AI Engineering Olomouc 26: From Development to Production
TL;DR AI Engineering Olomouc 26 brought together practitioners, researchers, and curious minds for a day of honest, hands-on talks about building AI that actually ships — and the room was buzzing from the first session to the last.
On May 20, 2026, Behaim ITS hosted the second edition of AI Engineering Olomouc — a one-day conference focused on the theme "From Development to Production AI." The venue was our own office at Horní náměstí in Olomouc, the agenda was packed, the coffee flowed all day — and the reception spread was genuinely delicious.
A Day of Real-World AI
The program kicked off at 9:30 with Tomáš Ochmann opening the day with a look at how AI is already changing the way developers work day-to-day. From there, Vladislav Krejčiřík dived into the practicalities of running AI on your own hardware — local models, local data, no cloud required.
After the morning break, Anton Giertli from Red Hat presented "Guardrails as a Service: Securing AI Applications at Scale" — making the case that guardrails belong in a dedicated platform layer rather than being reinvented in every app. Then doc. Eduard Bartl, Ph.D. from Palacký University asked the question everyone in the room had an opinion on: AGI — reality or hype? Despite being academically sharp and dense with theory, his talk was delivered with remarkable ease and a generous sense of humor — and the discussion that followed was one of the liveliest of the day.
The afternoon sessions went deep on production realities. Vladimír Kadlec from Red Hat delivered what might have been the most quotable talk of the day with "RAG Is Hard" — a candid walk through lessons learned the hard way in production deployments. Stanislav Opichal and Rory Miller from Behaim ITS followed with a migration story: how a team moved from copy-paste workflows to agent-driven automation and what that journey actually looks like in practice. We were glad to have a US-based presenter on the program — Rory joined live from our Chicago office, and his view from the ground on AI adoption in the US added a valuable, first-hand perspective you don't often get at a regional event. The day closed with Tomáš Bartoněk bridging the gap between AI experiments and business value — a fitting final note.
The Room Was With Us
One thing stood out above everything else: the energy in the room never dropped. Guests asked sharp questions, pushed back on assumptions, and kept the conversation going well past the end of each session. Not a single yawn in sight — which, for a full day of technical content starting at 9:30 in the morning, is the best compliment an event can receive.
Thank You
Events like this don't happen without the right people at the table — literally and figuratively.
A big thank you to Red Hat for their partnership and support, and to their exclusive distributor Exclusive Networks for making it happen on the logistics side. We're also grateful to Palacký University Olomouc for bringing an academic perspective that grounded the day's conversations in something more than just vendor enthusiasm.
A special thank you to Jiří Fritzl and the Behaim ITS team under his lead — pulling off a day like this, from agenda to logistics to the raut, takes a lot of work behind the scenes, and they nailed it.
Thank you to every speaker who prepared, showed up, and delivered — the quality of the talks set the tone for everything else.
And most of all, thank you to every guest who came. Whether you traveled from across the country or just walked over from the next street, your presence — and your questions — made the event what it was.
See You Next Year
We're already looking forward to AI Engineering Olomouc 27. If you were there, we hope to see you again. If you missed this one — don't miss the next.
Keep an eye on behaimits.com and follow us on LinkedIn to hear when registration opens.