Tech Events in Cologne

Don't theorize about UX – let's talk about hands-on UX for the digital products we create.

If you're a building a digital product or are simply interested in UI and UX: everyone is invited. Listen to our talks, meet new people, get new ideas, ask the questions you always wanted to ask.

uXchange Sonder Edition:
Portfolio Review Night 🌙

Offener Austausch über UX Jobs, Erfahrungen, Tipps & Tricks rund um Bewerbungen

Bringt eure Websites und Portfolien mit
und gibt gegenseitig Feedbacks!
Railslove stellt Drinks zur Verfügung 🥤🍻

Veranstaltungsort:
Railslove GmbH
An der Bottmühle 5
50678 Köln

Co-Create Cologne

Triff kreative, offene Menschen in Köln – und findet heraus, was ihr gemeinsam schaffen könnt.

Was als Design Sprint Cologne Community begann, öffnet sich für jede Form von (Co-)Creation. Kreative Arbeit wird besser, wenn man sie nicht allein macht. Die meisten von uns haben Fähigkeiten, die jemand anderes im Raum gerade braucht – und ein Problem, das jemand anderes längst gelöst hat. Bei unseren Abenden geht es darum, genau diese Überschneidungen zu finden.
Co-Create Cologne ist für Menschen, denen ihre Arbeit wirklich am Herzen liegt: Designer:innen, Entwickler:innen, Gründer:innen, Facilitator:innen, Autor:innen, Marketing-Leute, Musiker:innen, Fotograf:innen – egal ob Hauptjob, Nebenprojekt oder die Sache, bei der du noch selbst herausfindest, wohin sie führt.

Was dich erwartet:

• Offener Austausch: Ideen teilen, Feedback einholen, Mitstreiter:innen finden – oder einfach einen guten Abend haben
• Co-Creation-Cases und -Formate, quick and dirty live vorgestellt
• Echte Erfahrungen statt Theorie: Was mit deinen Teams, Kund:innen und Partner:innen funktioniert hat – und was nicht

Termin:
Mittwoch, 23. September, 19:00 Uhr
Ort:
📍 Kurfürstenstraße 3, 50678 Köln

Bring deine Ideen mit, dein Format, dein Projekt – oder einfach deine Neugier. Denn am Ende sind wir alle Co-Creators: Zusammen sind wir die Kreativität dieser Stadt!
Noch Fragen? Schreib uns an hallo@superblau.com – wir freuen uns auf dich.
Die Veranstaltung findet auf Deutsch und Englisch statt.

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Co-Create Cologne
(formerly Design Sprint Cologne)

Meet creative, open-minded people in Cologne – and find out what you can create together.

What started as the Design Sprint Cologne community is opening up to every form of (co-)creation - Co-Create Cologne. Creative work gets better when you're not doing it alone. Most of us have skills someone else in the room needs – and a problem someone else has already solved. Our evenings are about finding those overlaps.

Co-Create Cologne is for people who are serious about what they make: designers, developers, founders, facilitators, writers, marketers, musicians, photographers – whether it's your job, your side thing, or the thing you're still figuring out.

What to expect:

• Open conversation: swap ideas, ask for feedback, find collaborators, or just enjoy good company
• Co-creation cases and formats quick and dirty presented live
• Real experiences instead of theory: what worked with your teams, clients, and collaborators – and what didn't

Date:
23rd SEP 7pm

Location:
📍Kurfürstenstraße 3, 50678 Köln

Bring your ideas, your format, your project, or simply your curiosity... Because in the end, we're all co-creating: together we represent the creativity of this city!

Any questions? Write to us at hallo@superblau.com – we're looking forward to meeting you.

The event is hosted in German / English.

Join the AWS User Group Cologne for an evening of cloud-native data engineering, serverless architecture, and real-time AI.

📅 Date: Thursday, 24 September 2026
🕕 Time: 18:00
📍 Location: msg Köln Office
msg systems ag
Erna-Scheffler-Str. 1A
51103 Köln-Kalk
This meetup features two technical sessions from experts at msg systems ag.

