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Tattoo Flash Day + Vegan Picnic at Mugshot Tattoo 🌱

Tattoo Flash Day + Vegan Picnic at Mugshot Tattoo 🌱

Thu, Sep 10, 11:00 AM
From Berlin Vegan Social
4.8

**Tattoo Flash Day + Vegan Picnic at Mugshot Tattoo 🌱** Join us for a special Tattoo Flash Day + Vegan Picnic at Mugshot Tattoo! We’re bringing the Berlin Vegan Social community together for an afternoon of tattoos, food, drinks, and good company. The tattoo artists will have a selection of small vegan-themed flash designs available in their own styles, and you can also bring your own design if you have something specific in mind. Tattoos will be done in a relaxed and private room for our group. The studio uses vegan tattoo products, so you can enjoy your new piece knowing that the materials used are vegan-friendly. The tattoo artists joining us are: **Masha**: https://www.instagram.com/synesthetic_tattoo?igsi=MWFsd2tpNmE0czJi **Yubraj**: https://www.instagram.com/sikaamaru1666?igsi=eDJoZG9jM29semlh **Tom**: https://www.instagram.com/hoki.tattoo?igsi=MTFkMWF3ZG80c294aQ== While some people get tattooed, we’ll have the backyard space to hang out, enjoy the picnic, have some drinks, and get to know each other. You don’t need to get a tattoo to join the social part of the event! 🍪 **Please bring your own vegan snacks to enjoy during the picnic.** Feel free to bring some extra to share with the group too! The studio will provide some drinks. The studio also collects donations for animal shelters, so if you’d like to support their work, donations are very welcome. 🐾❤️ **Where**: Mugshot Tattoo – Reuterstraße 20, 12043 Berlin, Germany **When**: Thursday, September 10th, 2026 **Time**: 13:00–19:00 **Tattoo prices:** Approximately €80–€120, depending on the design. **✨ Spots are limited! Please RSVP early to secure your place. If your plans change, kindly update your RSVP so someone else can join.** **€1 event fee (non-refundable)** **The €1 fee helps cover the Meetup app fee and other small expenses, and any excess will be donated to animal rights NGOs. Please send it via the PayPal details in the comments (only visible to people marked Going) within 48 hours of RSVPing. No PayPal?** **Message me for the IBAN. If the €1 fee isn't received within 48 hours of RSVPing, your RSVP will be automatically cancelled.** Come for the tattoo, stay for the picnic, and help support animal shelters! 🌱🖋️🐾

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Sunday Service 10:45am

Sunday Service 10:45am

Sun, Sep 20, 8:45 AM
From Berlin Bible Study Meetup
4.9

You are welcome to join Sunday services at our church location. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions.

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1 attendee
DASH26 Recap | How Zendesk Put Reliability First When Scaling Its AI Agents Team

DASH26 Recap | How Zendesk Put Reliability First When Scaling Its AI Agents Team

Thu, Sep 17, 4:00 PM
From Datadog User Group Berlin
4.8

All talks will be **presented in English**, to ensure that as many people as possible can participate and engage at this event. **If you want to attend, please RSVP to secure your spot - this will make organizing easier. Thank you so much ♥️** **Location:** Lightspeed Commerce, [The-B Berlin, Revaler Str. 32, 10245 Berlin](https://www.theb-berlin.com/) \-\-\-\-\-\- **🏠 18:00 - Arrival: Networking, Drinks & Snacks (30 min.)** Grab yourself snacks & drinks and say hello to everybody else! **📅 18:30 - DASH26 Recap** **🎙️**Speaker: Alla Igityan, Enterprise Sales Engineer @ **[Datadog](https://www.datadoghq.com/) /** Marcel Drechsler, Product Owner @ **[andsafe](https://andsafe.de)** This years annual DASH conference from Datadog was almost all about two things: Datadog for AI and AI for Datadog. Expect a comprehensive hour full of the most exciting announcements including demos, where we will also cover topics outside of AI. **☕ 19:30 - Break (15 min.)** **📅 19:45 - How Zendesk Put Reliability First When Scaling Its AI Agents Team (30 min.)** **🎙️**Speaker: Tiago Araújo, Engineering Manager @ **[Zendesk](https://www.zendesk.de/)** When Zendesk acquired Ultimate, the team became Zendesk’s AI Agents team and continued operating with much of the autonomy that had made it successful as an independent company. But as the team adapted to Zendesk’s scale, reliability expectations changed. To meet Zendesk’s SLA commitments, teams needed to identify the root cause in two minutes on average, and the existing observability posture was not built for that level of operational rigor. In this session, Tiago Araújo, Engineering Manager, will share how Zendesk brought the AI Agents team back in line with its reliability goals without compromising engineering velocity. They’ll explain what changed when the team adopted Zendesk’s engineering best practices, how stronger observability helped engineers move faster and more safely, and why reliability became a key part of scaling the team after the acquisition. Attendees will leave with practical lessons for onboarding acquired or newly integrated engineering teams with reliability in mind. You’ll learn how to make observability part of the onboarding process, reduce time to root cause, and help teams ship quickly without putting SLA commitments at risk **🥗 20:15 - Drinks, Food & Networking** Enjoy refreshments while networking with community peers! **👋 21:00 - Goodbye, see you next time!**

