🇨🇿 Tech Events in Czechia

Praktický workshop Insta360 X5 & GO Ultra – workflow, aplikace, tipy z praxe a reálné využití kamer.

Zveme vás na prakticky zaměřený workshop věnovaný kamerám Insta360, tvorbě obsahu a reálnému workflow při natáčení i editaci.

Workshop povede Pavel Oliva (@oliva_pavel), který bude sdílet zkušenosti z reálných projektů, každodenní tvorby obsahu i praktického používání kamer Insta360 v terénu.

Během workshopu se zaměříme především na:

• práci s aplikací Insta360
• workflow od natáčení až po export
• praktické tipy a triky
• reálné scénáře použití
• Insta360 X5
• Insta360 GO Ultra
• efektivní editaci a export videí
• prostor pro dotazy a diskuzi

Nečekejte teoretickou prezentaci — cílem workshopu je ukázat reálné použití kamer, praktické workflow a zkušenosti z praxe.

📅 Datum: 22. 6. 2026
🕔 Čas: 17:00–20:00
📍 Místo: Syntex Showroom
Michelská 291/21, Praha 4

• praktické ukázky
• reálné workflow
• tipy z profesionální praxe
• možnost vyzkoušení techniky
• prostor pro networking a otázky

Workshop proběhne v Syntex Showroomu v Praze 4 — největším showroomu pro video techniku v České republice.

Počet míst je omezený. Registrace je nutná.

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Po prvním meetupovém večeru bylo jasno. Fabric komunita v Česku fakt existuje. A má chuť sdílet zkušenosti a slepé uličky, o kterých veřejně zase tak moc neuslyšíte.

Proto vás zveme na druhé setkání CZ FUG. Tentokrát se podíváme na dvě témata, která teď ve Fabric světě hodně rezonují:

Jak na vývoj Fabric Data Agenta
Roman Lánský ukáže, co vlastně Fabric Data Agent je, jak o něm přemýšlet, jak ho stavět, testovat a proč to celé začíná být důležitou součástí Fabric IQ.

Enterprise planning konečně přímo v Microsoft Fabric
Jakub Fabian představí nový Fabric Plan Item a ukáže, jak dostat budgeting, forecasting a enterprise planning z Excelového peklíčka přímo do Fabricu. Včetně write-backu, audit trailu a propojení na Power BI v rámci jedné platformy.

A ani tentokrát vás neochudíme o oblíbenou customer story z reálného projektu. Je to work in progress, ale vypadá slibně.

Stejně jako minule bude druhá část večera hlavně o otevřené diskusi, zkušenostech z projektů, otázkách, frustracích i věcech, které vám ve Fabricu udělaly radost.

Pokud Fabric používáte, testujete nebo kolem něj jen opatrně kroužíte, stavte se.

Agent-Driven Meetup Prague: Build Like a POD — Simulating the AI-Native Development Team

Your org chart is killing your agents. Join us to run a live simulation of POD-based teams making decisions with AI agents — not talking about it.

If you've been here before, you know what this is: no bullshit theory, no vendor pitches, no "AI is going to change everything" presentations. We build things, we break things, we figure out what actually works when you put agents into production in real organizations.
This edition goes one level up from the code. Not how to build agents — how to build the teams that operate them.
Because here's the thing nobody is saying out loud at these meetups: the agents are fine. The organizational structure around them is broken.

Every team at every meetup we've run is using agents the same way. One developer has a Claude window open. Another has Cursor. Someone on Slack posted a prompt they found useful. There's no shared context, no shared role assignment, no way for the agents to be collectively accountable to the team's actual goals.
You're running 21st-century AI on a 20th-century org chart.
The org chart was designed for predictable, repeatable, decomposable work — industrial-era assumptions baked into every hierarchy, every feature team, every sprint board. It doesn't know what to do with agents because agents aren't tasks. They're capable entities. They need roles. They need context. They need to fit into a structure that was designed to hold them.
Dave Gray figured this out in 2012, before agents existed.

