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Beyond Dashboards: Grafana Features & Secure AI Agents
Tue, Oct 6, 4:00 PM🗒️ **About the event** Join us at **NLND Neuland Berlin** for an evening of talks, pizza, drinks, and conversation. We’ll explore how to run coding agents securely and uncover Grafana features that can make observability and troubleshooting easier. 📍 **NLND Neuland Berlin** · Neuköllnische Allee 80, 12057 Berlin 📋 **Agenda** **18:00 · Welcome, pizza, and drinks** 🍕 Grab a bite and meet fellow community members before the talks begin. **18:30 · Talks** 🎙️ **Grafana and the Chamber of Hidden Features** Grafana is best known for dashboards... but the Grafana ecosystem has grown far beyond panels, PromQL queries, and a few alert rules. In this session, we’ll explore the parts of Grafana that are easy to overlook: features hiding in plain sight, capabilities that don’t always make it into the typical Grafana workflow, and products and solutions from Grafana Labs that many teams may not have encountered yet. We’ll look beyond the obvious dashboarding use cases and uncover tools that can simplify observability, improve troubleshooting, and solve problems you might currently be addressing with entirely different systems. **Speaker:** Anatolii Timoshuk Anatolii Timoshuk used to run production systems. Now he talks to the people who run production systems — arguably a questionable career progression, but one that comes with fewer 3 a.m. alerts. After years in systems engineering and DevOps, building and operating large-scale cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure, Anatolii crossed over to the go-to-market side of tech. Today, as a Senior Observability Architect at Grafana Labs, he works with teams across EMEA and APAC on observability, architecture, and figuring out what's actually happening inside their systems. He brings an operator's mindset to Solutions Engineering: distrust the happy path, ask what happens when it breaks, and always look at the data. **So you want to run (coding) agents securely** Fixing a bug doesn’t need your cloud provider credentials. Summarizing a document doesn’t need permission to send emails. But useful agents need access to our code, data, and tools – and that can easily end up with more authority than the task requires. Unlike a malicious dependency, agents don’t necessarily need an attacker to start doing something you didn’t intend. “Just sandbox it” sounds like the obvious answer. So does “keep a human in the loop.” Neither quite settles what running an agent securely actually means. Tom explores the boundaries between isolation, autonomy, and trust – and how a perfectly reasonable task can end in what would be a felony if a human did it. What should an agent be allowed to reach? Which decisions should remain yours? And how would you notice when it starts going off track? Through live demos of popular open-source tools, Tom puts sandboxing to the test: what does it protect, what does it get in the way of, and what remains a matter of trust? Can you give an agent enough freedom to get the job done—and then just walk away? **Speaker:** [Tom Braack](https://linkedin.com/in/tombraack) [Tom](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tombraack/) is a Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs, working on highly autonomous agents for automatic infrastructure observability and management. Previously, Tom contributed to the OpenTelemetry Collector and Prometheus. He draws on a strong cloud-native background, having previously created Grafana Tanka, an open-source tool for scalable Kubernetes configuration management. Tom has studied Computer Science at FU Berlin and has presented about observability and cloud-native topics at conferences such as FOSDEM, PromCon, and OTel Community Day. **20:00 · Q&A and networking** 💬 **21:00 · Event ends** 🔚 Whether you work in DevOps or site reliability engineering, or you’re just getting started with Grafana and observability, you’re welcome to join us. We look forward to seeing you there! #Grafana #Observability

Sunday Service 10:45am
Sun, Oct 4, 8:45 AMYou are welcome to join Sunday services at our church location. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions.

