AI Reality Check: Lessons from Research, Product & Engineering

Three speakers. Three angles. One honest conversation.

During this year’s edition of FOMO – Festival of Modern Owners, RO AI Alliance is hosting a community event, bringing together different perspectives on what AI looks like beyond the headlines: from autonomous research systems, to production-ready AI products, to engineering experiments with new coding workflows.

Alexandru Dan (AI Professor, Ethical AI Ambassador & CEO @ TVL Tech) brings the research lens with a talk on autonomous AI exploration: how AI systems can enter feedback loops, learn from their own outputs, use tools, create subagents, and run experiments with limited human intervention. His session will explore ideas behind Autoresearch / AI That Learns While You Sleep, touching on Claude Projects, self-learning workflows, examples from tools like Suno and online experiments, and the bigger question of how these systems should be guided as they become more autonomous.

Stefania Budulan (AI Technology Lead @ Adobe, with cross-industry consulting experience) brings a builder’s perspective to “Building AI That Works: The Decisions Leaders Need to Unlearn.” Drawing on real-world experience delivering AI solutions, her talk reveals why promising demos rarely translate into business impact, and what leaders must rethink to build AI that is reliable, scalable, and actually used.

Tudor Predună (Senior Sensor Fusion Engineer @ Bertrandt Group) brings the engineering lens through a technical field study on vibe coding. His talk will look at how AI-assisted coding changes the way engineers prototype, test, debug, and make decisions. Tudor goes beyond the hype around “coding with AI” and explores where these tools genuinely help, where they create new risks, and what happens when engineering intuition meets AI-generated code in real workflows.

Expect a practical, community-driven evening with people building, studying, and questioning AI from different angles.

Where: AFI Victoriei Plaza, Blvd. Aviatorilor 8A, et. 2
When: 21 May, 18:00.
The event starts at 18:00 with networking and snacks.
The talks will begin at 19:00.