He called it the Connected Company. The core unit is a POD — a small, autonomous, cross-functional team with everything it needs to serve its customer independently, connecting to other PODs through explicit interfaces rather than management layers.

You walk in. You get assigned to a POD.
Each POD is a cross-functional unit inside NovaTech — a fictional (but uncomfortably familiar) Czech B2B SaaS company that is mid-transformation from a traditional hierarchy into a connected, POD-based structure. Product PODs. Revenue PODs. Infrastructure PODs. Customer Success PODs. Each with a challenge scoped to their function.
The company faces one decision: should NovaTech launch in Germany in Q3?
No POD has the full picture. The Product POD knows what the roadmap costs. The Revenue POD has deals on the table. The Infrastructure POD has a data residency timeline. The Customer Success POD knows what they can't support. The decision is genuinely hard. The PODs have to figure it out together — without a manager breaking the tie.
Your POD gets an AI agent. Not a tool. A team member with a role you define, a name you give it, a brief you write. Research Analyst. Technical Due Diligence Analyst. Revenue Strategist. You decide. You brief it. You work with what it gives you.
You have 45 minutes. Then all PODs assemble for the Company Council — the Connected Company's answer to a board meeting, except there's no board. Just PODs, with their recommendations, their conflicts, and the requirement to reach a collective position without anyone having authority to overrule anyone else.
That part is the hard part. It's supposed to be.
Afterwards, we debrief. What did the POD structure change about how you worked? What did you do with your agent that you hadn't done before? Where did the Company Council break down — and why? These aren't hypothetical questions after this exercise. They're questions you just lived the answer to.

We've spent the last several meetups on the technical layer: orchestration, multi-agent coordination, memory and context management, governance patterns. We've built real things and learned real things.
But the people at these meetups go back to teams that are still organized the same way they were before agents existed. The technical knowledge doesn't transfer because there's nowhere for it to land. You know how to build a multi-agent pipeline. Your team has no structure to deploy it into.
POD architecture is the landing pad.
When your team is a POD — with a defined customer, a defined purpose, local decision-making authority, and explicit interfaces to other PODs — the question "where does the agent fit?" has an actual answer. The agent has a role. The role has a brief. The brief has a deliverable. The deliverable has a place in the POD's output to its customers. This is not complicated. But it requires the organizational structure to exist first.
This meetup builds that structure — in a simulation — so you can feel what it's like before you try to convince your organization to actually do it.

• Direct, embodied experience of what POD autonomy feels like versus feature-team execution — the difference is not subtle
• A working model for how to assign AI agents functional roles within a team structure, not just task roles within a conversation
• Concrete intuition for where inter-POD coordination fails and why that failure mode is the hardest problem in connected organization design
• The specific insight that agent architecture and organization architecture are the same problem — you can't solve one without the other

Everyone who has been to Agent-Driven Meetup before and wants to understand why the agent knowledge isn't transferring into their actual team.
Everyone who hasn't been to Agent-Driven Meetup before but works on a development team that is trying to figure out how to actually integrate AI into how they work — not just into individual workflows.
Tech leads. Engineering managers. Developers with opinions about team structure. CTOs at companies that are rethinking how they organize. Product people who want to understand why their developers relate to agents so individually when the problem is collective.
You do not need to have read The Connected Company. You need to be willing to be uncomfortable in a simulation with strangers for 45 minutes. That's it.

| Time | |
| ---- | --- |
| 18:00 | Doors, drinks, talking to people you don't know yet |
| 18:30 | Opening frame: POD architecture in 20 minutes, agents as team members |
| 18:50 | POD assignment, briefing, agent naming |
| 19:00 | POD Work Session — 45 minutes live |
| 19:45 | Company Council — all PODs, one decision, no manager |
| 20:15 | Structured debrief |
| 20:45 | Open floor, Q&A, networking |
| 21:30 | End |

Ataccama Sokolovská 685/136f, Karlín, Prague 8
Metro: Invalidovna (line B), 5 min walk. Tram: Urxova.
Ataccama builds enterprise data trust platforms and has been doing it from Karlín since 2007. They know what it means to scale a software organization. We're grateful they're hosting.

