Thursday, September 17, 2026
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM CEST
AI Cocktail Night
About this event
An evening at Merantix AI Campus built around Three Takes: three six-minute talks with no slides and no panel, on why vertical AI projects succeed or stall, rolling out a GenAI platform company-wide, and communicating AI progress honestly.
AI Cocktail Night is deliberately light on format. The centrepiece is Three Takes: three speakers, six minutes each, no slides, no panel afterwards.
Paula Feike of Merantix covers what separates vertical AI projects that reach production from pilots that quietly stop. Hanna Behnke of Langdock talks about rolling out a generative AI platform across an entire company, and argues the deciding factors are leadership backing and user adoption rather than the technology. Alexander Becker of frauwenk addresses how to communicate honestly about where an AI product actually is while it is still being built.
The rest of the evening is discussion and networking among people currently shipping AI inside organisations.
Organised by KIPalooza, Merantix Momentum and frauwenk, presented by Merantix AI Campus. The Campus listing gives the programme as 18:00 to 21:00 while the registration page shows doors from 17:00, so plan for an early arrival. Registration has general and Campus resident tiers.
Organized by
German AI community initiative running networking evenings on practical AI adoption inside organisations.