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.
π Aleksandar AnΔelkoviΔ | Principal Engineering Manager @ Microsoft
Aleksandr is a software engineer and leader focused on building strong teams and turning complex challenges into clear, impactful results.
π 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.
π 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.
π Details: https://datasanity.dev/intro-to-ai-agents-belgrade-2026.html
βοΈ Register by March 8: https://forms.gle/gTZD3ZsQXrAvKjDr7
P.S. We're continuing to review submissions. If you havenβt received a confirmation yet β no need to worry! But check your spam folder just in case.
Our mentors will serve as your coaches, guiding you through your collaborative take-home project to build, evaluate, and deploy an agentic system.
π Aleksandar AnΔelkoviΔ | Principal Engineering Manager @ Microsoft
Aleksandr is a software engineer and leader focused on building strong teams and turning complex challenges into clear, impactful results.
π 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.
π 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.
π Details: https://datasanity.dev/intro-to-ai-agents-belgrade-2026.html
βοΈ Register by March 8: https://forms.gle/gTZD3ZsQXrAvKjDr7
P.S. We're continuing to review submissions. If you havenβt received a confirmation yet β no need to worry! But check your spam folder just in case.
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Intro to AI Agents: Meet our mentors!
Let's continue our mentor introductions:
π Predrag RadenkoviΔ | 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.
π 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.
π 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.
π Details: https://datasanity.dev/intro-to-ai-agents-belgrade-2026.html
βοΈ Register by March 8: https://forms.gle/gTZD3ZsQXrAvKjDr7
P.S. We're continuing to review submissions. Fun fact: Two people put βYesβ in the email field. While we admire the positivity, we unfortunately wonβt be able to contact you! We also received one submission condemning AI in general. Weβd love to hear the specific reasons, but unfortunately, there was no email attached to that one either.
Let's continue our mentor introductions:
π Predrag RadenkoviΔ | 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.
π 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.
π 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.
π Details: https://datasanity.dev/intro-to-ai-agents-belgrade-2026.html
βοΈ Register by March 8: https://forms.gle/gTZD3ZsQXrAvKjDr7
P.S. We're continuing to review submissions. Fun fact: Two people put βYesβ in the email field. While we admire the positivity, we unfortunately wonβt be able to contact you! We also received one submission condemning AI in general. Weβd love to hear the specific reasons, but unfortunately, there was no email attached to that one either.
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Intro to AI Agents: Meet our mentors!
Wrapping up our mentor introductions β an expert team guiding this course.
π 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.
π 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.
π 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.
Donβt miss the chance to learn directly from professionals shaping modern AI systems! More mentors will be announced later in March.
π Details: https://datasanity.dev/intro-to-ai-agents-belgrade-2026.html
βοΈ 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).
Wrapping up our mentor introductions β an expert team guiding this course.
π 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.
π 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.
π 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.
Donβt miss the chance to learn directly from professionals shaping modern AI systems! More mentors will be announced later in March.
π Details: https://datasanity.dev/intro-to-ai-agents-belgrade-2026.html
βοΈ 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).
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Intro to AI Agents: Last Call
The deadline for submissions is March 8, 23:59 CET.
Why come? Over 8 sessions, you will:
π Design effective prompts for LLMs
π Build RAG pipelines and LLM-based agents
π Learn LangChain and LangGraph
π Evaluate, optimize, and deploy agentic applications
The course combines theory, hands-on workshops, and a collaborative take-home project β covering everything from LLM fundamentals and prompt engineering to testing, observability, system design, and deployment.
π When: Saturday 11:00 - 13:00, March 21 - May 23
π Where: Belgrade, Faculty of Mathematics, Studentski trg 16
π Details: https://datasanity.dev/intro-to-ai-agents-belgrade-2026.html
βοΈ Registration: https://forms.gle/gTZD3ZsQXrAvKjDr7
The deadline for submissions is March 8, 23:59 CET.
Why come? Over 8 sessions, you will:
π Design effective prompts for LLMs
π Build RAG pipelines and LLM-based agents
π Learn LangChain and LangGraph
π Evaluate, optimize, and deploy agentic applications
The course combines theory, hands-on workshops, and a collaborative take-home project β covering everything from LLM fundamentals and prompt engineering to testing, observability, system design, and deployment.
π When: Saturday 11:00 - 13:00, March 21 - May 23
π Where: Belgrade, Faculty of Mathematics, Studentski trg 16
π Details: https://datasanity.dev/intro-to-ai-agents-belgrade-2026.html
βοΈ Registration: https://forms.gle/gTZD3ZsQXrAvKjDr7
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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 β unfortunately, that's still not enough to accommodate everyone.
