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Enabling innovation

AI is expected to contribute $13-16 trillion to global GDP. [1] [2] [3]For Czechia to play a significant role in the new economy, we need innovative companies and startups that develop products and services reaching far beyond our country’s borders. What’s more, we need well-established companies successfully implementing innovation in real-life use cases.

Do you want to make good use of systems that optimise and automate tedious tasks, increase productivity, or help inform your executive decision-making? Are you looking for tools addressing various needs or are you interested in cooperation with the academic sector? We have compiled a database of Prague companies and research groups.

Successful implementation of innovation is possible only with ongoing education and constant motivation of your employees. To that end, we launched the Czech version of the free online course Elements of AI and created our own content platform, Journal.

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Nourishing the ecosystem

Alongside the founding institutions, private companies comprise the membership base of prg.ai. They acknowledge the importance of an educated, smart, and well-funded community that shares the common vision of transforming Prague into a European AI hub.

They all offer advanced AI products and services, employ highly skilled professionals, and closely collaborate with academia. Knowing these functions are essential to be able to prepare our society and its economy for the world of tomorrow, these companies play an integral role in prg.ai.

One of our goals is to enable the growth of our members. We connect them with potential clients, perspective employees, or top tier experts from different fields. We explore interesting projects for them to participate in locally and internationally. We seek synergies among our members, offering a platform to share information, knowledge, and experience.

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PARTNERSHIP

The prg.ai organisation has entered its fifth year of existence with a new partnership concept and three distinctive partners on board. “Opening up prg.ai to a broader base of companies has been one of my priorities since taking office. I see the new partnership concept as a natural evolution of our activities connecting and bringing together different actors and sectors. We are seeing a significant demand from the private sector for information about AI’s possibilities. At the same time, it is not easy to navigate the topic, as it is developing really dynamically,” Kačena points out. ” says Lukáš Kačena, Director of prg.ai, in March 2023.

In addition to the founding members – the City of Prague, CTU, Charles University and the Academy of Sciences – the organisation has relied on so-called industry members from the beginning. Companies for which AI is the alpha and omega of their business. In this respect, the partnership responds to the interest of firms outside the industry trying to implement AI within their fields. And to do so with the maximum possible benefit for themselves and their clients.

What unites these at-first-glance different partners is that even if they don’t have a business built around AI, they are best suited to be leaders in their industries in its adoption and use.

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Interviews, articles, resources

Interview: Valeo advances self-driving vehicle development in Czechia

A self-driving car is a big computer on wheels that has to process a number of tasks every second. That's why it takes years to develop a new system and put it into practice. Everything must work flawlessly and reliably. We talked to David Hurych and Jakub Černý of Valeo, experts in the application of artificial intelligence systems to self-driving units, about the development and future of the automotive industry.

Lukáš Kačena: AI isn’t just for engineers and IT people

It helps institutions, schools and companies to understand the new world of technology and wants to turn Prague into a European centre of artificial intelligence. We're talking about prg.ai. Read more in an interview with its director Lukáš Kačena.

Marek Rosa: In search of general artificial intelligence

Questions surrounding general artificial intelligence divide the professional public. Can an autonomous system ever reach human versatility? Marek Rosa believes that it is not only possible, but also desirable. To develop and study general artificial intelligence, he founded GoodAI and leads an international research fund sponsoring researchers around the world.
Jiří Materna

Jiří Materna: The Czech Republic can become a hatchery of AI experts. If we start education early

Twenty high school students and a week of intense focus on artificial intelligence. At the end of this July, the pupils completed the theory and practical tasks under the guidance of Jiří Materna, a specialist in machine learning and its application. How does he see the future of AI in our country?

Rudolf Rosa: We have proved that AI is almost advanced enough to write a theater play

He is the scientist who introduced artificial intelligence to the stage. Nevertheless, he admits that the machine may not create art because it has no inner need to express anything. Read about how Rudolf Rosa, a researcher at the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, CUNI's MFF, sees the future of AI in art.
Jindřiška Deckerová

Jindřiška Deckerová: We’re still far from fully autonomous robots — but there are other causes for concern

Robots led by artificial intelligence will soon play a major role in logistics, reconstructions of historical heritage, or even humanitarian aid. Researcher Jindřiška Deckerová considers ethical questions in robotics, and shares her experience and award-winning research in academia.
Tomáš Borovička Datamole

Tomáš Borovička: AI contributes to making agriculture more sustainable

Cultivating plants and livestock used to be a human-only activity. But AI is quickly becoming a norm on farms and fields, in part thanks to Tomáš Borovička and his company Datamole who supply farmers with solutions that help them milk cows or produce beer.
Jaromír Beránek prg.ai

Jaromír Beránek: I would like Prague to be an inspiration, even in the field of AI

Will artificial intelligence replace civil servants? That time is still a long way off, but data and technology can already make life in cities more pleasant if they are used properly, says Jaromír Beránek, Prague councillor and chair of the Committee on IT and Smart City.

Christoph Kirsch: Most people don’t understand technology. That is frightening

He fell for computer science before it was cool, chasing it across Europe and Silicon Valley. In 2020, he joined the Faculty of Information Technology at the CTU in Prague. Meet professor Christoph Kirsch, who is keen to teach programming the right way.
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