On 31.01.2014, the opening of the 2024ForAI series of events took place at the Centre for Advanced Materials and Technology CEZAMAT of the Warsaw University of Technology.

2024forAI is an initiative undertaken jointly by the Industry Contact Point Industry 4.0, EDIH Mazovia and EIT Manufacturing Hub Poland, consisting of a series of events to be organised in 2024. Their aim is to promote Polish companies developing solutions based on artificial intelligence and to educate in this field.

The conference was opened by the representatives of the project organisers: Dariusz Standerski, PhD – Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Digitalisation, Aleksandra Mościcka-Studzińska – Deputy Director of the Centre for Advanced Materials and Technologies CEZAMAT at the Warsaw University of Technology, Andrzej Dybczyński, PhD – President of the Łukasiewicz Research Network, Piotr Szynkarczyk, PhD – Director of Łukasiewicz – PIAP and coordinators of the Industry Contact Point Industry 4. 0 – Katarzyna Wiśniewska and EIT Manufacturing HUB Poland – Paulina Jasińska-Zielińska.

During the conference, participants listened to speeches by:
– Katerina Linden, “AI, Data and Robotics Association – Navigating AI Adoption in European SMEs: Challenges and Perspectives”,
– Adrian Bablok, Paulina Jasinska-Zielińska “EIT Manufacturing”,
– Sylwia Stefaniak (Ministry of Digitalisation), “AI4MŚP – portal connecting artificial intelligence providers and SMEs”,
– Tomasz Michalak (IDEAS NCBR), ‘Offer of free support for entrepreneurs in the implementation of artificial intelligence’,
– Mariusz Kaleta (Warsaw University of Technology), ‘Offer of free support for entrepreneurs in the implementation of artificial intelligence’,
– Carlo Paolicelli, (Future Industry Platform Foundation), ‘Artificial Intelligence-based value chain: new challenges for the competitiveness of the Polish manufacturing industry’,
– PROACTsme – ARMSA.

The organisers were: the Industry Contact Point Industry 4.0, EDIH Mazovia, EIT Manufacturing Hub Poland, CEZAMAT Centre for Advanced Materials and Technologies of the Warsaw University of Technology and the Ministry of Digitalisation.