40 people maximum. This is not a meetup you can attend passively. The simulation requires real PODs of 5–7 people. Above 40, the Company Council stops working. Register early or don't register.

• A laptop (one per POD minimum, two is better)
• Your actual opinions about how teams should be organized — you will use them
• Optional and appreciated: skim The Connected Company by Dave Gray before you come. The summary is enough.

Agent-Driven Meetup Prague is the leading technical AI community in Central Europe focused on production-grade agent systems, organizational AI integration, and the engineering disciplines required to govern both. We meet, we build, we figure out what actually works.
Organizer: Jakub Bareš — bares.jakub@gmail.com

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

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

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

• Pitch your startup.
• Connect with capital.
• Expand your network.
• This is where conversations turn into partnerships.

👥 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

• 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

• Startup founders in Prague
• 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 Prague tech ecosystem

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.

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

Jídlo, technologie a skvělá společnost – ideální mix pro všechny, kdo milují IT a nové trendy! Připojte se k nám!

Zajímáš se o vývoj softwaru nebo nejnovější trendy v oblasti informačních technologií? Chceš se něco nového naučit, podělit se o své zkušenosti nebo potkat lidi s podobnými zájmy? Pak bys neměl(a) chybět na naší grilovačce!

Skvělá společnost, dobré jídlo a speciální přednáška - to vše tě na akci čeká. Přednášky se tentokrát ujme Jan Čislinský, který stojí za aplikací Zvednout to?

📘 Krátký popis přednášky
Za poslední rok jsem nepřidal žádnou novou featuru a appka roste nejrychleji v historii. V prosinci 2016 jsem vydal Zvednout to? — první českou appku na identifikaci a blokování obtěžujících hovorů, dva roky držela top příčku v App Store, pak 7 let plateau, v roce 2024 restart na předplatné a v dubnu 2026 výpověď z korporátu. V přednášce projdu 10 let v konkrétních momentech: co růst opravdu posunulo, kde jsem utopil 150 tisíc a co teď konkrétně dělám pro 3× růst do prosince.

👤 O přednášejícím
Jan Čislinský — solo founder appky Zvednout to?. Začínal jako iOS developer a postupně se vypracoval na Senior Engineering Managera v mezinárodní firmě JLL, kde řešil růst engineering organizace napříč kontinenty. V dubnu 2026 z korporátu odešel a teď je naplno na svojí appce, kterou rozjel jako side-project v roce 2016. Vývoj, marketing i support řeší sám s pomocí AI.

Přijď si užít příjemné odpoledne plné techniky, vývoje softwaru a zábavy!

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

Join a focused investor session in Prague.

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

• 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.

• 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.

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

🎟 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

If your days are a blur of digital meetings, and you feel that spark of true collaboration is fading, you're not alone!
Join us for this meetup to learn how to push back against it.
Here’s a promise:
In this meetup, you will experience what real collaboration with real human beings in 3D feels like.
But not only that! You will learn:

• Why people come up with better ideas and remember more when they’re in workshops without screens
• How to use post-its and flipcharts to max their advantage against virtual whiteboards
• How to smoothly bring outputs from your analog meetings into the digital world

All that will be supported by real experience running real workshops (both analog and digital) in MSD and beyond.

About the Speaker
Lukas is Design Thinking Architect in MSD.
He has been in the arena of Public Speaking since 2012 and running Design Thinking and other workshops since 2020.
Currently, Lukas is leading an internal Facilitator Community in MSD that counts more than 600 members.
You can connect with him and read his posts on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukasliebich/
Agenda:

• 17:30 – 17:45 - Registration
• 17:45 - 19:15 Interactive Workshop
• 19:15 – 20:00 Networking time

See you there!

