Applying AI Events in Vienna

Dive into tech with other professionals! Network and build strong relationships with investors, tech experts, and entrepreneurs in Wien

Join us in Wien for a high-energy AI & Tech Networking .

Meet investors, founders, AI experts, operators, and immigrant entrepreneurs building the next generation of global companies.

• Share your project and get feedback.
• Connect with capital.
• Expand your network.
• This is where conversations turn into partnerships.
• For our participants, we've developed a convenient mini app so they don't lose contacts and the value gained at the event.

👥 Who You’ll Meet

• Startup Founders

• Angel Investors & VC firms

• AI Experts

• Entrepreneurs from Europe, Asia & the UK

• Marketers, Sales leaders & Business Advisors

• Builders & Game Changers

Startup Pitch Session

Selected founders take the stage for a focused 5-minute presentation in front of active investors and tech leaders.

Each startup receives:

⚡ Professional evaluation

⚡ Investor feedback

⚡ Visibility inside our global ecosystem

Why You Can’t Miss It

• Meet Tech & Business professionals, founders, and active investors

• Gain real feedback from venture capitalists and angel investors

• Discover new opportunities in AI, Tech & early-stage startups

• Build meaningful connections in a global entrepreneurial community

If you’re serious about startups — you should be in the room.

📈 Want to Pitch?

Send your deck to:

📧 events@ascentvalley.club or fill form

Limited spots. Curated selection.

🏆 The startup recognized as “Most Investment-Worthy” will be featured across our social media and included in our investor newsletter.

🌟 About Ascent Valley

Ascent Valley is a global ecosystem connecting founders, innovators, and investors.

We believe great ideas shouldn’t stay hidden — they deserve to be heard, challenged, and supported by the right people.

Our mission is to create environments where ambitious builders connect, collaborate, and grow together.

Hands-on AI workshop personalized for YOUR actual challenges. Small groups, real tools, anyone can join ✌️

Most AI courses show you slides about what AI can do. This one gets your hands busy with what AI will do for you!

No experience needed. No technical background required. You just need a challenge you want to solve or curiosity to learn latest tech.

This is for any job, any background. If you have work that eats your time, you belong here.

This is not a lecture. This is a working session in a tiny group (max 4-5 people) where we sit down and build AI systems for your actual work. You bring your daily friction. We build the AI stack together.

Over the session, you will map out your workflow, find where AI actually saves time, set up tools like Claude Code and OpenClaw hands-on, and leave with a working system you can use Monday morning. Then you get a free follow-up call to check your progress or fix what broke.

What it is

✅ Small co-working session where you build AI tools useful for YOUR actual job or project

✅ Personalized guidance: we adapt to your tools, your preference , your goals

✅ Small group (4-5 max) so everyone gets personal instructions

✅ Hands-on with modern AI tools: Claude Code, OpenClaw, and whatever else fits your workflow

✅ A system you can revisit, improve, and expand in future sessions or on your own

✅ Free 1:1 follow-up hour after the workshop to check progress or debug issues

✅ Open to complete beginners and experienced builders alike

What it is NOT

❌ A slide deck you watch while checking your phone

❌ A generic "AI will change everything" pep talk

❌ A coding bootcamp that assumes you know Python

❌ A networking event disguised as learning

❌One-size-fits-all. If you want that, YouTube is free!

❌If you want a certificate to put on LinkedIn

📍Location: May change due to capacity. You will be informed in advance.

About the Instructor

"I believe the more we let AI take care of the robotic aspects of our lives, the more time we have for the human parts of it."

I have founded 20+ businesses. Some worked. Most didn't. That is the point. I test fast, fail fast, and keep what works.

Right now, I am deep in the world of AI, optimizing my stack for every task and would like to share that knowledge while learning.

What I am building now:

• Explorer Elite — adventure marketplace for solo guides and small outdoor businesses

• 52 Waypoint — free incubator for serious founders who want to build without funding

• 111 Network — Open source, decentralized, offline-first communication

• UnitEd — NGO, free global teacher training platform

and a few more as a founding partner or consultant.
Let's Connect 👉 LinkedIn

☕ AI Breakfast: Real Talk, No Slides

We’re hosting the AI Breakfast Vienna — a casual, high-signal meetup for the AI community.

This is an open exchange for decision-makers, deep tech builders, Clawdbotlers, founders, CIOs, researchers, public sector innovators and anyone actively shaping AI. Corporate meets startup, policy meets engineering, research meets product. The goal is simple: meaningful connections, sharp discussions, and cross-pollination of ideas.

