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Tech Events in Vienna

Vienna sustains an active tech-event calendar across AI, software engineering, product, and a growing startup ecosystem. The city benefits from TU Wien's research output and a mix of scaleups and established-enterprise tech teams, giving the calendar a balanced tilt between applied research and engineering-practitioner content.

Expect steady monthly cadences for Python, JavaScript, cloud, and data communities, plus a growing set of applied-AI meetups. The WeAreDevelopers World Congress is the largest annual anchor event. Venues cluster around the city center and the Technische Universität, with larger events filling the Messe Wien.

Upcoming events in Vienna

AI Integration & ApplicationConferenceFree

AI & Tech Networking Event in Wien by Ascent Valley

Vienna, 🇦🇹 Austria

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.

Tue 4 Aug · 20:00 – 23:00
EntrepreneurshipConferenceFree

Investor Connect: Pitch & Deal Flow Night | Wien

Vienna, 🇦🇹 Austria

Meet startups, investors, and access ongoing deal flow with weekly intros and early opportunities. Free for approved investors.

Investor Connect: Pitch & Deal Flow Night

Join a focused investor session in Wien.

3–5 pre-screened startups will present in a relaxed, high-signal environment.

Startup list available in advance upon request.

Free for approved investors. Paid tickets available.

👉 Apply as an investor or get your ticket

What You Actually Get

startups at different stages, actively raising

clear investment signals (team, traction, ask)

direct access to founders

live presentations with Q&A

context from other active investors

You don’t come here to network or wait for pitches.

You come when it’s time to evaluate deals - and share your perspective.

Who Shows Up

Angel investors actively writing checks

• VC partners and associates

• Scouts and analysts sourcing deals

• Founders in AI, Web3, HealthTech, and Tech

People here are not browsing - they come to evaluate opportunities, exchange context,

and move deals forward

People who, while operating locally, are exploring opportunities to diversify risk and engage globally.

Beyond the Event

The event is the entry point.

After participation, you get:

• weekly deal flow

• direct founder introductions

• access to opportunities aligned with your thesis

Most attend once.

Serious investors stay for the pipeline.

Apply to access deal flow

Access Options

🎟 General Admission — Paid

✅ Investor Access — Free (by approval)

Approval required to maintain signal quality.

Limited Capacity

We keep the room focused and relevant.

Spots are limited.

👉 Secure your spot now

Tue 4 Aug · 20:00 – 23:00
EntrepreneurshipConferenceFree

Startup Pitch & Themed Networking Wien | Unlock Your Idea

Vienna, 🇦🇹 Austria

You've been workshopping your idea with ChatGPT, not real founders. We fix that. Themed tables, 5 live pitches, one Wien room - 3 hours

Most of us are in the same loop. You have an idea. You workshop it with ChatGPT, read another newsletter, tell three friends who don't quite get it. The idea stays in your head. Or worse — it never gets the kind of pushback that would have made it sharper.

Research on creative work is clear: people who articulate their idea to like-minded peers begin to understand it deeper. Quality feedback isn't validation — it's the thing that changes how you see your own work.

We mix the room on purpose. Different industries see the same process from different angles — that's where value compounds. We ask for your LinkedIn in registration so we can group you with the right people, not random tables.

How the evening runs (3 stages)

Stage 1 — Themed Networking

You vote on the night's themes through the registration form (Fundraising, HR, GTM, Product, Pricing, Hiring — whichever wins the room). We group you by background. Each group's representative shares the conversation's main takeaway on stage. Featured contributors get a Featured Founder spotlight on ascentvalley.com — that's how the conversation scales across the ecosystem.

Stage 2 — Pitches

5 curated startups present their idea for live feedback and investor introductions. After the event, we add them to our private founder database and route their application to the right investors inside the Ascent Valley network.

Stage 3 — Chill & Network

The structured part wraps. The bar stays open. The connections you started solidify here — most of our repeat attendees say this is where the real value lands.

