😎 FOMO Berlin 💙 - Is landing in Cape Town 🛬 | 13.01 - 20.01

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Cephas from FOMO
January 13, 2025

Hey Berliners 🌨

This Wednesday, we’re trading Berlin’s winter for Cape Town’s summer ☀️ to host in partnership with Project Y our first event of 2025:

👉 FOMO Cape Town x Project Y - Executive Sundowner Gathering with Purpose. An evening crafted for founders, executives, hiring managers, and changemakers.

Not free this Thursday but still in Cape Town? Join us instead for the exclusive Counder Conference 2025 (Jan 29-31)—invite- and investor-only!

Berlin, we haven’t forgotten you. The FOMO Berlin newsletter will keep bringing you the best VC, tech, and cultural events in the city on a weekly basis. With 8,500+ readers, don’t forget to upload your events [here] for a chance to be featured!

Here’s to an epic start to 2025—Cape Town or Berlin! 🚀

FOMO Sponsor: Counder Conference ☀️

Counder Conference is a gathering of just 500 global investors & industry leaders in Cape Town - with the 2025 edition being all about exploring Africa’s booming investment landscape & looking beyond in a global technology outlook.

Attendees include African industry veterans like Shola Akinlade, who sold Paystack to Stripe and Michael Jordaan, famed ex-FNB CEO & venture investor - as well as global investors like Tom Villinger from D11Z Ventures and Stephan Stubner from Monkfish Equity.

As seats are extremely limited & will go to the waitlist when oversubscribed, we do encourage you to sign up immediately - quoting 'FOMO Berlin' in the registration - via: https://counder.com/conference/

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FOMO Shout-Outs 📢 
Welcome to 2025 📸 ?

New Year greetings from the Ndubuezes in Nigeria 🇳🇬! Here’s a picture we took yesterday at the beach in Lagos—yes, my Mum’s in it too 😅. Loving the vibes & starting 2025 on a high note 💙.

The FOMO Berlin week 💙 (13.01 - 20.01):
FOMO Top Picks of the Week 🔥

These are the events I would like to attend if I find the time:

  • LeadersLab: Opening the year from ProductLab Community 🧏🗞️ | Wednesday, 12:30 pm - 2 pm: LeadersLab is starting the year with a special guest, Jason Knight, an interim CPO and podcaster from London. To make it even more exciting, they are also hosting a fun Leaders' Lunch with the SumUp team and Berlin leaders.

  • SumUp: Opening the year from ProductLab Community 💻🤑| Thursday, 6:30 pm - 10:30 pm: Are you a Senior PM or Product Leader? This monthly in-person community is for you, where you can discuss the intersection of product, growth, and data for leaders, founders, and teams.

  • {Tech: Berlin} AI Hackathon #2 💻|Sunday, 9 am: Mistral AI is calling all AI innovators and tech entrepreneurs! Join in for an intensive full-weekend hackathon pushing the boundaries of artificial intelligence.

Monday 13th

  • Social Media Creators & Influencer Meetup New York #3 💻🎉 | 6:30 pm: This meetup is for creators, influencers & brands. Connect, learn, and grow - and have a drink together with like minds! starting at the Weekday Backyard, Neue Schnohouser Str. 16 - 18, Berlin Mitte.

  • DokuMontag - Limits of Europe 💻🎉 | 7 pm - 9 pm: Like Günther Wallraff, the well-known Czech journalist Saša Uhlová sets out to experience for herself the miserable conditions and poor pay under which "cheap labor" from Eastern Europe is hired in the west of the continent.

Tuesday 14th

  • Eno – Berlin Premiere 🎬 | 6:30 pm - 9 pm - ‘Beyond Tellerand’ is stoked to co-present the Berlin premiere of “Eno”, Gary Hustwit’s new generative documentary film. Join in for one of two screenings and a post-film conversation with director Gary Hustwit after the 6:30 pm show, moderated by Marc Thiele.

  • Unfiltered Nights - Exploring Sober Club Cultur  🎉🤩 | 6:30 pm - 10 pm: Are you ready to dive into the world of sober partying and sobriety in club culture this Sober January? SchwuZ promises an evening of bringing people who enjoy the nightlife in the club culture sober together. 

  • Rap&Vogue Berlin 🔥 | 7 pm - 11 pm: Rap&Vogue are music video directors that create provocative electronic music, reinforcing it with visual images, as well as shamelessly mixing popular genres, different languages, ​​and stereotypes about world cultures.

  • Staats Ballett Berlin - space and movement 🔥 | 7 pm: Rap & Vogue music video directors create provocative electronic music, reinforcing it with visual images, as well as shamelessly mixing popular genres, different languages, ​​and stereotypes about world cultures.

Wednesday 15th

  • LeadersLab: Opening the year from ProductLab Community 🤑🔥 | 12:30 pm - 2 pm: Leaderslab is starting the year with a special guest, Jason Knight, an interim CPO and podcaster from London. To make it even more exciting, they are also hosting a fun Leaders' Lunch with the SumUp team and Berlin leaders.

