AI Week: Developing Software in the AI Era – 3 talks and a panel discussion on June 9th @ Startit Centar

On Monday, June 9, at Startit Center Belgrade we are hosting the event „Developing Software in the AI Era”. Through three short talks and the panel „AI-assisted development — the hype, the reality, the promise” — we’ll explore concrete examples, key concepts, and discuss how AI is changing day-to-day engineering work.

Admission is free, but registration is required via form. The event will be held in English.

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Talks

Grounding Large Language Models – How to Keep Your AI Honest

Aleksandar Anđelković, currently serving as a Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft in the ContextIQ, a team that focuses on integrating intelligent, context-aware features into apps like Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Teams. He will hold a talk titled Grounded in Reality: Strategies to Reduce AI Hallucinations, focused on inference time strategies.

How do you make an AI use a computer instead of a human, and be just as good, or better, at it?

Jovan Kiš, of UkisAI, will present the project he did for Insightful, prototyping a new AI product that frees up people for more creative work with automated repetitive computer use. Insightful is a US based company founded in Belgrade, with 200.000+ users of its workspace analytics software.

What Drives Generative AI? Lessons from Images and Speech

Sergej Dukanov, CTO @ Dubformer, breaks down the three engines of GenAI progress—data, architectures, and training objectives—with examples from early GANs to cutting-edge video models and advanced TTS systems.

Panel

AI-assisted development — the hype, the reality, the promise

Moderated by Vukašin Stojkov Aleksandar Anđelković (bio above) with two more guests:

Mladen Jovanović, currently serving as an AI Architect @ Nortal, he’s been improving products with AI for more than a decade; built ML/DS teams and held guest-lectures at Belgrade’s premiere tech school ETF.

Miloš Arsić is a Senior Software Engineer at Solflare, a crypto wallet that holds north of 20 billion dollars of user funds. Miloš has been in the industry since 2017, engineering both web2 and web3 software.

We’ll discuss the sensational claims circulating online, the real capabilities and security risks of AI-powered coding, and how these tools are changing the work of engineers and teams.

Registration

Admission is free, but registration is required — please apply via the form:

SIGNUP FORM HERE