Who's in the room

  • Accelerator representatives — talent and dealflow scouts from Wien-based and EU-wide programs
  • Investors — angels, fund representatives, scouts from syndicates
  • Founders, Pre-seed to Series A — building across SaaS, AI, ClimateTech, FinTech, ConsumerTech
  • Operators — PMs, engineering leads, GTM leaders from scaling startups
  • Entrepreneurs across industries — fresh perspective is the point
  • Founders traveling through Wien — from Tel Aviv, Berlin, London, NYC, Lisbon nodes
  • Hiring leads from companies actively scaling teams

About Ascent Valley

Ascent Valley is a 3-layer ecosystem: Community, DealFlow, Events. Our mission is to break local boundaries and enable cross-region growth through real connection between founders, operators, and investors.

Philosophy: IDEA → PROCESS → RESULT.

Tue 4 Aug · 20:00 – 23:00
EntrepreneurshipConferenceFree

Startup Networking Wien: Founders, Investors & Talent Mixer

Vienna, 🇦🇹 Austria

Wien Startup Networking Event: Meet Founders, Investors, and Talent - Build or Scale Your Startup

Startup Networking Event in Wien for founders, investors, and tech talent.

Join a high-signal startup networking event in Wien where founders, investors, and talent connect to build and scale startups.Meet the right people, unlock real opportunities, and grow within the Wien startup ecosystem.

💡 Why This Event Is Different

Most networking events end with exchanged LinkedIn profiles.

This one focuses on real conversations and real opportunities.

We bring together founders, investors, engineers, operators and talent in a curated environment designed to create meaningful connections.

Through interactive networking rounds, open conversations and pitch opportunities, participants can share challenges, exchange insights and build relationships that last beyond the event.

🤝 What to Expect

Startup Networking in Wien
Structured networking rounds where founders, investors, and talent connect, share challenges, and explore opportunities.

Talent & Hiring Connections
Meet engineers, operators, and professionals in the Wien startup ecosystem.

Startup & Investor Conversations
Discussions around fundraising, product development, and scaling startups.

👥 Who Should Attend
  • Startup founders in Wien
  • VC and angels investors
  • Engineers and builders
  • Operators and product managers
  • Recruiters and HR professionals
  • Sales and business development professionals
  • Job seekers interested in startups
  • Newcomers to the Wien tech ecosystem
🎤 Want to Pitch?

A limited number of founders will have the opportunity to present their startup.

Selected founders will showcase their pitch deck to the audience and attending investors, followed by a short Q&A where participants can ask questions and share feedback.

Apply by sending your pitch

Spots are limited and founders will be selected in advance.

💼 For Investors

We invite local investors, angels and venture capitalists to join the event.

Investor participation is complimentary.

After verification, investors receive access to the Ascent Valley ecosystem, including:

• curated startup introductions

• access to our startup digest

• access to our platform and founder community

Interested investors can request verification

Tue 4 Aug · 20:00 – 23:00
AI Integration & ApplicationConferenceFree

AI Stack Lab — Build Your Personal AI System

Vienna, 🇦🇹 Austria

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

Sat 8 Aug 12:30 – Sun 9 Aug 20:00
Software EngineeringMeetupFree

Angular Vienna - August Meetup

Vienna, 🇦🇹 Austria

🎉 Get ready for the Angular August Meetup - Fresh Insights & Summer Vibes!

We’re celebrating summer with the latest updates from the Angular ecosystem. Expect deep dives, practical insights, and plenty of time to connect with the community.

What's on the agenda:
🗣️ Expert speakers
🎓 Knowledge sharing on the latest in Angular
🎫 Raffles with cool prizes
👥 Meet old and new friends from the community
🍻 Free drinks
🍕 Free food
🎉 Open-end networking
✔️ Just RSVP!

Location: L'Office, Schottenfeldgasse 85, 1070 Wien

Agenda:
18:00 – Warm-up
18:30 – Meetup Intro & Sponsor Intro
19:00 – speaker 1
19:45 – Pizza Break (30 mins)
20:15 – speaker 2
21:00 – Raffle & Outro (30 mins)

-------------------------- 🗣️🗣️🗣️ Talks 🗣️🗣️🗣️ ------------------------

TBA very soon - stay tuned!

