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ABOUT EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK
The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank for the euro area, the group of European Union countries that use the euro as their currency. Based in Frankfurt, Germany, it was established as part of the European System of Central Banks alongside the national central banks of member states.
The ECB's main job is keeping prices stable across the euro area, so money holds its value over time. It sets interest rates and other monetary policy tools, with decisions made by its Governing Council. Beyond monetary policy, it supervises euro area banks to keep the financial system sound, oversees the payment infrastructure that lets money move smoothly between banks and across borders, issues and helps design euro banknotes, and monitors risks to overall financial stability.
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SPEAKER
Stefan Rusu
AI Product Owner, European Central Bank
Stefan Rusu is an AI practitioner working at the intersection of agentic AI andcentral banking. He holds a PhD in Finance and AI (Summa Cum Laude), withresearch focused on machine learning models for stock market decision-making, and designs and deploys agentic AI workflows and LLM-poweredchatbots used by the European Central Bank and central banks across the EU.Stefan has been involved in several of the ECB's AI projects, spanning legaland central banking applications, and launched the ECB's trainings on PromptEngineering and AI-Assisted Coding, reaching 400+ participants.He is passionate about implementing AI where it adds real business value, andabout helping others use AI efficiently and responsibly at work, with a clearunderstanding of both its advantages and its risks.
At Agentiq World, Stefan brings hands-on experience building AI solutions and driving their adoption in one of Europe's most demanding regulatory environments.
16:15 - 17:45
Wed, Nov 25
From Business Need to Production: Building AI Workflows at the ECB
How do you turn a business team's loosely defined need into a working AI solution? Drawing on his experience building AI workflows for the ECB's Project Steering Team, Stefan Rusu walks through the full journey from ideation to production: gathering specifications from non-technical stakeholders, translating them into AI workflows, and navigating the realities of deployment inside a regulated institution. The session shares concrete workflows, the tradeoffs made along the way, and the lessons learned when technical teams and business areas need to align to make AI genuinely useful.
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