Fri. Nov. 6: YFC Community Night by FOMO x CODE x Startup Berlin 🍻 | From 7:30 PM: The night before Young Founders Conference. Founders from YFN chapters across Germany, hosted by us at CODE. No stage, no pitches. Drinks, snacks and the people you’ll see again tomorrow. Free, approval only. CODE University, Berlin.

Sat. Nov. 7: FOMO x b2venture x Startup Berlin: Cofounder Matching at Young Founders Conference 2026 🌱 | 10:00 AM – 3:00 AM: Your cofounder is somewhere in this room. We make the intro: curated matching, plus our coworking corner. On stage, the founders of GetYourGuide, Choco, KoRo and SAP Signavio.

Tue. Nov. 17: Founder & Investor Padel Open: Slush Edition 🎾 | 4:00 PM – 12:00 AM: Berlin, Munich, Cape Town. Sold out ten times over. Now Slush. Founders and investors, mixed doubles, partners drawn on court. Then sauna, ice bath, DJ till midnight. With Berlin Partner. The most Finnish way to close a round. Helsinki.

Sat. Nov. 21: FOMO Berlin: Kiez Dinner 2026 🍽️ | 5:30 PM – 1:00 AM: Three courses, three apartments, one Kiez. You and a cooking partner host one course, then you’re the guests for the other two. Twelve new faces at the tables, everyone together after. Berlin’s most intimate big dinner. Your Kiez, then a secret after party. Berlin.

Tue. Dec. 1: FOMO x Qonto: Founder Christmas Dinner 🕯️ | 6:30 PM – 10:00 PM: Seventy founders running teams of ten or more. Three courses, good wine, candlelight. Black tie and evening gowns. FOMO and Qonto pull up the chairs, you bring the year you actually had. Every seat personally curated. One surprise, very FOMO. Berlin.

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Tue. Nov. 3: Your Personal BRAND is the Sale: Build a Brand That Sells for You 💼 | 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM: Deals close before the pitch. People buy names they trust. Darinka Burovska Nova, a decade in scaleups and trained by a former Dior marketing lead, runs founders through it. Two and a half hours. You leave with a post ready for Monday. Denizen, Mitte.

The ultimate Slush side event list is ready: 150+ events, cut down to the ones worth freezing for. How to get it? Watch my LinkedIn tomorrow.

FOMO Cape Town Group 26/27 🌴: Spending winter in Cape Town? Get on the inside before you land. Last season, 500+ of us shared one WhatsApp group: roomies, Garden Route crews, deals closed. 100 already in for 26/27. Event drops, curated dinners, your people from day one. Best season yet. Zero FOMO.

Founder & VC Room – Hedgefonds Henning × Herr Ober 🚀 | All Day: Join a panel discussion with Niklas Schwab (Hedgefonds Henning), Soheil Mirpour (Melotech / Rocket Internet), and Victor Huerbe (Cherry Ventures) on founding, financing, and scaling companies in the age of AI. Soho House Berlin.

Finom Conf: Trends & Plans 🎬 | Wednesday, 10:00 AM – 5:30 PM: Finom puts 500 founders in one room to get 2027 sorted early. TikTok, Google and AWS on AI, tax, growth and not burning out. Ironman record holder Jonas Deichmann on resilience. Free, by application. After-party at 6. Kino International, Berlin.

Museum of the Forbidden Dreams 🥀 | Invite Only, Saturday, 11:30 PM: Costume required, on theme: your most forbidden dream. One bottle of premium spirits at the door. No costume, no bottle, no entry. Invitation only, non-transferable. If you got one, you already know. If not, now you know what you missed.

Fri. Oct. 30 – Sat. Jan. 9: Lena Keller – False Skies | KORNFELD Galerie 🎨 | All Day: Experience atmospheric landscape paintings exploring perception, memory, and transformation through transparent oil layers, iridescent light, shifting horizons, and reflections. KORNFELD Galerie.

Sat. Oct. 31 - Sun. Nov. 1: BUCHBERLIN26 📚 | 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM: Berlin’s book fair for the independent scene. Small publishers, free readings, authors you’ll be pretending you discovered first by spring. Twelve euros, two days, a hall full of people who still finish books. Saturday and Sunday. Arena Berlin, Treptow.

Sun. Nov. 1 - Fri. Nov. 6: Berlin Science Week: In Touch, Festival Centre Opening 🔬 | 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM: Ten days, a hundred events, one question: who do we trust? Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio opens the Festival Centre at HKW. Nobel laureate Brian Schmidt follows at 3:30. Free, pass required. Berlin’s smartest weekend starts at lunch. Haus der Kulturen der Welt,

Female VC Club x ANTI: Red Light Pilates & Networking - Carmen Hübner 🧘‍♀️ | 8:00 AM: Enjoy red-light Pilates, coffee, snacks, and networking with women investors, founders, and operators building connections across Berlin’s venture capital ecosystem. ANTI Berlin.

