Austrian Artificial Intelligence Podcast
Episodes
70. Marko Goels - sunrAI - eine KI Agenten Plattform für alle die mehr als Prozessautomatisierung wollen
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
KI-Agentenplattformen sind in aller Munde. Und obwohl der GenAI-Hype langsam abklingt und viele vor einer KI-Blase zittern, hoffen immer noch andere a...
69. Puranam Panish - Why organisations will need human centric AI to survive
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, i am joined by Professor Phanish Puranam from INSEAD, one of the world’s leading thinkers on strategy and organizational design, an...
68. Markus Tretzmüller - Cortecs - Europäische LLM Infrastruktur Unabhängigkeit
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Seit Anfang des Jahres gibt es in Europa einen starkes politisches Verlangen, sich von den USA unabhängig zu machen. Dies betrifft nicht nur die aktu...
67. Mathias Neumayer and Dima Rubanov - Lora a child friendly AI
24 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
## SummaryLarge Language Models have many strengths and the frontier of what is possible and what they can be used for, is pushed back on the daily ba...
66. Taylor Peer - Beat Shaper - A music producers AI Copilot
18 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today on the show I have the pleasure to talk to returning guest, Taylor Peer one of the co-founders of the startup, behind Beat Shaper.Taylor will ex...
65. Daniel Kondor - CSH - The long term impact of AI on society
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest in this episode is the Computational Social Scientist Daniel Kondor, Postdoc at the Complexity Science Hub in Vienna.Daniel is talking about res...
64. Solo - Manuel Pasieka on the hottest LLM topics of 2024
31 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With the last episode in 2024, I dare to release an solo episode, summarizing my christmas research on the topics of - Small Language models - Agentic...
63. Alexander Zehetmaier - Sunrise AI Solutions - Bringing AI to companies of every size
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
## Summary Today we have as a guest Alexander Zehetmaier, co-founder of SunRise AI Solutions. Alex will explain how SunRise AI is partnering with com...
62. Marius-Constantin Dinu - extensity.ai - Building reliable and explainable AI Agent Systems
29 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As you surely know, OpenAI is not very open about how their systems works or how they build them. More importantly for most uses and business, OpenAI ...
61. Jules Salzinger - AIT - Building explainable and generalizable AI Systems for Agriculture
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today on the podcast I have to pleasure to talk to Jules Salzinger, Computer Vision Researcher at the Vision & Automation Center of the AIT, the A...
60. Alexandre Paris - Proofcheck - LLM fine-tuning and customization
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
## Summary Today on the show I am talking to Proofreads CTO Alexandre Paris. Alex explains in great detail how they analyze digital books drafts to id...
59. Philip Winter - VRVis - Continual Learning
07 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today I am talking to Philip Winter, researcher at the Medical Imaging group of the VRVis, a research center for virtual realities and visualizations....
58. Christa Zoufal - Quantum Machine Learning
16 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
## Summary AI is currently dominated by Deep Learning and Large Language Models, but there is other very interesting research that has the potential t...
57. Eldar Kurtic - Efficient Inference through sparsity and quantization - Part 2/2
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hello and welcome back to the AAIP This is the second part of my interview with Eldar Kurtic and his research on how to optimiz inference of deep neu...
56. Eldar Kurtic - Efficient Inference through sparsity and quantization - Part 1/2
07 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hello and welcome back to the AAIP If you are an active Machine Learning engineer or are simply interested in Large Language models, I am sure you ha...
55. Veronika Vishnevskaia - Ontec - Building RAG based Question-Answering Systems
15 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
## Summary Today on the show I am talking to Veronika Vishnevskaia. Solution Architect at ONTEC where she specialises in building RAG based Question-A...
54. Manuel Reinsperger - MLSec & LLM Security
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
# Summary Today on the show I am talking to Manuel Reinsperger, Cybersecurity Expert and Penetration Tester. Manuel will provide us an introduction in...
53. Peter Jeitscko - Impact of EU AI Regulation on AI startups
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
## Summary At the end of last year, the EU-AI Act was finalized and it spawned many discussions and a lot of doubts about the future of European AI co...