-----------------------❤️🤝❤️ Sponsors ❤️🤝❤️ -----------------------

SIMStation
A big thank you to our sponsor, SIMStation, for supporting this meetup! 🙌

SIMStation is helping shape the future of healthcare education by providing educators, learners, and healthcare teams with the tools to run, review, and assess simulation-based training. Behind that mission is a growing team building technology that is changing how healthcare professionals learn and work together.

If you're looking for your next challenge and want your work to make a difference, check out their open roles 👉 SIMStation | Jobs

PushBased
PushBased is a close-knit group of IT experts offering their knowledge and services in #Angular #RxJS #NestJS #JavaScript #TypeScript #webperf #Nx and more.
https://push-based.io/

-------------- 🎫🎫🎫 Raffle Raffle Raffle 🎫🎫🎫 --------------

As always, everyone who asks a good question during the talks receives a raffle ticket.
Win JetBrains licenses and other cool prizes!

--------------- 😇😎🥳 Code of Conduct 🥳 😎😇 ---------------
We value your safety.
Please check our Code of Conduct here: http://bit.ly/angular-austria-coc

--------------------- 🎥 LIVESTREAM 🎥 ---------------------
The event will be live streamed on the Push-Based YouTube channel.

--------------------- 📋 FEEDBACK 📋 ---------------------
Help us improve by sharing your feedback after the event!

Thu 13 Aug · 16:00< 50
Software EngineeringMeetupFree

Build & Connect Meetup Summer Edition 🌞

Vienna, 🇦🇹 Austria

Willkommen bei "Build & Connect", dem Treffpunkt für Selbstständige und alle, die es werden wollen – organisiert von Gründerio.

English description below.

Dieses kostenfreie Event richtet sich an Menschen, die selbstständig sind und ihre Reise mit neuen Perspektiven, wertvollen Kontakten und spannenden Insights bereichern möchten.

Das erwartet dich bei unserem Meetup:

🤝 Austausch auf Augenhöhe: In einer entspannten Atmosphäre kannst du dich mit Gleichgesinnten vernetzen, Ideen austauschen und von den Erfahrungen anderer profitieren.

🍹 Gechillte Atmosphäre: Uns ist wichtig, dass du dich wohlfühlst und Spaß hast. Wenn sich daraus ein neuer Geschäftskontakt oder eine Zusammenarbeit entwickelt – umso besser!

🚀 Unser Ziel: Wir möchten dir nicht nur die Möglichkeit bieten, neue Leute kennenzulernen und echte Verbindungen zu schaffen, sondern dir auch praktische Werkzeuge an die Hand geben, die deinen unternehmerischen Alltag erleichtern und dein Business optimieren.
Wir freuen uns darauf, dich bei unserem nächsten Treffen in Wien willkommen zu heißen. Lass uns zusammen lernen, wachsen und die Reise als Selbstständige gestalten.

Follow us!
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Welcome to "Build & Connect", the meet-up for entrepreneurs and everyone aspiring to become one – hosted by Gründerio.
This free event is tailored for self-employed individuals looking to enrich their journey with fresh perspectives, valuable connections, and inspiring insights.

Here’s what awaits you at our meet-up:

🤝 Exchange: Connect with like-minded people in a relaxed atmosphere, exchange ideas, and learn from the experiences of others.

🍹 Chilled Atmosphere: We want you to feel comfortable and enjoy yourself. If this leads to a new business connection or collaboration – even better!

🚀 Our Goal: Not only do we aim to help you meet new people and build meaningful connections, but we also want to provide you with practical tools to simplify your entrepreneurial journey and optimize your business.
We’re excited to welcome you to our next event in Vienna. Let’s learn, grow, and shape the journey of self-employment together.

Follow us!
LinkedIn | Instagram | Whatsapp

Disclaimer: This event will be recorded with photo, video, and audio material. By attending, you consent to the use of this material, including for later promotional purposes. By reserving your ticket, you agree to being contacted by Gründerio.

Tue 18 Aug · 17:00< 50
AI Integration & ApplicationMeetupFree

AWS User Group Vienna presents: Agentic Football Cup 2026

Vienna, 🇦🇹 Austria

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! 🙌


📍 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.


🗓️ 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


🏆 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. ⚽️


💛 Sponsor & Host

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


📌 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.

