Dear Data Enthusiasts,
Summer might be over, but that means meetups are back on the menu! We’re kicking off the season with an exciting event featuring two fantastic Vienna-based startups.
Lessons from bringing an AI agent to production (and building a start-up along the way)
Patrick Hohenecker
Heinz Eckert
In this session, we, Patrick Hohenecker and Heinz Eckert, founders of AI consultancy Neural Natives, will share practical insights and surprising challenges from building an agentic AI system and putting it into production.
The project we will focus on is an agent we developed for a group of functional fitness gyms in Vienna. The system helps prospective customers select and book a group class for their first trial session.
We will cover learnings and surprises across the full project lifecycle: scoping the project and aligning with the client, development and deployment, and ultimately operating the solution in production.
Our aim for this session is to give you a hands-on perspective on what it takes to make agentic AI work in practice today.
Patrick has a background in Computer Science and AI, earned his PhD in Deep Learning from the University of Oxford, and previously founded and served as CTO of successful international tech startups in the legal and hospitality sectors.
Heinz studied Computer Science and Psychology. He previously led the AI team at a large Austrian telecom provider and has more than 10 years of experience in data and AI.
Beat Shaper: AI music-production tool; from concept to production
Joaquin Ramiro Molina
In this talk, Joaquín will walk us through the development of Beat Shaper — an AI-powered music production tool designed for electronic music producers.
Joaquin is an SW Engineer at Cloudflight and Co-founder of Beat Shaper. He's passionate about AI and Retrieval systems, and firmly believes Friday evening is the best time to deploy to production.
🎤🎤 Open Mic
We are going to open up the stage after the talks for community annou