become organizational dependencies, working conditions and power relations. The question is not only whether we can ship it, but what, and whose, system we strengthen when we do. 06:00 pm until the end of the world Networking 😅 # Code of Conduct We are committed to providing a welcoming and inclusive environment for all participants. Please review the event Code of Conduct before attending. 👉 **Event Code of Conduct**: [https://github.com/github/dev-days/blob/main/EVENT_CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md](https://github.com/github/dev-days/blob/main/EVENT_CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md)

Echte Männerfreundschaften - Treffpunkt

TOKEN BREAK 10.000 STEPS. OFFLINE.

# TOKEN BREAK **Berlin’s walk & talk for AI builders, vibe coders, and the curious. No laptops. No pitches. Just 10,000 steps and real conversation.** ## THE PROBLEM We spend more time talking to AI than talking with people about what we’re building with it. Think about your week. You’ve spent hours prompting, debugging, and shipping with AI. You may have had a longer conversation with a chatbot than with a friend. Your back is stiff. Your eyes are tired. And even while working on something genuinely exciting, it can feel strangely isolating. We built agents to save time. Then we filled the saved hours with more screen time. The AI community debates the future of work, intelligence, and human connection—often alone, hunched over a laptop. That’s the contradiction: a technology designed to empower us can easily leave us stationary and disconnected. ## THE SOLUTION Token Break changes the setting. No screens. No pitches. No decks. Just people walking through Berlin and talking about AI—face to face, in real time. We meet and walk 10,000 steps together. Along the way, we talk about what we’re building, what’s working, what isn’t, what excites us, and what worries us. We share recent discoveries, unfinished ideas, and honest opinions about what’s useful and what’s mostly hype. It’s the kind of conversation that usually gets buried in a Slack thread—except now it happens between people, in motion, without another tab open. ## WHY IT WORKS Walking side by side takes the pressure out of networking and makes honest conversations easier. Ideas move differently when your body does. After a week of talking to machines, spending 90 minutes talking with people who share the same curiosity feels refreshingly different. This isn’t anti-AI. It’s pro-human. ## JOIN THE FIRST TOKEN BREAK 📅 **29 September 2026 - 07:00 pm** 📍 **Meeting point:** [will be announced] 🚶 **10,000 steps:** Around 90 minutes 💻 **Zero laptops. Zero pitches.** 👥 **Everyone is welcome:** Builders, vibe coders, tinkerers, skeptics, and the AI-curious 💸 **Free** This is our first walk, so we’re keeping the group small. If you’re tired of talking about AI through a screen, come talk about it while walking through Berlin.-

A Java 8 lambda and JobRunr is all you need for distributed (batch) processing!

The Java User Group Berlin-Brandenburg and our partner [codecentric](https://www.codecentric.de/) invite you to the talk **A Java 8 lambda and JobRunr is all you need for distributed (batch) processing!** by Ronald Dehuysser on **October the 7th, 2026**. **A Java 8 lambda and JobRunr is all you need for distributed (batch) processing!** (Ronald Dehuysser): Are you struggling with CPU-intensive tasks, high I/O work, or do you need to schedule background jobs without blocking the rest of your system? I often see teams building a scheduling solution themselves, severely underestimating the complexity of running jobs asynchronously. A costly endeavour, especially with a simple, free and open-source solution readily available. Find out more at https://jug-berlin-brandenburg.de/blog/2026/jobrunner/