Tue 25 Aug · 14:00< 50
AI Integration & ApplicationMeetupFree

ProductTank Vienna - AI-Native Product Building & Growth

Vienna, 🇦🇹 Austria

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!

Wed 26 Aug · 16:15< 50
Software EngineeringHackathonFree

Shipaton 2026 Vienna IRL

Vienna, 🇦🇹 Austria

Shipaton is back ✌️ - The mobile hackathon that's all about shipping… a ton. Join the Vienna IRL now!

We partnered with RevenueCat, bringing the world's biggest mobile hackathon to Vienna.
Anyone can join.

Learn more 👇

Got an app idea? A half-built prototype? Or just curious about what it takes to ship something real? Perfect. Let's build together.

Shipaton is RevenueCat's global hackathon for mobile builders, and we're bringing it to Vienna. Not as a polished conference, but as a real room with real people who actually want to ship something.

You do not need a finished app. You do not need a team. You do not need to know RevenueCat inside out. Just show up, meet other builders, and see what happens when you spend a couple hours of focused on building instead of talking about building.

This is where solo hackers become teams. Indie devs meet designers. Students meet founders. And everyone leaves with something: a new connection, a fresh perspective, or a push to finally hit "submit" on that app store listing.

There are no judges, no pitches, and no pressure. Just snacks, swag, and a room full of people who care about the same thing: getting something out the door.

What it is

✅ A casual gathering for anyone building (or wanting to build) mobile apps
✅ A place to meet your future co-founder, teammate, or beta tester
✅ Real demos and real feedback, not slide decks and theory
✅ Free snakcs, free swag, and a free trophy for the most shipped project
✅ Part of Shipaton '26, RevenueCat's global hackathon with $700k+ in prizes
✅ Free. No equity. No hidden fees. Just register and show up.

Already shipping? You're welcome too. Bring what you're working on.

What it is not

❌ A formal serious hackathon where teams pitch to investors
❌ A networking event where you collect LinkedIn connections and never speak again
❌ A course where you sit and watch someone else code
❌ An accelerator that takes a cut of your company
❌ For people who want to talk about apps instead of building them

You do not need a team, a deck, or a polished idea. Anyone curious is welcome.

We're running two gatherings during Shipaton '26. Pick one or come to both. See all events .

About the Host

I have founded 20+ businesses. Some worked. Most didn't. That is the point. I test fast, fail fast, and keep what works. Along the way, I connected with countless founders and packed our collective lessons into one place.
52 Waypoint is about helping founders build and launch no matter the challenges, Shipaton is about helping builders ship apps without excuses. The overlap is obvious, so here we are.

Let's connect 👉 Linkedin

📍Important: The exact address goes out only to confirmed attendees shortly before the event.

Other links
Shipaton '26 — Official Site
Register on Devpost
Shipaton Discord
Shipaton IRL Events
52 Waypoint

Fri 28 Aug · 20:00 – 22:30
Software EngineeringHackathonFree

Shipaton 2026 Vienna IRL

Vienna, 🇦🇹 Austria

Shipaton is back ✌️ - The mobile hackathon that's all about shipping… a ton. Join the Vienna IRL now!

We partnered with RevenueCat, bringing the world's biggest mobile hackathon to Vienna.
Anyone can join.

Learn more 👇

Got an app idea? A half-built prototype? Or just curious about what it takes to ship something real? Perfect. Let's build together.

Shipaton is RevenueCat's global hackathon for mobile builders, and we're bringing it to Vienna. Not as a polished conference, but as a real room with real people who actually want to ship something.

You do not need a finished app. You do not need a team. You do not need to know RevenueCat inside out. Just show up, meet other builders, and see what happens when you spend a couple hours of focused on building instead of talking about building.

This is where solo hackers become teams. Indie devs meet designers. Students meet founders. And everyone leaves with something: a new connection, a fresh perspective, or a push to finally hit "submit" on that app store listing.

There are no judges, no pitches, and no pressure. Just snacks, swag, and a room full of people who care about the same thing: getting something out the door.

