AI Austria Meetup

### GenAI Community: Collective Intelligence Edition

ÖBB Innovation Factory | November 25, 2025 | 5:00 PM

AI Agents are shaping the future – but this time, the spotlight is on YOU.

This Collective Intelligence Edition is not about one-way talks. It’s about merging knowledge, perspectives, and real-world experience to shape what comes next - together.

We bring Austria’s leading AI voices on stage, but then we turn the discussion back to the community:

Your input.
Your opinion.
Your vision for the future of AI Agents in Austria.

Hosted by Niklas Holy and Ruben Hetfleisch (AI Austria), this event is designed for a format where speakers and audience think, debate, and co-create side by side - with interactive elements, live Q&A, open questions to the room, audience voting, and discussions intentionally fueled by the collective intelligence in the space.

And yes - expect surprise guests: well-known figures who are shaping Austria’s AI landscape and will engage in real conversation at eye level.

17:30 – Welcome & Opening
Hosted by Niklas Holy & Ruben Hetfleisch (AI Austria)
→ Why collective intelligence is the true superpower of the AI era

17:45 – Klartext AI Impulse Talk – Felix Krause
→ LLMs + Domain Driven Design + Schema-Guided-Reasoning: A Love Story
→ Open Microphone: 2–3 voices from the audience

18:05 – ÖBB Impulse Talk – Eliot Manoia
→ Collective Intelligence meets Ego System
→ Direct audience question immediately after the talk

18:25 – IBM & Top Ideas Impulse Talk – Janina Kaneva
→ Enterprise-Scale Agent Architectures & Future Operating Models
→ Live audience reactions

18:45 – News from the AI Factory - Karl Kugler (Head of AI Factory)
→ Whats it can and whats it can do for you!

19:00 – Networking, Drinks & Open Floor Discussions
→ Deep-dive conversations, live demos, and spontaneous group debates

### 📍Location

ÖBB Innovation Factory, Vienna
Foyer 1 Ecke, Lassallestraße / Joseph-Roth-Gasse 5, 1020 Vienna

### 🗓 Date & Time

November 25, 2025 - from 5:00 PM

Thanks to ÖBB for the location and Top Ideas Digital for the food & drinks!

### 🎟Admission

Free & open to the community - limited seats.

We’re thrilled to announce the comeback of the AI Austria Meetup event series in Innsbruck!
This marks the beginning of regular community meetups dedicated to knowledge exchange, networking, and collaboration around all things AI in Tyrol. Expect deep technical insights, inspiring talks, and an open space for everyone passionate about artificial intelligence — no matter your background.

Agenda
🕡 6:30 pm // Start of Event, Welcome
🕡 6:45 pm // 🎙 Talk 1: Hey Siri, when will you become truly useful?, Sherin Grimbergen, Cloudflight

Voice recognition and speech generation have improved dramatically in the last few years; lower latency, more robust recognition (of dialects), increasingly natural voices, etc. These advances come from specific architectural shifts. In this talk, we’ll look at the current state of the art: what technologies are driving these improvements, why they work, and where their performance breaks down in real world scenarios. Based on hands-on experience, we’ll discuss the technical bottlenecks that still limit applications. Other than customer support agents, there are still very few voice applications consistently delivering good user experience. The goal is a grounded assessment: how far are we from effective voice applications, and what would need to change for Siri and her successors to get there?

🕡 7:30 pm // 🎙 Talk 2: Transformer–xLSTM Ensembles: Achieving 2nd Place in the 2025 PhysioNet Challenge for ECG-Based Chagas Disease Detection, Angus Nicolson, Medical University of Innsbruck

Diagnosing Chagas Disease — a condition that can lead to heart failure and arrhythmias — is crucial, and automated diagnosis from non-invasive, low-cost ECGs is a promising solution. However, there are two major machine learning challenges to overcome: a severe class imbalance (2% positive cases) and a high-level of label uncertainty from self-reported patient diagnoses. In the 2025 PhysioNet Challenge, our team from the Digital Cardiology Lab at the Medical University of Innsbruck achieved 2nd place through large-scale pretraining of multiple foundation models. We utilised the complementary strengths of Transformer models (leveraging attention mechanisms) and xLSTMs (a recurrent architecture well-suited for time-series data like ECGs). In this talk I will summarise the challenge, the problems we encountered and how we overcame them, along with some technical details of our solution.

🕡 08:15 pm // Food, Drinks & Networking
🕡 09:15 pm // end

Location: https://www.cloudflight.io/en/location/innsbruck/
Cloudflight, Bürgerstraße 1-3, 2. OG
6020 Innsbruck

Date & Time: 25.11.2025, 6:30 - 9 pm
Entrance: free
Sponsors: Cloudflight

✨ Everyone’s welcome — get ready for an evening of innovation, great people, and inspiring discussions!

Let’s shape the future of AI together — right here in Innsbruck! 🤖💡

We are looking forward to meeting you!

You dont want to miss the latest GenAI-News?

The Codeforce is back: This time we’re diving deep into AI Agent Workflows!

Our regular online meetup brings together makers, tinkerers, and thought-leaders in the GenAI space to unpack what’s new, what matters, and what’s next.
After a year full of breakthroughs in generative AI and very exciting discussions in our Codeforce group, we’re inviting everyone to join us for a virtual evening of insights, demos, and discussion.

🌐 What to expect

📈 Trend Talk: The latest GenAI developments and community hot takes
🧭 News Radar: Fresh updates from the AI frontier (you know how fast it moves!)
🛠️ Live Demo: Low-Code Tools (OpenAI AgentKit) vs. Custom Agent Workflows (LangGraph). What’s the right choice for your AI project?
💬 Open Floor: Bring your thoughts, your hacks, and your questions. Everyone’s voice counts!

🎯Who should join?

Developers, data scientists, AI enthusiasts, or anyone curious about reshaping automation and creativity. Whether you’re building, experimenting, or just exploring: This is your place!
Let’s exchange ideas, explore the tools, and push GenAI forward together.
See you at the GenAI-Codeforce.

🗓️ Online Session – Free to join