Speaker: Alexandra Konovalova
Duration: 20 minutes
Technical level: Level 200 – Advanced users

AWS Lambda is a powerful building block for modern data engineering, but processing large datasets often exposes limitations in execution time, memory, and ephemeral storage.

Using a database-to-Amazon S3 export as a real-world example, Alexandra will present a scalable and resilient serverless architecture built with AWS Lambda and AWS Step Functions.

You’ll learn how the Step Functions Map state enables parallel processing across multiple database tables while efficiently streaming results to Amazon S3. The session also covers architectural patterns, implementation best practices, and lessons learned from building high-performance serverless data pipelines.

Alexandra Konovalova is a Senior Engineer with more than six years of experience building cloud-native data platforms across industries including insurance, banking, and logistics. She owns the end-to-end delivery of technical projects and combines deep hands-on engineering expertise with the ability to communicate complex solutions effectively to stakeholders at all levels.
🔗 Alexandra on LinkedIn
🔗 msg Cloud Data Platform

Speaker: Judith Kelm
Duration: 20 minutes
Technical level: Level 300 – Deep dive

How can SAP business data become the foundation for real-time AI use cases?

Judith will present an event-driven AWS architecture that streams data from SAP Datasphere using Amazon MSK and Amazon Data Firehose, enabling Amazon Bedrock agents to react to business events in real time.

Using a finance-focused example, the session demonstrates how streaming data can help AI agents make better decisions—even when the available business context is incomplete.

Judith Kelm is a Cloud Data Architect at msg systems ag, where she designs scalable enterprise data solutions for complex business environments. Her expertise spans cloud data platforms and solution architecture for analytics and AI use cases.
🔗 msg Data & Analytics

Whether you’re building serverless data pipelines, working with enterprise data platforms, or exploring real-time generative AI, this meetup offers practical architectural insights and lessons from real-world projects.
We look forward to seeing you in Cologne!

Best regards,
Çağdaş, Matthias, Andreas, Johannes

Dear Product People in Cologne,

product careers rarely follow a straight line. Breaking into product for the first time. Moving from an individual contributor role into leadership. Joining a new company. Finding yourself in a new organizational structure. Or simply realizing that the role of a Product Manager itself is changing around you.

Some changes we actively choose. Others happen to us. And often, there’s no obvious playbook for knowing what to do next.

In our upcoming ProductTank Cologne panel, “Navigating career change during uncertain times,” we’ll bring together three product professionals with very different career paths to talk openly about these moments of transition.

Meet our panelists:

• Shehrina brings over 15 years of experience scaling B2B SaaS solutions, currently serving as VP of Product at Beroe, where she's evolving the company's market intelligence platform to help procurement teams turn supplier data into faster decisions. Previously, as VP of Product Management at Everstream Analytics, she helped drive the company's growth from a nascent, DHL-incubated innovation initiative to a market leader in supply chain risk management solutions.
• Marlene brings over 10 years of experience in B2B SaaS product management, currently serving as Director of Product Management at SAP LeanIX, where she leads multiple product managers shaping how organizations collaborate on their enterprise architecture insights. Previously, as Product Owner at Another Monday, she designed a process documentation automation product recognized as "Visionary" by Gartner in 2019, building on earlier roles in IT consulting at Detecon.
• Esjona brings experience building and scaling digital platforms, currently serving as Product Manager Platform at Redcare Pharmacy, where she’s shaping platform products that empower engineering teams to move faster and build at scale. Previously at REWE digital, she navigated multiple roles across engineering and solution architecture, driving scalable platform solutions while bridging technical and business perspectives.

Together, we’ll explore questions many of us face: When is it time to make a move? What changes when you go from IC to leader? How do you navigate organizational change, uncertainty, and self-doubt?
Rather than offering one “right” answer, our panelists will share the choices they made, what challenged them, and what they learned along the way.

And we want to hear from you, too. Through Slido, you’ll be able to share your experiences and questions and help shape the conversation.

