Cloud & DevOps Events in Vienna

Summer is arriving in Vienna - and so is our next AWS meetup! ☀️

For our June edition, we’re going back to building: serverless architectures, modern cloud workflows, and a touch of AI to explore how these worlds increasingly connect in real projects.

A big thank you to Eversports for supporting the community and making the meetup possible! 🙌

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📍 Location
Eversport GmbH
Jakov-Lind-Straße 13 H/5. OG, 1020 Wien

🕒 When
June 2nd 2026
Doors open at 17:00 for networking, food & drinks.
Talks start at 18:00.

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🗓️ Agenda

• 17:00 - 18:00: Entry & Networking
• 18:00 - 18:05: Welcome and Introduction AWS Community Vienna
• 18:05 - 18:10: Welcome and Introduction to the sponsors (Eversports)
• 18:10 - 19:00: "Building Conversational Agents in Code with AWS Lambda Durable Functions"
• 19:00 - 19:20: Networking break
• 19:20 - 20:00: "How RBI is automating its cloud foundation with AWS Step Functions"
• 20:00 – Open End: Networking

"Building Conversational Agents in Code with AWS Lambda Durable Functions"

Speaker: Gunnar Grosch, Developer Advocate at Sinch | ex-AWS | AWS Serverless Hero

About the talk:
Building agentic AI workflows typically requires Step Functions or complex database state machines to handle human delays. AWS Lambda Durable Functions change that. You write sequential code in a single Lambda function that can suspend for days and resume instantly, and you only pay for active compute time. In this session, we will orchestrate Amazon Bedrock conversational agents using the Sinch Conversation API to handle inbound interactions. You will learn how to dispatch AI specialists, use simple callbacks to wait for asynchronous human input, and replace heavy infrastructure boilerplate with native durable execution.

"How RBI is automating its cloud foundation with AWS Step Functions"
Speaker: Roman Jokel, Cloud Architect (Raiffeisen Informatik)
/ Florian Ettinger, Solution Architect (AWS)

About the talk:
How can AWS Step Functions transform daily cloud operations? Join us to explore how RBI is using workflow orchestration to automate its cloud foundation. We’ll share practical insights from our Cloud Center of Excellence, demonstrating how Step Functions power landing zone operations, simplify automation, speed up deployments and enable scalable cloud governance across the organization.

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💛 Sponsors:

• Eversports - eversports.at

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Join us for an Apache Kafka® meetup on Tuesday, June 9th from 5:30 pm hosted by Austrian Post AG!

Not an official dress code, but if you're in the mood to bring your "beach party outfit" it would be nice!

📍Venue:
Austrian Post AG
Rochusplatz 1
1030 Vienna

🗓 Agenda:

• 5:30pm: Doors open
• 5:30pm – 6:00pm: Drinks and networking
• 6:00pm - 6:45pm: How to discover schemas and topics for your next domain service
• 6:45pm - 7:30pm: Kafka on Kubernetes: Building a Full-Stack Streaming Environment with Strimzi
• 7:30pm - 9:00pm: Additional Q&A, Snacks and Networking

💡 Speaker One:
Nicola Narducci (Austrian Post), Lukas Peleska (Austrian Post)

Title of Talk:
How to discover schemas and topics for your next domain service

Abstract:
At the foundation of every event driven system are schemas and topics describing what data is flowing through your system. Nico and Lukas will show what it takes for topics and schemas to show up in EventCatalog for data discovery. This includes their GitOps approach, how versioning, reviews, and automation helps them maintain consistency, enable self‑service, and avoid breaking changes in production.

Bio:
Nico joined Austrian Post in 2021, contributing to and leading the Event Streaming Platform as Solution Architect. His academic roots are in Bologna Italy. He started working as a software engineer in a small software house in Italy before moving to Vienna. Outside of work, he enjoys biking, video games (especially AoE2), eating pizza and tinkering with anything that can be connected to a network

Lukas started working for Austrian Post in 2024 as a Software Engineer for the Event Streaming Platform.
In his career he has mostly worked in enterprise environments with reactive systems playing a significant part everywhere.
His first interactions with Kafka were in 2017.
When not delivering Kafka Messages at Post, he likes watching old movies at the cinema, playing the guitar and doing analog photography.

💡Speaker Two:
Sahil Sharma

Title of Talk:
Kafka on Kubernetes: Building a Full-Stack Streaming Environment with Strimzi

Abstract:
Running Apache Kafka on Kubernetes was once considered a daunting task. However, the Strimzi operator has simplified this process, making it possible to manage complex streaming infrastructure through a declarative approach. In this session, we will demonstrate how to bridge the gap between local development and production patterns by deploying a full-stack Kafka environment inside a Kind cluster.

We will walk through a live setup including:

• Cluster Provisioning: Using Strimzi to deploy a functional Kafka cluster in seconds.
• Management & Visibility: Integrating Kafbat UI to inspect topics and messages.
• Observability: Implementing a Grafana and Prometheus + AlertManager stack to track broker health and consumer lag.
• Application Flow: Deploying a producer and consumer to validate the end-to-end data pipeline using Confluent library.
• Whether you are building a local sandbox or planning a larger rollout, you will leave with a repeatable template for a fully observable Kafka ecosystem on Kubernetes.

Bio:
Sahil is a Cloud & Platform Engineer focused on building resilient infrastructure at the intersection of Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies. (Contact: https://sahil.work)

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We'd like to invite you to our fourth installation for the Cloud Native Vienna MeetUps in 2026!