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Meetup #14 — Building digital sovereignty

Meetup #14 — Building digital sovereignty

Wed, Sep 9, 4:00 PM
From Öffentliches Gestalten – shaping public sector’s future
4.8

European governments have created great external dependencies in their digital infrastructure. Much of public digital infrastructure depends on foreign components, platforms, and systems. With increasing urgency, civic activists, journalists and security experts have warned about potential dire consequences. In recent years, cities, states and even countries have responded by investing in their digital sovereignty. They cut decade-long IT contracts, open source code, and look for more agile suppliers to make their tech stack more modular. At our September meetup, we will hear what digital sovereignty entails, why it’s desirable and how we get there. We will welcome the following speakers: * Amanda Kraley, Sovereign Tech Agency (confirmation pending) * Anke O​bendiek, DigitalService des Bundes * Lisa Steigertahl, Deloitte * Powen Shiah, Sovereign Tech Agency CityLAB Berlin hosts the event in their stunning 1920s space, a former airport building. All presentations will be given in English. Questions in the later discussion part can be raised either in English or German. Pictures and videos will be taken. ––– Das CityLAB Berlin ist Gastgeber der Veranstaltung und lädt zu seinen beeindruckenden Räumlichkeiten im früheren Abfertigungsterminal des Flughafens Tempelhof ein. Alle Vorträge werden in englischer Sprache gehalten. Fragen im anschließenden Diskussionsteil können sowohl auf Englisch als auch auf Deutsch gestellt werden. Es werden Video- und Fotoaufnahmen gemacht.