• When: August 14th, 09:00 AM
• Where: Cafe Museum - Operngasse 7 - Literatursalon - Tables reserved under "Cristian Hofmann / AI Austria"
• Hosts: Cristian, Amin, and Ruben
• Cost: Order breakfast at your own expense

Space is limited!
👉 RSVP only if you’re 100% sure you can make it.

The football summer may be over, but the next tournament is just kicking off - and this time, the teams are powered by AI.

Join AWS User Group Vienna for a special Agentic Football Cup edition hosted by us at the real football Generali Arena stadion: a hands-on workshop where you will build a team of autonomous AI agents, send them onto a virtual football pitch, and compete against other teams.

Strategy, teamwork, rapid decisions and the pressure of match day are not just football concepts.
They are also the foundations of effective multi-agent systems. Build your squad, refine its tactics, deploy it to AWS, and see whether your agents have what it takes to lift the cup. This is a great opportunity to develop a better understanding of the agents on AWS via exciting football sessions!

A huge thank you to DoIT for sponsoring and hosting this special event at the Generali Arena! 🙌

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📍 Location
Generali Arena
Horrplatz 1, 1100 Wien

🕒 When
Tuesday, 25 August 2026
Doors open at 16:00 for registration, food and networking.
Workshop starts at 16:30.

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🗓️ Agenda

16:00 - 16:30: Entry, registration & team forming
16:30 - 16:35: Welcome and introduction - AWS User Group Vienna
16:35 - 16:40: Welcome from our sponsor, DoIT
16:40 - 17:00: Kick-off: Agentic Football Cup Introduction & Workshop Setup
17:00 - 17:40: Workshop - build and deploy your Agentic Football Team
17:40 - 18:40: Fine tune your agents & Practice Matches
18:40 - 19:25: Tournament
19:25 - 20:00: Winners Ceremony, networking, food & drinks

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🏆 Agentic Football Cup

The Agentic Football Cup is a free, hands-on AWS workshop where you build a five-agent football team, deploy it on AWS, and watch it compete in live 5v5 matches. Each agent receives the live game state, makes an independent decision, and acts on the pitch alongside its teammates.

Behind the football theme are real-world patterns for building agentic applications: multi-agent orchestration, structured outputs, tool use, latency management, observability and repeatable evaluation. The agents run on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and use foundation models to decide their next moves during the game.

What to expect

• Build a team of autonomous AI football agents
• Define tactics, team roles and agent behavior
• Learn how multi-agent systems coordinate in a fast-moving environment
• Deploy and iterate on AWS
• Watch your team compete live against other participants
• Meet fellow cloud and AI builders from the Vienna community

No football or AI experience is required — just curiosity, a laptop and the desire to build something that competes. ⚽️

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💛 Sponsor & Host

DoIT — thank you for supporting the AWS community and making this event possible at the Generali Arena.

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📌 RSVP now and invite your colleagues to experience the 2026 football season from a different perspective: not from the stands, but from the AI touchline.
By RSVPing, you confirm that you agree to our Code of Conduct.
By submitting your RSVP, you acknowledge that photos and videos may be taken during the event. If you prefer not to appear in such recordings, please let the organizer know before the event. Please note that we cannot guarantee the retrospective removal, blurring, or editing of individual attendees in group photos or event footage. Any publication of identifiable individual portraits will be subject to separate consent where required.

AI-Native Product Building and Growth
How skills, roles, and processes change and what's the new gold.

🍹🌴 ProductTank Vienna is back with our Summer Edition — and we're tackling the question at the heart of every product conversation right now: in a world where AI has made building faster and cheaper than ever, what actually moves the needle?

Join Vincent Jong (ex CPO Leadfeeder x Dealfront) and Mario Deubler (ex CPO Passion.io and 120 Ventures) — two product leaders who've been living this shift from the inside — for a candid, opinionated evening on AI-native building, how roles and processes are being redrawn, and where the real value creation is moving. Expect honest takes, lively discussion, and room to push back.

