Fwdays AI Summit

Fwdays AI Summit is a conference about how AI is transforming IT product development — from engineering to leadership.

📌 Key highlights:
- AI Tooling / Productivity — AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, etc.), Prompt Engineering, Agent Skills, MCP, Spec-Driven Development, Vibe Coding.
- Building AI Systems — RAG, Evals, agents building, AI architecture, observability, security, infrastructure, cost & latency optimization.
- AI for Tech Leadership — AI-first teams, AI-driven processes, delivery with AI, presale, AI ROI, metrics, AI-ready SDLC.
- Industry Shift / Trends — AI use cases across industries, major trends and breakthroughs, the future of AI & AGI, adapting careers in the AI era.
For operational news, chatting, and questions, we use a Telegram chat 👉 https://t.me/+TKNHnM9EdH4I9HTf

📅 Date: April 25, 2026
📍Format: Offline (Kyiv) and Online

🟠 Talks and speakers:
✅ Oleksandr Krakovetskyi — CEO at DevRain
In his talk “Deep Dive into LLM APIs”, Oleksandr will break down how LLMs work, how to use them via APIs, and the key challenges of building RAG systems — along with practical ways to solve them.

✅ Vyacheslav Koldovskyy — Competence Manager at SoftServe
In his talk “Agentic Engineering for Brownfield Projects”, Viacheslav will explore why it’s sometimes easier to build a new product than maintain an existing one — and how to apply agentic tools in real-world projects.

✅ Oleksii Minakov — Consultant & Educator in Generative AI
In his talk “Beyond Productivity: Using AI for Personal Self-Development”, Oleksii will explore how AI can be used not just for efficiency, but for development — from goal setting to reflection, learning, and skill-building — as well as the risks of overreliance and the illusion of competence.

✅ Dmytro Shabanov — Solution Architect at Temabit
In the talk “Agents Instead of Manual Optimization: How We Stopped “Tuning” and Started Delegating”, Dmytro will show how AI agents can take over performance optimization tasks, how to “communicate” with them in engineering terms, and how to control results to achieve real impact.

✅ Vasyl Hoshovskyi — Founder at Multimedia Lab
In his talk “The AI Video Generation Service That Doesn’t Exist Yet: A Director’s Brief for Developers”, Vasyl will explore how AI is transforming video creation, why current tools lack control, and what an ideal platform for a fully controlled production process should look like.

✅ Andrii Bilous — CEO at StayInno AI
In his talk “How to Stitch Corporate Data with AI: From RAG and DeepSearch to Knowledge Graphs”, Andrii will explain why RAG alone is no longer enough and how to unify diverse data sources into a system that delivers accurate and verifiable answers.

✅ Kateryna Stetsiuk — CEO at LyraTech AI
In the talk "AI transformation, no illusions: what works, what doesn’t, and why 90% of pilots don’t deliver business results", Kateryna will break down why most companies fail to achieve results with AI, what mistakes are the most costly, and what truly drives ROI.

✅ Volodymyr Holomb — AI/ML Engineer, AICoE (Centre of Excellence), Diia
In the talk “Defence-in-Depth: How We Build Security for Diia.AI”, Volodymyr will share how LLMs operate within government services under real-world load, why standard AI safety approaches fall short, and how a layered security architecture works in practice.

🎟 There are 2 types of tickets:
Online Ticket — online access to talks during the livestream on April 25, all recordings, Q&A with speakers, networking chat, and certificate of participation.
Full Ticket — all options from Online Ticket + Offline participation in the event on April 25 (in Kyiv), lunch, coffee breaks, live networking.
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