Again we'll have two deep-dive talks and time to network and chat with friends in the Viennese cloud native community.

A big thank you to WKO Inhouse GmbH for hosting us and providing food and drinks!

Agenda:

• 17:30: Doors Open & Networking
• 17:55: Welcome from the Organizers
• 18:00: Talk 1: Rober Klonner (WKO Inhouse GmbH)
  GitOps Visibility: Precise Argo CD diffs on every Pull Request
• 18:45: Break & Refreshments
• 19:00: Talk 2: Thomas Hanser (Untis GmbH)
  The Untis Platform Engineering Journey: GitOps Multi-Tenancy with Flux, GitLab, and Friends
• 19:45: Open Networking

We look forward to seeing you there!

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Talks:

Rober Klonner (WKO Inhouse Gmbh)
GitOps Visibility: Precise Argo CD diffs on every Pull Request

Today's GitOps deployments are generated through layers of templating - Helm charts, Kustomize or ApplicationSets. Modifying these abstractions and trying to mentally render the output is error-prone.

This talk introduces a method that uses Argo CD itself to render accurate diffs of Helm charts and Kustomize overlays between branches and posts the result directly on your pull request.

We'll walk through a production setup using the Argo CD Operator, Argo CD Diff Preview, and GitLab CI, optimized for performance, minimal maintenance, and security. Through real-world use cases, we'll show what issues this approach catches before they hit your cluster.

Thomas Hanser (Untis GmbH)
The Untis Platform Engineering Journey: GitOps Multi-Tenancy with Flux, GitLab, and Friends

Operating in the European education sector means juggling compliance, student privacy and massive traffic spikes when school starts. Historically at Untis, keeping this running in production was the burden of a single operations team. This session details our transition to an automated, multi-tenant GitOps platform managing a fleet of internal and external Kubernetes clusters. We share our approach of building a platform that gives product teams actual autonomy without compromising on security or control:

• Structured Multi-Tenancy: Mapping GitLab groups to namespaced tenant projects using Flux’s multi-tenant model.
• Secure Access Control: Leveraging the GitLab Agent for Kubernetes to enable scoped, declarative self-service cluster access.
• Flexible Delivery Models: Supporting multiple decentralized deployment strategies by balancing governance and freedom for both internal teams and external guest environments.

Prepare for an honest demonstration of challenges like managing secret lifecycles across a growing fleet, moving from script-driven tenant onboarding to true automated self-service, and wrestling with the classic "chicken-and-egg" problems of bootstrapping Flux and handling GitOps release management.

Summer is heating up, and so is the Vienna tech scene!

We are thrilled to invite you to our next Google Cloud Meetup this June. As we head into the summer season, we’re keeping the energy high and bringing the Vienna tech community back together to look past the AI hype and dive straight into real-world, production-ready deployments.

This June, we are focusing on practical, enterprise-grade execution. How do you take advanced Google Cloud tools and deploy them to solve massive, seasonal operational headaches in traditional industries?
Get ready for an evening of deep architectural insights, backend integration breakdowns, and networking with fellow cloud enthusiasts.

*This event is free of charge and only takes place on-site!*

Talk #1: Next-Gen Automotive Customer Service: Deploying an AI-Driven Virtual Agent for Jepsen Autogruppe [Magnus Wagner, Cloud Data & AI Engineer, happtiq - Miro Michalicka, Cloud Architect, happtiq]
How do you handle thousands of dealership service calls during tire change season without inflating call center costs? Join us to see how Jepsen Autogruppe developed an AI-driven voice agent using Google Cloud’s CCAI Platform and Dialogflow CX.

This session covers the deployment of an intelligent virtual agent that automatically schedules seasonal tire changes and workshop appointments while also routing sales inquiries to the right representatives. We’ll explore the underlying multi-dealership architecture, backend integrations with Porsche Informatics Service Booking API and the lead management system AutoCRM, and the DevOps environment driving enterprise-grade efficiency.

Talk #2: Game Development assistant with Gemini Live and Unity - Real-time Multimodal Pair Programming [Nikolai Danylchyk, Cloud Customer Engineer, Google]
Discover how next-gen AI can revolutionize your game development workflow. In this session, we’ll explore how Gemini Live integrates with Unity to act as a real-time, multimodal pair programmer. Learn how to leverage voice, sight, and code inputs simultaneously to build, debug, and iterate on games faster than ever before.

Meetup schedule:
Check-In: 17:30 - 18:00
Talk #1: 18:00 - 18:30
Quiz: 18:30 - 18:45 (w/ some cool gifts)
Break & Networking: 18:45 - 19:15
Talk #2: 19:15 - 19:45
Networking & Drinks: 19:45 - 21:00

Organized by happtiq and Posedio!

📢 Still want to take the stage?
If you have a story to tell about AI, Infrastructure Modernization, or Cloud Security, we’d love to hear from you for our future events! 👉 Fill out the Speaker Form here

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Language of the MeetUp: ENGLISH
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Location: weXelerate Auditiorium, Praterstraße 1
Simply take the U1/U4 to Schwedenplatz. The Auditorium of weXelerate can be accessed via Taborstraße or Praterstraße. If you're arriving by car, here is a garage where you could park.
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If you have any questions feel free to contact us [hello@happtiq.com].
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