52. Markus Keiblinger - Texterous - Building custom LLM Solutions
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
# Summary For the last two years AI has been flooded with news about LLMs and their successes, but how many companies are actually making use of them ...
51. Gabriel Alexander Vignolle - Ensembles methods in medical applications
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
## Summary Hello and welcome back to the Austrian Artificial Intelligence Podcast in 2024. With this episode we start into the third year of the podc...
44. Andreas Stephan - University of Vienna - Weak Superversion in NLP
27 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
# Summary I am sure that most of you are familiar with the training paradigm of supervised and unsupervised learning. Where in the case of supervised ...
50. Cristian Duguet - Nuvo - Building the next generation of 3D Foundation Models
26 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
## Summary I am sure my dear listener, you have heard about genAI that is driven by gigantic foundations models like GPT4 or Stable Diffusion. Generat...
49. Fabian Paischer - JKU & Ellis - Natural Language based episodic memory in RL Agents
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
## Summary I have a awful memory, but its good enough most of the time, so I can remember where I left my coffee mug or when I am searching for it, w...
48. Eric Weisz - Circly - A self-service demand prediction platform for SME's
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
# Summary Every day you can read and hear about the impact of AI on companies of any industry and size. But are really all business at a stage where t...
47. Michael Trimmel - HalloSofia - Building AI startups 101
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today on the show I am talking to Michael Trimmel, head of AI at HalloSofia about his journey as an entrepreneur, building AI Startups. This episode ...
46. Moritz Schaefer - CeMM - Diffusion Modells for Protein Structure Prediction for antibody design
29 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
# Summary In our bodies, the Immune system is detecting foreign pathogens or cancer cells, called antigens, with the help of antibody proteins that de...
45. Martin Huber - AMRAX - Building Digital Twins for indoor applications
09 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
# Summary Today on the show I am talking to Martin Huber Co-Founder and CEO of AMRAX. We will talk about their product Metaroom; an AI application tha...
43. Daria Romanovskaia - CeMM - Applying Machine Learning to Precision Medicine
28 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
# Summary Personalized Medicine has the goal to improve the efficiency of medical treatments that is particularly import for deceases like cancer. Th...
42. Rahim Entezari - TU-Graz & CSH - Improving generalization in parameter and data space
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
# Summary Did you ever had the experience that you where training a network, investing a lot of time in finding the right hyper parameters and testing...
41. LIVE from DSC DACH 2023
11 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
# Episode Today I am trying a new podcast format. This episode is a collection of short interviews taken live at the DSC DACH 2023 conference that has...
40. Mario Tuta - Stoic Analytics - Enable AI for SME's @ Salz21
23 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
# Sumary Today the Austrian AI Podcast is in Salzburg visiting the Salz21 an Innovation conference, that by the time this episode is out, has taken pl...
39. Gabriele Bolek-Fügl - Building trustworthy and compliant AI Systems@Salz21
20 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
# Sumary Today the Austrian AI Podcast is in Salzburg visiting the Salz21 an Innovation conference, that by the time this episode is out, has taken pl...
38. Wolfgang Trutschnig-University of Salzburg-IDALab@Salz21
18 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
# Summary Today the Austrian AI Podcast is in Salzburg visiting the Salz21 an Innovation conference, that by the time this episode is out, has taken p...
37. Elma Dervić - Using network science to find criticial factors and events in decease trajactories
29 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
## Summary Today on the show I have the pleasure to talk to Elma Dervic. PhD at the Medical University of Vienna where she is applying network science...
36. Adrian Spartaru - Cleanvoice - Building an AI Startup as a solo founder
06 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
# Summary I must admit that I was thinking about starting my own startup for a long time, but never had the guts to really do so. One excuse that I al...
35. Kathrin Kefer - Optimizing Enery Transfer using Genetic Programming and Symbolic Regression
14 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
# Summary Today on the show I am talking to Kathrin Kefer PhD student at the JKU and her research at Fronius where she is optimizing single hous...
