Name: KI Punsch: Blue Collar AI with Dr. Jan Koutnik
Start: 2025-11-19T18:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-11-19T20:30:00+01:00
Location: NXAI Office

**Blue collar AI:** Jan Koutnik explains his Industrial AI approach, why he doesn’t realize GenAI use cases and where he sees the sweet spot for himself and his new company.

* **Welcome & Networking (15 min)**
* **Main Talk with Jan Koutnik (20–30 min)**
* **Q&A & Discussion (20–25 min)**
* **Closing & Socializing (30–45 min)**

Snacks and our **signature Punsch** will be provided

Everyone who is interested in AI and Entrepreneurship talks is welcome — **come as you are!** :)

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Jan Koutnik “Czeched out” in 2009 to improve recurrent neural networks and scale evolutionary reinforcement learning as a postdoc at IDSIA. At NNAISENSE, he directed the division of the company responsible for the “learning to park” NeurIPS 2016 demo with Audi, the “learning to run” NeurIPS competition win in 2017, and the Festo Softhand in-hand manipulation demo at Hannover Messe in 2019. Now he has his own company focussing on Blue Collar AI. He explains us, what this means.

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