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Most conversations about knowledge sharing get stuck in technical obstacles: siloed systems, missing metadata, weak enterprise search, and the belief that “AI will fix it.”

But the real breakthrough isn’t the AI itself. It’s the actionable content and context you give it.

Over the past year, we built the Graphwise Knowledge Hub, an AI-driven platform that unifies information from CRM, marketing, product docs, websites, market research, and more. What started as a project has evolved into a shared knowledge graph powering an intelligence layer across the organization.

Today, sales teams, marketers, product experts, and new colleagues all tap into the same trusted pool of knowledge: tailored to their context, instantly findable, and AI-ready.

During our January 29 webinar, you’ll learn how the Knowledge Hub became the foundation for efficient knowledge sharing and high-quality AI inputs.

Helmut Nagy, VP Sales Enablement and Teodora Petkova, Knowledge Steward will share:

• What we built and the problem it solves
• Lessons learned from real internal usage
• How we evaluated its impact on enablement, communication, and content creation
• A live demo of the Knowledge Hub you can explore yourself

Curious to see behind the scenes and learn the practices that make it work?

Join us for the session! Register: https://hubs.la/Q03Yr3RG0

For our first meetup of 2026, we're bringing you two deeply technical stories from the front lines of applied AI, together with AI Native Netherlands. We'll hear how the ANWB navigates the challenges of imperfect data in a legacy organization, and then dive into a practical guide for building production-grade AI agentic workflows with Elastic.

We’ll cover:

• ANWB's journey from manual operations to real-world AI predictions.
• Balancing the human and technical challenges of AI innovation.
• A practical guide to building production-grade agentic workflows.
• Integrating LLMs, vector search, and security into a simplified stack.

Speakers 1: Yke Rusticus & David Brummer (ANWB) Yke is a data engineer at ANWB with a background in astronomy and artificial intelligence. In the industry, he learned that AI models and algorithms often do not get past the experimentation phase, leading him to specialise in MLOps to bridge the gap between experimentation and production. As a professional in this field, Yke has developed ML platforms and use cases across different cloud providers, and is passionate about sharing his knowledge through tutorials and trainings.

David is a self-acclaimed “not your typical Data Scientist” who loves analogue photography, vegan food, dogs, and holds an unofficial PhD in thrifting and sourcing second-hand pearls. With a background in growth hacking and experience in the digital marketing trenches of a startup, a scale-up, and a digital agency, he now brings together lean startup thinking, marketing know-how, and sales pitches, blending it all with a passion for creativity and tech at the ANWB. As a bridge between business and data, David focuses on building AI solutions that don’t just work, but actually get used.

Talk: How AI is helping you back on the road We learn at school what AI can do when the data is perfect. We learn at conferences what AI can do when the environment is perfect. In this talk, you'll learn what AI can do when neither is perfect. This story is about the process of overcoming these challenges in an organisation that has been around since the invention of the bike. We'll balance the technical aspect of these solutions with the human aspect throughout the talk. Because in the end, it's not actually AI helping you back on the road, it's people.

Speaker 2: Hans Heerooms (Elastic) Hans Heerooms is a Senior Solutions Architect at Elastic. He has worked in various roles, but always with one objective: helping organisations to get the most out of their data with the least amount of effort. His current role at Elastic is all about supporting Elastic’s customers to help them evolve from data driven decisions to AI guided workflows.

Talk: Building Production-Grade AI Agentic Workflows with Elastic This talk tells and shows how Elastic Agent Builder can help to build and implement agentic workflows. It addresses the complexity of traditional development by integrating all necessary components—LLM orchestration, vector database, tracing, and security—directly into the Elasticsearch Search AI Platform. This talk will show you how to build custom agents, declare and assign tools, and start conversations with your data.

Agenda: 17:45 — Arrival, food & drinks 18:30 — Talk #1 \| Yke & David (ANWB) 19:15 — Short break 19:30 — Talk #2 \| Hans Heerooms (Elastic) 20:15 — Open conversation, networking & more drinks 21:00 — Wrapping up

Please note that the main door will close at 18.00. You will still be able to enter our office, but we might ask you to wait a little bit while we come down to open the door for you.