Please note: photos and/or short videos may be taken during this event for use in our promotional and marketing materials (website, social media, newsletters, etc.). If you prefer not to be photographed or recorded, please let an organizer know when you arrive and we will do our best to accommodate your request.

Rok 2026: AI generuje kód rychleji než stihnete refreshnout Redmine. Jenže kdo to celé testuje? A kdo se ptá, jestli to vůbec fakt funguje?

2026 jsme vyhlásili jako rok Ackee Multiverse.✨🔮 Po předchozích dvou meetupech (Mobile Development + Frontend & Backend) pokračujeme hráčem hrajícím často neviditelně v pozadí – Quality Assurance****.🕵️**** V době AI.

Tentokrát se podíváme na zoubek tomu, jak se staví, testuje a udržuje software i hardware, když vám za zády dýchají AI agenti a legislativní nároky na přístupnost. ⚔️

Kód sice dneska vzniká „sám“ a AI chrlí jeden řádek za druhým, ale ruku na srdce – s rychlostí roste i kreativita nových chyb a v šesti verzích excelové tabulky se AI ztratí stejně rychle jako člověk. Otázka už dávno nestojí tak, jestli nás stroje nahradí, ale jak tenhle technologický chaos ukočírovat, aby z toho nevznikl jeden velký fuckup.

Přijďte na další Ackee Meets, kde si ukážeme, jak vypadá skutečná detektivní práce moderního testera, jak pomocí AI postavit interní appku a zkrotit firemní hardware a proč je přístupnost produktů klíčová nejen pro legislativu, ale hlavně pro lidi.

👉 Žádná teorie z učebnic, jen čistá praxe, fuckupy a zkušenosti z první linie Ackee projektů.

Těšíme se!

V průběhu akce budeme pořizovat a dále zpracovávat foto a video záznamy. Pokud si nepřejete, abychom vás fotili nebo natáčeli, dejte nám prosím vědět před začátkem akce.

A Czech-Bavarian workshop on satellite solutions for fire brigades, emergency response and crisis management.

Join us for the Czech-Bavarian Workshop: Satellite Solutions for Fire Brigades, taking place on 25 June 2026 in Zbiroh, Czechia.

This cross-border workshop will bring together fire brigades, public authorities, civil protection stakeholders and space-enabled innovators from Czechia and Bavaria to explore how satellite services and space technologies can support emergency response, crisis management and operational decision-making.

Fire brigades are increasingly facing complex challenges linked to disaster response, climate resilience, emergency management and civil protection. Satellite-based services can provide valuable support through better situational awareness, communication, navigation, monitoring and data-driven decision-making.

The workshop will create an open platform for knowledge exchange, matchmaking and cooperation between operational end users and solution providers.

Participants will have the opportunity to:

• Understand real operational needs from fire brigades and crisis management stakeholders
• Explore satellite-enabled solutions for emergency response and civil protection
• Connect with Czech and Bavarian companies, innovation centres and public-sector representatives
• Identify potential use cases, pilot ideas and future cooperation opportunities
• Discuss possible funding and deployment pathways

The event is particularly relevant for companies and organisations working with Earth observation, GNSS, satellite communication, AI and analytics, drones, crisis platforms and field operations.

By connecting operational challenges with space-enabled capabilities, the workshop aims to support future pilots, cross-border cooperation and practical solutions for fire brigades and crisis management.

