September 14 (Sunday), 16:30 - 19:00, building A0 on the AGH campus

Session chair: Maria Ganzha

16:30-17:30    Welcome Ceremony

17:30-19:00    Opening Session & Panel on "AI Systems - The New Edge".  AI Systems (Intelligence Systems, Agent Systems) - their meaning, capabilities, expectations, concerns - have been evolving. In particular, it is about AI computations and interactions - where, when, and how they take place. On the one hand, we can build powerful AI Factories and interact with BigTech Language Models. On the other hand, we need AI solutions that work locally, in our networks, on our machines, somewhat on the edge - understood in a new way. Of course, these two worlds are connected. And you need both in most real-world AI applications. But is it going to be like that in the future?

Opening Speakers & Panelists:

Tikiri Wanduragala Technology Leader Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) Lenovo UK and Ireland

His career in IT began at the start of the PC era and has seen him hold several positions within PC and server systems for both IBM and Lenovo. In his current role he advises customers in the UKI region on the introduction of new technologies and infrastructure optimisation projects.

Tadeusz Uhl,  Dean of Faculty of Space Technologies, AGH University of Kraków, Poland
Tadeusz Uhl is a graduate of the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow (1980), and since 1996 he has started working as a professor. He worked for 8 years in foreign research centers. His research interests include mechatronics, robotics and space technologies. He is the author of over 1000 publications. He is the supervisor of 56 defended doctoral theses and over 100 master's theses. Coordinator of many European projects, currently Universeh – European Space University.  It has 65 domestic and foreign patents. Member of HLG in the field of Key Enabling Technology at the European Commission in the years 2014 – 2017. In 2020, Stanford University placed him on the prestigious "World's Top 2% Scientists" list. He successfully implements the latest technologies in the economy. He has founded 29 start-up and spin-off companies, several of which are large companies. Currently, as the Dean of the Faculty of Space Technologies at the AGH University of Science and Technology, he leads a research team that conducts research in the field of orbital and planetary missions, including missions to the ISS.

Macquarie University Sydney Australia and Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, Poland 
Prof. dr hab. Leszek A. Maciaszek is affiliated as Honorary Fellow at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia and as Professor Emeritus at Wroclaw University of Economics and Business in Poland. He holds Title of Professor awarded by the President of Poland. He worked as Visiting Professor/Scientist in more than 20 universities/research centers in countries on four continents; has authored well over 200 publications (most importantly several Prentice-Hall and Pearson Addison-Wesley books, some translated from English to Chinese, Russian and Italian); has been Editor or Co-Editor of about 60 volumes published by Springer and IEEE;  has acted as expert, reviewer and advisor to international corporations, government bodies and ministries as well as reviewer and evaluator to European Commission projects. He has served as Program or Conference Chair in about 50 renowned international conferences.  

Dominik Ślęzak President and Founder, QED Software & Full Professor, Institute of Informatics, University of Warsaw, Poland
Innovator and technology leader with experience in scaling companies across the USA, Canada, and Poland, holding multiple US patents. Founder of QED Software. A graduate of the elite theoretical mathematics program at the University of Warsaw with a passion for Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Soft Computing, and Machine Learning, enriched by scholarships in Japan, France, and Canada. Combines both technological vision and market needs to deliver practical business solutions. Actively engaged in university education, foundational research, data science competitions at knowledgepit.ai, and other forms of supporting the international scientific community.