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DAY 1 - main stage sessions and MakoDays dinner
DAY 2 - main stage programme
DAY 1 and 2 - parallel tracks. An exclusive workshop + side events
Main stage
10:00 - 10:10 I Welcome and opening remarks
Host: Miron Niewiadomski, Communications Manager, MakoLab
10:10 - 10:40 I The current state of AI
Piotr Ignaczak, CTO, MakoLab
10:40 - 11:10 I Drivers and challenges in AI adoption
Uncovering the enablers and roadblocks of enterprise AI transformation
Thierry Folliot, Group CIO and Uniti Project Director, Jiliti Group
11:10 - 11:40 I Coffee break
11:40 - 12:10 I The power of data in market communication: Talking to your customers in the age of AI
Professor Martin Hepp, CEO and Chief Scientist, Hepp Research GmbH
12:10 - 12:40 I AI: The killer app for Quantum or the Quantum hype killer?
Quantum’s role in the AI story
Mirek Sopek, PhD, Founder of MakoLab, CEO and founder of Quantum Blockchains, Inc.
12:40 - 13:40 I Lunch break
13:40 - 14:10 I The Renault Group's approach to AI, data and security
Mateusz Rakusa-Suszczewski, IS/IT Director for CEE Region, Renault Polska sp. z o.o.
14:10 - 14:40 I Between algorithms and ethics: Navigating AI-driven uncertainty
Panel discussion
Chair: Professor Katarzyna De Lazari-Radek, PhD, hab., Vice Rector of Internationalisation, University of Lodz, AI Ethics Expert
Panellists:
- Mirek Sopek, PhD, Founder of MakoLab, CEO and founder of Quantum Blockchains, Inc.
- Professor Martin Hepp, CEO and Chief Scientist, Hepp Research GmbH
- Dariusz Czuchaj, Managing Partner, Synthetic Law
14:40 - 15:10 I Cybersecurity in the era of LLMs
New vulnerabilities and secure design
Maciej Grala, Cybersecurity, MakoLab
15:10 - 15:30 I Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00 I AI-Based fraud prevention
An AI-powered anti-fraud system securing digital payments across the Nordics
Sören Babra, CEO, Payair Technologies
16:00 - 16:30 I Talk to data
Conversational access to data, transforming insights and decisions
Jacek Popko, Director of Digital Solutions, MakoLab
16:30 - 16:45 I Wrap-up, DAY 1
Dining at the heart of Łódź
An unforgettable evening at an iconic historical landmark, the Poznański Family Palace. Built by one of the great manufacturing dynasties and now home to the City of Łódź Museum, this outstanding architectural gem is where our cutting-edge conference community enjoyed soaking up our city’s unique atmosphere during an unforgettable evening of exquisite cuisine, inspiring moments and lively networking!
Main stage
9:00 - 9:05 I Welcome back
Host, Miron Niewiadomski, Communications Manager, MakoLab
9:05 - 9:35 I AI governance and responsible adoption
Integrating AI into strategy and operations responsibly
Piotr Ignaczak, CTO, MakoLab
9:35 - 10:05 I Bridging technology and regulation
Turning compliance by design into a competitive edge
dr hab. Dominik Lubasz, PhD, hab., Managing Partner and Head of Corporate Law, Lubasz i Wspólnicy Legal Advisers
Maria Dymitruk, PhD, Attorney-at-Law, AI Expertise Leader, Research Centre for Legal and Economic Issues of Electronic Communication, University of Wrocław
10:05 - 10:20 I Coffee break
10:20 - 10:50 I Knowledge management for AI
How to organise and sustain enterprise AI knowledge
Artur Olszczyński, Software Solutions, MakoLab
10:50 - 11:20 I Digital sovereignty through the prism of the AWS public cloud
Piotr Blonkowski, Cloud Solution Architect, AWS CoE, TD Synnex
11:20 - 11:50 I AI in the large and medium-sized enterprise sector in Poland: Wait and see or copy and paste
Tomasz Sobol, Deputy Marketing Director for CEE, OVHcloud
11:50 - 12:20 I Generative AI on AWS
Łukasz Kołodziejek, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS
12:20 - 12:50 I How AI is rewriting the rules of search
Jacek Żmudziński, SEO Team Lead, MakoLab
12:50 - 13:00 I Closing remarks
Attendance after registration
AI discovery for business
A practical session for change leaders who want to understand how modern technologies can address real business challenges. The workshop introduced a structured approach to analysing organisational issues, pinpointing where AI and automation can bring the greatest value and recognising the conditions required for effective implementation.
Why was it worth attending?
Participants could gain both strategic and hands-on perspectives, combining an overview of technology applications with an introduction to tools that support business growth. This was an ideal starting point for companies ready to structure their transformation journey and make informed, data-driven decisions about AI adoption.
Parallel presentations, demos and workshops tracks
Automating the already digital: What to consider when building apps in a new world
- How new, AI-enabled code editors like ZED can fundamentally accelerate your coding and production speed.
- Learning to navigate the new horizon of AI coding agents. Understanding how to select and use these tools to build applications from a prompt.
- Exploring the proven methodologies and best practices for shipping AI projects to production with confidence and avoiding common pitfalls.
- How AI agents can scale automation and unlock new organisational potential, helping teams boost efficiency and focus on strategic innovation.
Simple acronym, difficult choices: Key decisions on using LLMs
- Comparing the three core approaches to LLM customisation, from prompt engineering to fine-tuning and adapters, to understand when each one delivers the best value.
- Learning to build and secure retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems on Azure while maintaining full control over enterprise knowledge sources.
- Discovering how to evaluate and manage AI projects effectively by applying frameworks like CRISP-DM and integrating continuous assessment tools such as DSPy.
- How AI models are evolving into intelligent agents that leverage context, collaboration and interoperability protocols like MCP and A2A.
Rethinking Security: The AI Impact
- The evolution of AI-augmented phishing and the accessibility of new attack tools.
- Confronting the challenge of proof of personhood and verifying human identity in a world of generative AI.
- Analysing how agentic AI operates as a dual-use tool for ethical hacking and new threat vectors.
- How AI weaponises open-source intelligence (OSINT) for de-anonymisation and targeted attacks.
- The digital transformation of compliance with the shift from reactive oversight to proactive, AI-driven assurance.
Data, knowledge and models: The core of AI
- How data lineage is essential for building trust, governance and control over your information.
- Peeking under the hood of large language models to understand their internal mechanics, from tokens to vectors.
- How to talk to your data by combining generative AI with knowledge graphs to build intelligent, context-aware systems.
- Following the stream of value; see how real-time data flows can unlock faster decisions and efficiency.