AI & ML Research Events in Berlin
Europe's AI and ML research scene is a long tail of university labs, community research groups, and practitioner-run meetups that together punch well above their weight globally. This page covers the research end of the AI/ML event calendar: deep-learning meetups, computer vision and NLP groups, paper-reading clubs, and research-oriented conferences. It's aimed at ML engineers, applied researchers, and PhD students who care about how the models work, rather than how to integrate them into a product (that's the Applied AI category).
This page narrows the Berlin calendar to AI & ML Research events. It's a subset of Germany's wider tech-event schedule, useful when you want something specific to go to in the city this month.
Berlin runs one of the densest tech-event calendars in Europe. The scene is distinctively community-driven: a large share of the city's meetups run in English, many of them out of independent spaces rather than corporate offices, and the rhythm is nightly rather than monthly. Rust, Go, Python, TypeScript, and the growing applied-AI community are all particularly strong, alongside deep traditions in hacker culture (the Chaos Computer Club's Berlin chapter), privacy, and open source.
Upcoming AI & ML Research events in Berlin
Beyond Text: Imperfect Labels and Intent in Visual Retrieval
Berlin, 🇩🇪 Germany
Visual retrieval is moving beyond text. Join us for two technical talks: teaching models to search documents by treating pages as images, including the problem of imperfect labels in training, and using intent detection to build image discovery in a fashion AI assistant. Pizza and drinks on us — stick around after for networking.
✍️ RSVP soon — capacity is limited!
đź“… Date and Time
Wednesday, November 11, 2026 from 18:00-20:45
đź“Ť Location: Hedwig-Wachenheim-StraĂźe 7, 10243 Berlin
BHW Auditorium (1st floor), Zalando SE
đź“ť Agenda
18:00 – Doors open, arrivals and check-in
18:15 – Welcoming and open session
18:30 – Teaching Models to Search Documents: What If the “Wrong” Answer Is Right? by Saba Sturua, Senior AI Research Engineer @ Elastic
How do we teach models to search PDFs with tables, charts, and complex layouts? I’ll introduce visual document retrieval and explore how larger models can help train smaller search models, including why useful answers can be mistaken for wrong ones during training. This work is part of the research behind our next generation of Jina embedding models.
19:00 – Q&A and quick break
19:15 – From Conversation to Visual Search: Building Image Discovery for Zalando AI Assistant by Inanda Menezes, Principal Software Engineer @ Zalando
How can a fashion AI assistant understand a customer's intent from visual input? In this talk, we’ll explore how we built image discovery for Zalando’s Assistant, considering the intent detection to support different use cases, from finding similar products to getting fashion advice. We’ll dive into how we connect these intents to the right processing and retrieval strategies, and share the key challenges.
19:45 – Q&A, pizza, drinks & networking
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Invite your friends and join us for an evening of learning and networking with fellow engineers and speakers!
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MLCon Berlin
Berlin, 🇩🇪 Germany
AI Series: Max Planck Institute - Jonas Geiping
Berlin, 🇩🇪 Germany
We are excited to feature Jonas Geiping, who is currently a Research Group Leader at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and will discuss "Safety and Security of LLM Reasoning", lasting approximately 45 minutes. After the talk, seize the opportunity to connect with fellow AI enthusiasts to share ideas and questions while enjoying free drinks and pizza. Door close by 7.15pm, so please come early! Also, "attend"ing (RSVP) here on Meetup is strictly necessary to be guaranteed entry.
Who is this event for?
This event is open to everyone interested in state-of-the-art AI research. We especially design it for students, PhD candidates, academic researchers, and industry professionals with a research focus in machine learning.
We are BLISS e.V., the AI organization in Berlin that connects like-minded individuals who share great interest and passion for the field of machine learning. This winter 2026/2027, we will, again, host an exciting speaker series on site in Berlin, featuring excellent researchers from Google Deepmind, Anthropic, MPIIS, Imperial College, Microsoft and UCL.
Website: https://bliss.berlin
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@bliss.ev.berlin
​Disclaimer: By attending this event you agree to be photographed.
AI Series: Imperial College London - Jonathan Schwarz
Berlin, 🇩🇪 Germany
We are excited to feature Jonathan Schwarz, who is currently a Visiting Professor at Imperial College London and will discuss "Sovereign AI from a Perspective of Model Building and AI Governance", lasting approximately 45 minutes. After the talk, seize the opportunity to connect with fellow AI enthusiasts to share ideas and questions while enjoying free drinks and pizza. Door close by 7.15pm, so please come early! Also, "attend"ing (RSVP) here on Meetup is strictly necessary to be guaranteed entry.
Who is this event for?
This event is open to everyone interested in state-of-the-art AI research. We especially design it for students, PhD candidates, academic researchers, and industry professionals with a research focus in machine learning.
We are BLISS e.V., the AI organization in Berlin that connects like-minded individuals who share great interest and passion for the field of machine learning. This winter 2026/2027, we will, again, host an exciting speaker series on site in Berlin, featuring excellent researchers from Google Deepmind, Anthropic, MPIIS, Imperial College, Microsoft and UCL.
Website: https://bliss.berlin
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@bliss.ev.berlin
​Disclaimer: By attending this event you agree to be photographed.
AI Series: Anthropic - Pavel Izmailov
Berlin, 🇩🇪 Germany
We are excited to feature Pavel Izmailov, who is currently a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic and will discuss "Understanding Reasoning from Pretraining to Post-Training", lasting approximately 45 minutes. After the talk, seize the opportunity to connect with fellow AI enthusiasts to share ideas and questions while enjoying free drinks and pizza. Door close by 7.15pm, so please come early! Also, "attend"ing (RSVP) here on Meetup is strictly necessary to be guaranteed entry.
Who is this event for?
This event is open to everyone interested in state-of-the-art AI research. We especially design it for students, PhD candidates, academic researchers, and industry professionals with a research focus in machine learning.
We are BLISS e.V., the AI organization in Berlin that connects like-minded individuals who share great interest and passion for the field of machine learning. This winter 2026/2027, we will, again, host an exciting speaker series on site in Berlin, featuring excellent researchers from Google Deepmind, Anthropic, MPIIS, Imperial College, Microsoft and UCL.
Website: https://bliss.berlin
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@bliss.ev.berlin
​Disclaimer: By attending this event you agree to be photographed.