International Women’s Day (IWD) 2025: Redefine Possible

Name: International Women’s Day (IWD) 2025: Redefine Possible
Start: 2025-04-26T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-04-26T17:30:00+02:00
Location: ICO InnovationsCentrum Osnabrück I Technologie- und Gründerzentrum

ICO InnovationsCentrum Osnabrück I Technologie- und Gründerzentrum, Albert-Einstein-Straße 1, Osnabrück, 49076

GDG Osnabrück

Redefine Possible – Shaping the future of technology and society through innovation, creativity, and breaking gender barriers. Let’s challenge the impossible and Redefine Possible together! 📍Location: ICO, Albert-Einstein-Str. 1, Osnabrück, 49078

Apr 26, 1:00 – 3:30 PM (UTC)

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Key Themes

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About this event

IWD 2025: Redefine Possible🗓️ Date: 26.04.2025
⏰ Time: 15:00 - 17:30 CET
📍Location: ICO, Albert-Einstein-Str. 1, Osnabrück, 49078
Join us for an inspiring day of empowerment, innovation, and action as we celebrate International Women’s Day 2025 under the global theme "Redefine Possible".
Hosted by GDG Osnabrück and Co-Hosted by GDG Ahlen, this event in Osnabrück brings together women in tech, AI, and innovation to break boundaries and shape the future of technology.
Through keynote speakers, interactive workshops, mentorship opportunities, and global connections, we will explore how women are revolutionizing AI, tackling gender bias, and paving the way for a more sustainable and inclusive digital world.

What to Expect:💡 Thought-provoking panel discussions on innovative, sustainable or ethical AI & tech
💻 Hands-on workshops for breaking into and advancing in tech fields
🌐 Networking with inspiring role models and mentors
🌍 Global collaborations with Women Techmakers across the world
☕ Take a moment to connect, recharge, and get inspired! 
🤝 The future of tech is in our hands—what seems impossible today becomes tomorrow’s reality when we dare to challenge it. Let’s Redefine Possible together!
Register now and be part of the movement that shapes tomorrow! 🚀
Catering:☕ Connections & Coffee: Arrive and connect with others during our initial coffee break with light treats.
🍷 Evening Networking & Wine: Extend your conversations and build connections over a glass of wine at the end of the event.

#WTMIWD #WTMRedefinePossible

When

Saturday, April 26, 2025
1:00 PM – 3:30 PM (UTC)

Where

ICO InnovationsCentrum Osnabrück I Technologie- und Gründerzentrum
Albert-Einstein-Straße 1
Osnabrück, 49076

Agenda

1:00 PM	🌐 Registration & Networking	Connect with fellow attendees, speakers, and mentors.
1:00 PM	🌟 Speaker Arpita Sarker : "Redefining Possible: Rethinking AI Through Collective Decision-Making"	What if AI development wasn’t driven by a few powerful actors, but shaped by the collective voice of its users? In this talk, I introduce TrustChain AI — a research-based architecture that explores how decentralized collaboration, voting mechanisms, and transparency can redefine how we build and govern intelligent systems. Instead of central control and black-box decisions, this approach opens the door to a future where AI is co-created, privacy-preserving, and aligned with community values. We’ll look at how consensus and collective agency can challenge traditional models of AI — and why rethinking participation is key to redefining what’s possible.
1:30 PM	☕ Catering	Drinks, snacks & networking.
2:00 PM	🌍 Speaker Svetlana Meissner : "Agentic Era: Why Do We Need Agents?"	In the rapidly evolving landscape of AI, Large Language Models (LLMs) are limited by their training data. Still, AI agents can overcome these limitations by using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to access external, up-to-date information, enhancing the accuracy and relevance of their responses. This session will explore how Google Cloud's Vertex AI provides a platform for building RAG applications, including Vertex AI Search, a managed service for creating knowledge-based agents, and the RAG Engine for grounding LLM responses in custom data. You'll gain an understanding of how RAG works, including indexing, creating vector embeddings, and retrieving relevant information to provide context for the LLM. The session will provide practical insights into how RAG can be used to build robust and reliable AI applications and discuss how Gemini 2.0 models support agentic capabilities.
3:00 PM	🍸 Networking, Drinks & Snacks	Unwind and expand your professional network in a relaxed atmosphere. Enjoy a wine and other beverages, along with tasty snacks, while engaging in valuable conversations with colleagues and industry peers.

Speakers

Svetlana Meissner

AI-Trainer

AI-Trainer, Google Developer Expert in ML/AI

Arpita Sarker

Forkit.dev

Founder

Host

Anna Muzykina

GDG Ahlen

GDG Ahlen Organiser | NASA Space Apps Ahlen Lead Organiser | Flutter Developer | WTM Ambassador | WiDS Ambassador

Organizers

Michael Ramich

GDG Organizer

See bio

Maik Viet Anh Burdick