Growth Hacking Berlin

Digital Marketing over Breakfast Berlin #97

​"Digital Marketing over Breakfast" is Berlin’s longest-running roundtable for growth-minded marketers (since 2018!)! ​ Hungry for fresh ideas—and honest feedback—on your current marketing challenge(s)? Join fellow marketers over coffee & croissants to trade solutions for real-world growth problems. ​No slide decks, no sales pitches—just open conversation and actionable takeaways. Pull up a chair, bring your toughest issue, and help others tackle theirs. ​See you at the breakfast table! ​P.S. We speak German and English, usually the conversion will be in English ​About us: * ​Matteo Savio (Digital Ideas): passionate growth hacker with more than 10 years of experience in the implementation of data-driven marketing processes * ​Tobias Braam (Swell Growth Marketing): marrying product & marketing for over 15 years as growth strategist. Ex Amazon & eBay ​(DE) ​„Digital Marketing over Breakfast“ ist Berlins ältester Roundtable für growth-minded Marketer (seit 2018!)! ​Hungrig nach frischen Ideen - und ehrlichem Feedback zu deinen aktuellen Marketing-Challenges? Tausch dich mit anderen Marketern bei Kaffee & Croissants über Lösungen für reale Growth-Challenges aus. ​ Keine Präsentationsfolien, keine Sales Pitches - nur offene Gespräche und actionable take-aways. Hol dir einen Stuhl, bring die größten Probleme mit und hilf anderen bei der Lösung Ihrer. ​ Wir sehen uns beim Frühstück! ​P.S. Wir sprechen Deutsch und Englisch, in der Regel kommunizieren wir in Englisch

Walk & Connect 🍂 Meet People Who Care About Personal Growth

**Meet new people. Have meaningful conversations. Create genuine connections.** **This is more than just a walk — it’s a guided experience designed to help you connect beyond small talk.** With thoughtful questions, guided partner changes and a gentle structure, you’ll have an easy way to really get to know new people. 💸 **Contribution in cash: €4, €6 or €10 — choose the amount that feels right for you.** **Craving more meaningful connections in Berlin?** Maybe you’ve been wanting to meet new people, expand your social circle, or simply have conversations that go beyond small talk. Maybe you’re interested in personal growth, spirituality, and authentic encounters — but find it difficult to meet like-minded people in everyday life. **This walk is for you.** Join us for a relaxed autumn afternoon in beautiful **Treptower Park**, where we create space to meet new people and connect on a deeper level. You’ll walk in pairs and be given thoughtful questions to explore together. The questions are designed to make it easy to start a conversation and gradually move beyond the usual surface-level topics — inviting curiosity, openness and genuine exchange. After a while, the pairs will change, so you’ll have the chance to meet several different people throughout the walk. **The conversations might touch on:** ✨ personal growth and life experiences ✨ dreams, values and what truly matters to you ✨ spirituality and your inner world ✨ relationships, connection and belonging ✨ joy, curiosity and what makes life meaningful There’s no pressure to be profound or vulnerable. Simply come with an open mind and a willingness to meet someone new. As we walk, we’ll enjoy the beautiful autumn atmosphere of Treptower Park, while having conversations that you might not normally have with a stranger. **Come alone or come with a friend.** Either way, you’ll be intentionally mixed into new pairs throughout the experience, giving you the opportunity to connect with people you may never have met otherwise. This event is especially for people who are **curious about life, interested in personal development or spirituality, and looking to build new, authentic connections.** 🕒 **Schedule** * Arrival: 2:00 – 2:15 pm **(please be on time, as we’ll be leaving the meeting point).** * We will be back at the meeting point at 4:15 pm 📍 **Location:** Exit S-Treptower Park, at the Klingende Blume installation [Click here for the exact spot on Google Maps](https://maps.app.goo.gl/qD3VP8BNEmog3b9z7) 💬 **Language:** English 📲 **Telegram group for updates & connection:** [Join here](https://t.me/+2SJdbZ4jcSVlZTVi)

