AI Conference 2026
AI Conference 2026

AI CONFERENCE 2026

The AI revolution has entered the enterprise world, and its future is being shaped in Košice. This year’s conference moves beyond traditional lectures to build a powerful, hands-on AI community. Join industry leaders and developers to explore how AI actively transforms high-stakes business environments.


On 29 September 2026, we are tearing down the barrier between the stage and the audience. No rigid presentations. Expect dynamic open discussions, live coding battles, and practical workshops. Whether exploring ethical AI deployment, applied machine learning at scale, or empowering Women in Tech, our focus is strictly on what actually works. It’s time to move from AI talk to AI reality.

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SPEAKERS

Henrik Kniberg

Henrik Kniberg

🎤| Co-founder of Abundly.ai | Former Agile Coach at Spotify & Mojang

Co-founder of Abundly.ai with over 20 years of experience in software development and agile methodologies. Best known for helping shape the renowned "Spotify Model" and working with Minecraft and Mojang, Henrik now focuses on leveraging AI Agents to enable agent-human teams. His visual explanations and keynotes make complex topics accessible to tech communities worldwide.

Henning Schwentner

Henning Schwentner

🎤 | CPO at WPS Workplace Solutions | DDD Expert & Author

Software architect, co-author of Domain Storytelling, and Chief Product Officer at WPS Workplace Solutions. Henning specializes in Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and sustainable software architecture. His current work focuses on integrating AI tools into domain models to help engineering teams build higher-quality software more efficiently.

Lukas Pollmann

Lukas Pollmann

🎤 | Applied AI Team at Anthropic | Ex-Google, GitHub & Microsoft

Founding member of the Applied AI Team of Anthropic for the DACH and CEE region.

He supports large customers like Deutsche Telekom with their AI transformation and previously worked at Companies like Google, GitHub and Microsoft on the intersection of Software Development and AI.

Michal Kováčik

Michal Kováčik

🎤 ☕| AI Strategy & Implementation Leader at Deutsche Telekom IT | Host of Café with Developer

With over 15 years of experience scaling software organizations, Michal has led hundreds of engineers while staying hands-on enough to still ship code and open-source tooling. His current focus is making AI a native part of how developers build software, covering everything from tool selection and rollout to the everyday practices that make it stick. He also founded and organizes the AI Conference in Košice and hosts the Café with Developer podcast.

Matej Kováč

Matej Kováč

🎤📍| Industrial AI Cloud Lead Network Architect at Deutsche Telekom

Matej is an expert in systems architecture, software development, and technical leadership with decades of Linux and networking experience. In his role at Deutsche Telekom (DTAG), he leverages this deep background to lead network architecture for Industrial AI Cloud solutions.

Zdenko Timuľak

Zdenko Timuľak

🎤📍| Industrial AI Cloud Network Architect at DTAG | Lead Cloud Architect

Zdenko is a Lead Cloud Architect specializing in Azure, Cloud Security, Networking, and Data & AI. Currently serving as Industrial AI Cloud Network Architect at Deutsche Telekom (DTAG), he focuses on designing secure and scalable cloud infrastructure that delivers clear business value.

Ivana Chapčáková

Ivana Chapčáková

📍| Safeguarding Specialist | Trust & Safety

Over 15 years of experience in safeguarding, risk management and organizational accountability across humanitarian and development contexts. Held senior safeguarding roles with UNICEF, providing strategic leadership and technical support across the UN system and interagency partners on preventing and responding to harm, including work on digital and technology-enabled reporting mechanisms. Applying that experience to Trust & Safety.

Slavomír Lihan

Slavomír Lihan

📍| Senior Team and Delivery Lead at Deutsche Telekom IT & Telecommunications Slovakia

Slavomír serves as Product Owner leading the development of AI-powered products, including an IT Service Desk chatbot and a semantic search engine. Combining over 20 years of experience across software engineering, data science, and product management with a strong focus on business outcomes, he holds a PhD in speech recognition and is a recipient of the Werner von Siemens Award.

András Baló

András Baló

📍| AI & Deep Learning Engineer at Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions

András brings over a decade of experience in AI, natural language processing, speech recognition, and search technologies. At Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions, he develops production-grade AI solutions, including hybrid neural retrieval, custom RAG systems, and speech-based command recognition. His work combines research-driven experimentation with a strong focus on building efficient, scalable applications that solve complex business problems.

PROGRAM 🎤

08:30 - 09:00
Registration
09:00 - 10:25
Block 1

Michal Kováčik - The Skill Set Nobody Warned You About: Real AI Adoption at Scale

Henrik Kniberg - Real-Life Agentic Engineering

10:25 - 10:50
Coffee Break
10:50 - 12:05
Block 2

Lukas Pollmann - Agentic Architectures: What Changes When the Agent Writes the Code

Matej Kováč & Zdenko Timuľak - Industrial AI Cloud as core for future EU AI infrastructure

12:05 - 13:00
Coffee Break
13:00 - 15:00
Block 3

Henning Schwentner - Domain-Driven Transformation — Modernizing Legacy Software in the Age of AI

Open discussion session

MARKETSTANDS 📍

Industrial AI Cloud as Core for Future EU AI Infrastructure

How to build AI Datacenter from scratch in 6 months.

WX Assist: Smart Workplace Assistant

WX assist - chatbot built on Pydantic AI framework with backend integrations to support users with workplace related topics (HW&SW issues, access, passwords, etc.). Agent based implementation for better user assistance in troubleshooting and incident resolution.

Safety is Part of Impact: From Principles to Practice in AI

Translating AI safety principles into practice requires embedding safeguarding directly into every stage of the product lifecycle. This session demonstrates that safety is an essential component of real-world impact, offering a practical framework to identify risks early and build responsible AI solutions by design.

FGC Team Slovakia — Robotics & Applied AI

Team Slovakia brings its 2026 FIRST Global Challenge competition robot and Firesonics, an AI system built to recognize a fire in the seconds before conventional detectors respond. Both run live at the stand, with the high-school students who built them there to explain how.

Special Edition: Coffee with Developer featuring Anthropic

Join us for a special edition of Coffee with Developer, this year with Lukas Pollmann from Anthropic's Applied AI Team.


An open, honest conversation about what AI really means for developers today. Where it helps, where it doesn't, and what's next.


Expect candid stories, a peek behind the scenes at Anthropic, and practical takeaways from someone who works with enterprise teams every day.


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Compulsory statement:

Deutsche Telekom IT & Telecommunications Slovakia s.r.o.

Moldavská cesta 8B, 040 11 Košice, Slovakia

ID: 52934039, TAX ID : 2121175947

VAT ID: SK2121175947

IBAN: DE7770 0202 7000 2025 0512

SWIFT/BIC: HYVEDEMMXXX

UniCredit Bank AG

BIN 52 934 039 registered in the Business Register of the City Court Košice, Section Sro, Insert No. 48210/V, TIN 2121175947

AI Conference 2026