Get ready for OpenHack 2025 with an in-depth session where you’ll explore how to design and build Agentic AI-powered applications that think, plan and act autonomously.
You’ll gain practical insights into how modern AI systems work, what tools to use and how to accelerate your development workflow to turn ideas into working prototypes in hours, not weeks.

Led by Lucian Gruia, Head of Data Science & AI at Ciklum and Head of Engineering, Romania, this session brings you insider knowledge from one of the global leaders in AI engineering, GenAI adoption and agentic architectures.

What you'll learn

This developer-focused session is fast-paced, practical and action-driven. Through analogies, live demos and real examples, you’ll understand the core principles behind modern intelligent systems and learn to use the AI ecosystem’s most powerful open-source tools.

Topics include:

• LLM inference & orchestration patterns (OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face, Ollama)

• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and hybrid search pipelines

• Agentic AI architectures: perception, reasoning, and autonomous actions

• MCP (Model Context Protocol) and A2A (Agent-to-Agent) communication

• Knowledge graphs, vector databases and memory systems

• AI-enabled SDLC and GenAI code assistants (Copilot, Cody, Cursor, v0.dev)

• Multi-modal reasoning (text, image, code and audio inputs)

• Open-source frameworks & repos (LangChain, CrewAI, LlamaIndex, AutoGen, Swarm, etc.)

• Best practices for scalability, security and observability in AI solutions

Whether you’re new to AI development or already experimenting with agents and RAG systems, you’ll leave with a clear mental model, practical tools and ready-to-use templates for your OpenHack projects.

About the Speaker

Lucian Gruia is the Head of Data Science & AI and Head of Engineering (Romania) at Ciklum, where he drives global AI strategy and builds next-generation engineering capabilities.
With over 13 years of experience across Telecom, FinTech, Aerospace, and MedTech, he has led large-scale engineering teams across 8 time zones, designed real-time and AI-driven systems and created corporate AI academies training hundreds of engineers worldwide.

Beyond his technical expertise, Lucian is a dedicated mentor and educator, known for making complex AI topics approachable. He regularly delivers talks and workshops on software architecture, Agentic AI, cognitive systems and the future of intelligent software, helping developers transform ideas into impactful real-world applications.

Note

OpenHack participants have their seats guaranteed as long as they register for the event, but all students are welcome to register while seats are available.