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.
Gold sponsors
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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
Arjan Egges – Learntail: turn anything into a quiz using AI
Wijnand Karsens – My AI Remote Worker is coming to life
Bram de Wit – Small and practical AI models for CO2 reduction in buildings
Jan Salvador van der Ven and Jeroen van de Nieuwenhof – Can generative AI help us make texts more understandable? Lessons learned from Tolkie
Ashwin Vaidya – Anomalib: An open source deep learning library for anomaly detection
Emil Loer – Real-time speech recognition: best practices for scale and performance
Daniël de Kok & Madeeswaran Kannan – State-of-the-Art Transformer Pipelines in spaCy
Sven Vintges – Building a chatbot for a specific domain
Henk Boelman – Mastering LLM-Based AI Applications: A Deep Dive into Azure Machine Learning Prompt Flow
Nina Vielen-Kallio & Saikat Chatterjee – AI as part of impact driven business
Frederieke Scheper – Pair programming with GitHub Copilot
Henry Bol – Be a Better Developer with AI
Arend Top & Rix Groenboom – Testing with chatGPT checkers
JP van Oosten – Thinking outside the chat box
Hylke Donker – Fighting cancer with AI
Jonathan Alexander – Data Versioning for Machine Learning Practitioners
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.
Keep the ticket prices low
Book a fitting venue
Reimburse the costs of our speakers
Provide nice food and lovely drinks
Record talks for those at home
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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