For more than a decade, Foo Café has been an open meeting place for tech in the region. We have hosted thousands of events – for developers, children learning to code, teachers, AI enthusiasts, senior programmers, and curious beginners. All free. All open. All driven by a simple idea: that knowledge should be shared.

We are now facing a generational transition.

Micke, who has run Foo Café for many years, is retiring. At the same time, our funding conditions are changing. That’s why we are now looking for the right long-term solution for the next phase in Foo Café’s story.

We are seeking a new principal organization or partner to carry the initiative forward – in the same spirit or in a further developed form. This could be a company, an organization, a foundation, or another actor that sees the value of an established tech community with more than 9,000 people in its network and a well-proven event model.

Do you know someone who would be a good fit to take this forward?

We have prepared a short summary of the organization and the opportunities ahead that you are very welcome to share. Get in touch and we will send it to you, or simply reply to this email if you would like to know more.

Foo Café has always been built on the community.

Perhaps it is the community that will help us find the next chapter.

Interested in reaching out to Michael? You can reach him on: michael.tiberg@foocafe.org

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Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

Thank you for a great 2025. We are now looking forward to a fantastic 2026.
We have already started to plan for next years activities and more will come.
Check out this ones:

17.30 Wednesday, January 21 
CoderDojo is back, teaching kids 7-17 year old about programing.
CoderDojo will be held every second week during the spring.
More info about CoderDojo can be found here

17.30 Thursday, January 22
factor10 is back with two interesting talks. 5 Pro Tips for Coding with Agents and Just Start (with Value Objects). Read more about the event and register.

17.00 Friday, February 6
2600 has there regular monthly get-together where you will get different talks about security.
Let’s explore the lighter side of technology in a unique, interactive setting.

Take the opportunity to see some good presentations on our youtube channel.

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Now more than ever it’s important to reconnect with old friends and make some new ones. To that end we have a great line up for you this Autumn and lots more in the bag.

Upcoming events  …

17.30, Thursday, October 23
Vibecoding is dead. Enter Spec-Driven Development is a talk by Malmö AI Devs. Lets look at Spec Kit, GitHub’s newly released open-source toolkit for spec-driven development.

17.45  Monday, October 27
Want to be a better speaker? Malmö Toastmasters have their bi-weekly events where you learn how to do better presentations.

In collaboration with the Øredev Developer Conference we are doing 4 side events.

17.30 Tuesday, November 4
Join us for an end-to-end, hands-on session where we’ll explore how to train and deploy powerful computer vision models using synthetic data and the Edge Impulse platform. Together with Azure Skåne’s event Training Computer Vision Models with Synthetic Data on Edge Impulse

17.30 Wednesday, November 5
How to Manage Data without using Joins or Traversals. Come and get better understanding of databases. It required new methods for modelling and indexing data, enabling unprecedented possibilities for exploring information quickly and freely. 

17.30 Thursday, November 6
A hands-on Workshop on Local LLMs. Let’s Code Smarter and Safer. This workshop introduces LLMs through AIXCL, an open-source, Docker-based development platform built on Ollama. 

17.00 Friday, November 7
2600 Unplugged is all about fostering creativity and connection, free from the constraints of recording equipment. This is your chance to enjoy candid, uncensored content in a collaborative environment with like-minded enthusiasts.

Take the opportunity to see some good presentations on our youtube channel.

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Welcome
Now more than ever it’s important to reconnect with old friends and make some new ones. To that end we have a great line up for you this Autumn and lots more in the bag.

Upcoming events  …

17.00 Friday, September 5
2600 Unplugged is all about fostering creativity and connection, free from the constraints of recording equipment. This is your chance to enjoy candid, uncensored content in a collaborative environment with like-minded enthusiasts.

17.30 Tuesday, September 9
GoFerr’O Friends is a new usergroup for Go, Rust and beyond.
Their first event is called One Year O’ Go and we’ll journey through the key developments that are making a massive impact, from enhanced garbage collection to powerful new language features, and examples to boot.

17.45  Monday, September 15
Want to be a better speaker? Malmö Toastmasters have their bi-weekly events where you learn how to do better presentations.

17.30 Tuesday, October 14
Mastering CloudNativePG: Running Postgres on Kubernetes with Live Demo is an event with Malmö PostgreSQL User Group.

Remember to keep an eye on our brand new website for more events. They are constantly being published and things don’t always make it for the newsletters.

See you soon
The Foo Team

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The summer slumber is over, and Foo Café is ready to bring people together again. Whether you’re here to learn, network, or just enjoy the community, we’ve got something for you in the coming weeks. Even more exciting, we’re celebrating 13 years of Foo Café (check it out)! We can’t wait to share a special announcement with you on our birthday—so watch this space!

Upcoming events  …

17.00 Wednesday, August 27
Join us for our 13th anniversary party. We guarantee you will be inspired by the speaker we have scheduled and impressed by the environment we have created for you.
Welcome to our 13th Anniversary 
As always we will a tech talk that takes you into the future: Messy Biographies to Clean Data – Structuring Text with LLMs and Pydantic 

17.45  Monday, September 1
Want to be a better speaker? Malmö Toastmasters have their bi-weekly events where you learn how to do better presentations.