What to bring: Just curiosity and questions. If you're working on MLOps, applied AI, or building agentic workflows, we’d love to hear your thoughts.

Who this is for: Data scientists, AI/ML engineers, data engineers, MLOps specialists, SREs, architects, and engineering leaders focused on building and using real-world AI solutions.

Where to find us: Elastic's office in Amsterdam Keizersgracht 281, 1016 ED Amsterdam

Hi everyone, Many of you asked for more practical, real-world AI use-cases, and we listened!

For our first meetup of 2026, we're bringing you two deeply technical stories from the front lines of applied AI. We'll hear how the ANWB navigates the challenges of imperfect data in a legacy organization, and then dive into a practical guide for building production-grade AI agentic workflows with Elastic.

A huge thank you to our friends at Elastic for hosting us at their Amsterdam office. Food and drinks will be provided!

We’ll cover:

• ANWB's journey from manual operations to real-world AI predictions.
• Balancing the human and technical challenges of AI innovation.
• A practical guide to building production-grade agentic workflows.
• Integrating LLMs, vector search, and security into a simplified stack.

Speakers 1: Yke Rusticus & David Brummer (ANWB) Yke is a data engineer at ANWB with a background in astronomy and artificial intelligence. In the industry, he learned that AI models and algorithms often do not get past the experimentation phase, leading him to specialise in MLOps to bridge the gap between experimentation and production. As a professional in this field, Yke has developed ML platforms and use cases across different cloud providers, and is passionate about sharing his knowledge through tutorials and trainings.

David is a self-acclaimed “not your typical Data Scientist” who loves analogue photography, vegan food, dogs, and holds an unofficial PhD in thrifting and sourcing second-hand pearls. With a background in growth hacking and experience in the digital marketing trenches of a startup, a scale-up, and a digital agency, he now brings together lean startup thinking, marketing know-how, and sales pitches, blending it all with a passion for creativity and tech at the ANWB. As a bridge between business and data, David focuses on building AI solutions that don’t just work, but actually get used.

Talk: How AI is helping you back on the road We learn at school what AI can do when the data is perfect. We learn at conferences what AI can do when the environment is perfect. In this talk, you'll learn what AI can do when neither is perfect. This story is about the process of overcoming these challenges in an organisation that has been around since the invention of the bike. We'll balance the technical aspect of these solutions with the human aspect throughout the talk. Because in the end, it's not actually AI helping you back on the road, it's people.

Speaker 2: Hans Heerooms (Elastic) Hans Heerooms is a Senior Solutions Architect at Elastic. He has worked in various roles, but always with one objective: helping organisations to get the most out of their data with the least amount of effort. His current role at Elastic is all about supporting Elastic’s customers to help them evolve from data driven decisions to AI guided workflows.

Talk: Building Production-Grade AI Agentic Workflows with Elastic This talk tells and shows how Elastic Agent Builder can help to build and implement agentic workflows. It addresses the complexity of traditional development by integrating all necessary components—LLM orchestration, vector database, tracing, and security—directly into the Elasticsearch Search AI Platform. This talk will show you how to build custom agents, declare and assign tools, and start conversations with your data.

Agenda: 17:45 — Arrival, food & drinks 18:30 — Talk #1 \| Yke & David (ANWB) 19:15 — Short break 19:30 — Talk #2 \| Hans Heerooms (Elastic) 20:15 — Open conversation, networking & more drinks 21:00 — Wrapping up

Please note that the main door will close at 18.00. You will still be able to enter our office, but we might ask you to wait a little bit while we come down to open the door for you.

What to bring: Just curiosity and questions. If you're working on MLOps, applied AI, or building agentic workflows, we’d love to hear your thoughts.

Who this is for: Data scientists, AI/ML engineers, data engineers, MLOps specialists, SREs, architects, and engineering leaders focused on building and using real-world AI solutions.

