Data Sanity Workshop: Optimizing AI Agent Prompts with DSPy

🗓 December 20, 11:00 - 13:00
📍 Belgrade, Nušićeva 15
🎟 https://luma.com/xi58ggeo

​In this hands-on workshop, you’ll be introduced to DSPy, a practical framework for optimizing prompts for AI agents.

Together with Michael Pavlukhin, we will:
🚀 Revisit the fundamentals of AI agents
🚀 Learn how to improve prompts using the GEPA evolutionary optimizer with DSPy
🚀 Build a movie recommendation agent
🚀 Experiment and gain hands-on experience

​Requirements:
🤖 A laptop
🤖 Proficiency in Python and notebooks
🤖 (Nice to have) Experience working with LLMs via APIs

✒️ Register for free to secure your spot!

​This event is hosted by Mainstream — the leading cloud provider in Southeast Europe.

The workshop begins in 24 hours!

A few tips:
❗️ Please register using your full name (required for lobby security)
💻 No prior experience with any specific LLM API is required
💻 We’ll be working in Google Collab, so there’s nothing to install ahead of time
💻 If you don’t have a laptop, you’re still welcome to attend and experiment with the notebook later at home

✒️ Register for free to secure your spot!

🚨 OpenTalks.AI: Last call for speakers!

Today is the final day to submit a talk proposal for OpenTalks.AI, an ML conference happening in Belgrade on Feb 19-20.

Yes, it’s a very late notice — but there’s still time!

Apply here: https://opentalks.ai/en/call-for-proposals

P.S. We, the Data Sanity team, are also planning our own event on the weekend following the conference — stay tuned!

Fellow data scientists and enthusiasts,

We, the Data Sanity team, are preparing a course on LLM and AI agent basics — covering both theory and practice (Python + LangChain & LangGraph ecosystem). We'll teach you fundamentals and more advanced topics, highlight main trends in the industry, and help you build an AI agent to practice your newly acquired skills.

We'll host 8-9 in-person seminars in Belgrade in March and April. But when exactly? You can help us decide by voting in the questionnaire below!

P.S. We are currently looking for a sponsor to make this course 100% free. If you'd like to sponsor and help the local data community — please reach out!

Hello data fellows,

OpenTalks.AI conference program is live!

The OpenTalks.AI 2026 conference will take place on Feb 19-20 at Sava Centar. There will be 3 tracks — research, engineering, and business — with hot topics like LLMs, CV, AI agents, compute optimization, and more!

🎟 Use promo code DataSanityOT26 to get a 20% discount on registration.

Fellow data scientists and enthusiasts,

Data Sanity is launching the course "Intro to AI Agents" — 8 sessions combining lectures and workshops on AI agent development.

🗓 When: Saturday 11:00 — 13:00, March 21 — May 23
📍 Where: Belgrade, Faculty of Mathematics, Studentski trg 16
🖊 Register by March 8: https://forms.gle/gTZD3ZsQXrAvKjDr7

The course covers LLM and AI agent fundamentals, modern agentic frameworks, and hands-on exercises for building AI-powered tools — plus a collaborative project guided by an experienced mentor!

You'll learn:
🚀 Design efficient prompts for LLMs
🚀 Build RAG pipelines and LLM-based agents
🚀 Prototype complex AI pipelines with LangChain and LangGraph
🚀 Evaluate, optimize, and deploy agentic applications

Registration: The course is open for both university students and external participants, including working professionals. It is 100% free, but the number of seats is limited. To apply, please register by March 8, 23:59 CET.

Details: https://datasanity.dev/intro-to-ai-agents-belgrade-2026.html

This course is developed in collaboration with AI Future Hub, and hosted by the Faculty of Mathematics (Matematički fakultet), University of Belgrade.

We've already received 40+ submissions — we're very excited that this initiative has attracted attention in the community!

A few common questions we've received:

Q. Why is this course free?
A. The Faculty of Mathematics is generously hosting us at no cost, and we wanted to pass that on — so there's no fee for participants.

Q. Is this course only for students?
A. No, it's open to both students and professionals. We believe that mixing people with different background is beneficial for everyone.

Q. Will the sessions be recorded?
A. Yes, although it's mainly for participants who missed a session to be able to catch up. It's best to attend in person.

If you're interested — register by March 8! Registering early helps us plan and may mean faster approval.

Details: https://datasanity.dev/intro-to-ai-agents-belgrade-2026.html
Registration form: https://forms.gle/gTZD3ZsQXrAvKjDr7

Intro to AI Agents: Meet the Lecturers!

Yaroslav and Nikita have combined their knowledge to bring modern and practical insights on how to build AI agents.

🚀 Yaroslav Kopotilov | Data Science Consultant @ Toptal
Yaroslav is a senior data scientist and co-founder of Data Sanity. He has extensive experience in building and deploying end-to-end AI systems in production, including LLM and agentic applications.

🚀 Nikita Severin, Ph.D. | Chief Data Scientist @ Oqu AI
Nikita is an AI researcher and engineer specializing in LLM-based applications. He co-created an introductory LLM course within the AI Future Hub Master’s program.

Submit your application by March 8 to join the course! We will start reviewing the 70 early submissions this weekend — confirmations will be sent by email.

