appliedAI Developers Meetup @ Munich
The Munich AI Nexus is a senior-level meetup series for architects and engineers solving real-world production AI challenges.
Note - date & location have been changed due to the public transport strike in Munich from 18 to 20 March 2026.
Why This Exists?
We noticed something: most AI meetups show you the shiny demo. Nobody talks about why your model works in staging but crashes in prod at 2am. Or why your data pipeline is held together with duct tape and prayers.
So we built something different. Nine meetup sessions covering the stuff that actually breaks.
The result?
The Production Readiness Blueprint - an open-source collection of patterns that actually helped someone ship something. No fluff. No vendor sales pitches. Just "here's what we tried, here's what failed, here's what stuck. After exploring Context and Behavior, this session moves to the next critical layer: Execution.
MEETUP FOCUS:
This session turning plans into actions that are predictable, testable, and resilient to failure. This session focuses on execution as a first-class architectural concern:
deterministic execution workflows
schema-validated interfaces between components
failure isolation and retry strategies
orchestration of complex AI workflows
tracing and debugging production failures
WHO THIS IS FOR:
AI engineers
AI architects
ML platform teams
Applied AI leads
Builders working beyond PoCs
If you’re operating agent systems in production, it is.
HOW YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE:
Share your related personal challenge, lesson learned.
Read more about each session's goal.
AGENDA:
Talk #1: From AI-Generated Code to Production Execution (Jana-Josephine Chowdhury + Olga Vetter, BMW)
AI coding agents can accelerate ML development but generated code is not production code.
How teams move from agent-generated pipelines to reliable execution systems:validating generated code before execution
reproducible environments and dependency control
sandboxing and safety mechanisms
making agent outputs deterministic and observable
Where does execution break when agents start writing code, and how do you make it safe?
Talk #: Reliable Shopping Agents: Execution Complexity in Multi-Step AI Workflows (Dr. Jana Stucke, Solution Architect, AWS)
Shopping agents promise end-to-end automation: intent detection, product discovery, comparison, and checkout.
But real commerce workflows introduce complex execution challenges:coordinating multiple services and APIs
managing state across multi-step workflows
handling partial failures and retries
preventing duplicate or unsafe actions
This talk explores how production systems handle these realities and what architectural patterns make agent workflows reliable.
Format:
production system walkthroughs
architectural decision breakdowns
interactive discussion around real failure modes
Host: Asaad Almutareb [founder of artiquare, appliedAI Developers MUC Meetup Curator]
The appliedAI Developers bring together engineers, researchers and tech leaders solving real-world AI challenges through knowledge exchange and collaboration.
Hosted by codecentric AG
EVENT LOCATION CHANGE !!!
codecentric AG. The entrance is at August-Everding-Str. 20. Take the elevator to the 1st floor and ring the doorbell. Cheers!
By Car: In the underground parking garage, you will find a large Codecentric logo on the wall at the end of the parking level on either the 1st or 2nd basement floor. Please ring the doorbell at the entrance next to it and take the elevator to the 1st floor, where our reception is located.
By S-Bahn:
Take any S-Bahn to Ostbahnhof. In the lower level of the station, follow the signs towards Werksviertel/Friedenstraße. At the end, take the stairs up and cross the street at the zebra crossing. Then turn left and take the first right into Haager Straße. Walk straight for 300 meters, and you will see Codecentric PLAZA on the left. The entrance is at August-Everding-Str. 20. Take the elevator to the 1st floor and ring the doorbell.
Photos for Directions: Link.
Parking: Link .
The parking garage address: Hanne-Hiob-Straße 10, 81671 Munich