Where to find us: Elastic Amsterdam Keizersgracht 281, 1016 ED Amsterdam

Dear Community,

as we step into the year ahead, we’re full of excitement for what’s to come and can’t wait to welcome you to our first session of the year at our new home, NLND Berlin.

Check out the details below, and we look forward to having all of you with us!

18:30 - Warming up and networking chat 18:45 - Intro by AWS UG Berlin & NLND 19:00 - 19:45 - Dr. Andreas E. Wagner // Emotionally Intelligent Leadership for An AI-powered Future

As leaders create an AI-powered future, they need to integrate their cognitive intelligence with their emotional intelligence to build adaptable, resilient, and innovative organizations. These leaders have deep empathy for customers and foster a culture of creativity and psychological safety among their employees. They need to be data-driven but also authentically human. This session will help leaders understand the EPIC attributes needed to drive successful outcomes in the new human+AI era.

Andreas is an experienced Business Coach. He has held senior management functions in sales, services, business development, and marketing. Through his experience at AWS, Ericsson, Huawei, Hitachi, Fujitsu, and Ingram, Andreas has gained a very good insight in several industries and diverse cultural leadership contexts.

19:45 - 20:05 - Network break with snacks & drinks

20:05 - 20:50 - Enrico Kern // Beyond AWS: The Case for OpenStack and Data Sovereignty

Join us for a thought-provoking discussion on the evolving cloud landscape in Europe, where growing data sovereignty requirements and regulatory compliance are reshaping enterprise cloud strategies beyond traditional AWS/Public-Cloud-only approaches. Drawing from real-world experience managing enterprise-scale AWS deployments, we'll explore how organizations are increasingly evaluating OpenStack (or other alternative solutions) not just as a complement to Public Clouds and Hyperscalers, but potentially as a strategic alternative that offers complete control over data location, processing, and governance while maintaining enterprise-grade scalability. Learn how the European push for digital sovereignty and emerging data residency laws, is creating new opportunities for hybrid architectures using hybrid approaches, and in some cases, complete migration paths to sovereign cloud solutions. This session addresses the broader industry shift toward data independence in Europe, with open dialogue about balancing innovation, compliance, and strategic autonomy in your cloud decisions.

Enrico has worked for more than 20 years as a System Engineer around ever evolving ecosystems, maintained a $500,000/month AWS infrastructure and 4 large On-Prem Datacenters with AWS DirectConnect as CIO for an AdTech company for multiple years. He implemented Public Cloud Infrastructure for Large Entities with 2000+ employees for AWS, Azure & GCP. He currently runs a company specialized in OpenStack, helping large companies and government entities to deploy, run and maintain OpenStack/SCS environments and implementing K8SaaS.

20:50 - 21:00 - Closing Announcements & Networking

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Register yourself with your "full name" here at Meetup.com, Arrive on time - seats are first come, first serve.

As soon as there are seats available, you are welcome to join with your registration. In case there are no more seats available, we won't be able to let you join us this time.We thank you very much for your understanding!

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Join Camille Events Paris for a night of dancing, networking, and culture exchange! This special event will bring together tech enthusiasts, digital marketers, and dance lovers for a night filled with music, movement, and connection. Whether you're passionate about web technology, cloud infrastructure, or machine learning in the cloud, this is the perfect opportunity to meet like-minded individuals and expand your network.

Come groove to the latest beats, exchange ideas on cloud security and business intelligence, and learn about the latest trends in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotics. Immerse yourself in a blend of language, culture, and geek culture while exploring the intersection of technology and society. Don't miss this unique event where you can enjoy a dance party while expanding your knowledge and connecting with fellow tech enthusiasts.

Abstract: In this talk, we will explore how AI is transforming personalized customer interactions - moving from traditional rule-based segmentations to intelligent, data-driven, behavioral journeys. Imagine predicting a customer’s growth potential or anticipating their next purchase before they even consider it. Through practical use cases, we will explore how AI is bringing intelligence and personalization to industries long driven by relationships and physical touchpoints.

