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with Darya Kamkalova (Founder, Venturing Women) · Vanessa Wachtmeister (Founder & Creator, Go Onwards)

The weekly Thursday Gathering at Venture Café Berlin turns its attention to one of the ecosystem's quieter questions: how do you navigate a career in this industry? Two founders share their playbook — Darya Kamkalova (Founder, Venturing Women) on building community and professional positioning, and Vanessa Wachtmeister (Founder & Creator, Go Onwards) on experimenting your way to the right next step. Free to attend and open to all. Doors from 17:00, programme from 18:00, networking until 20:00.

SuperReturn Venture is Europe's premier gathering for the venture capital and LP community — 1,000+ attendees across three days at Hotel Palace Berlin, with 350+ LPs and 500+ VCs from 50+ countries working through the most consequential questions in the asset class. This is where fund managers meet their current and prospective investors, where emerging managers build their credibility, and where the direction of European venture gets debated at the highest level. Institutional-grade, relationship-first. LPs attend complimentary.

Webinale is Germany's established web and digital technology conference — five days in Berlin (workshops June 8 & 12, main programme June 9–11) at the Maritim proArte Hotel on Friedrichstraße. With ~120 speakers and a growing track on AI in web development, Webinale draws senior developers, architects and digital leads from across the DACH region. Attendance is hybrid (in-person and online). Topics span modern web architecture, AI integration, UX engineering, and the practical realities of building at scale. Early booking discounts of up to 25% available.

TEDxBerlin returns for a two-day deep dive into how AI is reshaping business, society, and creativity. Day 1 at Factory Berlin Mitte (Mon 8 Jun) is hands-on — workshops, panels, and practical AI use cases across industries. Day 2 at the Berliner Ensemble (Tue 9 Jun) delivers the classic TEDx stage with global voices on AI's impact on power, governance, trust, and culture. Tickets are available for one day or both. The two-venue format pairs Berlin's startup hub with one of Germany's most historic theatres.

with Prof. Dr. Heyo K. Kroemer (CEO, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin)

bio:cap is Europe's new Life Science and AI 'Investival' — three days at CityCube Berlin where breakthrough science meets the capital that turns it into impact. Organised by Messe Berlin in cooperation with Charité, BIH, and Hasso Plattner Institut, the inaugural edition spans BioTech, TechBio, diagnostics, and AI: curated 1:1 matchmaking with international investors, a dedicated startup pitch stage, agenda-setting keynotes, and political panels on regulation. Festival-style format — investor conference by day, Berlin nightlife by night. Aimed at founders, investors, pharma leaders, and research institutions across the global life science ecosystem.

with Joe Tsai (Co-founder and Chairman, Alibaba Group) · Rev Lebaredian (Vice President, Physical AI Simulation, NVIDIA) · Dr. Karsten Wildberger (Federal Minister for Digital Transformation and Government Modernization, Federal Government of Germany) + 5 more

Bosch ConnectedWorld is the global flagship conference for AI, digital systems, future tech, and mobility, hosted by Robert Bosch GmbH at the Tempodrom (opening) and Arena Berlin. BCW26 brings together corporate CEOs, government leaders, and AI executives — confirmed speakers include Joe Tsai (Alibaba), Rev Lebaredian (NVIDIA), Oliver Blume (Volkswagen), Stefan Hartung (Bosch), David Reger (Neura Robotics), and Karsten Wildberger (Germany's Federal Minister for Digital Transformation). Two days of keynotes, exhibition, hackathon, and structured networking. Targeted at engineering and product leaders building AI into industrial and connected products.

The Thursday Gathering at Venture Café Berlin takes on aerospace and New Space this week — a sector attracting serious attention and capital as Berlin positions itself as a European hub for space tech and dual-use innovation. Open networking from 17:00, programme from 18:00. Free to attend, open to founders, investors, engineers and ecosystem professionals with an interest in the sector. CIC Berlin at Lohmühlenstraße 65.

DevOpsCon Berlin is one of Europe's most established conferences for CI/CD, Kubernetes, microservices, cloud, and DevSecOps — and the 2026 edition is built around how AI is reshaping the entire DevOps stack. Five days at the Maritim proArte Hotel: workshops on the 15th and 18th, the main conference on 16–17 June, with a dedicated expo running alongside. Expect deep, hands-on tracks on Agentic AI, Tool-Driven Systems, RAG in production, platform engineering, and Terraform-scale cloud operations. Designed for senior engineers, SREs, architects, and platform leads moving real AI workloads into real production. In-person or online.

PITS — the Public-IT-Security Congress — is Germany's flagship event for IT security in the public sector. Two days at the Hotel Adlon Kempinski bring together IT leaders from federal, state and municipal authorities, plus industry, academia and the security vendor ecosystem. The 2026 motto is "Heroes and Heroines in the Background." Expect substantive sessions on AI in security operations, cloud usage by public administration, building IT security capacity, and the daily reality of defending public-sector systems against cyber attack. Highly relevant for anyone selling into the public sector, working on regulated AI/cloud deployments, or building security products for institutional buyers.

GreenTech Festival is Berlin's flagship gathering for the people and companies pushing sustainability and climate technology forward — three days at Station Berlin in Kreuzberg with 100+ sessions, 50+ leaders on stage, and a strong cross-track on the AI-climate fusion that's reshaping the sector. The 2026 edition runs investor matchmaking, €100K+ pitch battles for startups, circular-business deep dives, and extended networking receptions. With 40%+ underrepresented speakers and a curated cross-section of corporates, scale-ups and challenger founders, this is one of the highest-signal weeks of the year for climate tech, energy and sustainable business. VIP and student pricing available.

The weekly Thursday Gathering at Venture Café Berlin remains one of the most reliable touchpoints in the Berlin innovation ecosystem — 150–250 founders, investors, corporates and curious operators in one room every week, every Thursday. Each edition has a different programme thread (recent weeks have covered career labs, aerospace and agentic AI), with talks, info tables and structured connection time alongside the open networking. Free, open to all, registration via the community portal. Doors from 17:00, programme from 18:00, networking until 20:00 at CIC Berlin in Schöneweide.

A weekend hackathon built for the Berlin builder community working at the intersection of robotics and agentic AI — two full days (Sat–Sun, 10:00–17:30) of hands-on team building, demos and structured judging. The format brings together engineers, researchers, founders and investors to build real solutions that pair robotics hardware with agentic AI software stacks. Open to individuals or teams; matchmaking on the morning of day one. Good fit for ML/robotics engineers, technical founders prototyping a deeptech idea, and operators who want to see what the next wave of physical-AI looks like up close. Venue confirmed on registration.