Leap Monthly Breakfast: Connect, Pitch & Innovate - Leap Events ☕️ | 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM: Connect with Berlin’s quantum community, explore innovation infrastructure, pitch startups, exchange ideas, and build meaningful professional relationships over breakfast and coffee. Leap Quantum Technology Hub.

From Product Manager to Product Builder – Scout24 x OpenAI 🤖 | 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM: Join a hands-on workshop exploring how ChatGPT and Codex can support product discovery, prototyping, and testing through practical exercises using sample data. Scout24 Community Hub.

Founder & VC Room – Hedgefonds Henning × Herr Ober 🚀 | 7 pm: Join a panel discussion with Niklas Schwab (Hedgefonds Henning), Soheil Mirpour (Melotech / Rocket Internet), and Victor Huerbe (Cherry Ventures) on founding, financing, and scaling companies in the age of AI. Soho House Berlin.

12MIN.ME | BERLIN | HIRE #4 🎤 | 7:12 PM – 10:12 PM: Explore facilitation, leadership, and workplace transformation through inspiring talks, interactive sessions, audience questions, and networking with HR professionals and curious innovators. frizzforum, Friedrichstraße.

Investor Rotations – ESCP Masterclass | Tanguy Vidal & Gunnar Graef 🤝 | 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM: Connect startup founders with venture capital investors through reverse pitches, one-on-one rotations, business feedback, mentorship, and networking across Berlin’s startup ecosystem. The Delta.

Finom Conf: Trends & Plans 💼 | 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM: Prepare for 2027 through expert talks on AI, cybersecurity, tax, legal changes, business growth, workplace trends, and wellbeing, plus networking and an afterparty. Kino International.

BITS & DRINKS - SIBB // Digitalverband Berlin-Brandenburg 🍻 | 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM: Connect with Berlin’s digital industry leaders, founders, and executives through relaxed, informal networking without presentations, sales pitches, or formal agendas. Nomad Day Bar Berlin.

Longevity: Hype vs. Reality – What Actually Works? 🧬 | 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM: Explore science-backed longevity strategies, preventive diagnostics, emerging treatments, and expert insights, with free health assessments, Q&A, and networking opportunities. YEARS Berlin.

Outcurve Launch Night! 🎉 | 6:30 PM – 10:00 PM: Celebrate a new athlete training app adapting workouts to sleep and recovery, with product demos, food, drinks, giveaways, and community networking. Mitte, Berlin.

Harald Hauswald – KaDeO: Book Presentation & Signing 📸 | 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM: Discover the history of East Berlin through photographer Harald Hauswald’s archival photographs of the historic Kaufhaus des Ostens, paired with contemporary portraits. Café Bar, Fotografiska Berlin.

Doctolib X French Tech Berlin: Community Breakfast #37 ☕ | 8:45 AM – 10:30 AM: Discover Doctolib’s AI-powered HealthTech products, meet its team, explore career opportunities, and network with French-German technology professionals over croissants. Berlin.

Beyond the Heart - Stiftung Deutsches Herzzentrum ❤️ | 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM: Explore quantum computing fundamentals, emerging medical applications, hardware challenges, and future healthcare innovations, followed by networking, drinks, and finger food. Thomas-Michael-Höhn-Haus.

Shibuya × Berlin: Creative Tech Founders Night 🚀 | 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM: Connect creative technology founders, startups, creatives, and investors through networking, drinks, music, and insights into Japan’s startup ecosystem and opportunities. Neukölln, Berlin.

TAKE ONE: OPEN SPACE | No. 2 🎬 | 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM: Celebrate creativity through short films, art exhibitions, food, drinks, and networking with creatives, agencies, and industry professionals while discovering new collaborations. Haus Ungarn, Karl-Liebknecht-Str.

Projectfstudio: Come Over for Dinner 🍷 | 7:00 PM: Enjoy an intimate vegetarian dinner, welcome drink, optional wine pairing, and meaningful conversations around one thoughtfully set table. Berlin.

A Halloween Revue - Outer Sound 🎃 | 7:30 PM – 1:00 AM: Celebrate Halloween with three live bands, two DJs, alternative music, dancing, and costumes inspired by favourite characters, villains, monsters, or musicians. COOP Studios, Berlin Mitte.

Thu. Nov. 5: VC Comms Forum 2026 📣 | 6:00 PM – Fri. 6:00 PM:
Built for the people who make VCs look good. Comms, platform and IR leads from across the industry. AI agents in comms, LinkedIn, crisis playbooks. Welcome dinner first, apéritif last. By Cosmyc Partners.

