CEO Roundtables Berlin

Founders Meet & Greet

🚀 Founders Meet & Greet is back! Looking to connect with ambitious people, exchange ideas, and become part of Berlin's vibrant startup ecosystem? Join us for another evening of meaningful conversations, new connections, and inspiring encounters at **The Castle Pub**. Whether you're building a startup, freelancing, exploring a new idea, or simply looking to meet like-minded people, this event is for you. No formal agenda. No awkward networking. Just genuine conversations, shared experiences, and a community of people who love building and creating. Every event brings together founders, entrepreneurs, creatives, developers, marketers, and professionals from different industries — creating the perfect environment for unexpected opportunities and collaborations. 📅 11.07.2026 ⏰ 17:00 – 20:00 📍 The Castle Pub Because sometimes one conversation is all it takes to change your journey 🚀🤝 Come alone. Leave with new connections. For more information and updates about our events, check out the link below: [https://linktr.ee/Growfirma](https://linktr.ee/Growfirma)

Sunday Tech Coffee Meetup

Welcome to Sunday Tech Coffee. This is a **networking** event for those in the tech industry in Berlin. We are usually inside and to the right. Ask the barista/bartender if you can't find us.

Co-Founder finden

Bei diesem Termin wollen wir versuchen, Mitstreiter und Mitbegründer zu finden. Es wäre in diesem Fall sehr ratsam schon mal vorher den Businessplan mir zuzuschicken, damit ich schon vorher schauen kann, ob jemand passen könnte. For this meeting, we will try to find potential collaborators and co-founders. In this case, it would be highly advisable to send me your business plan in advance so that I can review it beforehand and determine whether there might be a suitable match among potential candidates.

EXUSG Meetup Q2 2026

Pitch & Feedback #3 for founders and freelancers

**Pitch & Feedback #3** Looking for honest feedback, fresh perspectives, and valuable connections? ​Skip the feeds and join the conversation. Pitch & Feedback is an interactive session where founders, freelancers, business owners, creatives, and curious minds share ideas, explore business challenges, and receive practical feedback from the group. *Want to present?* Bring what you're working on, or where you're stuck. Get fresh perspectives, honest feedback and actionable next steps. Presentation spots are limited. Apply here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd97VL_UczfiqObd2gxAfBcg1u8PJ-9eanHGPl1aINCpBQTLQ/viewform **Who should attend?** 🎤 Presenters Anyone building or growing a business, project, service, creative initiative, or seeking input on a current challenge. → Please sign up via the FORMS! 👥 Participants Anyone passionate about business, entrepreneurship, creativity, collaboration, or simply meeting interesting people. Just click “participate” here on meetup and show up :)). No previous experience needed. **Agenda:** 18:00 – Doors open ​18:15 - Short Guided networking starter 18:35/45 - Pitches & Feedback 20:30 - End of event & open conversations​ ​Timeline might adapt to current set-up. **What you get** * Get close to real ideas and challenges - whether you're presenting or contributing from the audience. * New perspectives & jumping straight into the conversion ... without algorithms, endless scrolling, or waiting for replies. * Discover new insights and ways of thinking beyond your own bubble. * Meet people you probably wouldn't have crossed paths with otherwise.​ Ah yeah, and we forgot one: ​HAVING FUN : **)** **Session Details** **📅 Monday, 20.07.2026** **🕕 18:00 – 20:30h** **📍 CI Space \| Bugenhagenstraße 9** Hosts: Erik & Belinda Presenter spots are limited: 4 presenter spots (!) To support the venue and help us keep the event running, join us with a **5€ ticket** (same ticket for presenters and participants). It includes the full event **plus one drink**. Not sure if you can make it? No worries, you can still book your ticket on the day of the event. Looking forward to seeing your ideas and projects come to life. Belinda & Erik \-\-\-\- About us & more: Feel free to connect: ​Erik [ https://www.linkedin.com/in/erik-hansen-488705180/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/erik-hansen-488705180/) Belinda [ https://www.linkedin.com/in/befaust/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/befaust/) ​​ ​Any questions about the event? If you have any doubt or question, please contact us via LinkedIn. This helps us keep all communication in one place. ​ Need a business invoice? If you need a business invoice (including VAT details, where applicable), please contact Belinda after booking.

