Archives: Meetup Events

IMPORTANT: Visit the PyData Ireland page to RSVP.

AI development is evolving rapidly, and databases must keep pace. Databases play a critical role in modern AI applications—they must consistently provide fast, accurate search across large datasets. In this talk, we’ll explore how vector search fits into AI development workflows and how Couchbase offers a unique, flexible approach by combining NoSQL with vector capabilities. We’ll cover the fundamentals of vector databases and AI agents, dive into Couchbase’s architecture and its integration with AI frameworks and wrap up with a live demo—showing how to build an AI-powered PDF chatbot using Couchbase, LangChain, and Google Gemini. Whether you’re building intelligent search, recommendation systems, or agentic applications, you’ll walk away with practical insights on using Couchbase to bring AI to production.

Speaker:
Georgina Martin, LinkedIn
Georgina is a Solutions Engineer and has been at Couchbase since 2022, working closely with enterprise and midmarket customers helping them to build modern, scalable applications leveraging Couchbase’s advanced NoSQL solutions. She is passionate about innovative technology and delivering customers the highest quality solutions possible. Outside of work, Georgina enjoys bouldering and travel.

Event Agenda:
6:00 to 6:20: Entry
6:20 to 7:20: Talk and QnA
7:20 to 7:50: Networking, Pizza and Drinks

Key takeaways:

• Understand the role of vector databases and AI agents in modern AI workflows, and why they matter
• Learn how Couchbase supports AI services alongside traditional NoSQL workloads
• Gain practical insights into building AI-powered applications using Couchbase and LangChain
• Discover how to integrate Couchbase with large language models (LLMs) for real-world use cases
• See a live demo of a PDF chatbot built with Couchbase, LangChain, and Google Gemini

IMPORTANT: Visit the PyData Ireland page to RSVP.

IMPORTANT: Visit the registration page to secure a spot.

In today’s digital age, mobile devices are at the center of everything we do.

To stay ahead of the competition and drive customer loyalty, businesses must prioritise building mobile applications that are user-friendly, responsive, highly available, consistent, and secure.

But how can you ensure your mobile app remains responsive and fully operational, even in challenging conditions like poor or no network connectivity?

Join us for an exclusive session where we’ll explore proven strategies for achieving 100% uptime, ensuring a flawless user experience even in the most challenging environments. We’ll also break down the latest mobile technologies, helping you choose the best tools for your next mobile app.

📍 GEC Dublin at 4pm meet
👩‍💻 Hands-on experience with Couchbase Mobile
🍻 Networking and drinks on Couchbase

IMPORTANT: Visit the registration page to secure a spot.

IMPORTANT: RSVP at the Codu event page

Free Workshop: Building Semantic AI Agents for Real-World Applications with Couchbase and CrewAI

We’re thrilled work with the Codu community and welcome Shivay Lamba (TensorFlowJS Working Group Lead and DevEx at Couchbase) who’s flying in all the way from India to share his expertise!

Join us as we dive into orchestrating LLM AI agents with CrewAI, an open-source platform changing how AI agents collaborate. You’ll discover:

• The fundamentals of Agentic AI
• Critical business use-cases for AI Agents
• Key challenges of integrating multiple agents together
• How CrewAI streamlines communication, dynamic task decomposition, and adaptive learning
• Learn how to enhance agent capabilities with Semantic search via Couchbase and Retrieval-Augmented Generation.

This workshop will teach you to integrate vector search capabilities with CrewAI’s agent-based approach to solve real-world problems.

And that’s not all! We’ve got:

• Free pizza 🍕
• Drinks on us 🍻
• Lots of friendly developers to chat and share ideas with 🤝
• Usually some stickers and swag to steal too! 🦄

Come hungry for knowledge (and pizza)! It’s the perfect way to level up your coding skills while having fun with other web developers.
Spots are VERY limited so get in fast!
Sponsored by Couchbase & AI Crush

IMPORTANT: RSVP at the Codu event page

Couchbase Hands-On Workshop & Networking @ MONKEY BAR

Unlocking the Power of NoSQL – Relational Databases vs. NoSQL

In this free 2-in-1 event, you’ll join a hands-on workshop and networking session. With Couchbase Capella™, you’ll quickly set up a fully functional NoSQL database for your AI-powered applications and learn how to build scalable, high-performance apps using NoSQL and AI.

Whether you’re looking to expand your developer skills, dive into AI, or just enjoy a drink and chat with like-minded people and the Couchbase team—just come by!

REGISTER HERE: https://lu.ma/vp7e8m3i

When: 18. March 2025, 16:30 – 20:30
Where: 25hours Hotel Bikini Berlin
Room: FREIRAUM, 3rd floor (after 7pm: Monkey Bar rooftop)
Budapester Str. 40, 10787 Berlin

Workshop:🎯Room FREIRAUM

16:30 – 16:45 | Welcome & Intro
Learn how to scale and optimize your modern apps with Couchbase database platform.
16:45 – 18:15 | Hands-On
💻 Set up a Free Tier cloud account and understand how data is organized in Couchbase.
💻 Create buckets, documents & queries with SQL++ (SQL for JSON) and explore AI-powered SQL queries.
💻 Dive into advanced features, including vector search for optimizing AI-driven search applications.
18:15 – 18:30 | Wrap-Up & Q&A
Summary of key takeaways and open discussion on any questions.

