Build with AI – Berlin Meetup
📍 Hosted by Explosion AI, Native Instruments, and Vanishing Gradients
🥤 Food & drinks provided
We’re bringing together builders, researchers, and curious minds to share what they’re working on—and connect in person. Two short talks, a run of lightning demos, and time to hang out.
🎤 Talks
📄 Conquering PDFs: Document Understanding Beyond Plain Text
Ines Montani – spaCy / Explosion
PDFs, Word docs, and scans don’t play nice with NLP. Ines will show how to go from messy formats to structured data using spaCy, Docling, layout models, OCR, and pipelines you can adapt to your own use case.
🧪 Evaluation-Driven Development & Synthetic Data Flywheels
Hugo Bowne-Anderson – Vanishing Gradients
Learn how to catch failures before your users do. This talk walks through how to generate structured synthetic data, build evaluation harnesses, and set up feedback loops that make LLM apps more reliable before launch.
⚡ Lightning Talks
Show us what you’ve built. We’ll open the floor for 5-minute lightning demos—tools, workflows, prototypes—then stick around to chat and trade ideas.
We’ll circulate a form closer to the date so people can sign up to give lightning talks. In the meantime, if you're interested, please do reach out.
We’re excited to connect with the Berlin AI/dev community, see what you’re building, and hopefully find people to build with in the future.