Own Your AI 6: Forecast, Build, Steer

Own the infra. Own the data. Own the future of AI
This time, we're meeting at the E/3 event space at Palais Eschenbach, Eschenbachgasse 11, 1010 Vienna. Take the FIRST elevator on the left to the 3rd floor. Please use the first elevator: the second elevator leads to a different space.
A big thank-you to Julius, Franz and the E3 Hub team for providing the space and hosting our community!
"Own Your AI" is a community event for practitioners who want to run their own AI. We explore the sovereignty of infrastructure, models, and data, and what that means for controlling security, risk, and costs. Our focus is independence from the cloud foundation services and large hyperscalers that dominate the scene.
We are an active community of people who are building AI systems and want to exchange notes with peers who do the same.
Our Mission: Sovereignty • Optimization • Knowledge
Who is this for?
LLM- and Agentic-Engineers, Data Scientists, AI-Platform-Engineers, Hands-on Tech-Leaders
Agenda
Thursday, 19 November 2026, from 18:00 in Vienna. Join us for time-series forecasting on your own hardware, two lightning talks (Ermis and one TBA), and a hands-on introduction to interpretability, directional steering and abliteration. Then stay for questions, conversations and networking.
Programme preview:
Welcome and community news
TiRex-2: Forecasting Time Series on Your Own Hardware (20 minutes plus 5 minutes Q&A)
Lightning Talks: ChatDeck by Ermis Chorinopoulos (10 minutes) and one TBA (5 minutes planned), followed by questions
Short break
Cyber Defense Without the Refusal: Abliteration in Practice (20 minutes plus 10 minutes Q&A)
Wrap-up and networking
Schedule subject to change. The second lightning talk will be announced.
🚀 "TiRex-2: Forecasting Time Series on Your Own Hardware" by Patrick Podest and Marco Pichler (NXAI)
Patrick and Marco from NXAI explore time-series forecasting with TiRex-2 / xLSTM on your own hardware, with a focus on practical application and hands-on examples.
🚀 "Cyber Defense Without the Refusal: Abliteration in Practice" by Andreas Petersson
How can we understand and influence what happens inside an open-weight model? Starting with the basics of interpretability, we explore directions in model activations and how directional steering can change model behaviour. Abliteration provides a practical application: reducing refusals so models can assist with legitimate cyber defense and thorough code audits. Hands-on examples with Qwen and DeepSeek show what changes, what can break, and how to check whether the resulting answers are useful.
Lightning Talks
🚀 "Twenty AI chats, one window: building ChatDeck" by Ermis Chorinopoulos
A live ChatDeck demo with short slides and feature clips, plus three real bugs from using the app every day. AI conversations, terminals and project workspaces in one window. About 10 minutes plus questions. Slides
🚀 "Don't build your house on someone else's ground - How we are building the OpenPeeps Community Server with open weights models and (mostly) on our own hardware" by Christoph Witzany
Building the OpenPeeps Community Server with open-weight models and mostly on the team's own hardware. A practical look at bringing development workflows onto a stack the team controls. Five minutes plus questions.

Format
Two focus talks of about 20 minutes each, plus two Lightning Talks: Ermis and one TBA, with time for questions.
Followed by: Meeting peers and discussing topics - have a drink together
Venue: Palais Eschenbach / E3 Hub, Eschenbachgasse 11, 1010 Vienna (in person only).
Cadence: Once every month.
Language: English - we appreciate our very international community!
Why in person only? The value is in the hallway conversations, the whiteboard sketches, and the people you meet.

Hosts
Andreas Burner — Management Advisor for AI & Cloud Strategy, Board Advisor, and Court-Certified Expert. 25+ years in global enterprise technology. BurnerNet.com
Andreas Petersson — Technology Advisor and Founder of Capacity. Two decades of experience building and auditing decentralised, security-critical systems. Capacity.at
Registration
Seats are limited so that discussion and networking actually work. Register at https://luma.com/mfxp52si. Final speaker details will be shared before the event.
Own the stack. Own the data. Own the future.
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