Networking: 🎯Room FREIRAUM, then Monkey Bar

18:30 – 19:00 | Welcome & Intro
Short intro to Couchbase, VIP access tickets for Monkeybar (for free drinks & snacks), followed by a joint walk to the bar.
19:00 – 20:30 | 🎉 MONKEY BAR
🍸 Relax over drinks and snacks while connecting with fellow developers, Couchbase users, and AI enthusiasts.
🍸 Meet the Couchbase team and expand your network in a casual and engaging atmosphere.

Who Should Attend:

Workshop: Developers, architects, DBAs, and DevOps engineers eager to explore Couchbase DBaaS (Couchbase Capella).
Networking: Couchbase customers, partners, professionals, or anyone interested in NoSQL, AI, and networking.

What You Need to Get Started:

A laptop, basic database knowledge, and a passion for learning and building AI-driven applications.
Free-Tier Access: For the workshop all attendees will receive free access to Couchbase Capella™, allowing you to experiment with data, queries, indexes, and vector search features—completely free of charge.

About Couchbase:
The Developer Data Platform for AI-Driven Applications.
A versatile NoSQL database designed for transactional, analytical, mobile, and AI-powered applications—built to support the demands of critical workloads in today’s AI-driven world.

REGISTER HERE: https://lu.ma/vp7e8m3i

Topic: Building AI Agents

Agenda:

4:30 – 4:40 PM : Welcome Note

4:40 – 5:10 PM: Accelerating Agentic AI development with Model Catalog and Azure Open AI by – Avinash Bharadwaj

If 2024 was the year of AI Chatbots & RAG, then 2025 is the year of AI agents. While you may interact with an AI agent in the same manner you interact with an AI chatbot, the differences between them are stark. AI agents can autonomously act to fulfill your requests.

There are multiple approaches and frameworks out there to help one get started with Agentic AI applications, but more often than not, this can get complex and expensive. Thus, in this demo lead session we will explore open-source agentic AI tooling like Controflow to build Agentic AI applications using Agent Catalog and Azure OpenAI.

5:20 – 5:50 PM – Building Agentic Flows with Autogen Design Patterns by Aruna Chakkirala

In future humans will be working alongside Agents” that is the prevalent sentiment in the industry. Agentic Solutions are geared to be going mainstream soon. There are multiple means to building the Agents using no code or highly customizable pro code options which include Autogen and Semantic Kernel. This session will focus on Autogen for building Agentic Solutions. AutoGen is an open-source framework for building multi-agent systems with diverse roles and capabilities. Multi Agent Systems involve a combination of Intelligent Agents working together to achieve a goal. The collaboration patterns between the Agents can also be tuned to suit the objective and requirement.

This can be achieved by leveraging the multiple design patterns in Autogen which is well suited for implementing complex AI applications. In this session we will provide a background of Autogen through a demo and also delve into the multiple design patterns available to address scenarios

6 – 6:30 PM – Zero Trust Security for LLM/Agentic AI applications by Shivay Lamba

As businesses increasingly rely on LLM applications for their important functions, it becomes important to implement strong security measures to protect sensitive information and guarantee smooth operations. This session shares how to build a zero-trust security architecture for Agentic AI workloads using cloud native patterns. The session will explore how to implement AI Gateways that have strong authentication and authorization and include audit logging. Keep compliance and governance requirements while you secure model artifacts and implement runtime security and protect against prompt injection attacks.

6:30 – 6:40: Introduction to Semantic Kernel with Couchbase – Shivay Lamba

Quick introduction to Semantic Kernel for building agentic applications with the Couchbase integration

6:40 – 6:50: Implement AI Agents in your Developer Workflow using Github Copilot – Aditya Oberai

6:50 – 7:00 PM : Quiz, and closing note

7:00 – 8:00 PM – Refreshments and Networking

Location:
Microsoft Reactor Bengaluru
Vigyan”, No. 9, Ground Floor, Lavelle Road, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560001

Kindly take a note of the following Visitor Procedures:

• Visitors are requested to park their vehicles only at designated parking area as directed by the team and as per availability only.
• Yellow board vehicles are not permitted to park inside the premises.
• All visitors need to obtain “Visitors Badge” by verifying their government id like Aadhar card, Driving license or any other suitable Govt id at respective building reception and need to be escorted throughout their stay in Microsoft premises.
• Visitors should return the temporary visitor pass to the receptionist at the end of their visit. Visitors must abide by the “No Photography” & “No Smoking” policies on Microsoft premises