A month of premieres: from Nuremberg via Berlin and Paris to Zurich

On 8 September, Nuremberg's agentic coding community celebrates its premiere: at club199 on Luitpoldstraße, the Agents im Weggla meetup series opens with three hands-on talks in 45-minute slots. Alex Key kicks off with “Evals First” — why agents shine in the demo and fail at the first real user; host Andreas Pabst dissects, under the title “Similar is a bug”, the rewrite of an eight-year-old monolith with over a million users; Andreas Hecht (Dataciders) shows agentic systems in production, including sub-agents and two approval gates.

Each talk is followed by a ten-minute Q&A, with open networking from 8 pm — the speakers stay around according to the organiser, and snacks and drinks are included all evening. Tickets are €19 via Joinify with deliberately limited capacity; the series is planned monthly and leads into the AXDN 27 conference in 2027.

On 16–17 September, STATION Berlin becomes the loudest AI venue in the country: the BIG BANG KI Festival expects over 11,000 guests and more than 350 speakers on — by now — six stages, according to the organiser. The line-up blends politics and business like few other events — Markus Söder and Telekom CEO Tim Höttges deliver day-two keynotes, Richard David Precht debates the “AI generation”, Eckart von Hirschhausen tackles deepfakes, and Stable Diffusion co-inventor Björn Ommer provocatively asks: “We Don't Need More of This AI”. Add OpenAI, Anthropic and a dedicated SAP AI Universe track.

For practitioners: over 60 masterclasses (application required), a “Fit for KI” certificate obtainable on site, and the festival party night with a live act. The two-day festival pass is €499 — alongside currently free one-day tickets, so flexible visitors get in without a budget.

In the US, the AI Engineer series is considered the class reunion of agent builders — on 23–24 September its second European edition comes to Paris, presented by Mistral and hosted at Station F, the world's largest startup campus according to the organiser. Wednesday starts in the evening with opening keynotes, expo and a welcome reception; Thursday packs around 30 talks and launches plus roughly 16 hands-on workshops into one day, with around 1,000 founders, VPs of AI and AI engineers expected.

One thing to know: the full schedule is still being finalised according to the website — individual speaker names are deliberately unpublished yet, as the series traditionally thrives on heavyweights confirmed late. The expo gathers around 24 devtool vendors, and an afterparty with speakers and sponsors in the expo area closes the event. Early-bird tickets are already sold out; regular and late-bird tiers run via Luma.

From the team behind Money20/20 and Shoptalk, HumanX comes to Europe for the first time: from 22 to 24 September, Amsterdam expects 2,500+ attendees — 60 percent VP-level or above — plus 200+ speakers across more than 200 sessions, according to the organiser. The line-up spans Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora, KLM CEO Marjan Rintel and leaders from AWS, Google DeepMind, OpenAI, WRITER and Lovable; six content pillars stretch from agentic AI & digital workers to sovereign & European AI.

The networking machinery stands out: curated “[X]change” formats for policy, executives and founders, executive breakfasts, leadership lunches, a Women@HX reception and a media zone with 150+ journalists according to the organiser. Pricing is confident: the pass currently costs €1,999, with the final rate of €2,499 from 5 September — if you want in, book this week.

To close the month, greater Zurich turns into an AI festival ground: under the motto “Trusted Intelligence”, the Zurich AI Festival bundles dozens of individual events from 29 September to 3 October — from the AI Policy Summit and the AI+X Summit by ETH and the University of Zurich to the Open LLM Builders Summit by the ETH AI Center and EPFL; pre-events start on 28 September. Topics range from robotics and clinical AI to agentic AI governance, with Meta and Google contributions in the tech programme.

The beauty of the festival principle: most events are free and individually bookable, much of it via Luma; those who want everything take the paid V-AI-P pass with full access to the flagship summits. The fringe delivers, too: the open Public Night at StageOne (1 October), ETH hangar tours in Dübendorf, a robotics-art programme at the Cultural Hub and various executive formats. For scale: the 2025 edition counted over 6,500 attendees from 80+ countries, according to the organiser.