17.00 Friday, September 5
2600 Unplugged is all about fostering creativity and connection, free from the constraints of recording equipment. This is your chance to enjoy candid, uncensored content in a collaborative environment with like-minded enthusiasts.

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Now more than ever it’s important to reconnect with old friends and make some new ones. To that end we have a great line up for you this Spring and lots more in the bag.

10.00 Saturday, March 22
Azure Skåne is proud and excited to have such a great lineup of speakers for this event! It will be a super day with learnings from practical AI implementations to building a startup to learning about the future of products now that Agents are becoming a reality.
Welcome to The Global AI Bootcamp 2025

17.45  Monday, March 31
Want to be a better speaker? Malmö Toastmasters have their bi-weekly events where you learn who to do better  presentations.

17.00  Friday, April 4
The monthly 2600 gathering will delve into 10-15 minutes sessions packed with mind-bending hacks, hilarious tech anecdotes and unconventional stories.

17.30 Monday, April 14
The rapid expansion of the global market for advanced electronics has introduced significant environmental challenges. Join us for this scientific presentation Protein Design for Circular Biofabricated Electronics from Lund University.

17.30 Tisdagen den 22 April
Dataföreningen Södra är tillbaka med en Introduktion till Artificiell Intelligens ur Open Source Perspektiv med Magnus Glantz och Mathias Lindroth (en presentation på Svenska).

17.30 Thursday, April 24
Malmö PostgreSQL presents Where do the Performance Cliffs come from?
In this talk, you’ll learn why performance cliffs happen in Postgres.

17.15 Monday, May 5
Are you tired of all the hype around yet another LLM-as-a-Service? That’s why I want to talk about something more interesting than just another tool for prompt engineers.
Join JavaForum in this talk about JVM in the age of AI

Foo Café Stockholm are back in collaboration with Lund University
18.00 Tuesday, April 15
The rapid expansion of the global market for advanced electronics has introduced significant environmental challenges. Join us for this scientific presentation Protein Design for Circular Biofabricated Electronics

Take the opportunity to see some good presentations on our youtube channel.

Remember to keep an eye on our brand new website for more events. They are constantly being published and things don’t always make it for the newsletters.

See you soon
The Foo Team

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Izzy whizzy lets get busy! 

Now more than ever it’s important to reconnect with old friends and make some new ones. To that end we have a great line up for you this Autumn and lots more in the bag.Upcoming events  …

17.30 Thursday, November 21
Join us for our milestone 50th StockholmCpp meetup as we wrap up Season 24 with an exciting program and a return to the fantastic FooCafe Stockholm!
0x32: LLVM internals && learning some ARM Assembly Skills 

17.45  Monday, November 25
Want to be a better speaker? Malmö Toastmasters have their bi-weekly events where you learn who to do better  presentations.

17.30 Wednesday, November 27
Most DevOps/Agile people have never heard about Software Configuration Management (SCM). Those who have consider SCM to be either a bureaucratic obstacle or a superfluous task.
Join DevOps Malmö on Introducing SCM to a young, agile start-up.

17.00  Friday, December 6
The monthly 2600 gathering will delve into 10-15 minutes sessions packed with mind-bending hacks, hilarious tech anecdotes and unconventional stories.

17.30 Wednesday, December 11
From Messy Forests to Manageable Data Landscapes: Data Platforms to the Rescue. An other event together with the user group Data Alliance.

2025

17.15 Monday, January 20
JavaForum are back with a talk about how eBPF is transforming Linux system capabilities, enabling the extension of  the kernel with custom process schedulers, firewalls, and more.

Take the opportunity to see some good presentations on our youtube channel.

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Izzy whizzy lets get busy! 
Now more than ever it’s important to reconnect with old friends and make some new ones. To that end we have a great line up for you this Autumn and lots more in the bag.

17.30 Tuesday, November 5
Learn how to AI Pair Programming with GitHub CoPilot – just a few seats left.
Join us on this event with Azure Skåne in collaboration with Øredev Developer Conference.

17.30 Thursday, November 7
Until recently, everyone wanted Agile coaches. Today, the demand is in decline. What will be the next trend? There are so many different leadership styles we can use. Could the next trend be a dictator?This event is fully booked.
Join us on this event with Skatteverket in collaboration with Øredev Developer Conference.

17.45  Monday, November 11
Want to be a better speaker? Malmö Toastmasters have their bi-weekly events where you learn who to do better  presentations.

17.30 Wednesday, November 13
Data Alliance are back with Finding New Organizational Structures in Primary Care using PCA

17.30 Thursday, November 14
The boys are back at Foo Cafe to continue their “AI in Anger” tour of duty. Lets explore local large language models and why they are important.

17.30 Tuesday, November 19
An Introduction to the PostgreSQL Project: How the world’s most advanced open source database is made.

