Own Your AI - Event #5
"Own Your AI" is a community event for practitioners who want to run their own AI. We explore the sovereignty of infrastructure, models, and data, and what that means for controlling security, risk, and costs. Our focus is independence from the cloud foundation services and large hyperscalers that dominate the scene.
We are an active community of people who are building AI systems and want to exchange notes with peers who do the same.
Our Mission: Sovereignty • Optimization • Knowledge
Who is this for?
LLM- and Agentic-Engineers, Data Scientists, AI-Platform-Engineers, Hands-on Tech-Leaders
Agenda
📢 Intro: "What's new in October 2026" by Andreas and Andreas A short overview of the latest developments in LLMs and agentic AI over the past five weeks.
🎙️ Practitioner Session: short stories from real projects, each followed by Q&A and discussion.
Thank you to all the practitioners who confirmed their talks, including so many at the last minute! To make room for your contributions, Andreas Petersson's "Cyber Defense Without the Refusal: Abliteration in Practice" will move to our November meetup.
🚀 "ACRYL: the IDE that writes its own plugins" by Alex Muzychenko A live demo of an agentic IDE extending itself without a restart, followed by lessons on reversible plugins, composable apps and agents sharing project context. Slides
🚀 "Privatemode and confidential computing" by Roland Giersig Roland introduces Privatemode and shows how confidential computing lets you use high-performance AI while keeping your data private.
🚀 "One front door for AI models" by Alexander Zeiss (ITSV) Models-as-a-Service on OpenShift AI: why ITSV chose one gateway for internal models, how identity and quotas fit into the architecture, and what is ready for production. Slides
🚀 "Building a real business with Cursor – what works, what breaks, what I never let AI touch" by Ani Devdariani A story from Veyndo, a website platform for small businesses in Vienna built with Cursor and Claude. What worked, what broke, and where to draw the line.
🚀 "Junk AI: building a capable home AI setup" by Daniel Pichler
About 10 minutes on his zip-tied, open home setup versus a datacenter, practical hardware and software isolation, and what he can realistically run locally—from Siri and home-server management to videos and pictures.
🚀 "Foundry: controlled execution for OpenCode agents" by Nikola Stojanović A five-minute demo of how Foundry uses Docker to give OpenCode agents a controlled execution environment with explicit access to local resources, plus collaboration features and one lesson from building it.
🚀 "Twenty AI chats, one window: building ChatDeck" by Ermis Chorinopoulos A live ChatDeck demo with short slides and feature clips, plus three real bugs from using the app every day. AI conversations, terminals and project workspaces in one window. Slides
🚀 "Local document processing with OCR and LLMs" by Andreas Langes An experiment in processing documents locally: OCR workflow, models, what works and where it gets stuck. A non-developer's perspective, with an open invitation to the room to help.
Have a practical story of your own? Get in touch if you would like to contribute.
Format
Local AI Newsroom: what happened in the world of local AI in the past month.
This time: Practitioner Session from 1 min to 15 mins, followed by Q&A
Followed by: Meeting peers and discussing topics - have a drink together
Location: Vienna (in person only. No online attendance)
Finding the room: take the elevator on the left to the 5th floor.
Cadence: Once every month.
Language: English - we appreciate our very international community!
Why in person only? The value is in the hallway conversations, the whiteboard sketches, and the people you meet.
Hosts
Andreas Burner — Management Advisor for AI & Cloud Strategy, Board Advisor, and Court-Certified Expert. 25+ years in global enterprise technology. BurnerNet.com
Andreas Petersson — Technology Advisor and Founder of Capacity. Two decades of experience building and auditing decentralised, security-critical systems. Capacity.at
Registration
Seats are limited — we deliberately keep the session small so that discussion and networking actually work. Register here via Luma. You'll receive the exact location, the final speaker line-up, and the agenda well in advance of the event.
Own the stack. Own the data. Own the future.