

appliedAI Developers Meetup @ Munich
The era of AI demos is over. The Munich AI Nexus is a senior-level meetup series for architects and engineers solving real-world production AI challenges.
At the Kickoff: During the 'From Hack to Scale' session, we asked: 'What’s actually breaking AI in production?'
The results were clear:
42% said 'context' is the most overlooked architectural layer,
41% flagged 'data quality and chaos' as their biggest blocker.
MEETUP FOCUS:
Theme: "Context – From Data Chaos to Clarity"
This module focuses on transforming raw, fragmented data into structured, trustworthy context for AI systems.You can't automate what you don't understand. Agents without clarity are just more expensive hallucinations.
Upvote the topic-related issues you find the most interesting.
Read on here to discover the 9 themes for our upcoming meetups and the final scope of our Production Readiness Blueprint.
SUBMIT YOUR CASE:
Share your toughest "Data & Context" challenge (even rough!)
Examples:
Keeping customer context consistent across dozens of systems (CRM, ERP, ticketing)
Enforcing GDPR/PII compliance in multi-tenant RAG without killing personalization
Debugging and auditing contextual reasoning so compliance teams trust outputs
AGENDA
18:00 - 18:05 - Welcome
18:05 - 18:15 Recap & Opening
Survey recap: 42 % flagged context as the most overlooked layer; 41 % cited data chaos as the top blocker.
Focus for tonight: moving from hacky demos to scalable, trustworthy AI.
18:15 – 18:45 - Talk 1: Daniel Töws, codecentric AG - LLMs vs. Messy Data – Lessons from the Trenches
Chaotic CSVs → structured data: 30 K attributes, iterative refinement, and Pydantic.
Agentic Data Buddy: navigating 7 K tables to answer “Why aren’t these pants selling?” — balancing speed vs. trust.
Open question: Can we trust LLM-generated analysis at scale?
18:45 – 19:15 - Talk 2: Alexander K, Horsch - plot-RAG (pRAG): Visualizing & Optimizing RAG Performance – Smarter RAG Evaluation
Visualizing retrieval bottlenecks to optimize speed and accuracy.
Synthetic datasets that rival manual evaluation — GPTMB 2025 Best Paper Award.
Formula: defining the optimal retrieval window for performance vs. precision.
19:15 – 19:45 - Discussion: Debugging Context in Production
Case study: data silos, compliance, and trust.
Stakeholder POV: cultural friction — “We’ve always done it manually.”
Audience: upvote and discuss top “Data & Context” challenges.
19:45 – 20:00 - Closing & Next Steps & Networking
Submit your toughest challenge for the Production Readiness Blueprint.
Preview next meetup: Behavior – From Heuristics to Planning.
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.
Codecentric AG develops software solutions for the future, something everyone of our 500+ employees in each of our 13 locations in Germany is passionate about.