Do you... ... second-guess your decisions ... wonder, "Who am I to succeed?" ... battle resistance, procrastination, and a sneaky inner voice that says, “Maybe you’re not cut out for this.”

You've taken the leap—from employee to self-employed - but some days, it feels like you’re driving with one foot on the gas and the other on the brake! Welcome to the rollercoaster ride of solo entrepreneurship!

This free 1-hour online workshop is for solopreneurs (<3 years in business) who feel stuck, unfocused, or mentally drained by the challenges of doing it all alone.

You’ll discover: ✅ The hidden mental saboteurs keeping you stuck ✅ Why self-doubt is NOT a sign you’re failing—but an invitation to grow ✅ Tools to shift from inner chaos to inner clarity ✅ Simple but powerful mindset exercises that reveal what’s really stopping you ✅ A fresh perspective that reconnects you

Join us for another interactive engaging workshop by Zeina Kreichaty.

Your Speaker: Zeina Kreichaty

Zeina Kreichaty is a Certified Leadership Coach, Clinical Hypnotherapist, and Trainer specializing in Anxiety Disorders and Communication Confidence. With extensive experience in Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT) and coaching, she has helped countless professionals and entrepreneurs break free from limiting beliefs and step into their confidence.

With a Master’s degree in Marketing & Communication and years of experience leading teams in startups and SMEs, Zeina understands firsthand the struggles of self-doubt, imposter syndrome, and the challenges of personal growth. Realizing that confidence is not an inborn trait but a skill that can be developed and reinforced, she now empowers individuals to rebuild self-esteem, enhance leadership skills, and improve their emotional intelligence.

Known for her deep intuition and understanding of human behaviour, Zeina has a transformational approach that blends psychology, neuroscience, and practical coaching. Her unique methodology combines mindset shifts, hypnosis, and real-world strategies, helping clients and workshop attendees unlock their true potential.

She is passionate about guiding people toward greater self-awareness, resilience, and success—because how you see yourself shapes everything in your life.

Learn more about Zeina.

Do you... ... second-guess your decisions ... wonder, "Who am I to succeed?" ... battle resistance, procrastination, and a sneaky inner voice that says, “Maybe you’re not cut out for this.”

You've taken the leap—from employee to self-employed - but some days, it feels like you’re driving with one foot on the gas and the other on the brake! Welcome to the rollercoaster ride of solo entrepreneurship!

This free 1-hour online workshop is for solopreneurs (<3 years in business) who feel stuck, unfocused, or mentally drained by the challenges of doing it all alone.

You’ll discover: ✅ The hidden mental saboteurs keeping you stuck ✅ Why self-doubt is NOT a sign you’re failing—but an invitation to grow ✅ Tools to shift from inner chaos to inner clarity ✅ Simple but powerful mindset exercises that reveal what’s really stopping you ✅ A fresh perspective that reconnects you

Join us for another interactive engaging workshop by Zeina Kreichaty.

Your Speaker: Zeina Kreichaty

Zeina Kreichaty is a Certified Leadership Coach, Clinical Hypnotherapist, and Trainer specializing in Anxiety Disorders and Communication Confidence. With extensive experience in Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT) and coaching, she has helped countless professionals and entrepreneurs break free from limiting beliefs and step into their confidence.

With a Master’s degree in Marketing & Communication and years of experience leading teams in startups and SMEs, Zeina understands firsthand the struggles of self-doubt, imposter syndrome, and the challenges of personal growth. Realizing that confidence is not an inborn trait but a skill that can be developed and reinforced, she now empowers individuals to rebuild self-esteem, enhance leadership skills, and improve their emotional intelligence.

Known for her deep intuition and understanding of human behaviour, Zeina has a transformational approach that blends psychology, neuroscience, and practical coaching. Her unique methodology combines mindset shifts, hypnosis, and real-world strategies, helping clients and workshop attendees unlock their true potential.