Graphs Gone Wild - Mini Hack

Graphs Gone Wild is for people experimenting with AI agents, memory, documents, graphs, MCP, and new developer tooling. Use whatever stack you like: Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, your own agent setup, frameworks, databases, models, or something completely experimental. For this NODES 2026 pop-up, Neo4j will provide some of the building blocks, including Document Intelligence, Aura MCP, knowledge graphs, and Agent Memory. More tools, technologies, and partners will be revealed soon. The goal: build something interesting in a few hours. It does not need to be polished. A working experiment and a good demo are enough. What can you build? Anything around agents, connected knowledge, memory, documents, tools, or graphs. Some ideas: * Turn documents into knowledge an agent can explore * Give an agent persistent or contextual memory * Build an agent that reasons across connected data * Combine RAG with knowledge graphs * Connect agents to tools through MCP * Experiment with multi-agent workflows * Bring your own dataset and graph it * Build something weird that nobody asked for Things to play with * Neo4j Aura for connected data and knowledge graphs * Neo4j Document Intelligence for turning documents into structured knowledge * Aura MCP for connecting agents and AI applications to Neo4j * Neo4j Agent Memory for persistent memory and connected context * More partners and tools to be revealed These are starting points, not requirements. What should you bring? * Your laptop * Your preferred coding agent or AI development environment * API keys for the models and services you use * An idea, dataset, or documents if you have something to explore Or just show up and find something to build. Who is this for? AI engineers, developers, founders, researchers, product builders, designers, and anyone experimenting with coding agents. You do not need Neo4j experience. You should be comfortable experimenting with code, APIs, and AI tools. What counts as success? A small prototype. A weird experiment. A useful workflow. An unexpected result. Or a demo that makes somebody say, "Wait, what?" Build something. Show it. Share what you learned.

Let’s Play Backgammon! - Play, Socialize & Have Fun

Join our Backgammon Meetup to play, socialize, and enjoy this classic game! Everyone’s welcome! Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced player. Expect fun, friendly games, laughter, and new friends. 👉 Please RSVP only if you plan to attend. 👉 Bring your own set if you have one. *** **How to Play (Quick Guide):** * Each player has 15 checkers and moves them toward their home board. * Dice rolls decide how many spaces you can move. * Land on an opponent’s single checker to send it to the bar. * Once all your checkers are home, start bearing off (removing them). * First to remove all checkers wins! *** **Fun Fact:** The Origin of Backgammon: Backgammon is one of the oldest known board games, with roots deeply embedded in the ancient civilisations of Mesopotamia. But it is in Persia, where the game truly flourished and evolved into what we now know as 'Takhte Nard'. Archaeological findings suggest that early forms of backgammon were played in Iran over 5,000 years ago. Artifacts such as game boards and dice have been discovered in sites like 'Shahr-e Sukhteh' (The Burnt City), indicating the game’s ancient origins.

Don't eat alone lunch #100 (in Fhain)

🌟 Join us for **"Don't Eat Alone"** – an event designed to transform your lunch break into a social feast! **Tired of solitary meals in front of the computer?** **Thriving to meet some new people and curious what it may bring to your life?** Just come, check and enjoy a delicious meal with friendly faces. Connect with like-minded individuals, engage in conversations, and make your lunchtime a memorable social experience. Mark your calendar, bring your appetite, and let's build connections, one meal at a time! 🍽️🤝✨ PAYMENTS: the meetup is free, but everyone pays for their meals. Here you can pay by card easily.

Black & POC LGBTQ+ Fall Feast 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🍁

Berlin Startup & Founders - Meet, talk & pitch your challenge/ideas

**Get-together for founders, startups and people interested in entrepreneurship** **Just want to join and have an easygoing evening? Absolutely.** This is a casual get-together and nothing you need to prepare for, just come along. **Got something you'd like feedback on? Even better.** We'll open up a few spots for anyone who wants to bring a real business challenge, idea or decision ("Pitch your challenge") and get fresh perspectives from the collective intel :) **Pitch Your Challenge** is an interactive meetup for business owners, founders, freelancers and leaders who want to work on real challenges ... not just exchange business cards. **How it works** Selected participants bring a real challenge they're currently facing. First, we spar with you live by asking questions, challenging assumptions and helping you get to the core of the problem. Then we open it to the room and add perspectives, experience and ideas from the group. One challenge. Multiple perspectives. A clearer next move. **Your hosts** Belinda Faust is a Focus Agent combining organisational change and mental training to spot patterns others miss. Supporting leaders in turning complexity into clear action by creating room for both personal and business growth. Andrii Zhykhariev is an entrepreneur with a product design background who brings a structured, customer-focused perspective to business problems. He helps challenge assumptions, uncover the core of a problem and turn complex situations into practical next steps. Together, we help entrepreneurs challenge their thinking and make better decisions when the answer isn't obvious. **What can you bring?** Anything that's genuinely on your mind right now, for example: \*a difficult business decision * growth or positioning \*leadership or team challenges * priorities and focus \*a situation where you're going in circles Want to put your own challenge to the test? Let us know when you join the event. Or simply come along, contribute your perspective and see how other entrepreneurs approach difficult decisions. **The Mission** 18:30 \| DOORS OPEN & ARRIVAL Come in, meet the room and get to know who’s around. **19:00 \| START: MISSION BRIEFING** We set the scene, explain the format and get ready to put the first challenge to the test. 19:10 \| LIVE CASES \- CHALLENGE SPARRING Selected participants bring their challenge into the room and we investigate together, have conversations and make new connections. 21:00 \| Closing round and \(more\) open networking\, if you feel like it\. Click the join button here on Meetup and we are looking forward to seeing you there! Andrii and Belinda A special thanks to CISpace for making this event possible: [www.instagram.com/cispacecoworking](www.instagram.com/cispacecoworking)

