23. 09. 2025.

European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases – ECML PKDD

The vast majority of conferences I have attended so far boil down to pre-sales promotion of the sponsors’ products and self-promotion of the speakers, while the conference organizers aim to extract as much benefit as possible from the sponsors on a “who pays more” basis, instead of focusing on the quality of the conference. However, […]

12. 09. 2025.

Data, Decisions & Automation Unleashed, an IBM TechXchange Workshop

Yesterday, the IBM Tech Exchange workshop was held, bringing together leading experts in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Business Intelligence, Data Science & Big Data. I was honored to have the opportunity to present the latest developments in real-time integration, as well as ways of solving concrete challenges I have encountered during more than 25 […]

02. 08. 2025.

Celebrating the first year of new Big Data and AI platform

Many people believe that a successful Big Data & AI platform requires an army of developers, DevOps engineers, system administrators, database administrators, many specialist for real-time integration with other systems, data analysts, data scientists, and many others, as well as a large team to maintain and support such systems — which includes monitoring, patching, upgrades, […]

28. 05. 2024.

Building large-scale Business Intelligence & AI analytics using open-source tools on real-time data

The creation of business intelligence analytics and the development and deployment of AI/ML very often, due to their very complex architecture, end up utilizing expensive commercial tools. For the same reason, such solutions are very difficult to maintain, troubleshoot, tune and scale. Furthermore, to be successful, traditional methods require knowledge of numerous new technologies and […]