Join us for an evening of interesting talks, hands-on demos, and community exchange at our upcoming Google Developer Group (GDG) event!

We’ll explore Oracle’s latest cloud and AI offerings, and how they help developers to build smarter and faster. From there, we’ll dive into Oracle’s partnership with Cohere, a leading force in generative AI.

Additionally, you’ll learn about:

✨ Cohere Terrarium, a Python sandbox for experimenting with LLMs

💡 Live demos and practical examples from real-world applications

🗓 When? Monday, 28th April 2025

🕠 Time? 18:00–21:00

📍 Where? TU Wien - FAV 01 (https://maps.tuwien.ac.at/?q=HEEG02#map)

🍕 Perks? Free snacks & drinks, great people, top-tier AI content!

💸 Cost: Free! Limited capacity – please register early to secure your spot!

🎙 Meet our speakers:

- Michael Lessiak (Oracle) is currently focusing on helping Austrian companies to adopt Oracle AI technology, ranging from OCI superclusters with up to 131,072 GPUs to AI & ML in the database. He holds a masters degree in Wirtschaftsinformatik from TU Wien and a masters degree in international business Strategy from Hitotsubashi ICS University Tokyo.

- Sebastian Hofstätter (Cohere) is a Senior Staff Research Scientist at Cohere, where he helped establish efforts in Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), tool-use, agentic modeling, and human data annotation – including authoring the open source Python sandbox Terrarium. His research focuses on advancing multimodal LLM reasoning, integrating models with external systems, and improving citation accuracy for better user experiences. He holds a PhD from TU Vienna, where he worked on efficient and interpretable neural retrieval systems.