If you received our email:
βοΈ Please confirm your participation, or let us know if your plans have changed
βοΈ We'll send additional details before the first session on March 21
If you did NOT receive our email:
βοΈ Please check your spam folder
βοΈ If it's not there β unfortunately, you didn't get a spot this time
We're excited to kick things off β see you on March 21 at 11:00!
Thank you all for the incredible interest! We received over 200 submissions. We increased the number of seats from 50 to 100 β unfortunately, that's still not enough to accommodate everyone.
If you received our email:
βοΈ Please confirm your participation, or let us know if your plans have changed
βοΈ We'll send additional details before the first session on March 21
If you did NOT receive our email:
βοΈ Please check your spam folder
βοΈ If it's not there β unfortunately, you didn't get a spot this time
We're excited to kick things off β see you on March 21 at 11:00!
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We are pleased to share this opportunity for very young talents from our media partner:
π£ Registration is now open for the International Olympiad in Mathematics and the Sciences of the Future!
π www.teslaazimov.rs
The Olympiad is dedicated to the legacy of Nikola Tesla and Isaac Asimov.
β¨ Who can participate
Pupils of grades 6 and 7
π Languages
Russian β’ Serbian β’ English
π Olympiad stages
1οΈβ£ Qualifying round (online / in person)
π March 16 β April 17
Participation options:
β’ online via the Olympiad website
β’ in person at the organizerβs venue
β’ in person at participating schools in Serbia
π Awards
Winners will receive prizes and special gifts.
Special awards will also be presented to the teachers of winning students.
π‘ Our mission
We aim to nurture young people who can combine precise thinking, engineering imagination, and a responsible vision of the future.
π€ Organizer and partners
Organizer: UdruΕΎenje Grant
Methodological platform: CyberLogiQ International
Information support:
Novosti Srbije
Novosti Srbije (YouTube)
Serbian Vibe (YouTube)
NGO Russian Diaspora in Serbia
To register or ask a question:
πΈ Telegram: @cyberlogiq_admin
π Website: https://teslaazimov.rs
βοΈ Email: teslaazimov@gmail.com
π£ Registration is now open for the International Olympiad in Mathematics and the Sciences of the Future!
π www.teslaazimov.rs
The Olympiad is dedicated to the legacy of Nikola Tesla and Isaac Asimov.
β¨ Who can participate
Pupils of grades 6 and 7
π Languages
Russian β’ Serbian β’ English
π§ Olympiad format
β 5 interdisciplinary problems
β 100 minutes to find solution
β Mathematics + logic + astronomy + engineering mindset
β We value reasoning and clear thinking, not just the final answer
π Olympiad stages
1οΈβ£ Qualifying round (online / in person)
π March 16 β April 17
Participation options:
β’ online via the Olympiad website
β’ in person at the organizerβs venue
β’ in person at participating schools in Serbia
2οΈβ£ Final Round
π April 25, Belgrade
The top 30 participants will advance to the final
π Awards
Winners will receive prizes and special gifts.
Special awards will also be presented to the teachers of winning students.
π‘ Our mission
We aim to nurture young people who can combine precise thinking, engineering imagination, and a responsible vision of the future.
π€ Organizer and partners
Organizer: UdruΕΎenje Grant
Methodological platform: CyberLogiQ International
Information support:
Novosti Srbije
Novosti Srbije (YouTube)
Serbian Vibe (YouTube)
NGO Russian Diaspora in Serbia
To register or ask a question:
πΈ Telegram: @cyberlogiq_admin
π Website: https://teslaazimov.rs
βοΈ Email: teslaazimov@gmail.com
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Intro To AI Agents: Our Lead Partners
βοΈ Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade (MATF) is a leading faculty with thousands of graduates, researchers, and industry professionals β and our host for this course.
π https://www.matf.bg.ac.rs/
A special thanks to SrΔan StefanoviΔ, Teaching Assistant and PhD in Mathematics at MATF, for his help.
βοΈ AI Future Hub is an educational and professional AI community that brings together students, researchers, and industry experts. Through its programs, projects, and initiatives, AI Future Hub focuses on developing the next generation of ML engineers and AI specialists.
π https://www.linkedin.com/company/ai-future-hub-io/
We truly appreciate the collaboration and support that make this course possible!
P.S. Dear attendees, weβve just sent an email with all the information you need to get started. If you donβt see it, please double-check your spam folder, as our emails sometimes end up there. See you this Saturday!
βοΈ Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade (MATF) is a leading faculty with thousands of graduates, researchers, and industry professionals β and our host for this course.
