AI is no longer a promise.
Now it has to ship.
On 13 October, 170+ technology leaders from banking, retail, energy and healthcare met at PROD in Warsaw to compare what holds up when AI goes into production.
What happened on 13 October
Speakers from Orlen, InPost, LPP, VeloBank, Bank Pekao, Bank Millennium, Orange Polska, LUXMED, McKinsey & Company, PwC, EY and CLICO shared what works in production, what doesn't, and how they keep it safe.
170+
attendees
58
companies
20
speakers
28%
in C-level or director roles
From the stage
“With all the hype around AI, part of our job is sometimes to say ‘hold your horses’. There's no point overturning your whole architecture or strategy just because a new model came out.”
Karol Tajduś
Chief AI Officer, Pekao
“Will AI pay off? It does, and it will. Just not always as much, and not always as fast, as we assumed. We measure the return on full costs and on the effect across the whole process.”
Marcin Bednarski
AI Advisor to the CEO, VeloBank
“[…] at first we were checking whether it works. And it turned out it does. So what now? […] so what if we roll it out? […] what value will it bring us, LUX MED, and what value will it bring the patient?”
Anna Potocka
Head of AI, LUX MED
“Let AI write the code, but keep ownership of the outcome. Make sure you understand how the system you're building works.”
Dawid Telepski
Contact Center Director, LPP
What we saw in production
An hour for a product? Only if the foundation is already there
A new AI tool was built in a single evening, because the systems, APIs and data were already in order.
The model usually isn't the problem
Bad answers go away once the rules and project knowledge live in the repo, next to the code.
Too niche? Not anymore.
Features that were turned down for years are now assembled by an AI agent from existing APIs. All it takes is an API that offers more than the panel users used to click through.
Employees choose the assistants
Employees are starting, on their own initiative, to run company systems through AI. That forces new applications to be designed for integration with AI agents, not for users clicking through panels.
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13 October, Fabryka Norblina
Why PROD exists
“In enterprise-grade AI, no one has twenty years of experience. The edge comes from how many attempts you've made - and we've made more than most. I believe that how Poland plays AI will decide where we stand for decades to come. PROD is our move in that game: we lay our own lessons on the table, so everyone at that table learns faster.”
Maja Schaefer
Co-Founder & CEO, Zowie
The sessions
Anna Potocka
Head of AI, LUXMED
Michał Partyka
CTO, Zowie
Dariusz Wójcik
Head of CC Tech Development, InPost
Marcin Bednarski
AI Advisor to the CEO, VeloBank S.A.
Maciej Ciołek
Co-Founder & CRO, Zowie
Karol Tajduś
Chief AI Officer, Pekao
Piotr Kuśka
Director, PwC
Mariusz Stawowski
CTO, CLICO
Łukasz Kaźmierczak
Product Engineer, Zowie
Piotr Jósiak
Product Engineer, Zowie
Dawid Telepski
Contact Center Director at LPP
Przemysław Koch
Board Member, CTO, COO, VeloBank
Grzegorz Zagraba
Solution Architect, Zowie
Maja Schaefer
Co-Founder & CEO, Zowie
Michał Miktus
Expert Associate Partner, AI at McKinsey & Company
Artur Stankiewicz
Chief Transformation, AI and Digital Officer, Orange Polska
Michał Kucharczyk
Director, Artificial Intelligence & Automation, PwC
Marcin Laskowski
Head of Technology Development, Bank Millennium
Lidia Krawczyk
Head of Process Digitalization Department, ORLEN
See the event agenda
Opening
Maja Schaefer, CEO, Zowie
Beyond the Button: How Agentic UI Is Killing Traditional UX
Michał Partyka, CTO, Zowie
Agentic SDLC honeymoon is over
Michał Miktus, Expert Associate Partner AI, McKinsey & Company
Who owns AI?
Karol Tajduś, Pekao · Artur Stankiewicz, Orange Polska · Anna Potocka, LUXMED
An AI-native bank, behind the scenes
Przemysław Koch, VeloBank · hosted by Maja Schaefer
Track I · Main Stage
AI at scale. Lessons from the transformation of the ORLEN Group
Lidia Krawczyk, ORLEN
One hour. That's how long a new AI product takes us. How about you?
Dariusz Wójcik, Head of CC Tech Development, InPost
Safer, faster, cheaper. How AI helps improve the security of banking applications
Marcin Laskowski, Head of Technology Development, Bank Millennium
How I vibe-coded a contact center platform in 3 months
Dawid Telepski, Contact Center Director, LPP
Roundtables: Bring your blocker (Chatham House Rule)
Track II · Cinema Stage
Lights Out: How to Sleep Well While Your Software Rebuilds Itself Every Night
Piotr Jósiak, Product Engineer, Zowie
Agent swarms in practice - how to speed up development without losing production stability
Michał Kucharczyk, Piotr Kuśka, PwC
How we got rid of 26 software vendors in 3 months
Maciej Ciołek, Co-Founder & CRO, Zowie
What replaces the IDE when agents write the code
Łukasz Kaźmierczak, Product Engineer, Zowie
400 screens, 100 integrations, 4 k8s clusters, 2 systems, 1 HLD – two years of software projects with AI: evolution or revolution?
Paweł Bublewicz, EY
AI testing AI. Who watches the watchman?
Grzegorz Zagraba, Solutions Architect, Zowie
The same model on both sides: LLMs inside the organization and in the attack on it
Mariusz Stawowski, CTO, CLICO
Sobriety test: AI in Polish enterprise
Marcin Bednarski, AI Advisor to the CEO, VeloBank
Closing
Maja Schaefer, CEO, Zowie
Questions after PROD
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