Agenda

• 6:15 pm – Doors Open & Welcome
• 6:30 pm – Welcome by Markus Rothmüller & Journi
• 6:45 pm – The AI-First Playbook: Building and Growing a Business with AI – Vincent
• 7:15 pm – What AI-Native Means for Product Roles and Leadership – Mario
• 7:45 pm – Open Discussion & Q&A with Markus Rothmüller
• 8:15 pm – Networking, Snacks and Free Drinks by Journi
• 10:00 pm – Closing Doors

Talk 1: The AI-First Playbook: Building and Growing a Business with AI (Vincent Jong)

Within 12 months, Vincent built four production-ready SaaS products with real paying customers — by himself. No team. No agency.

But here's what nobody talks about: as building got easier, growth got harder. The same forces that let one person ship in weeks have flooded the market with noise. Distribution is broken. Old PLG playbooks have shifted from top-of-funnel acquisition to a much harder game of qualification, conversion, and retention. And standing out when anyone can build anything has become the defining challenge of the AI era.

In this talk, Vincent pulls back the curtain on what building and growing actually looks like today: the stack, the constraints, the failures, and the strategies that do work — from designing for zero human intervention from day one, to why your product needs a sharp point of view rooted in real domain expertise, to why radical cost efficiency beats fundraising for most early-stage bets.

His advice to the product people: If you can build something in two weeks and put it in front of real users, you don't need a discovery interview. But if your ICP isn't genuinely excited — stop. Because finding customers has never been harder. And building has never been easier. That asymmetry is the only thing that matters right now.

Talk 2: What AI-Native Means for Product Roles and Leadership (Mario Deubler)

AI has quietly rewritten what a product person actually does, and the old assembly line of PM to designer to engineer is collapsing into something new: one person who can own a customer problem from first conversation to shipped product. Mario shares what that shift looked like from the inside of his own move to an AI-native way of working, and what it means for how product teams and orgs get built.

The shift everyone's missing isn't about tools — it's about the role. What a product person is is being redrawn: from one specialist in a handoff chain to one person who can own a customer problem end to end. And this changes how orgs are built, not just how individuals work. When leaders step back down into hands-on work, the team stops running on headcount and starts running on leverage, fed by shared context that reaches every person and every agent.

His advice to the product people: get closer to the building and get more business-fluent. The ones who thrive own the whole loop, not a slice of it.

About the Speakers
Vincent Jong is an AI-native product builder, founder of SaaS on the Beach and AI Campus Barcelona, and author of Product-Led Sales. As former CPO at Dealfront x Leadfeeder, he spent four years at Leadfeeder moving from VP Product to CPO to navigating the merger with Echobot and Dealfront before stepping out to build his own ideas. He now helps founders and product teams figure out what growth actually looks like when building has become a commodity.

Mario Deubler started as a software engineer in 2006 and spent nearly two decades in and around product, co-founding the influencer-marketing platform exomatch, then holding Head of Product and CPO roles at BuzzBird, Passion.io, and Temedica, and most recently CPO at 120 Ventures. At Passion.io he helped scale the US-based business from 100k to 10 million ARR in 18 months with the help of Product-led-Growth. Today he works as a Principal Product Operator (High-IC), helping teams transition to a fully AI-native way of building, and building alongside them, hands-on, not from a slide deck.

Location & Networking 🌴
We're heading to the Journi offices in Vienna's 14th district — Goldschlagstraße 172/4/2/2-3, 1140 Wien. Join us after the talks for some summer networking, drinks and snacks!

Save the date to join us in person on September 15th to explore how AI can up your EAI and BPM business game, Bartholdi Labs style!

Save the Date: Join Bartholdi Labs at the Campus of University of Vienna!

Join us on September 15th, 2026 at 5pm to discover how to boost your business results through smart AI applications in Enterprise Architecture and Business Process Management. This is an in-person event with a hand picked audience and speaker line up, where you can dive deep into the latest AI trends, network with senior mentors, and see real-world solutions in action. Don't miss out on the chance to transform your workflows and make AI work for you!

Ein Abend, der Künstliche Intelligenz verständlich macht, mit Live-Demos, Klartext und offenem Q&A für Einsteiger, Skeptiker und Neugierige

KI verändert unseren Alltag. Zeit, sie wirklich zu verstehen.

Nach unserer erfolgreichen Tour durch Österreich kommt ahead x jetzt nach Wien. Gemeinsam mit MeinBezirk laden wir zu einem Abend ein, der Künstliche Intelligenz verständlich, lebensnah und unterhaltsam macht.

• Ganz ohne technisches Vorwissen.
• Ganz ohne Fachbegriffe.
• Und ganz ohne das Gefühl, längst alles wissen zu müssen.