She is passionate about guiding people toward greater self-awareness, resilience, and success—because how you see yourself shapes everything in your life.

Learn more about Zeina.

Do you... ... second-guess your decisions ... wonder, "Who am I to succeed?" ... battle resistance, procrastination, and a sneaky inner voice that says, “Maybe you’re not cut out for this.”

You've taken the leap—from employee to self-employed - but some days, it feels like you’re driving with one foot on the gas and the other on the brake! Welcome to the rollercoaster ride of solo entrepreneurship!

This free 1-hour online workshop is for solopreneurs (<3 years in business) who feel stuck, unfocused, or mentally drained by the challenges of doing it all alone.

You’ll discover: ✅ The hidden mental saboteurs keeping you stuck ✅ Why self-doubt is NOT a sign you’re failing—but an invitation to grow ✅ Tools to shift from inner chaos to inner clarity ✅ Simple but powerful mindset exercises that reveal what’s really stopping you ✅ A fresh perspective that reconnects you

Join us for another interactive engaging workshop by Zeina Kreichaty.

Your Speaker: Zeina Kreichaty

Zeina Kreichaty is a Certified Leadership Coach, Clinical Hypnotherapist, and Trainer specializing in Anxiety Disorders and Communication Confidence. With extensive experience in Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT) and coaching, she has helped countless professionals and entrepreneurs break free from limiting beliefs and step into their confidence.

With a Master’s degree in Marketing & Communication and years of experience leading teams in startups and SMEs, Zeina understands firsthand the struggles of self-doubt, imposter syndrome, and the challenges of personal growth. Realizing that confidence is not an inborn trait but a skill that can be developed and reinforced, she now empowers individuals to rebuild self-esteem, enhance leadership skills, and improve their emotional intelligence.

Known for her deep intuition and understanding of human behaviour, Zeina has a transformational approach that blends psychology, neuroscience, and practical coaching. Her unique methodology combines mindset shifts, hypnosis, and real-world strategies, helping clients and workshop attendees unlock their true potential.

She is passionate about guiding people toward greater self-awareness, resilience, and success—because how you see yourself shapes everything in your life.

Learn more about Zeina.

AI for the rest of us is on a mission to make AI easier to understand.

AI is ready for everyone. No matter who you are. No matter what your role.

We promise no hype, no jargon and no confusing terminology. We're a warm and inclusive community where we meet you where you are, and help get you where you want to be!

Join us for our next in-person meetup in London on Thursday June 19th

At this event we have two amazing speakers who will provide unique perspectives on the Human benefits and impacts of AI. Azahara Corrales (AI Digital Transformation Leader) will be speaking about how AI can be a tool that empowers people and Rob Price (Founder, Futuria) will be reflecting on Digital Responsibility when delegating work to multi-agent teams.

Where and When?

• Thursday, June 19th
• Doors open at 18:00
• Talks start at 19:00
• Adaptavist, 28 Scrutton St, London EC2A 4RP

Talk 1: AI, Made Human: What You Really Need to Know (Azahara Corrales, Digital Transformation Leader)

In a world where AI can feel distant, overwhelming, or even threatening, this talk brings it back to the human level. Azahara Corrales breaks down what AI really is (and isn’t), and shows how anyone, regardless of background, can start using it today to improve productivity, creativity, and confidence. It's not about replacing humans; it’s about empowering them.

Azahara Corrales is an international public speaker and award-winning AI strategist, known for helping brands and professionals embrace artificial intelligence to drive meaningful transformation. With a background in digital marketing and a passion for closing the tech gap, she empowers organisations and individuals, especially women, to confidently navigate the future of work with AI.

Talk 2: Digital Responsibility with Multi-Team, Multi-Agent Agentic AI (Rob Price, Founder of Futuria)

Rob founded the global Corporate Digital Responsibility movement and brings that knowledge and experience to the domain of multi-agent teams. As we innovate with AI agents we are constantly asking ourselves the questions of "what work do we delegate to teams of AI agents?" and importantly "what does that mean for us?"