Pipelines, Privacy & the Collector Fleet: Real-Time Data Done Right
Thu, Oct 15, 4:00 PMJoin us for an evening with two talks, one theme: data flowing at scale — and handling it responsibly. From architecting your OpenTelemetry Collector fleet across edge-to-gateway topologies, to protecting PII in real-time Kafka pipelines — practical patterns, live demos, and a few privacy war stories along the way. Food and drinks on us — stick around after for networking. ✍️ RSVP soon — capacity is limited! 📅 **Date and Time** Thursday, October 15, 2026 from 18:00-20:45 📍 **Location** [EBCONT office, beyond Quartier Heidestrasse, 34, 10557 Berlin](https://maps.app.goo.gl/aQGPgteqhQ2yrmx96) 📝 **Agenda** 18:00 – Doors open, arrivals and check-in 18:20 – Welcome note by EBCONT 18:30 – **Keeping data private in real-time pipelines** by [Olena Kutsenko](https://www.linkedin.com/in/olenakutsenko/), Confluent *Real-time data — clicks, payments, messages — is full of personal information we're not supposed to leak. The challenge: how do we keep streaming data useful and safe at the same time?* *We'll explore practical privacy protection patterns in streaming systems using Kafka, Flink, and Iceberg — from masking and tokenizing PII, to why "anonymous" data often isn't, to techniques like k-anonymity and noise injection. With real-world deanonymization stories and live demos included.* 19:00 – Q&A & quick break 19:15 – **From Edge to Gateway: architecting your OpenTelemetry Collector deployment** by [Marcin "Perk" Stożek](https://www.linkedin.com/in/perk-marcin-stozek/), Elastic *As OpenTelemetry adoption scales, the Collector becomes your observability backbone — but deploying it effectively means knowing what to run and where.* *We'll cover the full Collector fleet lifecycle: demystifying binaries (standard, EDOT, and custom OCB builds), mapping deployment topologies from edge agents to centralized gateways, and tackling fleet management at scale — from static configs to dynamic orchestration with OpAMP.* 19:45 – Pizza, drinks & networking \*\*\* Invite your friends and join us for an evening of learning and networking with fellow engineers and speakers! Thank you to **EBCONT** for hosting us!

Sprachcafe 06.10. @ 19:00 Topic: Kreativität (creativity)
Tue, Oct 6, 5:00 PMKreativität (creativity)! Join us for our next German Sprachcafe as we cover the topic of creativity Our event begins with a brief moderation at 19:00 where the host will introduce the topic, explain the conversation guidelines, and create groups of different German ability. In your group you will converse with a native German speaker on the topic of creativity. What is your creative outlet? What types of creativity do you see in Berlin? What role does creativity play in your life and work? These topic and more will be discussed with the participants in each group. So practice your German. This event is designed for people with at least A1.1 level German. Make mistakes, have fun, and improve in your language ability. Light snacks and drinks will be served to people in attendance. This event is free of charge! Our event officially ends at 20:30. Weather your just starting learning German, an intermediate, or growing in your language abilities, you are invited to join! This event is hosted by [Zoarkirche](https://efg-zoar.de/) and [Community Church Berlin](communitychurchberlin.de)