Denn KI ist nicht mehr nur ein Thema für Technologiekonzerne oder Computerprofis. Sie begegnet uns bereits heute beim Schreiben, Lernen, Arbeiten, Einkaufen, Reisen und in sozialen Medien. Unsere Kinder nutzen sie für die Schule. Unternehmen setzen sie im Berufsalltag ein. Bilder, Videos und Stimmen können täuschend echt erzeugt werden.

Das kann faszinieren. Es kann helfen. Und es kann verunsichern.

• Was davon ist wirklich nützlich?
• Was ist nur Hype?
• Kann man noch erkennen, was echt ist?
• Welche Gefahren gibt es für Kinder und ältere Menschen?
• Und wie können wir KI nutzen, ohne die Kontrolle zu verlieren?

Bei ahead x Wien bekommst du keine komplizierten Vorträge und kein unverständliches Tech-Gerede. Wir zeigen live auf der Bühne, was Künstliche Intelligenz heute bereits kann, wo ihre Grenzen liegen und was das ganz konkret für dich und deine Familie bedeutet.

Das erwartet dich Staunen, was heute bereits möglich ist

Erlebe live, wie KI Texte schreibt, Bilder erschafft, Fragen beantwortet, Stimmen imitiert und innerhalb weniger Sekunden Ideen entwickelt. Verständlich erklärt und direkt auf der Bühne ausprobiert.

Orientierung in einer Welt voller Schlagzeilen

Ist KI wirklich intelligent? Wird sie unsere Arbeit ersetzen? Was lernen Kinder künftig noch selbst? Wir trennen Fakten von Übertreibungen und zeigen, welche Entwicklungen du wirklich kennen solltest.

Praktische Ideen für deinen Alltag

Entdecke, wie KI beim Lernen, Schreiben, Planen, Übersetzen, Bewerben oder Organisieren helfen kann. Du bekommst Beispiele, die du zu Hause oder im Beruf direkt ausprobieren kannst.

Risiken erkennen und sicherer werden

Wie entstehen gefälschte Bilder und Videos? Woran erkennt man Betrugsversuche? Welche Informationen sollte man einer KI besser nicht anvertrauen? Wir sprechen offen über Risiken, Datenschutz und einen verantwortungsvollen Umgang.

Ein Abend für die ganze Familie

Ob du neugierig, skeptisch oder bisher eher ratlos bist: Dieser Abend richtet sich an Eltern, Großeltern, Familien, Berufstätige und alle Menschen, die verstehen möchten, was gerade passiert.

Du brauchst keine Vorkenntnisse. Du musst keine KI-App installiert haben. Und du musst von der Technologie auch nicht begeistert sein.

Du brauchst nur den Wunsch, mitreden zu können.

Denn die entscheidende Frage lautet nicht, ob Künstliche Intelligenz unseren Alltag verändern wird. Sie tut es bereits.

Die entscheidende Frage ist, ob wir sie verstehen, bewusst nutzen und unseren Kindern erklären können.

Wien, bist du bereit?

Erlebe einen Abend voller überraschender Live-Experimente, verständlicher Antworten und echter Aha-Momente.

Sichere dir jetzt deinen Platz für ahead x Wien in Zusammenarbeit mit MeinBezirk.

The LANGUAGE INTELLIGENCE conference showcases how the latest linguistic AI applications transform the world around us.

LANGUAGE INTELLIGENCE is the premier European conference exploring how AI-powered language technologies are reshaping industries and redefining human–machine interaction.

• Hear from leaders in language intelligence about the latest innovations and technical developments in AI-powered translation & interpretation, text & speech processing, cognitive data & content management.
• Discover concrete use cases operationalizing multilingual AI in content workflows and product supply chains in a variety of application domains.
• Find out about the deployment of language intelligence strategies creating customer value and impact on customer experience management & operational excellence.
• Enjoy first-class networking & interaction opportunities at a unique event in the magic settings of the Austrian capital and prestigious premises of the Austrian Parliament.

The conference offers participants a high level audience with which to interact. Leading-edge technologists mixing with big business users & brand names from various application markets, market analysts and research luminaries offer a unique networking experience. It is the ideal meeting point to learn, exchange, network, forge new partnerships, find new clients and get tuned to our multilingual intelligent future.

Join us in Vienna on 17-19 November for a deep dive into presentations, use case studies & interactive sessions @ LANGUAGE INTELLIGENCE 2026!