How to Build AI Products for a Changing Market

Every bet you make in AI has a shelf life measured in months, not years. What you’re right about today, you may have to rethink by next quarter. ​For our **first community meetup at [Superhuman](https://superhuman.com/)'s new Berlin hub at Das Center**, we’re excited to welcome Ailian Gan, Head of Agents at Superhuman, to share what she’s learned from building AI products in a market that keeps changing. **✅ To attend the event**, please **register** **on Luma**: https://luma.com/uiiujjn1 ​💬 **About the talk** ​Building AI products means getting comfortable with change. New capabilities emerge, user expectations shift, and the assumptions behind your roadmap don’t stay true for long. ​Superhuman knows this firsthand. The company has grown from Grammarly’s AI writing assistant into a multi-product suite of apps and agents for productivity—all in a market that continues to evolve. Drawing on her experience building AI products at Superhuman, Ailian will share how she thinks about **spotting emerging user needs, deciding when to build before the opportunity is obvious, and using what you learn after launch to decide what comes next.** ​It’s about learning to build this way on purpose—making product decisions when the signals are incomplete, opinions compete, and understanding that what works today may not work tomorrow. 🎙️ **About the speaker:** **[Ailian Gan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ailiangan/?utm_source=luma)** i*s Head of Agents at Superhuman. She leads teams building proactive AI agents that work across millions of apps and websites, helping people write, plan, research, organize, and move work forward. Ailian has deep product experience building AI-powered products for communication and productivity. She is also a founding board member of Women Defining AI, a nonprofit focused on closing the gender gap in AI through community-based learning. Originally from Singapore, Ailian spent more than a decade in Silicon Valley before recently relocating to Berlin.* ⏱️ **Agenda** ​**18:00–18:30** — Doors open \| Drinks and light bites **18:30–19:30** — Talk and Q&A with Ailian Gan **19:30–20:30** — Food, drinks, and networking 👋 **Registration and attendance** This meetup is designed for **experienced product managers, engineers, and engineering leaders interested in building AI products** in a fast-changing market. Capacity is limited, and confirmations will be prioritized for professionals with relevant experience in this area. **✅ To attend the event**, please **register** **on Luma**: https://luma.com/uiiujjn1 Please note that **only guests with a confirmed Luma registration will be admitted**. Due to limited capacity, we won’t be able to accommodate attendees who haven't registered. 📍 **Location** ​We’ll meet at Superhuman’s new Berlin hub at Das Center, Potsdamer Platz. Once a cinema in the former Sony Center, the space has been transformed into a modern hub for AI development. It’s also opening its doors for meetups and events, bringing people from Berlin’s tech community together to exchange ideas and connect.

