29&30 October
AI Beyond the Hype - Supported by CroAI
Kraš Auditorium, Zagreb
GET YOUR TICKETJonatan Lerga
Full Professor of Electrical Engineering and Associate Dean for Education at the University of Rijeka
Prof. Jonatan Lerga is Full Professor of Electrical Engineering and Associate Dean for Education at the University of Rijeka, Croatia. He received his PhD from the University of Zagreb in 2011. He founded and directs the University of Rijeka Center for Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity and heads the Information Processing Laboratory. Prof. Lerga has authored more than 110 scientific papers, including 30 Q1-ranked journal articles, and has led numerous EU Horizon, Digital Europe, and national research projects. His work has been cited over 1,100 times (Google Scholar). Honors include the 2022 Croatian State Science Award, the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts Award, and several regional and university prizes. He serves on editorial boards of international journals, reviews extensively, and is a member of UNESCO’s International Research Centre on AI and Croatia’s National Council for Digital Transformation. His research focuses on digital signal processing, artificial intelligence applications, coding, and cryptography.
Ena Aničić
Engineer, Atomic Intelligence
Ena Aničić is machine learning engineer at Atomic Intelligence. She holds bachelor’s degrees in mathematics and a master’s degrees in mathematical statistics from the University of Zagreb. She works on a variety of projects in AI, some of which are music source separation, document layout analysis and synthetic data generation for medical applications. Her work involves both research and generation of novel ideas and solutions, as well as engineering and efficient implementation of her results. Ena is also actively engaged in the AI community, regularly participating in conferences and events to stay at the forefront of trends and advancements in the field.
Presentation: Unlocking LLM Potential for Text-to-SQL
Davor Aničić
CEO & co-founder of Velebit.AI
Seasoned business leader with a product management background leading a tiny, efficient and very experienced team of Velebit AI that implements B2B solutions and delivers AI services for online marketplaces, publishing, e-commerce, gaming, biotech and many other industries. Serial entrepreneur starting in the early internet days but also spent five years in academia and 15 years in the corporate environment in various roles across industries like telecommunications, online publishing, and technology transfer. Driven to understand how AI will interact with humans and change our livelihoods in the years to come.
Andrea Čović Vidović
Acting Head of European Commission Representation in Croatia
Head of Press and Media Andrea Čović Vidović has over 15 years of professional experience in EU affairs, diplomacy, communication, management and mentoring. Since July 2022 she has been Head of Media at the European Commission in Croatia and Deputy Head of Commission Representation since February 2023, with the role of Acting Head of Representation since 1 July 2023. She was in charge of public relations for the European Parliament in Croatia since its inauguration in February 2013 until July 2022. She worked at the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs as a diplomat on Croatia's EU membership negotiations and as EU policies lecturer. Thereafter she headed EU sectors at the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Labour, Pension System, Family and Social Policy. During her studies, she was a freelancer on international cultural projects at the Institute for International Relations and Development in Zagreb, before being recruited as regional coordinator of international ICT projects for UNIQA insurance. She holds a Master’s degree in contemporary European Studies from the Sussex University in the UK, as well as in German and English Studies from the University of Zagreb. She studied International Relations and German Studies at the Technical University of Dresden and conducted her PhD research in Comparative Politics at the University of Zagreb and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Relations in Washington DC. She is alumna of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the US Fulbright Programme and the British Chevening Programme. A volunteer in several non-profit organisations, she is the author of projects „Women in the Lead“ for the Academy for Political Development and „AI in PR: Educating the Next Generation of Communicators“ for the Croatian Public Relations Association.
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Kraš Auditorium
Ravnice 48, Zagreb
29-30 October
9:00 - 17:00h
"AI2Future is conference made by community for community. Since 2017, we are going beyond the hype and aiming to cover practical, real-world use cases interesting for engineers and researchers as well as practitioners from other industries. This year’s lineup of speakers will be the strongest so far, so make sure not to miss it!"
- Marko Velić (Software Engineer at Google)
"AI2Future isn't just a conference; it's where Croatia's AI vision takes shape. By bringing together global experts and local innovators, we're setting the stage for a future where AI empowers every sector of our society."
- Lorena Barić (Executive Director - CroAI)
"AI2Future is a great place to learn and connect with experts in the field. The conference provides just right mix of deep technical talks, visionary keynotes, and honest discussions about trends and challenges. Can wait for the next one!"
- Domagoj Kovač (Business Development Manager - Sedmi odjel)
Behind the scenes
Davor Aničić
CEO and Co-founder @ Velebit AI, Board Member @ CroAI
Seasoned business leader with a product management background leading a tiny, efficient and very experienced team of Velebit AI that implements B2B solutions and delivers AI services for online marketplaces, publishing, e-commerce, gaming, biotech and many other industries. Serial entrepreneur starting in the early internet days but also spent five years in academia and 15 years in the corporate environment in various roles across industries like telecommunications, online publishing, and technology transfer. Driven to understand how AI will interact with humans and change our livelihoods in the years to come.
Davor Runje
Head of OSS Engineering @ AG2
Davor is the Co-founder/Chief Scientist at AIRT, an AI Technology company that helps finance companies to use big data techniques on (pre)process transactional data and dramatically improve accuracy of all predictive models created and used by the internal data science team.
Before co-founding DRAP in 2008, he co-founded PlayMedia Systems in 1997 and launched AMP MP3 technology on the global market, and helped launch BabyWatch (now called Bellabeat) in 2013, a digital health wearable company. He also teaches machine and deep learning at the HUB385 Innovation center.
As a PhD intern working with Yuri Gurevich at Microsoft Research, he worked on applications of the interactive ASM thesis on multiprocessor/multicore programing. He designed, implemented and transferred technology to a product group of a system for execution of structured concurrency, later named the Task Parallel Library of .NET framework. Received the SSCLI and Phoenix 2005 award by Microsoft Research as one of the best 16 research projects in international competition.
Inventor and lead developer of several DRM based and DRM free systems for digital audio distribution based of AMP® MP3 decoding engine for clients including DMX Music, STMicroelectronics and Napster.
Matko Bošnjak
Senior Research Scientist @ Google DeepMind
Marko Velić
Software Engineer at Google
Marko is an Software Engineer at Google. Previously he worked at Photomath, Meta (Facebook), Styria, LEGO (as consultant), University of Zagreb and has entrepreneurship experience. He won many awards including the ones from Microsoft and NVIDIA. Marko is also lecturer at Algebra University. He is interested in ML research and practical applications in real life scenarios.
Jan Šnajder
Full professor @ FER
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