​🧠 The AI Collective Poland & AGH University

​AI in Education: Critical Thinking, Skills & the Human Layer

​📅 March 31, 2026
📍 AGH University, Kraków
📝 Registration required

​This event will be held fully in Polish 🇵🇱

​About the Event

​Artificial Intelligence is rapidly reshaping education and the broader learning ecosystem – not only through new tools, but by challenging how we build skills, evaluate learning, and define the role of humans in the process.

​This edition of the The AI Collective Poland: AI in Education in collaboration with AGH University explores one of the most important questions in today’s education landscape: are our institutions, educators, and learners truly ready for the AI era?

​Together with researchers, practitioners, and education innovators, we will look at AI from two complementary angles. First, we will examine how the Polish learning and training sector is responding to technological change, what the latest market data tells us, and why the transformation is still uneven. Then, we will move into the classroom itself – asking how schools and universities can strengthen critical thinking, cognitive resilience, and independent reasoning in a world increasingly shaped by algorithms.

​The evening will culminate in a panel discussion on a provocative but timely topic: why has the training market still not fully become EdTech? We’ll explore what is slowing down adoption, whether AI threatens traditional training models, where LLMs can realistically replace parts of teaching, and where the uniquely human value in education remains irreplaceable.

​Join us for an evening of insightful keynotes, practical reflection, and honest debate – followed by networking with educators, founders, researchers, and professionals building the future of learning in Poland.

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This event will be held fully in Polish 🇵🇱

​📅 Agenda

​17:30 – Registration 📝👋
Arrival & check-in

​18:00 – Opening Remarks 🎤 (Polish 🇵🇱)
Welcome by the AI Collective Poland team & AGH University

​18:10 – Keynote – Barbara Worek 🎓🤖 (Polish 🇵🇱)
“Is the Polish skills development sector ready for the AI era?”

​A data-driven look at how the Polish training and lifelong learning sector is responding to AI-driven change. This talk will highlight key research findings on innovation, market fragmentation, challenges related to AI adoption, and what these shifts mean in practice for companies, trainers, and institutions responsible for developing future-ready skills.

​18:40 – Keynote – Paulina Krukowska 🧠📚 (Polish 🇵🇱)
“Cognitive Resilience in a World of Algorithms”

​How can we teach young people to use AI without handing over their thinking to machines? Paulina will explore how to strengthen critical thinking, cognitive resilience, and intellectual independence in the era of generative AI - especially in secondary schools and higher education - so that AI becomes a partner in thinking, not a shortcut that replaces it.

​19:10 – Panel Discussion (organised by EdTech Dots) 🗣️ (Polish 🇵🇱)
“Why hasn’t the training market become EdTech yet?”

​Signals from the market suggest that a large part of the training sector still operates in a largely analog model. In this discussion, we will explore why technology adoption remains slow, whether AI could threaten traditional training companies, what LLMs can realistically automate, and where the truly irreplaceable human value in education lies today.

​Panelists:
Barbara Worek - Professor, Jagiellonian University & AGH University of Science and Technology
Paulina Krukowska - Research & Education Lead, EdTech Dots
Adam Przymusiała - CEO, Akademus

​Moderator: Krzysztof Kosman – Co-founder of EdTech Dots

​19:40 – Networking ☕🤝
Open space to exchange ideas, continue discussions, and connect with peers.

​21:30 – Wrap-Up 🎉

​About the Speakers:

​Barbara Worek - Professor, Jagiellonian University & AGH University of Science and Technology

​Barbara Worek is a professor at Jagiellonian University and AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków. She has spent many years researching lifelong learning, adult skills, and the training sector in Poland. Combining academic research with policy expertise, she works on how education and training systems can better respond to labour market change, new technologies, and the growing need for inclusive lifelong learning. She has been involved in the Human Capital Study (Bilans Kapitału Ludzkiego) since 2008.

​Paulina Krukowska - Research & Education Lead, EdTech Dots

​A practitioner at the intersection of two worlds, combining years of business and marketing experience with active teaching at Poznan University of Economics and Business and in IB DP Economics.
Leads EdTech Dots research and education efforts, translating findings into classroom reality and studying how AI impacts the cognitive development of students.
Champion of critical thinking, helping students and educators use generative AI as a thinking partner without sacrificing intellectual independence or analytical depth. Focused on human-centric innovation, designing educational strategies that are engaging, scalable, and grounded in real-world professional needs.

​Krzysztof Kosman - Co-founder, EdTech Dots

​Krzysztof is the co-founder of EdTech Dots, a community connecting educators, founders, and innovators across Europe. He creates and grows digital products, combining experience in software development, product design, and team leadership. Passionate about sharing knowledge, he explores how AI and automation can transform business and education through his EdTech Dots podcast. Krzysztof focuses on connecting founders, technologists, and educators to exchange ideas and build practical, human-centered solutions together.

​Why Attend?

• ​Understand how AI is reshaping the Polish education and training landscape

• ​Explore where the human role in learning becomes even more important in the AI era

• ​Hear practical perspectives from academia, EdTech, and community leaders

• ​Join a high-quality discussion at the intersection of education, technology, and future skills

• ​Meet peers across universities, startups, training providers, and the broader AI ecosystem

​🎓 Partnership with AGH University

​This event is co-organized with AGH University of Krakow, a long-time supporter of innovation and technology transfer. It’s a unique combination - academia on one side and entrepreneurs and practitioners on the other - set within KER, showing how AI and energy can truly complement each other.

​​Please be advised: Unfortunately, space is very limited at these community events and we can not always accept everyone we would like to. If you are not accepted to this event, please keep applying! We appreciate your application tremendously and we are looking forward to seeing you at a future event very soon!

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