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TIN* Embodied Practices

TIN* Embodied Practices

Fri, Sep 18, 5:00 PM
From Village.Berlin
4.7

**TIN\* Embodied Practices** mit Lux für **TIN\* (trans\*, inter\*, nicht-binäre, gender und genderqueere Personen)\*** Kostenlos mit **[Anmeldung](https://wearevillage.org/shop/tin-embodied-practices/w38-2026/)** **Ein somatischer Bewegungsraum für TIN\*-Körper (trans\*, inter\*, nicht-binäre, agender und genderqueere Personen)**. Inspiriert von Body-Mind Centering®, der Atemarbeit nach Ilse Middendorf, Authentic Movement und Feldenkrais verbinden die Sessions angeleitete Bewegung, Berührung, Improvisation und Reflexion. Auf Basis von Konsens, Autonomie und Care stärkt die Praxis Körperwahrnehmung, Selbstbestimmung und Resilienz in einer unterstützenden Gemeinschaft. Jede Sitzung beginnt mit einer geführten somatischen Bewegungsübung, die sich auf die Entwicklung anatomischer Werkzeuge zur Selbstbeobachtung konzentriert. Wir arbeiten mit den fünf Hauptlinien (Arme, Beine, Wirbelsäule), den vier Ecken des Rumpfes (Schultern und Hüften), den drei Hauptgewichtspunkten (Kopf, Brustkorb, Becken) und den beiden Seiten des Körpers. Diese Prinzipien unterstützen die Teilnehmer dabei, sich innerhalb ihrer eigenen körperlichen Architektur zu orientieren und ein verkörpertes Bewusstsein zu entwickeln. Auf dieser Grundlage erweitert sich die Praxis zu gemeinschaftlichen Bewegungen und gemeinsamer räumlicher Gestaltung, einschließlich Zeit für Integration und Reflexion. Bewegung wird als relationale, politische und räumliche Praxis an sich betrachtet. *\*\* Diese Veranstaltung ist Teil unseres Programms ‘**queere generationen**‘, unterstützt von der* ***[Berliner Lotto Stifttung](https://www.lotto-stiftung-berlin.de/)****.* *Erfahre mehr über das Programm* ***[hier](https://wearevillage.org/queer-generations)****.* 🔵 **TIN\* Embodied Practices** with Lux for **TIN\* (Trans\*, Inter\*, Non-binary, agender and genderqueer people)** **[Free event with registration](https://wearevillage.org/en/shop/tin-embodied-practices/w38-2026/)** **A somatic movement space dedicated to TIN\* bodies (Trans\*, Inter\*, Non-binary, agender and genderqueer people).** Drawing from Body-Mind Centering®, breathwork after Ilse Middendorf, Authentic Movement and Feldenkrais, the sessions combine guided movement, touch-based exploration, improvisation and reflection. Grounded in consent, autonomy and care, the practice supports embodied awareness, bodily autonomy and resilience within a supportive community. Each session begins with a guided somatic movement practice focused on developing anatomical tools for self-observation. We work with the five cardinal lines (arms, legs, spine), the four corners of the trunk (shoulders and hips), the three primary weights (head, chest, pelvis), and the two sides of the body. These principles support participants in orienting within their own physical architecture and cultivating embodied awareness. From this foundation, the practice expands into communal movement and shared spatial authorship, including time for integration and reflection. Movement is framed as relational, political, and spatial practice in its own right. **General Information** To engage fully in the experience, participants are encouraged to wear comfortable clothing. **Participants:** This workshop is intended for people who identify outside traditional cisgender definitions: Trans\*, Inter\*, Non-binary, including agender and genderqueer identities. **Registration:** This event has limited spots available. Registration via our website is required. **Language:** This event will be in English. **Cost:** The event is free of charge. *\*\* This event is part of the we are village program* ***[queer generations](https://wearevillage.org/en/queer-generations)*** *with the support of the* ***[Lotto Stiftung Berlin](https://www.lotto-stiftung-berlin.de/)***. *Learn more about the program* ***[here](https://wearevillage.org/en/queer-generations)****.*

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Divine Comedy Presents: American Idiot

Divine Comedy Presents: American Idiot

Sat, Sep 26, 4:00 PM
From English Stand-up Comedy

**Make. America. Funny. Again.** Take a journey through the mind of an American. An American Idiot. **Edy "U-the-Man"** brings his hilarious one-man comedy showcase to ***Berlin***,**"*American Idiot*.**" It is a self-deprecating, manic, no-holds-barred look at the American experience in Europe. In this **high-energy show**, **nothing is left off the table**, not even his dignity. Come for the sharp social commentary on his experience living in Italy, the state of the world, and his deeply concerning **personal anecdotes** about his love life, work life, and family life. All of which are both concerning and hilarious. Edy’s one-man show is a **loud, chaotic, and completely unfiltered** descent into the mind of a man who is sometimes introspective, sometimes delusional, but always funny. **Edy "U-The-Man"** – Edy is Nigerian-American and the Organizer/MC of Divine Comedy Club Milano. He has performed in cities across Europe, including Barcelona, Madrid, Lisbon, Paris, Malta, Berlin, Vienna, Dublin, Prague, Budapest and many in Italy. **Divine Comedy Club Milano** is one of the first English-language comedy clubs in Milan. It is a mix of local and expat comedians who are well-established in Milan's comedy scene. The club runs a bi-weekly Open Mic event. For more information about Divine Comedy Club Milano, follow us on Instagram: [@edyutheman](https://www.instagram.com/edyutheman/) or [@divinecomedymilan](https://www.instagram.com/divinecomedyclubmilan/) **Don’t miss out – [get your tickets here!](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/divine-comedy-club-presents-american-idiot-tickets-1997179207773)** *Doors Open* at **17.30** *Show Starts* at **18.00** General Admission: €12 Student: €11 Tickets for 2: € 10 Tickets at the door: €17.00

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