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: 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,

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.

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Wed. Oct. 28: Finom Conf: Trends & Plans 🎬 | 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. Afterparty at 6. Kino International, Berlin.

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.

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.

NVIDIA GTC Berlin 2026 🤖 | Tue - Thu: NVIDIA GTC Berlin brings developers, researchers, startups, and business leaders together to explore AI, robotics, accelerated computing, training, and industrial innovation. STATION-Berlin, Luckenwalder Straße 4–6, 10963 Berlin.

Zero to Scale: Building GTM in the AI Era | Anna Andersson and Nina Mayer, featuring Elmar Schaaf, GTM Lead at Langdock. 🤖 | Wednesday, 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM: Gradient Descending hosts an AI-focused roundtable exploring founder-led sales, early GTM hiring, scalable commercial processes, and practical AI applications for startups.

NVIDIA GTC AFTERPARTY - PROTOTYPE 🤖 | 5:00 PM – 12:00 AM: Robotics founders, AI engineers, investors, and builders connect through live hardware demonstrations, announcements, networking, drinks, and conversations celebrating physical AI innovation. BRLO Brwhouse

Tue. Oct. 20 – Wed. Oct. 21: HTVD Europe 2026 - Deep Tech Investment Conference 🚀 | All Day: HTVD Europe connects deep-tech startups, international investors, and industry leaders to explore industrial innovation, investment opportunities, breakthrough technologies, and strategic partnerships. Internationales Congress Center Dresden, Ostra-Ufer 2, 01067 Dresden.

Tue. Oct. 20 – Thu. Oct. 22: NVIDIA GTC Berlin 2026 🤖 | All Day: NVIDIA GTC Berlin brings developers, researchers, startups, and business leaders together to explore AI, robotics, accelerated computing, training, and industrial innovation. STATION-Berlin, Luckenwalder Straße 4–6, 10963 Berlin.

Thu. Oct. 22 - Fri. Oct. 23:AIDAQ 2026 - Berlin’s Biggest AI, Data and Quantum Summit 🤖 | All Day: A major European summit connecting AI, data, and quantum leaders through expert sessions, workshops, technology showcases, policy discussions, and networking opportunities. bcc Berlin.

Replit × Black Forest Labs Pre-GTC Breakfast ☕ | 7:30 AM – 11:00 AM: Builders enjoy breakfast, coffee, networking, and AI demonstrations before NVIDIA GTC, with an optional creative challenge using Replit and FLUX. Kreuzberg

Berlins erster Anti-Stress Pop-Up 🫧 | 10:00 AM – 7:00 PM:
A walk in studio for your nervous system. Hypnosis, breathwork and scent, in free micro resets you can fit between meetings. No yoga mat required. Come as you are. Leave more relaxed. Auguststraße 22

AI NATION Demo Day – Batch Spring 2026 🤖 | 3:30 PM – 8:00 PM: Thirty-five AI startups showcase innovative solutions across industries, while founders, investors, and experts connect through demonstrations, networking, and panel discussions. Forum Digital Technologies

AI Builders Berlin - Lingkesh Vijayakumar, Gözde, Andrei Mărcuț, and Bradley C. Royes 🤖 | 5:30 PM – 9:00 PM: AI developers, founders, and engineers explore agent frameworks, RAG, coding tools, and AI innovations through live demonstrations, technical talks, and networking. CIC Berlin

PMM Supper Club - Pre-Summit Dinner, Berlin 🍽️ | 6:00 PM: PMM Supper Club hosts an intimate pre-summit dinner for product marketers, encouraging meaningful conversations, professional connections, shared dining, and fresh perspectives. Friedrichshain

Building at the Frontier of AI - Merantix AI Campus, in collaboration with NVIDIA.🤖 | 8:30 AM – 1:00 PM: Merantix AI Campus brings founders and entrepreneurs together to explore Physical AI, agentic systems, open models, startup growth, and NVIDIA innovations. Merantix AI Campus

Zero to Scale: Building GTM in the AI Era | Anna Andersson and Nina Mayer, featuring Elmar Schaaf, GTM Lead at Langdock. 🤖 | 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM: Gradient Descending hosts an AI-focused roundtable exploring founder-led sales, early GTM hiring, scalable commercial processes, and practical AI applications for startups.

NVIDIA GTC Berlin 2026 🧠 | 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM: Jensen Huang headlines NVIDIA's keynote as GTC Berlin lands for three days of AI infrastructure, agentic systems, and robotics. Over 100 sessions, workshops, and the sharpest founders and researchers in one room.

Inference on Tap: Berlin @ NVIDIA GTC - Baseten and CodeRabbit, with Sahar Mor of Bond AI. 🧠 | 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM: AI builders and engineering teams discuss scalable inference, open-model fine-tuning, agent-generated code risks, developer tooling, and reliable AI deployment. Fabrik 23, Berlin.

iOS Engineering Meetup - Ampli x N26 📱| 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM: Ampli Berlin and N26 bring iOS engineers together for technical talks on legacy code, AI, keyboard experiments, design systems, and networking. N26 headquarters, Berlin.