π https://www.matf.bg.ac.rs/
A special thanks to SrΔan StefanoviΔ, Teaching Assistant and PhD in Mathematics at MATF, for his help.
βοΈ AI Future Hub is an educational and professional AI community that brings together students, researchers, and industry experts. Through its programs, projects, and initiatives, AI Future Hub focuses on developing the next generation of ML engineers and AI specialists.
π https://www.linkedin.com/company/ai-future-hub-io/
We truly appreciate the collaboration and support that make this course possible!
P.S. Dear attendees, weβve just sent an email with all the information you need to get started. If you donβt see it, please double-check your spam folder, as our emails sometimes end up there. See you this Saturday!
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Intro to AI Agents β weβve started!
User: "Why does AI always misunderstand my request?"
Their prompt: "that thing from yesterday"
Last Saturday, we kicked off our first session with a diverse group of students, data scientists, analysts, software engineers, QA engineers, project managers, and founders.
Nikita Severin took us from AI fundamentals to modern LLMs. It was a lot of material to cover β and weβre happy to report that everyone survived this trial by dense LLM theory!
Let's see how many survive the next one... π
User: "Why does AI always misunderstand my request?"
Their prompt: "that thing from yesterday"
Last Saturday, we kicked off our first session with a diverse group of students, data scientists, analysts, software engineers, QA engineers, project managers, and founders.
Nikita Severin took us from AI fundamentals to modern LLMs. It was a lot of material to cover β and weβre happy to report that everyone survived this trial by dense LLM theory!
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Intro to AI Agents: New mentors!
More mentors have joined to guide attendees of our course βIntro to AI Agentsβ:
π Jelena Graovac | Associate Professor @ Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade
Jelena is an Associate Professor of Computer Science, specializing in NLP, machine learning, and intelligent search. She brings a strong academic background, teaching how to approach AI problems with structured thinking and solid methodology.
π Artem Astapenko | Founder and CEO @ AgentArea
Artem is the CEO of AgentArea.ai, an open-source platform for AI agent networks. He is actively working on AI agent systems, focusing on how they can be designed, connected, and scaled in real-world applications.
π Pavel Katurov | AI Engineering Team Lead
Pavel is an AI Engineering Team Lead focused on building scalable engineering systems and AI-driven workflows and integrating AI in real development cycles.
We're really glad to have them on board!
More mentors have joined to guide attendees of our course βIntro to AI Agentsβ:
π Jelena Graovac | Associate Professor @ Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade
Jelena is an Associate Professor of Computer Science, specializing in NLP, machine learning, and intelligent search. She brings a strong academic background, teaching how to approach AI problems with structured thinking and solid methodology.
π Artem Astapenko | Founder and CEO @ AgentArea
Artem is the CEO of AgentArea.ai, an open-source platform for AI agent networks. He is actively working on AI agent systems, focusing on how they can be designed, connected, and scaled in real-world applications.
π Pavel Katurov | AI Engineering Team Lead
Pavel is an AI Engineering Team Lead focused on building scalable engineering systems and AI-driven workflows and integrating AI in real development cycles.
We're really glad to have them on board!
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Intro to AI Agents: Final mini-batch of mentors!
With so many attendees, we had to call for reinforcements:
π Artyom Kharlamov | Senior ML Engineer @ Perplexity
Artyom is a Senior ML Engineer at Perplexity (ex-Yandex), an expert in building and deploying large-scale search and generative systems in production.
π Michael Pavlukhin | Principal Architect @ Egzakta AI LAB
Michael is a Principal Architect and Senior Python Developer with experience in designing and building AI systems and ML pipelines.
π Alina Opolskaia | AI Engineer & Python Developer
Alina is a Python backend developer with 9+ years of experience, specialized in production APIs and AI-powered systems.
Dear mentors, thank you for your help!
With so many attendees, we had to call for reinforcements:
π Artyom Kharlamov | Senior ML Engineer @ Perplexity
Artyom is a Senior ML Engineer at Perplexity (ex-Yandex), an expert in building and deploying large-scale search and generative systems in production.
π Michael Pavlukhin | Principal Architect @ Egzakta AI LAB
Michael is a Principal Architect and Senior Python Developer with experience in designing and building AI systems and ML pipelines.
π Alina Opolskaia | AI Engineer & Python Developer
Alina is a Python backend developer with 9+ years of experience, specialized in production APIs and AI-powered systems.
Dear mentors, thank you for your help!
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Outro to AI Agents: Join the Grand Final!
After two months of styding and building AI agents, we are wrapping up the course with a final event. Join us to get insights from Data Sanity's two-month AI course β in just two hours!