Join us to exchange perspectives, ask questions, and connect with fellow curious product people from the Cologne area

Best,
Simonetta, Tim, Dominik, Shehrina & Esjona
Your ProductTank Cologne Team

Der Sommer geht langsam zu Ende – und ich für meinen Teil mache mich wieder ready, produktiv zu werden!

Auch beim letzten Meetup waren wieder viele kreative Köpfe dabei und wir konnten sogar zwei Games gemeinsam testen. Für das nächste Treffen stellt uns das Lost Level einen Big Screen zur Verfügung. Wenn ihr also an einem Spiel arbeitet, nutzt gerne die Gelegenheit und präsentiert es auf dem großen Screen!

Wie immer sind alle willkommen, die sich für Games interessieren – egal ob Game Developer, Artist, Musiker, Storyteller, Filmemacher oder in einem anderen kreativen Bereich unterwegs. Aber auch Organisatoren, Manager und Menschen mit einem finanziellen oder wirtschaftlichen Hintergrund sind herzlich eingeladen, ihre Erfahrungen zu teilen und die Games-Community zu unterstützen.

Gerade in Zeiten wie diesen gilt: Als Indies sind wir gemeinsam stärker.
Natürlich freuen wir uns genauso über Hobby-Entwickler, Studenten und alle, die gerade erst anfangen.

Kommt vorbei, tauscht euch aus, zeigt eure Projekte und lernt neue Leute kennen!

Keep creating.

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Summer is slowly coming to an end—and personally, I’m getting ready to get productive again!

Our last meetup once again brought together lots of creative people, and we even got to playtest two games together. For the next meetup, Lost Level is providing us with a big screen. So if you’re working on a game, feel free to bring it along and take the opportunity to show it off on the big screen!

As always, everyone interested in games is welcome—whether you’re a game developer, artist, musician, storyteller, filmmaker, or working in any other creative field. We also welcome organizers, managers, and people with a financial or business background who are interested in games and want to share their experience with the community.
Especially in times like these: as indies, we’re stronger together.

And of course, hobbyists, students, and people just starting out are more than welcome too.

Come by, connect, share your projects, and meet new people!

Keep creating.

Modern APIs & Production-Ready AI

Join the APIOps Meetup to exchange experiences, hear from our excellent speakers, and connect with peers.

At this meetup, we have two great speakers:

Rilind Harizaj | The Modern API: A Toolset

• As of now, businesses are facing the challenges arisen due to digitalization. One such case is how to effectively create, maintain and instrumentalize APIs. In this talk, Rilind Harizaj will talk about a modern toolset that can help in approaching this challenge.
• Rilind Harizaj is a Fullstack Software Engineer Consultant at Netlight Cologne. He holds an M.Sc. in Information Systems from the University of Münster and previously worked as a Software Developer and BI Analyst. His focus areas include full-stack development, DevOps, cloud-native architecture, and AI – he also recently won a mobility hackathon with an API-driven prototype.

Tim Sevenich | Why AI Doesn't Ship (Yet) - How enterprise move AI into production safely and confidently

• While AI is everywhere, many organizations still struggle to move it into production. In this session, Tim Sevenich explores why AI initiatives often stall before reaching production and shares practical insights from working with leading enterprises – including what it takes to accelerate AI adoption in a secure and compliant way.
• Tim Sevenich has been working in IT for more than 10 years in various roles in consulting, services and software development. He is currently part of Axway's German Solution Architect team with a strong focus on API Management and AI.

This is meant to be a relaxed practitioner meetup — not a conference or sales event — so come as you are and bring your questions and experiences into the discussion.

Schedule:
5:30 PM Doors open
6 PM Welcome from APIOps and Sponsors: Axway & Netlight
6:10 PM Talk 1: The Modern API A Toolset (Rilind Harizaj)
6.55 PM Talk 2: Why AI Doesn't Ship (Yet) (Tim Sevenich)
Discussions, Networking & Pizza
10 PM We finish by 10 PM

The meetup is hosted by Netlight at their Cologne office, with food and drinks kindly sponsored by Axway.

