Agentic AI is moving fast from prototypes into production — and with it comes a new set of technical, organizational, and regulatory challenges. This edition of Thursday Gathering brings together founders, engineers, researchers, and operators from Poland’s and Europe’s AI ecosystem to explore what it really takes to build, ship, and scale autonomous systems in the real world.
From trustworthy AI and EU AI Act considerations to production failures, governance gaps, and system design trade-offs, this evening focuses on what actually happens when AI leaves the lab and enters complex environments. Expect honest conversations, practical insights, and no polished hype — just real lessons from the frontlines of building agentic systems.
In the Demo Table zone you will discover various products, technologies and projects being presented by the founders or startup-representatives.
In the Info Table zone you will find out about projects, organisations and ideas.
Want to present your organisation? Send us an application!
However remember, this is NO HARD SALES zone.
Unwind, connect, and vibe to the rhythm! This lively session blends casual networking with great music, offering the perfect atmosphere to meet fellow innovators, exchange ideas, and forge new collaborations. Grab a drink, enjoy the beats, and build meaningful connections in a relaxed, energetic setting.
Come and join us for our popular UX-Testing! You will learn what products are to be launched soon in the market and meet interesting people with innovative mindsets. Our startups will show you their prototypes, and you get the chance to give them valuable feedback from a user perspective. All along, you can network in an inspiring crowd of participating teams, startup experts and guests.
These 1:1 consultations are for founders, product teams, and operators who are designing, testing, or shipping AI features and want practical clarity on what comes next. In each session, I’d help attendees quickly assess an AI use case, spot likely red flags or grey areas, and turn that into actionable next steps.
The sessions would be especially useful for people who want to understand questions such as:
- whether their AI use case may raise EU AI Act or broader trustworthy AI concerns
- what they should clarify before committing more product or engineering effort
- how to move from uncertainty to a practical action plan with lightweight evidence
This panel brings together practitioners who have taken agentic AI past the demo stage and into the messy reality of legacy systems systems, fragmented data landscapes, and organizations that were never designed to move fast. Panelists will share the friction they didn't anticipate (governance gaps and data silos, change management and the politics of deploying autonomous systems in environments where mistakes have physical consequences and more). If you're trying to understand what actually separates a successful rollout from a stalled pilot, this is the conversation to be in.
What happens when two fast-growing innovation ecosystems come together around AI, investment, and cross-border collaboration?
This panel brings together founders, investors, ecosystem leaders, and policy representatives to explore the growing opportunities between Poland and Germany — from startup growth and venture capital to deep tech, cybersecurity, and international expansion.
Expect an open conversation on how innovation ecosystems can work together to unlock new partnerships, accelerate scaling opportunities, and strengthen the future of European tech.
Building an agent is easy. Building one that works reliably in production, where it touches real customers, real money, or real decisions, is a different problem entirely. This panel brings together architects, builders, and deployers who've done it: what design choices actually matter, where systems break in ways you didn't anticipate, and what it means to build AI that earns enough trust to be given real autonomy.
For years, the AI conversation centred on models: how capable they are, how fast they improve, how much they cost. That conversation is now incomplete. It has shifted from model quality to system design: how you coordinate multiple agents with distinct roles, how you manage state across long-running workflows, how you maintain control when the environment is non-deterministic by nature. This talk draws on real production deployments to map the new hard problems and to frame what it genuinely takes to move from a working prototype to a system that holds up under real-world load.
Selected early-stage agentic AI startups, five minutes each in one room full of investors, enterprise practitioners, and people who actually understand what you're building.
If you're building in the agentic AI space and want real feedback from people who've shipped agent systems into production this is your stage, apply today here!
In my 18-year journey as a Solution Architect, Individual Contributor and Opensource Committer, I've decoded complex business challenges, pioneering innovative information retrieval solutions. My commitment to open-source tech and a KPI-driven approach has empowered teams, fostering continual learning and driving revenue growth. With a focus on scalability and performance, I champion open-source paradigms, fostering swift innovation. As a strategic leader, I blend hands-on expertise with a commitment to growth, poised to elevate any organization toward sustained success through innovation, customer satisfaction, and KPI-driven solutions. Having worked on several projects and running my consulting company, imparted a solid understanding of Team Management and Agile methodology. Data has been the key focus of my work and I possess a deep understanding of data Analysis and data processing pipelines. I am also an active open-source committer to various search and language processing tools and I love to experiment with different technologies and solutions using Vectors, NLP, LLM, and AI.