TIN* Embodied Practices
Fri, Oct 9, 5:00 PM**TIN\* Embodied Practices** mit Lux für **TIN\* (trans\*, inter\*, nicht-binäre, gender und genderqueere Personen)\*** Kostenlos mit **[Anmeldung](https://wearevillage.org/shop/tin-embodied-practices/w41-2026/)** **Ein somatischer Bewegungsraum für TIN\*-Körper (trans\*, inter\*, nicht-binäre, agender und genderqueere Personen)**. Inspiriert von Body-Mind Centering®, der Atemarbeit nach Ilse Middendorf, Authentic Movement und Feldenkrais verbinden die Sessions angeleitete Bewegung, Berührung, Improvisation und Reflexion. Auf Basis von Konsens, Autonomie und Care stärkt die Praxis Körperwahrnehmung, Selbstbestimmung und Resilienz in einer unterstützenden Gemeinschaft. Jede Sitzung beginnt mit einer geführten somatischen Bewegungsübung, die sich auf die Entwicklung anatomischer Werkzeuge zur Selbstbeobachtung konzentriert. Wir arbeiten mit den fünf Hauptlinien (Arme, Beine, Wirbelsäule), den vier Ecken des Rumpfes (Schultern und Hüften), den drei Hauptgewichtspunkten (Kopf, Brustkorb, Becken) und den beiden Seiten des Körpers. Diese Prinzipien unterstützen die Teilnehmer dabei, sich innerhalb ihrer eigenen körperlichen Architektur zu orientieren und ein verkörpertes Bewusstsein zu entwickeln. Auf dieser Grundlage erweitert sich die Praxis zu gemeinschaftlichen Bewegungen und gemeinsamer räumlicher Gestaltung, einschließlich Zeit für Integration und Reflexion. Bewegung wird als relationale, politische und räumliche Praxis an sich betrachtet. *\*\* Diese Veranstaltung ist Teil unseres Programms ‘**queere generationen**‘, unterstützt von der* ***[Berliner Lotto Stifttung](https://www.lotto-stiftung-berlin.de/)****.* *Erfahre mehr über das Programm* ***[hier](https://wearevillage.org/queer-generations)****.* 🔵 **TIN\* Embodied Practices** with Lux for **TIN\* (Trans\*, Inter\*, Non-binary, agender and genderqueer people)** **[Free event with registration](https://wearevillage.org/en/shop/tin-embodied-practices/w41-2026)** **A somatic movement space dedicated to TIN\* bodies (Trans\*, Inter\*, Non-binary, agender and genderqueer people).** Drawing from Body-Mind Centering®, breathwork after Ilse Middendorf, Authentic Movement and Feldenkrais, the sessions combine guided movement, touch-based exploration, improvisation and reflection. Grounded in consent, autonomy and care, the practice supports embodied awareness, bodily autonomy and resilience within a supportive community. Each session begins with a guided somatic movement practice focused on developing anatomical tools for self-observation. We work with the five cardinal lines (arms, legs, spine), the four corners of the trunk (shoulders and hips), the three primary weights (head, chest, pelvis), and the two sides of the body. These principles support participants in orienting within their own physical architecture and cultivating embodied awareness. From this foundation, the practice expands into communal movement and shared spatial authorship, including time for integration and reflection. Movement is framed as relational, political, and spatial practice in its own right. **General Information** To engage fully in the experience, participants are encouraged to wear comfortable clothing. **Participants:** This workshop is intended for people who identify outside traditional cisgender definitions: Trans\*, Inter\*, Non-binary, including agender and genderqueer identities. **Registration:** This event has limited spots available. Registration via our website is required. **Language:** This event will be in English. **Cost:** The event is free of charge. *\*\* This event is part of the we are village program* ***[queer generations](https://wearevillage.org/en/queer-generations)*** *with the support of the* ***[Lotto Stiftung Berlin](https://www.lotto-stiftung-berlin.de/)***. *Learn more about the program* ***[here](https://wearevillage.org/en/queer-generations)****.*

Meditation der liebenden Güte - Unser gutes Herz kultivieren (online & vor Ort)
Thu, Oct 8, 5:00 PMDu möchtest den Reichtum natürlich entstehender, bedingungsloser Liebe enthüllen, den jeder von uns im Herzen trägt? Diese Meditation unterstützt uns, die Quelle echter Gutherzigkeit in uns zu öffnen. Wir lernen, uns selbst auf gesunde, heilsame Weise zu lieben und so unsere Haltung anderen gegenüber zu verwandeln. Die Meditation der liebenden Güte kann uns dabei helfen, uns und anderen liebevoller und mitfühlender zu begegnen. Das Event findet sowohl online als auch vor Ort im Dharma Mati Berlin (Soorstr. 85, 14050 Berlin) statt. Um an diesem Online-Event teilzunehmen bitte auf den folgenden Link klicken: https://zoom.us/j/216979828 (Meeting-ID: 216-979-828).
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