π May 25, Monday
π 18:00 β 21:00
π StartIt Centar Belgrade
π« Details & Free registration
What to expect:
- Practical tips to take your agentic apps further
- A deep dive into how AI systems work
- Presentations of the best student projects
- A discussion with AI experts on what's happening in the field
- Networking and beers π»
This is a chance to see how things work beyond best projects β and to meet people who are actually building them.
Registration is free, save your spot and find more details!
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This event is part of AI Week Belgrade 2026
After two months of styding and building AI agents, we are wrapping up the course with a final event. Join us to get insights from Data Sanity's two-month AI course β in just two hours!
π May 25, Monday
π 18:00 β 21:00
π StartIt Centar Belgrade
π« Details & Free registration
What to expect:
- Practical tips to take your agentic apps further
- A deep dive into how AI systems work
- Presentations of the best student projects
- A discussion with AI experts on what's happening in the field
- Networking and beers π»
This is a chance to see how things work beyond best projects β and to meet people who are actually building them.
Registration is free, save your spot and find more details!
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This event is part of AI Week Belgrade 2026
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Call for Speakers: Data Sanity Talks London, July 23
π July 23, 6 pm - 9 pm
π London, Civo Tech Junction
Data Sanity Talks is coming to London this summer β in partnership with Sage! This yearβs theme is AI agents.
Apply to give a 15-30 minute talk with practical insights on building agentic systems to solve real-world industry problems.
The topic can be highly technical or tailored to a broader audience of data enthusiasts. The main criterion is simple: it should be useful for the audience.
Your talk will be recorded and promoted via our media channels.
π More details
π Apply to become a speaker
π July 23, 6 pm - 9 pm
π London, Civo Tech Junction
Data Sanity Talks is coming to London this summer β in partnership with Sage! This yearβs theme is AI agents.
Apply to give a 15-30 minute talk with practical insights on building agentic systems to solve real-world industry problems.
The topic can be highly technical or tailored to a broader audience of data enthusiasts. The main criterion is simple: it should be useful for the audience.
Your talk will be recorded and promoted via our media channels.
π More details
π Apply to become a speaker
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The course "Intro to AI Agents" is over!
How did it go? Come to Startit Centar Belgrade today to find out!
On the agenda:
> Practical tips for modern AI development
> Presentations of the best student projects
> A panel discussion with AI experts
> Networking and beers π»
π May 25, Monday
π 18:00 β 21:00
π StartIt Centar Belgrade
π« Details & Free registration
__________________________________________
This event is part of AI Week Belgrade 2026
How did it go? Come to Startit Centar Belgrade today to find out!
On the agenda:
> Practical tips for modern AI development
> Presentations of the best student projects
> A panel discussion with AI experts
> Networking and beers π»
π May 25, Monday
π 18:00 β 21:00
π StartIt Centar Belgrade
π« Details & Free registration
__________________________________________
This event is part of AI Week Belgrade 2026
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Intro to AI Agents: It's been quite a journey!
200 people applied to the course, and 100 joined us for this journey. Over the past two months, we went through 7 lectures with hands-on workshops, 6 quizzes, 2 homework assignments, and 1 collaborative project. 23 project teams (~65 people) made it to the final project presentations.
Three projects were presented during AI Week Belgrade 2026:
β‘οΈ Supersheep β Bioinformatics Sequence Investigator
β‘οΈ Enlightenment β Assistive Vision and Screen Reader Agent for Blind Users
β‘οΈ AM Best Offer β Job interview coach
Three attendees scored over 90/100 points β very impressive!
β¨ Margarita Markova
β¨ MiloΕ‘ ΔuriΔ
β¨ Maja MladenoviΔ
Weβre truly grateful to everyone who joined the course β and stayed with us until the very end!
This course was supported by 15 mentors, 2 lecturers, and 6 largely unseen Data Sanity heroes:
βοΈ Teaching assistants β Stanislav Petrov, Roman Dyatlov, Ruslan Petrov, and An Klowait
βοΈ Designer β Katya Leonova
βοΈ Social media lead β Anastasiia Radachinskaia
Stay in touch!
200 people applied to the course, and 100 joined us for this journey. Over the past two months, we went through 7 lectures with hands-on workshops, 6 quizzes, 2 homework assignments, and 1 collaborative project. 23 project teams (~65 people) made it to the final project presentations.
Three projects were presented during AI Week Belgrade 2026:
Three attendees scored over 90/100 points β very impressive!
Weβre truly grateful to everyone who joined the course β and stayed with us until the very end!
This course was supported by 15 mentors, 2 lecturers, and 6 largely unseen Data Sanity heroes:
Stay in touch!
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