Berlin chapter · Season 2027
8 companies.8 problems.One human layer.
Slots are allocated until 15 December 2026
At a glance
I Why
GITEX AI Europe brought 21,650 people to Messe Berlin. The builder meetups deliberately keep business attendees out. Neither puts a budget holder in a room with a real problem.
Trade fair
21,650 visitors
You meet whoever walks past your booth
Your problem is not on the agenda
Builder meetup
Builders, few budget holders
Business attendees deliberately kept out
Your problem is not on the agenda
Berlin AI 2027
80 seated guests per dinner
You meet the people you want to meet, invited for you
Your problem is the agenda
II The Berlin Table
80 seated guests at Papillon, Zoologischer Garten.
Each of the eight Founding Companies has four seats for its own team.
Each company also gets six guest seats for the people it wants to meet: leads, customers, partners, investors.
The AI Collective activates its network to bring them to your table.
One dinner: each company has 4 seats for its team and 6 for its guests. Exact seating is agreed before each dinner.
Felix BrandtsOwner and initiator, Papillon
III Your Challenge Night
A 90 minute meeting with us. Any challenge qualifies: technology, HR, operations, sales. It goes out as an open call to Berlin's startups, and we pre-select the three strongest pitches.
At your office or site. The people who would buy the solution are the jury: managers, engineers, whoever you send. The community is the audience. You pick the "Most Buyable", the pitch you would most like to buy.
Food and drinks, with the winner in the middle of it. Up to 100 curated decision makers who now know what you are looking for.
You host the evening at your office or site and cover the venue and food and drinks for up to 100 guests. These costs are not part of the €30,000 programme fee. Prefer not to host? Venture Café Berlin can provide the stage and venue.
Defence, security or regulated? Ask us about a closed format. Eight nights a year, one per Founding Company. Earlier commitments pick their month first.
IV The Human Layer · 2 June
AI is speeding up how organisations work. Transformation still depends on people being able to align, decide, disagree and act together at speed.
Ten of your managers spend one day with senior peers from seven other companies, working on the conversations your organisation is not having: with the works council, between teams and up the hierarchy.
Trust across company boundaries, before any content.
Your ten managers meet senior peers from the seven other Founding Companies.
Your challenges shape the day: the conversations with the works council, between teams and up the hierarchy.
Julia and Göran prepare, guide and refine the day from start to finish.
An implementation framework, so your managers put what they learnt into practice through specific actions in your organisation.
Participants receive documentation you can include in your AI literacy measures under Article 4 of the EU AI Act.
Your challenges stay confidential to the room. Strict NDA for all participants.
Julia SinghFounder of Deep Talks
Works where human connection, communication and transformation meet. Her Deep Talks approach helps strangers, colleagues and leaders go deeper, challenge assumptions and build trust. 15+ years in business and communications, 450+ hours of individual coaching and 250+ of group facilitation. Certified systemic coach and mediator.
Göran HielscherFounder of The Inspiracy Group
Sensemaking, executive facilitation and keynotes, where AI strategy meets language and communication. Since 2012 he has facilitated for Lufthansa, Swisscom, Austrian Airlines, Deutsche Telekom and Bosch. Former Head of Design Thinking at Berlin School of Digital Business.
Two independent brands, one day designed together for the eight Founding Companies.
V The price
€30,000
per year, flat rate, no tiers. All prices excl. VAT.
Included
We plan and run every dinner, your Challenge Night and The Human Layer day.
We invite the leads, customers and partners you want to meet, through The AI Collective's network.
We scout and map Berlin's AI startups against your problem, via the Berlin AI Map, and pre-select the strongest for your Challenge Night.
None of your competitors can join as a Founding Company alongside you.
Not included: venue and catering for your Challenge Night if you host it, and drinks beyond the included budget at the dinners.
VI The year
Eight Challenge Nights across nine possible months, one per Founding Company. Earlier commitments pick their month first.
