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💡 Wer steckt dahinter?
guild42.ch und die IT Communities von Bern – guild42.ch ist seit 15 Jahren eine fest Grösse der IT-Community in Bern. Ein Verein, der durch Events und Austausch die lokale Tech-Szene verbindet, inspiriert und weiterbringt.

💸 Und das Beste:
Dank unserer grossartigen Sponsoren ist der Event kostenlos!

Everything

• acend
• amanox
• AXA
• M&S

Universe

• AKROS
• aws
• bespinian
• glue
• PEAK SCALE
• tim&koko

Life

• approppo
• BEGASOFT
• Bedag
• Fabasoft 4teamwork
• mimacom
• Puzzle ICT
• Red Hat
• Zühlke

Ein riesiges Dankeschön an alle, die das ermöglichen und sich gemeinsam mit uns für die Community engagieren. 🙏

📅 Save the Date & sei dabei:
🕕 14.08.2025, ab 18:00
📍 füüri, Uferweg 42, 3013 Bern
👉 Mehr Infos: https://guild42.ch/events/15-years-guild42-celebration/
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Community: https://guild42.ch/communities/
📹 Letzter Event: https://youtu.be/3j8fcxBXvLg
📜 Code of Conduct: https://guild42.ch/code-of-conduct/

📢 Abendprogramm

• 18:00 Türöffnung und Apéro
• 18:45 Vorspeisen
• 19:00 Ansprache Organisationskomitee
• 19:30 Ansprache Eventleiter
• 19:45 Hauptgang
• 21:30 Dessert
• 24:00 Eventende

Mach den Kalender auf, schnapp deine Engineering-Crew – und komm feiern! 🚀

Abstract
Aare.guru is amongst the most popular websites & apps for urban swimming in the larger Bern area. Since 2015 we provide informations about swimming conditions for the Aare river and, inadvertently, an oulet for lovers and haters of the Bernese language as well. This talk will give you an insight into the tech stack of our pretty successful little side project. We will cover the history & architecture, what we're doing with Blockchain (Spoiler: Nothing), what we're doing with AI (Spoiler: Almost nothing) and how we're using the organizational pattern of mutually assured destruction to keep running the project interesting.

The talk will be held in German with some Bernese sprinkled in.

Bio
Christian Studer is a software engineer by day and sleeping at night. He works at Codeblock, a software consultancy here in Bern. Between his work and family, he occasionally finds time to work on a series of side projects. Or is going for a swim. No wonder his sprint times are measured in years.

Sponsors
Thanks to our sponsors, the event and the apero are free of charge.
Sponsors | Guild42

Bio
Matthais Stürmer is Professor at Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH), Head of the Institute for Public Sector Transformation at the BFH Business School and Head of the Research Center for Digital Sustainability at University of Bern. As lecturer (“Privatdozent”) he is teaching, researching and consulting on digital sustainability, open source software, open data, open government, ICT procurement and natural language processing (NLP). Previously he worked as IT advisory Manager at EY (Ernst & Young) and as project leader at Liip AG, a Swiss software company creating agile Internet solutions based on open source technologies. In 2009 Matthias finished his doctoral dissertation at the Chair of Strategic Management and Innovation at ETH Zürich focusing on open source communities and firm involvement. He studied business administration and computer science at University of Bern until 2005 writing his master thesis on open source community building.
Matthias Stürmer is president of the Digital Impact Network, president of the open source association CH Open as well as co-founder and member of the board of Opendata.ch, the Swiss chapter of the Open Knowledge foundation. As member of the steering comittee of the Smart Capital Region he is supporting digital transformation in the cantons Bern, Fribourg, Wallis, Neuenburg and Solothurn. He is secretary of the Swiss Parliamentarian Group for Digital Sustainability (Parldigi) and was member of the city parliament of Bern (2011-2019).

Sponsors
Thanks to our sponsors, the event and the apero are free of charge.
Sponsors | Guild42

Bio
More details about the speaker Scott Gerring will follow soon!

Sponsors
Thanks to our sponsors, the event and the apero are free of charge.
Sponsors | Guild42