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.

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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

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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

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.