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November
Wednesday
18:30–22:00 2026 · Berlin time
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Everyone talks about what they're building with AI. Almost no one shows it.
Vention Unplugged returns with a format built to cut through that: real builders, live demos, no slides pretending to be products. Just senior engineering leaders showing what they've actually shipped with AI, and a room ready to ask the hard questions.
This evening is for CTOs and engineering leaders who'd rather see working code than a roadmap slide. Expect real demos, sharp Q&A, a bit of humor, and zero sales pitches. The evening will be hosted by Paul Lunow, CTO at Vention.
🎬 Live DemosEach speaker gets 5 minutes to show something real they've built - an internal tool, a product feature, a workflow that actually changed how their team works - followed by 10 minutes of Q&A where the room gets to dig in:
⚛️ Christoph Neumaier, AI Product Architect at Proxima Fusion – spun out of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, now Europe's best-funded fusion startup and scaling fast on an AI-first stack, where simulation does the heavy lifting long before hardware gets built.
⚙️ Cécile Huynh, AI Automation Engineer at n8n – the Berlin-born workflow automation platform that went from open-source side project to a $2.5B valuation, now powering AI agents inside companies worldwide.
☁️ Ben Trollope, Customer Engineer in the Google Cloud team – helping startups build on Google's data and AI services, with the long game and the resources nobody else has behind him.
🐕 Olga Khorkova, CTO of BARFER’S – Berlin’s raw pet food pioneer, founded in 2011 and now an online-first brand with its own production and stores in Berlin, Potsdam and Hamburg. Proof that AI is looking after our four-legged family members, too.
🎤 Stand-Up ComedyBecause a night of live demos deserves a proper pressure valve: comedian Ludwig Benecke is back on stage for another round of stand-up. Expect his take on the tech world, life in Berlin, and everything in between.
🗓️ Agenda6:30 PM - Welcome Reception & Networking7:00 PM - Opening & Format Intro7:15 PM - Live Demos + Q&A8:00 PM - Stand-Up8:20 PM - Networking Drinks & Snacks
✨ What to expect
Real demos (not roadmaps)
Honest Q&A (not applause)
A curated group of peers
Great conversations, and the occasional "wait, how did you build that?"
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