Skip to content

Casual Meetups Berlin

Explore Berlin's social scene with casual meetups

Lasst uns treffen und Deutsch sprechen

Lasst uns treffen und Deutsch sprechen

Mon, Jul 20, 4:30 PM
From Socialize in German
4.7

**📢 Wichtiges Update für das Sprachcafé in Manifesto!** 📢 2. Etage wo es geschlossen ist. Alle Teilnehmende **müssen** etwas bestellen. Wenn nicht, werden wir uns in Neukölln treffen. **Ein Getränk bei der Soot Bar** (unten bei den WCs) **oder Essen woanders** zu kaufen, damit wir dort bleiben dürfen. Danke fürs Mitmachen! 😊

  • Photo of the user
  • Photo of the user
  • Photo of the user
13 attendees
Quality Engineering meetup #13

Quality Engineering meetup #13

Thu, Jul 16, 4:00 PM
From Quality Engineering Berlin
4.7

**PLEASE NOTE THE ADDRESS CHANGE! We're now at DEUTSCHE BANK BERLIN!** *In collaboration with* *Deutsche Bank*, *[Qase](https://qase.io) is presenting the **thirteenth** Meetup on Quality Engineering in Berlin.* *We’re bringing you three deep-dive talks: all designed to challenge the way you think about quality, testing, and collaboration.* *As always, expect great conversations, snacks, and drinks. See you there!* **AGENDA** **1\. Olga Bokova @ Deutsche Bank:** ***Testing the Nanoseconds: A Decade of High-Frequency Trading QA Evolution*** High-frequency trading systems operate at the edge of technology, where latency is measured in nanoseconds and every delay can translate directly into financial impact. In this environment, traditional QA approaches quickly break down, e.g. functional correctness alone is no longer enough. In this talk, Olga will share a real-world journey of how QA evolved over the past decade within high-performance trading systems. We’ll explore the challenges of testing ultra-low latency platforms, handling massive market data streams, and ensuring deterministic behaviour in highly distributed environments. Olga will walk us through how fragmented testing approaches led to inefficiency, duplication, and scalability issues, and how they transitioned toward a unified, domain-level testing framework built around simulation and controlled environments. You’ll learn how treating testing infrastructure as an engineering product helped us reduce complexity, increase reliability, and enable performance testing at realistic market scale. Along the way, Olga will share practical lessons, trade-offs, and what they chose to abandon (not just what we built). **2\. Neha\-B Yadav @ Deutsche Bank: *Secure AI, Smarter Testing: How QA Teams Can Shift Left Efficiently*** Now as ever, staying effective and efficient requires more than just strong testing fundamentals, but also intelligent orchestration of tools, data, and automation. Neha will focus in this talk on three key dimensions: how to stay effective with the help of AI-driven test workflows, how to remain relevant with modern engineering practices and enterprise tooling, and how to continuously upskill in an ecosystem of automation, AI agents, and integrated test platforms. Neha will share her approach with shifting testing left, proactive defect prevention, early test design, and proper continuous integration. The session will highlight techniques such as test-driven development, early collaboration between QA and engineering, and integrating validation into CI/CD pipelines to reduce downstream risks. **3\. Vitaly Sharovatov @ Qase: Leading Cost\-Cutting Initiatives by Improving Quality** More and more companies are cutting costs and doing layoffs, and QA is often among the first to be cut. Yet it is precisely QA folks who can help cut costs while improving quality. In this talk, Vitaly suggests ways we all can lead cost cutting discussions to make things right and either reduce or prevent layoffs. Partner with Customer Support to identify which escaped defects cost the most in ticket handling and escalations. Partner with Sales to identify which bugs put renewals and expansions at risk. Add Finance for SLA credits and refunds, and Engineering for incident response and hotfix effort. Add it all up, and you get external failure costs. After that, quantify internal failure costs like rework, retesting, queues, and waste. We will turn these numbers into a cost cutting proposal that managers understand: reduce the priciest external failure costs first, then reduce internal failure costs, by improving the way we build quality in. You will leave with a simple template for collecting the numbers with other departments, doing the calculations, and proposing specific process changes. Let's be the people who cut failure costs, not the people who get cut!