34. Paul Puntschart - AI Prototyping and Mixed Intelligence with fun
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
# Summary Building AI solutions is hard. Using the AI hammer to be solving the actual source of a problem even harder. Today on the show I am talking ...
33. Mykola Bubelich: Belichberg - Computer Vision on the edge for perimeter surveillance
03 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
# Summary Today on the show my guest is Mykola Belich found of Belichberg a software development company developing multiple products and services in ...
32. Florian Thaler - VVR GmbH - Testing RL Agents for safety-critical systems
13 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
# Intro Self driving cars have been a highly debated topic for years now, but today on the show we are not going to focus on the state of those autono...
31. Klaudius Kalcher - Magic.dev: Using Large Language Models to build AI driven software development support systems
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
# Summary Today on the Austrian AI Podcast, we join the hype and talk about big language models and program synthesis. I am sure you have heard about ...
30. Maria del-Rio Chaona - CSH Vienna: Harvesting social networks for agent based modelling using NLP
02 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
# Summary Today on the show we will be talking about agent based modelling that is used to simulate macro economical systems, like the British labour ...
29. Kirill Simonov - TU Wien: Solving NP-hard Problems with approximation and parameterized complexity algorithms
07 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
# Episode Most AI practitioner's, including myself, think of long running algorithms as something that is caused by big data or poor implementation an...
28. Moritz Feigl - Baseflow.ai: Applying Machine Learning in Hydrology
30 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Intro I am sure most of you are listening or looking at some weather forecast during the day and more often than we like to see, we read news about cl...
27. Stephan Stricker & Maxime Kaniewicz - Pair Finance : Reinforcement Learning and Targeted Marketing in debt collection
11 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
# Summary Have you every had troubles paying your bills and got some nasty calls or letters about it? Debt collection is surely one area where I would...
26. Nina Popanton - DIO : Building the Data economies of the future based on European Values
20 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When we talk about data on this podcast, its mostly about training data and its properties that are relevant for the training machine learning models....
25. Adrian Schiegl - XUND : Building a medical decision support and recommendation system
29 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today on the show I am talking to Adrian Schiegl, the head of data science at XUND; an Austrian AI Startup that develops systems to predict medical di...
24.2 Hamid Eghbal-zadeh - JKU : Improving out of distribution performance with robust and disentangled representations - Part 2/2
15 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is the second part of my interview with Hamid Eghbal-zadeh, post-doc at the Johannes Kepler University at the Institute of Machine Learning. In t...
24.1 Hamid Eghbal-zadeh - JKU : Improving out of distribution performance with robust and disentangled representations - Part 1/2
08 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is the first part of my interview with Hamid Eghbal-zadeh, post-doc at the Johannes Kepler University at the Institute of Machine Learning. In th...
23. Moritz Kampelmühler - Reactive Reality : On virtual dressing rooms and 3D reconstruction from plain images
18 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
# Show Today on the show I have the pleasure to talk to Moritz Kampelmühler; Computer Vision and Machine Learning Research Engineer at Reactive Reali...
22. Shiva Gharemani - Asigmo: Building a Data Science bootcamp
24 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
# Intro Today on the show I have the pleasure to talk to Shiva Ghahremani, Co-founder and CEO of Asigmo Data Science. Asigmo is a teaching company tha...
21. Yasin Ghafourian - TU Wien & RSA : Improving information retrieval systems by modelling a users knowledge gap
03 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
# Summary Yasin is a first year PhD Student working on improving information retrieval systems as part the European DOSSIER project. Where he is inves...
20. Carina Zehetmaier - Taxtastic: Income tax declaration with AI and the responsible use of customer data
14 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
# Intro Carina Zehetmaier, CEO and Co-Founder of Taxtastic an Austrian AI Startup that develops small business and consumer solutions for income tax d...
19. Michael Outar - SO Digital Recruitment: Looking back at the Austrian AI Job market in 2021
28 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
# Intro Michael is the co-founder and director of SO Digital Recruitment focusing on data positions in the DACH region, with a special focus on Austri...