Quality Engineering meetup

*Join us for a Meetup on Quality Engineering at Deutsche Bank Berlin Technology Centre!* *We’re bringing you three deep-dive talks: all designed to challenge the way you think about quality, testing, and collaboration.* *As always, expect great conversations, snacks, and drinks. See you there!* **AGENDA** **1\. Olga Bokova @ Deutsche Bank: *Testing the Nanoseconds: A Decade of High-Frequency Trading QA Evolution*** High-frequency trading systems operate at the edge of technology, where latency is measured in nanoseconds and every delay can translate directly into financial impact. In this environment, traditional QA approaches quickly break down, e.g. functional correctness alone is no longer enough. In this talk, Olga will share a real-world journey of how QA evolved over the past decade within high-performance trading systems. We’ll explore the challenges of testing ultra-low latency platforms, handling massive market data streams, and ensuring deterministic behaviour in highly distributed environments. Olga will walk us through how fragmented testing approaches led to inefficiency, duplication, and scalability issues, and how they transitioned toward a unified, domain-level testing framework built around simulation and controlled environments. You’ll learn how treating testing infrastructure as an engineering product helped us reduce complexity, increase reliability, and enable performance testing at realistic market scale. Along the way, Olga will share practical lessons, trade-offs, and what they chose to abandon (not just what we built). **2\. Neha\-B Yadav @ Deutsche Bank: *Secure AI, Smarter Testing: How QA Teams Can Shift Left Efficiently*** Now as ever, staying effective and efficient requires more than just strong testing fundamentals, but also intelligent orchestration of tools, data, and automation. Neha will focus in this talk on three key dimensions: how to stay effective with the help of AI-driven test workflows, how to remain relevant with modern engineering practices and enterprise tooling, and how to continuously upskill in an ecosystem of automation, AI agents, and integrated test platforms. Neha will share her approach with shifting testing left, proactive defect prevention, early test design, and proper continuous integration. The session will highlight techniques such as test-driven development, early collaboration between QA and engineering, and integrating validation into CI/CD pipelines to reduce downstream risks. **3\. Vitaly Sharovatov @ Qase: Leading Cost Cutting Initiatives by Improving Quality** More and more companies are cutting costs and doing layoffs, and QA is often among the first to be cut. Yet it is precisely QA folks who can help cut costs while improving quality. In this talk, Vitaly suggests ways we all can lead cost cutting discussions to make things right and either reduce or prevent layoffs. Partner with Customer Support to identify which escaped defects cost the most in ticket handling and escalations. Partner with Sales to identify which bugs put renewals and expansions at risk. Add Finance for SLA credits and refunds, and Engineering for incident response and hotfix effort. Add it all up, and you get external failure costs. After that, quantify internal failure costs like rework, retesting, queues, and waste. We will turn these numbers into a cost cutting proposal that managers understand: reduce the priciest external failure costs first, then reduce internal failure costs, by improving the way we build quality in. You will leave with a simple template for collecting the numbers with other departments, doing the calculations, and proposing specific process changes. Let's be the people who cut failure costs, not the people who get cut!

AWS UG Berlin - Fireside Chat with Dr. Werner Vogels

Dear Community, it is our honor to share that in July, we have the one and only, Dr. Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon joining us. Dr. Vogels was so kind to meet with our community, have a joyful session and answer your questions in person. During the day he will be the keynote speaker at [WeAreDevelopers World Congress](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/world-congress). Later in the evening, we will have the privilege to spend an exclusive time with Dr. Vogels to get answers to questions we have from you! =================================================== 17:30 - Doors open 17:45 - Warm up by AWS UG Berlin 18:00 - **Fireside chat with Dr. Werner Vogels** **Registration:** Because we expect many registrations for limited seats, please consider your registration pending. We will contact you individually to confirm whether you can join or not. **Attendance:** Please arrive at NLND no later than 17:45 to secure your spot. Once Dr. Vogels is on stage, you won't be able to enter. **Questions:** Feel free to address your questions in the form below, or mail to kadir@berlinawsug.de ================================== Additional Information **This event is wheelchair friendly.** Help us spread the word, and invite your friends & colleagues! If you're attending with wheelchair and need assistance, please mail us: organisers@berlinawsug.de for further details. Would you like to host AWS UG Berlin events at your company? [Register here](https://bit.ly/aws-host) Would you like to speak at AWS UG Berlin sessions? [Submit your talk here](https://bit.ly/aws-talk) ================================== NLND (Neuland) Berlin is a 150.000 sqm innovation district catalysing industrial transformation. We bring together industry and SMEs with universities, startups and government to create a European lighthouse project for AI, Deep Tech, Industry 4.0 and future city technologies. ​Discover more from NLND [nlnd.com](https://nlnd.com/?utm_source=luma) \| [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/nlnd?utm_source=luma) \| [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/nlnd.hq/?utm_source=luma) **Photography Notice** ​Please note there’ll be a photographer at the event. By attending, you agree that NLND Berlin and partners may use photos for marketing and communications. If you prefer not to be photographed, please let a member of the event team know.