NVIDIA GTC AFTERPARTY - PROTOTYPE 🤖 | 5:00 PM – 12:00 AM: Robotics founders, AI engineers, investors, and builders connect through live hardware demonstrations, announcements, networking, drinks, and conversations celebrating physical AI innovation. BRLO Brwhouse

AI-First Engineering: Same Old Bottlenecks? | Panel Discussion - Superhuman 🤖 | 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM: Engineering leaders discuss AI-driven software development, persistent delivery bottlenecks, testing challenges, code reviews, and safely shipping software into production. Superhuman

Getting Hired in AI Engineering - Merantix Momentum, Turing College, and Merantix AI Campus 🤖 | 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM: AI engineers, developers, and aspiring professionals gather for expert talks, project demonstrations, career insights, startup pitches, and networking opportunities. Merantix AI Campus,

Physical AI & Robotics: What It Takes to Build in the Real World | Franz Tschimben and Florian Wilfinger. 🤖 | 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM: Industry experts and investors explore real-world robotics deployment, AI-ready data, simulation, scalable business models, and Europe’s competitiveness in Physical AI. Redstone VC

Berlin | Claude Workshop: Build Agents That Debug and Review with Claude Code 🤖 | 6:00 PM – 9:30 PM: Join this hands-on workshop to build AI incident-response agents, investigate production failures, and improve code quality through independent model reviews. GlassFlow’s venue, Berlin.

Into Design Systems at Zalando 🎨 | 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM: Into Design Systems brings designers and engineers together to explore AI-powered design tools, human-centred systems, and guardrails for AI agents. Zalando’s Berlin office, Berlin.

Thu. Nov. 5: she succeeds award 2026 🏆 | 11:30 to 16:30 conference, 18:00 to 23:30 gala: The VdU honours the women taking over Germany’s family businesses, from chocolate works to laser manufacturers. By day there’s a succession conference at PwC. By night, 350 guests, Federal Minister Dorothee Bär, dinner and a live band. Tipi am Kanzleramt, Berlin.

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,

Fri. Nov. 27: The Revenue Engine Hackathon: Berlin Edition | HubSpot for Startups, with OpenAI, Clay, and Lemlist 🚀 | 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM: Early-stage startups build scalable go-to-market systems in one day with expert guidance, AI-powered tools, hands-on sprints, demonstrations, and awards. HubSpot Tower, Berlin.

Stage Two Competition 26 | For Our Beyond 🎓 | 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM: The largest pan-European competition for university spinouts. The best teams from Europe's top universities pitch live to investors. Deep tech, research turned venture. Tomorrow's founders, today's dealflow. Radialsystem.

Backchannel Berlin (with Inworld) 🎙️ | 3:00 PM – 8:00 PM: AI researchers and engineers explore real-time speech models, full-duplex conversations, multilingual performance, low-latency inference, training methods, and evaluation challenges. Berlin.

Lenny’s Newsletter Meetup in Berlin (with Free Drinks Courtesy of PostHog) 🍻 | 6:30 PM – 10:30 PM: Connect with product and growth professionals for in-depth conversations, community networking, and complimentary drinks sponsored by PostHog in Berlin.

3hd 2026: Beyond Imagining - Performances at HAU2 x Creamcake 🎭 | 7:00 PM: Artists explore identity, violence, pop culture, and distorted realities through experimental performances, puppetry, shock-rock, dancehall, music, and provocative theatrical storytelling. HAU2

commIT Berlin – 5th Push: Vitalina Alipova 💻 | 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM: Berlin’s tech community explores AI agent security, data challenges, and lightweight formal verification through expert talks, Q&A, networking, food, and drinks. ImmoScout24 Office

Agentic AI Hack by Jamie - {Tech: Europe} 🤖🚀 | 9:30 AM – 9:30 PM: AI builders, engineers, researchers, and founders collaborate to develop innovative AI agents, receive mentorship, compete for prizes, and explore startup opportunities.

DevDay Community Hackathon: Berlin 💻🤖 | 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM: Developers, founders, students, and sales professionals build practical projects with Codex and ChatGPT, exchange workflows, find collaborators, and compete for opportunities.

Stripe x Supabase: AI Payments for the Real Economy Hack 💳🤖 | 10:00 AM – 8:00 PM: Developers, designers, and founders build AI-powered business software using Stripe Connect and Supabase, competing for cash prizes, credits, merchandise, and recognition. Revent

Female Founders Pilates w/ Gründerszene 🧘‍♀️💜 | 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM: Female founders connect through an exclusive strength reformer workout, studio preview, and networking experience designed to build meaningful relationships beyond business introductions. COCO Studio, Zinnowitzer Str. 8, 10115 Berlin.

HEISSS Berlin – 30+ Hour Rave at RSO.BERLIN 🔥🎧 | 11:59 PM – 8:00 AM: A 30-hour electronic music experience featuring international DJs, two dancefloors, underground sounds, and an extended seven-hour closing set at RSO.BERLIN.

UNFOLLOW_001: Joseph Marr Invites 🎧🎨 | 4:00 PM – 11:59 PM: Berlin DJs, producers, artists, and technology innovators gather for practical conversations, music industry discussions, underground music, dancing, networking, and courtyard street food. Mena Berlin

Raclette Bingo at L’Apéro 🧀 | From 6:00 PM: Bingo and raclette, back by popular demand. Cheese scraped straight onto your plate, bingo card in the other hand, wine in between. Raclette machines are limited, so ask for one when you book your table. Cosy season, officially open. L’Apéro

Sunset Jams - Halloween Edition 🎃🎶 | 6:00 PM: Enjoy spontaneous musical collaborations, live improvisation, Gustav Anders’ special performance, diverse musicians, a DJ set, and spooky Halloween costumes. Bar Clara at Fotografiska

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a16z Top 100 Consumer AI Apps, 7th Edition 📊: a16z's 7th Top 100 Consumer AI list now tracks real card spend. AI has its own 1%: they pay $903 a month and outspend the bottom half combined. ChatGPT leads by a mile, Claude is third. Just 11 newcomers this round.

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