17.30 Thursday, November 21
Join us for our milestone 50th StockholmCpp meetup as we wrap up Season 24 with an exciting program and a return to the fantastic FooCafe Stockholm!
0x32: LLVM internals && learning some ARM Assembly Skills 

17.30 Wednesday, November 27
Most DevOps/Agile people have never heard about Software Configuration Management (SCM). Those who have consider SCM to be either a bureaucratic obstacle or a superfluous task.
Join DevOps Malmö on Introducing SCM to a young, agile start-up.

17.00  Friday, December 6
The monthly 2600 gathering will delve into 10-15 minutes sessions packed with mind-bending hacks, hilarious tech anecdotes and unconventional stories.

17.30 Wednesday, December 11
From Messy Forests to Manageable Data Landscapes: Data Platforms to the Rescue. An other event together with the user group Data Alliance 

Take the opportunity to see some good presentations on our youtube channel.

Remember to keep an eye on our brand new website for more events. They are constantly being published and things don’t always make it for the newsletters.

See you soon
The Foo Team

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Izzy whizzy lets get busy! 
Now more than ever it’s important to reconnect with old friends and make some new ones. To that end we have a great line up for you this Autumn and lots more in the bag.Upcoming events  …

17.30 Onsdagen den 16 Oktober
Välkommen till en session med våra partner Skatteverket som hjälper dig att förstå dina egna och andras reaktioner vid sociala situationer.  SCARF-modellen beskriver ett antal särskilt viktiga sociala situationer som riskerar att utgöra hot.

17.30 Monday, October 21
Platform Engineering is the latest blockbuster in the tech world, but like any major production, it comes with its share of potential pitfalls and dramatic twists when stepping into this new frontier.
10 Things We Hate About Platform Engineering is an event by DevOps Skåne.

17.45  Monday, October 28
Want to be a better speaker? Malmö Toastmasters have their bi-weekly events where you learn who to do better  presentations.

17.00  Friday, November 1
The monthly 2600 gathering will delve into 10-15 minutes sessions packed with mind-bending hacks, hilarious tech anecdotes and unconventional stories.

17.30 Tuesday, November 5
Learn how to AI Pair Programming with GitHub CoPilot
Join us on this event with Azure Skåne in collaboration with Øredev Developer Conference.

17.30 Thursday, November 7
Until recently, everyone wanted Agile coaches. Today, the demand is in decline. What will be the next trend? There are so many different leadership styles we can use. Could the next trend be a dictator?
Join us on this event with Skatteverket in collaboration with Øredev Developer Conference.

17.30 Wednesday, November 13
Data Alliance are back with Finding New Organizational Structures in Primary Care using PCA

17.30 Thursday, November 14
AI in Anger are back with more insights from our partner Kodify.

17.30 Wednesday, December 11
From Messy Forests to Manageable Data Landscapes: Data Platforms to the Rescue. An other event together with the user group Data Alliance 

Take the opportunity to see some good presentations on our youtube channel.

Remember to keep an eye on our brand new website for more events. They are constantly being published and things don’t always make it for the newsletters.

See you soon
The Foo Team

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Welcome to Foo Café

Summer is almost over but don’t worry…Foo Cafe is back and we aim to brighten your day with some cool meet ups! Bring your shades…the future is bright.

Come and join us for educational and entertaining tech and events that will inspire.

Some of the upcoming events  …

17.15 Tuesday, October 10
Azure Skåne delivers another interesting event: Walkthrough of the Azure Arc Wonderland

17.45 Monday, October 16
Join Malmö Toastmasters and learn to become a better public presenter.
How to become a better speaker

17.30 Wednesday, October 18
Erik Meijer is back (thanks to factor10) with The Programmers  Apprentice Season 2: Advancements and Future Directions in AI-Assisted Coding

17.30 Thursday, October 19
Boozt will share their experience with a series of talks this fall, here is the fourth one:
Boozt, a prominent online retailer in the Nordics, chose to shift from a third-party payment gateway to its own payment processing service: A full payment gateway inside a database

17.30 Onsdagen den 25:e Oktober 
Skatteverket är tillbaka med ytterligare en lärorik presentation om En Systemarkitekts Vardag i en Komplex Miljö (presentationen är på Svenska) 

17.30 Tuesday, October 31
Data Alliance presents Two Talks About Data: The Quest for Evidence-Based Technical Debt Management and A Hobbyist’s Approach to Automated Highlight Detection in E-Sports

17.00 Friday, November 3
Monthly meet-up with 2600 takes place the first Friday every month. You are welcome to share your experience on security with friends (or soon to be) at 2600 Unplugged.

17.15 Tuesday, November 7
.NET 8 and C# 12 are just around the corner and in this talk we will look at some of the highlights that we as .NET developers on Azure can take advantage. Join Azure Skåne this evening.

Take the opportunity to see some good presentations on our youtube channel.

Remember to keep an eye on our brand new website for more events. They are constantly being published and things don’t always make it for the newsletters.

See you soon
The Foo Team

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