Abstract
Drawing on his experience building AI workflows for the ECB's Project Steering Team, Ștefan Rusu, PhD leads a hands-on workshop on forward-deployed engineering: embedding technical builders with business teams to turn loosely defined needs into production-ready AI workflows. Through a role-play exercise, participants split into business and technical teams to practice gathering requirements, then sketch a working AI workflow and choose the right tool stack for it. Attendees leave with a practical framework for aligning business and technical teams, and for diagnosing which AI tools actually fit a given use case.
Topics To Be Covered
Translate vague business needs into specifications
Run a structured stakeholder requirements interview
Build AI workflows as verifiable steps
Choose the right tool stack
Recognise when to pause or stop
Perfect For
AI Product Managers
Enterprise AI Teams
Solution Architects
Business Transformation Leaders,
Technical Project Managers
Business Analysts
Meet Your Instructor
Stefan Rusu
AI Product Owner, European Central Bank
Stefan Rusu is an AI practitioner working at the intersection of agentic AI and central banking. He holds a PhD in Finance and AI (Summa Cum Laude), with research focused on machine learning models for stock market decision-making, and designs and deploys agentic AI workflows and LLM-powered chatbots 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 legal and central banking applications, and launched the ECB's trainings on Prompt Engineering and AI-Assisted Coding, reaching 600+ participants at EU level, including the ECB.
He is passionate about implementing AI where it adds real business value, and about helping others use AI efficiently and responsibly at work, with a clear understanding of both its advantages and its risks.
At Agentiq World, Stefan brings hands-on experience embedding technical teams with business areas to turn loosely defined needs into production AI workflows, and shares the forward-deployed engineering approach behind it, developed in one of Europe's most demanding regulatory environments.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Time & Place
Wed, Nov 25
16:15 - 17:45
Mövenpick Amsterdam City Centre
Matterhorn III
Limited to 40 participants.
Secure your seat – registration required.
Notes
Agenda for this session:
Getting Settled - 5 mins
Information Session Part 1 - 15 mins
Individual / Group Exercise - 15 mins
Break - 5 mins
Information Session Part 2 - 15 mins
Individual / Group Exercise - 15 mins
Q&A/Discussion - 10 mins
Reflection/Discussion - 10 mins
Prerequisits:
No technical background required.
Basic familiarity with AI or LLM concepts is helpful but not essential.
Attendees should bring a laptop, tablet, or phone with a browser for a shared digital board, and come ready to take part in a role-play exercise.
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