Tech Events in Bern

Dear members and friends,

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

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

Here’s what we have lined up for you:

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

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

We look forward to seeing you there!

Best regards,
Your Meetup Organizers

Dear Azure User Group Bern Members,

In a collaboration meetup with many Microsoft MVP colleagues from Switzerland we are announcing the next meetup which will be fully packed with GitHub Copilot sessions!

First session: "Bring GitHub Copilot to your app: real integrations with GitHub Copilot SDK"

Most developers know GitHub Copilot as an assistant inside their editor. But with the GitHub Copilot SDK, you can integrate those capabilities directly into your own applications.
In this session, we build a real application that embeds Copilot as a functional component. We will see how to define tools, connect APIs, and let Copilot plan and execute tasks inside your software.

Speaker: Emanuele Bartolesi MVP

Second session: "How to debug real world applications using GitHub Copilot"

The session shows how GitHub Copilot can be used in real world applications to solve bugs, improve performance and enlighten how to get the most out of the tool.

Speaker: Cédric Mendelin MVP, Damien Bowden MVP, Marc Rufer MVP

AGENDA 📅

• 📢 17:50 Start of the event, welcome & meet and greet
• 📢 18:00 - 18:50 Session "Bring GitHub Copilot to your app: real integrations with GitHub Copilot SDK"
• 📢 19:05 - 19:55 Session "How to debug real world applications using GitHub Copilot"
• 🍕 About 20:00 Pizza and drinks
• 🌜 Approx. 21:00 End of the event

The event is free and open to all interested parties. The session will be held in English. With your registration you agree to the Azure Tech Groups code of conduct.

Please reserve a seat and cancel it if you don't make it to the Meetup. Thanks a lot!

On 07. May 2026, we are excited to welcome you to another Event Streaming Meetup in Bern. We will meet at SPOUD, Belpstrasse 39, for inspiring talks.

Registration via: https://luma.com/x1u1pn7y

​Agenda:

​16:45: Doors open
​17:00: Welcome
​17:10: Kafka Self-Service at Scale – Patterns, Pitfalls, and Proven Solutions
(Simon Hofer, SPOUD)
→ Learn how to design Kafka self-service that scales without sacrificing governance or security. This talk shares real-world patterns, common pitfalls, and proven approaches from multiple organisations.
​17:50: How a German Manufacturer Scaled Kafka
(Fabian Schmitzer, Conduktor)
→ Discover how a global manufacturer overcame Kafka bottlenecks by introducing observability, governance and safe self-service, enabling scalable data and AI use cases across factories.
​18:30: Central Management of Topic Replication with AI
(Anke Raich, Swisspost)
​19:10: Networking & Apéro

We are looking forward to welcoming you. See you soon!
​This event is sponsored by Conduktor. Thanks a lot for supporting the community!

Schedule

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

Our Guests

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

Moderator: Wayne Maurer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Am Dienstag, 12. Mai 2026 dürfen wir euch zu einem weiteren Cloud Native Meetup in Bern begrüssen. Es erwarten uns bei der Adnovum in Bern zwei spannende Talks!

16:30 – Türöffnung
17:00 – Begrüssung
17:05 - Orchestrating enterprise infrastructure from a single Cloud Native Control Plane (Angelo Gargiulo, Cyrill Näf, Bank Julius Bär)
Join us as we share Bank Julius Bär's transformative automation journey that began in 2018, when manually deploying a single application environment took weeks. We'll trace our evolution from basic server deployment automation to our current distributed cloud-native control plane known as Fleet Commander.
Our automation journey began by introducing VMware vRealize Automation for server deployments, expanding to databases, container platforms, and other services published on our "IT Shop" portal. As demand increased, our centralized team became a bottleneck, and our hybrid cloud strategy required a new approach.
We implemented a distributed responsibility model where technical teams manage their own automation within architectural guardrails. However, limitations in state management and infrastructure-as-code capabilities led us to develop Fleet Commander—a cloud-native control plane for both on-premise and public cloud environments.
This session explores how we're using Kubernetes and Crossplane to build a scalable automation framework with GitOps-first infrastructure provisioning. We'll cover the architecture patterns that enable unified automation interfaces through a Kubernetes-like API while supporting diverse infrastructure requirements and day 1/day 2 operations.
Audience Takeaways:
• Architecture patterns for building distributed automation systems on Kubernetes
• Approaches to scaling automation capabilities using Crossplane
• Strategies for implementing GitOps workflows in automation platforms
• Methods for creating unified automation interfaces across different infrastructure domains
• Real-world insights from our evolution to a distributed automation model
• Technical implementation of a cloud-native control plane for hybrid environments
17:45 – Pause
17:55 - Adnovum Managed Services on Azure - Our Road to Implementation (Daniel Hogg, Vitor Bernardo, Adnovum)
This session walks through Adnovum's path towards implementing managed services on Azure. We review the strategic goals that shaped our approach, the technical and organizational challenges we encountered along the way, and the key insights we gained through the process.
As a closing perspective, we explore how this initiative connects to the broader topic of digital sovereignty—and what that means in the Swiss context.
18:35 - Apéro