🔗 Details: https://datasanity.dev/intro-to-ai-agents-belgrade-2026.html
✒️ Registration: https://forms.gle/gTZD3ZsQXrAvKjDr7

Intro to AI Agents: Meet our mentors!

Our mentors will serve as your coaches, guiding you through your collaborative take-home project to build, evaluate, and deploy an agentic system.

🚀 Aleksandar Anđelković | Principal Engineering Manager @ Microsoft
Aleksandr is a software engineer and leader focused on building strong teams and turning complex challenges into clear, impactful results.

🚀 Dmitriy Vasyuk | Senior Software Engineer & Technical Lead @ Microsoft
Dmitriy is a technical leader with 10+ years of experience, mentoring engineers, fostering strong team culture, and delivering business-driven technical solutions.

🚀 Chiara Stramaccioni | Senior Data Scientist, Co-founder and CTO @ Karimi
Chiara is an AI entrepreneur and co-founder of Karimi, an AI-powered career platform, building human-centered tools that combine NLP and embeddings to make hiring and career growth smarter.

🔗 Details: https://datasanity.dev/intro-to-ai-agents-belgrade-2026.html
✒️ Register by March 8: https://forms.gle/gTZD3ZsQXrAvKjDr7

P.S. We're continuing to review submissions. If you haven’t received a confirmation yet — no need to worry! But check your spam folder just in case.

Intro to AI Agents: Meet our mentors!

Let's continue our mentor introductions:

🚀 Predrag Radenković | CTO @ Codeplain
Predrag is a CTO leading the development of an AI-powered spec-driven platform, focused on helping teams replace unreliable code generation with structured, scalable engineering practices.

🚀 Anastasiya Izyumova | NLP Engineer @ X5 Tech
Anastasiya is an ML engineer with 6 years of experience in CV and NLP/LLM, building and deploying end-to-end ML solutions from data collection to production systems.

🚀 Alexander Svetkin | Principal Software Engineer @ Microsoft Azure
Alexander is an engineering leader specializing in scalable distributed systems, ex-Yandex Program Manager and VK Tech Lead. He is actively applying and benchmarking LLMs in real engineering workflows.

🔗 Details: https://datasanity.dev/intro-to-ai-agents-belgrade-2026.html
✒️ Register by March 8: https://forms.gle/gTZD3ZsQXrAvKjDr7

P.S. We're continuing to review submissions. Fun fact: Two people put “Yes” in the email field. While we admire the positivity, we unfortunately won’t be able to contact you! We also received one submission condemning AI in general. We’d love to hear the specific reasons, but unfortunately, there was no email attached to that one either.

Intro to AI Agents: Meet our mentors!

Wrapping up our mentor introductions — an expert team guiding this course.

🚀 Marat Saidov | Senior Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Marat is a well-rounded Machine Learning Engineer (ex-Yandex) focused on building impactful ML-driven products, with expertise in ML platforms, infrastructure, and NLP and speech technologies.

🚀 Nick Knizev | CTO @ Wizium.ai, Principal ML Engineer @ Sage
Nick is an ex-Meta Senior ML Engineer, PhD in Mathematical Modeling, with 7+ years of experience building and leading large-scale production ML systems and focused on AI agent orchestration.

🚀 Aleksandr Dzhumurat | Senior Data Scientist @ InDrive
Aleksandr is an AI generalist and Senior Data Scientist (inDrive, ex-Sweed), building multi-agent AI systems and ML solutions, leading data teams and delivering measurable marketplace impact in production environments.

Don’t miss the chance to learn directly from professionals shaping modern AI systems! More mentors will be announced later in March.

🔗 Details: https://datasanity.dev/intro-to-ai-agents-belgrade-2026.html
✒️ Register by March 8: https://forms.gle/gTZD3ZsQXrAvKjDr7

P.S. Quick stats: 100+ submissions and less than 3 days left until the submission deadline (March 8, 23:59 CET).

Intro to AI Agents: Last Call

The deadline for submissions is March 8, 23:59 CET.

Why come? Over 8 sessions, you will:
🚀 Design effective prompts for LLMs
🚀 Build RAG pipelines and LLM-based agents
🚀 Learn LangChain and LangGraph
🚀 Evaluate, optimize, and deploy agentic applications

The course combines theory, hands-on workshops, and a collaborative take-home project — covering everything from LLM fundamentals and prompt engineering to testing, observability, system design, and deployment.

🗓 When: Saturday 11:00 - 13:00, March 21 - May 23
📍 Where: Belgrade, Faculty of Mathematics, Studentski trg 16
🔗 Details: https://datasanity.dev/intro-to-ai-agents-belgrade-2026.html
✒️ Registration: https://forms.gle/gTZD3ZsQXrAvKjDr7

We've sent emails to all selected participants for the course "Intro to AI Agents".

Thank you all for the incredible interest! We received over 200 submissions. We increased the number of seats from 50 to 100 — unfortunately, that's still not enough to accommodate everyone.

If you received our email:
✉️ Please confirm your participation, or let us know if your plans have changed
✉️ We'll send additional details before the first session on March 21

If you did NOT receive our email:
✉️ Please check your spam folder
✉️ If it's not there — unfortunately, you didn't get a spot this time

We're excited to kick things off — see you on March 21 at 11:00!