🧠The AI Collective Poland & AGH University | AI Ideation Meetup @ KER 🚀 (Cracow)
​A special side-event at the Distributed Energy Congress (KER) - bringing together the world of energy transformation with the unique format of The AI Collective: an ideation workshop built around share & feedback.
​👉 What is it about?
This is not a panel or a lecture. It’s an open space to validate ideas:
​Bring a project or hypothesis you want to test.
​Ask questions to the community and experts.
​Get honest, constructive feedback - no sugarcoating.
​We share openly - because that’s the fastest way to grow ideas. The session is intentionally intimate, so every participant has the chance to present and get meaningful responses.
​👉 Exceptional moderators
The discussion will be guided by Vladyslav Muzhylivskyi and Christopher Kosman - experienced founders and practitioners who work every day at the intersection of AI, business, and innovation.
​👉 Why at KER?
The Congress focuses on the future of energy - renewables, microgrids, hydrogen, digitalization, and system stability. It’s the perfect backdrop to explore AI in energy: from demand forecasting to data center optimization and intelligent grid management.
​👉 But not only energy!
While we are part of KER, we are not limited to energy topics. On the contrary - this meetup is designed to be interdisciplinary.
​Bring an idea from education, health, marketing, finance, or HR.
​The real magic happens when perspectives collide - testing your idea in a completely new environment is often where breakthroughs happen.
​👉 How it works
​This workshop is for people who actually want to do things - by registering, you commit to bringing an idea and engaging actively.
​During registration, you’ll be asked to specify what theme you’d like to explore.
​Participation is confirmed after reviewing profiles and submitted topics - to ensure the conversation is as focused and valuable as possible.
​⚡ Format & Rules
Each participant will have 2–3 minutes to briefly present their startup idea or explain the challenge they want to validate.
​After the pitch, there will be up to 7 minutes of Q&A and feedback from the group and moderators.
​The emphasis is on share & feedback: short, sharp pitches and honest, constructive discussion.
​Please come prepared to both present your own idea and contribute actively to others.
​👉 Why join?
​You’ll walk away with a notebook full of feedback, new contacts, and a clearer sense of your next steps.
​You’ll meet a unique mix of people: energy experts from KER and the global AI Collective community - founders, researchers, investors, and practitioners.
​After the workshop, we’ll stick around for coffee and informal networking.
​It’s a chance to find partners, mentors, co-creators - maybe even your first users or supporters.
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👉 Call to action
Do you have an idea you’d like to test? Register now and step into a room where the feedback is honest, the energy is raw, and the mix of perspectives is unlike anything you’ll find elsewhere.
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​Please note: Participation in this meetup also requires registering for the Distributed Energy Congress (KER) on the official event website. Registration is free.
​🔥 FOMO alert: This is a rare moment where the worlds of AI and energy meet face-to-face - in a format built for real dialogue. If you have an idea and want to validate it in an interdisciplinary setting, you don’t want to miss this.
​About the Moderators
​Vladyslav Muzhylivskyi - the founder of Itentio, where he helps startups, scaleups, and mature tech companies scale and hire talent across Central and Eastern Europe. He is also an active angel investor with a portfolio of 17 startups. A true people-person, Vladyslav co-leads the Polish chapter of The AI Collective and several other tech communities. On evenings, you’ll probably find him hosting a networking event 🤝
​Christopher Kosman - EdTech expert and advocate for AI in education. Co-creator of the digital agency 1000ideas and software development company 1000software, where he develops AI-driven projects for education and business. After years in advertising, he shifted his focus to transforming learning by building technologies that support teachers and students. He hosts the EdTech Dots podcast, featuring global leaders and publishes the weekly EdTech Week Digest, analyzing trends and challenges in AI-powered education.
​🎓 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.
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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!
​The AI Collective is a global non-profit community uniting 70,000+ pioneers – founders, researchers, operators, and investors – exploring the frontier of AI in major tech hubs worldwide. Through events, workshops, and community-led research, we empower the AI ecosystem to collaboratively steer AI’s future toward trust, openness, and human flourishing.
​All attendees and organizers at events affiliated with The AI Collective are subject to our Code of Conduct.