Wir freuen uns riesig, euch wieder bei uns zu begrüssen und gemeinsam in den Feierabend zu starten. Bis bald!
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Wer selbst einen Talk an einem unserer Meetups halten möchte, ist herzlich eingeladen, die Organisator*innen zu kontaktieren. Wir sind auch immer auf der Suche nach Sponsor*innen fürs Hosting und Catering.

Are you experiencing friction with stakeholders? Wishing for more clarity about your role or goals? Whether you are leading a team of PMs or working as an individual contributor, don't miss this chance to make a difference in your organization!

We are exited to welcome Arne Kittler in Bern for his insightful talk on

Clarity for Product Leaders

As PMs, we can only succeed in collaboration with others. And successful collaboration is only possible when there's enough clarity about each other's roles, our direction and how to shape our collaboration.
This is why clarity is the number one superpower that distinguishes strong product people from the rest. And to truly benefit from the current promises of AI, clarity is more important than ever.
In this talk, Arne introduces a mental model to look at different layers of clarity that we need in product.
He will show you how to identify a lack of clarity in each of these layers and give you actionable tips for increasing clarity for yourself and the people around you, whether you are an Individual Contributor or a Product Leader.
The bottom-line of this talk is that everyone of us can help to bring more clarity to our product work - and this talk will show you how.

A big thank you to our sponsors 89grad and Securiton.

Successful innovations call for courage and the willingness to tread new paths
With the knowledge gained from decades of research and development (F&E) and the experience gained from the operation of products and systems installed around the world, Securiton ensures the security of tomorrow. We develop our core products in Switzerland with our nearshoring and farshoring hubs in Portugal and India and in close cooperation with the other F&E competence centres of the Swiss Securitas Group in Germany and Austria. We also rely on close cooperation with national and international innovation partners. When it comes to product provision, we work according to agile methods and with state-of-the-art technologies, architectures and tools. In doing so, we consistently focus on market requirements and customer needs.

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

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

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

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

Join us for a special hands-on edition of the Applied AI Journal Club this May. We will explore the open-source automation tool n8n, building our own AI agents and discussing practical use cases.

🕓 Agenda
17:25 Arrival and get-together
17:30 Welcome and short introduction
17:35 Hands-on n8n & Discussion potential Use Cases
18:50 Wrap-up and open exchange
19:00 End of event

📘 Preparation
Please bring your own laptop with n8n already installed (local or cloud version). Ensure you are able to configure and set up your own workflows before the session starts.

Note: There will be no formal presentation and introduction. Instead, we will work together to get our hands dirty with n8n, sharing ideas and troubleshooting in real-time.

📍 Location & Registration

• We are welcomed at the inpeek AG office (Bogenschützenstrasse 9) in the PostParc building next to the train station.
• Due to the limitations of meetup.com (we don’t pay for additional capacity), the event is limited to 10 participants. If you don’t secure an ordinary spot, just join the waitlist—you’ll still be very welcome! This helps us plan and know how many people to expect.
• The event will be held in english

Questions? Please reach out to Fabian Hüni.

Hello Bärner Go Community

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

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

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

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

Additional Talk(s) - TBD

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

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

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

Hope to see you there!