welcome to AIGRUNN!

The AI tech event for software professionals

aiGrunn is the open source AI conference in Groningen where software developers meet to learn how to develop, use and apply AI. In their own work and in the products they are building. It is a day full of inspiring talks and in-depth technical sessions.

AI ~ For developers that…

Work on AI

Innovation in AI is accelerating and so are the technological challenges. Learn about the latest innovations in building AI from the experts. aiGrunn will bring knowledge and people together.

boost your productivity

AI haralds a new era for the software development profession.  Whether it is generating code, writing tests or analyzing data. aiGrunn speakers will inspire with best use cases and how to get started.

Integrate AI

How do you add AI to the products you are building? Learn from the experts! aiGrunn will present best practices and tricks of the trade.

What you can expect

A lively day full of technical inspiration

Visiting our tech event will provide you with new insights, ideas, inspiration and friends. It’s an excellent way to stay connected, learn, and be a part of the vibrant AI tech community.

aiGrunn is an open source and non-commercial tech event. It’s organized by and for developers. Sponsors keep the ticketprice as low as possible.

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Silver sponsors

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Bronze sponsors

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Talks

2024

Here is our prelimenary list of amazing speakers! See the schedule for more details. Once the videos are ready we’ll link to them from here as well.

Alexander Jeurissen & Willian van der Velde – Beyond Buttons: How Chat is Revolutionizing Software Interaction

Bram de Wit – Powering Productivity: The Energy Costs of Generative AI

Chris van Riemsdijk – Going beyond tabular data with graphs

Daniël de Kok – Make LLM inference go brrr

Edzo Botjes & JP van Oosten – Contextual Artificial Intelligence

Harald Rietdijk – Challenges with Human Digital Twins

Henk Boelman – Building agents with GTP-4o-realtime

Jochem Kleine – Shimmers: building a GenAI indie game

Jonas Braadbaart – AI Agent UX Patterns: Lessons From 1000 Startups

Jordy de Lange – From Fieldwork to Foundation Models: Ecological Monitoring with Satellite AI

Jorrik Klijnsma – A Large Language Model took me on vacation

JP Hwang – Is your database designed for AI?

Marcel Schutte – AI-Infused Software Architecture

Marco Tenback – Real-World Insights: Lessons from Using Azure AI and ChatGPT in Live Applications

Marten Koopmans – From RAG to riches: How LLMs can take enterprise search to the next level

Niels Taatgen – The future of AI

Onno Zoeter – Using causality theory to correct for training set bias. A large real world success at Booking.com

Or Brezel – Question-based RAG

Rix Groenboom & Joran Arends – AI in Education and Research at Hanze

Soroosh Poorgholi – Idea to Product- Improving Computer Vision Model Reliability

Steven Warmelink – Wattflex: AI in the Energy Transition

Sven Warris – Autimaatje: genAI & mental health

Wico Mulder, Mansur Nurmukhambetov – Designing Human-AI Interaction for Effective Assistance

Willem Jonker – Software for AI for software

Yonatan Alexander – Hallucinations and Hyperparameters: Navigating the Quirks of LLMs

2023

Not just talks

Besides talks there will be a lot of opportunities to talk to your peers. The time between talks is as important as the talks themselves. So bring your ideas and questions along and join the conversation!

Date

 

November

29th

2024

Venue

Forum Groningen is a cultural living and futuristic environment. A place where artists, creative people, entrepreneurs and enthusiasts can meet. A perfect spot for AIGrunn! It is a 10-minute walk from the central train station and in the heart of the city.

Code of Conduct

We expect everyone to behave with common decency and we expect that everyone is treated with equal respect. AIGrunn staff will take any measures necessary to uphold these golden rules of life.

Tickets

sponsoring

aiGrunn is made possible through the efforts of volunteers, speakers and participants, but also by the financial support of a growing number of sponsors. With your contribution aiGrunn will become the largest and most influencial AI Conference in the Northern Netherlands.

We have a great track record in organizing PyGrunn, with more than 400 participants and international speakers, for one entire day. Now it’s time for Groningen to call itself the AI capital of the Netherlands. Your contribution would give the conference a solid financial base in order to achieve everything mentioned above.

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Provide nice food and lovely drinks

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Create great merchandise

bronze

€1.000

  • Logo on the aiGrunn website linked to your own website
  • Logo on folders and banners
  • Company name mentioned in message on Social Media
  • 2 admission tickets

silver

€2.500

Same as Bronze, with the following addition:

  • Vacancy flyer on centrally placed table
  • Option to distribute goodies at the event
  • +2 admission tickets

gold

€5.000

Same as Silver, with the following addition:

  • Dedicated (table) space at the event
  • Introduction section about you on the aiGrunn website
  • +2 admission tickets

Become an aiGrunn speaker

Submit your talk (RFP)

aiGrunn is a unique opportunity to inform, inspire and impress your peers. And sharing is caring! So if you would like to present at aiGrunn fill out this request for proposals (RFP).

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