Under the EU's current Digital Omnibus timeline, obligations for stand-alone (Annex III) high risk AI systems are due to apply from 2 December 2027. The programme year runs up to that date.
VII Track record
The three Berlin series are local versions of the network's Private Dinners, Demo Nights and Hackathons, run across 150+ chapters worldwide.
Members from
Partners include
Members and partners of The AI Collective's global network.
VIII Team and partners
The AI Collective Berlin team curates every room and invites the guests you want to meet. Six people, two delivery partners, one contact for you.
Timo SpringChapter LeadFounding Company relationships, programme, HQ.LinkedIn profile of Timo Spring
Nicole A. del RosarioCompany SuccessYour single point of contact through the year.LinkedIn profile of Nicole A. del Rosario
Jelena HentschelMarketing and ContentBerlin AI Map, communication.LinkedIn profile of Jelena Hentschel
Pascal SchulzePipeline and ProgrammingChallenge Night intake and curation.LinkedIn profile of Pascal Schulze
Gabriella S. SpadoniOperational SystemsOptimises operations and matches what companies need with what AI builders offer.LinkedIn profile of Gabriella S. Spadoni
Yuvanesh RajuData and ToolingThe Berlin AI Map behind the scenes.LinkedIn profile of Yuvanesh Raju
We don't sell sponsorship of single events, so Berlin's other communities work with us. Two of them bring their audiences and stages into your season.
Ewa E. GereszGlobal Expansion Lead
Raphael GutscheFounder and Managing Director
IX Questions
A 2027 programme of The AI Collective's Berlin chapter. Eight Founding Companies, one per category, get four seated dinners, one Challenge Night each and one Human Layer day for their managers.
A global network of 250,000+ members in 150+ city chapters across 50+ countries. The Berlin chapter has run events since June 2026.
One company per category, so none of them competes with you. The Founding Companies are announced together at the season opener in late January.
No competitor of yours can join as a Founding Company in 2027. We agree your category in the first call.
€30,000 for 2027, flat rate, excl. VAT. All eight companies pay the same. There is no smaller package.
VAT. If you host your Challenge Night at your own site, the venue and food and drinks for up to 100 guests. At the dinners, anything beyond the included €80 food and €120 drinks per guest.
Four people at each of the four dinners. A 90 minute intake and your jury for one Challenge Night. Ten managers for one day on 2 June. Optional: an executive on stage at the season opener.
At the season close in early December, Founding Companies get first right to their category for 2028.
Four people from each of the eight Founding Companies, and six guests per company: the leads, customers, partners and investors each company wants to meet. 80 seated guests in total.
Yes. You have six guest seats at every dinner. Tell us who you want to meet, and The AI Collective activates its network to invite them.
Yes. You choose your four people for each dinner.
At Papillon, Zoologischer Garten, on 11 March, 17 June, 16 September and 18 November. One person per company joins the Founding Companies' Hour at the Lang Bar of the Ritz-Carlton beforehand.
Any real problem: technology, HR, operations, sales or go to market. We shape it with you in a 90 minute intake.
The problem goes out as an open call to Berlin's startups, including the members of AI Agents Berlin. We map the field via the Berlin AI Map and pre-select the three strongest pitches.
At your office or site, or at Venture Café Berlin if you prefer not to host. In one of nine months between February and November; earlier commitments pick their month first.
Yes. Ask us about a closed format for defence, security and regulated companies.
Ten of your managers. They spend 2 June with senior peers from the seven other companies.
An implementation framework for specific actions in your organisation, and documentation you can include in your AI literacy measures under Article 4 of the EU AI Act. Everything shared stays under a strict NDA.
Nicole A. del Rosario, Company Success, is your single point of contact. Timo Spring, Berlin Chapter Lead, owns the Founding Company relationship.
Book a 30 minute call. Then a 90 minute intake on your Challenge Night problem, then contract and slot. Slots are allocated until 15 December 2026.
IX Next step
Fit, category, timing.
Where your Challenge Night problem comes from.
Earlier commitments pick their month first.