How does an AI solution trusted by the Czech Constitutional Court, over 50 municipalities, hospitals, and businesses work in practice? This talk takes you behind the scenes of our RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) chatbot, moving beyond theory into real-world production. We will explore the technical architecture, share live usage data, and discuss the challenges of deploying AI, namely across the public and healthcare sectors.
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⌚️ Start: 16:00 and end at 17:00, both online and offline in Truhlárna Karlín (Šaldova 388/5) - Onsite attendance is limited to 70 people.
🎙️ Speaker: Petr Červa
🍻 Networking after the seminar – great food and cold beer waiting for you!
🎥 Recording: After the event we will publish a recording and post a link to it in the comments.
🚪Doors open at 15:45, and the event officially starts at 16:00.
Your expertise is about to take off. Can't wait to have you on board!
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Who is hosting the event
GLAMI is a leading European fashion discovery platform active in 14 countries. It brings 500,000 orders monthly to the 4,000+ shops listed. GLAMI has an in-house team of 10+ AI researchers and developers. Machine learning models handle the entire personalization and catalog ranking process, manage bidding in marketing tools, and take care of content management and categorization.
Tonda Hoskovec, CAIO at GLAMI, is the main organizer of Miton AI Times.
Miton is a Czech VC with portfolio companies like Rossum, Equilibre, or Rohlik. Apart from supporting Miton AI Times, Miton also issues the bi-weekly AI Newsletter.
Read more about Miton and AI

Join us for another AI Transformers Prague meetup — a community for leaders, innovators, and practitioners who want to turn AI from buzzword into real business impact.
Org charts are melting. And nobody's talking about it enough.
In AI-native companies, a three-person team ships what used to take thirty. Job titles blur into capability stacks. The manager's role is being quietly rewritten by agents that plan, draft, and execute alongside humans. The pyramid isn't just flattening — it's cracking at the foundation.
This meetup brings together people building inside this shift to compare notes on what's actually working. No futurism. No hype. Just honest stories from the ground.
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🧭 Theme: Org Charts Are Melting — How AI-Native Teams Actually Work
We'll explore questions like:
* What new roles are emerging — and which ones are quietly disappearing?
* How do decisions flow when half your "team" is non-human?
* What does operating leverage of 10x per person actually look like in practice?
* How do you manage, hire, and lead when agents are doing the executing?
* What organizational models are winning right now — and why?
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🎙 Speakers
Three practitioners building inside AI-native organizations — each bringing a different vantage point on what the new operating model really looks like:
* Petr Zatloukal – Co-Founder and Career Driver at Alviso
* Markéta Dlouhá – , Agile Delivery and AI Community LeadDr. Max
* Michal Ličko – CEO @ Visionvolve | AI Transformation Leader
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🎤 Format
3 lightning talks followed by a panel discussion and audience Q&A focused on what's happening on the ground right now, not theory.
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📋 Agenda
17:30 – Doors open & networking
18:00 – Welcome & intro
18:00–19:00 – 3× Lightning talks
19:00–19:30 – Panel discussion & Q&A
19:30 onwards – Networking & informal conversations
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👥 Who Is This For?
* Founders & startup leaders rethinking how their teams are structured
* Product managers & engineering leads working with AI agents
* Corporate innovators navigating organizational change
* People managers figuring out what leadership looks like with AI in the loop
* HR & org design professionals
* Anyone curious about how the best AI-native teams actually operate

Whether you're already running AI-augmented teams or just starting to feel the pressure to change, this session will give you honest, practical insight into what's working — and what isn't.
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📍 Practical Info
Date: June, 26
Time: 17:30–20:00
Location: |Dr. Max offices, Na Florenci 2116/15, Praha 1, Vchod C
Language: English

Attendance is free, but spots are limited. RSVP to secure your place.
By attending this event, you agree that photos and videos may be used for marketing purposes. If you do not consent, please inform the organizers in advance or at the venue.

Speaker: Martin Štefanko (https://x.com/xstefank) - Principal Software Engineer at IBM

Abstract:

You know Spring Boot. It works. So why should you care about Quarkus in 2026?
This talk is the answer to that question — from someone who works on Quarkus every day.

We'll start where you are: a Spring Boot developer with an existing mental model, maybe some skepticism, and not a lot of time to waste. From there, we'll walk through what Quarkus actually feels different on — Dev Mode and live coding, container footprint, native image in practice — and where Spring still holds its ground.