  • Volume XV & CPH OPEN x WT Journal Release party 🗞️ | 5 pm: You should check out the release of Volume XV by Wasted Talent, where there will be a launch of the exclusive @copenhagenopen journal followed by @dbjourney’s CPH OPEN documentary, ‘From The Ground Up’. Everyone’s invited!

  • Journaling Club: Goals, Plans and Dreams - 2025 Vision Session 📚📔 |6 pm - 8:30 pm: Ready to transform your hopes into plans and your dreams into reality? ​In this intimate workshop, you'll harness the power of journaling to craft intentional goals and bold visions for 2025.

  • Ethics Meets AI: How to Build a Responsible Future 🤖 | 6 pm: Join an extraordinary lineup of philosophers, ethicists, researchers, policymakers, and AI innovators as they engage in a thought-provoking debate on how to shape a future we can all trust. 

  • One Knight in Berlin🍺 | 6:30 pm -10 pm: The Product Lab community will be kicking off the year with a special guest from London, the Interim CPO and podcaster, offering a chance to learn, exchange ideas, and have fun in an informal setting.

  • Cocktails & Conversation: Aktivkohle 🎉🍹| 7 pm: With signature cocktails in hand, Discover thought-provoking ideas and stories in this series of podcasts and connect with others as you explore a diverse range of topics. 

Thursday 16th
FOMO Upcoming Top Events & Opportunities 🚨

  • Berlin Founder Bootcamp 🤑 | January 22, 8:45 pm - 2 pm: ​A new year means new challenges—and new opportunities! If you're a founder planning to raise your next funding round this year, this exclusive boot camp will get you sweating (and ready to secure that cash!)

  • Road to START Summit 2025 👭 | January 23, 3:30 pm - 9 pm: The Road to START Summit is START Berlin's annual pitching competition and flagship event. Whether you are an investor, founder, or ambitious student, this event offers it all for you.

  • WAA Podcast 100th Episode Party 🧑‍🤝‍🧑| January 24, 8:30 pm: This is more than a party; it's a tribute to every woman who dares to lead, innovate, and create. Less talk, more dancing! Expect ✨Studio 54✨ vibes

Friday 17th

  • Grüne Woche - Family Event | 10 am: A visit to Grüne Woche is a tradition for many families - one of the leading fairs in the fields of food, agriculture, and horticulture.

  • Explore Berlin’s Deep Tech Scene 💻🔥 | 1:45 pm - 2 pm: Join this event to discover how startups and research institutions collaborate in Berlin’s deep tech ecosystem with MotionLab.Berlin and BAM.

  • Artists Talks at Scope BLN 💹 | 6 pm: Scope BLN is featuring the American-Dutch musician and educator whose Recent projects combine augmented reality, interactive video, and machine learning to visualize other-worldly transformations of their own face and body.

  • Jade Cassidy Exhibition 💻 | 7 pm: To kick off 2025, Jade Cassidy is inviting you to her solo show with Quantum Oddity Gallery.

Saturday 18th

  • {Tech: Berlin} AI Hackathon #2 💻| 9 am: Mistral AI is calling all AI innovators and tech entrepreneurs! Join in for an intensive full-weekend hackathon pushing the boundaries of artificial intelligence.

  • Founders Running Club: Berlin 🏃😎 | 10 am: Founders Running Club (FRC) brings founders, investors, tech, creative people, and startup enthusiasts together for weekly easy runs and networking. Choose your pace or follow a pacer—pets, friends, and family, are welcome!

  • ANTE LAPS 2025-01 🥐💻| 11 am: Kick off 2025 with another cheeky run with offee and croissants provided by friends at LAP, running the usual 6k loop through Berlin-Mitte. Easy morning pace, promised!

  • The Hunger by Constanza Macras 📚💻| 7:30 pm: Inspired by the historical events fictionalized in the novel The Foreign Witness by Argentine writer Juan José Saer, The Hunger follows the experiences of European colonizers in the Rio de la Plata region of South America in the early 16th century.

Sunday 19th

  • FLINTA* March 2025 💞👩‍❤️‍👨 | 12 pm: The feminist demonstration begins at noon at the Brandenburg Gate and then moves through Berlin's city center. The protest is a reaction to the threat to the rights of women, inter-, non-binary, trans, and agender people.

  • BerlinSwap ♻️🏷️ | 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm: Bring yourself! Bring family and friends! You are encouraged to bring items that are clean, not broken, and in working order. You don’t need to bring something to take something! Everything on the display tables is free to take. Definitely bring a tote bag or two for items you want to take home!

  • The Crafty Market - New Year's Edition 🎉💎| 8 pm: Make the transition into the new year cozy in one of Berlin’s best indoor markets! Discover vendors from all over the world showcasing their handmade wares, you'll be sure to find something to bring some joy to your January. Enjoy a hot drink while you stroll through the stands, and grab yourself a nice meal from one of our many restaurants, sounds like a perfect day, doesn't it?

Monday 20th
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