Open models have made artificial intelligence more accessible, but useful deployment still depends on data, integration and honest evaluation. It was a pleasure to bring this practical perspective to the general public at Inovujeme Plzeň 2026 Next Level and to appear alongside such a strong group of speakers. I thank SIT Port for the organisation and for creating a lively workshop setting at TechTower.
Artificial intelligence is moving into education, engineering and biotechnology, but each field asks different questions about usefulness and responsibility. In the Naučíme AI podcast, I discussed how people can work with AI without reducing the subject to a single chatbot. The conversation connects university teaching, company adoption and interdisciplinary research through practical examples.
Complex research tasks do not fit into a single prompt: they need tools, intermediate checks and an inspectable sequence of steps. These workshop materials introduce agentic AI as a workflow for digital humanities and archival research. They connect an Oxford research stay, CLARIN collaboration and practical work with NATO archival documents.
AI coding assistants can produce code quickly, but speed does not replace clear requirements and architecture. SpecKit turns an initial idea into a specification, an implementation plan and a visible set of tasks. The workshop shows how this structure helps keep research prototypes and applied software understandable while they evolve.
Hackathons give teams a concentrated space to turn ideas into working prototypes with support from experienced mentors. At the 10th AimtecHackathon in 2026, I again mentored teams working with AI, LLMs, local models, speech recognition and synthesis, language technologies, and Python. The weekend also highlighted the sustained work of Petra Šteklová, Jiří Dobrý, and the Aimtec team in supporting Plzeň's hacker community.
Public discussion about AI helps separate practical changes from predictions and gives education, work and responsibility a shared frame. On 3 December 2025, I joined the Debate with Respekt at Moving Station in Pilsen with Marek Ruttner and Dominika Perlínová. The later Respekt podcast preserves the conversation about large language models, changes in human activity and possible directions of AI development.