Migration is where the 2026 story really gets interesting. In 2026, AI-assisted tooling has changed what it means to move a Spring Boot application to Quarkus. We'll look at what that process looks like today: what gets automated, what still needs your attention, and what a realistic migration path looks like for a real application.

You'll leave with a clear picture of where both frameworks stand, what Quarkus would actually mean for your day-to-day work, and whether now is the right time to make the move.

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We will also stream this online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lUC3IlSq9Y! If you plan to attend online, you don't need to register here since we're using this information to order food. This is also a tiny push for you to come in person!

See you there!

Straight from San Francisco: Databricks Data & AI Summit 2026 Highlights
Hosted by Adastra | Thursday, June 25, 2026 | Adastra Offices, Prague
As a Databricks Gold Partner delivering data and AI projects globally, Adastra is committed to staying at the forefront of what's possible.
The Adastra team is heading to the Databricks Data & AI Summit in San Francisco and we're excited to share the most important announcements and insights with the Prague Databricks community while fresh!
Join the Databricks Champions

• Lukáš Vosecký (Databricks Competency Lead)
• Georgian Pirvu (Databricks Partner Manager)

for an evening of firsthand insights, lightning talks, and practical guidance on the newest capabilities coming to the Databricks platform.
Beer and pizza available throughout the evening.
Join us! 🍻🍕
Agenda

• 18:00 – 18:10: Welcome and Summit Overview
• 18:10 – 18:35: Keynote Highlights and Major Announcements
• 18:35 – 19:00: Deep Dive: Lakebase (the new operational PostgreSQL database layer for data apps, operational use cases and AI agents)
• 19:00 – 19:25: Deep Dive: AI Agents (Genie and AgentBricks, pre-built analytics agents, custom agent frameworks, lightning talks)
• 19:25 – 19:45: What This Means for You (practical guidance, adoption strategies, practical next steps)
• 19:45 – 20:00: Open Q&A and Discussion
• 20:00 – 20:30: Networking

This is only an invitation – make sure to register for the event here.

**IMPORTANT! Please register on Luma page: https://luma.com/b8t67bw0

Join the Prague Networking meetup!
​We’re getting Creative and Tech folks together to network!

​What is it?
Think of it as an Anti-Icebreaker Game. No awkward small talk. No forced networking.
​We’ll use a set of thoughtfully designed question cards to spark natural, engaging conversations.

​What we will do:
No laptops. No presentations.
​Just people, music, drinks, and cards with prompts to help you connect and get to know each other.
​You’ll pick questions, share experiences, and find common ground in a relaxed, informal atmosphere.

​Who is this for?
Creative and Tech folks who want to meet peers, exchange ideas, and connect with others in the industry.

​❗If your plans change after registering, please cancel your spot, it helps someone else join.

​When & where
📅 25.06.26
🕛 19:00 - 21:30
📍 KC Přístav 7: V Přístavu 24, 170 00 Praha 7-Holešovice
🗣 Language: English

​Přístav 7 is a community space where you can buy drinks and snacks during the event.

​Please arrive 5–10 minutes early to grab a drink and settle in before we start (so we can kick off on time).

​Agenda
Welcome & rules
Question card rounds/icebreaking game
Networking & conversations
Wrap-up

​Why We’re Doing This
We started this to bring creative and tech people together in real life, not just online. Prjctr is about meeting new people, sharing ideas, and having real conversations. No pressure, no slides - just good company and fresh inspiration.

​Who We Are 🌍
Projector Global Community by Prjctr Creative & Tech Institute is a network for designers, developers, marketers, and innovators across creative tech. We support knowledge exchange, creative growth, and cross-border collaboration to bring amazing ideas to life.

