

You installed OpenClaw. Now let's turn it into a real assistant.
An evening of talks, live demos, and community debugging for everyone raising their lobster — from first setup to daily driver.
Agenda
🚪 18:00 — Doors Open & Networking
👋 18:15 — Welcome & Intro
⚡ 18:25 — Raise Your Lobster: 5 Topics (see below)
☕ 19:25 — Break
💻 19:40 — Show Your Setup
🔧 20:10 — Bring Your Own OpenClaw Problem
🍻 20:40 — Networking & Drinks (open end)
Raise Your Lobster — Topics
Five key areas to take your OpenClaw from freshly installed to genuinely useful:
Craft your SOUL.md — Give your agent a personality, tone, and boundaries. The single most important file. 162+ community templates to start from.Install your first Skills — ClawHub has 5,400+ skills. You need 3–5 to start. Web browsing, email, Google Workspace — instant impact.Cron Jobs & Heartbeat — This is where a chatbot becomes an agent. Daily briefs, email digests, automated follow-ups — all without you prompting.Use the Memory System — Do a brain dump. Let your agent learn about you over weeks. Projects, preferences, contacts — it remembers everything.Secure your Gateway — The default is wide open. Change it to localhost, run a security audit, keep it personal. Short, critical, often overlooked.
Want to present?
We're looking for speakers (10–15 min) on any of the five topics above — or bring your own "Raise Your Lobster" story. Let us know when you register!
Show Your Setup — Grab the mic, share your screen, walk us through your OpenClaw config and what it does for you.
Bring Your Own OpenClaw Problem — Stuck on something? Bring it. We debug together — experienced users help beginners.
Drinks provided. Hosted at STARTPLATZ Düsseldorf.
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OpenClaw Night: Raise your Lobster is a free independent taking place on Monday, April 20, 2026 at STARTPLATZ Düsseldorf GmbH, Speditionstraße 15A, 40221 Düsseldorf, Germany, Düsseldorf, Germany. This independent is organised by STARTPLATZ AI Hub. Attendance is free — register to secure your spot. Currently 51 people have registered out of 51 spots. The event runs for approximately 3 hours.
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