What it is

✅ A casual gathering for anyone building (or wanting to build) mobile apps
✅ A place to meet your future co-founder, teammate, or beta tester
✅ Real demos and real feedback, not slide decks and theory
✅ Free snakcs, free swag, and a free trophy for the most shipped project
✅ Part of Shipaton '26, RevenueCat's global hackathon with $700k+ in prizes
✅ Free. No equity. No hidden fees. Just register and show up.

Already shipping? You're welcome too. Bring what you're working on.

What it is not

❌ A formal serious hackathon where teams pitch to investors
❌ A networking event where you collect LinkedIn connections and never speak again
❌ A course where you sit and watch someone else code
❌ An accelerator that takes a cut of your company
❌ For people who want to talk about apps instead of building them

You do not need a team, a deck, or a polished idea. Anyone curious is welcome.

We're running two gatherings during Shipaton '26. Pick one or come to both. See all events .

About the Host

I have founded 20+ businesses. Some worked. Most didn't. That is the point. I test fast, fail fast, and keep what works. Along the way, I connected with countless founders and packed our collective lessons into one place.
52 Waypoint is about helping founders build and launch no matter the challenges, Shipaton is about helping builders ship apps without excuses. The overlap is obvious, so here we are.

Let's connect 👉 Linkedin

📍Important: The exact address goes out only to confirmed attendees shortly before the event.

Other links
Shipaton '26 — Official Site
Register on Devpost
Shipaton Discord
Shipaton IRL Events
52 Waypoint

Fri 11 Sept · 20:00 – 22:30
Software EngineeringConferenceFree

ICT AUSTRIA BRANCHENFORUM 2026

Vienna, 🇦🇹 Austria

Digitale Souveränität 2.0: KI, Cybersecurity, Innovation und Europas digitale Zukunft im Fokus.

ICT Austria Jahresveranstaltung 2026

Digitale Souveränität 2.0 – Wem gehört die Zukunft?

Die digitale Transformation verändert Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft und Politik in einem nie dagewesenen Tempo. Künstliche Intelligenz, Cybersecurity, digitale Infrastruktur, Cloud-Technologien und europäische Wettbewerbsfähigkeit stehen dabei im Mittelpunkt zentraler Zukunftsfragen.

Das erwartet Sie:

🔹 Hochkarätige Speaker und Keynotes
🔹 Spannende Podiumsdiskussionen mit Expertinnen und Experten
🔹 Aktuelle Einblicke in KI, Cybersecurity und digitale Souveränität
🔹 Praxisnahe Impulse aus Wirtschaft und Technologie
🔹 Networking mit Entscheidungsträgern aus Politik, Wirtschaft und IT

Fachforum am Nachmittag - „Technologie verstehen - Zukunft gestalten“

Bereits ab 14:00 Uhr erwartet Sie ein interaktives Fachforum mit Vorträgen, Diskussionsrunden und Mitglieder-Spotlights zu aktuellen Themen rund um Digitalisierung, Cybersecurity, NIS2, digitale Souveränität und Künstliche Intelligenz.

Abendveranstaltung - „Die Zukunft Europas im digitalen Zeitalter“

Ab 18:00 Uhr begrüßen wir rund 200 Gäste aus Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft und Technologie zu unserem exklusiven Abendprogramm mit hochkarätigen Gästen, spannenden Diskussionen und wertvollen Networking-Möglichkeiten.

Freuen Sie sich auf einen inspirierenden Tag voller Ideen, neuer Perspektiven und persönlicher Begegnungen.

Wir freuen uns auf Ihre Teilnahme!

📅 Donnerstag, 17. September 2026
📍 Wolke21 | Saturn Tower | Wien

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☀️Nachmittag: „Technologie verstehen - Zukunft gestalten“

