Newsletter October: From Canvas to Code

This October update introduces the Catalyst Co-Creation Community, shows how Catalyst moves teams from canvas ideas to working code, and highlights upcoming events, reads, templates, and training offers.

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The Catalyst is our AI tool to catalyze your strategy-to-solutions workflows. It translates your sticky notes on a canvas to software code. It accelerates your team from idea to implementation. It simplifies your innovation process from discovery to delivery. It’s your tool for Data & AI StratOps.

Our Catalyst needs a catalyst, too: to move faster in the right direction. The catalyst for the Catalyst is our community – that’s you! We want to develop the Catalyst not only as open‑source software and built in public, but co-create with you.

That’s why we launched the Catalyst Co‑Creation Community: to keep you updated on the development and also the application of the Catalyst. We welcome your ideas and feedback!

To kick off the community we held the first Catalyst Co-Creation Community Circle—take a look at the slides to get an insight. Justin Neumann from Axel Springer Tech provided the venue and took part. Many thanks for that and for your valuable input!

In the future we plan to meet more often, not only virtually but also in person, rotating the Circle among companies that wish to act as feedback providers or even co‑developers and host the Catalyst Co‑Creation Community Circle. If you are interested in hosting a Circle, please let us know.

The next Circle is planned for 13 November in Berlin. To attend, please register on Luma.

EVENTS & OFFERS

The Catalyst Co-Creation Community Circle isn’t our only event. The calendar on Luma is packed:

📅 12.11 Miro Meetup Berlin: It’s already fully booked, but there’s a waiting list for the AI Buildathon. You’ll get hands-on experience with Design Thinking, Miro, and Miro AI.

📅 16.11 Masterclass Multi-Agent Strategies & Systems: Design an agentic AI strategy to develop a multi-agent system—You’ll learn hands-on how to use the Datentreiber Canvases as co-creation tools and the Catalyst as co-intelligence tool.

📅 17-18.11 Machine Learning Week Europe: From classic machine learning to agentic AI engineering—leading companies will show you what really works in business and how technology works best.

📅 23-24.11 Data & AI Business Consulting: One last time, we invite you to Weilheim to show you how design & systems thinking can help you with data & AI consulting. Next year, we’ll launch our new format!

📅 26.11 How AI Catalyzes the Design and Prototyping of AI Solutions at the Data Science Summit: AI accelerates itself. In this talk, Martin Szugat shows how to prototype AI applications with AI.

📅 1-2.12 Seminar KI-Prototyping: From idea to implementation in two days—it’s possible with Miro AI and Lovable. In this seminar, you’ll get to try it out for yourselves.

📅 18.12 Aufwärts zum Mountain Office: Netwalking and co-working—that’s what you can expect at the monthly Business Walk & Talk.

GOOD READS & SLIDES

Of course, there were a also few Good Reads again this month, particularly on the topics of strategy for AI and AI for strategy:

🧾 Your team has 40 AI ideas and zero AI adoption strategy. Here’s the fix.

🧾 Beware the AI Experimentation Trap

🧾 Too Many AI Use Cases, Too Little Impact

🧾 Strategy Making Gets an AI Boost

And on our YouTube channel, there are new videos showing you how to develop your AI strategy with AI sidekicks:

📺 Lean Data & AI Strategy Goes AI-Accelerated with Catalyst

📺 Find & Prioritize AI Use Cases in Miro | Catalyst for Data & AI Use Case Ideation

📺 Find AI Use Cases with the Value Chain Canvas | Catalyst in Miro

TOOLS & TEMPLATES

We are also busy improving our tools & templates with AI, specifically with the Catalyst, and have released new templates, or are working on new ones:

✨ Catalyst for AI Use Case Ideation: It’s the Most Copied, Viewed & Liked Miroverse Template in September! 👏

🖼️ AI-Accelerated Value Chain Canvas for Use Case Ideation: A canvas classic that has received an upgrade with Miro AI Actions, so you can optimize and automate your business processes with data and AI.

🖼️ Data & AI Monetization Canvas: ready to be published

🖼️ Data & AI Management Canvas: work in progress

✨ AI Ideation Sprint: ready to be published

✨ AI Prototyping Sprint: work in progress

✨ AI Leadership Workshop: work in progress

✨ AI Buildathon Meetup: work in progress

✨ Agentic Commerce Workshop: work in progress

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TRAININGS & WORKSHOPS

(We run training courses and workshops online, on-site, off-site and … outdoors. 😉)

You want to know how to run these workshops and sprints yourself? Then feel free to ask us about in-house training. Do you need support for your workshops and projects? Talk to us about facilitation, consulting and interims management.

November is full. December is tight. In the new year we can kick off together your data & AI strategy and solution initiatives!

We look forward to hearing from you.

Your Datentreiber Team

Train. Think. Transform.