  • Photo of the user
  • Photo of the user
  • Photo of the user
100 attendees
Saturday Afternoon Creative Coffee, Boardgames, and Talk

Saturday Afternoon Creative Coffee, Boardgames, and Talk

Sat, Jul 11, 12:00 PM
From Saturday Afternoon creative coffee, boardgames, and talk
4.4

➡️ Join us on Telegram: [https://t.me/+1k8nWt2bM7FlZTFi](https://t.me/+1k8nWt2bM7FlZTFi) **Relax. Connect. Create. ☕** After a full week of work, meetings, study sessions and life in fast-forward, it’s time to slow down. Join us this Saturday afternoon in Berlin for a relaxed coffee hang-out where this week's agenda is good company & warm drinks. You're also invited to bring some boardgames, drawing/coloring materials (I will bring an adult coloring book) **What’s the plan?** We’ll meet in a cosy spot, draw, chat about everything and nothing, swap stories and simply enjoy the moment. No pressure. No formalities. Just a bunch of friendly people sharing a Saturday coffee. **Who’s welcome?** Everyone! Whether you’re a Berliner born and raised, newly arrived in the city, from Germany or abroad, if you like meeting open-minded folks and spending some relaxed time—come join us. **When & how?** Saturday afternoon. Detailed time and place in our Telegram group. Hop in, say hello, and we’ll share the final details. **Why join?** \*Because you deserve a break. * Because you enjoy being creative. \*Because you enjoy boardgames * Because meeting new people sparks fresh energy. \*Because coffee tastes even better when shared. * Because Saturday afternoons were made for this. Respect and Safety: There is always at least one organizer present at every meetup. If you ever feel unsafe or bothered by someone’s behavior, you can reach out to an organizer privately. Your identity will remain confidential, your concern will be taken seriously, and no inappropriate behavior is tolerated — anyone making others feel uncomfortable will be removed from the group immediately. We hope to see you there. Bring yourself, your smile, drawing materials, your stories—or just your comfy self. Let’s make Saturday a little more laid-back, a little more social and a lot more nice. See you soon! —Your Saturday Creative Coffee Crew ☕

  • Photo of the user
  • Photo of the user
  • Photo of the user
12 attendees
Tuesday Boardgames in the Mitte (Formely in the Castle)

Tuesday Boardgames in the Mitte (Formely in the Castle)

Tue, Jul 14, 5:00 PM
From Berlin Board Gamers
4.8

Hello peeps, welcome to the private meetup for board games in Berlin. Look forward to a relaxed boardgames event in a community centre. We will be playing inside the community centre. If you are looking for a group or games, just join us in the front. The entrance fee is 3 euros for the rent of the community centre rooms and cleanup of the rooms. We look to play in the Nachbarschaftszentrum „Bürger für Bürger“ near Bernauer Strasse U-Bahnhof. We usually play all types of games for example social deduction, casual, euro games, and strategy games. If you are new, is no worries, I will help you connect to a group. We start games every 15 mins so do not worry if you are late. We mostly play in the English language as it is the language most people are comfortable with. We usually bring games with us but you are welcome to bring your own. Due to corona rules in Berlin (for more info: https://www.berlin.de/corona/en/measures/), please make sure to follow the rules on the page. The meetup is strictly for a maximum of persons as stated in the meetup so please register on the meetup event before. Please follow the rules and hygiene concept from the community centre. Please do not bring outside drinks. Please smoke or gather in the night not outside the community centre as we look to be accomodating to the neighbours. If you have any questions, please let me know.

  • Photo of the user
  • Photo of the user
15 attendees
German, English, Spanish, Coffe A2-C2, Bring 2 German Friend get 1Drink, ur Ex..

