One day full of inspiring keynotes, hands-on workshops and new connections at the premier summit for Artificial Intelligence in Ioannina, Greece. May 21, 2025 · Ioannina, Greece.
Generative AI is reshaping industries by enabling powerful applications in content generation, automation and decision-making — but unlocking its potential means understanding not just how it works, but how to optimize it for efficiency and accuracy. This session gives a structured introduction to Generative AI, starting from fundamental principles (how models like Llama and DeepSeek-R1 generate human-like responses) through key architectural components — transformers, attention mechanisms, tokenization — and the difference between training and inference. It then moves into optimization techniques for improving response accuracy, reducing latency and balancing computational efficiency, including the latest in fine-tuning, parameter-efficient training and deployment trade-offs.
With a solid grasp of Generative AI, it's time to interact with and optimize AI assistants — without writing a single line of code. In this hands-on session participants engage with a custom-built GenAI assistant powered by Llama and DeepSeek-R1. Through guided, no-code exercises they experiment with prompt engineering — structuring inputs, adjusting tone, specificity and constraints — then dive into response optimization (temperature, response length, system instructions) and best practices for smoother interactions, fewer hallucinations and more reliable outputs.
As AI-powered copilots become standard, their presence is no longer a differentiator — it's the baseline. The real opportunity is in how companies reshape product strategy to lead in an AI-native world. This session challenges product and strategy leaders to look beyond surface-level integrations and rethink core value propositions, team structures and roadmap decisions: why the ‘copilot phase’ is just the beginning, the mindset shift from reactive to strategic AI integration, the emerging role of the AI Product Manager as a cross-functional catalyst, how to structure experimentation and discovery around fast-moving tech, and how to gather meaningful product requirements when user needs are still forming.
Prompt Engineering is a new field focused on creating and improving prompts to get the best results from language models, diffusion models and other advanced technologies. The Crafting AI Prompts Framework splits into two parts — IPE and IVPE — helping users apply Generative AI effectively for written and visual content while promoting ethical, responsible use. Through this deep dive, participants understand the core concepts of the framework and how to apply it to use GenAI effectively and responsibly every day.
As enterprises increasingly embed LLMs and Generative AI into mission-critical applications, ensuring accuracy, efficiency and reliability becomes a top priority — and traditional testing methods fall short against the dynamic nature of AI models. This session introduces an innovative AI testing framework built specifically for LLM and GenAI applications, exploring the latest automated evaluation tools, real-world performance metrics and domain-specific benchmarks that measure AI effectiveness beyond traditional accuracy scores, with actionable insights for testing that keeps models robust, unbiased and scalable.
Agentic AI and copilots are quickly becoming part of everyday workflows — but what do they actually enable, and how should we think about their role in the way we work, decide and build? This session takes a clear-eyed look at the current state of agent-based AI systems: what they are, how they function and where they're genuinely creating value. Through real-world examples it moves past the buzz to explore the practical, evolving relationship between humans and intelligent tools — the capabilities and limitations of agentic AI today, what ‘copilot’ really means in different work contexts, and how to evaluate value, not just novelty, when deploying AI tools.
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