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Are you interested in machine learning and AI models and want to learn from the experiences of others? As part of the nationwide AI Days, the DeepLayers 2025 conference/forum will take place in Brno. The event will last two days, so mark your calendars for November 4 and 5, 2025. The venue is the Institute of Scientific Instruments of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Brno.

The first day will be devoted to practical workshops on training deep learning models – individual blocks will be dedicated to data processing, tutorials on working with models, building blocks of deep learning networks, and data augmentation, for example. Beginners and advanced learners are welcome, with the organizers primarily targeting bachelor's, master's, and doctoral students.

The second day will feature lectures by professionals from the fields of practice and research. You will learn, for example, about the importance of data quality in the development of software solutions in healthcare, and the extremely topical issue of quantum computing will also be addressed. The complete program of the event can be found here.

Filip Plešinger from the Artificial Intelligence and Medical Technologies Group at the Institute of Computer Science of the Czech Academy of Sciences summarized the focus of both days: "The first day is for those who want to compare concepts, fine-tune the basics, and look at model training. On the second day, we will focus on real-life cases from business and academia and discuss how to bring it all to the world: from input data to deployment."

Participation in DeepLayers 2025 is free, but registration is required due to the limited number of participants. You can register at the link above.

The DeepLayers conference is held regularly and in recent years has become a reliable event connecting industry, research, new experiences... and, of course, those interested in machine learning.

LLM – a term that is shaking up the IT world. This year's third annual event organized by Seznam is also dedicated to large language models. Seznam Meetup, a gathering of experts and enthusiasts interested in the practical use of generative language models, will focus this year on applications of models in the form of assistants, agents, and chatbots. The event, which welcomed 600 participants in 2024, will take place outside Prague for the first time this year – the Faculty of Information Technology at Brno University of Technology has been secured as the venue. The date is Friday, November 7, 2025, from 5:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Seznam Meetup is part of the nationwide AI Days popularization activity, which presents artificial intelligence in relation to current events and focuses on specific examples of AI use across various fields of human activity.

The main part of the Seznam Meetup program consists of invited lectures by experts. Dominik Macko (DataSentics) will talk about his experience with building a custom RAG chatbot in the environment of a large financial institution. Jiří Spilka (Apify) will reflect on the prospects of the emerging economy of LLM agents. Radoslav Mikeš (Seznam.cz) will share his experience with the development of Seznam Assistant. The entire evening will be moderated by Diana Hlaváčová, product manager for large language models at Seznam.

The complete program can be found on the event website. Here you can also register to participate either in person or online.

Great opportunities, undeniable challenges – if you are interested in the world of practical LLM applications, you should not miss this event.

We would like to thank the research groups Speech@FIT and KNOT@FIT for organizing the event at our faculty. Specifically, Prof. Honza Černocký.

The European Commission has announced the results of the EuroHPC European supercomputing initiative call for proposals. Among the successful applicants is the Czech Republic, specifically a consortium of six partners including the Brno University of Technology. Over the next three years, a new KarolAIna supercomputer will be installed at the IT4Innovations national supercomputing center in Ostrava. As part of the Czech AI Factory (CZAI) project, it will be complemented by a package of services provided by consortium experts, including consulting, models, and algorithms. The resulting infrastructure will serve a wide range of users, including industry, public administration, research teams, and start-ups.

According to Professor Jan Černocký from the Faculty of Information Technology at BUT, who coordinated the Brno University's involvement in the Czech AI Factory, the project has at least three significant benefits. "At a time when supercomputing is the bread and butter of any serious work in the field of artificial intelligence, the new supercomputer will enable Czech researchers and developers to keep pace with the world," says Černocký. Another benefit, according to him, is the fact that the funds earmarked for development and services related to CZAI will enable laboratory prototypes to be moved into production conditions and will help the Czech AI industry and public administration. Finally, according to Černocký, it should be emphasized that "the project itself will connect leading Czech workplaces from several top institutions." The Brno researcher also pointed out that BUT was involved in the creation of the IT4Innovations consortium, which built the first Czech supercomputer in Ostrava. In addition to Černocký, Professor Jiří Jaroš from FIT should also be mentioned, as he is responsible for the educational part of the project aimed at students, scientists, and industrial developers.
More information about the project, which will become the flagship of the Czech Republic's AI infrastructure, can be found in the press release.