German, English, Spanish, Coffe A2-C2, Bring 2 German Friend get 1Drink, ur Ex..

Sat, Jul 11, 12:35 PM
From Berlin Meet & Mingle
4.2

Meet, Match, MoveOn and Manage or Master Why Meet 1)Meet new People Culture Languages. 2)Not Match Romance, Political Views nor Religion, only Respect and Joy 3) Moveon, advance with your level, goals, and especially share and try Rotate the groups and let others participate a bit. 4) Master the challenges, and Manage to give a Like or appreciate the meetups!! **Thematic** or small Concept: Manage to Bring 2 German Friends and you get a Drink. if you bring your Ex Partner + 2 German friends =2 drinks = thats the Challenge and the Attitude of 2026

  • Photo of the user
  • Photo of the user
2 attendees
Casual Sunday Board Games Meetup @ Berliner Berg Beer Garden

Casual Sunday Board Games Meetup @ Berliner Berg Beer Garden

Sun, Jul 12, 12:00 PM
From Berlin Board Gamers
4.8

We are happy to invite you to spend a chill and hopefully sunny Sunday playing board games with us in the open-air beer garden of Berliner Berg Brewery. We focus on light and social board games like Codenames, Dixit, Coup, Avalon, Spyfall, and so on. But we also bring along more complex strategy games for those interested. We have enough games with us, but feel free to bring your own as well. We explain the rules before every game, so complete beginners are more than welcome. ---- German Version ---- Wir laden euch herzlich ein, einen entspannten und hoffentlich sonnigen Sonntag mit uns beim Brettspielen im Biergarten der Berliner Berg Brauerei zu verbringen. Unser Fokus liegt auf leichten und geselligen Brettspielen wie Codenames, Dixit, Coup, Avalon, Spyfall und so weiter. Für Interessierte bringen wir aber auch komplexere Strategiespiele mit. Wir haben genügend Spiele dabei, aber bringt gerne auch eure eigenen mit. Wir erklären vor jedem Spiel die Regeln, absolute Anfänger sind also herzlich willkommen!

  • Photo of the user
  • Photo of the user
16 attendees
430kMonthly events
calendar icon
60mMembers
people1 icon
4.5App store rating
appStore icon
200kGroups
people2 icon

Frequently asked questions

Meetup is a platform for discovering and joining local groups that organize events based on shared interests, allowing people to connect with others in their community.

To find meetups in Berlin, you simply search using Berlin as a location on the Meetup platform. Browse through various groups catering to different interests to join and participate.

Yes, Berlin hosts numerous casual meetups. These are typically informal gatherings that focus on socializing and exploring shared interests within the community.

Absolutely! On Meetup, you can join as many groups as you like, provided they align with your interests, allowing you to engage with diverse communities.

RSVPing to a meetup is simple. Once you find an event you're interested in on the Meetup platform, click the RSVP button to indicate your attendance.

Signing up for Meetup is free, but some events might have entrance fees or cover charges, as determined by the event organizers.

Meetup is designed to help you meet people, but making friends depends on personal interactions and engagement; it sets the stage for connections.

Certainly! Berlin offers various outdoor casual meetups, giving you a chance to explore the city while enjoying the company of others.

Casual meetups in Berlin are meant to facilitate relaxed social interactions, allowing you to meet new people without the pressure of formal events.

Meetup specializes in group activities and does not focus on one-on-one matchmaking; it's more about collective experiences and gatherings.

Event frequency varies depending on the group and organizers. Some may have weekly meetups, while others could be monthly or seasonal.

Yes, many groups in Berlin offer online events, allowing people to participate remotely, although offerings depend on the organizers.

Casual meetups can range from coffee gatherings, language exchanges, to city explorations, providing a wide variety of options to choose from.

While popular interests are more likely to have active groups, it's not guaranteed every specific interest is covered. New groups can form anytime, though!

Events are organized by individual groups or event hosts, not directly by Meetup. Meetup provides the platform for discovering and following events.