Massive thank you to our sponsors DevRev.ai and Kolteki who host our meetups! Without their support this would not be possible!

Code of Conduct This event has a code of conduct that you can review here.

🎙️ Speaker: Andy Heusser\, Luca Fiaschi \| ⏰ Time: 4 PM UTC / 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET / 6 PM Berlin

Insight Agents are purpose‑built AI coworkers that transform demanding analytical workflows into push‑button tasks. Built on a modular blend of retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG), tool calling, and sandboxed code execution, each agent automates the full statistical pipeline—from data exploration and validation to model fitting and interpretation—without requiring deep technical expertise.

The session showcases our Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM) Insight Agent, which compresses weeks of Bayesian MMM work into minutes by delegating tasks to specialized sub‑agents. You’ll see how this architecture delivers secure, explainable, and scalable results that let marketers focus on strategy instead of code.

MMM is only the first stop. We plan to extend the same framework to prototype Insight Agents for customer life-time value, causal impact analysis and more. We’ll dig into the design principles, share implementation lessons, and outline the roadmap from today’s collaborative “copilots” to tomorrow’s autonomous digital coworkers that proactively surface insights and drive better business outcomes.

Read More:

• https://www.pymc-labs.com/blog-posts/the-ai-mmm-agent/
• https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7299850936309444608/

📜 Outline of Talk / Agenda:

• 5 min: Intro to PyMC Labs and speakers
• 45 min: Presentation, panel discussion
• 10 min: Q&A

💼 About the speaker:

1. Andy Heusser, PhD (Principal Data Scientist at PyMC Labs) Andy is a data science leader with over 15 years of experience. He began his career in academia, leveraging computational models and brain imaging to study human memory, as well as developing AI-driven tutoring algorithms using language models. He then served as the Director of Data Science at a digital health startup, where he led teams in building machine learning and AI solutions for digital mental health products. Today, he runs a data science consulting company called Cognitive Insight Consulting and is a Principal Data Scientist at PyMC Labs.

🔗 Connect with Andy: 👉 Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-heusser-3b6587b1/ 👉Github: https://github.com/andrewheusser

1. Luca Fiaschi, PhD - Partner at PyMC Labs With over 15 years of leadership experience in AI, data science, and analytics, Luca has driven transformative growth in technology-first businesses, such as Chief Data & AI Officer at Mistplay (+$200M) where he led revenue growth through AI-powered personalization and dynamic pricing algorithm, and holding executive roles at global industry leaders such as HelloFresh ($8B), Stitch Fix ($1.2B), and Rocket Internet ($1B). His core competencies span machine learning, artificial intelligence, analytics, data engineering, and computer vision, which he has applied for consumer-facing products within CPG, gaming, e-commerce, food delivery, meal kits, and healthcare, working with both fast-paced startups and F100 companies. Luca is a partner at PyMC Labs, providing insights and guidance on Generative AI to Fortune 500 companies. He holds a PhD in AI and Computer Vision from Heidelberg University and has more than 450 citations on his research work.

🔗 Connect with Luca: 👉 Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lfiaschi/

💼 About the Host:

1. Thomas Wiecki (Founder of PyMC Labs) Dr. Thomas Wiecki is an author of PyMC, the leading platform for statistical data science. To help businesses solve some of their trickiest data science problems, he assembled a world-class team of Bayesian modelers and founded PyMC Labs -- the Bayesian consultancy. He did his PhD at Brown University studying cognitive neuroscience. 🔗 Connect with Thomas: 👉 Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/twiecki/ 👉 Website: https://www.pymc-labs.com/, https://twiecki.io/ 👉 GitHub: https://github.com/twiecki 👉 Twitter: https://twitter.com/twiecki

📖 Code of Conduct: Please note that participants are expected to abide by PyMC's Code of Conduct.

🔗 Connecting with PyMC Labs: 🌐 Website: https://www.pymc-labs.com/ 👥 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pymc-labs/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/pymc_labs 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/PyMCLabs 🤝 Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/pymc-labs-online-meetup/