Build with AI: Berlin Meetup

📍 Hosted at JetBrains in Berlin by Vanishing Gradients and Explosion

Join us for an exciting gathering of builders, researchers, and curious minds to share insights and connect in person!

🗣️ Talks

• Vibe NLP for Applied NLP
  Ines Montani, spaCy and Explosion
  Discover how to break down complex business problems into useful NLP components while leveraging domain expertise and technical decisions. Ines will demonstrate how coding assistants can aid developers in navigating this process using open-source software. Learn about assistants and MCP servers that help teams plan projects, annotate data, develop rules, train models, and create modular NLP systems that are efficient and data-private.
  The core idea: use LLMs to assist in building the system rather than making the LLM the entire system.

• Building Effective AI Agents Without the Framework Hangover
  Hugo Bowne-Anderson, Vanishing Gradients
  Explore the reality of AI FOMO and how agent frameworks can mislead you into thinking every new feature is essential. Hugo will simplify the practical aspects of an AI agent, including the loop, tools, state, memory, context, traces, and feedback that transform an LLM call into something valuable.
  Understand why agent projects often become overly complex and how to create effective solutions for your users without blindly following general-purpose coding agents.

⚡ Lightning Talks

Show us what you’ve built!
We’ll have five-minute lightning demos showcasing tools, workflows, prototypes, experiments, and even wonderfully unfinished projects. Stick around to chat and exchange ideas!

If you’re interested in giving a lightning talk, please get in touch.