​Hosted by: 🎤
Hosted by Tania Korab, Product Designer at Siemens, Daniella Kovalenko, UI/UX Designer and Art Director, Lesia Astrashanovych, Design&Product Recruiter

​See you at Prague Networking 🎉

Ahoj! Už je to rok a komunita stále roste 💛🎉

Zveme vás na další setkání, které se uskuteční 26. června v 18:00.

Bude skvělé se zase potkat v co největším počtu, popovídat si o designu, sdílet zkušenosti a poznat nové lidi z komunity.

Na programu budou poznámky z WebExpo 2026, novinky po Figma Config a také krátké ohlédnutí za tím, co se za ten rok na meetupech společně povedlo a kam se komunita posunula.

Pokud vás to láká, přijďte se s námi potkat nebo něco sdílet. Těšíme se na vás! 🙌

Anotace přednášky:
AI nástroje píšu kód rýchlejšie ako kedykoľvek predtým. No rýchlosť bez kontroly kvality je len technický dlh vo väčšom meradle.

V tejto prednáške sa pozrieme na to, ako LLM skutočne fungujú, ako inteligentne pracovať s kontextom a ako z AI dostať konzistentný, kvalitný výstup. Ukážeme si, ako používať AI na písanie testov, a prečo je verifikácia kódu kľúčová pre tímy, ktoré sa na AI pri vývoji výrazne spoliehajú.

Čo si odnesieš:

• Pochopíš, ako LLM a AI agenti skutočne fungujú pod kapotou
• Naučíš sa pracovať s kontextom tak, aby si z AI dostával lepšie výsledky
• Zistíš, ako písať čisté testy pomocou AI
• Pochopíš, prečo je verifikácia nevyhnutná, keď AI píše väčšinu kódu

O řečníkovi:
Filip Hric začal svoju kariéru tým, že zdieľal to, čo sa naučil o testovaní. A nejako sa to rozbehlo. Jeho blog prekročil 2 milióny prečítaní, jeho kurzy absolvovali tisíce vývojárov a testerov a stal sa jedným z mien, na ktoré sa ľudia v oblasti testingu a quality engineeringu odvolávajú.
Dnes spolupracuje s vývojovými tímami na tom, ako zabudovať kvalitu priamo do ich procesu, vystupuje na konferenciách po celom svete a snaží sa, aby éra AI nebola strašiakom pre tých, ktorým záleží na softvéri, ktorý naozaj funguje.
Žije na Slovensku so svojou ženou a štyrmi deťmi. Beháva a hrá na gitare.

Těšíme se - organizátoři [Pro:]Test!

POZOR! Meetup probíhá na adrese: Lihovarská 1060/12, 190 00 Praha 9-Balabenka, NE v sídle Accentura na Holešovicích.

Setkání probíhá osobně na místě bez streamování. Pořizovat budeme záznam, který následně zveřejníme na našem YouTube.

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

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

• 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.

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

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

Join a focused investor session in Zurich.

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

• 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.

• 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.

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

🎟 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

Meet Magento Czech returns to Prague on 27 Aug 2026, reconnecting the Czech and Slovak Magento community around commerce, tech and growth.

The Czech conference for Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source.
27 August 2026. Open to merchants, agencies, developers, and technology partners.

Meet Magento Czech 2026, 27 August 2026, Spojka Events, Prague.

Meet Magento Czech is the Czech conference for ecommerce professionals working on or around Magento Open Source and Adobe Commerce. Returning to Prague after nearly a decade, the event brings merchants, agencies, developers, and solution partners together under one roof for talks, networking, and conversations focused on the future of commerce.

A focused one day event. A strong community atmosphere. A chance to reconnect the Czech and Slovak Magento ecosystem with the wider European community.

The programme will feature practical insights, real world experience, and honest discussion from people who have done the work. The goal is not sales driven content, but useful knowledge sharing, stronger connections, and a better conversation around Magento in the region.

