CNCG Graz Meetup - November 2026 @ FH JOANNEUM

CNCG Graz Meetup – November 25, 2026

📍 FH JOANNEUM, Eckerstraße 30i, Room 001, Graz 🕔 Starting at 17:00

17:00 – Arrival & Welcome 👋 Grab a drink, meet the community and hear what’s planned for the evening.

17:15 – Cloud Native News Flash 🌐 A quick roundup of news and developments from the cloud-native world.

17:30 – Talk: Nushell – Stop parsing text. Start piping data. 🛠️ Speakers: Christian Rieger & Thomas Kugi

Shell scripts are everywhere in DevOps, along with quoting pitfalls, inconsistent syntax and debugging headaches. Christian and Thomas introduce Nushell and its approach to working with structured data, tables and types. Practical examples show how it compares with traditional shells and PowerShell, and how it can simplify everyday automation.

18:00 – Break ☕ Refill your drink, stretch your legs and chat about the first talk.

18:15 – Talk: 125B on a Desktop – Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on a Framework Desktop 🖥️ Speakers: Christian Rieger & Thomas Kugi

What does it take to run a 125-billion-parameter language model on a desktop computer? Christian and Thomas share their experience with a Framework Desktop featuring 128 GB of unified memory. The talk covers mixture-of-experts models, the llama.cpp setup and performance comparisons between ROCm and Vulkan, with practical insights into the possibilities and limits of local LLM inference.

18:45–19:00 – Nerd & Cloud Native Pub Quiz 🧠 Put your knowledge to the test in our individual pub quiz, with goodies provided by FH JOANNEUM!

From 19:00 – Networking & Drinks 🍻 Stay for a drink, discuss the talks and connect with fellow community members.

Drinks are kindly sponsored by FH JOANNEUM.