Sat. Nov. 7: Young Founders Conference 2026 🌱 | 10:00 AM – 3:00 AM:
Founders of GetYourGuide, Choco, KoRo, SAP Signavio and TIER on one bill. 40+ speakers, live pitches, a full day of networking, then an afterparty that runs till 3. Tickets from €25. It’s (y)our turn. NLND Neuland,

Sat. Nov. 21: FOMO Berlin: Kiez Dinner 2026 🍽️ | 5:30 PM – 1:00 AM: Three courses, three apartments, one Kiez. You and a cooking partner host one course, then you’re the guests for the other two. Twelve new faces at the tables, everyone together after. Berlin’s most intimate big dinner. Your Kiez, then a secret after-party,

The Fintech Growth Pain Event - The Delta Campus 🚀 | 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM: Explore cross-border expansion, AI in regulated fintech, and growth strategies through expert discussions, breakout sessions, pitches, and networking. The Delta Campus Berlin.

MARIUS WIES – OUT OF GAMUT – EXHIBITION OPENING PARTY - FRIDA - BOBBY - GALERIE 🎨 | 5:00 PM – 10:00 PM: Discover Marius Wies’s contemporary art exploring colour, geometric lines, visual harmony, and unease at this exhibition opening celebrating his experimental design work. FRIDA - BOBBY - GALERIE.

Berlin | Claude Code Workshop: Build a Real, Working Website Live - Claude Community Events 🚀 | 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM: Build and launch a professional website using Claude Code without coding experience, including pricing pages, contact forms, and a shareable live link. The Delta Campus.

Metaxy by Leonis Works 🌗 | From 8:00 PM: Nietzsche meets Berghain. Four dancers move between order and excess in Leonis Works’ Metaxy, scored live by Berghain resident Norman Nodge. Projection, light, no stage edge. You don’t watch it from your seat. You stand inside it. Atelier Gardens,

GTM Hackathon Berlin 🎃 | 11:00 AM – 10:30 PM: Build real go-to-market campaigns using AI, automation, and paid ads, compete for €2,000 prizes, network, and celebrate Halloween. Arvana GmbH, Berlin.

THE DEAD MILE: TRM x HOKA - The Rolling Mile 🎃 | 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM: Celebrate Halloween with a spooky 6.66km costume run, humorous race bibs, coffee, snacks, photo opportunities, and awards for creative costumes. HOKA Berlin Ku’Damm.

3hd 2026: Beyond Imagining - Creamcake 🎶 | 8:00 PM – 2:00 AM: Experience experimental club music, industrial techno, reggaeton, alternative RnB, and immersive live performances blending sound, art, and movement. CANK Neukölln.

Museum of the Forbidden Dreams 🥀 | From 11:30 PM: Costume required, on theme: your most forbidden dream. One bottle of premium spirits at the door. No costume, no bottle, no entry. Invitation only, non-transferable. If you got one, you already know. If not, now you know what you missed.

Too Loud For The Room: Essaouira Free Show 🐴 | From 7:00 PM: Too Loud For The Room play two free shows this weekend: Cologne Friday, Berlin Sunday. Essaouira on the flyer, a white horse mid-gallop. No tickets, no guest list, first come first served. 780 likes in a day. Queue accordingly. Aeden, Berlin.

Flowgeist 🖤 | From 8:00 PM: Marco Bruno and Velvet May take Flowgeist live for the first time, debut album in hand. Trip hop, post-punk, industrial, breakbeat. Visuals by 4C and Stefano Canavese that react in real time. Twelve euros. Smaller room, same gravity. Kantine am Berghain, Friedrichshain.

Losers by Enad Marouf 🎭 | 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM: History, told by the people who lost it. Syrian German artist Enad Marouf builds an hour of text, dance and music from Walter Benjamin and Arwa Salih. Defeat not as an ending, but as a room to think in. Sixty minutes, from ten euros. Sophiensæle, Mitte.

The Monthly Crunch - Talent Crunch🤝 | 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM: Connect with talent professionals through community updates, collaborative problem-solving, career recommendations, job opportunities, and open discussions about workplace challenges and experiences.

After Hours – Berlin Game Dev Talks | Maike Steinweller, Adnaan Ebrahim & Vill 🎮 | 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM: Explore live-game reinvention with industry experts through panel discussions, shared insights, food, drinks, networking, and conversations among Berlin’s game developers. Wooga, 5th Floor.

Female Finance Salon: Impact Investing 💚 | 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM: Every investment has an impact. The question is which. finanzielle’s Female Finance Salon on impact investing with Senior Impact Manager Ariane Schoen and editor-in-chief Astrid Zehbe. Daniela Meyer moderates. Money, with a conscience. Grace Bar, Hotel Zoo.

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Worth Reading: Networking Is Overrated for Most 📖 | Karan Dhir, Substack: 5,000 LinkedIn connections. Four who actually helped. Karan Dhir’s case against conferences, coffee chats and networking at scale, and for fifty people who know your work. Then he exempts founders, fundraisers and sales. So, most of you. Five minute read.

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