27 August 2026 – Main conference
A full day conference in Prague, built around a single track format so everyone shares the same experience. Expect expert talks, practical case studies, networking, partner conversations, and a community led atmosphere throughout the day.

Everything is designed to create more meaningful interaction between merchants, agencies, developers, and technology partners, both on stage and off stage.

Meet Magento Czech is designed for the wider Magento and Adobe Commerce ecosystem across the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Europe.

You can expect a mix of:

merchants and brands
developers and architects
agencies and consultants
technology and solution partners

The event is intended to bring together both business and technical audiences, with a strong focus on people actively shaping ecommerce decisions, delivery, and growth.

Meet Magento Czech is built around topics that matter to today’s Magento ecosystem, with a balanced mix of business and technology content.

Themes are expected to include:

AI and practical adoption in ecommerce
performance and optimisation
platform strategy and architecture
Hyvä and frontend innovation
security and reliability
CRO and customer experience
integrations and operational complexity
B2B and complex commerce use cases
merchant case studies and lessons learned
DevOps, delivery, and technical standards

The programme is being built to reflect the needs of real practitioners and to support open discussion across the ecosystem.

Everything.

Your ticket includes access to all conference sessions, refreshments, lunch, networking, and the full event experience throughout the day.

📍 Spojka Events, Pernerova 697/35, Prague 8, Karlín

Spojka Events is a modern industrial venue located in the Praga Studios complex in Karlín, one of Prague’s best connected districts.

The venue is easily accessible by public transport, including Metro B, Křižíkova, as well as nearby tram connections.

More travel and venue information will be shared closer to the event.

Speaker announcements, agenda updates, ticket news, and event updates as they are released.

Subscribe for updates at meet-magento.cz
Follow Meet Magento Czech on LinkedIn

More information is coming soon, but if you have any questions in the meantime, please get in touch via the website.

Meet Magento Czech 2026 – presented by Hashira Consulting and the Magento Association.

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Welcome to KeyConf26! Our annual conference dedicated to the Keycloak users' community.

We’re bringing KeyConf back for the third year, continuing our mission to bring the Keycloak community together for a day of learning, collaboration, and innovation. Building on the success of previous editions, our 2026 conference will feature an even more dynamic format designed to foster deeper insights, meaningful discussions, and stronger connections across the Keycloak and security ecosystem.

This year, we’re introducing:

• A main conference room featuring inspiring talks, real-world use cases, and expert insights on Keycloak and security
• A breakout room hosting a hands-on workshops with limited seats
• Dedicated networking opportunities throughout the day
• Business drinks after the event, providing a relaxed setting to continue the conversation, including a “Wicked Keycloak” challenges and how to resolve them

With support from the "Keycloak - OAuth2 SIG", this is a unique opportunity to connect with contributors shaping OpenID FAPI standards and the future of identity and access management.

📅 Save the date!
Join us on October 8th, 2026, in Prague, from 9:00 to 18:00, for a full day of insights, networking, and collaboration, including welcome coffee, breaks, and lunch for all attendees.

Stay tuned for updates on speakers, the agenda, and registration details. We can't wait to see you there!

For questions or sponsorship inquiries, feel free to contact us at marketing@adorsys.com or visit keyconf.dev

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Kdy: 19. 11. od 18h
Kde: kanceláře Mews, nám. I. P. Pavlova 5, 120 00 Vinohrady (3. patro)
Jazyk: CZ

Harmonogram akce:
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19:00 Speaker 2: TBA

Chceš přednášet na našem meetupu? Vyplň nám přihlášku, kterou najdeš na našem webu (ZDE) a my se ti ozveme. Přednášku u nás můžeš mít na libovolné téma, týkající se vývoje. Vítáme ale i softovější témata.

ℹ️ Na našich eventech pravidelně fotíme a natáčíme. Fotky a videa používáme k propagaci našich aktivit na webu a sociálních sítích. Pokud na fotkách být nechceš, dej vědět organizátorům na místě.

Těšíme se!

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