14:00 - 14:30 Ankommen, Networking & Kaffee
14:30 - 14:40 Begrüßung durch den ICT Austria Präsident Walter Huemer
14:40 - 15:00 Studie zu NIS2 & DORA Readiness
Christoph Kofler (Gepardec IT Services GmbH), Reinhard Mayer (meshmakers GmbH), Claudia Nitschke (IT SOLUTIONS & webspider GmbH)
15:00 - 15:20 ICT Austria Mitglieder-Spotlight
Avenum - EDI Service & E-Invoicing Partners, Certitude Consulting GmbH, Huemer Group
15:20 - 15:30 tbd - sproof
15:30 - 16:00 Künstliche Intelligenz - Wem gehört die Zukunft? - Mag. Ursula Eysin, Bakk., MAS (CEO - Red Swan)
16:00 - 16:20 PAUSE
16:20 - 16:40 Ausbildung & Fachkräfte im Kontext digitaler Souveränität
Florian Brunner (42 Vienna | education for digital excellence)
16:40 - 17:00 Cyber-Security, AI, digitale Souveränität - Was bedeutet das konkret?
Marc Nimmerrichter (Certitude Consulting GmbH)
17:00 - 17:30 Digitale Souveränität – AI, Krypto & Sicherheit
Georg Gesek (Novarion Systems GmbH)
17:30 - 18:00 Networking, Thementische & Austausch

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🌙Abend: „Die Zukunft Europas im digitalen Zeitalter“

18:00 - 19:00 Empfang, Verpflegung & Aperitif
19:00 - 19:10 Begrüßung durch den ICT Austria Präsident Walter Huemer
19:10 - 19:20 Politischer Impuls
19:20 - 20:00 Podiumsdiskussion
Gerhard Kürner - CEO & Founder 506.ai, MMag. Oliver Stauber - CEO Bitget EU**,** Mag. Martin Schiefer - Schiefer Rechtsanwälte, Moderator: Chris Müller

20:10 - 20:50 Keynote: Die Mensch-KI Symbiose – was braucht es?
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Markus Hengstschläger

20:50 - 22:00 Networking, Kulinarik, Musik

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Vorläufiges Programm – Änderungen vorbehalten

Thu 17 Sept 16:00 – Fri 18 Sept 00:00
AI Integration & ApplicationConferenceFree

ahead x wien – KI erleben & Zukunft verstehen

Vienna, 🇦🇹 Austria

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.

Thu 24 Sept 21:00 – Fri 25 Sept 00:00
Software EngineeringConferenceFree

CultTech Summit 2026

Vienna, 🇦🇹 Austria

Where culture meets technology and capital. Founders, artists, funders, and researchers — all in one room.

CultTech Summit 2026 Culture is everyone's business.

Vienna · 4–5 November 2026

Culture isn't a niche. It's an industry — built and funded across museums, startups, labs, foundations, investment funds, and creative practices. CultTech Summit puts the people running it in the same room, for two days in Vienna.

50+ speakers · 900+ participants · 30+ countries · Two days · One room.

What CultTech Summit is

The platform at the intersection of culture, technology, and capital. Cultural institutions, founders, artists, funders, and researchers — in the same conversation, not in separate rooms.

The 2025 edition pulled in speakers from across AI research, music business, opera, museum direction, investment, and startup-building, alongside 100+ investors and 35+ startup pitches over two days. 2026 builds on that with new formats and a sharper programme.

What's new in 2026

Pre-day workshops in Vienna's cultural venues. November 3 — field-specific workshops hosted across the city's leading museums, music venues, and creative institutions. Limited places, ticket-holders only.

CultTech Global Awards. First edition. International awards for new work in culture and tech, across four categories — cultural institutions, ecosystem builders, startups, and education / research. Finalists exhibit at the Summit. Winners announced live on stage.

A wider programme. Roundtables across the two days. An art programme on external Vienna stages. After-hours that run past the closing keynote.

Who this is for

Anyone building, funding, researching, or running work at the intersection of culture and technology. Founders, artists, technologists, investors, museum directors, researchers, policymakers — and the people moving between those roles.

What you'll get from being there

— The best practices in culture × tech, from the people running them — Direct access to investors backing creative-industry work — A speaker list that doesn't stay in one lane — Roundtables and 1:1s, not just panels — Vienna in November — venues, dinners, museums after closing

Tickets

Tickets are released in stages. The earlier you book, the less you pay. Each release is capped — once it sells out, the next opens at a higher price.

→ Grab yours below before First Release closes.

Wed 4 Nov 10:00 – Thu 5 Nov 23:00
AI Integration & ApplicationConferenceFree

LANGUAGE INTELLIGENCE 2026

Vienna, 🇦🇹 Austria

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!

Tue 17 Nov 15:00 – Thu 19 Nov 18:00