Wir laden dich herzlich zum nächsten Azure Cloud Native Meetup - am Dienstag, 13. Oktober ab 18:30 ein.
Egal wie dein Kenntnisstand ist, jeder ist herzlich Willkommen und kann etwas zu unseren Diskussionen beitragen. Wir freuen uns auf dich.

AGENDA
1️⃣ Bring Your Own Model: GitHub Copilot with Microsoft Foundry, OpenRouter and Local LLMs
🗣️ Matthias Liebeck
➡️ Seit Juni wird jede Copilot-Interaktion token-basiert abgerechnet, und das Modell hinter der Session ist der größte Kostenhebel. Gute Nachricht: Das Modell kannst du selbst wählen. In diesem Talk zeige ich die vier Wege, eigene Modelle in GitHub Copilot einzubinden: direkt beim Anbieter, lokal, über OpenRouter und per Deployment in Microsoft Foundry. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf Foundry: eigener Tenant, eigene Region, Abrechnung als Azure-Verbrauch, und warum der Serverless-Filter im Katalog die wichtigste Entscheidung ist.

📌 Wo: adesso Mobile Solutions; Agrippinawerft 26, 50678 Köln
📅 Wann: 13.10.2026 18:30 Uhr
🥤 Für Getränke und Essen ist vor Ort gesorgt.

For many years we have been organizing a Python discussion group that deals with all kinds of Python related topics. Occasionally we also have talks, but most meetings are open discussions. The topics come from those present and there is an informal atmosphere.

Topic this event: Yours? Bring Topics and Questions.

These meetings are held in German, so you should at least know the basics, although we can certainly answer specific questions in English.

Developers spend enormous effort fixing defects that should never have existed. The root cause is often not poor coding. It is poor requirements.

This presentation introduces Spec-Driven Development, a disciplined engineering approach where precise, security-aware specifications become the foundation for implementation, testing, code review, and AI-assisted development. You'll learn practical techniques for writing requirements that are measurable, verifiable, and resistant to ambiguity, allowing both humans and AI to consistently produce secure software.

Because secure code starts with secure specifications and engineering discipline.

Strive welcomes you to 'Tech and Business Networking', an event for tenured and newcomers at Délirium Café! Event is 18+. Limited Tickets.

Strive welcomes you to 'Tech and Business Networking', Cologne's hottest networking event! We are set in the perfect central location for all to join.

Are you interested in tech and business? Want to elevate your career? Meet Consultants, Analysts of all types, Bankers, Software Engineers, Entrepreneurs, and more who are active in the space or are eager to get started.

**This will be a multi-vertical event**********

There will be professionals with backgrounds in the arts, finance, tech, real estate, healthcare, and more. Come with an open mind, and leave with connections that wouldn't be possible otherwise!

Pack some business cards and come with an open mind!

Meet your future business partners, employers, coworkers, investors, and friends. You don't want to miss this opportunity to expand your network and create a brighter future.

We will have a space for our event to check-in.

The event will go from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM(feel free to come at any point in this timeframe).

Name tags will be provided.

Business casual dress code. Job fair attire.

Remember - it's not about who you know today, it's who you'll meet tomorrow!

We look forward to meeting you at the event!

Sincerely,

Strive Networking Team

Refund requests are permitted up to 24 hours after purchase, so long as we are not within 48 hours before the event start time. Refunds will be made in full and repaid to your method of payment. Note that we are unable to reimburse for eventbrite fees.

Disclaimer: By attending Strive Networking events you agree to photos/videos taken during the event being used to promote future events.

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One day, free event all about mobile development with .NET MAUI!

See https://mauiday.net for all the details. This is an in-person event only. There will be no recordings or live streams. Please only sign up if you are able to join in person.

Seats are limited, please be so friendly and cancel your ticket if you find out you can't make it so we can let other people in. Thank you!

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