Lerne Reden zu halten und Menschen zu begeistern | Berliner Rhetorikmeister

Pipelines, Privacy & the Collector Fleet: Real-Time Data Done Right

Join us for an evening with two talks, one theme: data flowing at scale — and handling it responsibly. From architecting your OpenTelemetry Collector fleet across edge-to-gateway topologies, to protecting PII in real-time Kafka pipelines — practical patterns, live demos, and a few privacy war stories along the way. Food and drinks on us — stick around after for networking. ✍️ RSVP soon — capacity is limited! 📅 **Date and Time** Thursday, October 15, 2026 from 18:00-20:45 📍 **Location** [EBCONT office, beyond Quartier Heidestrasse, 34, 10557 Berlin](https://maps.app.goo.gl/aQGPgteqhQ2yrmx96) 📝 **Agenda** 18:00 – Doors open, arrivals and check-in 18:20 – Welcome note by EBCONT 18:30 – **Keeping data private in real-time pipelines** by [Olena Kutsenko](https://www.linkedin.com/in/olenakutsenko/), Confluent *Real-time data — clicks, payments, messages — is full of personal information we're not supposed to leak. The challenge: how do we keep streaming data useful and safe at the same time?* *We'll explore practical privacy protection patterns in streaming systems using Kafka, Flink, and Iceberg — from masking and tokenizing PII, to why "anonymous" data often isn't, to techniques like k-anonymity and noise injection. With real-world deanonymization stories and live demos included.* 19:00 – Q&A & quick break 19:15 – **From Edge to Gateway: architecting your OpenTelemetry Collector deployment** by [Marcin "Perk" Stożek](https://www.linkedin.com/in/perk-marcin-stozek/), Elastic *As OpenTelemetry adoption scales, the Collector becomes your observability backbone — but deploying it effectively means knowing what to run and where.* *We'll cover the full Collector fleet lifecycle: demystifying binaries (standard, EDOT, and custom OCB builds), mapping deployment topologies from edge agents to centralized gateways, and tackling fleet management at scale — from static configs to dynamic orchestration with OpAMP.* 19:45 – Pizza, drinks & networking \*\*\* Invite your friends and join us for an evening of learning and networking with fellow engineers and speakers! Thank you to **EBCONT** for hosting us!

ARC Live

**ARC Probefahrt Berlin** **Richtung weg? Alles zu viel?** **2 Live-Probefahrten. Echte Themen. Gute Gespräche.** Manchmal ist der Plan da. Der Wille auch. Aber die Richtung ist weg. Oder alles scheint gleichzeitig wichtig und dringend. Genau dafür gibt es die **ARC Probefahrt**. Am 14. Oktober machen wir ARC in Berlin live erlebbar. Nach einem kurzen Einstieg erleben wir zwei ARC Probefahrten live. Danach ist Zeit zum Austausch und Kennenlernen. Kein Vortrag. Keine Fallstudie. Kein Pitch. Stattdessen arbeiten wir mit echten Themen aus dem Raum. Zwei Menschen können jeweils eine aktuelle Entscheidung, Veränderung, Idee oder offene Frage mitbringen. Eine Probefahrt dauert ungefähr 25 bis 30 Minuten. Wir schauen gemeinsam darauf: Was verändert sich gerade? Was hilft? Was bremst? Wo soll es hingehen? Was ist der nächste sinnvolle Schritt? Du musst kein eigenes Thema mitbringen. Du kannst einfach zuschauen, mitdenken, andere Menschen kennenlernen und danach ins Gespräch kommen. ARC musst du vorher nicht kennen. Und du musst nichts vorbereiten. **Für Unternehmer:innen, Selbstständige, Führungskräfte, Coaches, Berater:innen, Projektverantwortliche und alle, die Veränderung gestalten.** **Mittwoch, 14. Oktober 2026** **18:30 Uhr** **Berlin** **JuggleHUB** Kostenfrei. **Richtung weg? Alles zu viel?** Dann komm vorbei. Lerne Menschen kennen, erlebe ARC live und nimm neue Perspektiven für deinen nächsten Schritt mit.

n8n In The Loop 2026

Bringing together the builders, leaders, and decision-makers shaping the future of automation. This is a full day event. Check registration page for ticket pricing. [Register here.](https://n8n.io/intheloop/?utm_source=meetup&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=2026_in_the_loop&utm_content=ecosystemday#register) Learn from speakers from Vercel, Mercedes-Benz, Qdrant, Bosch, SAP and many more, plus directly from the n8n team building the platform. [Get the full agenda](https://n8n.io/intheloop/agenda/?utm_source=meetup&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=2026_in_the_loop&utm_content=ecosystemday). **What you'll learn:** For the people designing and shipping automations: * Structure systems that are easy to understand, reuse, and change * Anticipate failure and control what happens when things break * Hold probabilistic AI to deterministic rules and human oversight * Keep workflows fast and affordable as volume grows * Explain unexpected behavior and keep it from coming back * Connect across your entire stack, from modern AI services to legacy systems For the people operating n8n as core infrastructure: * Grow the people, practices, and proof behind a lasting internal automation program * Tune infrastructure performance as demand grows * Harden n8n to meet your security and compliance bar * Set policy that holds as more people build * Manage change to business-critical workflows without breaking them * Navigate execution data to find the cause of unexpected results Expect rich conversations, talks, hands-on activations, and that rare community vibe where builders actually connect. Hope to see you there!