Don't eat alone lunch #94 (back to PBerg)

🌟 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.

Quality Engineering meetup #13

**PLEASE NOTE THE ADDRESS CHANGE! We're now at DEUTSCHE BANK BERLIN!** *In collaboration with* *Deutsche Bank*, *[Qase](https://qase.io) is presenting the **thirteenth** Meetup on Quality Engineering in Berlin.* *We’re bringing you three deep-dive talks: all designed to challenge the way you think about quality, testing, and collaboration.* *As always, expect great conversations, snacks, and drinks. See you there!* **AGENDA** **1\. Olga Bokova @ Deutsche Bank:** ***Testing the Nanoseconds: A Decade of High-Frequency Trading QA Evolution*** High-frequency trading systems operate at the edge of technology, where latency is measured in nanoseconds and every delay can translate directly into financial impact. In this environment, traditional QA approaches quickly break down, e.g. functional correctness alone is no longer enough. In this talk, Olga will share a real-world journey of how QA evolved over the past decade within high-performance trading systems. We’ll explore the challenges of testing ultra-low latency platforms, handling massive market data streams, and ensuring deterministic behaviour in highly distributed environments. Olga will walk us through how fragmented testing approaches led to inefficiency, duplication, and scalability issues, and how they transitioned toward a unified, domain-level testing framework built around simulation and controlled environments. You’ll learn how treating testing infrastructure as an engineering product helped us reduce complexity, increase reliability, and enable performance testing at realistic market scale. Along the way, Olga will share practical lessons, trade-offs, and what they chose to abandon (not just what we built). **2\. Neha\-B Yadav @ Deutsche Bank: *Secure AI, Smarter Testing: How QA Teams Can Shift Left Efficiently*** Now as ever, staying effective and efficient requires more than just strong testing fundamentals, but also intelligent orchestration of tools, data, and automation. Neha will focus in this talk on three key dimensions: how to stay effective with the help of AI-driven test workflows, how to remain relevant with modern engineering practices and enterprise tooling, and how to continuously upskill in an ecosystem of automation, AI agents, and integrated test platforms. Neha will share her approach with shifting testing left, proactive defect prevention, early test design, and proper continuous integration. The session will highlight techniques such as test-driven development, early collaboration between QA and engineering, and integrating validation into CI/CD pipelines to reduce downstream risks. **3\. Vitaly Sharovatov @ Qase: Leading Cost\-Cutting Initiatives by Improving Quality** More and more companies are cutting costs and doing layoffs, and QA is often among the first to be cut. Yet it is precisely QA folks who can help cut costs while improving quality. In this talk, Vitaly suggests ways we all can lead cost cutting discussions to make things right and either reduce or prevent layoffs. Partner with Customer Support to identify which escaped defects cost the most in ticket handling and escalations. Partner with Sales to identify which bugs put renewals and expansions at risk. Add Finance for SLA credits and refunds, and Engineering for incident response and hotfix effort. Add it all up, and you get external failure costs. After that, quantify internal failure costs like rework, retesting, queues, and waste. We will turn these numbers into a cost cutting proposal that managers understand: reduce the priciest external failure costs first, then reduce internal failure costs, by improving the way we build quality in. You will leave with a simple template for collecting the numbers with other departments, doing the calculations, and proposing specific process changes. Let's be the people who cut failure costs, not the people who get cut!

