Applying AI Events in Bern

We're excited to invite you to the August edition of the Applied AI Journal Club Bern 🎉
(There is no attendance limit, so just stop by even if Meetup says it's full! Happy to have you with us!)
🕓 Agenda
17:25 Arrival and get-together
17:30 Welcome and short introduction
17:35 Paper discussion
18:25 Wrap-up and open exchange
18:30 End of event
📘 Preparation
Please read the selected article in advance so that you're familiar with the main ideas and key concepts. We won't present the article in detail, instead, we'll focus our time on discussing its content, insights, and real-world implications.
Paper:
A Global Workspace in Language Models ("J-Space")
A global workspace in language models
Published by Anthropic (Interpretability team).
The research presents evidence that Claude has developed a small, privileged set of internal neural patterns, the "J-space," which functions like the global workspace known from theories of human consciousness: the model can report, control, and reason with its contents, while most of its processing runs automatically outside of it. The technique also allows reading thoughts the model doesn't say out loud, with interesting implications for interpretability, AI safety, and the question of machine consciousness.
For preparation, reading the article linked above is sufficient. If you're interested in the details, you can also read the full paper: http://transformer-circuits.pub/2026/workspace/index.html
📍 Location & Registration

• We are welcomed at the inpeek AG office (Bogenschützenstrasse 9) in the PostParc building next to the train station.
• Although meetup.com limits the capacity to 10 registrations (we don't pay for additional capacity), the event is not limited. If you don't secure an ordinary spot, just join the waitlist, you'll still be very welcome! This helps us plan and know how many people to expect.
• The event will be held in english

Questions? Please reach out to Fabian Hüni.

As coding agents like Claude Code or Github Copilot are established tools in the software development industry, it is essential to customize behaviour to further enhance performance. Automizing workflows using techniques like custom skills is a first step we will investigate. We will then enhance the capabilities by implementing a custom MCP server and eventually setting up feedback loops.
We will enrich the mostly hands-on session with a short theory block about attack vectors with respect to prompt injections. We will also discuss design patterns to prevent those attacks.

What to bring
Please bring your own laptop with a running and licensed installation of Claude Code or Github Copilot. If you are using another coding agent, we may not be able to fully support you, but you are still welcome.

Beer and Pizza
As always we provide drinks and pizzas to share and we will use the break to discuss and share ideas about the hack night topic and beyond.

Who Should Attend?
This Hack Night is aimed at developers who already have programming experience and have worked with AI coding tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or similar assistants. We will build on existing knowledge and focus on practical workflows, automation, and advanced techniques rather than introducing the basics of software development or AI.

Dear Azure User Group Bern Members,

We are back from the summer break! 🌴

In this special edition meetup, tech communities on both side of the Röstigraben come together bringing fascinating tech-talks about AI.
Together with the Silicon Chalet we are happy to welcome you to Adnovum Bern for an event dedicated to real world AI use cases. Two in-depth yet accessible talks, a warm setting, and the perfect opportunity to connect with other tech enthusiasts from both side of the Saarine.

✨ Talk 1 –Agentic Modernisation with GitHub Copilot
🎤 Antoine Combremont (Microsoft) (EN)
Application modernisation remains a top priority for many organisations, but legacy codebases, limited engineering capacity, and growing technical debt often make transformation difficult and time-consuming. GitHub Copilot and emerging agentic capabilities are changing this equation by helping teams modernise applications faster, more consistently, and at greater scale.
In this session, we will explore how the Agentic Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) is evolving and how GitHub Copilot can accelerate modernisation initiatives across the application lifecycle. From understanding and assessing existing applications to refactoring, code transformation, testing, and documentation, attendees will learn where AI can provide the greatest impact and what it takes to adopt these capabilities successfully.

✨ Talk 2 – From Policy to Proof: Building an AI Compliance Rules & Validation Engine with Claude Code and Azure Native Services
🎤 Daniel Hogg (Adnovum) (EN)
This talk demonstrates how to develop an AI Compliance Rules & Validation Engine using Claude Code and Azure Native Services in a fast time-boxed manner. The resulting PoC application shows how complex policy documents can be turned into deterministic, auditable compliance checks. We start with the business context, then walk you through a live end-to-end demo from policy ingestion to rule execution and explainable results. Afterwards, we'll explain how the application was developed using Claude code and how the architecture looks like based on Azure Native Services. We end with lessons learned from building the system and advice on using AI to accelerate architecture decisions, implementation speed, and reliability.

🕓 Agenda
17:30: Doors open
17:45: Introduction
18:00: Code modernization with Copilot
18:40: AI Compliance and Validation
19:10: Quiz
19:30: Networking

🚆 Getting there:

• 🚏 Bus 11, 21 from Bern Train Station. Stop: Bierhübeli
• 🚶Walk: 15 minutes from Grosse Schanze

🎟️ Limited capacity – Please unregister if you can’t attend, so your spot can be freed up for someone else 🙏 The event is free and open to all interested parties. With your registration you agree to the Azure Tech Groups code of conduct.

🤜🤛 Huge thank you to our Sponsor Adnovum and our friends from the Silicon Chalet for supporting this meetup!