Software Engineering Events in Bern

Dear members and friends,

We’re excited to announce our next AWS Swiss User Group Bern Meetup NEW on May 06, 2026!

This time, we’ll be gathering at the premises of Axians Amanox for an evening of insightful talks and networking.

Here’s what we have lined up for you:

• AWS Lambda Durable Functions – presented by Dirk Ehms
• Build your AWS story with LEGO – presented by Matthieu Lienart

We’re always looking to feature new voices from the community—if you’re interested in presenting at this or a future event, feel free to reach out to us.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Best regards,
Your Meetup Organizers

Schedule

• 17:45 Open door
• 18:00 - 19:00 Fireside chat with speakers of the Uphill Conference: Open discussion with experts - bring your questions and problems
• 19:00 - 20:00 Apéro with pizza & beer

Our Guests

• Charlie Gerard - Senior Research Engineer @ CrowdStrike
• Ben Burtenshaw - Machine Learning Engineer @ Hugging Face
• Omar Sanseviero - Developer Experience lead @ Google DeepMind

Moderator: Wayne Maurer

Please note: the speakers might change, due to personal / travel / other issues.

About Uphill Conf
After another sold-out event and phenomenal feedback in 2025, Uphill Conf returns on May 7 & 8, 2026 for its sixth edition — and once again, the spotlight is on the real-world impact of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning on software engineering.

Talks | May 8th, 2026
Join industry leaders as they unpack the latest AI advancements with experts from Swisscom, Galaxus, Mentiora, ETH and many more.

Workshops | May 7th, 2026
Want to go hands-on? Full-day workshops provide immersive, practical learning experiences about AI agents, AI security, bootcamp and hackathon.

Discover the full agenda at https://uphillconf.com !

About this meetup
There is only limited capacity - so first come, first serve.
Please be fair - if you cannot make, cancel your reservation.
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Thanks a lot to our sponsor Puzzle ITC for providing the location and organizing the apéro!

After two sold-out editions, Uphill Conf 2026 is all about AI in production. This year, teams share what happened after deploying GenAI systems: architecture decisions, performance trade-offs, cost learnings, and real-world lessons from 1–2 years in operation.

Engineers and product teams from companies like Swisscom and Digitec Galaxus — alongside leaders from the open-source AI ecosystem — will walk through what works, what broke, and how their systems evolved under real-world pressure. Expect practical experience reports, honest insights on evals and security, and patterns you can apply immediately.

Day 1 (7th May): hands-on workshops.
Day 2: curated talks with breathtaking views from the Gurten overlooking Bern.

If you care about moving from hype to how-to, this one’s for you.

👉 Get your ticket now at https://uphillconf.com/

Azure Bootcamp Switzerland is an all-day conference about the Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing platform and will take place on May 21st, 2026 at Welle 7 in Bern.

Further information about the Azure Bootcamp Switzerland, as well as registration and tickets will be found at https://azurebootcamp.ch

The Azure Bootcamp Switzerland is a community event and open to everyone. We ask you to pay a small fee for the ticket for the following reasons. First, free tickets always result in a high no-show rate when people register for the event and don't show up. This makes planning really difficult for us. We want to avoid that the venue is overbooked and people are sent home or the opposite happens and the venue is underbooked and no tickets can be given to people who would like to attend the event.
Another big issue is the catering. We have to place firm orders for catering during lunchtime and during all breaks. If the no-show rate is high, all the food would have to be thrown away. If you can't afford the ticket for personal reasons and still want to participate, contact us and we will find a way. Please remember that the conference is still a non-profit community conference. A positive financial balance will be invested in future events and donated to a charity partner organization.

It would be our pleasure to welcome you at the Azure Bootcamp in Bern!

Hello Bärner Go Community

We are very happy to announce the next Bärner Go Meetup on Thursday, May 28, 2026 at 18:00. The event will be at Open Systems (Effingerstrasse 47) in Bern.

• 17:45 Check-In
• 18:00 Welcome by Elastic & Bärner Go Meetup Groups & Open Systems
• 18:15 Talks
• ~20:00 Chat & Refresh

Talk #1 - Nightmare Navigator - Building a Horror Movie Telegram Bot - Angela Scherer
A short walkthrough of building a Telegram bot in Go that delivers curated horror movie recommendations. The talk covers library choices and trade-offs, shows how the bot parses flexible user queries, and explains how scheduled jobs keep recommendations up to date.

Talk #2 - One Collector to rule them all - Florian Lehner
Traces, Metrics, and Profiles with the OTel Collector - Most people know the OpenTelemetry Collector for traces and metrics, but did you know it can handle profiling data too? This talk is a hands-on introduction to the OTel Collector, explaining what it is, why you'd want it, and how to configure it to receive profiling signals alongside your existing telemetry.

Additional Talk(s) - TBD

The format will be talks followed by an open discussion with refreshments.

This Meetup is a collaboration with the Elastic Switzerland User Group and seats are limited. Please RSVP and if there is no more room here, check their page for available seats. Also please free up your seat if you find you can't attend.

Thank you so much to Open Systems in advance for supporting our community event!

Hope to see you there!