​The Munich AI Nexus is a senior-level meetup series for architects and engineers solving real-world production AI challenges.

​Why This Exists?

​We noticed something: most AI meetups show you the shiny demo. Nobody talks about why your model works in staging but crashes in prod at 2am. Or why your data pipeline is held together with duct tape and prayers.

​So we built something different. Nine meetup sessions covering the stuff that actually breaks.

​The result? The Production Readiness Blueprint - an open-source collection of patterns that actually helped someone ship something.

​MEETUP FOCUS:

• ​Theme: State: Persistence for Resilience

  • ​How do you build AI systems that remember, recover, and replay?

​WHO THIS IS FOR:

• ​AI engineers

• ​AI architects

• ​ML platform teams

• ​Applied AI leads

• ​Builders working beyond PoCs

​If you’re operating agent systems in production, it is.

​HOW YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE:

​Share your related personal challenge, lesson learned.
Read more about each session's goal.

​AGENDA:

• ​🎤Talk #1: Hande Kafkas, Founding Growth Engineer, cognee + David Louis Hollembaek, Engineering Senior Management, Veeva Systems

  • ​Memory that Learns: What Agents Are Still Missing: Search has been working on versions of the context problem for decades. Many of those lessons carry over to today’s agent systems. But most agent memory today still behaves like retrieval: store context, search context, inject context. What’s still missing is memory that improves across runs.

• ​🎤Talk #2: Dr. Simon Stieber, Senior AI Engineer, Xitaso

  • ​State & Harnesses: Why Agents Need More Than Better Models. The same model can perform very differently depending on the harness around it. For coding agents, this means state management becomes part of the system’s intelligence: context, checkpoints, recovery, observability, and replay all shape the final outcome.

• ​🧩Group Challenge: We'll present a simplified multi-step AI workflow that works under ideal conditions and breaks under real ones. Your task is not to fix the code but to design a state layer around it. <read more>

​FORMAT:

• ​production system walkthroughs

• ​architectural decision breakdowns

• ​interactive discussion around real failure modes

​EVENT LOCATION:

​Celonis, Theresienstraße 4, 80333 München

​-> Walk straight away from the entrance until the end of the hall, where you will see the office entrance close to the reception desk.

• ​Host: Asaad Almutareb [founder of artiquare, appliedAI Developers MUC Meetup Curator]

• ​The appliedAI Developers bring together engineers, researchers and tech leaders solving real-world AI challenges through knowledge exchange and collaboration.

• ​Hosted by celonis