Meetup for laid off folks in Berlin

Please RSVP on luma: https://luma.com/xmc1l5eg # Laid off? Same! Barely anyone I know hasn't been laid off at least once. Layoffs feel like another Tuesday right now. That's why I call us "Generation Layoff." If you've been laid off, or feel one coming - this is your space. This meetup is for everybody pre-, during or post-layoff. Whether you stressed out about an upcoming layoff or you've been laid off and now job-hunting or want to start something of your own - come and share. No judgment, no pressure. We share where we're at, what we're going through, and what's coming next. This isn't another networking event where we hunt opportunities and call being laid off "impacted by company restructuring." We connect people based on the challenges they're actually facing - so everyone leaves with something useful, whether that's a contact, a resource, or just knowing you're not alone. Being laid off is often treated as a taboo topic - and it shouldn't be. We'll exchange all the insider tips and tricks and get stronger together. What to Expect: → A chill, zero-judgement safe space → Addressing your challenges → People helping people ORGANISATIONAL STUFFS: → We'll meet in a park, bring a blanket to sit on, a drink of your choice and some snacks, whatever it is you need for a picnic style. ​→ In case of rain we will go to the BRLO Brewery. ​If you can't find us, call +4917626669794 ​I will carry a sign with "GENERATION LAYOFF" though :D ​We meet in Gleisdreieck park here: [https://maps.app.goo.gl/rC6fh9EprxEHnxEL7?g_st=ic](https://maps.app.goo.gl/rC6fh9EprxEHnxEL7?g_st=ic&utm_source=luma)

Business Communication: Stop Being Overlooked at Work

**You are doing the work. But are the right people seeing the value of it?** **In a difficult economy, being good at what you do is not enough. People are making decisions all the time: who gets trusted, promoted, referred, hired, renewed, funded, or invited into the next room.** **If your value is not clear in those moments, the cost is real.** **You get passed over. Your ideas get credited to someone else. Clients question your rate. Managers miss your contribution. You leave important conversations with vague promises instead of a clear next step.** **This workshop helps you make your value visible without sounding defensive, arrogant, or aggressive.** **Small group of max 20. You need working English to participate.** **This is for you if** * You deliver results but the recognition goes to someone else * You are doing more than people realise, but struggle to say it clearly * You over-explain, soften, or freeze in important conversations * You want to be taken seriously by managers, clients, partners, stakeholders, or decision-makers * You are preparing for a review, pitch, interview, promotion, raise, rate, or business conversation **What you leave with** * A framework to make your value clear * Your own real situation prepared and ready to use * Scripts for stating your contribution * Responses for pushback, dismissal, or vague answers * Practice saying it out loud in a small group * A follow-up email with the scripts and tools from the session **About the host:** Sumita Kar is the founder of Take a Brava Leap (TABL), based in Berlin. She spent 13 years building her career across global teams, moving from associate level to Vice President across customer success, cross-cultural leadership, C-level client management, high-stakes escalations, negotiations, and commercial execution. In 2023 she was recognised as one of the Top 10 Best Indian Women Leaders from Germany by Women's Entrepreneur Magazine. She has navigated these rooms as an international woman where she was often the only one. She built this session so you don't have to figure it out the way she did.

Business Communication: Speak Clearly and Confidently in Meetings

**This is a practical communication workshop in Berlin for international women in business working across corporate, consulting, startups, freelancing, entrepreneurship, or their own business, especially if they often have to make their point in rooms where confidence, clarity, and timing matter.** **You know what you want to say. But in the moment, you add too much context, soften the point, or wait too long to speak. Every time that happens, someone else gets the visibility, the credit, or the opportunity.** **That gap does not close by itself.** **The workshop helps you communicate with more clarity, confidence, and authority without sounding aggressive or over-rehearsed.** **This is a small group of max 20. You do not need perfect English.** #### **What you should expect** * Making your point clearly without over-explaining * Asking questions that sound confident, not apologetic * Disagreeing without backing down or burning the relationship * Giving a recommendation instead of hedging * Responding when someone interrupts, talks over you, or takes credit for what you said * Getting into the conversation when the room is moving fast and you cannot find your entry point #### **What you leave with** * A framework for clearer professional communication * Scripts for meetings, client calls, pitches, and stakeholder conversations * Responses for interruptions, dismissal, pushback, or being talked over * Practical language you can use immediately at work and in business * A follow-up email with the tools and scripts from the session **About the host** Sumita Kar is the founder of Take a Brava Leap (TABL), based in Berlin. She spent 13 years building her career across global teams, moving from associate level to Vice President across customer success, cross-cultural leadership, C-level client management, high-stakes escalations, negotiations, and commercial execution. In 2023 she was recognized as one of the Top 10 Best Indian Women Leaders from Germany by Women's Entrepreneur Magazine. She has navigated these rooms as an international woman where she was often the only one. She built this session so you don't have to figure it out the way she did.