18. Resul Akay - Quantics.io: Forecasting and predictive modeling in supply chain optimisation
14 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
# Intro Resul Akay is the Chief Data Scientist at Quantics.io, where he is developing a platform to enable predictive modeling for supply chain optimi...
17. Noah Weber - Celeris Therapeutics: MLOps and Degrader Molecule Design
27 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
# Intro Noah Weber is the Chief Technology offer at Celeris Therapeutics. Celeris is discovering candidates for targeted protein degradation in silico...
16. Taylor Peer - Cortical.io: Semantic Folding and Business Solutions
10 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Taylor Peer is currently working as the Director of Data Science at Cortical.io, a Viennese AI company developing business solutions for information e...
15. Jelena Milosevic - Mondi Group: Machine Learning on mobile and embedded devices
17 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
# Intro Jelena Milosevic is currently working as a Data Scientist focusing on the application of machine learning in embedded devices in industrial se...
14. Marco Mondelli - IST: Getting to the bottom of gradient descent methods
27 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
# Intro Marco Mondelli is a group leader at the IST Austrian, focusing on theoretical machine learning and in particular on properties and behaviour o...
13. Julia Neidhardt - TU Wien: On social network analysis and digital humanism
06 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Julia is a researcher in the E-Commerce Group at the TU Vienna, focusing on the analysis of social networks. In the first part of the interview, Julia...
12. Rania Wazir: On AI4Good and how to shape future AI regulations
22 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Summary Rania has a background in theoretical mathematics and has focused her work in recent years as a Data Scientists on natural language understand...
11. Christoph Götz - ImageBiopsyLabs: On building safety critical AI applications
09 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Summary Christoph is the Chief Operation Officer and one of the co-founders of Image Biopsy Labs. IB Labs, is a Viennese startup that is developing a ...
10. Linda Anderson - Artificial Researcher: On the history and challenges of domain specific text mining
25 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Summary In this episode, Linda Anderson a computational Linguistic by training and founder of the AI startup "Artificial Researcher" is talking about ...
9. Frank Benda: Teaching ML from programming to company strategy
11 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Frank is sharing his experience in teaching about AI over the years at different institutions to students from all backgrounds, rangi...
8. Sanja Jovanovic: On AI services in azure and women in AI
28 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What kind of AI related services does azure cloud offer? What are some common reasons companies move into the cloud, and what are common first mistake...
7. Tanja Zinkl: On hiring for an AI Startup
14 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What are the challenges hiring for an AI startups? How do you hire today, but be prepared for continously changing requirements of tomorrow? Or how do...
6. Stefan Habenschuss: Building massive simulation environments at blackshark.ai
01 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever been excited to browse the other side of the world on google earth? Just to be disappointed by the poor quality of the 3d reconstruction...
5. Lukas Fischer: On the Software Competence Center Hagenberg (SCCH)
17 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The field of AI and Machine learning is moving with an ever increasing pace, and for most small and medium companies that cannot afford their own rese...
4. Raphael Mitsch: AI consultancy and reinforcement learning in the real world
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On the show today, I have the pleasure to talk to Raphael Mitsch, currently working as a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at the Austrian AI consultan...
3. Jillian Augustine: Making the career jump from academia to industry and the intrinsic value of inclusiveness
09 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On the show today, I have the pleasure to talk to Jillian Augustine. Jillian is currently working as a Data Scientist in the Digital Excellence Team o...
2. Frank Fichtenmueller: On building AI Teams, business relevant skills and the future of Data Science
21 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Summary Today on the show, we have Frank Fichtenmueller. Frank is currently working as a Senior Solution architect, at Crayon's AI Center of Excellenc...
1. Ivona Vlčková: On Professional growth, how Vienna attracts Ai talent, and Gender bias in Tech.
10 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Summary On this episode of the Austrian AI Podcast, we have the pleasure to interview Ivona Vlčková, a young Data Scientist working at the Viennese ...
Introduction
07 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Austrian AI Podcast! I am your host, Manuel Pasieka and I am excited to share with you on this Podcast my passion for Artificial Intell...