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Open Source AI Models - How can Portuguese companies use them?

Hosted by Tiago Ferreira & Porto AI Week
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​How can Portuguese companies use open-source AI to cut costs, protect their data and build systems that truly understand their business?

​In this event, three Portuguese AI builders will share what they have learned from developing and deploying real-world AI products. Across three practical 30-minute talks, we’ll explore the full stack of business AI: organising company knowledge, running powerful models locally and building an AI ecosystem designed for Portugal.

​How to Make AI Actually Understand Your Portuguese Business
By Nuno Serra — 30 minutes

​Discover how documents, structured data and business terminology can become a living knowledge layer powered by hybrid RAG, accessible to both humans and AI agents through APIs and MCP.

​How Local AI Can Save Your Company Thousands of Euros per Month
By Nuno Donato — 30 minutes

​A practical journey from early chatbot MVPs to fully agentic systems and how local AI can deliver predictable costs, unlimited usage and complete control over company data.

​How We Went from Amália to Caravela: The ChatGPT for Portuguese Companies
By Tiago Ferreira — 30 minutes

​The story of how we pushed Portugal’s open-source Amália model to its limits and evolved it into Caravela: an ecosystem of open-source models running in Europe and connected to Portuguese laws, public data, government APIs and websites.

​No hype or theoretical demos, just honest lessons from building AI products, the limitations we discovered and the opportunities open-source AI creates for Portuguese companies.

Event will be in English

Location
Associação Nacional de Jovens Empresários
Casa do Farol, R. de Paulo da Gama, 4169-006 Porto, Portugal
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