Open Source AI Night @ CIC Berlin Sponsored by: Aethos & Foresight
⚡ The Future of AI Isn't Built in Isolation. It’s Built Here.
On June 1st, the builders shaping the next wave of local agents, synthetic user research, and real time meeting intelligence are gathering at CIC Berlin. This is zero fluff, high signal, and pure engineering. We’re bringing you raw code, live demos that might actually break, and the candid, unfiltered playbooks of founders who scaled weekend side projects to 110K monthly active users.
Whether you are a seasoned engineer, an ambitious student researcher, or a founder looking for your next technical breakthrough, this night is curated specifically for you.
📋 The Program
18:00 | Doors Open & Networking
Arrive, grab a cold drink, and connect with the sharpest builders in the Berlin AI community.
18:35 | AxWise: "Simulating People: Feedback Before You Build"
Speaker: Vitalijs Visnevskis (20 min presentation + 10 min Q&A)
The Reality Check: Why guess what to build? 90% of software fails because teams skip user research: it’s just too slow for agile workflows.
The Vision: Transform raw data into interactive "Synthetic Personas." Create a digital twin of your users to identify pain points and test ideas before spending a single euro on development.
The Demo: Watch the AxWise engine identify stakeholders, simulate interviews, and generate traceable insights that surface behavioral patterns instantly.
The Workflow: Learn how founders, PMs, and researchers collaborate to validate ideas directly against their digital user base.
19:05 | Desktop Commander: "From Side Project to 110K MAU"
Speaker Eduard Ruzga ( 20 min presentation + 10 min Q&A)
The Blueprint: How does a side project become a funded startup with 110K monthly active users? Eduard shares the exact playbook for leveraging ecosystems like Smithery and the Claude marketplace to gain massive traction with zero marketing budget.
The Vision: Moving beyond standard "chatbots" to local agents that actually act on your machine.
The Demos:
AI Code Exploration: Generating interactive architecture diagrams from complex codebases.
The Non Developer Win: Organizing messy local file structures via AI.
End to End Control: Connecting system level tools to run multi app business workflows.
Key Takeaway: How to ride an ecosystem wave, stay open source, and scale from a solo developer to a funded team of 8.
19:35 | BREAK
Drinks, conversations, and high density networking.
19:55 | Rhesis.ai: "Testing AI Agents is a Team Sport"
Speaker: Dr. Nicolai Bohn (20 min presentation + 10 min Q&A)
The Problem: Most testing tools only speak to engineers but agent quality is a team sport. Rhesis is bridging the gap between technical output and human judgment.
The Vision: Empowering PMs, domain experts, and compliance reviewers to sit in the same loop as engineers to define scenarios, review failures, and sign off on production releases.
The Demo: Meet Penelope, the conversation simulation agent that runs realistic dialogues against live applications to surface exactly where they break.
The Workflow: See how non technical reviewers shape test scenarios and contribute to release decisions in real time.
20:25 | Vexa.ai (online): "Meetings as a Data Pipeline: How AI Agents Join Your Calls"
Speaker: Dmitry Grankin ( 20 min + 10 min Q&A)
The Problem: Meeting data is unstructured and siloed. Vexa bridges this gap by turning conversations into an accessible data pipeline.
The Vision: A meeting bot infrastructure API where agents seamlessly join Google Meet, Teams, and Zoom to transcribe in real time, interact with participants, and deliver structured data directly into workflows.
The Demo: See a bot join a live call, transcribe the conversation on the fly, and respond dynamically using text-to-speech (TTS).
The Workflow: Discover how organizations leverage self-hosting via Docker and Kubernetes for full data sovereignty (GDPR/HIPAA compliance) and learn what the community is building on top of their open-source (Apache 2.0) foundation.
20:55 | Open Networking
Official program ends: open mingling continues.
22:00 | Event Ends
Doors close and venue wrap up.
👥 Who is this for?
Engineers & Builders who want to see actual, working codebases and live integrations rather than theoretical slide decks.
Founders & Product Managers looking for proven, cost free distribution frameworks to scale their AI applications.
Researchers & AI Enthusiasts interested in local agent orchestration, stochastic testing, and real time meeting APIs.
⚠️ Warning: Space is Strictly Limited
CIC Berlin is an incredible venue, but fire codes are real and capacity is hard capped.
We are aiming for a packed house of Berlin's top builders. Because this event features deep technical demos, open source breakthroughs, and free drinks, tickets will go fast.
If you are serious about AI, open source, and meeting the people actually building the future (not just talking about it): secure your spot right now.
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