Agentic AI is moving fast from prototypes into production — and with it comes a new set of technical, organizational, and regulatory challenges. This edition of Thursday Gathering brings together founders, engineers, researchers, and operators from Poland’s and Europe’s AI ecosystem to explore what it really takes to build, ship, and scale autonomous systems in the real world.
From trustworthy AI and EU AI Act considerations to production failures, governance gaps, and system design trade-offs, this evening focuses on what actually happens when AI leaves the lab and enters complex environments. Expect honest conversations, practical insights, and no polished hype — just real lessons from the frontlines of building agentic systems.
In the Demo Table zone you will discover various products, technologies and projects being presented by the founders or startup-representatives.
In the Info Table zone you will find out about projects, organisations and ideas.
Want to present your organisation? Send us an application!
However remember, this is NO HARD SALES zone.
Unwind, connect, and vibe to the rhythm! This lively session blends casual networking with great music, offering the perfect atmosphere to meet fellow innovators, exchange ideas, and forge new collaborations. Grab a drink, enjoy the beats, and build meaningful connections in a relaxed, energetic setting.
Come and join us for our popular UX-Testing! You will learn what products are to be launched soon in the market and meet interesting people with innovative mindsets. Our startups will show you their prototypes, and you get the chance to give them valuable feedback from a user perspective. All along, you can network in an inspiring crowd of participating teams, startup experts and guests.
These 1:1 consultations are for founders, product teams, and operators who are designing, testing, or shipping AI features and want practical clarity on what comes next. In each session, I’d help attendees quickly assess an AI use case, spot likely red flags or grey areas, and turn that into actionable next steps.
The sessions would be especially useful for people who want to understand questions such as:
- whether their AI use case may raise EU AI Act or broader trustworthy AI concerns
- what they should clarify before committing more product or engineering effort
- how to move from uncertainty to a practical action plan with lightweight evidence
This panel brings together practitioners who have taken agentic AI past the demo stage and into the messy reality of legacy systems systems, fragmented data landscapes, and organizations that were never designed to move fast. Panelists will share the friction they didn't anticipate (governance gaps and data silos, change management and the politics of deploying autonomous systems in environments where mistakes have physical consequences and more). If you're trying to understand what actually separates a successful rollout from a stalled pilot, this is the conversation to be in.
What happens when two fast-growing innovation ecosystems come together around AI, investment, and cross-border collaboration?
This panel brings together founders, investors, ecosystem leaders, and policy representatives to explore the growing opportunities between Poland and Germany — from startup growth and venture capital to deep tech, cybersecurity, and international expansion.
Expect an open conversation on how innovation ecosystems can work together to unlock new partnerships, accelerate scaling opportunities, and strengthen the future of European tech.
Building an agent is easy. Building one that works reliably in production, where it touches real customers, real money, or real decisions, is a different problem entirely. This panel brings together architects, builders, and deployers who've done it: what design choices actually matter, where systems break in ways you didn't anticipate, and what it means to build AI that earns enough trust to be given real autonomy.
For years, the AI conversation centred on models: how capable they are, how fast they improve, how much they cost. That conversation is now incomplete. It has shifted from model quality to system design: how you coordinate multiple agents with distinct roles, how you manage state across long-running workflows, how you maintain control when the environment is non-deterministic by nature. This talk draws on real production deployments to map the new hard problems and to frame what it genuinely takes to move from a working prototype to a system that holds up under real-world load.
Selected early-stage agentic AI startups, five minutes each in one room full of investors, enterprise practitioners, and people who actually understand what you're building.
If you're building in the agentic AI space and want real feedback from people who've shipped agent systems into production this is your stage, apply today here!
In my 18-year journey as a Solution Architect, Individual Contributor and Opensource Committer, I've decoded complex business challenges, pioneering innovative information retrieval solutions. My commitment to open-source tech and a KPI-driven approach has empowered teams, fostering continual learning and driving revenue growth. With a focus on scalability and performance, I champion open-source paradigms, fostering swift innovation. As a strategic leader, I blend hands-on expertise with a commitment to growth, poised to elevate any organization toward sustained success through innovation, customer satisfaction, and KPI-driven solutions. Having worked on several projects and running my consulting company, imparted a solid understanding of Team Management and Agile methodology. Data has been the key focus of my work and I possess a deep understanding of data Analysis and data processing pipelines. I am also an active open-source committer to various search and language processing tools and I love to experiment with different technologies and solutions using Vectors, NLP, LLM, and AI.