PyData Slovakia & Bratislava Meetup #29 [Radovan Kavicky: Under the Hood of LLM]

Talk Title: "Under the Hood of LLM"

Description: In this talk we unveil the inner workings of Large Language Models (LLMs), explore the architecture of Transformers and how chatbots and AI agents works underneath. This talk also dives into the concept of Model Context Protocol (MCP), the limitless potential that it offers and how it differs from RAG and other protocols like A2A. Join us for an in-depth look at how these powerful AI models that you already use on daily basis really work, how they process data, generate responses and redefine and push the boundaries of artificial intelligence.

Speaker/Bio: Radovan Kavicky
Radovan Kavicky | President & Principal Data Scientist @ GapData Institute
https://www.linkedin.com/in/radovankavicky/ & https://radovankavicky.substack.com/

Radovan currently works as President & Principal Data Scientist at GapData Institute/GDI Institute and is an expert in XAI (Explainable AI), i.e. the field of scientific research at the intersection of mathematics and artificial intelligence, he also works as a AI Consultant (AI IXX/Dubai, UAE) for the implementation of AI and Data Science knowledge in business, economics and public administration

- in April 2025 he successfully completed the prestigious AI Connect program (nominated in 2024 as the only Slovak) under the auspices of the US Department of State (Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy) and the Atlantic Council GeoTech Center, which aims to help countries such as Slovakia transfer technology and knowledge in the field of AI towards responsible and successful implementation in public administration and the economy

- in April 2024 he was invited (keynote) to represent the CEE region and Europe as the historically first Slovak at the Global AI Show 2024 in Dubai (with 10k+ attendees one of the world's largest AI events)

- previously a member of Slovak.AI and until May 2024 also worked as Data Science & AI Evangelist at AIslovakIA - National Platform for the Development of Artificial Intelligence in Slovakia and in cooperation with MIRRI/MIRDI (Ministry of Investment, Regional Development and Informatics of the Slovak Republic) led a mission of Slovak AI researchers at University of Cambridge

- Radovan is a member of several international and European professional and professional organizations in AI and data science, such as: British Computer Society (Member, #BCS), Slovak Economic Association (SEA), IEEE Computer Society (Member, #IEEE), Slovak.AI (#SlovakAI), CLAIRE/CAIRNE, European AI Alliance & TAILOR network, AAAI, EurAI, AI4SK, ELLIS, AIDA

- selected lectures from past: @Global AI Show (Dubai, 2024, Keynote) @WeAreDevelopers (Berlin, 2023) @TAILOR (Brussels, 2023) @CODECON (Bratislava, 2023, main talk) @DATAcated (New York, 2022) @PyData (Hamburg, 2022) @ML Prague (2023, 2022) @Data Science Summit (Warsaw, 2021) @PyData (Hong Kong, 2021) @ODSC Europe (London, 2021) @WeAreDevelopers (WeAreDevsLIVE, 2021) @Data Science Conference (DSG 5.0, 2019) @H2O.ai (Prague, 2019) @PyCon LT (PyData track, Vilnius, 2019) @VDSG (Linz, 2019) @TechSummit (Bratislava, 2017 & 2019) @PyData (Berlin, 2017)

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/radovankavicky/

Registration:

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Language of the event: English

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