AI po Slovensky

Event date November 12, 2026 Event place Galeria Umelka, Bratislava
AI po Slovensky

Does AI handle Slovak as well as it handles the major languages?

Almost every large language model now claims to cover Slovak, along with every other official language of the Union. How good that support actually is, however, remains an open question.

AI po slovensky is a one-day conference that sets out where we stand today: what has already been built, what is missing, and what needs to change. Its ambition is to bring together academia, industry, public institutions and the non-profit sector in a debate about what our priorities should be and how to reach them.

Programme (tentative)

The programme offers something for each audience, along with room to share experience and to discuss current needs openly.

Public access from 2:00 PM

Times are indicative and still being finalised. The programme is not final.

9:00 – 14:00

INVITES ONLY

Morning session

  1. 9:00

    Opening of the morning session

  2. 9:15

    Round table of the academic NLP community

    What Slovak research teams are working on now

  3. 10:30

    Coffee break

  4. 11:00

    Natural language processing in industry

    Cases from companies working with AI in Slovak

  5. 12:00

    Poster session: part 1

    Sharing experience between academia and industry

  6. 13:00

    Lunch

14:00 – 18:00

OPEN

Main program

  1. 14:00

    AI in Slovak: Opening

  2. 14:00

    Invited talk: Why smaller languages need coordinated effort

    The goals and current state of OpenEuroLLM project, and a vision for Europe’s smaller languages

    Jan Hajič

  3. 15:00

    The current state of Slovak language support in AI

    What we have, what we’re working on, and what we need

  4. 15:30

    Coffee break

  5. 16:00

    Panel discussion:  What is the price of language sovereignty?

    Marián Šimko – KInIT, Head of the NLP Team, Deputy Director
    Jan Hajič – Charles University, Professor of Computational Linguistics, NLP pioneer in Czechia, coordinator of the OpenEuroLLM project
    Juraj Gazda – Technical University of Košice, Vice-Rector for Innovation and Technology Transfer
    Juraj Jánošík – ESET, Vice President of Artificial Intelligence
    Radoslav Štefánek, Government Plenipotentiary of the Slovak Republic for Artificial Intelligence

  6. 17:00

    Networking and poster session: part 2

  7. 18:00

    Closing

Note: the morning is aimed at academia and industry, and gradually opens into a programme for all audiences.

SK VERSION

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