Cybersecurity × AI: Berlin's Builders, Breakers & Backers #5

AI has changed both sides of the security equation at once. Attackers are automating reconnaissance, phishing, and exploit development at a scale that didn't exist two years ago. Defenders are shipping agents that triage alerts, patch code, and hunt threats faster than any SOC team could. And an entirely new attack surface — the models themselves — is being built into products before anyone has agreed on how to secure it. Berlin has quietly become one of Europe's densest clusters of people working on exactly this problem: security founders, ML engineers, red teamers, CISOs, researchers, and the investors funding them. This meetup is an attempt to get them in one room. **⚠️ Attendance is limited and by application only** To be considered, apply here: [https://luma.com/ak9geyg6](https://luma.com/ak9geyg6) We're capping this event at **10 people**. The reason is deliberate: we'd rather have a room where everyone present is actually working in this space than a large room where most people are browsing. Smaller rooms mean better conversations and a much higher chance you meet the two or three people who matter for what you're building. The form takes about two minutes. We'll ask for: * Your name and where you work * What you're building, investing in, or researching * Your role (founder / engineer / security lead / investor / researcher / other) * What you're hoping to get out of the evening We review applications on a rolling basis and confirm attendees by email. Applying early genuinely helps — once we're at capacity we close the list. If you're not selected this time, you'll be first in line for the next one. **What to expect** * [2–3 short talks] from founders and practitioners building at the intersection — offensive AI, AI-native defense tooling, securing LLM applications, compliance under the EU AI Act * An open Q&A where hard questions are welcome * Long-form networking **Who we're looking for** Founders (pre-idea to Series B), security engineers and researchers, red teamers, CISOs and security leads, VCs and angels active in the space, and serious people looking to move into it.

Curiosity Lab - The hidden life of water - An evening of experiments

IBM Bob Coding Watch Party in Berlin

Developers, Ops, domain experts - let's get your hands dirty! We are rolling out a hybrid series of hands-on practitioner events around IBM Bob, the new **AI**-powered development partner designed to help you ideate, build, modernize and ship better code, faster. ​What makes these events stand out? 👩‍💻👨‍💻🧑‍💻🪩 Coding Watch Parties in Berlin, Cologne, Frankfurt, Ehningen, Vienna, Zurich and online/remote at the same time. Join live sessions together with other creators — not just watching, but discussing, reacting, and learning in real time. Think of it as turning a webinar into a shared experience. The final 2 AI Coding Watch Parties with Bob, each with **tracks for beginners, intermediate and experts**, will take place on \- 15th October and \- 1st December *The Coding Watch Parties are free of charge. Onsite tickets are limited.* ​🥷🧙‍♀️🧝🪄 Hands-on + Community-first From hackathons to deep dives, these events are built to help you explore modern AI-driven development workflows and connect with peers. ​ **Bob is built to support domain users without coding experience as well as R&D + Ops folks** from the ideation stage up to modernization of legacy apps, to secure, fullstack enterprise-ready development. IBM Bob supports the entire SDLC — and these sessions show and guide you how it actually works in best practice. ​If you’re curious about where AI is taking software engineering next, this is a great place to plug in. Detailed agenda will follow... 🙂

Curiosity Lab - The Hidden Life Of Water - A Hands-On Evening

**Can you actually watch water leave a living cell?** This evening, you can. I’m a science teacher in Berlin, and I’d love to invite you into our science classroom for a relaxed, hands-on evening of microscopes, simple experiments, surprising discoveries and good conversation. Together, we’ll explore **osmosis** — one of those processes that quietly keeps life working. Every living cell has to manage the movement of water. Get that balance wrong, and cells can swell, shrink or stop functioning properly. And osmosis is not just something from a biology textbook. It helps explain why wilted lettuce becomes crisp again in water, why salt draws water out of food, why drinking seawater makes dehydration worse, and why the balance of water and salts in our bodies matters so much. You’ll prepare and observe living red onion cells under the microscope and actually see what happens when water moves in and out. We’ll connect what you observe with familiar examples from everyday life, so you leave not only having seen something usually invisible, but understanding **why it matters**. You don’t need to remember anything from school biology. The idea is simply to spend an enjoyable evening being curious together: trying things out, asking questions, discovering something new and meeting other people along the way. Come because you like science, because you haven’t looked through a microscope in years, because you enjoy learning — or simply because doing something a little different with a group of curious people sounds like a good evening. The event is in person and completely free of charge, offered as part of our school’s community activities. Expect microscopes, simple experiments, and a closer look at something that is happening inside living organisms all the time — usually completely invisible to us. Because this is a hands-on session in a classroom, places are limited to **20 participants**. Registration is therefore needed. If you sign up, please only do so if you genuinely intend to come, so that none of the limited places go unused. You are very welcome to come on your own or bring a friend. If you bring someone, please make sure they register separately as well so we can stay within the classroom capacity. **No science background needed — just curiosity.** Register [HERE](https://terminplaner.dfn.de/public/bookings/9f8cbab1-80f7-429a-8056-a6efa4d6f8d0) If you have any questions, just send me a message. I hope to welcome many of you at the event. Kindly, Maria